Gaming Macs Are Real - June 7, 2023

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

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COMPATABILITY TEST

Apple Compatibility layer

https://www.thurrott.com/apple/284110/apple-game-porting-toolkit-for-macos-supports-directx-12-games
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/06/apple-says-emulation-in-macos-can-show-devs-how-windows-games-could-run

Redditor videos https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/143ae4f/diablo_iv_on_m1_max_mbp_14_using_macos_ventura_134/

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/14342uz/hogwarts_legacy_on_m2_max/

CrossOver Response

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-comes-to-macos-apple-s-game-porting-toolkit-powered-by-crossover-source-code

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2023/06/apple-has-a-proton-like-game-porting-toolkit-for-getting-windows-games-on-mac/

Cyberpunk, laggy

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/142vjdz/i_got_cyberpunk_2077_running_on_an_m1_macbook/

 

WICKED TWITCH OF THE WEST

Twitch ToS Change

https://www.pcgamer.com/twitch-streamers-revolt-against-new-limits-on-branded-sponsorships-this-is-a-direct-attack-on-our-business/

http://web.archive.org/web/20230606163104/https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/terms-of-service/

https://www.polygon.com/23751472/twitch-branded-content-new-ad-guidelines-rules-asmongold-mizkif-tos

Apology?

https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1666183145526538240

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1511460-new-twitch-terms-of-service-multi-stream-and-ad-changes/

Youtube does not have these restrictions

https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6008942#con

Twitch charges $25 to leave

https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/monetized-streamer-agreement/

 

REDDIT IS REVOLTING

Mass Revolt

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d99pn/reddit-api-apollo-app-controversy-explained

Protest against API

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/reddit-blackout-date-protest-subreddits-b2352492.html

Incomplete list of subreddits involved

https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/

UFO subreddit renegs

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/142xjgq/rufos_announces_its_going_dark_on_the_12th_then/

 

QUICK BITS

 

INTRODUCING: THE WEBCAM

iPadOS 17 now works with USB webcams/cameras https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752140/ipad-external-usb-webcam-camera-support-ipados-17

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ipados-17-is-getting-support-for-external-webcams-heres-what-you-need-to-know

https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/06/ipados-17-external-webcams-microphones/

 

LOOK AT ME. I AM THE SEARCH ENGINE NOW

Searching for Chrome using Bing results in a search for “Bing Features”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23736289/microsoft-bing-chrome-search-fake-ai-chatbot

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/07/microsoft-ai-chrome/

https://winbuzzer.com/2023/06/07/microsofts-bing-chat-ai-tricks-users-who-search-for-chrome-on-edge-with-bogus-answers-xcxwbn/

 

MY NAME IS LEGION

Instagram is testing an AI chatbot that lets you choose from 30 personalities

https://www.zdnet.com/article/instagram-may-be-getting-its-own-ai-chatbot-soon-heres-what-we-know/

Screenshot in question: https://twitter.com/alex193a/status/1665825192398995469

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/06/instagram-might-be-working-on-an-ai-chatbot/

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-developing-ai-chatbot-multiple-personalities-report-2023-6

 

THE AI WHO SHAGGED ME

FBI Warns of increased use of deepfaked sex videos in exploitation cases

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2023/PSA230605

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-says-artificial-intelligence-being-used-sextortion-harassment-2023-06-07/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-scammers-using-public-photos-videos-for-deepfake-extortion-schemes

 

BARCODE-CHAN?

QR Code waifus with stable diffusion

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/redditor-creates-working-anime-qr-codes-using-stable-diffusion/

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i4WR5ULH1ZZYl8Watf3EPw