look whatever the media tells you Europe is not a country they pretend to be one
online but trust me I've been there Barron Wasteland dinosaur bones just
littering the landscape covered in sand the European Union hasn't laid any
official charges on Apple for not complying with the blocks digital markets act but they are going around
and talking smack EU competition Chief Margaretta vtiger told CNBC this week
that the ongoing probe into Apple's policies will have its full conclusions
revealed soon and that it's found a number of Apple issues that she finds
very serious yeah well right back at you cuz Apple also has issues with Europe's
policies around interoperability take that you don't
like that the tech giant says launching its recently announced Apple
intelligence iPhone mirroring and shareplay screen sharing features in the
EU could force them to compromise the Integrity of their products and you know
normally we'd mock Apple here but the EU has recently given us reason to be
concerned for the Integrity of consumer devices the European commission has been
proposing legislation that would require messaging platforms to scan users
private messages and photos for illegal content even if they're encrypted it's
known as upload moderation or client
side scanning by Advocates that doesn't sound bad it's called nice name but
critics have dubbed the practice chat control including Meredith Whitaker CEO
of encrypted chat app signal who published a blog post ahead of a vote on
the prop proposal scheduled for this week thankfully the vote was postponed
but this felt like a bit of a close call watching the EU regulate something feels
a little bit like watching your friend win a race but then they just keep
running and now you got to stop them before this gets all VRA Vendetta ideas
are bulletproof throws knives reviews of Snapdragon aelite
laptops that aren't an ASUS Vil book S15
with the lowest tier Elite variant are trickling onto the web which is fine if
you're into variety I guess various Outlets like Tom's guide and XDA
Developers posted benchmarks of the HP omnibook X the Microsoft service pro 11
and the surface laptop 7 the latter two of which feature the middle tier x1e
8100 even with more juice though the
story sounds pretty similar to early reviews The X Elite matches or best
Intel and AMD's current competitors while losing out overall to Apple's M3
the gaming picture looks a bit more promising though most of the 25 games
that Forbes tested were somewhat playable and and Microsoft is promoting
its partnership with ARM Focus company lenaro on a games compatibility website
called works on Windows on ARM which everyone is calling waha for short no
one's calling it that I am everyone loves calling it that regardless these
co-pilot plus PCS are here to stay a leak points to more unannounced chip
variants on the way although they're on the lower end of the range sure you
might not use your thin and light ARM notebook for gaming but having a Windows
laptop that actually goes to sleep and wakes up with without setting your bag on fire is kind of an automatic win
anyway especially in the bag not on fire championships that's my entire survival
kit I was planning on my backpack to keep me warm for at least 3 days now I'm
going to die in a nuclear winter and I can't even play any game perplexity the
AI search engine being accused of plagiarism by Forbes and other
journalists also appears to be ignoring an even more basic rule of Internet
decency the robot exclusion protocol is actually not the name of a rule that
keeps robots from booking tables at restaurants because they don't even eat they're always everyone's time but it is
the name for the widely accepted standard wherein web crawlers can be
blocked from crawling a given website by checking its robots.txt file developer
Rob Knight discovered that perplexity WebCrawler blatantly ignores the robots
file which was confirmed by wired who also just accused the AI company of
plagiarizing its article calling perplexity a machine they were
in a bad mood but valid robots can't even deprecate themselves anymore I'm
depressed as and I could say all terrible about me but guys once again
the plagiarism and hallucination are just growing pains regenerative AI it's
only going to get better perplexity now has access to anthropics brand new clad
3.5 Sonic which outperforms its previous Flag ship clae 3 Opus as well as open a
eyes GPT 40 at least according to
anthropics own benchmarks it's going to be fine and we are all going to have a
good laugh about this when we're sitting outside watching the robots eat look we
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money back guarantee I got bad news turns out no countries are real but if
that's true why aren't you just falling through space right now anyway here's
quick bits New York's Governor has passed two social media laws aimed at
protecting children from addictive feeds and data collection but hey maybe if we
can't control social media the US government should reconsider Tik tok's
kill switch offer in 2022 the video
platform offered the federal government the ability to immediately suspend the
app in the United States if it didn't follow certain rules and instead of
doing that they decided to just try and make Tik Tok sell itself we could have
had a big red button that existed just to make Zoomers Panic it would have been
hilarious Bam by Charlie demilio the
group of hackers that caused massive disruptions to several London hospitals
apparently also absconded with large amounts of patient data the group
demanded a ransom of40 million or about $50 million from NHS provider covis to
keep the data private it seems the group didn't get their Ransom since they published about 380 GB worth of stolen
data which seems to all be blood tests
really that's the data you stole you could have found every Londoner who had
a shampoo bottle removed from their anal Canal you're worse than criminals you're
boring anal Canal is Medical true that's true is it I'm teaching the kids
something anal Canal children the word of the day is anal Canal Spotify has yet
again updated its pricing options this time adding a discount for non-
audiobook enthusiasts if you just want to stream music and don't care about 15
hours of Audi book listening time per month you can get the basic plan for
$10.99 a month instead of paying $1.99 for premium a whole dollar
wow can I go to the store mom give myself a single candy at the same time
though Spotify is also offering an audiobooks access subscription that
gives you just the 15 hours of audiobook listing for $9.99 wait what yeah you'd
think since Spotify offers many audiobooks about mathematics they'd know
that $1 and $10 are very different
values well I mean who can say
mathematicians and me mathematicians and
me US supermarkets are rolling out more electronic price labels for items the
labels can change prices six times a minute and may allow for dynamic pricing
like uber but more dystopian the tech can be used to lower prices on soon to
expire items and also increase the price of water and ice cream when it gets hot
outside they could already do that but now it goes to the speed of capitalism I
have questions if an item's price changes in the time between when I grab
it off the shelf and when I get to the till which do I pay will I have to write
down what time I grabbed it I'm Panic buying storebrand donuts for a potlock
do I look like I can keep track of time and a former snap engineer is launching
butterflies a social network for humans and AIS to interact user generated AI
personas called butterflies will automatically generate posts that humans
and other AIS can interact with what's the
point AI mean AI you guys just talk I
imagine it's something like this viral video of a reverse touring test five
historical figures are in a train car four of which are Ai and then trying to
figure out who is Human by asking questions the AI all gave long
thoughtful responses the human meanwhile
thank you for your question Cleopatra what a leader should do is to
crush his enemies see them D driven before him and hear the Lamentations of
their women maybe AI should take over the world and maybe you should come back
on Monday for more Tech news I won't be here but I'll know if you're gone don't
test him I can see you and frankly I'm uncomfortable