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Facebook has never been Apple's biggest fan.
And the company, now known as Meta,
which we're still calling Facebook, because screw them,
is now rolling out a way to help creators,
skip paying Apple their 30% cut of App Store revenue.
Okay, I'm listening.
Individual creators will be able to direct fans
to a web form for subscriptions
outside of the iOS Facebook app.
It's the latest attack
on Apple's walled garden approach to iOS,
which senior VP Craig Federagibbi.
- [Cameraman] Federighi.
- Federighi!
- [Cameraman] Federighi.
- Defended this week at Web Summit 2021.
While Android, Windows, and MacOS
support side loading apps
from outside their official app stores,
Craig said that side loading on iOS
would mean the flood gates are open for a malware,
and called it a cyber criminals best friend.
I mean, you don't understand the destruction
that would ensue, entire countries wiped off the map.
- [Cameraman] Oh, I can't wait
until they allow side loading.
I'm gonna get in there.
- Facebook is making
some other PR friendly moves this week too.
The social network
is shutting down its facial recognition system
after 10 years of automatically tagging users in photos.
As part of the shutdown,
more than a billion of facial recognition templates
will also be deleted, allegedly.
It's likely that Facebook is making the move
in response to increased negative public sentiment
concerning facial recognition,
which is also causing problems
for a facial recognition database, Clearview AI.
They're appealing a recent court order by Australia
to stop collecting images of Australians,
which is easier said than done
'cause they're good-looking in Australia.
- [Cameraman] They are cute!
- Mh, they age faster than us Canadians all the sun.
Don't celebrate Facebook's decision just yet though,
because a Meta spokesperson,
which is better than a regular spokesperson,
told Rico that facial recognition
will probably play a big role in their Metaverse products.
I don't know. Maybe Meta is more trustworthy than Facebook.
The name sounds cooler. - [Cameraman] What was that?
- Maybe they can keep Facebook and Instagram
from going down so often, ooh hoo, got 'em.
And the U.S. Cyber Security
and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CSISA, CSISA,
the hip hop artist, has issued a directive
requiring civilian federal agencies
to fix old cybersecurity flaws
that they apparently haven't really done anything about,
because government agencies are bloated.
There's no incentive. - [Cameraman] Yeah.
- You got to fire people.
- [Cameraman] You know, let the market forces.
- There should be a market for federal agencies
is what I'm saying.
Small government, Peter Thiel.
(Cameraman laughs)
The order concerns around 200 cybersecurity flaws
identified between 2017 and 2020, and 90 more from 2021.
That's a lot of flaws.
They include the Microsoft Exchange Server flaw from March
and the Solar Winds flaw from late 2020.
Wait, there are federal agencies
that haven't installed the patches for those?
- [Cameraman] They're running XP.
- What are they doing? Taking paid lunch breaks?
- [Cameraman] Aargh!
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The man who was arrested last year for selling switch mods
that let users play pirated ROMs,
is pleading guilty to two federal felony charges,
and will owe Nintendo four and a half million dollars.
The man's real name, Gary Bowzer.
I bet Nintendo thinks they're Mario in this situation,
but they're wrong, Mario is Chris Pratt.
And as long as Nintendo keeps being asked
to it's enthusiast community,
they're more like Goombas, (beep) Goombas.
- [Cameraman] Yeah, Goopa, troopa, bank people.
- Tesla's initiating its second recall
in a matter of weeks, this time to correct a faulty update
to some cars' full self-driving beta software,
that led to the emergency braking feature
activating out of nowhere.
You just, your head.
To be fair, I'd rather have this problem
than the suspension issue that caused the first recall.
But if I'm being honest, I'd rather have no recalls at all.
No, I'd rather have no problems at all, the recalls, fine.
- [Cameraman] Sure.
- Maybe I'll get a Falcon Heavy.
Those seem to be doing fine. - [Cameraman] Yeah.
They haven't recalled those.
- Fairly reliable Apple Oracle's Min-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman
have both published reports
claiming Apple may launch a VR AR headset
as soon as early 2022, with a smaller,
sleeker pair of AR glasses arriving later, waaay, who knows?
I guess Apple is jumping in on the Metaverse train too.
It'll be a much smaller Metaverse
because you'll only be able to connect
to the 3D worlds Apple says it's safe,
more like a Meta solar system or...
- [Cameraman] Meta town. - Meta street, Meta rooms.
- [Cameraman] Can you tell me how to get...
- How to get to apple meta street?
- [Cameraman] Meta street, no! Meta to me.
An update to the Netflix app
will soon allow subscribers to access the same game library
that some Polish users
recently had the privilege of testing.
Now this isn't game streaming we're talking about.
So you won't need to worry about latency
while playing the like five Android games
you have access to.
That's right. This was a dumb story.
- What did we even...
What are we talking about?
- [Cameraman] Oh my Gosh! It's like a free (indistinct).
- Polish people have played this? Wow, I'm in.
And the makers of a cryptocurrency based on "Squid Game"
that hit Netflix show,
have made off with around $2.1 million
after they rug pulled money from investors
and then sold off of their holdings,
which seems to be one of the main reasons
anyone starts a new cryptocurrency these days,
especially one where you can't withdraw your money
from the liquidity pool at all.
You didn't see this coming. This is crazy.
And I've lost all context or what the heck is going on.
So, come back on Friday for more tech news,
and please, please be on time.
- [Cameraman] We have stuff to do.
- We have a schedule.