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It's tech news time right now, but after we film this,

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I'm gonna go listen to Skaw on my Zoom and plan the release of my NFT collection.

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It calms me. Google has found a way to force Apple's AirDrop feature

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to work with Android's similar Quick Share feature.

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What? It only works on the Pixel 10 lineup for now,

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but complaining about that would be a bit like complaining about the distance

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of pig flu. To trigger this dark magic,

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iPhone users can set AirDrop to allow files

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from everyone for 10 minutes, and boom, they'll be able to receive files from the enemy.

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Even better, this ritual goes both ways. So you can drop stuff from iOS onto your Android too.

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What's even crazier though, is that Google went rogue and did this on its own,

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essentially forcing Apple to communicate like an introvert being pulled out of the laundry room

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at a party by their friend who's annoyingly social, but also maybe they have a crush on

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so they go with them. I've seen that movie. And don't worry, Google wants you to know

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this new feature is secure too, releasing a security blog post all about it,

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stating that they built the feature in the Rust programming language

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to avoid common security bugs and promising they'll support contacts only mode on iOS

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at some future point. For now though, if iPhone users wanna get a drop from their Android buddy,

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they're gonna have to risk also getting the local aspiring rapper's mixtape.

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I'm like a young M&M. It's like following you around.

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They're gonna open up an airdrop anytime now. Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino

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has the entire maker community on alert after updates to their terms, conditions,

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and privacy policy signaled a potential shift away

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from the company's open source roots. These new changes include restricting

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the reverse engineering of their platform,

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expanding data collection rights under Qualcomm ownership

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and introducing vague language about the ownership of user generated content.

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Now many fear this could let Qualcomm claim broader control on existing or future projects

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with sections of the agreement potentially giving Qualcomm blanket authority

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over the patentability of anything built using Arduino tools.

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Even if the AGPL licensed dev environment

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and firmware technically remain open source, the wording is open-ended enough

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that people worry Qualcomm is laying the groundwork for future lockdowns.

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Open source hardware company, Adafruit, publicly criticized the move,

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pointing out that imposing enterprise style software as a service rules on a community run platform

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is a surefire way to destroy trust. Before buying Arduino,

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did Qualcomm actually know what open source means?

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Tell you what, I'll open source my feelings right now.

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Boo, bad.

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Dell and HP have discovered a new way to make some of their business laptops worse.

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And no, it's not another round of questionable product names, small victories.

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Apparently these companies decided to start disabling HEVC hardware decoding

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on several laptops, even though the feature is supported by their CPUs

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at a hardware level. These cuts are leaving affected users wondering

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why they were suddenly faced with web video showing continuous loading loops

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and random errors. Well, as indicated in spec documents for models

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like the HP Probook 460G11, hardware HEVC support is turned off by design.

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And as for Dell, there's a clue buried on a support page

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that only shows devices with optional upgrades like a 4K screen or a discrete GPU,

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having access to the decoder. Those ones are special. Neither company has offered up a real explanation,

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but what we do know is that HEVC license fees

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are going up from 20 cents to 24 cents per laptop.

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So to be fair, it probably ends up being a good chunk of change,

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but I have a hard time believing it's making either HP or Dell gasp for air.

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Careful there, partner. Don't want you having to pay a whole dollar to Microsoft

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to turn the feature back on. And that wasn't a joke. That's the official recommendation.

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How does Microsoft end up getting a free dollar out of this nonsense?

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We gotta at least do a sponsor segue for our dollars. Some people have called the Quickbits a flop and a fad,

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but they're still talking about the Quickbits, aren't they?

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So Microsoft is rolling out a preview of its Xbox full screen experience

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to any Windows 11 PC, not just handhelds,

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although you'll have to download the Windows Insider build to get it.

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And this gives desktop, laptop and tablet users the ability to boot into the same controller friendly,

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console like interface as the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X,

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skipping loading the desktop, potentially boosting performance

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and totally redeeming the Xbox marketing team.

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I guess everything really is an Xbox.

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Except me, unless my parents lied to me. Who told him?

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He can't discover he's an Xbox. We're a PlayStation family, damn it.

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A new Android Trojan called Sternus is reportedly stealing WhatsApp, Telegram

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and Signal messages by abusing Android's accessibility service

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to read messages after they're decrypted on screen,

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meaning it completely sidesteps the task of having to break encryption first.

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It can also generate fake banking logins, enable full remote control of a device

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and log every tap to harvest credentials.

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It can do it all. The worst part, Sternus is only an early testing among hackers.

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So once it fully rolls out, it's gonna cause even more consternation.

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Meta is saying Dios Mio after a Spanish court said hola

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and ordered them to pay 479 million euros

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to 87 Spanish news outlets. Por favor. The court ruled that Meta broke EU data protection

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and antitrust laws by unfairly using the personal data

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of its users to make targeted ads, giving it a serious edge over local media.

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Meta has slightly improved its rules around data collection consent,

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but the judge estimated Meta made over 5 billion euros

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from ads during the five years before the change. Of course, Meta is saying no manches

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and planning to appeal the ruling, but similar claims being investigated in France

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might soon have them shouting, Sacre bleu.

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Silicon Valley investors are reportedly funding a human embryo gene editing startup

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led by UC Berkeley biochemist, Lucas Harrington,

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raising about 30 million USD from backers, including software engineer and husband of Sam Altman,

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Oliver Mulherrin and Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong.

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The company says it's focused strictly on lab research

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and definitely 100% will not test their findings if safety is found wanting,

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because fun fact, gene editing human embryos is illegal in most countries.

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Don't they remember what happened to the guy in China who gene edited three embryos

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and then seemingly got edited out of existence himself?

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Those kids were actually born. They don't have a father anymore.

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Anymore? I don't think they were his kids.

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Nevermind. And XAI's Grock Chatbot has been sickle-fantingly

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pumping his daddy Elon's tires. In a bunch of now-deleted interactions,

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the Chatbot said Musk is more fit than LeBron James

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and disrupts comedy more than Jerry Seinfeld, but doesn't go quite as far as to say

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that Musk would rise from the grave faster than Jesus Christ.

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That would be a bridge too far. Grock appears to really respect

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baseball player Shohei Otani, though, who it admits Musk could not strike out.

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Now, if you thought all of this was just Musk ego tripping, the soon-to-be trillionaire tweeted

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that this latest Grock crash out was once again,

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caused by someone else manipulating the Chatbot.

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Absolutely proving it wasn't him this time by disparaging himself with what Linus

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would call the hard R word. I dropped my fair share of hard Rs back then

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because we didn't even, the term hard... And it'll be rude if you don't come back on Monday

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for more tech news. Hey, did you know that Microsoft's Zune wireless sharing feature

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was widely known as squirting?

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Is that real, though? Google it, Google it.

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Well, those NFTs aren't gonna sell themselves. See you later.