where we deliver you a dose of tech news in 30 minutes or less,


You don't actually directly pay for the news,


AMD has walked back some of its Ryzen 9000 performance claims


after the new processors fell short in review benchmarks.


the company explained some of the reasons


why their numbers were better than basically every reviewer ever.


A massive factor was AMD running all their testing in admin mode,


which turns out is a big security yikers.


what AMD is referring to is enabling the hidden system administrator account in Windows 11,


something that requires command prompt to do.


This isn't the same as a standard account


with administrator permissions, mind you.


This account runs with full administrative privileges by default


and won't ask you if you're sure before you do something very stupid.


Even worse, if your system gets compromised,


Wendell from Level One Tech suggests that running processes within that account


means you're essentially running those processes with Windows virtualization-based security disabled.


While that would give you better performance,


turns out your computer is less secure when you don't use features that contain the word security in the name.


AMD claims that some of the missing Ryzen 9000 performance


will be added to standard accounts in a future Windows 11 update,


but that means nothing to Windows 10 users,


iFixit has declared the Samsung Galaxy Ring unrepairable after a product teardown,


and it wasn't unrepairable just because they did a really good job at tearing it down.


No, iFixit made the claim because you aren't able to replace the ring's lithium-ion battery without destroying it.


That means that each Galaxy Ring basically has to be thrown out and replaced every two years when the battery dies.


and more one ring of many to end up in a landfill.


Unfortunately, 100% disposable status is shared with every other smart ring


and Samsung's Galaxy Buds 3 for the same reason.


this comes just days after Google confirmed that the Pixel Watch 3


just like the previous two Pixel Watch models.


And all of this falls within a larger trend of companies restricting the reuse of their products.


Previously free features that came with the purchase of a $1,700 SNU bassinet,


have now been locked behind a monthly subscription.


I imagine this will make it harder to resell your SNU once your newborn outgrows it in four to five months.


Peloton announced they will start charging new subscribers in the US and Canada a $95


activation fee if those users bought their hardware secondhand.


What do they do if you buy it thirdhand?


The US Department of Justice has announced they are suing RealPage,


the company whose software is used by landlords to set rent prices.


In a press release, the Justice Department claims


their software encourages competing landlords to share sensitive rental information


to help train RealPage's algorithm to suggest better and higher rent prices.


oh man. now you guys are taking jobs away from hardworking price fixers?


The government agency first opened an investigation into RealPage's alleged anti-competitive practices back in 2022,


after an investigative report was published by nonprofit newsroom ProPublica.


Things don't necessarily look good for RealPage,


since at least two property management companies who used RealPage's software


have agreed to settle several lawsuits filed against them by renters.


Frankly, I think all this legal trouble serves RealPage right.


ai isn't meant for making the cost of living higher, it's meant for bigger things,


like scamming your grandparents and taking all there jobs.


Friendships may come and go, but Quick Bits,


AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000X 3D chips may be coming out early next year,


Reliable leaker HXL suggested that they may be coming at CES 2025,


This was then corroborated by both fellow leaker Juan Usmus and Hassan from WCCF Tech.


this may also explains reports that AMD's


new budget B-series motherboards are supposedly launching around the same time.


the other one is a budget-friendly upgrade path for that 3D V-cache.


Apple has decided to split its App Store team into two,


with one half to handle the EU-specific version of the App Store,


also known as the We're Not Run by Billionaires store.


However, at least one notable person will not be present to deal with this particular bisected baby.


App Store Vice President Matt Fischer, who has led the division since 2010, will be leaving the company,


possibly due to concerns that he too will be sliced in half if he remains.


Of course, it would be much simpler for Apple


to simply make one App Store for the entire world that complied with EU regulations,


but that would mean less money for Apple,


and they're not ready to throw either half of the baby out with the bathwater.


Microsoft may finally be killing off the Windows control panel.


This Tuesday, a support document was updated to announce that


control panel is in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app.


Windows has been promising to retire control panel for years.


The company has slowly been moving more tools to the Settings app for over a decade.


Yet, in that time, control panel has been kept around.


It's like that one friend in the squad who you don't really talk to,


but you keep him around because he makes incredible snickerdoodles.


