and you get an M4 and you get an M4 hey
look under your seat it's Tim Cook how
long has he been there we don't know Apple has followed up Monday's new M4
iMac reveal by unveiling the M4 Mac Mini
on Tuesday and the M4 MacBook Pros today
this morning I'm not sure how much longer this apple a day trend will
continue but as soon as it stops I'm going to see my doctor the new 14 and
16in MacBook Pros are largely Hardware re freshes priced the same as their
predecessors and coming in M4 M4 Pro and
M4 Max flavors with the pro and Max
variants upgrading their three Thunderbolt 4 ports to Thunderbolt 5 but
that's not the case for the Mac Mini in its first major redesign since 2010 the
mini has become significantly Minier
shrinking in total volume by around 40%
wow to achieve this apple reduced the Mini's footprint to 5 in x 5 in while
also increasing its height to 2 in which
I wouldn't necessarily call Mini I mean sounds perfectly average to me huge even
can I tell them that a woman wrote that I mean this little guy starts at just
$5.99 and it doesn't get an M4 Max
option just M4 and M4 Pro the latter of
which again gets you three Thunderbolt 5 ports Apple even caved to public
pressure and moved another two non Thunderbolt USBC ports and a headph
phone jack to the front of the device making them easier to access wow thanks
Apple but in order to keep its D and D alignment firmly in chaotic neutral my
favorite alignment they stuck the power button on the bottom in what I can only
assume is meant to troll critics of the Magic Mouse design oh you like things on
the bottom huh huh you like that huh no you don't like that there's apparently
enough space to stick a finger down there without lifting the whole thing up
but this is going to confuse more than a few grandmas pray for your local it
support technician just press the power button it doesn't have one apple reacted
to public outcry over their previously standard 8 gigs of RAM in a different
way though every new Mac announced this week comes with 16 GB of RAM in the base
model an upgrade that was also backported to the M2 and M3 powered
MacBook Air but don't forget the most important detail of the Mac Mini it's
apparently the first carbon neutral Mac which Apple has accomplished by throwing
a mature Redwood into the bottomless pit underneath their copertino headquarters
for every purchase Microsoft has accused Google of running a shadow campaign to
sway European Regulators against Microsoft's Azure services using the
open Cloud Coalition as an astroturfing front now would Google ever do something
like that well I mean yeah possibly
Google is a member of the open Cloud Coalition alongside several smaller
Cloud organizations but Microsoft has insinuated that Google may have bribed
those small smaller providers as a means of disguising its influence Microsoft's
allegations are apparently in response to an anti-rust complaint filed by
Google against Azure in the EU alleging
that Microsoft is using unfair licensing contracts to make it harder and more
expensive to run non aure cloud services
on a Windows-based server ooh that's
Monopoly baby Google's cloud services are only the third largest globally
after Microsoft's Azure and Amazon web services that being said Google parent
company alphabet had its third quarter profit Spike by 34% this year due
largely to increase demand for cloud services as generative AI training
slurps up all available compute and data
resources it's not for you anymore it's for them this will most likely calm
investor concerns about how much alphabet itself has been spending on AI
indeed Google CEO Sundar Pichi claims that over 25 % of the company's new code
is now ai generated which is either an
astounding achievement in efficiency or the death nail of modern civilization
depending on whether we're talking about skilled Engineers getting an assist
filling in basic code or an advanced autocorrect farting around basically
unsupervised they should have a limited amount of
farts wow that was really good just like
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plan good news we've used the quantum instability of the quick bits to
replicate Riley oh who am I you ask well
I'm Riley that's I killed the other one AMD has
confirmed that their next gen rdna 4 gpus will be launching early next year
and they may be launching with some added oomph o ah on Monday the company
wrote a post on GPU open titled neural
super sampling and denoising for real-time path tracing it appears AMD
may be taking a page out of NVIDIA's book and creating their own AI noiser to
boost rate tracing results on top of that they may be adding dedicated AI
Hardware to their gpus similar to NVIDIA's tensor cores honestly copying
some of NVIDIA's ideas sounds like a win for PC Gamers as long as team red
doesn't also copy NVIDIA's pricing they're so expensive got them recent
reporting indicated that YouTube might be testing a homepage layout that lacks
any view counts or upload dates which a
lot of people believed because well that would be just like YouTube now wouldn't
it YouTube however has explicitly denied that this is the case users who
experienced missing view counts most likely encountered a bug caused by
certain browser extensions being enabled according to YouTube blockers YouTube of
course suggests dis aing these extensions and letting them know if the
issue continues maybe if you just put down the ad block at the dinner table
for once we could enjoy these view counts together as a family
34 that's great apologize to your mother modder Beth Lee has built a mostly 3D
printed fully functional gaming handheld using a framework laptop motherboard an
8in touchscreen and a USBC dongle this
isn't the first time something like this has happened either modder Tommy B made
something like it back in March however this new handheld called fittingly the
Beth deck is both more polished and apparently far easier to assemble
according to Beth you can put the whole thing together in around 15 minutes if
you're interested you might want to wait for a revised version of the 3D printed
chassis which will have better air flow I personally find the smell of melted
plastic accentuates that DIY
feel plastic fume rush it feels so good
right before you fall unconscious a Russian court has ruled that Google
unlawfully blocked the content of Russian media stations on YouTube and is
serving them with a fine of 20 Deon
rubles that's 20 followed by 33 zeros or
if you prefer two nonillion Us doll
which is a two followed by 30 zeros and an amount of money that makes the total
Global GDP look like a rounding error the court reached this objectively
banan's sum by imposing a fine of1
100,000 rubles a day with the total doubling every week leading them to
demand that a single company pay a fine worth more money than has ever existed
and a recently filed criminal complaint claims that a fired Disney employee used
his still functional work credentials to access third-party menu creation
software and add profanity and remove allergy warnings from the menus Disney
staff discovered the breach after all of the fonts in the database were replaced
by wingdings not a joke we're normally
looking at 40% wingdings at best this
something's wrong fixing this required restoring a backup meaning the system
was down for around 2 weeks this ex employee also used a script to attempt
thousands of incorrect logins under the credentials of other employees leading
to them being locked out of their accounts personal information for
several of these employees was also found in a folder on the ex employes
computer labeled docs which is right below not porn in terms of subtlety but
I don't want to be too subtle when I tell you to come back on Friday for more
Tech news it's really important to me that that's clear Friday or Saturday
depending on your time zone Friday okay
even you Europe make it happen