look i know i promised you guys cake and then forgot it on wednesday but as you
can see the set assets didn't even load in correctly so we definitely can't get
cake no actually Linus is shooting a tech tip
support thing on the tackling set for some reason so this is what we
i'm in the void but on to the tech news microsoft seems intent on killing all
hype for Windows 11 especially in people who are stoked to play around with
Android app support at launch because it won't be there
just like the cake but xda developers noticed something
that might tide us over the microsoft store listing for the Windows subsystem
for Android had xbox one as one of its supported platforms this would make
sense since xbox consoles are more or less running some version of Windows but
why would you want this to be able to run the mobile version of fortnite or
cod on your tv just you could feel something
i'm feeling lonely here now it's possible this listing was a
mistake it seems the xbox references have been removed from the subsystems
listing page but now it's opening up my mind to the possibilities i mean i could
tweet from an xbox you can already do that i could read an
ebook apple is taking a number of steps back on a few different fronts for one
they're delaying that controversial photo scanning system designed to detect
photos of child abuse after basically the entire internet heard about it and
was like so are you doing what now
apple says they've decided to take additional time over the coming months
to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically
important child safety features that involve basically scanning every photo
on the majority of iphones all the time apple has also said it will follow the
same rules it makes third-party advertisers follow in iOS 15 and will
ask users for permission before enabling personalized ads in its own services
finally apple is making a global change to the iOS app store reader apps which
is what apple calls apps like netflix spotify and kindle that have removed
in-app signups to avoid a 30 cut will be
allowed to link directly from the app to a website where users can sign up and
pay apple made the change to get japan to quit an anti-trust investigation
which is always the reason you want these companies to do these things
it seems like apple is slowly being forced to relinquish its iron grip on
the app store finger by finger but will they eventually let go and how many
fingers does a trillion dollar company have anyway you could buy a lot of
fingers with that trust me that gets you a lot of fingers
and in other apple news the tech giant is looking to hire programmers
experienced with the risk 5 architecture which is sometimes thought of as an open
source alternative to ARM but wait apple
just released their ARM-based m1 processors last year
is it leg year already like day you know ARM
he gets it apple's hiring page indicates they want risk 5 programmers to work on
various subsystems in all sorts of apple products that currently most likely rely
on ARM cores apple may be trying to rely less on ARM in case NVIDIA's acquisition
of the company ever goes through or they may be doing what they did to Intel
getting their products ready to switch to a new architecture many years down
the line whatever they're doing it's great to see risk five getting more
attention since we ran out of ARM-based puns real quick as you can tell it got
boring we're ready to take a risk again now
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time for seven it's time for the quick bits
is that bad did i ruin something reddit has banned the r slash no new normal
subreddit for breaking the platform's anti-brigading rules and quarantined 54
other subreddits for breaking rule 1 which bans harassment bullying
incitement of violence or promoting hate based on identity the restrictions come
after 450 subreddits joined an open letter asking reddit to address coveted
misinformation on the site however quarantining a subreddit still allows it
to be viewed if users click past a warning page
reddit has resisted pressure to restrict its users speech and there's probably a
lot to say about that but this is a quick bit so my hands are tight
eight u.s states have announced they'll be using apple's digital id system to
check state id and driver's licenses sometime in the future arizona georgia
connecticut iowa kentucky maryland oklahoma and utah have expressed
interest in the system which some skeptics are worried will simply lead to
further erosion of citizens privacy but it will also mean you could take one
more card out of your wallet which may help you to not sit with one butt cheek
a little higher than the other and that could save you some money on a chiropractor so
i'm for it remember all those rtx 3090s that were
bricked trying to play new world well evga figured out that the problem was
the soldering around the GPU's mosfet circuits it was badly done leading all
those poor rtx 3090 owners to regret just for a moment spending almost two
thousand dollars on a fancy thingy to play video games and for that bad
soldering guy in the avga factory i
salute you google pixel 3s are dropping like flies
or at least that's the impression you might get if you visited some technical support forums reports of the phones
suddenly becoming unresponsive because they've somehow booted into emergency
download or edl mode are rampant google
hasn't said that they'll help pixel 3 owners yet many of whom are no longer
covered by the phone's warranty conveniently the new pixel 6 is
launching very soon though and a u.s court has upheld an april 2020
ruling that decreed ai systems could not be credited as the inventor of a patent
patent inventors must be an individual and r2d2 is clearly just a miserable
little pile of nuts and bolts interestingly australia ruled the
opposite way which is why they're currently overrun with deadly robots
what's that they're not ah soon enough
and it's about time we ended this episode come back on monday for more
tech news but not before you treat yourself to some delicious cake you'll
have to get it yourself though i don't know the code to spawn it in
oh what