our Tech news is gluten-free and organic but it's far from crueltyfree we've been
keeping a clone of Mark Zuckerberg in a cage under the studio for study we just
pad the wall so you can't hear him trying to be relatable two new mysterious Intel gpus have been spotted
on the soft Benchmark database and enthusiasts are speculating they might
be a part of Intel's upcoming battl Mage lineup of gaming graphics cards the
listing was spotted by Michael on Twitter you know Michael who implied
that these chips may be more in the mid or budget range given that their 8
megabytes of L2 cache and core counts of 20 and 24 Z cores respectively are
pretty low compared to Intel's existing Alchemist gpus however both of the
alleged Battle Mages feature about 12 GB
of vram a configuration not shared by any existing Intel gaming card but if
the leaked performance numbers are to be believed what battle mage does share
with Alchemist is Underdog syndrome because both of the leaked gpus
performed significantly worse than both the ark a770 and a750 but they kind of
had to how else are they going to generate headlines like new Intel driver
brings 120% performance boost in Octodad
back at CES 2024 Intel's Tom Peterson
said most of the Ark GPU team had already moved on to the next Generation
code named Celestial with about 30% of the team fine-tuning battle mage so it's
all ready to launch in Q2 2024 that's
this year unfortunately we have no idea what he actually meant by that due to
the fact that Intel apparently made up their own language in which some dates
translate to other dates that are 8 months later Florida has officially
passed a law Banning children under 14
from having social media accounts and requiring 14 and 15year olds to have
parental consent before joining the ban
isn't guaranteed to go into effect similar laws have been passed in Utah
and Arkansas requiring parental permission for anyone under 18 to access
social media but these have been met with significant legal challenges that's
not just because there's a lot of corporate money riding on this issue but
also because requiring users to provide official documents for age verification
in order to access Facebook is arguably a pretty substantial burden on their
First Amendment right to freedom of assembly and speech Florida legislators
hope to avoid some of these hurdles by focusing on The Addictive features
endemic to social media platforms rather than the content that they contain
children are vulnerable and there's a strong argument that social media is
harmful to them I mean just look at what it's doing to their parents gangs of
moms roaming the streets they've been radicalized that's only partially a joke
the new law also contains language that would require similar age verification
systems for accessing adult websites something which numerous other states
have already done and which has been criticized by entities like who else
PornHub for potentially pushing users to sketchier and sketchier sites rather
than actually preventing children from accessing pornography it's unclear
however if the same principle applies to social media whether 12-year-olds who
can't participate in the latest Tik Tok Trend will simply turn to obscure
underground social media Rings just to get their fix yeah like Twitter speaking
of Snapchat according to recently unsealed documents between 2016 and 2019
Facebook had a secret program called project Ghostbusters where it spied on
network traffic from Snapchat and later
Amazon and YouTube the documents were revealed as part of the discovery phase
in a California class action lawsuit accusing meta of using deceptive
practices to collect user information back in 2016 Facebook was apparently
looking to get an advantage over its competition by studying how users
interacted with rival companies of course those companies used encryption
which was very inconsiderate of them so instead Facebook got its VPN like
subsidiary onavo to create a wiretapping
tool for Android and iOS that could be used to intercept and decrypt data from
search subdomains you know totally cool
stuff is this malware I need somebody to
tell me if this is malware to quote Pedro canahuati Facebook's then head of
security engineering I can't think of a good argument for why this is okay onavo
incidentally shut down in 2019 after it
was uncovered that they were secretly paying teenagers to use the service in
order to spy on them
and meta thought that Rebrand worked
hey yes we spied on teenagers but we paid them meta did not respond to
requests for comment as at press time Mark Zuckerberg was busy emailing
employees in Google's AI division asking them if they want to be his friends
instead we give him Wi-Fi access oh wait no we have a clone it's not the real one
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has officially released a native version of Chrome for ARM-based Windows PCS 2
months after an early version was spotted in Chrome's experimental Canary
channel the release comes ahead of this Summer's expected release of Microsoft
Surface devices powered by by qualcomm's much anticipated Snapdragon X Elite
chips or so the rumors go now users of ARM-powered Windows devices like the
Surface Pro X can also experience the speed of Google's browser and the
ensuing popups begging them to use Bing tiny Corp has decided to make both AMD
and NVIDIA versions of its Tiny Box AI
server the company initially wanted to exclusively use AMD's radon RX 7900 XTX
criticizing NVIDIA's price and the closed Source nature of Cuda but after
running into multiple driver and firmware issues using AMD's cards tiny
Corp are now also selling Team Green tiny boxes you can save 10 grand by
going with the AMD version though provided you quote like to Tinker and
feel pain finally a win for masochists
the exact opposite of what masochists want a they hate this but they love it
ah it's perfect a judge has ruled that
the SEC can proceed in its lawsuit against cryp exchange coinbase for
allegedly trading in the unregistered sale of financial securities though in
this case the allegedly is less about whether or not the crypto that coinbase
sells is unregistered and more about whether or not crypto is a type of
Financial Security and thus subject to SEC regulation coinbase's Chief legal
officer Paul Gall has stated that the company will continue to fight the SEC
in court and that they are confident in their legal arguments arguments such as
these aren't secur because the buyer doesn't gain any
rights like they do when they buy stocks and cryptocurrencies are just
Collectibles like Beanie Babies I think people used to call those Investments
too canva Inc has acquired the Affinity
design Suite which is a lot like Adobe if Adobe wasn't an overpriced
subscription con job okay it's true since its release
Affinity has offered Perpetual licenses to customers under the crazy belief that
people should own what they pay for what are you doing what are you talking about
but the buyou from canva has some users afraid the software will switch to an
adobe like subscription model canva has since pledged that Perpetual licenses
for Affinity will always be offered and you can trust them because no company
not a single one has ever broken a promise they've made in the past go
ahead name 100,000 and Amazon released a report
detailing its fight against counterfeit products which had the perhap perhaps
unintended consequence of also revealing just how bad the site's counterfeiting
problem really is according to Amazon they blocked over 700,000 suspicious
attempts to create seller accounts and identified over 7 million counterfeit
products last year up from 2 million in 2020 as part of these efforts Amazon has
partnered with Brands and law enforcement both foreign and domestic
it's honestly even got me nervous given my lucrative side hustle in
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you should side hustle on back this Friday for more Tech news now come quick
or it'll get cold the Zucker clone it's Escape
no he's still hungry okay nice job guys
um can we just oh my God what the