to celebrate the end of the tech news year the governor of New York has signed
usna's first right to repair bill into
law many like iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens
the wiener man are celebrating a huge
victory for consumers so I guess it's time to pop open something sparkly
that is unless you're Louis Rossman who seems to prefer something a little
stronger he points out that it was only signed after an amendment that makes it
functionally toothless to address the governor's concerns over users safety
and by the governor's concerns I mean the concerns of the tech Giants Who
convinced her probably with money see they haven't provided more than a single
example from 10 years ago to the FTC to support their safety argument and the
original bill passed both the state's legislatures with bipartisan majorities
and the FTC endorsed that version too leading any astute Tech News host to
wonder whether there's more than politics at play here maybe something
like money but perhaps there's some other reason why companies charging
through the nose for their repair services would want to weaken something
that would promote free market competition for those same Services we
just don't know money AMD is in the hot seat this week due to how they've dealt
with their graphics cards overheating After experiencing Junction temperatures
of 110 degrees Celsius on a 7900 XTX one
redditor said AMD rejected his replacement request because the
temperatures are normal which would make sense if perhaps you slash Nero 1338
lived in a volcano like a super villain a different user water and diamonds made
a separate post claiming that he couldn't return his XTX to AMD because
he had the nerve to unbox it and try to use it the monster what is he some sort
of customer things got so bad that an absolute Chad named Steven who works for
Radeon partner power color asked anyone
experiencing the temperature issues to reach out to him so he could report it
to his AMD contacts I guess it's a good thing that AMD locked the power play
tables for their 7000 series gpus thus
making it more difficult to overclock them otherwise the only fire safe gpus
this generation would be Ian tells us and can you solve climate change by
yourself the startup makes sunsets think so they want to reflect more sunlight
back into space by releasing reflective sulfur particles into the atmosphere who
could have a problem with that well lots of scientists not only is the practice
highly controversial since the real world effect is largely unknown but many
researchers are upset the startup released two weather balloons containing
a sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere from Mexico without informing well
anyone beforehand they're just gonna ruin their fun also make sunsets has no
idea if the balloons delivered the payload as no sensors were connected to
them though they haven't let that stop them from attempting to sell cooling
credits for future balloon flights claiming that one gram of particles is
enough to offset one ton of carbon for a year hey if there's one company you can
trust it's the one that says they joke slash not joke that it's partly a
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to Pickens have large Talons some security researchers have things to say
about lastpass's disclosure of their password leak Vladimir palant alleges
that the company's public statement was full of omissions half truths and
outright lies another security researcher named Jeremy ghostne echoed
some of the same sentiment while belittling their encryption and even
lastpasses browser extensions man that's got to be so embarrassing for LastPass
not as embarrassing as a password security company suffering seven major
security breaches in 10 years but still pretty embarrassing Samsung has
announced a new smart fridge with a 32-inch touchscreen us users will be
able to order groceries from Amazon but what's apparently more important since
it was mentioned four paragraphs earlier in the company's press release is that
the fridge screen is optimized for vertical format videos from platforms
like Tick Tock and YouTube this is what nobody wanted now you can Doom scroll
Tick Tock without even having to get up for a snack because you already are up
for snacks you just stand there forget
why you even got up in the first family can't get in the fridge why am I here a
hacker alleging to be in possession of private details from 400 million Twitter
accounts is asking for two hundred thousand dollars in exchange for the
data specifically ryushi wants to sell
the data exclusively to Elon Musk attempting to leverage the fact that the
billionaire social media platform could be fined by the EU for the Privacy
breach jokes on you hacker if I've learned one thing about elon's purchase
of Twitter and Tesla stock he doesn't care about how much money he loses he's
got friends a security researcher discovered a bug that would allow
malefactors to turn your Google Home Smart speaker into a listening device
apparently he was able to install a backdoor account on any device within
Wireless proximity gaining access to its microphone feed even other devices on
the same network he reported the bug to Google and got 107 500 it's over half of
what ryushi is asking for and this person doesn't have to worry about jail
time work smart not hard hackers the accident like Anna Moore scientist
fridge Planet news a pair of scientists have made a more eco-friendly fridge
made of salt essentially it works the same way as road salt does by lowering
the freezing point of a solvent making it colder to create a refrigeration
cycle the scientists needed to be able to reverse the cooling process so they
added a device that can remove the salt and yet twitch has been struggling with
the same issue for years what's the deal
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