A Kentucky hacker who faked his own death to avoid $116,000 in child support


has been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison


Jesse Kipf was guilty of more than being a bad dad, of course.


In addition to hacking and altering state death registries in Arizona, Hawaii, and Vermont,


he was found guilty of both fraud and identity theft.


Kipf, likewise, used the dark web to sell stolen personal data


and elicit access to private businesses' networks,


and you'd think with that many side hustles,


he could find some spare cash to send his daughter.


And lindy ai was forced to patch their automatic responder after the bot pranked its clients.


he first noticed the issue when the AI responded to a client's help request


by sending them a link to a video tutorial that didn't exist.


The bot, which was presumably trained on publicly available internet data,


instead linked Rick Astley's seminal 1987 hit, Never Gonna Give You Up.


It's possible these kinds of pranks are so deeply embedded in the training data


that bots will be asking each other if they smell up dog long after humanity's extinction.


so come back for another episode on Monday.


where we deliver you a dose of tech news in 30 minutes or less,


You don't actually directly pay for the news,


AMD has walked back some of its Ryzen 9000 performance claims


after the new processors fell short in review benchmarks.


the company explained some of the reasons


why their numbers were better than basically every reviewer ever.


A massive factor was AMD running all their testing in admin mode,


which turns out is a big security yikers.


what AMD is referring to is enabling the hidden system administrator account in Windows 11,


something that requires command prompt to do.


This isn't the same as a standard account


with administrator permissions, mind you.


This account runs with full administrative privileges by default


and won't ask you if you're sure before you do something very stupid.


Even worse, if your system gets compromised,


Wendell from Level One Tech suggests that running processes within that account


means you're essentially running those processes with Windows virtualization-based security disabled.


While that would give you better performance,


turns out your computer is less secure when you don't use features that contain the word security in the name.


AMD claims that some of the missing Ryzen 9000 performance


will be added to standard accounts in a future Windows 11 update,


but that means nothing to Windows 10 users,


iFixit has declared the Samsung Galaxy Ring unrepairable after a product teardown,


and it wasn't unrepairable just because they did a really good job at tearing it down.


No, iFixit made the claim because you aren't able to replace the ring's lithium-ion battery without destroying it.


That means that each Galaxy Ring basically has to be thrown out and replaced every two years when the battery dies.


and more one ring of many to end up in a landfill.


Unfortunately, 100% disposable status is shared with every other smart ring


and Samsung's Galaxy Buds 3 for the same reason.


this comes just days after Google confirmed that the Pixel Watch 3


just like the previous two Pixel Watch models.


And all of this falls within a larger trend of companies restricting the reuse of their products.


Previously free features that came with the purchase of a $1,700 SNU bassinet,


have now been locked behind a monthly subscription.


I imagine this will make it harder to resell your SNU once your newborn outgrows it in four to five months.


Peloton announced they will start charging new subscribers in the US and Canada a $95


activation fee if those users bought their hardware secondhand.


What do they do if you buy it thirdhand?


The US Department of Justice has announced they are suing RealPage,


the company whose software is used by landlords to set rent prices.


In a press release, the Justice Department claims


their software encourages competing landlords to share sensitive rental information


to help train RealPage's algorithm to suggest better and higher rent prices.


oh man. now you guys are taking jobs away from hardworking price fixers?


The government agency first opened an investigation into RealPage's alleged anti-competitive practices back in 2022,


after an investigative report was published by nonprofit newsroom ProPublica.


Things don't necessarily look good for RealPage,


since at least two property management companies who used RealPage's software


have agreed to settle several lawsuits filed against them by renters.


Frankly, I think all this legal trouble serves RealPage right.


ai isn't meant for making the cost of living higher, it's meant for bigger things,


like scamming your grandparents and taking all there jobs.


Friendships may come and go, but Quick Bits,


AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000X 3D chips may be coming out early next year,


Reliable leaker HXL suggested that they may be coming at CES 2025,


This was then corroborated by both fellow leaker Juan Usmus and Hassan from WCCF Tech.


this may also explains reports that AMD's


new budget B-series motherboards are supposedly launching around the same time.


the other one is a budget-friendly upgrade path for that 3D V-cache.


