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don't worry about it the United States Department of Justice sued apple on
Thursday for monopolizing smartphone markets which is a bolder and broader
claim than even epic games made in their lawsuit they should have thought of that
before they became a video game company instead of a government institution the
sheer scope of the doj's complaints make this probably the largest antitrust case
since the doj sued Microsoft back in 1998 which led to the company pinky
swearing to not be so monopolistic in shoving Internet Explorer down consumer
throats but when you change the browser name to Edge pinky promises don't count
that's playground rules in a nutshell the reason for the doj's lawsuit is
basically summarized by Tim Cook's now classic line buy your mom an iPhone buy
your mom an iPhone all
right join me or be cast into the
piercing void with the rest of your contemptible kind unworthy scum cook
said this in response to a reporter talking about how pictures and videos
look like grainy garbage when they're sent between iPhones and Androids and
it's even quoted in the doj's complaint they also mentioned the iOS app store's
restrictive rules specifically claiming that Apple blocks super apps like WeChat
which basically serves as an app platform in itself in China and they
also bring up Hardware incompatibility citing the Apple watch's lack of Android
support but that's apparently not for a lack of trying Apple told 9 to5 Mac that
it spent 3 years investigating whether
Android support could be added to Apple watch ultimately deciding it would never
work because of technical limitations
which is so weird that's the same reason my last girlfriend broke up with me pretty much any issue with iOS you've
ever heard of is cited in this lawsuit and it's clear the doj thinks Apple's
Walled Garden approach isn't cool anymore in a statement issued to the
Press Apple says the lawsuit threatens who we are and and and yeah yeah it does
that's kind of the whole point you're toxic I'm slipping under but for me the
most scandalous part of all of this is that Tim Sweeney can't even tweet about
it until he's done giving testimony in the Australian epic games versus Apple
trial what does he think if he does tweet it spins the opposite way
neuralink Elon musk's brain computer interface company posted a live stream
on Twitter proving that their first human patient is not only alive he is
killing it at chess Nolan arbau received
the wireless implant in January and can now easily move a mouse cursor with his
mind well enough to play Civilization 6
for 8 hours straight only stopping because he had to charge it now while
this is certainly impressive be experts have pointed out that the basic
technology here isn't new I mean here's a video from 2007 of a guy controlling a
mouse cursor with his mind academic researchers and startups like synchron
and black rock the neurotech company not
the one you're thinking of have all achieved similar results but it's clear
that neuralink is trying to create the iPhone moment for bcis with its
minimalist design and sexy neural threads that get all up inside your
brain and have a 300 count and to be
fair it does seem like neuralink has stirred up a lot of hype thanks in no
small part to Elon making claims like this one where he says it's possible to
shunt brain signals past a spinal injury
so paralyzed people can walk again which would obviously be awesome but I've also
seen a lot of this guy's rockets explode so I I just don't know Microsoft has
hired the CEO and founder of inflection AI the company behind the popular pie
chatbot to head up its Microsoft AI
division also hired by Microsoft most of
inflection other 70 employees in what
many in the industry are calling an aqua hire and what a smaller group is calling
a h quisition it's just me saying that second one you know what I don't even
like it Microsoft will also pay inflection $620 million to license their
Pi models and another 30 million to keep their lips shut about the whole poaching
a whole company thing don't spread this around in a blog post the survivors at
inflection referred to the gutting of their company as an important change to
how will work but analyst Tony Wang and
everyone else with eyes says this is basically an acquisition of inflection
without having to go through regulatory approval it's clear that Microsoft CEO
Satia Nadella is serious about his company's dominance in AI in the wake of
this story a quote has gone viral from one of his interviews back in November
when Microsoft was briefly going to hire open AI CEO Sam Alman and much of that
company's staff asked about the possibility of open AI folding nadela
said Microsoft would be fine because quote we have all the IP rights and all
the capability we have the people we have the compute we have the data we
have everything we are in there we are below them above them around them we are
the Senate he didn't say that last part but
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has announced FSR 3.1 which not only adds substantial improvements to ITS
upscaling Technologies but also greatly expands access to frame generation the
update allows for the decoupling of AMD's frame generation Tech from its FSR
3 upscaling allowing other upscaling Solutions like NVIDIA's dlss or Intel's
XS to use team Red's frame generation
feature apparently NVIDIA RTX 20 series cards and above are supported though
AMD's upscaling also got some love FSR 3.1 improves temporal stability and
reduces ghosting which AMD demonstrated using GIFs that are definitely from
ratchet and clanked Rift apart and totally aren't just AI generated
clamation why are they so small like
look how good this looks what sue you a nonprofit open-
Source Nintendo switch emulator based on the recently defunct Yuzu released its
first build on Wednesday only to have it immediately pulled down by gitlab on the
grounds that it's a fork of a public repo against which we previously
received a dmca notice ironic however the suyu team says they
will still continue the project the build is available for Windows Linux and
macOS and they've apparently added several fixes and removed all Telemetry
which is probably a good idea given what happened to the last guy who Tangled
with Nintendo's enforcers the those Goombas look not threatening but at a
virtual event Microsoft unveiled the brand new Surface Pro 10 and surface
laptop 6 for business no but seriously uh if
you're excited about the new ARM powered devices um don't be for these these
products use Intel Core Ultra chips which are still new the rumored
Snapdragon X Elite notebooks won't be coming until May but it might be worth
the wait Qualcomm claims most Windows Games should just work on their
processors you know what else Works co-pilot before announcing the new
Surface devices Microsoft rehashed all of their ai's greatest hits Like a
Rolling Stones concert if no one wanted to listen to The Rolling Stones how' I
get a ticket Apple's M series chips have an unpatchable side Channel
vulnerability allowing attackers to extract encryption keys from Max a team
of researchers from multiple universities detailed an attack called
go fetch which uses an app that doesn't require any root access to the Target
Mac only the same user privileges needed by most thirdparty macOS apps the
vulnerability is due to the design of the Silicon itself so it can't be
patched only mitigated by software defenses that could severely affect
performance I also have an unpatchable flaw that affects my performance it's
called depression and security researchers say that around 13,000
buildings predominantly hotels from around the world are currently
vulnerable to an exploit that allows a master key to be created for the entire
building using just an NFC enabled Android device and a key card from that
hotel it can also be used to override dead bolts so you're going to want to
hope that little chain can hold this vulnerability affects saff loock locks
created by dormakaba and I swear we're just now making these Nam these are all
Star Wars names dorak is aware of the issue and have so far replaced or
patched 36% of the affected locks wow
there are no known cases of this exploit being used in the wild this is very much
a horror we have uncovered for ourselves in captivity much like the Zony the
Unholy offspring of a zebra and a donkey
that's Jessica's fun fact fun horror for
the day and you'll uncover more Tech news if you come back on Monday for
another episode of TechLink might have to might have to dig a little bit but
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