we will continue reading the tech news until it's depleted and then
god help us the eu's mission to reign in big tech
continues with the european parliament passing almost unanimously a preliminary
proposal that's a piece that would force apple to
finally just slap a usbc port on the iphone for pete's sake come on stick it
in there they've already put it on the ipads and macbook so like what's the
hold up the eu's radio equipment directive would
mandate usb-c be included on all small to medium-sized electronic gadgets with
exemptions for devices that are too small for usb-c port like smart watches
health trackers or other tiny wearables
it also calls for standardization of wireless charging standards which could
affect apple's newish magsafe system or you know any future phone that's like
this port it's not really for charging wireless is the predominant charging
it's just for fun no eu member states will hash out the details after another
vote in may but the eu ain't done here parliament is also soon expected to pass
a new law called the digital services act dsa
which would force online platforms to better police illegal content and ban
the targeting of users based on religion gender or sexuality so don't worry too
much about the future of technology and the internet europe is here to save us
all except americans meanwhile google is trying to make your phone less helpful
if you're ever planning on using it to record a phone call a new policy will
ban third-party call recording apps from using Android's accessibility API which
allows them to access the audio functions on a given device now to be
fair to google this ban is meant to escape legal liability since laws
governing whose consent is required before recording a phone call differ
depending on where you are but there are lots of scenarios in which having the
option would be extremely useful like a phone interview or a call with a shady
company or as part of an elaborate punk prank watch out Linus
google's gonna punk ya thankfully there are some workarounds but man this almost makes you want to
call europe help us europe again hello
and just like microsoft sony is also reportedly considering introducing ads
into free to play games on its console the playstation 5. have you heard of it
sony's plans are currently limited to ads in game menus but like microsoft the
company is apparently talking with its partners about ads situated in the game
world like say virtual billboards and cyberpunk for atari blade runner
reference look at the beautiful people they're just movies podcasts have you
heard of it we're on it there's also talk of rewarding players with items
like skins for watching enough ads but only in a way that doesn't disrupt the
gameplay experience that's funny because i would say ads disrupt gameplay by
definition but they could also create new revenue opportunities for free to
play game developers which i like who says games need to be fun and not
dystopian anyway let's just rule play to earn baby riley
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bits ain't what you expect because they're shape shifters
devil spawn what AMD might be on the path to
revolutionizing the processor world once more with their phoenix apus
the chips are expected next year with up to 24 rdna compute units which would
technically make them more powerful than the xbox series s
s s which has 20. and if the phoenix chips
are built with rdna3 they could even outperform AMD's low-end discrete
graphics cards you think AMD called them phoenix because it's like
verizon has been just okay but now it's like they're gonna rise from the ashes
like a phoenix do you think that that would be maybe they did that taiwan-based company
thermalright has launched a bending corrector frame for Intel's alder-like
processors that is designed to prevent them from bending or warping an issue
that has been observed among some 12-gen chips only in the wild
although the anti-bending unit goes directly against Intel's strong
recommendation to not use such mods i can understand why enthusiasts would
want to protect their expensive new processor they can always just tell until they're framing it for display
purposes only i wrote that as a joke but i'm assuming some people do that elon
musk is still gunning for twitter announcing on 420 that he had secured a
46.5 billion dollar package 21 billion of which was his own money from tesla
stock to fund his hostile takeover bid the rest coming from morgan stanley
twitter's board has not given musk a formal answer to his offer but will be
facing scrutiny from shareholders who stand to gain from the deal as is
usually the case with elon it's unclear whether he's doing this out of real concern for free speech or whether he
just needs another way to distract people from videos of tesla's driving themselves into three and a half million
dollar private jets like every week after basically ignoring it for more
than 10 years apple has officially pulled the plug on macOS server the 20
app that provided a few server specific features which have now largely been
integrated into macOS itself but i'm still having trouble comprehending this
because apple people those people don't use servers they keep everything in
moleskine notebooks and vision boards and stuff and word clouds they have all
your information at the cafe the servers work there and while the GPU
stock and price landscape might be returning to some kind of normalcy the
worldwide chip shortage is still very much an issue according to a bloomberg
report at least one major industrial conglomerate one one conglomerate has
resorted to tearing apart used washing machines stripping out their
semiconductors and using them in their own products we're in the cannibalism
stage it won't be long now
we'll have to wait until next week to see how things play out so come back on monday for more tech news
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