- It's okay, you can stare.
I know you like me for my tips.
(upbeat music)
And my bits.
Apple's latest macOS update, Monterey one two three,
as I call it, also known as 12.3,
brought some cool new features to Macs,
including one called system bricking.
- [Riley] I've been waiting for that one.
- Just joking.
Yeah, it turns out the update is bricking any Mac
that has had its logic board replaced
after a harrowing series of upgrade attempts and reboots.
Because it would be too boring,
if the computer just like shut off.
- [Riley] You gotta torture a little bit first.
- It's a shame too, because 12.3 includes
the long-awaited universal control feature,
which allows you to use your Mac's keyboard and trackpad
across another Mac and even an iPad.
If you have one of those, for some reason.
To make matters worse for Apple,
reviews of the Mac Studio are starting to show up
and appears like Apple may have fudged
the performance numbers on the M1 Ultra chip a little bit.
- [Riley] I wouldn't do that.
- Never saw that coming.
Although some Apple enthusiasts take issue
with the methodology used so far in these reviews,
but maybe those reviews didn't do it right.
You know, some people are attacking their methodology so.
Should have compared it to the Final Cut Pro
performance on a PC.
- Right. - Then you'll see.
Don't worry guys. Anthony's gonna get it right.
- [Riley] He's so good at Final Cut Pro on PC.
- Tech Dumbledore.
Microsoft has released a beta for Xbox Cloud Gaming
through its Edge browser on the Steam Deck.
Wow. - Wow.
- And they even get another option for gamers
to play the games they want, how they want,
when they want, and who they, I think you meant where.
Because it's a beta made by a smaller team inside Microsoft,
there's a bit of setup to do.
But the team says it'll get smoother over time.
That's what happens when you rub on things for a while.
(laughs)
That's what the Apple dev said, and now my Mac is bricked.
I guess apple did Microsoft a favor
by blocking their xCloud app on iOS
and forcing them to make it work through Edge.
So thanks for this Microsoft.
But most of all, thanks Apple.
- [Riley] They love us.
- And Facebook is locking out some users who failed
to enable the Facebook Protect security feature
by a certain deadline.
I enabled it, 'cause I'm a person of interest.
But the, why wouldn't I?
- [Riley] I didn't know about it.
- But those users aren't just lazy.
Many of them ignored Facebook's email
asking them to turn the feature on,
because it looked a lot like spam.
It came via email. (laughs)
I mean the email address it was sent from
is security@facebookmail.com.
Quick, click this link and enter your personal details,
or you could be vulnerable to hacking.
I may have just ignored it too, but I knew it was legit,
because I had read about the program before.
- [Riley] Wow.
- To be fair, Facebook sent the email
to groups of people that are more likely
to be targeted by malicious hackers.
Like activists, journalists, and hosts of news tech.
- [Riley] I didn't get this email.
What? You got it?
- I'm the, I'm obviously the primary host of this channel.
But that notwithstanding, Riley always has something to say.
- [Riley] It's true.
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Quick bits.
And that's all I gotta say.
Mere hours after Microsoft made
their direct storage API public,
Nvidia has gone and made their own direct GPU to SSD
linking thingy in collaboration with IBM.
Which is more focused on data center applications
than on gaming.
So who cares? Let's move on. Just joking.
Fittingly, it's not called something consumer friendly,
like direct storage.
It's called Big Accelerator Memory.
- [Riley] Yeah. - BaM.
For short. - We got us a,
we got us a big accelerator.
- That's way more exciting than I thought it was gonna be.
- [Riley] Bam. Yeah, it's true.
- Bam, bam.
Intel announced that they'd be showing off laptops
with Arc gaming GPUs in a couple of weeks.
But just in case you didn't believe them,
B&H Photo briefly listed a Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro
with dedicated Intel Arc graphics for 1,350 U.S. dollars
before pulling it down.
It'll never be seen again, other than in two weeks.
But who knows when you'll see it after that.
Depends if people buy it.
- [Riley] Was it even real?
- Was it good?
(laughs) - Who knows?
- Lawmakers in Minnesota think they have
one solution to the problem of social media's
harmful effects on kids under 18.
Get rid of the kids, get rid of the algorithms.
The algorithm, the algorithms.
A proposed bill is scheduled for a hearing on March 22,
which would ban platforms from using algorithms
to recommend content to anyone under the age of 18.
Kids will see less viral stuff, sure,
but I think we've about had it with anything viral
considering the past two years.
When I was a kid, we didn't have viruses at all.
- [Riley] Yeah, because they're new.
What are those? Bacteria?
- I was a kid in the 1610s (laughs).
- [Riley] Before they invented viruses.
- We had the good old fashioned flag.
The James Webb Telescope, different James,
has finally sent back its first infocused image
after a month of calibration and alignment.
And it is
a lens flarey picture of a star
that I could have made in Photoshop.
But this one's real.
- [Riley] That's true. It's shiny.
- The image has exceeded expectations, actually,
of what the satellite would be capable of
in terms of quality.
Which required aligning all of its mirrors
to a tiny fractions of a width of a human hair.
You can't even do that,
and you're in a breathable atmosphere.
- [Riley] Wow.
- Nice job, Riley.
- [Riley] James. Nice job, James.
- Oh, the other James.
- [Riley] James Webb.
- Ah. - Oh my gosh.
- Nice job, James.
And Yuga Labs, creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs,
is weathering more criticism than normal,
and that's a, saying a lot,
after it launched a cryptocurrency
based on its Apes called ApeCoin.
But not to be confused with the USD.
- [Riley] Coins together strong.
- But 15% of the coin supply
was gifted to existing APE holders,
which is a perk for those early adopters.
Many of whom promptly cashed out
once enough normies bought in.
You'd think the group representing the pro NFT side
would want to avoid creating yet another
pump and dump scheme.
But when you see that line go up, I mean,
holding is hard.
And on the other hand, should have bought the NFTs.
That's what they're saying.
Next time, next time buy 'em.
- [Riley] Next time go back in time and--
- It's not hard for you to come back
on Monday for more tech news,
because you actually don't have to be here on Monday.
These shows stay up for a while.
How long? Who knows?
Might cash out eventually. - Watch out.