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It's time for tech news!

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If what Qualcomm just said about their new Snapdragon X Elite SOCs is true,

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Apple finally has a competitor in the ARM-based desktop processor market.

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Thankfully, the leg-based desktop processor...

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What? What? After teasing the announcement a couple weeks ago,

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Qualcomm unveiled some specs and performance for the Snapdragon X Elite,

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a flagship laptop chip composed of 12 new Orion cores designed by the company's subsidiary Nuvia,

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three times the cores of Qualcomm's previous laptop SOC, the 8CX Gen 3.

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Qualcomm says this outperforms Apple's also 12-core M2 Max in single-threaded applications,

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the application in question being, according to the fine print on that slide,

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geekbench on Linux. Because as elite as the new chip may be,

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there are other reasons that ARM-based desktop processors haven't taken off on Windows.

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Namely, Windows. Thankfully, if Microsoft doesn't manage to make Windows 11 on ARM not suck farts,

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those fancy Orion cores will be coming to Android devices in 2024,

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which may or may not have something to do with Qualcomm's Snapdragon seamless feature,

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which will let manufacturers smooth out multi-device experiences between phones, PCs,

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earbuds, mice, and keyboards. Sounds maybe like something a la Apple.

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Orion-powered Windows laptops are also set to debut mid-2024,

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just in time for Qualcomm and Microsoft's exclusivity deal for Windows-compatible ARM chips

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to expire, which probably has something to do with this week's Reuters report claiming that

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both NVIDIA and AMD are designing ARM-based desktop CPUs.

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But with all of these ARM chips years away and Apple probably releasing

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higher-powered M3 Macs on Monday, there's probably nothing to get excited about.

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You know what? Forget I said anything. Just...

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But you should consider getting excited about upcoming NVIDIA RTX 40 Super graphics cards.

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If you dislike money, multiple sources claim NVIDIA is prepping an RTX 4070 and an RTX 4080 Super

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with 20 gigabytes of RAM. NVIDIA hasn't used the Super title since the release of the RTX 2080 Super back in April 2020,

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possibly because NVIDIA has been in more of a villain phase, didn't deserve it.

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Back in the day, there were also rumors about an RTX 30 Super series that failed to materialize,

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but these new rumors are coming from leakers that have been reliable in the past.

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That's how they get you. Now they have your bank info.

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Unless NVIDIA is planning on gaslighting us by arbitrarily altering its card naming scheme,

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we should expect a card that sits between the standard RTX 4080 and the RTX 4080 Ti,

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a card that currently does not exist. So really, your guess is as good as mine.

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Both of the potential RTX 40 Super series cards are expected to include a higher memory bus,

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the RTX 40 Super with a 320-bit bus, and the RTX 4070 Super with a 256-bit bus.

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Personally, though, I'm waiting for the RTX 40 Super Duper series that slots very nicely

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in between the RTX 4080 Splendid and the 4090, wow, very cool.

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41 US states are suing Meta for using features on Instagram and Facebook to encourage social

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media addiction in children. According to the primary complaint, Meta designed psychologically manipulative product features

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to induce young users compulsive and extended use of its platform, including infinite scrolling

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and persistent alerts. The lawsuits accuse Meta of knowing complicity in the ongoing youth mental health crisis for

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the sake of profit. But it's an accusation that could be leveled at pretty much any popular social media app

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currently available. I'm not even a teenage girl, and TikTok makes me feel bad about myself all the time.

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I don't know why I open the app. For some reason, every post in my feed is just insulting me personally.

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Meanwhile, the FTC is bringing in child psychologists to inform future regulations

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of social media companies. And PMIs, a reverse image search engine that specializes in facial recognition,

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is now blocking searches for photos containing minors for fear of misuse.

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Notably, Mark Zuckerberg covers his children's faces in photos he posts on Instagram.

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And while that probably has a lot to do with him being an unlikable famous person,

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with valid concerns about harassment, if he doesn't think of Instagram as a safe place

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for his kids, maybe we shouldn't either.

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Quick! The bits! They're getting away! After them!

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Yeah, I was waiting for the dogs. According to the Washington Post, Reddit is threatening to block webcrawlers from search

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engines like Google and Bing if it cannot reach a deal with generative AI companies to

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pay for data from the site. This would prevent Reddit from appearing in search results and reduce the number of visitors to

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the site. But the company's leadership apparently believe that Reddit can survive without search.

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They're not alone either. Over 500 news organizations have installed blockers to prevent their content from being

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collected for AI training databases since last year.

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Still, this is potentially a devastating blow to the many users who for years have been bypassing

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the inshidification of search results by typing site colon reddit.com at the end of every single

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Google search. Fooly and logic, how have you betrayed me?

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Apple has officially backed the White House's push for a national right to repair bill.

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That's a weird sentence to say, but... Apple also says that it will be making parts, tools, and documentation necessary to fix its

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devices available to users and independent repair shops nationwide.

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This follows the recent passing of a California right to repair law, also supported by Apple.

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If the federal bill is in any way similar, it would be a huge step in the right direction,

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but might shy away from restricting software locks, Apple's favorite anti-repair tactic.

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There's still plenty of room for optimism though, so may I be the first to say,

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thank you Tim Cook, you bastard.

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Okta, the massive provider of cloud infrastructure, has been hacked for the second time in two

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years, which is ironic, but not in a fun hip way.

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It's not in an indie band. This could have had serious implications for the customers of its customers,

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which include cloudflare and password managers, one password and beyond trust.

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However, it appears that all three independently detected that Okta's support system had been

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breached and informed Okta, who is busy watching Love is Blind Season 5.

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Okta says that its support case system was accessed by a hacker with stolen credentials,

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who was then able to view files uploaded by customers.

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According to security expert Matt Johansson, Okta support often requests

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HR files for troubleshooting purposes, which can contain sensitive info like session tokens.

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That honestly sounds like a great way to get your YouTube channel hacked, and all your videos replaced with a scam crypto livestream featuring Elon Musk,

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wouldn't that be embarrassing? California has suspended crews from operating driverless taxis in San Francisco,

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following a harrowing incident where a human piloted car hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk,

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throwing them into the path of a robot taxi, which braked, but still struck the pedestrian.

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Detecting the collision, it then attempted to pull over to the side of the road,

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but wound up dragging the downed woman 20 feet.

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I don't know the moral of this story, maybe we're just not ready for a two-ton free-range robot

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that can be disabled by placing a traffic cone on the hood, but it doesn't seem like human drives are doing all that great either, so I dunno,

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just stay inside. And researchers have created an open-source tool called Nightshade that artists can use

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to invisibly modify their works to break AIs trained on them without permission

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by corrupting their tagging system, causing them to, say,

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generate a picture of a cake when prompted for a dog.

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But maybe it's just a very realistic dog cake.

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Or, more likely, an unholy abomination somewhere between cake and dog.

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Why did you bake me? Nightshade works by attacking AI where it's most vulnerable.

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The inside. The squishy part. It's kind of like that fan theory pre-end game that the Avengers would defeat Thanos

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by having Ant-Man crawl up his poop chute and then expand.

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Except, it isn't at all like that, I just wanted to remind everyone about that

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and put that image in your head, so you're welcome. I'll also remind you to come back on Friday for more tech news,

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because here at TechLinked, we only crawl into your hearts.

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And even then, it's strictly metaphorical.

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It's not your- Speak for yourself. You're not in danger.