YouTube Pause Ads, Snapdragon X claims, more TikTok details + more! - TechLinked April 26, 2024

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NOW STOP. AD TIME

YouTube plans to expand pause-screen ads, trial’s gone well, and… some people are actually fine with it

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/youtube-could-roll-out-ads-while-videos-are-paused-after-strong-traction-in-experiment-2665969/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18dd4jg/for_real_now_when_you_pause_a_video_on_tv/ 

https://youtu.be/A2O2f5dlzcE?t=1281 

https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-show-you-more-youtube-ads-when-you-paus-1851439391 

top comment says it’s the least invasive ad placement https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18dd4jg/comment/kch19gb/

 

IF I’M LYIN’ I’M CRYIN’

Qualcomm says Snapdragon X Plus can still run circles around M3

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/qualcomm-preps-lower-end-snapdragon-x-plus-chips-to-compete-with-intel-and-apple/ 

leaked Surface Laptop 6 benchmark agrees https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/04/25/surface-laptop-6-with-snapdragon-x-elite-16gb-ram-windows-11-spotted/ 

although other benchmarks have said otherwise https://lmg.gg/5A3i3 (Android Authority)

I guess SemiAccurate’s claims that Qualcomm is “cheating” on their benchmarks COULD be right

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2024/04/24/qualcomm-is-cheating-on-their-snapdragon-x-elite-pro-benchmarks/ 

Qualcomm denies https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qualcomm-faces-benchmark-cheating-allegations-snapdragon-x-eliteplus-benchmarks-claimed-to-be-fraudulent 

Windows on Arm has come a long way https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/i-finally-tried-windows-on-arm-after-four-years 

is this all just an excuse to raise prices 10-15% though?

https://twitter.com/InformaTechHQ/status/1783572963301654940?t=VP9zr0HRLu1oiFGZ52JGqw

https://www.canalys.com/reports/AI-PC-market-forecasts 

 

ANOTHER ONE BYTES THE DANCE

Bytedance ain’t givin’ up that easy - planning to sue US govt https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/tiktok-us-ban-lawsuit-ceo-unconstitutionional-1235980650/ 

Reuters sources say ByteDance prefers to burn it all down rather than sell 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-us-if-legal-options-fail-sources-say-2024-04-25/ 

But the Information says ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling without the algorithm

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-exploring-scenarios-for-selling-tiktok-without-algorithm 

ByteDance explicitly denies this report https://www.toutiao.com/w/1797316788754572/ 

Would be a bit cheaper for WeChat, who have 1.5 million users in US and are also affected by law

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr8038ih/pdf/BILLS-118hr8038ih.pdf 

• EDITOR: highlight page 65, line 9, “has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users”

What happened when TikTok was banned in India? Everyone just went to Shorts / Reels

https://apnews.com/article/india-tiktok-ban-us-china-9ae5223bce78c56e5d22a1f2e86510f0 

 

QUICK BITS

 

THIS WILL FIX EVERYTHING

Net Neutrality’s BACK babY

https://apnews.com/article/net-neutrality-fcc-broadband-regulation-cc8421bc4f11a3e0f6ffc22c358fbfd0

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/carriers/fcc-vote-restores-net-neutrality-2024 

Republicans are not a fan https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/net-neutrality-is-still-a-bad-idea/

but may violate major-questions doctrine https://www.wsj.com/articles/net-neutrality-faces-a-stiff-judicial-test-major-questions-doctrine-5a195768

 

HEY YOU WANT THIS? IT SUCKS

Apple releases open-source, on-device “efficient language models

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/24/apple-ai-open-source-models/ 

https://huggingface.co/apple/OpenELM 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14619

• EDITOR: capture table at top of page 4

naturally, they suck https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cce341/comment/l150bk3/

Microsoft also open-sourced the infamously buggy and unpopular MS-DOS 4.00 this week

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/

most comments are just asking for something else https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1cd6jt3/microsoft_opensourced_msdos_40/ 

 

YOUR JOY IS MAGNETIC

Fresh Switch 2 rumors

https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-switch-2-report-details-magnetic-joy-con

https://vandal-elespanol-com.translate.goog/noticia/1350770848/exclusiva-switch-2-conocemos-en-primicia-nuevos-detalles-de-la-proxima-consola-de-nintendo/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://kotaku.com/switch-2-nintendo-joy-con-magnets-1851437754

 

CAN’T TEACH GYM? DEEPFAKE

AI deepfakes are ramping up; high school principal framed with fake AI call

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/ 

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/04/25/racist-recording-pikesville-athletic-director/

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/26/man-charged-with-framing-maryland-principal-with-ai-generated-racist-rant.html 

 

GENE-ERATIVE A.I. 

Researchers release blueprints for gene-editing molecules “fully designed with AI” 

https://twitter.com/thisismadani/status/1782510590839406904

https://www.profluent.bio/blog/editing-the-human-genome-with-ai

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/generative-ai-gene-editing-crispr.html

https://singularityhub.com/2024/04/25/this-ai-just-designed-a-more-precise-crispr-gene-editor-for-human-cells-from-scratch/

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591v1