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Oh, wow, oh my gosh, you clicked on our thumbnail. We just put it out there and we didn't know anyone.

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I actually clicked on watch, thank you, oh my God. The fact that Google pays to be the default search engine

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on many devices is well-known, but thanks to a recent New York Times report

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and testimony coming out of the USV Google antitrust trial,

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we now know how much $26.3 billion was paid out in 2021

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with 18 billion of that going solely to Apple.

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That means Google is sacrificing almost one third

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of its profits from its entire ad business, including YouTube, so you can keep telling yourself

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you don't use Bing because it's just not as good. You're just a puppet, man.

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What's your kermit's there? Miss Piggy told me not to use it. The Times report claims that Google also worked

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on their own version of Apple's spotlight for iPhones, promoted its Chrome browser to iPhone users

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and tried to leverage the EU's Digital Markets Act to cut off Apple's potential search engine ambitions,

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like a vasectomy, but for ideas. This makes Apple and Google's relationship

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kind of complicated. Google is actively trying to hold Apple back

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from their full potential by paying the massive sums of money.

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It's like the most toxic relationship you've ever heard of, but they're the world's richest corporations

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and not people, so who are we to judge? Except under US law.

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Love is love. The newly released Alan Wake 2 is drawing criticism

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for listing only GPUs with mesh shader support in its PC requirements,

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discouraging any graphics card older than NVIDIA's RTX 20 series or AMD's RX 6000 series

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from touching the game. Like how back in third grade, Ali Watson was excluded from touching anything

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because she had cooties. While you can start up the game on older cards

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with no hardware mesh shaders, there's reasons to avoid doing so.

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Like the fact you'll get this warning pop-up that looks like it traveled all the way from 1995

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to stop you from making a terrible mistake. Sarah Connor, don't start that game.

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We'll have to make sure your parents get married. Then there's the fact that at 1080p max settings

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without upscaling, an RX 5700 XT and a GTX 1080 Ti

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will perform worse than expected and get spanked by a GTX 1660 Ti and an RTX 3050.

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If you lower the settings and enable FSR, the 5700 XT will give playable frame rates,

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but it's wild that once trusty flagships like the GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti

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are lucky to average 30 FPS. If this is where the industry is headed,

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gamers with older cards will be faced with costly decisions, not too dissimilar to when Ali Watson's family

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decided to move to a new school district. I hear she's in Alaska now.

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The only thing she's touching is baby seals. Cooties can't thrive in the cold.

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Western Digital's planned merger with memory chip maker Keoksia has apparently stalled.

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Turns out this is because a key investor in Keoksia

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is the competing memory chip maker SK Hynex.

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Hey, they may not like their competition, but damn it, they respect them enough to invest.

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But while respect is nice and all, I'm sure Japan's top three banks,

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as well as the state-backed Development Bank of Japan,

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are probably miffed about the paperwork they'll have to redo

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since they already authorized $12.7 billion

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to help finance the merger. Think about all the extra zeros they have to erase.

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Oh, to go all the way around the circle. This isn't the first time a Western Digital Keoksia merger

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has been attempted either. In 2021, a $20 billion deal completely fell apart.

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But even then, the companies have circled each other, like star-crossed lovers,

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even becoming involved in a joint venture last year. Just let them get together already, SK Hynex.

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I've been writing fan fiction for two years. Don't blow this for me.

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I can't go back to the Potifers. No, Ron, no.

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Fuah, quick bits? No, dude. Sick bits.

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I don't like this. Sick bits.

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Oh, so sick. Apple has released iOS and iPadOS 17.1,

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notably addressing recent problems with screen burn-in

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for the iPhone, improving airdrop, and fixing a bug where the OS turned off privacy settings

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for significant locations and iPhone analytics. Significant locations, of course,

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being a feature that tracks and remembers places you visit often, like your work, your local cafe,

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and the Fight Club under the Overpass. Riley, you're not supposed to talk every time.

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I'm dead. We gotta move now. It also fixes a three-year-old security gap

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in iOS's private address feature, which was supposed to allow users to avoid being tracked

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while connecting to Wi-Fi networks, but instead just gave them the warm illusion of safety

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in a cold and perilous world, which is also worth something.

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Qualcomm has apparently snagged six more laptop OEMs

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for their upcoming ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processors,

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including names like ASUS, Dell, and Samsung. But Intel CEO and the world's most calm

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under-pressure nerd, Pat Gelsinger, isn't afraid of any competition from ARM CPUs,

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despite efforts from not just Qualcomm, but also allegedly secret projects

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by both NVIDIA and AMD. In fact, he's willing to build their chips

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with Intel's foundry. This guy's tough. I'm already fan-casting Dwayne Johnson

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to play him in the inevitable biopic. Who's Kevin Hart gonna be?

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Lisa Sue. We're the best! Google is launching About This Image,

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a tool to verify the origin and context of an image,

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including how long it's been available on Google search and which websites have used it in the past,

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like news outlets and fact-checkers. And if that's not enough reassurance

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for you to trust that an image is real, you can try Leica's new M11P camera,

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which comes with built-in content credentials, stamping a digital photo with detailed metadata

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at the point of capture. You can't put a price on authenticity,

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but Leica can because this thing costs $9,000.

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In partnership with New Lab, Airspace Link, and the Michigan Department of Transportation,

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Ford is testing automated delivery drones at a giant, 100-year-old train station

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that was closed in the late 1980s. The project covers a three-mile radius

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around Michigan Central Station, which is 100% haunted,

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both by the spirit of 20th century industrialism and packs of feral, train-spotting enthusiasts.

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They love you in McGregor movies. And beloved hacker gadget Flipper Zero

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can now spam Windows and Android with Bluetooth alerts,

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thanks to a new app called BLE Spam on GitHub

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that can make it difficult for a target to discern between legitimate Bluetooth devices and spoofs.

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The attack is actually based on a similar one used to target and crash iPhones.

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The Spam app gives eight flood attack options, such as Apple device pop-up, Android device pair,

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Windows device found, and even every method combined.

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Because, I mean, why go one at a time when you can ruin everyone's day?

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But your day will only improve if you come back on Monday for more tech news.

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But first, hey, you know what? Why don't you get some rest, enjoy your weekend.

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You could write a short steamy romance about your two favorite companies.

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Their love is forbidden, but they can't fight their own hearts

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or their quarterly earnings.