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to a hospital, to a church,
or even to an emergency shelter.
Geez.
Allegedly, Cochava doesn't just collect information about what apps an individual uses,
but also what they do while inside them and how much money they spend.
You know, an easy rule of thumb of whether a product is dangerously invasive is asking yourself,
could a domestic abuser use this to find their estranged spouse simply by typing
pregnant female, Caucasian, Houston, candy crush,
green party into a search bar?
Maybe?
MyQ, best known for their smart garage door openers,
has apparently spent the last several months
repeatedly blocking unauthorized third-party smart home apps from access to their devices.
That might make sense,
but MyQ currently has very few authorized software partners
because they require partners to pay them for the right to interact with their devices.
Home Assistant recently announced that they will be deactivating their MyQ integration
since it isn't working anymore and because,
as an open-source project,
paying MyQ's fee simply isn't sustainable.
You know, like when you don't have money and everyone wants to go to McDonald's?
This has left MyQ customers in a situation
where the apps they use to manage all their other smart devices
simply can't interact with their garage doors.
You might wonder why a garage door opener company
would be trying to interfere with its customers' ability to open their garages.
But MyQ is probably trying to force customers to use its official app,
probably called Reddit,
which since October has been serving obnoxious ads that interfere with the functioning of the app.
Oh, it is Reddit.
Sometimes even pushing the open garage button off the screen.
While the iOS version of the app is still at 4.8 stars,
its Android counterpart recently dropped to 3.9
due to all of those selfish customers
who think they shouldn't get ads on an app for a product they already paid for.
Like, what's your problem?
What, do you think that when you go to the restaurant,
you should just get food when you pay for it?
Like, bringing it back to McDonald's.
Quick Bits move at near relativistic speeds and thus experience significant time distortion.
With every Quick Bit,
I grow a fraction of a second further out of sync with the universe as you perceive it.
Did y'all know Kim and Kanye got divorced?
To the surprise of several Apple users,
when they received their brand new 14-inch M3 MacBook Pros,
the devices came installed not with a standard up-to-date operating system,
but with an unreleased build of macOS Ventura 13.5
from back in July that couldn't be updated.
Apple has already released an update addressing the issue,
but this would seem to indicate that Apple's been stockpiling devices with M3 chips for the last four months.
Apple usually creates these separate incompatible versions of its OS
in order to keep potential leaks out of public betas,
but it's not clear how it wound up getting sent to consumers.
My theory?
Snake, you've created a time paradox!
Who's Pete Davidson?
You mean Skeet Davidson?
I heard he's dating Kim!
According to reliable leaker and my best friend,
Copite7Kimmy, please don't say that's not true,
expensive GPU lovers should expect Nvidia
to launch the RTX 40 Super Series
during the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in January.
That would make sense considering that Nvidia reportedly
won't be releasing the RTX 50 Series until at least 2025,
and they tend to pair their gaming launches alongside big industry events.
Fellow leaker, MegasizeGPU, has also revealed images
of Nvidia's retail branding inserts for the series,
and apparently Nvidia has changed the stylized typeface
of the old Super logo with the same boring sans-serif font it uses for literally everything else.
Why can't at least the word Super be Super?
Only the prices, I guess.
The driving app Waze has launched a new safety feature
called Crash History Alerts.
Basically, using AI and reports from the app's community,
Waze will alert drivers if the road they're about to turn onto is prone to accidents.
However, the notifications are light on detail
so as not to distract drivers.
They won't tell you if the crashes are major versus minor,
or if they involved cars, pedestrians, and or cyclists.
Hypothetically,
you won't know if there's been a daily crash at an intersection for the last year,
or if a single car knocked over an entire bike race.
I said I'm sorry, okay?
I can still hear the squeals of all those men's Lycra rubbing together.
A team of researchers from the Universities of California and Sydney
have developed an artificial brain from a network of randomly arranged silver nanowires.
Dr. Frankenstein et al.
It's alive and strangely antibacterial.
Its structure pattern changes predictably with electrical stimulus
and can maintain that pattern when the stimulus is removed,
meaning the network can learn dynamically and more efficiently than traditional AI training
all in real time.
In the near future, these silver networks could become more popular than GPUs,
and maybe even grills.
What, you've got silver on your teeth?
I've got it in my brain, bro.
And a software engineer used an AI-powered service to apply for 5,000 jobs,
leading your mother to ask,
what's your excuse?