TechLinked Oct. 4, 2023

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

PIXEL PERFECT

Pixel 8 / 8 Pro / Watch 2

Keynote https://youtu.be/pxlaUCJZ27E

Watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ndT_uyeK64

CPU + battery life @24:04 (Keynote)

Skin temp sensor @27:08 (Keynote)

Google Pixel 8 / 8 Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otomCbnwsv0

Actua Display @39:15 (Keynote)

Super Actua Display 39:45 (Keynote)

Tensor G3 @41:18 (Keynote)

Pixel 8 Price @1:14:40 (Keynote)

Pixel 8 Pro Price @1:15:39 (Keynote)

7 years of updates @1:16:38 (Keynote)

Temp sensor @40:15 (Keynote)

 

COMPUTER: ENHANCE

Android 14 https://www.engadget.com/android-14-is-now-available-to-download-on-pixel-devices-143004310.html

Lock screen customization @ 0:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEVaHobjbPw

Health Connect @1:02 ^

Best Take @50:42 (Keynote)

Audio Magic Eraser @49:00 (Keynote)

Zoom Enhance @1:13:12 (Keynote)

Google Assistant with Bard @1:07:20 and @1:07:50 (Keynote)

https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-multi-modal-upgrade-bard-generative-ai/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/google-assistant-is-getting-ai-capabilities-with-bard/

 

$14 FOR FACEBOOK?

Meta's Instagram, Facebook to charge EU users for ad-free service – sources.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/meta-wants-to-charge-europeans-to-access-instagram-facebook-report-.html

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-floats-charging-14-month-ad-free-instagram-or-facebook-europe-wsj-2023-10-03/

https://www.androidauthority.com/meta-ad-free-subscription-instagram-facebook-3370961/

 

QUICK BITS

 

$10,000 BRACELET

The $10,000+ Gold Apple watch is soon to be obsolete

https://www.ign.com/articles/apples-17000-gold-apple-watch-no-longer-eligible-for-repairs

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/02/original-apple-watch-now-obsolete/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bp33/gold-apple-watch-obsolete-report

 

MALWARE, BY BING

Oops, Microsoft's AI chatbot is offering up malvertisements in responses

https://www.pcgamer.com/oops-microsofts-ai-chatbot-is-offering-up-malvertisements-in-responses/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2023/09/malicious-ad-served-inside-bing-ai-chatbot

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware/

 

A REAL BALANCING ACT

Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

https://recall.onewheel.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/03/future-motion-onewheel-electric-skateboards--recalled-in-us-after-four-deaths

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/29/23896151/onewheel-cpsc-recall-future-motion-crash-death

 

ASTRONOMIC FINES

DISH botches satellite deorbit, gets hit with FCC’s first space-debris fine

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/dish-botches-satellite-deorbit-gets-hit-with-fccs-first-space-debris-fine/

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397412A1.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/02/fcc-space-debris-fine-dish-network-satellite

 

THE AI ART ARMS RACE

Researchers Tested AI Watermarks—and Broke All of Them

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-watermarking-issues/

https://www.engadget.com/researchers-say-current-ai-watermarks-are-trivial-to-remove-204414059.html

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01953.pdf

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Engadget is wrong, the Pixel 4a will NOT get Android 14. They meant the 4a 5G, which is a different phone.