It's Over, Apple. The EU Won. - June 8, 2022

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

PUT OUT TO C

EU to mandate USB-C iPhones by 2024

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220603IPR32196/deal-on-common-charger-reducing-hassle-for-consumers-and-curbing-e-waste

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/eu-agrees-to-force-apple-phones-tablets-to-use-common-charger-1.1775423

New dual-port charger https://www.imore.com/apple-just-announced-not-one-two-multi-port-usb-c-chargers

Apple was planning for it anyway https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/15/usb-c-airpods-release/

No dongle this time https://www.wired.com/2011/10/apple-launches-30-pin-to-usb-iphone-adapter-for-eu-compliance/

 

ARC OR ARCN’T?

Intel Arc A730M outperforms RTX 3070M in leaked synthetic benchmarks

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1435631-intel-arc-a730m-12gb-3dmark-timespy-score-leaked-in-the-league-of-rtx-30603070-laptop-gpu-updated-~-gaming-benchmarks-added/

https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-a730m-12-gb-mobile-gpu-is-faster-than-nvidias-rtx-3070-mobility-3dmark-performance-benchmarks/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-a730m-close-to-mobile-rtx-3060-3dmark-time-spy

But later leaks show slower performance

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-a730m-has-been-tested-in-games-with-performance-between-rtx-3050-and-rtx-3060

https://www.pcgamer.com/first-intel-arc-alchemist-benchmarks-are-a-bit-of-a-mixed-bag/

 

ROMANCING THE STONE

macOS Ventura lets Linux VMs use Rosetta on Apple Silicon

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1435884-apple-will-allow-linux-vms-to-run-intel-apps-with-rosetta-in-macos-ventura/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura-will-extend-rosetta-support-to-linux-virtual-machines/

https://www.imore.com/macos-ventura-includes-support-rosetta-arm-linux-vms

Rosetta can maybe run on non-Macs

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1534032369166225409

https://twitter.com/never_released/status/1534127641082593281

 

QUICK BITS

 

GIVE ‘EM THE HOSE

Twitter will give Musk access to “firehose API”

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23159898/twitter-musk-firehose-bot-complaints-data-sec-deal

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise/compliance-firehose-api/overview

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/08/elon-musk-twitter-bot-data/

 

BUILT FORD SASS

Ford F-150 trolls Elon with Tesla charging adapter

https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/ford-f-150-lightning-comes-equipped-with-adapter-to-rescue-teslas

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-mobile-power-cord-tesla-connector/

 

INSTALLING? THAT ZUCKS

Roblox-Fortnite hybrid game Crayta will be free-to-play on Facebook cloud gaming

https://youtu.be/JI0y2mEKCPE

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/meta-game-development-platform-crayta-facebook-gaming/

https://twitter.com/CraytaGame/status/1534574712143155206

 

WIN STUPID PRIZES

YouTuber Yannick Kilcher trains AI bot on 4chan, it’s racist, no one surprised

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8zwx/ai-trained-on-4chan-becomes-hate-speech-machine

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-chatbot-trained-on-4chan-pol-automates-bigotry-at-scale

 

DEFYING NUTRITION

Taco Bell Defy store

https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2022/06/07/minnesota-taco-bell-of-the-future

https://twitter.com/tacobell/status/1534017306883289090