it's Black Friday which means that we are now the only Tech news outlet that
won't tell you where to get a cheap laptop we we won't even hint I don't
even know who sells cheap laptops Bass Pro Shops Brazil you know the
country with the big Jesus is continuing to Reign Divine judgment on Apple for
not including power adapters with their phones
if you're that was beautiful if you're unaware in May of last year Brazil fined
Apple over 12 million hey Ice that's how
you say there that's how their currency yeah it's pronunciation buddy that's
over 2 million Freedom funds for trying to save the environment and their bottom
line well this week a story broke on Brazilian site technoblog that consumer
protection regulator Pro con DF seized hundreds of iPhones from Brazilian
stores on November 11th as part of operation discharge the coolest name for
the least intimidating Mission while the original complaint was for the iPhone 12
Pro con DF took any models that didn't have the adapter including new iPhone
14s and older iPhone 11s which have excluded the charger since the launch of
the 12th three days after the seizure Apple filed a legal request to sell
iPhones in Brazil until the government makes a final decision they had actually
already filed one earlier but it was in Spanish fun fact it's Portuguese yeah
important not just Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese get it right meta that
company we all trust with our lives non-consensually has had a big week
three days ago The Verge and the markup co-published articles revealing that
multiple major tax filing Services have been secretly transmitting users
sensitive financial information to Facebook we're talking adjusted gross
income names email addresses refund amounts and more Google has been
receiving similar information from Tax Act but without name so all they really
have is the incredibly sensitive Financial details of millions of people
and that's not that bad if I don't think about it for more than a single second
so that's why pro tip don't fill your taxes out
just don't think and you'll be fine but Tech Giants taketh away and also giveth
the same day this story broke Metta published a report detailing three
deceptive propaganda networks they removed from their platforms earlier
this year which were linked to individuals associated with China Russia
and the U.S military not only were they
caught by your mom's favorite website apparently the U.S run fake accounts got
little to no engagement from real users I guess the only one of your relatives
that isn't on Facebook is Uncle Sam
yeah and some hopeful news in the AI
World stable diffusion the open source AI image generator has been updated to
version 2 and it's been discovered that it's now harder to generate not safer
work content and images that resemble the work of specific artists not news
for OSHA violation needless to say the internet is thrilled
I imagine their comments will become extra caustic without AI generated porn
I mean you can say way meaner things when you type with both hands so but
this is especially good news for Greg rutkovsky his name is often used as a
prompt in AI generated art and now his name doesn't seem to have the same
effect it used to but in a good way
however if you're a recruiter for Amazon I may have some bad news for you a
leaked internal document has revealed that Amazon has plans to replace some of
its recruitment needs with an AI it first tested last year because unlike
humans there are no examples of AI being
biased or unfair and discriminatory man imagine recruiting the people that have
been made your job obsolete confront the problem I went ahead and
cut these stories up nice and small for you because you're so cute Elon Musk aka
the chief bit has announced that the subscription he's now calling verified
will tentatively launch on Friday next week with gold checks for businesses
gray checks for government and blue for individuals he also decided to grant
amnesty to suspended accounts after another one of his perfectly Democratic
polls hopefully the amnesty extends to Chad loader the security expert who was
suspended yesterday after tweeting about the scope of the massive Twitter breach
from last year hmm maybe suspending his
account was a condition of getting Signal app founder Moxie Marlin spikes
help on encrypting DMS you can't have two guys with cool names on one social
platform Moxie didn't want his record to be broken for what coolest name Texas
Company Real Page who made headlines recently for using an algorithm to
automatically raise rent prices is now facing an investigation from the U.S
Department of Justice or Dodge the investigation will determine if the
company's Tech is facilitating collusion among landlords the people you pretend
to be nice to so you can be overcharged for red but when the sync breaks where
do they go
let the gravity of the situation really hit you researchers have developed a
smart bandage that uses electrical stimulation to limit bacterial infection
and repair damaged tissue the smart bandage can heal serious wounds 25
faster than a regular stupid bandage and
it can even reduce scarring however one thing it can't do is repair the damage I
received when Kyle Adams pants to me in front of the entire 12th grade it was
last week I was a guest speaker I still want a bandage for it BBC Radio 4 has
announced that we'll be releasing an audio drama adaptation of Splinter Cell
the classic stealth Action video game series the eight part series will
Premiere in December and has been recorded in 3D binaural audio for
immersion finally you'll be able to experience the franchise from the
village perspective you never see Sam Fisher but you want to see us on Monday
when we deliver you more Tech news Michael Ironside won't be there but
we'd be happy to have them we're not keeping them away or anything it's just
why would that be a question voice guy is Jake Bell he's not involved with us
what oh