it's getting awful cold outside how about a piping hot mug of tech news
do the body good having just a Betsy Apple decided that the noise canceling
on the airpods max was too good so naturally they made it worse that's
right testingbyratings.com and that is how it's pronounced has confirmed that an
automatic firmware update way back in May reduced the strength of the airpods
Max's ANC in the mid to high base range what outrageous dozens of us notice or
even own these things so expect to hear the low Rumble of Planes Trains and
Automobiles and a snoring John Candy oh that's a good cutting right through
it's a deep cut after making this change Apple did what the airpods max used to
do and stayed silent for five months and Counting baby you might not notice the
change though while there has been low-level chatter about the issue
researched by Apple Insider indicated no increase in service requests since the
update that's because they're not Discerning listeners now it's possible that Apple made this
change to fix the high cabin pressure of the airpods max that uncomfortable
pressure feeling you get with some ANC devices but what's more likely Apple
making existing product better or apple make existing product worse so buy new
product me no no Facebook has warned that it may block
the sharing of news content on its platform in Canada oh no think of the
Boomers the hosers at meta announced this in response to Bill c18 or the
online news act the bill is currently being considered by the House of Commons
that's like being debated in Congress for those of you who speak Freedom if
fast it would force platforms like Facebook and Google to pay news
Publishers for their content sounds like an Australian kind of thing if this
sounds familiar that's because this is like an Australian kind of thing
it happened there when they were passing the news media bargaining code last year
in Australia's case Facebook Switched Off new sharing in the country after the
bill passed only turning it back on after the law was amended hey meta
here's a little Pro tip for negotiating with the Canadian government please and
sorry are magic words we will not accept
sorry also a nice thank you maybe an a if you
think YouTube has the worst algorithm I know some people that might disagree a
class action lawsuit has been filed against nine of the largest Property
Management firms in the U.S and a Texas company called Real Page you maker of a
software that uses an algorithm to automatically set prices on apartments
leading to a 14.5 rent increase in some
cases they stand accused of forming a cartel to artificially inflate rents in
violation of federal law the lawsuit was filed days after a propublica published
an article investigating real Pages software in which Real Page executive
Andrew Bowen claimed that their software solves the problem of landlords caring
too much for their fellow humans oh God I don't know any of those guys Bowen
States as a property manager very few of us would be willing to actually raise
rents double digits within a single month by doing it manually and one of
the algorithms developers actually said that the leasing agents had too much
empathy when compared to algorithm-driven pricing this machine
the thing about robots is they're not human which is very profitable for big
companies for those people might not eat this month but who's going to empathize
with the economy Robert Reich I don't know thanks to
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49. nah this is too much Microsoft
leaked sensitive data of over 65 000 companies in 111 different countries by
misconfiguring one of their cloud storage buckets as public I didn't know
that many companies used this year the data consisted of business transactions
between Microsoft and prospective customers and it was allegedly publicly
indexed for months so anyone could have humbled upon it through a Google search
or perspective anymore though if you want the full experience
of exploring Microsoft's private data you should really use Bing a developer
has claimed that many studios are sick of developing for the Xbox series s the
value Xbox the issue brought up by VFX artist Ian McClure and now deleted
tweets is Microsoft's requirement for games to release on both the series X
and the series s consoles meanwhile Lee
davenold a senior character technical artist at Rocksteady yeah claimed that
Gotham Knights only runs at 30 FPS to ensure compatibility with series s a
console to have an all called a potato he also deleted his tweets though
probably after realizing they were insensitive to Series S owners who have
been fighting potato stigma since 2020.
a single optimal computer chip has managed to transmit a record of 1.84
petabits of data per second over a 7.9
kilometer fiber cable that's equivalent to downloading 230 million photographs
which is how many selfies my wife takes they're all good though they're all
amazing beautiful you look beautiful finally I can download all of wikiFeet
in only an hour that's the joke you wrote in Jesus
but enough about my hobbies researchers from Denmark Sweden and Japan used a
chip called a frequency comb to split an infrared laser into hundreds of
different frequencies and code data data into each frequency of light and then
recombine them into one girthy beam
which was then transmitted through optical fiber now that's a Rainbow
Connection whatever nerd I don't even get this reference
disco Elysium writer Robert kervitz has filed suit against the developer of the
game Studio
this comes after Martin luiga founding member of the studio stated that curvitz
and two other core creatives were fired on false premises after or previces
premises after making a game based on
critiquing entrenched systems that end up absorbing and commercializing
critiques of itself that doesn't sound disco at all here's hoping Kermit's
lawsuit goes hardcore to the mega and
Amazon has applied to have 105 diesel generators installed at a new data
center in Dublin this comes on the heels
of an energy crisis across the UK and Ireland where data centers consume 14 a
percent of electricity I started screwing up so I just doubled down more
than all rural homes combined seems like a strange choice of fuel to power a
massive Cloud facility but at least they'll probably get better mileage than
petrol all right mate a little bit more I only
use gas and I'm gonna get more mileage out of this episode by telling you to
come back for more Tech news at another time I don't think that makes sense