it's time for Tech
news if what Qualcomm just said about their new Snapdragon X Elite S so's is
true Apple finally has a competitor in the ARM-based desktop processor Market
thankfully the leg based desktop processor what what after teasing the
announcement a couple weeks ago Qualcomm unveiled some specs and performance for
the Snapdragon X Elite a flagship laptop
chip composed of 12 new Orion cores
designed by the company's subsidiary nuvia three times the cores of
qualcomm's previous laptop s so the hcx Gen 3 Qualcomm says this outperforms
Apple's also 12 core M2 Max in
single-threaded applications the application in question being according
to the fine print on that slide geekbench on Linux because as Elite as
the new chip may be there are other reasons that ARM-based desktop
processors haven't taken off on Windows namely Windows thankfully if Microsoft
doesn't manage to make Windows 11 on ARM not suck farts those fancy Orion cores
will be coming to Android devices in 2024 which may or may not have something
to do with qualcomm's Snapdragon seamless feature which will let
manufacturers smooth out Multi-Device experiences between phones PCS earbuds
mice and keyboards sounds maybe like something allaha Apple Orion Windows
laptops are also set to debut mid 2024
just in time for Qualcomm and Microsoft's exclusivity deal for Windows
compatible ARM chips to expire which
probably has something to do with this week's Reuters report claiming that both
NVIDIA and AMD are designing ARM-based
desktop CPUs but with all these ARM chips years away and apple probably
releasing higher powered M3 Max on Monday there's probably nothing to get
excited about you know what forget I said anything just
but you should consider getting excited about upcoming NVIDIA RTX 40 super
graphics cards if you dislike money multiple sources claim NVIDIA's prepping
an RTX 470 and an RTX 480 super with 20
GB of RAM NVIDIA hasn't used the super
title since the release of the RTX 2080 super back in April 2020 possibly
because NVIDIA's been in more of a villain phase didn't deserve it back in
the day there were also rumors about an RTX 30 Super Series that failed to
materialize but these new rumors are coming from leakers that have been
reliable in the past that's how they get
you now they have your bank info unless NVIDIA is planning on gas sliding Us by
arbitrarily altering its card naming scheme we should expect a card that sits
between the standard RTX 480 and the RTX
480 TI a card that currently does not exist so really your guesses is going
good as mine both of the potential RTX 40 Super Series cards are expected to
include a higher memory bus the RTX 40 super with a 320 bit bus and the RTX
4070 super with a 256bit bus personally
though I'm waiting for the RTX 40 super duper series that slots very nicely in
between the RTX 4080 Splendid and the 4090 wow very cool golly G noise now we
just need the 47 41 US states are suing
meta for using features on Instagram and Facebook to encourage social media
Addiction in children according to the primary complaint meta designed
psychologically manipulative product features to induce young users
compulsive and extended use of its platform including infinite scrolling
and persistent alerts the lawsuits accuse meta of knowing complicity in the
ongoing youth Mental Health crisis for the sake of profit but it's an
accusation that could be leveled at pretty much any popular social soci
media app currently available I'm not even a teenage girl and Tik Tok makes me
feel bad about myself all the time I don't know why I open the app for some
reason every post of my feet is just insulting me personally meanwhile the
FDC is bringing in child psychologists to inform future regulations of social
media companies and Pim eyes a reverse image search engine that specializes in
facial recognition is now blocking searches for photos containing miners
for fear of misuse notably Mark Zuckerberg covers his children's faces
in photos he posts on Instagram and while that probably has a lot to do with
him being an unlikable famous person with valid concerns about harassment if
he doesn't think of Instagram as a safe place for his
kids maybe we shouldn't either now it's time for small bits what that's right
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quick the bits they're getting away after
them yeah yeah yeah I was waiting for the dogs yeah according to the
Washington Post Reddit is threatening to block web crawlers from search engines
like Google and Bing if it cannot reach a deal with generative AI companies to
pay for data from the site this would prevent Reddit from appearing in search
results and reduce the number of visitors to the site but the company's
leadership apparently believe that Reddit can survive without search
they're not alone either over 500 news organizations have installed blockers to
prevent their content from being collected for AI training databases
since last year still this is potentially a devastating blow to the
many users who for years have been bypassing the inchi ification of search
results by typing site colon rd.com at
the end of every single Google search buo and logic how have you betrayed me
Apple has officially backed the White House's push for a national right to
repair Bill a weird sentence to say but
Apple also says that it will be making parts tools and documentation NE
necessary to fix its devices available to users and independent repair shops
Nationwide this follows the recent passing of a California right to repair
law also supported by Apple if the federal bill is in any way similar it
would be a huge step in the right direction but might shy away from
restricting software locks Apple's favorite
anti-reaction mism though so may I be the first to say thank you Tim Cook you
bastard OCTA the massive provider of cloud infr structure has been hacked for
the second time in 2 years which is ironic but not in a fun hip way it's not
in an indie band this could have had serious implications for the customers
of its customers which include Cloud flare and password manager one password
and Beyond trust however it appears that all three independently detected that
octa's support system had been breached and informed
OCTA who was busy watching Love is Blind
season 5 huh what OCTA says that its support case system was accessed by a
hacker with stolen credentials who was then able to view files uploaded by
customers according to security expert Matt Johansson OCTA support often
requests Harr files for troubleshooting purposes which can contain sensitive
info like session tokens that honestly sounds like a great way to get your
YouTube channel hacked and all your videos replaced with a scam crypto Liv
stream featuring Elon Musk wouldn't that be
embarrassing California has suspect defended Crews from operating driverless
taxis in San Francisco following a harrowing incident where a human piloted
car hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk throwing them into the path of a robo
taxi which breaked but still struck The Pedestrian detecting the Collision it
then attempted to pull over to the side of the road but wound up dragging the
downed woman 20 ft I don't know the moral of this story
maybe we're just not ready for a 2ton freerange robot that can be disabled by
placing a traffic cone on the hood but it doesn't seem like human drivers are
doing all that great either so I I don't know just stay inside and researchers
have created an open source tool called Nightshade that artists can use to
invisibly modify their Works to break AI
trained on them without permission by corrupting their tagging system causing
them to say generate a picture of a cake
when prompted for a dog ah but maybe it's just a very realistic dog cake or
more likely an Unholy Abomination somewhere where between cake and dog
kill me why did you bake me Nightshade
works by attacking AI where it's most vulnerable the inside the squishy part
it's kind of like that fan Theory pre-end game that the Avengers would
defeat Thanos by having Ant-Man crawl up his poop shoot and then expand except it
isn't at all like that I just wanted to remind everyone about that and put that
image in your head so you're welcome I'll also remind you to come back on
Friday for more Tech news because here at TechLink we only crawl into your
hearts and even then it's strictly
metaphorical it's not you're speak for yourself you you're not in danger