Month: March 2023

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Angry Tech News #53: Cropped Estate

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Why you shouldn’t trust random USB drives, Google vulnerabilities, Microsoft vulnerabilities, Netgear vulnerabilities, and the true ending of Moore’s Law

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Gordon Moore outlived his law
https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1611/gordon-moore-intel-co-founder-dies-at-94
Pinduoduo app found to exploit Android vulnerability
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/android-app-from-china-executed-0-day-exploit-on-millions-of-devices/
Ecuadorian journalist plugs in malicious USB drive
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/journalist-plugs-in-unknown-usb-drive-mailed-to-him-it-exploded-in-his-face/
Snippingtool Acropalypse
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-pushes-oob-security-updates-for-windows-snipping-tool-flaw/
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/18/pixel-markup-screenshot-vulnerability/
Cisco publishes Netgear vulnerabilities
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/22/netgear_router_poc_exploits

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Angry Tech News #52: Oreo Demographic

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AI and TikTok, TikTok and AI. Also, Right to Repair, Tesla security, and HP printers are still an ink scam

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Anthropic releases Claude AI
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/anthropic-introduces-claude-a-more-steerable-ai-competitor-to-chatgpt/
AI-powered Clippy
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/16/23642833/microsoft-365-ai-copilot-word-outlook-teams
Baidu demos ErnieBot
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/16/1069919/baidu-ernie-bot-chatgpt-launch/
Tesla faces right-to-repair suit
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-faces-new-lawsuit-over-monopoly-power-in-repairs-parts-business-174255450.html
HP Dynamic Security
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/customers-fume-as-hp-blocks-third-party-ink-from-more-of-its-printers/
Man drives off in wrong Tesla
https://globalnews.ca/news/9541040/bc-tesla-driving-wrong-car-app/

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Angry Tech News #51: Moon Peripherals

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Data Centers on an AI-generated moon, Apple rules USB with an iron fist, Silicon Valley banking woes, and how IoT keeps a Massachusetts high school fully enlightened

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Silicon Valley Bank failure
https://apnews.com/article/svb-fed-bonds-rates-banks-inflation-a24b28b3caeede91c76cd120aa9b7966
Data centers on moon
https://gizmodo.com/startup-moves-closer-building-data-centers-moon-1850192177
Fake Samsung moon pics
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/samsung-caught-faking-zoom-photos-of-the-moon/ar-AA18z3aa
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/
Apple USB accessories still require certification
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/28/iphone-15-to-require-certified-accessories-for-full-access-to-usb-c
Mass high school can’t turn off its lights
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lights-massachusetts-school-year-no-one-can-turn-rcna65611

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Angry Tech News #50: Ambiguous Intelligence

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TikTok banned by more governments, Privacy in metaverse may be impossible, AI news, AI news, and too much AI news

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Privacy in metaverse worse than in real world
https://venturebeat.com/virtual/new-research-suggests-that-privacy-in-the-metaverse-might-be-impossible/
EU Commission bans TikTok on gov’t devices
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64743991
Canada bans TikTok on gov’t devices
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64792894
RadioGPT
https://bgr.com/tech/radiogpt-will-use-ai-to-put-your-local-dj-out-of-a-job/
MSFT releases chatgpt apps on mobile
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/22/microsoft-launches-bing-ios-app-with-chatgpt/
Snapchat gets AI chat; apologizes in advance
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/sorry-in-advance-snapchat-warns-of-hallucinations-with-new-ai-conversation-bot/
Spotify renames algo to “AI DJ”
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-02-22/spotify-debuts-a-new-ai-dj-right-in-your-pocket/
Amazon sees boom in AI-written books for sale
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/
Clarkesworld blocks AI-generated submissions
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/sci-fi-becomes-real-as-renowned-magazine-closes-submissions-due-to-ai-writers/
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/
Tencent, Ant instructed not to offer ChatGPT in China
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-tells-big-tech-companies-not-to-offer-ChatGPT-services