Oh, I'm sorry. You wanted some happy golucky, positive tech news? Yeah, well,
tech news ain't your friend. I'm your friend. I'm just trying to protect you.
We know each other. 23 andMe, the DNA testing company, has filed for
bankruptcy nearly 20 years after pioneering the consumer genetic testing
industry while collecting a valuable horde of personal data that would make
Smog the Dragon blush. While the company says it will continue to operate during
the bankruptcy proceedings, during which it will seek to sell its assets,
co-founder and CEO Anne Wujiki announced
she's stepping down so she can be better positioned to bid on the company
herself. Now 23 andMe says customers
genetic data is anonymized, but no one's sure whether to believe that. And with
the eventual fate of their genetic data uncertain, privacy experts are strongly
advising customers to delete their
DNA. How wouldn't that kill you? Oh, DNA
data. Oh, it looked like don't do the
first thing. Um, also 23 and me say that even if you delete your account, they'll
still retain a ton of data about you and your DNA, assuming you can still restore
it from the recycle bin. Hey, who's ready for some new GPUs? These ones
could be affordable, kind of. I'm talking about the 60 tier cards.
NVIDIA's RTX 5060 and 5060Ti have had
some specs leak courtesy of known Twitter hardware leaker Momo, who posted
a couple of HP's Omen desktops with an RTX 5060 Ti. Those models have 8 GB of
VRAM, but a 16 GB variant of the Ti was
spotted in a Best Buy listing. According to video cards with a z.com fun
spelling, NVIDIA is forcing their board partners to have at least one graphics
card model priced at MSRP and it has to
be available to purchase on the launch date. I mean, have you ever heard of
such a thing? Video Cards also purports to know some other specs of the cards
which are scheduled to launch on April 16th according to WX Nod on Twitter. But
there were also leaks mentioning AMD's RX960 XT, which looks like it's also
coming in 8 and 16 GB variants courtesy of yet another Twitter leaker, Haru Kaz
5719. Do you think they get together on holidays? Google has confirmed it may
have possibly accidentally uh deleted
some users data from timeline, the Google Maps feature, previously known as
location history. In an email to affected users, the company said the
deletion was caused by a technical issue, but did not elaborate further,
forcing us to assume they were training a robot to deliver coffee in the server
room. You could have done that in the company ball pit, Google, come on. The
data snafu comes after some users already lost location history data after
Google announced in December 2023 that it would be moved to ondevice storage by
default and they gave users instructions on how to back it up. There were lots of
articles spreading the word about this, but you can't reach everyone. And now
Google says that if your data was deleted and you don't have a backup,
you're hooped, bud. I mean guys, Google's got a lot of data to keep track
of. Have you seen your Google Drive? Pulling up Bilbo Baggins over here. Why
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you. Boop. Android users are reporting that Google has started rolling out
screen and camera sharing for its Gemini Live AI conversation mode. They're
features that were previously shown off under the name Project Astra, promising
a future where you can carry on a conversation with your AI assistant
while it looks through your phone camera as if you're on one of the worst kind of
video calls. And look, there's the sign.
Uh oh. Wow. An Italian court has ruled that
Google must block pirate websites listed under the country's piracy shield
system, replacing their original web addresses with fake ones on Google's
public DNS service, a tactic known as DNS poisoning. An Italian regulators
post on LinkedIn celebrated the ruling as a win against piracy, which seems a
little ironic given that Italy invented the
mafia. NVIDIA's latest GPU drivers have
reportedly caused the black screen issues that affected some RTX 50 series
GPUs to spread to the RTX 40 series,
according to multiple Reddit posts from users suffering the same pain.
Apparently, rolling back to a previous driver sometimes fixes it, but then
you're prevented from playing new games with up-to-date drivers. I don't know,
maybe Jensen's just trying to teach us a lesson. You know, just cuz that screen
is dark doesn't mean your mind has to be. Imagine something in those inky
depths. Oh god, it's coming this way. This was a mistake. The Philips Huegh
brand, which is now owned by Signify, is mostly made up of RGB enabled smart
lights. But a reference to a Philips Huegh smart doorbell was spotted in an
app update. Interestingly, it doesn't change colors, but it does ask visitors,
who are you?
What the was that? And Penn State researchers have developed technology
that can create what they call audible enclaves, little pockets of physical
space inside which audio can be heard
and nowhere else. The scientists say they've achieved this using self-bending
ultrasound beams and nonlinear acoustics, which I'm not here to explain
to you. I could, but I'm only here to warn that if this gets widely adopted,
walking around in a city could sound like you're flipping through radio
stations. And if people hear something they like, they could suddenly stop and
then you got a sidewalk pileup on your hands. We must destroy this technology
immediately. To hear about more tech abominations that shouldn't exist, come
back on Wednesday. What? Some of it will be
happy. Whatever.