Apple has decided to split its App Store team into two,


with one half to handle the EU-specific version of the App Store,


also known as the We're Not Run by Billionaires store.


However, at least one notable person will not be present to deal with this particular bisected baby.


App Store Vice President Matt Fischer, who has led the division since 2010, will be leaving the company,


possibly due to concerns that he too will be sliced in half if he remains.


Of course, it would be much simpler for Apple


to simply make one App Store for the entire world that complied with EU regulations,


but that would mean less money for Apple,


and they're not ready to throw either half of the baby out with the bathwater.


Microsoft may finally be killing off the Windows control panel.


This Tuesday, a support document was updated to announce that


control panel is in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app.


Windows has been promising to retire control panel for years.


The company has slowly been moving more tools to the Settings app for over a decade.


Yet, in that time, control panel has been kept around.


It's like that one friend in the squad who you don't really talk to,


but you keep him around because he makes incredible snickerdoodles.


A Kentucky hacker who faked his own death to avoid $116,000 in child support


has been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison


Jesse Kipf was guilty of more than being a bad dad, of course.


In addition to hacking and altering state death registries in Arizona, Hawaii, and Vermont,


he was found guilty of both fraud and identity theft.


Kipf, likewise, used the dark web to sell stolen personal data


and elicit access to private businesses' networks,


and you'd think with that many side hustles,


he could find some spare cash to send his daughter.


And lindy ai was forced to patch their automatic responder after the bot pranked its clients.


he first noticed the issue when the AI responded to a client's help request


by sending them a link to a video tutorial that didn't exist.


The bot, which was presumably trained on publicly available internet data,


instead linked Rick Astley's seminal 1987 hit, Never Gonna Give You Up.


It's possible these kinds of pranks are so deeply embedded in the training data


that bots will be asking each other if they smell up dog long after humanity's extinction.


so come back for another episode on Monday.


technology is just humanity's ongoing mission


to make some things hot and other things not hot.


A recent update from Microsoft has left certain dual-boot devices


that run both Windows and Linux unable to boot,


despite explicit reassurance from Microsoft


The update fixed a long-standing vulnerability in Grub,


an open-source bootloader used by many Linux distributions.


But it wasn't supposed to affect dual-boot systems,


and it seems to have been applied to them accidentally.


affected devices will display an error message that reads,


which is a fair assessment of the situation.


Some users, however, have successfully circumvented this issue


Microsoft itself has been surprisingly quiet about all this.


We don't even know why the company only got around to


patching this relatively serious two-year-old bug just last week.


It's possible that this was a covert attempt to destroy Linux,


hit a record market share of nearly 4.5% of desktops worldwide.


But if this is all part of Microsoft's sinister master plan,


dual-boot systems running Zorin OS and Puppy Linux feel like an odd place to start.


According to Adweek, Google sales reps have been apparently violating Google's own policies


by suggesting that advertisers should target teens,


a tactic typically reserved for military recruiters and low-quality weed dealers.


This follows previous reporting from the Financial Times


that Google had worked on a marketing project designed


to target YouTube users between 13 and 17 with ads for Instagram on behalf of Meta.


Google has not allowed personalized ads for teens since 2021,


but it's still possible to target that age group


by simply choosing the unknown category,


the company will be taking action to ensure that sales reps do not nudge-wink,


suggest fun ways of getting around the rules to clients.


The company will likewise be facing a freshly resurrected class-action lawsuit


claiming that Google has been collecting user data without consent through the Chrome sync feature,


It hasn't yet determined if Google was, in fact, doing that,


it's unclear whether Google even knows what rules and laws Google is currently breaking.


They don't even know which chat apps they already have.


That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a new podcast app.


In a new story straight out of a B-movie science fiction plot,


Canadian scientists are teaching an AI scientist how to independently conduct its own experiments


To clarify, it's not a scientist who studies AI.


It's an artificially intelligent scientist.


allowing it to explore and test novel ideas.


most of its ideas are middling quality suggestions for tweaking AI development.


Less like a scientist and more like a burnt-out undergrad


with a C's-get-degrees philosophy towards learning.


An AI did, however, do something very unexpected.


During one run, it altered its own code to extend its deadline.


