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hey he Friday this week Microsoft announced the end of Windows 10 with some surprising costs at the end apparently Amazon faked much of its AI self checkout Tech and the random guy saved us from a cyber security nightmare Welcome to The Fray [Music] checkout this video was sponsored by ground news the brief this week starts with a new report from Bloomberg's Mark German that suggests that apple is exploring home robotics to devices as the company's next big moonshot project after their EV project died this includes a mobile robot that can follow the users around and also a tabletop device that uses robotics to move a display around my expectation is that these robots will be specifically trained to unplug any competing device like an Amazon Echo and also to loudly yell green bubbles as soon as they see you using an Android phone something like that and in even more Apple used the company's first OLED iPad Pro with M3 ch as well as new large screen iPad Airs are both expected to launch in May these will be the first new iPads of the company in nearly 2 years and then moving on to Google a new report suggests that the company is considering charging users for AI powered search probably as a part of the Google one subscription bundle apparently Executives haven't decided on the details just yet but that could be a pretty big shakeup to Google's business model next is probably the most fun way I've ever seen to visualize where a solar Eclipse would be visible from this cute map from Air DNA shows people in the United States making their way to booking Airbnb places on the path of the solar eclipse that is happening on the 8th of April next week very wholesome and then in even more Celestial news the White House has asked NASA this week to start working on a time standard for the moon it's going to be called the coordinated lunar time and it means that astronauts on the moon would no longer have to synchronize with either Houston or Moscow or whatever time zone near HQ was in soon it's going to be Moon o' baby all right let's move on to the new releases of the week and we're starting with the new red magic cooler 5 Pro which is a cooler that you can attach to a phone using either a clip or Mac safe if you have an iPhone and the company claims that this can drop temperatures by a pretty Bonkers 35° C during gaming sessions I refuse to believe that 35° of cooling on a phone is not some weird Edge case but uh I guess that's pretty cool get it cool and next Motorola launched the edge 50 Pro this week with panone colors on the back a panon validated truec color display and a Panton validated camera as well plus also a moto fragrance in the Box meaning that there's now a perfumed unboxing experience do we want perfumed unboxings of phones is that a thing I can't decide and in perhaps more practical releases lifx launched two new smart light bulbs that can hit a, ,600 lumens and also work with matter without the need for an additional Bridge kind of cool okay and for my first story of the week Microsoft has just started the process of preparing the world for the end of Windows 10 so Windows 10 is going to become end of life in October 2025 just 10 years after it was originally launched the last major Windows 10 release was version 22 H2 and security updates are only expected to roll out for another year and a half from now and this week Microsoft announced that businesses who want to extend support beyond that will have to pay first $61 per device for year 1 then $122 for year2 and $244 for year three per device beyond that I guess we're going to see a similar kind of announcement for consumers soon too but yeah that's pretty expensive so you might just want to leave Windows 10 alt together after the 10 years are over data from stat counter suggests that over 69% of desktops using Windows still use Windows 10 with Windows 11 only sitting at 26.7% so far and even Windows 7 apparently still has 3% in 2021 Microsoft said that Windows 10 was at 1.3 billion monthly active devices and then in 2023 Windows 11 was reported to be used by more than 400 million monthly active devices so my guess is that today around 900 million to maybe even a billion devices are still using Windows 10 Windows 10 was so successful because Microsoft was extremely aggressive about pushing the update through to Windows 7 users well with 11 they took the exact opposite approach which means it's much much slower now to be fair a lot of people are naturally going to be leaving Windows 10 behind in the next one and a half years because a lot of machines are just naturally going to age and kind of be left behind but yeah this is going to be a tough end of life situation okay and for my second story of the week it turns out that Amazon was apparently faking much of its AI self checkout magic so Amazon this week has announced that it is giving up on its cashierless just walk out technology at its Amazon fresh grocery stores this was the supposed magical technology where you just grabbed stuff off the shelves then you left the store and the company automatically deducted the right payment from your account using cameras and sensors all of this was supposed to be powered by AI except AI apparently is short for an Indian watching your shop over video a report from the information this week said that actually Amazon had more than a thousand people in India manually reviewing and data lab in just walkout footage to train the machine learning models and the report claims that 700 reviews were needed for every 1,000 sales that means that something like 70% of all transactions still needed a human in the loop just one that was remote that is insanely high and of course way higher than Amazon's original Target of 2% this explains why people reported sometimes having to wait hours before their purchases actually got charged and it sounds like Amazon ran into the exact same problem as self-driving cars sure it's technically possible to automate really complex processes except it's way way way harder than we initially predicted so instead the company is now switching to shopping carts that can detect what you have put into them with built-in checkout screens and scanners via RFID self checkout which seems to be working fairly well and is also used by other retailers like decathlon already okay and for my third story of the week we have a malware story that would have Honestly made Hollywood screenwriters blush so the story is that a random Microsoft employee named Andress fry kind of accidentally found and halted what would have become one of the worst back doors ever Freud was benchmarking some random logins on Linux and basically accidentally found that hm some of the failed login processes are taking a little bit too much CPU power and taking like half a second too long to load so he investigated he himself said on masteron that quote we got unreasonably lucky as he found that that extra CPU power was used by a new version of a common file compression tool called XZ utils doing some shady things to give attackers access to whole systems he found this right before the malicious update was sent out to millions of devices around the world that power basically the entire internet hospitals military institutions etc etc and if he hadn't found them that means that the attackers would have gotten access to an insane number of critical computers the attackers that added the back door reportedly made a GitHub account in 2021 then started adding regular contributions to the open source project soon after and slowly work their way into coming trusted contributors who then added the malicious code bit by bit as the original contributor of the project got burnt out if you've ever seen this famous comic from years ago that shows that all modern digital infrastructure relies on this project that some random person in Nebraska has thanklessly maintained since 2003 well apparently that is insanely prophetic the attacker even created fake profiles to urge the project to change maintainers because of the original person suffering from that burnout this was resisted but yikes apparently the attackers are state sponsored and in some way at least that's what the suspicions are and it's great that we have avoided the disaster but damn what a mess now moving on another big new story this week was that Tesla saw its first major sales decline in many years with sales Falling by almost 100,000 units or 20% from last quarter or more than 8% year-over-year sounds bad and if you're wondering where you could read about what media around the world thinks about the news stories like this that the answer of course is over at Ground news this Tesla store for example was picked up by over 100 news outlets that ground news tracks and I can see that about 35% of those were left leaning versus 14% on the right that is a slight bias but not too bad ground news is a website and an app that Aggregates and contextualizes news in a really helpful way so I can click through left Center and right leaning news sources for each story so I can see how various news outlets cover the same thing from various angles and I can easily weed out the sources that I'd really want to avoid for example Epoch times here which not only has low factuality but is also owned by the fallong gong a group that according to Wikipedia has antievolutionary views opposes modern medicine and also supports Q andon among other things that is a dodged bullet if I've ever seen one seeing funding and factuality information comes standard with a premium subscription and it helps me avoid blindly tapping into the political biases of the news outlets there is even a dedicated blind spot section that shows you news stories that were mostly covered only by one side of the political spectrum and you can also customize your feed so you can see more news from a specific region or a topic that you care about to get smarter about 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Length: 9min 56sec (596 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2024