DOJ sues Apple, Neuralink livestream, Microsoft acqui-hires Inflection + more! - TechLinked March 22, 2024

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THE UN-APPLENING

U.S. Dept of Justice sues Apple

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-apple-monopolizing-smartphone-markets 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V4MIRUoyOE

Probably biggest antitrust case since US v. Microsoft https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-1990s-antitrust-case-looms-over-apple-2024-3

https://twitter.com/hbkirb/status/1770827324398633261

• EDITOR: highlight the numbered list under the “The Outcome” section

The case

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/22/doj-apple-monopoly-antitrust-lawsuit-explained-00148492

Basically comes down to the “buy your mom an iPhone” meme - Apple’s only answer to user requests for more freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdvzYtgmIjs&t=3663s @1:01:36

quoted in the complaint https://twitter.com/NexusBen/status/1770832183139152135 

App Store - doesn’t allow third-party stores 

Says Apple doesn’t allow “Super Apps” https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline 

• EDITOR: highlight this text on Page 14 (Table of Contents) - Item IV-A-i: “Super Apps”

• Apple Watch - EDITOR: Highlight this text on Page 39 - Item 96: “Apple Watch - is only compatible with the iPhone.”

says they took 3 YEARS to investigate whether Android support could be added to Apple Watch, then decided it couldn’t because of “technical limitations” https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/21/apple-watch-android-apple-work/

Apple responds, says DOJ “threatens who we are” https://lmg.gg/IXt6y 

Tim Sweeney can’t tweet https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1770712821468217446

 

CYBORG GAMER UNSTOPPABLE

Neuralink’s first human patient talks on livestream, plays chess

https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/1770563939413496146

module was implanted in January 2024 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68137046

experts say the base technology isn’t new https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423483-has-neuralink-made-a-breakthrough-in-brain-implant-technology/

here’s a video from 2007

https://youtu.be/cDiWFcA0gaw?t=30 @0:30

Synchron https://youtu.be/mm95r05hui0?t=150 @2:30

BlackRock Neurotech https://youtu.be/eW0jn7jAe1w?t=156 @2:36

But the idea is that Neuralink is the iPhone Moment for BCIs https://lmg.gg/ptGIU

Neural threads https://youtu.be/8vAMt56p_j8?t=32 @0:32 

Elon says Neuralink could let quadriplegics walk again

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770687287174582483

 

INFLECTION POINT (SORRY, HAD TO)

Microsoft “acqui-hires” Inflection AI since they didn’t get Sam Altman

CEO of Inflection AI Mustafa Suleyman hired as CEO of Microsoft AI

https://twitter.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1770123596121432351

Microsoft also hires “most” of Inflection’s 70 employees, pays $650 million total to both license their models and keep em quiet about the mass hiring

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/microsoft-to-pay-inflection-ai-650-million-after-scooping-up-most-of-staff-1.2050171 

Inflection calls it “an important change to how we’ll work” https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection

Analyst Tony Wang calls it “basically an acquisition of Inflection without having to go through regulatory approval” https://twitter.com/TonyW/status/1770231765304750572

• EDITOR - highlight the quote 

Satya quote has resurfaced from interview during the Altman-ocalypse https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/on-with-kara-swisher-satya-nadella-on-hiring-sam-altman.html

• EDITOR: include the top of the article, then click this link and highlight ALL the following quotes

  • “We have all the IP rights and all the capability.”

  • “We have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything.”

  • “We are in there. We are below them, above them, around them. We do the kernel optimizations, we build tools, we build the infrastructure.”

MAYBE - Anthropic’s Claude available on Google’s Vertex platform

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/the-startup-wars-anthropic-for-google-inflection-for-microsoft 

 

QUICK BITS

 

YOU GET A FRAME GEN! AND YOU GET A FRA…

AMD announces FSR 3.1 – enables Frame Gen on OTHER upscalers (DLSS, Xess) – great for owners of RTX 20, 30 series GPUs which don’t support Nvidia Frame Gen

https://wccftech.com/amd-fsr-3-1-announced-frame-generation-on-dlss-xess-upscaling-solutions-improved-image-quality-40-game-support/

https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/amd-fsr-3-1-announced-at-gdc-2024-fsr-3-available-and-upcoming/ba-p/674027

https://lmg.gg/JgAL2

will work on RTX 20 series https://lmg.gg/UEglq

also better temporal stability and ghosting reduction; demonstrated this with low-res, grainy-as-fuck GIFs

https://lmg.gg/kzSDD

 

SO SUE ME

Suyu Switch emulator releases first build

https://steamdeckhq.com/news/new-switch-emulator-suyu-officially-released/

https://suyuemulator.com/suyu-emulators-first-build-now-available-featuring-ui-enhancements-qol-improvements/

GitLab immediately takes it down https://overkill.wtf/suyu-emulator-removed-from-gitlab/ 

because it’s a fork of a “public repo against which we previously received a DMCA notice” https://twitter.com/MrSujano/status/1770896278165004294

https://twitter.com/MrSujano/status/1770896278165004294/photo/2 

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/gitlab-takes-down-nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-due-to-the-dmca/ 

 

SURFACES LURKING

Microsoft unveils Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business

https://youtu.be/UeKQkKvVU5c 

https://www.engadget.com/microsofts-surface-pro-10-and-surface-laptop-6-are-here-but-you-wont-find-them-in-stores-160022629.html

non-Business versions coming in May https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/surface/dont-buy-new-surface-pro-10-laptop-6-microsoft-has-better-hardware 

expected to feature the Arm-based Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite - on which most Windows games should “just work” according to Qualcomm https://www.theverge.com/24107331/qualcomm-gdc-2024-snapdragon-on-windows-games

bUT DID You knOW bout COPILOT???

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/microsoft-really-wants-to-talk-about-copilot/

 

HERE BOY! 

GoFetch - Apple M-series chips have an “unpatchable” side-channel vulnerability

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

https://gofetch.fail/

https://gofetch.fail/files/gofetch.pdf

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/21/apple-silicon-vulnerability-leaks-encryption-keys-and-cant-be-patched-easily

 

HOTEL… EARTH

Researchers demonstrate exploit that could let hackers open any hotel room door with their phone

https://www.techspot.com/news/102355-hackers-unveil-method-open-millions-hotel-keycard-locks.html 

called “Unsaflok” https://unsaflok.com/ 

https://unsaflok.com/videos/video.webm @0:30

https://cybernews.com/security/dormakaba-locks-vulnerable-researchers-find/