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the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision in epics lawsuit against Apple finding that Apple's closed app store did not violate antitrust rules however the ruling also said Apple couldn't maintain its anti-steering rules that prevented developers from telling users about ultimate payment options and circuit court has now granted a motion by Apple to hold off enforcing that rule for 90 days so Apple can file a request with the US Supreme Court to take up the case Microsoft has a July 18th deadline to finish its merger with Activision Blizzard but it's still waiting for UK approval it could ignore that approval and risk a fine in the UK it could try to carve out Activision Blizzard in the UK and acquire everything else which would be very complicated it could give up on the acquisition all together which doesn't seem likely or it could get Activision Blizzard to agree to extend the deadline that may sound easy but deadlines exist for a reason with the deadline passed Activision Blizzard would be free to entertain other offers sounds like a headache for other companies though I could also ask Microsoft to pay the breakup fee or negotiate an extension that increases the price Activision Blizzard shareholders seem to want the merger to close so they could also just agree to an extension right now as of this recording Microsoft is in negotiations with Activision Blizzard on an extension it's also talking to the UK competition and markets authority about a way to get approval UK has extended its deadline to August 29th an outside factor is a looming US FTC evidentiary hearing on the merger set for August 2nd oh hi Zoe the 16 gigabyte variant of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is now available from Nvidia's add-in board partners apart from having twice the memory the new model is identical spec wise to the 8 gigabyte RTX 4060 Ti released in May video shared benchmark results at 1080p showing an increase in performance in several games over the 8 gigabyte model but didn't make pre-release review boards available 16 gigabyte RTX 4060 Ti list for $499 $100 more than the 8 gigabyte version White House announced the US cyber trust mark meant to signify a smart home devices and fitness signify that smart home devices and fitness trackers meet security standards set out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST devices with the label should be available in 2024 Federal Communications Commission will administer this voluntary program devices will come this mark on a box as well as a QR code the customers can scan to make sure the device is still certified if CC has not determined how often it will re-certify devices and that bit Instagram head Anna Miserie announced that due to an increase in spam on threads the platform would get tighter on things like rate limits saying it may unintentionally limit active people Miserie also said any legitimate users impacted by rate limits should contact Instagram support retailer as thank you retail like Casey at its Microsoft inspire conference Microsoft announced details and some chatbot features come into Microsoft 365 business users being chatbot is getting support for visual search meaning you can upload an image as a prompt for more questions and discussion with the chatbot this is available on desktop and mobile first coming enterprise later speaking of Bing chat speaking of Bing chat enterprise will give subscribers speaking of enterprise Bing chat enterprise will give subscribers the same GPT 4 powered chatbot you get in Bing search but with protection for commercial data chat data isn't saved Bing chat enterprise chat data isn't saved or used to train the models it's available in preview the public version of Bing it's available in preview now for Microsoft 365 business users at no additional charge and Microsoft says it might sell it as a standalone product in the future for five dollars per user per month Microsoft is not including co-pilot for my Microsoft 365 users for free but you can pay to add it Microsoft 365 co-pilot is powered by GPT 4 and can generate text in office documents create PowerPoint presentations and help create things like pivot tables and spreadsheets Microsoft also announced today that co-pilot is they also make sense there Microsoft announced today that the co-pilot that co-pilot is coming to Microsoft teams it can do real-time summarization of ongoing voice calls including dates names and key points it can also suggest next steps in teams in teams text chat it can pull out key points from chat threads and create lists or tables if you ask it to sounds good how much it's gonna cost me well Microsoft 365 E3 E5 business standard and business premium customers will be able to get Microsoft 365 co-pilot for 30 bucks per user per month that's in addition to the existing costs of Microsoft 365 which ranges from $1250 to $36 per user per month 600 enterprise customers have been testing co-pilot in a paid early access program there's no official release date for widespread availability i'm curious what google zoom and sales force will charge for their chatbot editions it's expensive to run large language models and it shows niki how useful to these kinds of productivity tools sound for your kind of work well we won't have to wait to see meta's price it's free at microsoft inspire meta announced it will open source its large language model llama 2 under a meta created license it'll be free for commercial and research uses qualcomm announced it will bring llama to laptops phones and headsets starting in 2024 so apps can use the llm without having to go to the cloud keeping all your data on