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Chosen Foods this morning Apple announced a new AI powered Siri for the second time along with a bunch of other AI stuff. And this time it's gonna be better. They promise they paid Google like a billion dollars a year to make it good. I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked and Apple's VP of software, slash man with the most eyebrows, Craig Federighi, announced that the new Siri AI will be focused on providing their customers with useful tools. Going out of his way to call out other companies for pursuing AI for the sake of AI. Oof. Frederico coming out swinging. That's what I call him. Just like last time, they touted the new series ability to access your personal context, which is basically all the info and apps on your device and in your account, and to enable an actually useful digital personal assistant. They were also quick to call out that they've architected the system with a focus on privacy, using local models whenever possible, and utilizing Apple's private cloud compute for anything cloud based so anything that gets processed by the cloud is encrypted and can't be accessed by Apple. And as much as we give Apple a hard time, this does actually seem like one of the differentiating factors that makes them seem only slightly less dystopian than the other guys. Apple demoed Siri AI's frankly impressive capabilities by having a forgetful guy named Mike get concert tickets, remember where his friend lives, and look at pictures from his family vacation. Things you could all do before, but now you can have Siri look at your photos for you. Apple's also launching a dedicated Siri app, which is where all of these interactions will be stored, allowing you to return to them in the future. And if you want Siri to pick back up where you left off, Siri AI will be rolling out in all of Apple's various OSs, all of which feature the 27 moniker now, including Mac OS 27 Golden Gate, the name for which was introduced with a skit by the marketing team that had all the awkward energy of a first year improv class. It's why we love them. In addition to Siri AI, the new OS also has a handful of non AI features, including a liquid glass setting slider to define how liquid and how glass you want your os, I want my os. Goopy as hell. Yeah. Whoa. There's also an upgrade to Spotlight Search, powered by improved indexing and improved child safety features, giving parents the ability to block inappropriate websites or apps and be in control of who their kids are messaging, which is great for me because we have a blanket no Hunters policy in our house. No the name Hunter People who are named Hunter. Sorry, the Meta AI app's for you. Feed has reportedly been serving users with a bunch of suggested prompts for the AI based on at least their location. According to the Verge's Robert Hart, he's based in London, so his feed was filled with very British prompts like tea, manors, pubs, royals, and of course soccer. I mean football. Sorry, this is the Queen's favorite football game. I told you be quiet. Jeremy, if you click any of those suggested prompts that kind of look like news articles, Meta AI will generate an article looking thing for you. Meta appears to be recreating the same kind of low quality AI engagement bait that has long played social media, except now you don't even have to go to the social platform. You can get it right in the app. When the Verge pressed Meta for details about safeguards, labeling, or whether the content should be considered news or fiction, Meta eventually said the feature was only a test. It would be discontinued because you found out about it. I wish all companies just caved to questions like that. Hey, why are you raising RAM prices? Ooh, no, we'll lower it right away. It was just a test. They're testing my patience is what they're doing. Unlike our sponsor, War Thunder. You know, not many people know this, but as a child, I got trapped in a magic board game. That's right, I got Jumanjied. Well, when I got back out into the real world, I didn't just ask, what year is it? I asked my childhood best friend, now a bald adult man with three children, what games are people playing? Well, his lifeless eyes lit up and he said, war Thunder, the most comprehensive vehicle combat game ever made. I might be a bit stunted mentally, but even I could tell he was right. I mean, this game lets you take command of over 2,500 tanks, planes, helicopters and ships from 10 major nations. 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How's that for a subscription price hike for access to loads of Nvidia GPUs and compute power? Now the idea is to help meet growing demand for Google's AI services, while SpaceX locks in a serious new revenue stream ahead of its IPO. Of course, Google owns a little chunk of SpaceX, so I think everybody's making money, quote unquote on this performance. Everybody except me. New York State has passed a one year moratorium on new data centers that have a peak power demand of at least 20 megawatts, the first state level measure of its kind. The pause gives the state time to study data centers local costs, along with environmental and grid impacts. The move, which is now awaiting the governor's approval, reflects the backlash over rapid AI infrastructure growth. Critics, though, warn the bill could slow investment, while some supporters are calling for even tighter regulation. Hey yo, data center regulation and the Knicks are in the NBA Finals. Bing bong. Which is a thing they say in New York. Ask anyone. Signal, DuckDuckGo, NordVPN and other companies are pushing back against Canada's proposed Bill C22, saying its lawful access rules could pressure apps and VPNs to hold more user data and weaken user privacy protection. While Google and Meta have also criticized the bill, Signal and some VPNs have warned warned they may leave Canada, blocking new signups and withdrawing their services from the country, something that is an entirely foreign concept to Canadians and our polite sensibilities. Sorry, you just gotta pay a little bit more. Okay? What? I'm leaving. You can do that. For all those of you who are wondering whether it's possible to run Windows 95 on a graphing calculator, I'm happy to answer this question for you. It's yes. Apparently Reddit user fartemperature3580 got the 31 year old operating system to boot on a Texas Instruments Inspire calculator using the tiny 386x86 emulator. Unfortunately, it takes seven minutes to boot, so Clippy won't be helping you write your cover letters on a calculator anytime soon or getting sexy for you. That's a deep cut to a previous tech leaked episode. And that's all I'm gonna say. And Team Group won an award at Computex for their external SSD that can be remotely wiped via a signal sent using built in 4G. The drive performs a secure wipe and then activates a hardware level destruction intended to make data recovery extremely difficult or even mission impossible. Imagine Tom Cruise sliding from the ceiling to get your ssd, and with the press of a button, he gets nothing. That's my personal data, Mom. I mean Tom. I meant to say Tom. It's my data, Tom, not Mom. Don't look in there. You better ask your mom if you can come back Wednesday for more tech news when she gets back from my place. Sorry, I didn't have to. Now I'm gonna continue my Digimon rewatch. I'm about to meet Etemon, the Johnny Bravo of Digimon. Oh, mama. What.