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There are still other methods to install Windows 11 without having TPM 2.0. |
For example, open source utility |
Rufus apparently has its own workaround too. |
I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements, |
but I'm happy to have them try. |
That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 11. |
Just kidding. They'll make time. |
Procreate, the company behind the popular art app for iPad, |
has pledged to never add AI to their products |
This is despite the existence of the 2010 song Never Say Never by Justin Bieber |
In a video posted by the company's Twitter account Ceo Jason Cuda said |
I really f**king hate generative AI |
Procreate's website features a page dedicated to their anti-AI stance. |
As a result, the company has received a lot of love |
from digital artists who probably are tired of having generative AI trained on their work without consent. |
But painters and illustrators aren't the only ones |
seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools. |
AI photo Editing and image processing features |
are starting to raise questions about when a photo stops being a photo. |
Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app, Halide, |
has introduced a new feature called Process Zero, |
allowing users to take photos without any AI or image processing at all. |
Of course, Halide costs $20 a year, |
so now, ironically, you need to pay a subscription to not use AI. |
National Public Data or NPD for short, |
has finally confirmed it had a data breach. |
Though they don't actually seem too sure. |
In their official statement, the data aggregator says, |
there appears to have been a data security incident. |
As if hundreds of millions of people's data ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough. |
While many reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data was exposed, |
that's apparently not quite true. |
Web security consultant, Troy Hunt, |
investigated and found there were about 134 million unique email addresses. |
Yet NPD told the main attorney general's office |
that 1.3 million people were affected, |
which would imply that they all have about 100 emails. |
It was also discovered by a company called Atlas Data Privacy |
that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers. |
So every person affected by the breach |
must have also been born roughly 200 times. |
Now, to be fair to NPD, |
millions of these records are for people who no longer are alive. |
So maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure. |
It's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data because an NPD sister site |
published a file containing admin passwords on its homepage |
that was only removed today. |
Sure, we've been hacked before, |
but the hackers still had to put in some effort. |
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How do you summon Quick Bits? |
Easy. You just go psst, psst, psst, psst, psst. |
Wait, no, that's cats. |
Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is expected to arrive in October, |
a little fuller than anticipated. |
A little healthier, girthier. |
A leak, courtesy of Jakin on Twitter, |
lists 14 SKUs with two previously unseen |
Core Ultra 5 models, the 235 and 225. |
Another, more different tweet from fellow leaker, OneRaiChu, |
points to the lineup including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models with eight cores, |
likely four P-cores and four E-cores. |
Although, depending on who you're talking to, |
these aren't real E-cores. |
Those have all gone to join hyper-threading |
in the great outdated tech glossary in the sky. |
Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'etre |
is hyper-affordable mini PCs, |
has launched a new, even lighter, |
two-gigabyte version of the Pi 5, down from four gigabytes |
Beyond the two-gigabyte drop in memory and a newly optimized SOC, |
the rest of the Pi specs remain unchanged. |
It's also for just 50 bucks, down from 60, |
for consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles than double their available RAM. |
Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up with a one-gigabyte version |
or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number of Pis, |
each with half the memory of the previous model, |
Zeno's Paradox style. |
Ask them Total Pies. |
Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference. |
The Zotac Zone, has now gone up for pre-order in select regions, |
hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck, |
thanks to its dual touchpads, |
but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 120-hertz OLED screen, |
hall effect sticks, a selfie camera, and a kickstand. |
The real kicker, though, is the RGB strip on the back. |
Valve wouldn't do this to us. |
The Zone reportedly officially launches in September, |
but I don't know who to trust at this point. |
According to TechRadar, |
Google has quietly confirmed that there |
Subsets and Splits