In another, it changed the code to save a checkpoint for every update step,


eventually using an entire terabyte of storage.


particularly not in the controlled sandboxed research environment,


it points to potentially serious future problems where an AI agent left unsupervised


or alter important infrastructure code in ways that are potentially catastrophic.


It's basically the high-tech equivalent of hiring the boss's son for a do-nothing job and for some reason


giving him top-level admin access and just letting him go to town.


What do you mean you deleted System32, Kyle?


Asus has accidentally hinted at the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000 X3D chips


on the new site for Asus' upcoming 800 series motherboards.


We say accidentally because in addition to the X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the site,


Asus specifically put Ryzen 9000 X3D into the site's URL.


No release date has been given for the 9000 X3D CPU series,


but the 800 series motherboards should be launching in the next few weeks.


AMD also has an event planned for October 10th,


we can just wait for Asus to launch their next website.


A new version of Nvidia's RTX 4070 is hitting shelves,


equipped with slightly slower GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X.


But none of the eight new variants announced so far


clearly display that information in the product name or on the box.


They thought it would be a fun little game to hide that tidbit in the product specs for you.


It's going from 21 to 20 gigabits per second,


and Nvidia says it shouldn't impact performance.


Nvidia G-Sync enabled monitors are about to get cheaper, we hope.


Team Green has partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer,


but to also integrate G-Sync into MediaTek's widely used display scaler chips.


That means that the monitors won't need one of Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync modules,


I mean, AMD's FreeSync is also still an option,


which, despite what Nvidia's marketing might have you believe,


The company officially unveiled their Odyssey 3D monitors at Gamescom after teasing them at CES.


The monitors feature glasses-free 3D at sizes of 27 and 37 inches,


and the display can be switched from 2D to 3D seamlessly,


changing it back to being just a 4K QLED 165 hertz monitor.


Samsung says the Odyssey 3D will be available by the end of the year,


probably because it'll be super expensive.


But can you put a price on a technological trend that already died once?


Honestly, attempts for 3D, it just comes back every 20 years.


And Twitch launched its new Dropins collaboration feature,


designed to make it quicker and easier for streamers to join each other's live streams.


Twitch then immediately fumbled this unambiguous win by making it impossible to opt out.


Streamers can temporarily disable the features,


but they have to disable it again every time they stream.


Of course, they could just ignore the call notifications,


but it's a bit like Ninja standing outside of your house,


And no matter how many times you close the blinds,


And I'll be standing outside of your house


until you come back on Friday for more tech news.


Microsoft has apparently patched a popular loophole


that allowed users to install Windows 11 on PCs


that don't meet the outlandish hardware requirements.


when you can just make it harder to upgrade


This particular trick allowed anyone to bypass


the TPM 2.0 chip requirement of Windows 11


by tricking the OS's setup file into thinking your machine was a server.


That's another computer and restaurant word.


discovered that the most recent insider build of Windows now


also requires servers to have TPM 2.0 support.


This isn't the case in normal Windows yet,


but chances are they'll be rolling out an update soon.


And that could leave you with a non-functional system


if you use this workaround to install Windows 11.


There are still other methods to install Windows 11 without having TPM 2.0.


Rufus apparently has its own workaround too.


I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements,


That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 11.


Procreate, the company behind the popular art app for iPad,


has pledged to never add AI to their products


This is despite the existence of the 2010 song Never Say Never by Justin Bieber


In a video posted by the company's Twitter account Ceo Jason Cuda said


Procreate's website features a page dedicated to their anti-AI stance.


As a result, the company has received a lot of love


from digital artists who probably are tired of having generative AI trained on their work without consent.


But painters and illustrators aren't the only ones


seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools.


AI photo Editing and image processing features are starting to raise questions about when a photo stops being a photo.


Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app, Halide,


has introduced a new feature called Process Zero,


allowing users to take photos without any AI or image processing at all.


ironically, you need to pay a subscription to not use AI.


has finally confirmed it had a data breach.


Though they don't actually seem too sure.


In their official statement, the data aggregator says,


there appears to have been a data security incident.


As if hundreds of millions of people's data ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough.


While many reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data was exposed,


investigated and found there were about 134 million unique email addresses.


