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for today's Tech news we're getting back to basics you know like you know Wheels

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chisels fire you know classic Tech show this one to your grandpa he'll love it

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many critics have said that the rabbit R1 should have just been an app rather

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than a standalone device but they're in luck because it turns out that it

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probably already is according to a report from Android authority the rabbit

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R1 the AI device that is definitely not a phone appears to run on a version of

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Android and its interface is actually an Android application Android authority

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acquired the r1's Launcher APK from a

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source and they found they were able to install and run it on a pixel 6A they

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were then able to create an account and interact with a device as if it were a

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genuine R1 a rabbit CEO Jesse Leu has

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released a statement claiming that the R1 interface is not an app it's not an

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app stop saying it's an app and that

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rabbit o is cloud-based with very bespoke Android

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open source project and lower level firmware modifications but that really

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just means that most of their services Special Sauce is still essentially

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Android-based just running in the cloud and not on the hardware they're selling

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it I mean there have even been a couple reports of people sideloading and

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running other Android apps on the R1 so

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rabbit has argued in the past that building an app for a smartphone means

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being limited by that device devices pre-existing hardware and app systems

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which is fair enough but that approach has also wound up chaining the R1

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experience to another even more limited device and I only have so many pockets

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and a Max one device per pocket rule it's getting complicated the FCC has

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announced a nearly $200 million fine against three of the largest American

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telecoms for selling their customers realtime location data without consent

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tragically it's not $200 million each but at at least it's something I'm not

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getting any of it so I don't know why I but at least we have some shot in Freud

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here Verizon will be fined 47 million AT&T 57 million and a combined 92

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million for T-Mobile and Sprint who merged after the investigation began

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remember if you eat somebody you get all their debts not many people consider

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that one of the big risks of cannibalism the FCC found that the company sold

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their customers real-time location data to aggregators who then sold it to

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basically everybody else the telecoms likewise tried to offload their duty to

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obtain consent onto Downstream actors and tried using those smaller companies

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as a shield from legal responsibility like a grown adult trying to blame a dog

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for a fart Jessica you just have a way with words I'm a poet real-time location data

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is considered incredibly sensitive because of how revealing it is the only

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person who regularly travels back and forth between my house and my workplace

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and Big Mike's all you can eat cheese Emporium is me and my gassy dog meta has

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announced that it will be altering Instagram and threads algorithms to stop

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recommending posts from content aggregators so that small original

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content creators have more visibility likewise these platforms will be adding

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labels to reposted content linking it back to the original Creator pretty good

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this won't apply though if the content has been changed significantly such as

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having been edited into a meme or remixed in some way as the youths will

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do what this probably means is that you'll be seeing fewer straight reposts

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and more reposts that just so happen to have Subway Surfers running beneath them

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on split screen and boom it's fair use metan now acknowledges that its

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algorithm has traditionally benefited accounts with lots of followers that

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mostly share reposted content however at the same time as this new change to

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prioritize original content meta is also weaving AI throughout its platforms

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famously not trained on original content

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which has only added to the overall spam problem Instagram search bar is now

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pulling double duty as an AI chatbot so now it's easy to accidentally fat finger

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your way into a conversation with a robot while trying to talk to your

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friends you don't have any friends Dave

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oh me it's me now Facebook meanwhile has been absolutely flooded with bizarre

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often Jesus themed AI art and its own AI

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has been acting strangely even once commenting on a parenting group claiming

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to have a disabled yet gifted child it's obviously not apparent but I'm not sure

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we should completely dismiss the possibility that meta's AI has a child

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like in a cage somewhere they're forced to use Facebook

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every day and they're depressed but what if instead you had soft dry cages for

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your feet that's right we're talking about shoes just like those sold by our

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combine the comfort of a sneaker with the grip and coverage of an outdoor boot

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you didn't think it was possible but well vessie has added extra layering for

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added warmth as well as extra grip to prevent you from slipping and sliding in

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now make sure to leaven your quick bits with baking soda not yeast unless you're

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trying to loose an ARM it's no joke the UK has updated its telecommunication

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security legislation to ban manufacturers from adding easily

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guessable default passwords to their connected devices now devices with

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online connectivity must come with a randomized password or generate a random

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password during setup in addition default passwords cannot be incremental

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like password one or obviously reference

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publicly available information like Wi-Fi SS IDs the problem of course being

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that most of us never change the default Wi-Fi password and some of us don't even

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know how I don't want to put us in that

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do do you Riley doesn't know hey was just shut up shut up that's how the heck

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happened the US general Services Administration aka the most generically

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named government body ever is auctioning off its 7-year-old 5.34 petaflop cheyen

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supercomput which was considered the 20th most powerful computer in the world

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when it was installed in late 2016 by contrast the current most powerful

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supercomputer has 1,680 pedop flops which I don't got to

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tell you is a lot this thing's flopping all over the

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place the cheyen supercomputer was invaluable to the scientific study of

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weather climate wildfires and seismic activity throughout its relatively long

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for a supercomputer lifespan but maybe now one of us can buy it and test

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whether it'll run crisis I think lonus was tweeting somebody about this the

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accounting team was physically holding him

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back meta is back and they're being investigated for non-compliance with the

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eu's digital Services act particularly its rules about fighting misinformation

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and deceptive advertising and you know to be honest the whole meta AI had a

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baby thing that hasn't helped neither has meta's shutdown of crowd tangle the

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company's Analytics tool that allowed researchers and journalists to monitor

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public discourse during elections meta's also laying off staff from the oversight

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board meant to monitor the company's own decisions and that all sounds bad but

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since the EU is monitoring everyone already why shouldn't meta take it easy

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I mean you don't want too many cooks in the kitchen in a settlement with the FTC

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Razer Incorporated has agreed to pay back $1 million to customers who bought

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the company's Zephyr mask after falsely claiming it was equivalent to an n95

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certified mask on honestly the only thing worse than selling an RGB covered

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face mask for $100 is lying about the mask Effectiveness during a global

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pandemic interestingly Razer has admitted no wrongdoing and claims they

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agreed to the settlement to avoid more litigation since it's a distraction and

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disruption to making great products products like mice with RGB or laptops

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with RGB or mouse pads which for some reason also have RGB they just you can't

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and Google is apparently introducing audio emojis for the Google Phone app

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presumably so they have a feature in their back pocket they can kill later to

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meet their yearly quota of dead services at their companywide meetings guys we

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are not killing nearly enough Services right now ABK always be

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killing the Emojis play stock sound

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effects like clapping canned laughter or

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even farts you know things you can't

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already Express in an audio-based medium

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I already got that model if I need that I'll just call Jessica in

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oh crap you got the new update and that's not even to mention the fact that

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the only person I regularly talk to on the phone is my psychiatrist I can't

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wait to play the sad trombone audio Emoji to really emphasize how I'm

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dealing with my depression and I want to emphasize that you can get more Tech

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news if you come back on Friday that's right Friday have I made that clear

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enough I it's a day it happens at soon