- In Canada it's not Presidents' Day today,
it's either Family Day, Islander Day,
Heritage Day, or Louis Riel Day, depending on the province.
We thought about asking everyone to do the same thing
but that seemed a bit rude.
Apple is planning some significant changes
to its Mac lineup this year,
according to a report from usually-pretty-accurate
Apple leaker man Mark Gurman.
Mark claims 2022 will be the year
Apple sticks the M1 Pro and M1 Max
in a Mac Mini, an iMac Pro, and a half-sized Mac Pro.
And if you think and the Macs and Pros
are already getting confusing, don't worry,
watch Mac Address' short and it'll all make sense.
- Nice.
- Which is of course to say it won't.
Fittingly, Gurman also says this year of mostly twos
will see the arrival of Apple's M2 chip
in a 13-inch MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air,
a Mac Mini, and a 24-inch iMac.
The chip itself is expected to have
the same eight-core CPU architecture
but with a couple more graphics cores and faster clocks,
while the itsy-bitsy version of the Mac Pro
could have up to 40 CPU cores and 128 graphics cores.
But Mark's not sure which Mac is coming first.
We'll probably find out in a few weeks
at Apple's March 8th event,
or sooner if someone else happens to surpass
Mark's skills at pondering his orb.
Want that orb.
NFT marketplace OpenSea reported on the weekend
that someone took their name a little bit too literally
and decided to go phishing, with a P-H.
Apparently 17 users were tricked into authorizing
the transfer of their NFTs to the phisher
who ended up snagging hundreds of tokens
worth around $1.7 million altogether.
Man, I wouldn't want to be those apes right now.
Sitting in some cold wallet,
waiting to be invalidated.
That's not a life.
Though the attack was carried out during OpenSea's migration
to its new Wyvern smart contract system,
the platform's CEO, Devin Finzer,
said that it's not a network issue
as it looks like the phishing took place
out in uncharted waters, not the OpenSea website itself,
proving that crypto is still more secure
than regular currency.
Even though the way that most people interact with it
is still gonna be through a platform
with a username and password.
It makes sense somehow.
And after being banned from Twitter,
Donald Trump has launched Truth Social,
his own social media app, with blackjack and...
Whoa!
We might not be able to say that.
As one might expect though,
the truth of the world "launched" is in contention here.
Trump was expected to delay the Truth Social launch to March
but apparently really wanted to go live
on Presidents' Day, his day,
and so the app evidently was not ready
for a massive influx of users
who were largely met by failed signup attempts
before being placed on a wait list
behind over 150,000 others.
To make matters worse, Twitter users pointed out
that the Truth Social logo looks almost identical
to that of the solar panel company Trailar,
who may be pursuing legal action.
Hopefully Trump can DM his wife about the app's problems,
though that might be difficult since she signed a deal
with the also free-speech-oriented platform Parler
to provide exclusive communications.
Hopefully the wait list gets shortened soon
so we can finally find out the truth
of what the heck is goin' on out there.
There's a, what...
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I told you they were coming,
so why are you sitting there
like you didn't know that already?
Huh?
Activision has rolled out a frankly awesome way
of discouraging cheaters in "Call of Duty: Warzone."
If the game detects a cheater
it completely nerfs their bullets,
essentially giving non-cheaters a legitimate god mode cheat
to use against the cheaters.
It's brilliant because it's less fun
to imagine a cheater being locked out of the game
and more fun to run straight at them from across the map
and execute them yourself.
Oh, you wanted easy mode?
What do you think this is, Super Mario?
Get the (beep) outta here!
So that's a win for Activision,
but Epic Games is showing them up a little bit
by announcing that it's offering
hundreds of its contract workers, including QA testers,
full employment with benefits.
The move comes after a worker walkout
at Activision subsidiary Raven Software a couple months ago.
Since then Activision has suppressed
worker attempts at unionization,
reportedly even moving QA testers
to multiple different departments.
Leaving things wide open for Epic to do what they do best
and capitalize on a marketing opportunity.
While also helping people.
I don't know how to feel.
More evidence pointing the the arrival of gaming Chromebooks
has popped up in the form of a code change in Chromium
referencing Steam support.
This clue follows a recent code reference to RGB keyboards
and Google actually said it would bring Steam
to Chromebooks two years ago, so it's not that far-fetched.
Can't wait to see performance on a gaming Chromebook myself.
Pretty sure putting Chrome on things makes them faster.
That's how it works for cars.
Instagram is increasing the minimum time limit
that you can set for yourself in their app to 30 minutes.
Since announcing the optional time limits back in 2018
you could set a limit as low as five minutes
to protect yourself.
But I guess Facebook is getting a little concerned
that people are becoming a bit too mentally healthy
by spending more time away from the app
and, well, they gotta keep 'em on there longer.
Thankfully, iOS and Android
have app time limit options at the system level,
so don't get sucked into the metaverse just yet.
And I'm sorry, but if you were stoked about copyrighting
a brilliant work of art generated by your pet AI algorithm,
we're just not there yet as a society.
The US Copyright Office has rejected
artist and scientist Stephen Thaler's request
to copyright an image on behalf of an algorithm he created
called Creativity Machine.
The office declared copyrighted works
must have an element of human authorship,
so there you have it.
Robots, not people yet.
Creativity Machine could not be reached for comment,
because he's not a person.
Or her, or it.
And that's it for this one, people,
but come back on Wednesday for more tech news
and enjoy the rest of your holiday,
whether you're celebrating Finance Minister's Day
or Milk in a Bag Day.
They're all great days.
(Riley giggles)