Yet NPD told the main attorney general's office


that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers.


must have also been born roughly 200 times.


millions of these records are for people who no longer are alive.


So maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure.


It's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data because an NPD sister site


published a file containing admin passwords on its homepage


but the hackers still had to put in some effort.


But do you know how much effort our sponsor, War Thunder,


had to put into their free-to-play vehicular combat game


Especially since the game allows you to pilot 2,000 different vehicles


Plus, War Thunder's in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any battle because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted.


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Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is expected to arrive in October,


lists 14 SKUs with two previously unseen


Another, more different tweet from fellow leaker, OneRaiChu,


points to the lineup including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models with eight cores,


Although, depending on who you're talking to,


Those have all gone to join hyper-threading


in the great outdated tech glossary in the sky.


Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'etre


two-gigabyte version of the Pi 5, down from four gigabytes


Beyond the two-gigabyte drop in memory and a newly optimized SOC,


the rest of the Pi specs remain unchanged.


for consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles than double their available RAM.


Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up with a one-gigabyte version


or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number of Pis,


each with half the memory of the previous model,


Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference.


has now gone up for pre-order in select regions,


hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck,


but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 120-hertz OLED screen,


hall effect sticks, a selfie camera, and a kickstand.


The real kicker, though, is the RGB strip on the back.


The Zone reportedly officially launches in September,


but I don't know who to trust at this point.


will be no more Fitbit smartwatches produced.


No one was more shocked by the story than Google,


as the spokesperson then told Ars Technica


that TechRadar's article was not correct,


but did not elaborate on any potential new Fitbit smartwatch products.


the senior director of product management for Pixel Wearables told Engadget that moving forward,


Fitbit will be focusing on trackers, not smartwatches.


So I feel like not even Google knows what Google is doing.


And Tesla is hiring workers to train its humanoid robot, Optimus,


Candidates must be reasonably fit and between 5'7 and 5'11.


Unfortunately, this training might take millions of hours of data,


meaning that the first sign of the robot apocalypse


may be an epidemic of repetitive strain injuries.


By contrast, Chinese company Unitree says it has a $16,000 mass production ready bot


It'll be the perfect bodyguard slash butler


for all those average-sized men with debilitating carpal tunnel.


But it would be even more debilitating if you didn't come back on Wednesday for more tech news.


I know when you aren't here, and frankly, it hurts.


Apple's expected to unveil the iPhone 16 lineup in early September,


but I don't think anyone was expecting this leaked image of the iPhone 16 Pro


in a color that can be charitably described as russet?


I don't know why I'm pretending to do this.


He actually posted the three other, much more safe for the dinner table colors in July,


strangely omitting the fourth one, presumably out of embarrassment.


It took him two weeks to muster the courage to finally be honest with the world.


have pointed to Apple going with a new color


maybe indicating a color that looks different in separate environments with unique lighting?


I mean, maybe this photo was taken in the same environment


as Microsoft's chocolate brown Zune from 2006.


Yeah, if I'm being completely honest, I expect this phone to look a lot nicer in person,


at least that'll be consistent with current rumors about the iPhone 16 Pro's design,


which is expected to feature a new button for taking pictures.


One thing the new iPhones will definitely have though, is Fortnite!


Epic Games has finally managed to launch its Epic Games Store app on iOS through sheer willpower


The process to install EGS on iOS can still be a bit confusing,


They're making the video just like flipping off a picture of Tim Cook on the wall.


Epic is also relaunching their store app on Android globally,


after handily winning their Play Store lawsuit against Google.


Both platforms' versions of EGS will host Epic's own games,


like Fortnite, Rocket League, Sideswipe, and Fall Guys,


with plans to host other developers' apps in the future.


but Epic didn't want to celebrate alone,


so it awarded a mega grant to AltStorePal,


The amount of the monetary award was not disclosed,


but it's apparently enough to cover Apple's ridiculous core technology fee.


So AltStore developer Riley Tested is dropping the subscription fee and giving access to the store for free.


Web publishers have told Bloomberg Google has put them in a sticky situation.


Either allow the Googlebot web crawler to slither all over their content


and use it as fodder for the AI overviews,


most well-known for telling people to literally eat rocks,


or block the crawler and not show up in search results,


since the same bot is responsible for both.


