oh there's a tech link today but it but it's a holiday huh good thing I wrote a
script and showed up to host it just in case I'm a close one Intel has confirmed
that the leaked Alder Lake BIOS source code uploaded to 4chan and GitHub over
the weekend is legitimate and congratulated the hackers on really a
job well done they got us the league has
sparked concerns that nefarious actors could find vulnerabilities after all
security researchers like Mark irmolov are already doing just that Irma lab
discovered the leak contained a private key used to encrypt Intel's boot guard
platform which may no longer be trustworthy on some vendor platforms and
trust me this Mark doesn't joke around unlike the one filming today's episode
he loves jokes however Intel says they don't believe
the leak is too dangerous as it appears to have been obtained from an external
vendor not Intel itself and would therefore have the most sensitive data
already scrubbed from the code for example selfies and DMS sent from Intel
CEO Pat gelsinger to his wife those are not in there and they probably never
were they would have been super wholesome anyway I like Pat he seems
friendly Google just launched new pixel phones which means it's about time for
some news stories about Hardware problems with pixel phones thankfully
this one is not about the new pixel 7 and 7 Pro but unthankfully it involves
not being able to call Emergency Services during emergencies reports from
Pixel 6 and 6A owners have been popping up describing their attempts to call
9-1-1 or it's equivalent in other regions only to have the phone freeze up
and not complete the call which sounds way worse than pixel hardware issues of
days passed like the camera app bugging out but pixels did have crash detection
before Apple so in am it's okay
it's not speaking of which that feature on the new iPhone 14s has also been
bugging out in the opposite way the Wall Street Journal reported that emergency
services in Ohio got six automatic calls
from iPhones whose users were not in a
car crash isn't that ridiculous yeah they were
actually perfectly safe in tiny open Metal containers being flung around in
the air on a roller coaster okay okay so that I mean and it's time to
dunk on meta a little bit because some leaked memos have revealed that many of
the company's workers dislike meta's Flagship metaverse VR app Horizon worlds
apparently it's kind of janky and even the team that's building it doesn't use
it very often I also like to imagine that a good many Tech workers are aware
of the fact that in the sci-fi novels that popularize the concept of a
metaverse it's often characterized as a dystopian Place run by evil Mega
corporations and maybe they're hesitating about being complicit in bringing that World about
I don't know other memos indicated that some employees refer to metaverse
projects with the acronym mmh for make
Mark happy that's what I'm trying to do and describe events this year when
Zuckerberg wanted meta to have meetings in VR forcing many employees to scramble
to buy VR headsets because they didn't have them meta's people aren't into the
metaverse but everyone else in the world is going to fall in love with strapping
those things to their face for eight hours at work it's just it's intuitive now it's time for quick bits brought to
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links below what to say about quick bits well for one thing they certainly aren't
slow if you Xbox Chief and Sly dog Phil Spencer
tweeted an innocent photo of his office shelf this morning only to have the
internet pounce on the fact that what's
that at the top there a prototype of the project Keystone game streaming device
that was confirmed by the official Xbox Twitter account oh Phil you fool you
walked right into that one completely accidentally Microsoft restarted
development of the device earlier this year and its launch date is unknown but
maybe we can count on Phil to keep us updated unintentionally
I got you Phil Twitter is about staying
in your cultural bubble and making sassy tweets about people in other ones but
the company thinks that's too safe some users have reported that while
screenshotting a tweet they've gotten a prompt to officially share it instead
supposedly since that way Twitter could blog more engagement Twitter knows that
subtweeting is fun and makes you feel good but they would rather have you
confront the idiot that tweeted that stupid thing to their face wouldn't that
feel good until the other person retaliates it would feel good probably
valve made a little oopsie in a recent promotional video for the steam deck by
showing an icon for Yuzu a popular Nintendo switch emulator of course tons
of people use the deck for emulation but it's probably better not to point that
out to the company whose lawyers are constantly sniffing out any whiff of
unlicensed use of their software straining at their leashes like
semi-rabid hunting dogs it's Nintendo I'm referring to here just anyways valve
fixed the video so they should be safe from the Mushroom Kingdom gestapo
security researchers from the University of Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow
security researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a system
called thermosecure which demonstrates the potential for thermal attacks in
which thermal cameras can be used to find out your password based on the heat
left on your keyboard by your fingers and it's even worse if you got some hot
thingies of course this would require filming the victim's keyboard right as
or soon after they type their password so it's unlikely to be a very widespread
threat but keep your eye out for weirdos hanging around your desk it's
particularly an issue here guy named Linus wanders around constantly
what is he doing and praise the Doom guy his game has been shown running on yet
another unlikely and impractical platform Microsoft Notepad YouTuber Sam
person used ASCII Graphics to run the game with no modifications to the
notepad exe file and he even plans to release it to the public soon why
see that's the attitude that ensures you'll never get Doom running on
anything but I believe that you will come back for more Tech news on
Wednesday maybe I'm a Fool maybe I'm a Phil Spencer I'm not okay