Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “It was fun while it lasted.”.
Happy insert name of your local holiday here, where I am it’s family day, which is why I’m spending it with my real family, the tech news it found me and raised me as a tech news cub in the forest, which is why things around here can get A little wild, sometimes So Meta is rolling out a verification Subscription Service similar to Twitter blue. This week, it’ll charge 12 to 15 bucks a month for ID verification, a blue badge user experience enhancements and that feeling of being special. You were missing as a child Mark Zuckerberg announced the service on his broadcast channel, which is a new Instagram feature similar to telegram channels that rolled out last week, meaning that Zuck announced that meta is copying. One platform using meta’s copy of another platform, never change Facebook, but the move has sparked fears that drastic change is coming to the internet at large.
Many people, ourselves included, continue to mock Elon musk’s impulsive attempts to generate some any Twitter Revenue, but if more platforms follow suit, we may be looking at the end of the free web service era. Musk certainly think so, calling meta verified inevitable, and you know he knew the reference people would make. Based on that.
Meta’S announcement follows Twitter, locking text message based two-factor authentication behind the blue paywall, a move security analysts say, doesn’t make sense, since SMS two-factor is vulnerable to way more attacks than dedicated authenticator apps and can actually be worse than only using a good password. But a lot of Twitter users probably don’t know that, and they may be inclined to sign up for blue if they think they have to pay to secure their account wow in a few years we may be talking about the good old days when internet platforms were Free thanks to our personal info being collected and sold by advertisers, I used to run to the corner store and send a tweet for a nickel Tick. Tock has announced a new creativity program which promises higher earnings for creators who can somehow manage to post videos that are more than one minute long, because the more seconds video has the more creative it is. This is basic film school stuff. Actually, though, the Irishman get out of here, the announcement confirms at least part of the information posted by the information. They knew what they were doing last week and highlights how much Tick Tock has changed in the six years since launching with a 15 second limit on videos.
Now the thirst traps play simultaneously alongside Family Guy clips and footage from endless Runner mobile games. It’S way different, but the creativity program specifically requires high quality original content to be eligible for more money. So hopefully, our old pal capitalism can fix what was broken by its dark counterpart capitalism. It’S like the good bad, it’s a spy versus spy. You know it’s like and Nintendo might be, making it a little easier to access its library of retro games if we follow the path of potentially baseless but interesting speculation laid out in this R’s technical article, ours, technical article, that’s not a diss. I made this a main story, so just just hear me out so the UK’s competition and markets Authority is investigating Microsoft’s, planned acquisition of Vision, blizzard and wrote a report on whether Nintendo switch online could compete with Xbox game pass in which they said.
Nintendo’S service is only available on the Nintendo switch device and redacted begin speculation now available on the switch and what so one it could be. A future Nintendo console which we know is launching at the very least this Century or two it might be Nintendo plans to. Let you stream switch online games to your phone like xcloud. Frankly, anything that can give people access to Nintendo’s back catalog would be good, since there would be less justification to Pirate Nintendo games and therefore less lawsuits from Nintendo, which the company has said it uses to send a message. It would have made more sense for me to do an impression of like a Triad gangster there, rather than an Italian mafia, so, but that wouldn’t be appropriate now it’s time for quick bits brought to you by brilliant. You know these days more and more of the highest paying jobs are in Tech and even if you’re, not a data, scientist or software engineer, you can still get an edge in your career by boosting your math data and CS skills, and you might think I can Do that anywhere on the internet, but the best place for that is brilliant.org with brilliant. You can learn math and computer science interactively they have thousands of lessons from foundational and advanced math to AI data science, neural networks and more with new lessons added monthly.
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Various parts of you to get used to your scent. Do not react. Fans of the new AI powered Bing were despondent last week when Microsoft imposed new limits on the chatbot, which, According to some amounted to a lobotomy. Well, a few sources have indicated that the limits are temporary, while Microsoft figures out how to make Bing not pledge undying love to whoever asks it a few personal questions.
I also know a few humans with this problem, so thankfully, this lobotomy is reversible, unlike human ones. In other humans, crushing ai’s dreams, news go player, Kellen pellerine has defeated the top go-playing AI models catego and Lila zero. Seven years after deepmind’s alphago AI defeated one of the world’s top human players. Lee sedol now pelreen defeated the AI players using strategies suggested by another computer program that probed the AIS for weaknesses, but they weren’t like in his ear or anything when he played the match.
He had it all. He had it all appear. Okay, so come on back Lee said: oh give it another. Try can you imagine, he comes back and like gets destroyed, destroyed.
Microsoft has finally allowed M1 and M2 Max to run full featured versions of Windows 11 on arm through the Parallels Desktop app meaning Mac users. No longer have to use an Insider preview build to access such features as slow loading and bad app support. Okay, that’s not fair! I haven’t tried windows on arm for a while, so in terms of arm processor support now it could be slightly better than way way. Worse than Mac, OS Chrome has gotten a new update that adds energy, saver and memory saver features that will help the browser use less energy and memory respectively by snoozing inactive tabs, which can then be reloaded by clicking on them again the tab. It’S a sorely needed update, although I’d prefer, if Google could like make each Tab and the browser as a whole use less energy and memory instead of like cutting off your leg because you’re not using it right now.
So that’s just me and air travel is about to get more stimulating if a patent just granted to Brazilian Aerospace company Embraer is any indication of course they’re Brazilian. It describes a system built into airplane seats that can scan passengers faces to determine their emotional state and then offer transcranial stimulation of either the magnetic or electrical variety seems like. It would be amazing to turn on if you’re stuck with a seat partner, who won’t stop talking about how both varieties are actually part of the same phenomenon of electromagnetism.
And, oh you probably you probably shouldn’t turn it up that high and you shouldn’t turn away from the tech news come Wednesday because we’ll be back and hopefully delivering better Segways than that one. I’M sorry, you know Mondays, you know what I mean. .