oh geez yeah there's a lot of tech news flying around here today
are you okay what you can't see them
are they in the room right now yeah look here's one boom
got him meta suffered a monumental blow this
week when it reported a drop in daily active facebook users for the first time
since the platform launched 18 years ago i don't have my prompter remote because
i threw it at riley as a result the tech giant stock dropped by over 20 wiping
out over 250 billion dollars in value
the single biggest valuation wipeout for an american company in history
now usually it would seem rude to revel in others misfortunes but after
facebook's tumultuous history of hiding data about its problematic psychological
impacts while leaking vast amounts of user data that it sells to advertisers
well let's just say the internet didn't have very many f's to give on top of all
that facebook is facing a lawsuit from australian billionaire andrew twiggy
forest over what he describes as its failure to stop criminals using his
image to advertise for crypto scams making things more confusing is the fact
that forest is in the business of mining but not crypto mining like the the real
one will facebook survive all of this yes
yes they will but it's okay let's just take a moment
in chat and freud together okay
in the netherlands apple has offered to reduce its commission on iOS in-app
purchases from 30 to a generous 27
when users use a payment processor other than apple pay
and honestly i feel like we should be thanking them three percent can do a lot
if you invest it the announcement comes after dutch
regulators ordered apple to allow the use of third-party payment processors in
iOS dating apps and fined the company 5
million euros from missing the first deadline to comply many experts
analyzing the epic v apple lawsuit expected apple to continue to charge a
commission if third-party payments were allowed but since a 3 drop might not
actually even cover the transaction fees of whatever apple pay alternative is
used many developers are wondering if switching is worth it and then there's
also the fact that you're trying to use iOS
apple's intellectual property without
paying them a third of your income have you any morals can you imagine
getting a desktop that's their property in the metaverse
and Intel has pulled another Intel with a new report comparing the number of
hardware vulnerabilities found in Intel's chips versus those from its arch
enemy AMD Intel's 2021 security report
notes that 31 flaws were discovered in AMD cpus while only 16 were found in
Intel's Intel did have almost twice
AMD's flaws in their gpus but actually
apparently that's due to a component found in Intel graphics chips made by
AMD this would all kind of make sense if
every flaw was equally dangerous but not all vulnerabilities are as bad as the
one in helm's deep the single explosive
i mean we didn't see that coming besides Intel and AMD should probably focus on unity
right now since 23 serious flaws were just found in UEFI firmware that's
actually used by both of the companies and many others so it's time to stop
fighting i mean keep fighting but fight
bad guys not each other and no groin shots
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guys totally thought i was gonna give you a break from riley but it was a
break of riley google has gotten into the right to
repair spirit with their new chromebook repair program which will help schools
set up repair facilities partially run by and for students the program is
obviously meant to help google compete against recent pro repair moves made by
microsoft but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate the fact that the program
encourages fixing devices instead of chucking them there's a different school
program for that twitter is initiating a wider rollout of
its reddit-esque downvoting feature which will now be offered to a selection
of users worldwide for now the downvotes will only be visible to the user that
does the downvoting so you won't have the satisfaction of knowing you just taught that person a lesson and they're
probably still just gonna post the same meme for the 200th time but to be fair
guys it is a funny meme amazon is increasing the price of its
all-encompassing prime subscription service for the first time in four years
now access to free same-day shipping haha not really free some books and
music some twitch stuff and some tv shows that
it says mediocre in here but i don't know i haven't watched any of them will
cost 139 us dollars a year instead of 119. thankfully there is a way to secure
one more year at the old price that'll be in the news sources down below
or you could just not
ebay is a thing i mean daddy bezos got to have them rebuild that bridge for his
yacht right so rockstar has confirmed that grand theft
auto 5 will go through one more zombie mutation and lurch
onto playstation 5 and xbox series snx
on march 15th the studio also announced that they're
working on the next grand theft auto which will come out at some point
probably involves stealing cars maybe grand theft auto
5s in space in space
we could be wrong and meta might be struggling but they
are adding a personal boundary system to their horizon virtual reality world vr
chat copy thing it will prevent other avatars from getting too close to yours
which may help prevent virtual harassment initiated by creeps online
somehow those creeps got online how do they do that
although pushing up against the boundary would probably be just as creepy that
they're just yeah let's make it like if they're just here is that
yeah it's still weird um and what's also weird is this video is
over there was all that tech news flying around i swear i saw it
that wasn't that much get this man we need more let's come
back on monday come back on monday