Microsoft Did an Oopsie

ah I knew you'd be back you love computers so much you always have the buttons ports and stuff I know I get it I get it anyway Microsoft has apparently noticed the fact that the entire internet has been screaming in Terror ever since the company announced their upcoming recall feature for Windows 11 3 weeks ago recall captures screenshots every few seconds eventually creating a searchable database of everything you've ever done but the idea that that sounds a little risky hadn't seemed to have occurred to CEO Satia Adela who initially brushed off concerns in a Wall Street Journal interview well the company has now addressed the backlash promising to make recall opt in by default so it'll only turn on if you turn it on as well as adding encryption they previously said they had already included oops thank goodness unfortunately the core issue that many Security Experts had with the feature is the fact that it creates a searchable database chalk full of Juicy personal information which remains decrypted while a user is logged in it's kind of like collecting all your valuables in a wheelbarrow in the middle of your living room and thinking that's fine because you lock the door in your way out you're just giving the burglar some extra time to stop at the drive-thru on the way home my valuables are grass they're in a wheelbarrow round now the important detail here is that recall along with all the other windows 11 co-pilot plus AI features will be exclusive to the 15 or so notebooks powered by by qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series processors which will be available June 18th while at computex Intel AMD and Nvidia showed off laptops which will support the new features they apparently won't have them right away and might not even get them until next year in a textbook example of tech companies having to lar as if they're actually shipping AI features so investors don't get distracted and start side eyeing GameStop this is where I put my AI if I had one so if you don't like recall you can simply not buy a Snapdragon X Series laptop but amd's FSR upscaling works on it it works on everything chill baby speaking of investors who boy their hype for NVIDIA is unparalleled this week Team Green passed Apple to become the world's second most valuable Company by market cap I guess a lot of people are buying those USB sticks that look like a graphics card I never got one Nvidia actually fell back behind Apple shortly afterward but they're expected to claw the number two spot back which means that it's nvidia's turn to be the subject of an antitrust investigation the US Department of Justice is reportedly about to launch one targeting Nvidia while the FDC will take another swing at investigating Microsoft this time about their uncomfortably close relationship with open AI you can do it FTC this is the one you'll get them this time even if the government doesn't find Nvidia guilty of monopolizing the AI chips Market it'll be hard to say there not doing the same with consumer gpus new reports from 3D Center and John Petty research say Nvidia graphics cards make up 88% of the market the highest it's been in 22 years and all because they make the best gaming gpus with the best software features I mean sure they also force their Partners to give them preferential terms and unnecessarily lock down their ecosystem but look at Jensen he's wearing leather jackets he's signing boobs he's Untouchable what what can we do I'm never going to sign a boob ever you want to sign my boob rally we'll talk about this later Apple will be kicking off its WWDC conference on Monday by revealing it's done everyone a favor and come up with a new name for ai ai short for Apple intelligence ha get it by your mom and iPhone yep according to his gmit toe Bloomberg's Mark German Apple intelligence will be the company's umbrella term for the various AI powered features it will be announcing on Monday they'll apparently estu wackier applications like image or video generation and focus on features that an average Apple user might actually use these will include an open AI powered chatbot summarization features and new capabilities allowing Siri to perform very specific actions when you tell it to do things like delete an email edit a photo or more likely to shut the hell up there's a lot more in Mark's newsletter and we'll have the full details in Monday's episode but but an interesting bit here is that Apple intelligence will be positioned as a set of beta features and will be opt in by default reflecting Apple's continuing hesitation to really do anything with AI but with the tech World getting red in the face from being so hyped for AI asking Jensen to please come over for dinner and marry my dog sign my boo Apple had to show something I mean can you blame them for being late they have things to do I mean maybe they've been busy this whole time fixing this loophole that's existed since 2021 allowing kids to bypass parental controls on iOS by entering nonsense phrases into Safar what was that doing there and if you're tired of nonsense calls and emails check out our sponsor delete me they're the pros at keeping your personal stuff personal ever Googled yourself and found tons of your info just floating around that's not cool it can lead to annoying calls dodgy emails and even identity theft but delete me's Tech whizzes and expert team can boot your info off of those sketchy people search sites no need for you to waste hours sorting it out Delete me's got it covered they even send you personalized privacy reports showing what they found where they found it and what they nied ready to kick your personal info out of the web Spotlight I am head to join delet me.com TechLink and use code TechLink for a sweet 20% off did you know the land speed record for the quickest quickbit ever was set by quibbl K bitting who died in the attempt Adobe caused a firestorm among creative professionals this week when it asked users to agree to updated terms of service that made it sound like the company could not only manually access users content whenever it wanted it could also train their AI on it create derivative Works based on it distribute it publicly display it and presumably even chop it up and feed it to your firstborn child flip it and reverse it perhaps they may even have bopped it in a Blog post Adobe later clarified that it does not train its AI on customer content it doesn't claim any ownership over that content and any scanning that it does for say material that violates the terms or is illegal only happens to content stored in adobe's Cloud not local content so still a bit creepy but not as bad as it seemed at first is there like a seminar we could send Microsoft and Adobe to for like phrasing because it you're not getting it across a Chinese company has unveiled a competitor to open ai's Sora video generator called cling the AI can apparently generate up to 2 minutes of photorealistic video from a single prompt in 1080P at 30 frames per second now while it still seems to struggle with human fingers I think we should take a moment to appreciate how far we've come look at this regular guy slurping noodles I mean that used to be a psychedelic nightmare starring Will Smith from an alternate Universe where he was left on a stove top now this is a story all about how Humane is trying to sell itself to HP for $1 billion after selling maybe 10,000 of its AI pin dongle thingies which is at most about $7 million in Revenue perhaps the pin would have received a warmer reception if employees weren't banned from criticizing the product a senior software developer who raised concerns was actually fired according to a New York Times report as a cherry on top Humane has had to warn whatever customers it did have that the AI pins $150 charging case accessory is a fire safety risk honestly being able to start a fire is probably the product's most useful feature for just $700 you can maybe survive in a forest the doj's upcoming antitrust trial against Google over its online advertising platform will have a judge instead of a jury executioner how are we feeling about this decision follows Google literally mailing the government a check for $2.3 Million worth 300% of the potential damages in the case like a BMW driver slipping a cop a Benjamin these monetary damages were the doj's primary legal rationale for a jury trial but they're relatively minor compared to other potential penalties such as Google having to sell off some portion of its ad business Google apparently knows that this remake of 12 Angry Men has a runtime of around 15 minutes and when Spotify announced it would be bricking its car thing music player later this year users protested asking why Spotify couldn't simply open source the device turns out Spotify already had open sourced it the company was just too embarrassed to mention it because the car thing is basically a potato that plays music that's not true you can eat a potato this information comes from Josh Henderson AKA Anor raker on YouTube who found that the car thing is easily hackable thanks to its Linux based code already being published on GitHub it's just that its Hardware is only slightly more powerful than a sun-warmed rock stick a couple of screws in a lemon you got yourself a clock baby and the only thing more powerful than the tech news is more Tech news so come back on Monday and get you some we know how much you love it don't pretend anymore

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Length: 9min 54sec (594 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 08 2024