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facebook has never been apple's biggest fan and the company now known as meta
which we're still calling facebook because screw them is now rolling out a
way to help creators skip paying apple their 30 cut of app store revenue okay
i'm listening individual creators will be able to direct fans to a web form for
subscriptions outside of the iOS facebook app it's the latest attack on
apple's walled garden approach to iOS which senior vp craig federally
defended this week at web summit 2021 while Android Windows and macOS support
side loading apps from outside their official app stores craig said that
sidling on iOS would mean the floodgates are open for malware and called it a
cyber criminal's best friend i mean
you don't understand the destruction that would ensue entire countries wiped
off the map oh i can't wait till they left side loading i'm gonna get in there
facebook is making some other pr friendly moves this week too the social
network is shutting down its facial recognition system after 10 years of
automatically tagging users in photos as part of this shot down more than a
billion facial recognition templates will also be deleted
allegedly it's likely that facebook is making the move in response to increased
negative public sentiment concerning facial recognition which is also causing
problems for a facial recognition database clearview ai they're appealing
a recent court order by australia to stop collecting images of australians
which is easier said than done because they're good looking in australia they
are cute they age faster than us canadians all
the sun don't celebrate facebook's decision just yet though because a meta
spokesperson which is better than a regular spokesperson told recode that
facial recognition will probably play a big role in their metaverse products but
i don't know maybe meta is more trustworthy than facebook the name
sounds cooler maybe they can keep facebook and instagram from going down so often
got em and the u.s cyber security and infrastructure security agency or sisa
the hip-hop artist has issued a directive requiring civilian federal
agencies to fix old cyber security flaws that they apparently haven't really done
anything about because government agencies are bloated there's no
incentive you got to fire people
there should be a market for federal agencies that's what i'm saying small
government peter thiel the order concerns around 200 cyber
security flaws identified between 2017 and 2020 and 90 more from 2021 that's a
lot of flaws they include the microsoft exchange server flaw from march and the
solar winds flaw from late 2020. wait there are federal agencies that haven't
installed the patches for those are running xp what are they doing
taking paid lunch breaks banking flex time
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don't mind if i do the man who was arrested last year for selling switch
mods that let users play pirated roms is pleading guilty to two federal felony
charges and will own nintendo four and a half million dollars the man's real name
gary bowser i bet nintendo thinks they're mario in
this situation but they're wrong mario's chris pratt and as long as nintendo
keeps being an ass to its enthusiast community they're more like goombas
and goombas tesla is initiating its second recall in
a matter of weeks this time to correct a faulty update to some car's full
self-driving beta software that led to the emergency braking feature activating
out of nowhere you're just your head to be fair i'd rather have this problem
than the suspension issue that caused the first recall but if i'm being honest
i'd rather have no recalls at all no i'd rather have no problems at all
the recall is fine maybe i'll get a falcon heavy
those seem to be doing fine fairly reliable apple oracles ming ching
quo and mark german have both published reports claiming apple may launch a vr
ar headset as soon as early 2022 with a
smaller sleeker pair of ar glasses arriving
later way who knows i guess apple is jumping in on
the metaverse train too it'll be a much smaller metaverse because you'll only be
able to connect to the 3d worlds apple says it's safe more like a meta solar
system or meta street
an update to the netflix app will soon allow subscribers to access the same
game library that some polish users recently had the privilege of testing
now this isn't game streaming we're talking about so you won't need to worry
about latency while playing the like five Android games you have access to
that's right this was a dumb story what are we even what are you talking about i get free
angry birds polish people have played this wow i'm in
and the makers of a cryptocurrency based on squid game the hit netflix show have
made off with around 2.1 million dollars after they rug pulled money from
investors and then sold off their holdings which seems to be one of the
main reasons anyone starts a new cryptocurrency these days especially one
where you can't withdraw your money from the liquidity pool at all you didn't see this coming this
is crazy and i've lost all contacts or what the heck is going on so come back
on friday for more tech news and please please be on time we have stuff to do we
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