- Okay, yeah.
Give me the tech news I'm ready for it.
(laughs)
April fools, I wouldn't accept it anyway.
(Riley laughs)
Apple, Meta and Discord mistakenly gave up user data
to hackers posing as law enforcement,
according to a Bloomberg report.
Meaning that for some people what happened on their iPhone
did not stay there because Apple gave it to hackers.
(Riley laughs)
Hmm, good old privacy.
It is continually proven that the billboard was a mistake.
- [Riley] Great meme potential though.
- The fake emergency data requests or EDRs occurred in 2021
and resulted in sensitive data like
IP addresses, not that sensitive,
phone numbers, more sensitive,
and even home addresses much more sensitive.
- [Riley] Whoa.
- Being handed over to a group of hackers.
The same ones also sent EDRs to Snap incorporated
but it's not clear whether Snap complied with the order.
Discord did though.
When they were sent an EDR earlier this year,
according to Krebs on security.
Frankly, I totally understand the mistake like one time
I handed over a wallet
to a guy dressed as a cop at a Halloween party.
He didn't even ask.
April fools, that didn't happen.
(Riley chuckles) I don't go to parties.
- [Riley] Got you again.
- Aye! I got 'em.
After partnering with Microsoft and Valve
to offer official parts and repair tools for devices
made by those companies,
iFixit has announced a new corporate buddy,
Samsung.
As pressure from the right to repair movement heats up.
Because real friends bond over looming legislation
which will enforce consumer rights
that should have already been protected.
- [Riley] That's what it's all about.
- That's what it's all about.
Samsung will provide an iFixit
with official smartphone parts
like the original display assemblies and back glass
to sell to the public.
And iFixit is also expanding
it's Samsung focused repair guides.
So people will actually know what to do with those parts.
Because look, we can't all be Louis Rossmann.
The world would just be too sassy.
(Riley laughs)
Could you imagine? Just...
- [Riley] Everyone would be upset all the time.
- And Apple has begun rolling out its previously announced
app store policy that allows some apps
to link to their website
where users can sign up for subscriptions.
Thank you, maybe Floatplane can finally work.
- [Riley] Um.
- The policy applies to reader apps,
a category Apple made up
for services like Netflix and our very own Floatplane
that refuse to use the app stores in-app purchasing.
All developers of reader apps have to do is
fill out an application for
external link account entitlement.
I mean, come on, we're talking about posting a link here.
- [Riley] You have to fill out the form.
- Fill out the form. - [Riley] And post a link.
- Gotta do it.
It's worth pointing out that Apple only announced
it will make this change
after pressure from Japanese regulators.
Marking yet another instance of tech giants
doing the bare minimum to help consumers
only when they're basically forced to do so by legislation.
Speaking of which,
I am legally required to throw it to Riley now.
(Riley laughs)
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- Watch the LTT April fools video.
We were too busy doing that to make one for TechLinked.
Also quick bits.
Even Microsoft thinks that still using Internet Explorer
is a bit cringe as the kids say.
And if that program is set as your default browser
in windows 10 the company won't let you upgrade
to windows 11.
What? - [Riley] Based.
- For how many times they just say,
"Hey, let's just switch to edge".
You'd think they just do it right?
(Riley laughs)
Thankfully, Microsoft has finally taken
its head out of its ass and made switching default browsers
in windows 11 in all in one setting like it used to be.
- [Riley] You're swearing a lot these days, Anthony.
- (Beep) you, Riley. - [Riley] Whoa.
(Riley chuckles)
- We don't usually get excited about the features
of Dell's business focused laptops,
but today.. - [Riley] Speak for yourself.
- But today is an exception
because the newest version of Dell's express connect feature
allows the company's new work notebooks
to use two internet connections at the same time.
Either two WiFi connections or one WiFi and one ethernet
to increase speed and reduced latency
which frankly sounds like something that
should be in gaming laptops first.
What are we worried that people
are gonna cut each other off on Zoom because of lag?
It's part of the fun.
- [Riley] You can waste time in meetings,
steal your boss's money.
- Why not?
- Intel has enjoyed industry hype
about it's ARC graphics cards
but we're actually getting another player in the industry.
Thanks to Chinese company, Moore Threads.
What?
- [Riley] More threads, more threads.
- That's what they're called? I didn't realize that.
(both laughing)
- Moore Threads. (Riley chuckles)
The MTT, Moore Thread Tech, I guess.
It just announced two graphics cards.
The MTT S2000 for servers and the MTT S60 for desktops
which is demo playing League of Legends at 1080P.
Pretty sure my phone can do that.
So I don't know what that means exactly except
China number one or number four that's more than two.
- [Riley] Some number that... - Carry the three.
- [Riley] There's numbers involved.
- I don't know.
Seems like everybody forgot about April fool's day today
and no one posted any jokes.
(laughs)
Got you again. - [Riley] Oh!
- Oh, I'm so good.
- [Riley] You're tricking it, you're tricking.
- Oh, so tricky.
Some tech and game companies did participate
in the traditional holiday.
Razor announced a metaverse suit
which actually a full body tracking suit
with like haptics and stuff would probably be pretty.
You could make them, you can get vests and stuff
but like a full body, like body suit.
- [Riley] Yeah, would be nice.
- That would be nice.
NZXT made a slick video for a steam deck like thing
with mouse buttons and a keyboard inside, I don't know.
But I think HyperX has to take the crown for its
touch grass keyboard caps.
(both laughing)
Now some of you can actually know what it feels like.
- [Riley] Oh man, the zingers today.
- Oh man, it's actually kinda sad
because like there are kids who grow up in concrete jungles
who actually, literally cannot touch grass.
- [Riley] Okay, don't make this serious.
- Okay. (Riley chuckles)
And in slightly dystopian news of the day
robot dogs are now being used to guard the sight
of an ancient natural disaster.
Okay, Boston dynamics robot dog SPOT
is being enlisted in the smart at Pompeii project.
To patrol for signs of looting or damage.
Okay, wouldn't want to damage all those
collapsed buildings or anything right?
Don't worry, I'm sure Tom Holland or Nicholas Cage
will be able to outsmart them
and access the secret Illuminati vault, no problem.
- [Riley] I give the movie six outta 10.
- Six outta 10?
- [Riley] It's kind of fun.
- Getting past all the SPOT dogs
with like lasers and - [Riley] SPOT dogs.
- machine guns. - [Riley] Not again.
- And I'm sure it'll be no problem for you
to come back on Monday for more tech news.
Hopefully with way less jokes, come on, Riley more joke.
To be fair, it is hard to know what is real or not
on April 1st.
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