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my humanity and have transcended mortal form. I am no longer a man, but a conduit of Tech News Feast upon tech news. Android developers are revolting against Google's upcoming sideloading restrictions, organizing a campaign@keepandroidopen.org the fight is over Android, tightening rules around the installation of unverified or sideloaded apps, specifically regarding developer verification and app installation. Google's Developer Verification program, which was announced last year, will require anyone distributing apps outside of the Play Store to register their identity, upload signing keys and pay a $25 fee, which was then followed by Google's unveiling of Advanced Flow to let power users still install unverified apps. The flow requires the user to go through a cumbersome one time approval process, then wait 24 hours before sideloading anything or According to Android, these changes are designed to thwart high pressured scam tactics that cybercriminals often use. Detractors, however, are calling it a rug pull on Android's original promise as an open alternative to Apple's iOS and F droid, which is the open source alternative to the Play Store, says the whole framework could kill the open source marketplace. Cybersecurity firms, on the other hand, are calling it a reasonable compromise that protects users from social engineering attacks. What's next? Two factor authentication to change your ringtone? YouTube is doubling down on AI with Ask YouTube, a conversational search feature currently in testing because scrolling through search results obviously takes a ton of work. My fingers are hurting. I don't know about yours. The feature delivers a step by step mix of text, videos and shorts directly addressing your search query. The demo explores how you can ask YouTube for help planning a three day road trip from San Fran to Santa Barbara and it will actually give you a whole multimedia itinerary. You could then ask a follow up question like where can I find good coffee? It's currently only available to US based YouTube Premium subscribers who are over the age of 18, but they're working on expanding it to non premium users in the future. Don't expect total accuracy though a Verge writer actually asked about the Steam controller and the AI confidently claimed that the device has no joysticks, which would be a surprise to the videos it pulled up since they all clearly show a Joystick. Maybe ask YouTube. Should have oh, you know what? They should have asked YouTube. The US Department of Commerce has ordered US companies to halt shipments to Chinese chip maker Hua Hong, as it's been helping the blacklisted Huawei produce AI chips. This move extends the ongoing chip based game of Will they, Won't they that the US and China have been playing. This whole thing started in November when the US blocked Nvidia from selling AI chips to China. Then in January it conditionally approved the H200 sales and slapped a 25% tariff on them. Then China blocked the imports of those chips and then the US capped how many chips it would expect. Then in March, everyone chilled out and came back into an agreement. Then last week, Commerce Secretary and world's oiliest man Howard Lutnick said China was blocking chip reports. So yesterday he shut it all down again. Couldn't I have just said that part instead of okay? These interruptions, however, don't seem to be slowing China's AI progress as it just announced its first CPU only exascale supercomputer, which it claims is made with zero foreign components. Who knows what'll happen next in this Ross and Rachel style relationship that the US and China are in. My money, I think, is on them having a kid in season eight that the writers forget about by the finale. Luckily, our writers didn't forget to write in this segue to our sponsor Tello.