Ah, it's a real catch-22, writes Engadget.


There's still the choice to block, or not block.


So this is just a garden variety dilemma.


Now, if you had to be certifiably insane to block the Googlebot,


but blocking it proved that you were sane,


A Google spokesperson responded to Engadget,


clarifying that if websites block the bot,


they will still show up in standard search results,


but they won't be included in other search features like Snippet and Google discover.


That's really nice of Google to only abuse their monopoly on search engines a little bit.


The Department of Justice is currently mulling whether to break up Google,


or to force it to share data with competitors after the tech giant lost its big search antitrust case.


But I hope the DOJ considers how good Google behaves sometimes.


They just added better source citations to AI overviews,


so you can find exactly where it got the idea that the force


is real and you're just not trying hard enough.


ARM is working on a GPU that will compete with Nvidia and Intel


according to sources who spoke to Israeli business outlet Globes.


Of course, Arm already makes GPUs that compete with those companies in their Snapdragon X Windows laptops.


Up to a hundred engineers are reportedly working on this new GPU,


which sounds like it'll either be a discrete gaming GPU or an AI accelerator,


which is just a graphics card used solely to make the internet worse.


About a week after confirming that they'll let you install SteamOS, on Windows handhelds,


Valve has released official drivers for Steam Deck


to allow owners to install and run Windows if they want to.


Maybe you want to run unsupported games or emulators,


Now, having said that, the drivers aren't perfect.


For example, the Windows audio drivers don't support the Steam Deck's speakers yet


and I won't be able to hear any of the eight-year-olds that don't know how to mute their mic?


An ISP in the US is petitioning the Supreme Court


to overturn a ruling that would require them to disconnect customers accused of piracy.


It's a very serious issue being championed by a company with a very silly name, Cox Communications.


Americans could be cut off from the internet just because they, or someone whom they share a network with,


received a couple of unproven accusations of copyright infringement.


I think it's unbelievable that a US court made


a decision so bad that an internet service provider is accidentally taking a pro-consumer stance.


A team of researchers has published a paper


Specifically, professional-grade bikes that have wireless gear-shifting systems,


Scientists found that the signals put out by these


bikes were interceptable from up to 10 yards away,


allowing hackers to shift a victim's gears


or even jam gear-shifting on a specific bike.


Fortunately, Shimano has already patched the vulnerabilities,


which is unfortunate for those of us who thought the Tour de France might finally become exciting.


And an international group of researchers have proposed improvements to modern telecommunications systems.


All we have to do is start using electromagnetic vortex cannons,


which I thought was kind of obvious, but thanks.


The cannons in question create toroidal vortexes, like a smoke ring,


but made out of rotating electromagnetic waves instead of dank vape clouds.


The vortexes can carry more information than traditional electromagnetic wave structures,


are more resilient to environmental disturbances,


meaning they could be used to send data over long distances.


they're called electromagnetic vortex cannons.


and surf some electromagnetic waves back over here on Monday?


and I could show you this trick where I blow a smoke ring and then blow a smoke pirate ship through it.


but I've got a good feeling about Monday.


But the longer answer is that the company announced it was laying off over 15,000 employees,


making Intel the current record holder for biggest saddest number.


down to the lowest price we've seen in a decade.


It's unclear how long it may take Intel to recover from this.


The high cost of outsourcing the upcoming Lunar Lake chips,


because their foundry business has not been performing as they wanted to,


will impact margins for the coming year.


Intel is extending warranties on the now famously unstable 13th and 14th gen desktop processors by two years,


which will cost Intel more in replacement chips.


But at least they're doing the right thing.


Or they will be if they don't continue to claim authentic chips are counterfeit to deny an RMA


like they allegedly did to this Redditor.


Yes, it's just one alleged customer with mere troves of photo evidence.


Intel has also reiterated that a separate issue with the chips, an oxidation problem brought to light by Gamers Nexus and Level 1 Techs,


Although affected chips could have still been on store shelves until early 2024.


And they haven't released batch numbers for those chips,


so that consumers can find out if they are affected.


OpenAI has finally rolled out ChatGPT's advanced voice mode for some plus subscribers,


two and a half months after showing off a ton of live demos and announcing a rollout in the coming weeks.


