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Right now, but after we film this, I'm gonna go listen to Ska on my Zune and plan the release of my NFT collection. It calms me. Google has found a way to force Apple's Airdrop feature to work with Android's similar Quick Share feature. It only works on the Pixel 10 lineup for now, but complaining about that would be a bit like complaining about the distance a pig flew to trigger this dark magic. IPhone users can set Airdrop to allow files from everyone for 10 minutes and boom. They'll be able to receive files from the enemy. Even better, this ritual goes both ways, so you can drop stuff from iOS onto your Android too. What's even crazier though, is that Google went rogue and did this on its own, essentially forcing Apple to communicate like an introvert being pulled out of the laundry room at a party by their friend who's annoyingly social, but also maybe they have a crush on, so they go with them.

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I've seen that movie.

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And don't worry, Google wants you to know this new feature is secure too, Releasing a security blog post all about it, stating that they built the feature in the Rust programming language to avoid common security bugs, and promising they'll support Contacts only mode on iOS at some future point. For now though, if iPhone users want to get a drop from their Android buddy, they're gonna have to risk also getting the local aspiring rapper's mixtape Riley.

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I'm like a young M and M.

B (1:57)

He's like following you around. They're gonna open up Airdrop anytime now. Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino has the entire maker community on alert after updates to their terms conditions and privacy policy signaled a potential shift away from the company's open source roots. These new changes include restricting the reverse engineering of their platform and expanding data collection rights under Qualcomm ownership, and introducing vague language about the ownership of user generated content. Now, many fear this could let Qualcomm claim broader control on existing or future projects with sections of the agreement, potentially giving Qualcomm blanket authority over the patentability of anything built using Arduino tools. Even if the AGPL licensed dev environment and firmware technically remain open source. The wording is open ended enough that people worry Qualcomm is laying the groundwork for future lockdowns. Open source hardware company Adafruit publicly criticized the move, pointing out that imposing enterprise style software as a service rules on a community run platform is a surefire way to destroy trust before buying Arduino, Did Qualcomm actually know what open source means? Tell you what, I'll open source my feelings right now boo. Bad Dell and HP have discovered a new way to make some of their business laptops worse. And no, it's not another round of questionable product names. Small victories apparently these companies decided to start disabling hevc hardware decoding on several laptops, even though the feature is supported by their CPUs. At a hardware level, these cuts are leaving affected users wondering why they were suddenly faced with web videos showing continuous loading loops and random errors. Well, as indicated in spec documents for models like the HP ProBook 460 G11 hardware, HEVC support is turned off by design. And as for Dell, there's a clue buried on a support page that only shows devices with optional upgrades like a 4K screen or a discrete GPU having access to the decoder. Those ones are special. Neither company has offered up a real explanation, but what we do know is that HEVC license fees are going up from $0.20 to to $0.24 per laptop. So to be fair, probably ends up being a good chunk of change. But I have a hard time believing it's making either HP or Dell gasp for air. Careful there partner. Don't want you having to pay a whole dollar to Microsoft to turn the feature back on. And that wasn't a joke. That's the official recommendation. How does Microsoft end up getting a free dollar out of this nonsense? We gotta at least do a sponsor segue for our dollars. UPDF your all in one PDF editor and AI assistant built to make reading, editing and managing documents effortless. And you know that can be a pain in the butt. 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So Microsoft is rolling out a preview of its Xbox full screen experience to any Windows 11 PC, not just handhelds, although you'll have to download the Windows Insider build to get it. Now this gives desktop, laptop and tablet users the ability to boot into the same controller friendly console like interface as the rog, Xbox, Ally and Ally X, skipping loading the desktop, potentially boosting performance and totally redeeming the Xbox marketing team. I guess everything really is an Xbox except me. Unless my parents lied to me who told him he can't discover he's an Xbox. We're a PlayStation family dammit. A new Android Trojan called Sternus is reportedly stealing WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal messages by abusing Android's accessibility service to read messages after they're decrypted on screen, meaning it completely sidesteps the task of having to break encryption first. It can also generate fake banking logins, enable full remote control of a device, and log every tap to harvest credentials. It can do it all. The worst part, Sternness is only in early testing among hackers, so once it fully rolls out, it's gonna cause even more consternation. Meta is saying Dios mio after a Spanish court said hola and ordered them to pay €479 million to 87 Spanish news outlets. Por favor. The court ruled that Meta broke EU data protection and antitrust laws by unfairly using the personal data of its users to make targeted ads, giving it a serious edge over local media. Meta has slightly improved its rules around data collection consent, but the judge estimated meta made over 5 billion euros from ads during the five years before the change. Of course, Meta is saying no Manche's and planning to appeal the ruling, but similar claims being investigated in France might soon have them shouting Sacre blue. Silicon Valley investors are reportedly funding a human embryo gene editing startup led by UC Berkeley biochemist Lucas Harrington, raising about 30 million USD from backers including software engineer and husband of Sam Altman, Oliver Mulherin, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. The company says it's focused strictly on lab research and definitely 100% will not test their findings if safety is found wanting because fun fact, gene editing human embryos is illegal in most countries. Don't they remember what happened to the guy in China who gene edited three embryos and then seemingly got edited out of existence himself? Those kids were actually born.