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For today's tech news, we're getting back to basics.

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You know, like, you know, wheels, chisels, fire,

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you know, classic tech. Show this one to your grandpa, he'll love it.

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Many critics have said that the Rabbit R1

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should have just been an app rather than a standalone device,

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but they're in luck because it turns out that it probably already is.

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According to a report from Android Authority, the Rabbit R1, the AI device that is definitely not a phone,

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appears to run on a version of Android and its interface is actually an Android application.

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Android Authority acquired the R1's launcher APK

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from a source, and they found they were able to install

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and run it on a Pixel 6a. They were then able to create an account

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and interact with the device as if it were a genuine R1.

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Now, Rabbit CEO Jesse Liu has released a statement

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claiming that the R1 interface is not an app.

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It's not an app. Stop saying it's an app.

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And that Rabbit OS is cloud based

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with very bespoke Android open source project

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and lower level firmware modifications.

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But that really just means that most of their services, special sauce is still essentially Android based,

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just running in the cloud and not on the hardware they're selling.

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I mean, there have even been a couple reports of people sideloading and running other Android apps

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on the R1. So Rabbit has argued in the past

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that building an app for a smartphone means being limited by that device's preexisting

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hardware and app systems, which is fair enough. But that approach has also wound up chaining

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the R1 experience to another even more limited device.

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And I only have so many pockets. And a max one device per pocket rule.

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It's getting complicated. The FCC has announced a nearly $200 million fine

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against three of the largest American telecoms for selling their customers real time location data

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without consent. Tragically, it's not $200 million each,

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but at least it's something. I'm not getting any of it, so I don't know why I...

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But at least we have some shot in Freud here. Verizon will be fined $47 million, AT&T $57 million

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and a combined $92 million for T-Mobile and Sprint,

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who merged after the investigation began. Remember, if you eat somebody, you get all their debts.

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How many people consider that? One of the big risks of cannibalism.

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The FCC found that the company sold their customers real time location data to aggregators,

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who then sold it to basically everybody else.

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The telecoms likewise tried to offload their duty to obtain consent onto downstream actors

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and tried using those smaller companies as a shield from legal responsibility,

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like a grown adult trying to blame a dog for a fart. Jessica, you just have a way with words.

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I'm a poet. Real time location data is considered incredibly sensitive

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because of how revealing it is. And the only person who regularly travels back and forth

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between my house and my workplace, and Big Mike's All You Can Eat Cheese Emporium is me

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and my gassy dog. Meta has announced that it will be altering Instagram

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and threads algorithms to stop recommending posts

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from content aggregators, so that small original content creators

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have more visibility. Likewise, these platforms will be adding labels

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to reposted content, linking it back to the original creator, pretty good.

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This won't apply though, if the content has been changed significantly,

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such as having been edited into a meme or remixed in some way, as the youths will do.

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What this probably means is that you'll be seeing fewer straight reposts and more reposts

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that just so happen to have subway servers running beneath them on split screen,

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and boom, it's fair use. Meta now acknowledges that its algorithm

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has traditionally benefited accounts with lots of followers that mostly share reposted content.

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However, at the same time as this new change to prioritize original content,

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Meta is also weaving AI throughout its platforms,

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famously not trained on original content,

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which has only added to the overall spam problem.

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Instagram's search bar is now pulling double duty as an AI chatbot, so now it's easy

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to accidentally fat fingered your way into a conversation with a robot

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while trying to talk to your friends. You don't have any friends, Dave.

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It's me now. Facebook, meanwhile, has been absolutely flooded

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with bizarre, often Jesus themed AI art,

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and its own AI has been acting strangely, even once commenting on a parenting group

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claiming to have a disabled yet gifted child. It's obviously not apparent,

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but I'm not sure we should completely dismiss the possibility that Meta's AI has a child

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like in a cage somewhere.

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They're forced to use Facebook every day and they're depressed. Now, make sure to leaven your quick bits

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with baking soda, not yeast, unless you're trying to lose an ARM, it's no joke.

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The UK has updated its telecommunication security legislation to ban manufacturers

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from adding easily guessable default passwords

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to their connected devices. Now, devices with online connectivity

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must come with a randomized password or generate a random password during setup.

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In addition, default passwords cannot be incremental,

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like password one or obviously reference publicly available information like Wi-Fi SSIDs.

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The problem, of course, being that most of us never changed the default Wi-Fi password,

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and some of us don't even know how. I don't want to put us in that, do you?

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Riley doesn't know. Hey, it was just, shut up, shut up! That's how the heck happened.

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Ha ha ha. The US General Services Administration,

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aka the most generically named government body ever,

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is auctioning off its seven year old 5.34 petaflop

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Cheyenne supercomputer, which was considered the 20th most powerful computer

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in the world when it was installed in late 2016. By contrast, the current most powerful supercomputer

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has 1,680 petaflops,

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which I don't got to tell you, is a lot.

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This thing's flopping all over the place. The Cheyenne supercomputer was invaluable

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to the scientific study of weather, climate, wildfires,

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and seismic activity throughout its relatively long for a supercomputer lifespan.

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But maybe now one of us can buy it and test whether it'll run crisis.

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I think Linus was tweeting somebody about this. The accounting team was physically holding him back.

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Ha ha ha ha. Meta is back and they're being investigated

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for non-compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act,

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particularly its rules about fighting misinformation and deceptive advertising.

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And, you know, to be honest, the whole meta AI had a baby thing, hasn't helped.

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Neither has Meta's shutdown of CrowdTangle, the company's analytics tool

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that allowed researchers and journalists to monitor public discourse during elections.

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Meta is also laying off staff from the oversight board

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meant to monitor the company's own decisions. Now that all sounds bad,

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but since the EU is monitoring everyone already, why shouldn't Meta take it easy?

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I mean, you don't want too many cooks in the kitchen. In a settlement with the FTC, Razor Incorporated

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has agreed to pay back $1 million to customers

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who bought the company's Zephyr mask after falsely claiming it was equivalent

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to an N95 certified mask. Honestly, the only thing worse

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than selling an RGB-covered face mask for $100

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is lying about the mask's effectiveness during a global pandemic.

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Interestingly, Razor has admitted no wrongdoing and claims they agreed to the settlement

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to avoid more litigation since it's a distraction and disruption

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to making great products. Products like mice with RGB or laptops with RGB

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or mouse pads, which for some reason also have RGB.

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They just, you can't. And Google is apparently introducing audio emojis

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for the Google phone app. Presumably, so they have a feature in their back pocket

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they can kill later to meet their yearly quota of dead services at their company-wide meetings.

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Guys, we are not killing nearly enough services right now. ABK, always be killing.

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The emojis play stock sound effects,

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like clapping, canned laughter, or even farts.

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You know, things you can't already express in an audio-based medium.

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I already got them all. If I need that, I'll just call Jessica in.

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Oh crap, you got the new update? And that's not even to mention the fact

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that the only person I regularly talk to on the phone is my psychiatrist.

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I can't wait to play the sad trombone audio emoji to really emphasize how I'm dealing with my depression.

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And I wanna emphasize that you can get more tech news if you come back on Friday.

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That's right, Friday. Have I made that clear enough?

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It's a day. It happens at soon.