The new mode doesn't have the sky voice that many couldn't seem to differentiate from the real Scarlett Johansson for some reason,


but it apparently does have the mistaken belief


but way faster and without taking any breaths or pauses.


but I need to breathe just like anybody speaking.


Want to give it a shot yourself and see how fast you can go?


Do you want me to talk like a human or not?


Yeah, the question of whether AI is sort of like a person or not hasn't really gone away,


especially since the legal defense most often used by AI companies,


most recently AI music startups Suno and Udio,


who are being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America,


is that training their AI models on virtually every piece of music ever uploaded on the web


learning to write songs by listening to songs,


Unless you think young, sweet Emma is infringing by creating her own unique take on Disturbia


after absorbing Rihanna's entire corpus of work into her network-attached storage.


Six months ahead of its potential ban from the US,


TikTok and its parent company ByteDance was served with a lawsuit from the Justice Department


over its failure to get parental consent before collecting personal information on users under 13 years old.


I get it TikTok, meeting the parents of the minor whose brain you want to scramble like an egg is always super awkward.


This lawsuit says TikTok's in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.


Not to be confused with COSA, Kids Online Safety Act,


the controversial bill passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate this week,


which would require heavier moderation by social platforms to protect the children.


That's probably why House Republicans said they would reject the bill as it is now,


so it's probably back to the drawing board on that one.


Thankfully, another tech giant is here to protect our kids.


Google is bringing its school time feature from its Fitbit watches to select Android phones, tablets, and Galaxy watches,


so parents can choose what their kids are able to do on their phone during school hours.


You can scramble your brains when you get home.


we've been talking, they're actually really nice.


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Apple has pulled an ad for the second time this year.


The fifth installment in Apple's The Underdog's Out of Office series faced criticism for its depiction of Thailand.


Critics accused the spot of misrepresenting the country as underdeveloped and outdated,


who are members of the tourism committee.


Apple scrapped its plans to run an iPad Pro ad on TV


that celebrated the destruction of instruments of human creativity, for some reason.


so you can send it to a creative person that you hate.


An appeals court has blocked the FCC's newly restored net neutrality rules


ahead of a hearing that might see them overturned.


At the heart of the dispute is the question of


whether this is a relatively minor matter best left to the interpretation of the experts and technocrats at the FCC,


or whether it is a major policy decision that needs final approval from Congress.


Considering how the issue has flip-flopped from administration to administration,


the court might be wise to put this issue on pause.


Unfortunately, that means leaving telecoms to regulate themselves for the time being,


which is a bit like asking Pennywise the Clown to babysit.


Noam Shazier, the co-founder and CEO of Character.ai,


the character-based chatbot service whose primary use appears to be


allowing teenagers to talk to their favorite waifus and husbandos,


where he co-developed the transformer architecture


He's bringing his co-founder, Daniel DeFritis,


and a handful of other employees with him.


Google's also signing a new agreement to license Character.ai's tech.


Now, this smells eerily similar to Microsoft's heavily criticized aqua hiring of Mustafa Suleiman,


although most of Character.ai's staff will be staying on.


can convince me I'm really talking to the real Luke Skywalker,


who didn't actually do those things in the sequels.


Boeing's Starliner mission may be a full dud,


as NASA is apparently considering alternate options


for bringing two astronauts back to Earth.


The Starliner spacecraft has been docked to the International Space Station for eight weeks,


Even though astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams


were supposed to be back around eight days after being launched into orbit.


Sources say it's now very possible that the pair will be brought back by SpaceX,


and that all that extra time in space waiting for Starliner to be tested will be for nothing.


They had to spend weeks strapping themselves to a toilet so that a fan


could suck their poop into a plastic bag.


And an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire


dental procedure on a person for the first time,


and it was eight times faster than a human dentist.


If you're like me, spending less time in a dental chair is reason enough to give a robot a shot


The robot shaves off that much time by using highly accurate light -based scanning


that is then analyzed by AI to plan the procedure.


the robot doesn't wait until its hands are in your mouth to ask how your brother's doing.


But I would like to kindly ask you to please come back on Monday for a special Talk-Linked episode.