welcome back to the show where we scale the Tower of tech news only to jump off
tied to the fire hose of humor I'm your host John McLean yippie Kaye how's your
father Apple cares about keeping your data private in that they've been
collecting it privately earlier this month developer and security research
team misc revealed that enabling the do
not track setting on iOS devices does stop apps from tracking you as long as
they're not Apple apps apparently several Apple apps collect the same
amount of information about you whether the anti-tracking setting is on or off
the researchers found that the App Store App alone collects what you tap on what
apps you search for what ads you see how
you find an app and how long you look at that app please don't share that
information with my mom I don't download them I just look what's funny is that Apple announced the old Macintosh in a
commercial saying you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984. turns out that's
because they needed 38 years to get the tech right multiple first party apps
also collected and sent details that could be used for device fingerprinting
such as ID numbers the type of phone you're using the screen resolution your
keyboard languages and how you're connected to the internet a class action
lawsuit has just been filed over this which makes sense given that the apps
seem to use consistent ID numbers which would allow Apple to track you across
its services which is exactly what people thought they were avoiding with
Apple's anti-tracking feature you're never gonna believe this but people are
upset flying water you know yeah the RTX 4080
launched and in protest of the GPU's exorbitant price everyone must have
bought two Micro Center Newegg and Best Buy sold out of the graphics card in an
hour so good for NVIDIA travel news for us though to be fair to NVIDIA the
benchmarks are impressive the 4080 systematically outperforms the 3090 TI
in most tests with performance gains of almost 30 percent in Ray tracing the
4080 impresses in productivity too with almost double the blender Benchmark
performance of the 3080. so it makes total sense that it would be nearly
double the MSRP of the 3080 right
right right what makes less sense is the fact that the card only supports
DisplayPort 1.4 a so you can't take
advantage of next year's shiny new lineup of DP 2.1 compatible monitors but
that's only a problem for the scalper Bots until more stock launches and
people continue to buy this card for some reason who are these people who
just because you can doesn't mean you should Elon Musk AKA I swear to God we
don't want to talk about every single episode but things keep happening has
made some more things keep happening on Monday evening musk announced he was
shutting down microservices at Twitter calling them bloatware and suddenly SMS
two-factor authentication started breaking resulting in some people
getting locked out of their accounts the next day Twitter blew up with reports
that employees who criticized Elon on Twitter or in the company's slack
channels were fired overnight don't the age everybody is allowed on Twitter
again boys HR never sleeps it's okay though they can still tweet on a
positive note it also came out that Twitter is bringing back end-to-end
encrypted DMS just some time to slide Baby Gotta give credit where credit's
due if Elon actually manages to improve Twitter in some way at the end of all of
this we'll give him Kudos although telling you remaining Workforce that
they need to work long and tense hours or lose their jobs has put them a bit in
the tech link Kudos hole that's going down to a kuduno I'd been there now it's
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Microsoft published the results of an investigation of its sexual harassment
policies performed by law firm aren't Fox shift they gave it the old aren't
Fox sniff I'm pretty sure it's a sex move the investigation comes in response
to allegations against high-profile Microsoft alums like Alex kipman who
invented the hololens which sucks and Bill Gates who invented the bowl cut
which rules amazing products the 50-page report released by The Firm has been
criticized for not thoroughly probing the allegations against Gates they
probably felt that Gates has done enough probing already yeah spicy Ubisoft and
Riot games have announced a partnership on a new research project meant to
reduce toxicity in in-game chats no System of a Down the companies plan to
build AI tools trained to detect disruptive behaviors and Britney Spears
Ubisoft and Riot helped you create a framework to allow the sharing tagging
and collection of data while maintaining privacy to collect the toxic data to
train this AI Ubisoft and Riot made the groundbreaking decision to spend years
faster string work based environments of harassment and discrimination so brave
really ahead of the curve I knew that a purpose Intel has lost a patent lawsuit
involving the company's Skylake and Cascade Lake processors team blue has
been ordered to pay 948.8 million dollars to vlsi technology
a Silicon Valley firm that designs and manufactures custom integrated circuits
this marks the first time Intel has been charged to the nose for Intel CPUs taste
your own medicine actually notice in vlsi 12.18 billion dollars in a separate
patent infringement case against until last year until made 79 billion in
Revenue last year so I'm sure they're desperate to recoup their attorney fees
everyone hates Microsoft teams especially me but wait it's fun now says
Microsoft They just added the ability to add the
games for work app which will allow you to play games in teams meetings for a
team building if you think the peak game experience was losing internet
connection in the early 2000s get excited you can now play Minesweeper and
Solitaire why with your code Microsoft claims that each game in the
collection is oriented toward a different element of team building so
get ready to have a corporate mandated fun with the people you tolerate for
eight hours a day but we're friends though right James the European Union is considering
putting data centers in space a study is
being led by fails elenia space a joint
venture between European Aerospace and defense companies thales and Leonardo
fails Leonardo Tales to assess if the
CO2 emissions a building and launching an orbiting data center would be
significantly lower than building one on the boring old ground you know Earth it
ends in F they're also determine if it's feasible to launch a data center a whole
data center man I've heard of cloud storage but this is ridiculous
wow just don't clean it with a vacuum and it would be ridiculous for you to
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