WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.360 Welcome to TechLink, the show all the cool kids are watching. 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 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. 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:22.040 More specifically, the issue seems to affect devices with certain Qualcomm Wi-Fi adapters 00:00:22.040 --> 00:00:26.800 and networks that have the 802.11R fast roaming standard enabled. 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:29.960 That's the feature that allows devices to swap between access points without having 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.120 to re-authenticate. This feature is heavily relied upon in places like universities with sprawling campuses, 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:39.080 so it's no surprise many places of higher education have been affected. 00:00:39.080 --> 00:00:42.920 Microsoft has yet to officially acknowledge the issue, leaving many universities to acknowledge 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:48.080 the massive psychic havoc. This is wreaking on students' already exhausted minds. 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:51.920 Schools in the US, the UK, and Belgium are recommending that students should roll back 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 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:00.160 exam stress. This is the season for a mental breakdown. 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:04.480 Apple is the target of a bipartisan group of US lawmakers that want the Department of 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.080 Justice to investigate Apple for trying to shut down the services of tech company Beeper. 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:14.360 If you're unfamiliar, Beeper created an Android app called Beeper Mini that allows users to 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 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.000 hit a breakthrough. A high schooler who already did it sent them a Discord message. 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 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:34.240 group of US representatives demands Apple be investigated for potentially anti-competitive 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:39.800 conduct, noting that the Department of Commerce had called Apple a gatekeeper with a monopoly 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:42.960 position in its mobile app ecosystem. 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 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:50.640 has been increasingly willing to submit to government pressure. 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 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 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 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. 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:15.400 After the company secretly changed its user terms and conditions. 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.240 Taking a hard pivot from binding arbitration, the company's dispute resolution rules now 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:25.360 require legal challenges to be filed in one of two major Californian courts, which could 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:30.400 prevent them from having to pay millions of dollars in fees for individual arbitration. 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 00:02:36.920 --> 00:02:41.280 harm. If you don't, you forever wave your right to do so. 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 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 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.560 personal data from underage users. Yikers. 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 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:08.400 death last year, this year a judge ruled that same law couldn't protect TikTok, Metta, 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.400 and YouTube from a multi-state child safety lawsuit regarding the harms of social media 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. 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. 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:25.480 Not gonna tell you that. That's my business. 00:03:25.480 --> 00:03:28.480 It was here. I just... It's magical. 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 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 00:03:38.040 --> 00:03:43.120 Vision Pro are, and that some within the company compare it to the Apple Watch, specifically 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.720 because it took them four generations to make that product good. 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 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:55.200 tries. And yet more Apple news. 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 00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:06.800 spotted references to AMD's FSR tech in Apple's software documentation. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:10.800 Some are theorizing that this means Apple copied AMD's freely available open source 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 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:22.920 current implementations of metal depend on the neural engine in Apple's silicon chips 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:29.040 while FSR is hardware agnostic, so Metal FX may simply be using FSR as a fallback. 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 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.760 Apple has snatched up open source code and twisted it into something proprietary. 00:04:38.760 --> 00:04:46.480 Google will now let you share your location with contacts similar to Apple's Share My 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 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.200 only works if a Google account is present in the contact card. 00:04:55.200 --> 00:04:58.680 If someone shares their location with you, you can set a notification for when they get 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. 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 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, 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 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 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.160 and can be integrated into small devices to perform specific tasks like headphones that 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. 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.200 Though maybe creating a sophisticated new artificial thinking algorithm allowing it 00:05:41.200 --> 00:05:46.360 to have babies and then literally walking all over said babies is asking for trouble 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:52.320 down the line. Researchers ran a rudimentary AI using a combination of electric circuits and little 00:05:52.320 --> 00:05:57.560 balls of human brain cells called brain organoids. 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, 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.240 as well as perform rudimentary speech recognition. 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.240 The researchers believed their brain ball PC could potentially perform computing tasks 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.760 without supervision, tasks like enacting the downfall of humanity for afflicting you with 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 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 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.760 tiny brain ball.