1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,360 Welcome to TechLink, the show all the cool kids are watching. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:10,780 It'd be pretty weird if you didn't watch it too. The latest Windows 11 update is causing slow speeds and unstable connections when using 3 00:00:10,780 --> 00:00:17,160 public Wi-Fi. Like the kind your cousin uses, well, he writes the next great American novel. 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,040 More specifically, the issue seems to affect devices with certain Qualcomm Wi-Fi adapters 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:26,800 and networks that have the 802.11R fast roaming standard enabled. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,960 That's the feature that allows devices to swap between access points without having 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:35,120 to re-authenticate. This feature is heavily relied upon in places like universities with sprawling campuses, 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,080 so it's no surprise many places of higher education have been affected. 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,920 Microsoft has yet to officially acknowledge the issue, leaving many universities to acknowledge 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:48,080 the massive psychic havoc. This is wreaking on students' already exhausted minds. 11 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,920 Schools in the US, the UK, and Belgium are recommending that students should roll back 12 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,960 the update so their Wi-Fi connection stress can stop getting in the way of their massive 13 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,160 exam stress. This is the season for a mental breakdown. 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,480 Apple is the target of a bipartisan group of US lawmakers that want the Department of 15 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:10,080 Justice to investigate Apple for trying to shut down the services of tech company Beeper. 16 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,360 If you're unfamiliar, Beeper created an Android app called Beeper Mini that allows users to 17 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:21,000 send iMessages, those are Apple only. The company spent three years trying to reverse engineer the iMessage software before they 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 hit a breakthrough. A high schooler who already did it sent them a Discord message. 19 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,640 Now, after Apple has been trying to break the competing app, a letter signed by a bipartisan 20 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,240 group of US representatives demands Apple be investigated for potentially anti-competitive 21 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,800 conduct, noting that the Department of Commerce had called Apple a gatekeeper with a monopoly 22 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,960 position in its mobile app ecosystem. 23 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,520 While a group of legislators taking on Apple might seem like a long shot, the tech giant 24 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,640 has been increasingly willing to submit to government pressure. 25 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,400 The company announced it's complying with a sales ban on Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 26 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,320 2 in the US after they lost a patent case, even though technically, Biden hasn't told 27 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:06,280 Christmas to veto that ruling. But in all likelihood, he doesn't have the time, needs to wrap a bunch of gifts and take 28 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,880 all his naps. The hottest new TikTok trend is being stripped of your ability to sue TikTok. 29 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,400 After the company secretly changed its user terms and conditions. 30 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,240 Taking a hard pivot from binding arbitration, the company's dispute resolution rules now 31 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:25,360 require legal challenges to be filed in one of two major Californian courts, which could 32 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,400 prevent them from having to pay millions of dollars in fees for individual arbitration. 33 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:36,920 But they didn't stop there. The terms now mandate any legal complaints must be filed within one year of the alleged 34 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:41,280 harm. If you don't, you forever wave your right to do so. 35 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,080 This is a pretty bold move from the social media platform, but it isn't surprising based 36 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:52,240 on its history of litigation. In 2021, the company settled a class action for $92 million after being accused of collecting 37 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,560 personal data from underage users. Yikers. 38 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:03,200 Is that what the kids say? Not poggers. And while US law protected TikTok after content recommended by its algorithm led to a child's 39 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,400 death last year, this year a judge ruled that same law couldn't protect TikTok, Metta, 40 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,400 and YouTube from a multi-state child safety lawsuit regarding the harms of social media 41 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,600 use. It doesn't seem to be TikTok, but it's a great time to be their lawyers. 42 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,480 Subscribe to their cast. Chushing. I remember where I was when I heard my first quick bit. 43 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,480 Not gonna tell you that. That's my business. 44 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,480 It was here. I just... It's magical. 45 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,640 Mark Gurman dove into the deep waters of Apple like a merman and started to discern what 46 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:38,040 Apple finds concern in. Gurman says the company still doesn't know what the key selling points of the upcoming 47 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:43,120 Vision Pro are, and that some within the company compare it to the Apple Watch, specifically 48 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,720 because it took them four generations to make that product good. 49 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:51,960 Nothing gives me more faith in Apple's $3,500 headset than hearing they want three more 50 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,200 tries. And yet more Apple news. 51 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:01,720 Sorry, last one I promised. Questions have arisen over the company's Metal FX upscaling feature after notebookcheck.net 52 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:06,800 spotted references to AMD's FSR tech in Apple's software documentation. 53 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,800 Some are theorizing that this means Apple copied AMD's freely available open source 54 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:18,360 homework and slapped a Metal FX sticker on it. On the other hand, many of my favorite types of people, redditors, have pointed out that 55 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,920 current implementations of metal depend on the neural engine in Apple's silicon chips 56 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:29,040 while FSR is hardware agnostic, so Metal FX may simply be using FSR as a fallback. 57 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:33,240 Back on the first hand again though, my favorite one, this would not be the first time that 58 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,760 Apple has snatched up open source code and twisted it into something proprietary. 59 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:46,480 Google will now let you share your location with contacts similar to Apple's Share My 60 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,600 Location feature. You can now send your location to a friend from the Google Contacts app, though this 61 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,200 only works if a Google account is present in the contact card. 62 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,680 If someone shares their location with you, you can set a notification for when they get 63 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,600 to you so you don't have to call your always late friends to find out where they are. 64 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,760 Google pro tip, if you decide to leave before they arrive, you don't have to talk to them 65 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:15,360 at all. Extraverts hate this. AI startup IZIP, alongside scientists from MIT and California, those are real words, 66 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,040 say that large AI models can be set up to create and train smaller AI models without 67 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:27,120 human input, this is parenting. These itty bitty AI's called tiny machine learning or tiny ML models are cheap, lightweight 68 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,160 and can be integrated into small devices to perform specific tasks like headphones that 69 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:37,600 adapt to filter out unwanted noise or shoes that learn and adjust to the wear sexy gait. 70 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,200 Though maybe creating a sophisticated new artificial thinking algorithm allowing it 71 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:46,360 to have babies and then literally walking all over said babies is asking for trouble 72 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:52,320 down the line. Researchers ran a rudimentary AI using a combination of electric circuits and little 73 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:57,560 balls of human brain cells called brain organoids. 74 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,360 From being connected to an AI tool, the bio computer was able to learn and remember information, 75 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,240 as well as perform rudimentary speech recognition. 76 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,240 The researchers believed their brain ball PC could potentially perform computing tasks 77 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,760 without supervision, tasks like enacting the downfall of humanity for afflicting you with 78 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:24,120 a curse of existence. My organoids, and you'll be cursed with newslessness if you don't come back on Wednesday for more 79 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:29,240 TechLinked. Also I would enjoy the chance to spend more time together before we are destroyed by a 80 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,760 tiny brain ball.