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THE COOLEST LETTER IN THE ALPHABET

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2023/10/introducing-our-next-gen-intelligent-pc-platforms-the-snapdragon-x-series

Video: https://players.brightcove.net/1414329538001/BJv5wEFt_default/index.html?videoId=6338747711112

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16553/qualcomm-completes-acquisition-of-nuvia

https://www.gsmarena.com/qualcomm_is_rebranding_its_windows_on_arm_chips_to_snapdragon_x_series-news-60185.php

https://9to5google.com/2023/10/10/snapdragon-x-series/?extended-comments=1

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/what-to-know-about-arm-s-feud-with-qualcomm-ahead-of-its-ipo-1.1970162

 

YOU GOTTA SPEND MONEY TO SPEND MONEY

Big Tech Isn’t Making Money on AI – Microsoft is currently losing money on every copilot customer

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-costly-buildup-could-make-early-products-a-hard-sell-bdd29b9f

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-lost-money-on-ai

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-owner-openai-is-exploring-making-its-own-ai-chips-sources-2023-10-06/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/23911059/ai-climate-impact-google-openai-chatgpt-energy

 

CALIFORNIA V. SILICON VALLEY

Facebook’s sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/facebook-targeting-ads-by-age-gender-violates-calif-anti-discrimination-law/

Court Doc: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Liapes-v-Facebook-20-CIV-01712-Opinion-received.pdf

Facebook has a “Lookalike Audience” tool

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/164749007013531?id=401668390442328

California’s newest law will make it easier to delete personal online data

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/10/california-delete-act-signed-newsom

Right to repair signed

https://www.ign.com/articles/california-signs-right-to-repair-act-into-law

 

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ADOBE INNOVATOR

Adobe’s AI image generators get beefy updates, including vector graphics

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/adobes-ai-image-generators-get-beefy-updates-including-vector-graphics/

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/10/10/future-is-firefly-adobe-max

Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/11/23912480/adobe-max-sneak-project-resup-ai-video-upscaling-preview

Adobe’s Project Fast Fill is generative fill for video

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/adobes-project-fast-fill-is-generative-fill-for-video/

                                                                                                                                                                                             

BETTER TO ASK FORGIVENESS

T-Mobile plans to automatically migrate users on older, cheaper plans to newer, more expensive plans next month unless they opt out

https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/11/t-mobile-unlimited-plans/

https://cordcuttersnews.com/t-mobile-will-reportedly-migrate-customers-onto-newer-more-expensive-plans-unless-they-opt-out/

https://tmo.report/2023/10/breaking-t-mobile-will-force-customers-onto-newer-plans-unless-you-opt-out/

 

REDEMPTION ARC

Intel's Latest Driver Update Boasts Up to 119% Higher Performance on Arc GPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-latest-driver-update-boasts-up-to-119-higher-performance-on-arc-gpus

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/new-intel-arc-driver-delivers-up-to-149-percent-performance-boost-for-starfield/

Intel has new budget card

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/intels-180-arc-a580-aims-for-budget-gaming-builds-but-its-a-hard-sell/

 

OPEN SESAME

Google will now prompt users to use passkeys as a default

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/tech/google-passkeys-default-password/index.html

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/passkeys-default-google-accounts/

https://www.wired.com/story/google-passkey-default/

 

ELDERLY BUG-SWATTER

a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/22-year-old-firefox-tooltip-bug-fixed-in-a-few-lines-offering-hope-to-us-all/

“This 21 year old bug is still open. It is quite annoying, to be frank -- happens to me at least once per day.  That said, given its longevity, I'm kinda partial to let it be forever. It feels like a relic from the past.”

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148624#c42

Fix patch note: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8ae372dc88d1

Guy who fixed: https://fanzhuyifan.github.io/