I was thinking about starting this video by singing the song Tik Tock by Kesha
but I don't think anyone waking up in the morning feeling like P Diddy is a
good vibe right now the United States has officially passed a law Banning Tik
Tok next year if certain conditions aren't meant the bill actually gives
parent company bite Dan 270 days to sell
the app otherwise it'll be barred from us App Stores of course Android users
could always just sideload the app but iOS users would be forever blocked from
redownloading this specific flavor of heavy duty brain rot the not yet a ban
passed as part of a larger foreign aid package in support of Ukraine and Israel
they just snuck it in there like a mouse turd in a box of raisins Tik Tock has
promised to fight the law in court calling it an unconstitutional
suppression of its American users freedom of speech a freedom best
expressed by lipsyncing along to a recording of a joke that somebody said
even if bite dance was willing to sell the sale might be blocked by China which
imposes export restrictions on governing algorithms such as Tik toks further a
sale or ban might not even protect American users from Chinese information
collection given that the Chinese government can probably buy most of this
information off the open market speaking of collecting information the US
government also renewed the foreign intelligence surveillance act AKA fisa
including an amendment which has been criticized for expanding government
surveillance without a warrant honestly the best possible outcome of this would
be if the hot new Teen Trend was a dance craze criticizing lack of judicial
oversight for federal intelligence agencies let's make it happen let's go
guys Qualcomm has officially unveiled its full upcoming lineup of Snapdragon X
Series CPUs including a list of names that look like qualcomm's marketing head
passed out on the keyboard their Top Model is the X 1 e-
84-100 the X standing for X the one
indicating the chips generation the E standing for elite the 84 being the skew
and the 100 standing for nothing no
really it it doesn't mean anything at least not yet that section of the name
is reserved for future use so all of the
names currently end in 100 wouldn't you stick 100 on the end of something for if
you wanted to yeah my child baby 100
baby 100 it's not clear why the names would need to be so complicated when
there's a grand total of four chips only
one of which even falls into the lower tier plus category while the Plus Sports
10 cores the three Elite chips all have 12 with the top two models the x1e 84
and x180 coming with dual core boost at
4.2 and 4 GHz respectively that's
actually a 0.1 GH gz drop from what was originally promised for the X1 84 but
what's a tenth of a GHz between friends what's important is that we're
overthrowing the x86 Windows ecosystem okay that's stay focused it has been a
terrible first quarter for Tesla in part because it's profit margin shrank by
55% and sales dropped by 85% despite
substantial price cuts the company now has an excess of stock and a shortage of
cash which makes this an absolutely terrible time for the public to find out
that the Cyber truck isn't even waterproof how at least one owner claims
to have accidentally bricked his ride by taking it through the car wash and
hosing sand out of the truck's bed without setting his vehicle to Car Wash
mode first rookie mistake leading the
vehicle's infotainment system to die like a smartphone after being dropped in
the toilet while the rest of the truck is technically operational the cyber
truck incorporates several key gauges such as its battery level and
speedometer into its digital display
which was dead worse it's almost impossible to see out of the Cyber tru's
narrow rear window at the best of times and when the truck bed is closed the
cover blocks the window completely that means that the drivers are wholly
dependent on the rear camera whose feed
is is also part of the digital display so if you want to back up without it you
need to keep the back of the truck open which is going to be a problem because
the bed isn't waterproof apparently get a really big bag of rice now just as a
reminder this is a vehicle with an actual Wade mode that's supposed to let
it Ford Rivers we were told it was going to have an optional package letting it
transform into a boat now unless you
think this is an isolated incident many cybertruck buyers have reported that its
stainless steel exterior panels have already started to rust apparently
because Tesla thought it was more important for the vehicle to be bulletproof than weatherproof they
should have made it out of cast iron instead so you could just season it
funnily enough Elon Musk actually suggested during a call with investors
that Tesla might be able to take advantage of the unused compute power of
idle vehicles to provide cloud services
so at least disappointed customers might still be able to use their broken cyber
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not get a quick bite before you sit down for some quick bits well it's because you're probably not going to have time
to finish your food these let's go Google has delayed its plan to phase out
thirdparty track and cookies in Chrome yet again this is actually the third
time time since 2020 but it's not Google's fault it's those mean
Regulators at the UK competition and markets Authority who are concerned that
Google's replacement for cookies the so-called privacy sandbox will give it
an anti-competitive choke hold on tracking an information collection which
yeah yeah I probably will this newest delay likely means that Google will miss
its proposed phase out date of the end of this year so in the mean time you can
feel free to continue browsing while only being constantly tracked in the
manner you've become desensitized to you're being watched exactly as much as
usual the rabbit R1 the multimodal AI
device that gathered 50,000 pre-orders following its CES debut has officially
launched just over a week after the Humane AI pin endured a brutal flogging
in the Public Square in early impression pieces there's a surprising amount of
optimism from some of the same reviewers who gave the AI pin a real tongue
lashing it probably helps that the R1 costs $200 instead of 700 plus a monthly
subscription I mean sure it could literally just be an App instead of a
cute little Pokedex looking thing but then you wouldn't have a cute little
Pokedex thing you'll forget about faster than the Vision
Pro I thought that was a burn ASUS released a BIOS update for it z790
motherboards in response to massive claims of CPU instability reported by
users of Flagship 13th and 14th gen processors unfortunately the update also
appears to reduce performance of these high-end Intel CPUs by up to 9% at least
for the core i 94900 k the new update
sets the CPU power limit to Intel's recommended 253 Watts instead of the
previous practically unlimited limit of
4,095 Watts so it's not that your CPU has gotten worse per se ASUS has
essentially just stopped injecting it with steroids meaning your processor
will get to enjoy a longer life and it won't need to worry about its testicle
shrinking Nissan has unveiled a solution to the age-old problem of how to deal
with babies in the backseat of your car and that solution is an animatronic
fluffy blob creature mounted in front of your child that will play peekaboo and
wave its arms around as if pleading for someone to please get it down from there
release it from this Mortal plane it's called uyo apparently meaning I'm here
in Japanese and not only will it sing songs in response to parents voice
commands it will signal to a smaller robot in the front seat which will close
its eyes when the child falls asleep because why use a standard car seat
mirror when you can monitor your child through a robot that looks like the
Pokemon that evolves into Elmo and you asked for it you can finally buy a robot
dog with a flamethrower strap to its back the thermonator created by the
aptly named company throw flame is now
available for purchase for less than $110,000 that's right for the low price
of 9,420 you can blaze it and the it in
blaze it in this case means anything within the therminator 30 foot
flame-throwing range blaze it up according to throw
Flames website flamethrowers are legal and unregulated in most countries fun
fact and we all know big robot dog has been lobbying against sensible robot dog
control laws for decades cybernetic canines don't even need to be leashed
and we unleash more Tech news on you if
you come back on Friday for the next episode of TechLink if not flamethrower
dog