you know I've enjoyed a lot of the creative responses to my appearance in
the comments comments like it's weird out too
is that Tech Jesus and of course my favorite hey
that's weird Al you do kind of look like Weird Al oh Riley so creative
yesterday Susan wachitzki announced she would be stepping down as the CEO of
YouTube after nine years in the position in a blog post she said 25 years ago I
made the decision to join a couple of Stanford Graduate students who were
building a new search engine even though the company had only a few users in no
revenue or maybe she just wanted the two broke
college students renting her garage to stop talking about page ranking algorithms for like five seconds they're
really interesting they're not orchiski will be moving into an advisory role
involving multiple alphabet subsidiaries where she might be able to teach them
something about I don't know keeping a platform operational for more than an
average of 30 seconds
may have stepped back at the right time according to former googler Praveen
sashaadri his company app sheet was bought by Google but he left the tech
giant as soon as his three-year mandatory retention period was up and
released a scathing post on medium days before Susan's resignation he claims
that Google suffers from major cultural problems and that very few googlers come
into work thinking they serve a customer or user personally I think the company's
work culture would be fixed simply by never calling employees googlers ever
again what you don't want to be a googler I am a Swedish plumber I come to
wash your pipes reviews have finally come out for the
PlayStation VR2 and they are glowing IGN
says it's the most affordable way to play PC quality VR games at 4K
resolution there's also been big praise for psvr2 sense controllers supporting
haptic feedback and adaptive triggers that will keep you immersed until they
very quickly die in four hours some of the available games have received praise
as well with Horizon spin-off call of the mountain apparently making a great
use of the headset's 4K HDR OLED display sure the real world has the best dynamic
range of all but when you take a break from climbing mountainsides you come
back to the reality of your unlit living room because your kid won't stop asking
when you're finally going to play catch you want to jump right back in back off
Junior Daddy's busy Sony's Hardware is entering the market when interest in VR
seems to be dwindling but this might just be the product that brings it back
who knew all it would take was a capable system that people could actually afford
wild think about that Meta Meta I never
met a
and Apple has released a pair of important updates one is an emergency
security update released to patch a previously unknown vulnerability in
Apple's webkit the flaw discovered by an
anonymous researcher could be used to execute any code on unpatched iPhones
iPads and Macs after a malicious webpage is opened but wait it gets worse Apple
has said they are aware of a report that indicates someone may have already
exploited this vulnerability ironically part of the reason this exploit is such
a big deal is due to Apple forcing third-party browsers on iOS to use
webkit it's been reported that some third parties have been working on
non-webkit iOS versions of their browsers already in case government
regulations finally loosen Apple's legendary restrictions but enough about
that patch the more important update released by Apple is a new firmware
version for one of their charging cables
that's right the USBC to make safe 3 cable that comes with the newest MacBook
airs in Pros is finally getting its first firmware update since its release
in 2021 and it does something
for all we know the only purpose of the update is to let everyone know that
Apple's cables can get firmware updates my cable connects to Wi-Fi now I'm so
proud of you Riley I don't know how to type the password in get Tim apple on
the phone I need my password now it's time for the quick bits brought to you
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they said bits this quick could cut off my sentences but I've said Bing is
becoming unhinged and it might be our fault like as a society New York Times
columnist Kevin Roos the roost man the roost dog the ruthinator the rooster the
rooster why didn't I think of that you know we ain't never gonna die Kevin Roos
the rooster thanks Riley believes it has multiple personalities with one of them
trying to convince him to leave his wife and be with it instead no one had more
to say about this than Bing who after being prompted said ruse violated my
privacy and anonymity by publishing our chat without my permission some AIS just
can't handle the celebrity Spotlight one minute they're fine with the attention
the next they're in a back alley chat room peddling furry porn in response to all
this Microsoft nerfed the chatbot by limiting daily messages and prohibiting
it from talking about itself so it might be a while before we can make more
progress diving deep into Sydney's repressed trauma tell me about yourself
who are you where are you
yeah king of problematic AI Google CEO Sundar pakai and VP of search prabhakar
raghavan have both sent company-wide emails asking for help training their
chat bot barred to not be well bad
bad Williams spear if you will
Kai allegedly asked employees to set aside two to four hours each day for
stress testing the AI while raghavan asked for help correcting bad responses
including instructing employees that they should rewrite Bard's answers in a
quote polite casual and approachable way
and to not imply emotion there's going
to be issues with workplace relationships uh yeah they're like it's
like they're picking up Bart at a bar Bard is in love with everyone absolutely
after all Bing's answers haven't been implying emotion they've been very
explicit I feel everything
ten times once for each personality
Intel has finally released new Xeon workstation processors to take on AMD's
genuine chips which launched back in August proof that even one of the
world's foremost Hardware manufacturers can really miss a memo to give them
credit the new xeons outdo their threadripper Pro counterparts in PCIe
bandwidth memory bandwidth and mem memory capacity even crazier some of
them are actually affordable with their Xeon w2400 series targeting mainstream
workstations starting at 359 dollars I
mean it goes up to over two thousand dollars but it's nice they try to
include more of the non-private jet owning portion of humanity in their
pricing scheme for once you know they can give them something yeah has let
them eat threads anger is trying to put out more fires by
well preventing real fires the company
issued a voluntary recall for their power core 20K
a1366 models a month ago due to a risk
of combustion but apparently they weren't vocal enough about it since one
of those power Banks was the most probable cause of a Maryland house fire
last week so if you own this anchor device please safely dispose of it
whoa suddenly feeling some Deja Vu because if
because of yuffie
King with the privacy remember and Ubisoft CEO Eve Gamal
confirmed the video game publisher would attend E3 if E3 happens which I'm
guessing didn't help rumors about the fate of the video games Exposition since
the president of the organizer for the event made it his personal mission to
tell every news Outlet he could that the event is still happening
perhaps if I am if they feel like it's it it's good to know we'll still have
convention centers heated exclusively by the body warmth of thousands of nerds on
an unrelated note don't forget to buy tickets for LTX 2023 it might happen we
don't know only if conditions are Buffy
and don't forget to tune in on Monday for more TechLinked the only Tech new
show for hot nerds that's right I'm talking to you beautiful wow good job
Jacob thanks