device llama 2 will be available through microsoft azure aws hugging face and more providers well that's one way to catch up to the competitors right i actually doubt that wild west dan i wouldn't wouldn't really wouldn't really benefit them if they ever put co-pilot available for public use then i could see them doing that they're really just going to want to market it straight to the admins i think wall street journals and marie alcantara wrote a story called people have begun to love apple's most hated product apple maps launched in 2012 and feists say people weren't thrilled in fact apple CEO tim cook issued an apology to customers in response to the backlash and fired his head of software alcantara mostly uses anecdotal evidence of switching not hard numbers in her story cantala says an overwhelming majority of iphone users have installed google maps for a long time that was the map to use unless you wanted to get lost or be late apple maps isn't awful anymore though it has competitive features with google maps and looks pretty good has a good user design apple's also adopted functionality that google maps has had for years such as street view features apple announced new maps features at w w dc in june including offline maps later this year smartphone maps have been essential for years now what are we using and why let's start with you nicky okay i'm nicky here's what i use join in la conversation in our discord which you can join by linking to a patreon account people worry a lot these oh geez he's deleted the whole thing ah people worry a lot these days about whether ai chatbots can replace people usually that's imagined in a bad way but what if chatbots could replace people in a good way an article about matthew hudson in science.org describes using chatbots as a replacement for human subjects in scientific research nicky you've been following the story can you explain what the heck nicky notes ai is more than just chatbots image generators and maybe even your future replacement it's also being used to help save endangered species chris christensen is here to explain let's check out the mail bank marty wrote in about the concept of chatp gpt getting worse over time i've used it daily since it came out i pay for plus and i've been feeling in the last month it has actually become worse to the point it's making me google things again it seems to have a shorter memory span in the last month i used to be able to tell it i'm working with framework x y n z and carry on a conversation debugging and troubleshooting things for the length of conversation but it keeps happening lately that after two or three messages it will forget one of the three frameworks i mentioned i find about once every three messages or so it ends up apologizing for making a mistake or what that would happen every few conversations a few months ago finally it has started suggesting code that is basically the same thing as i gave it but it thinks that's the solution dr nicky what are you doing well i'm doing lots cool stuff all right hey you yes you the awesome listener of the daily tech news show podcast you know you love this show right you know you can't get enough of the latest and greatest tech news delivered by the most knowledgeable and entertaining host in the biz right well guess 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your face well there you go i have squashed 97 percent of the typos in today's show i feel like i've squashed 100 percent but i know i haven't because i've done this before if i were to go back and find more there are always more you can never get rid of all of the typos ever right uh well enough about that winning what did you think of that patreon plug honest answers only thank you me awesome oh there was a face unlock thing in the show hijack interesting clips here can i have to watch it what i know wild west that you're already convinced this probably wasn't that persuasive can we read it again oh it's kind of long that tells me something though thank you zoe it didn't uh it didn't totally sink in when you're multitasking good to know good to know i was reading it super fast too put it on the screen oh yeah i can do that easy there it is yeah and if you're already a patron you're like oh it's a patron thing tune out i totally get that happens to me all the time uh listen to shows on patreon oh thank you cliff singer you didn't have to do that you're awesome meanwhile i read too fast sometimes i'll too vay still on the dl are the i l i should say oh yeah yeah no i get you it doesn't feel like a podcast if that's not how you consume it i haven't gone back and oh my gosh i have so many responses to my os thing this really struck a nerve that's cool i haven't been looking at this thanks wild west dan fun but detailed is a good is a good recommendation okay windows me i gotta start uh logging these so i asked on uh all of the places your favorite failed operating systems bos beloved yeah uh no zoe please retweet uh i do not i'm not worried yes it's time to re-subscribe kc time um i'm not worried about having too many this is this is great t-mobile sidekick wasn't that just um simbian though didn't have its own os bos i figured bos would be beloved mac copeland wow bos forever microsoft bob was not an operating system windows me yeah kc dire i mean um i mean multiple places i did this one on twitter mastodon threads and blue sky blackberry oh yeah cinclair basic rob done with kin oh yeah kin os a lot of hate for windows me bos web os well you can't just say all of the os's it's not terribly helpful and no phone lisa good wine palm is a good one salama os two well that was my own thing but somebody is backbit newton yep all amiga amiga is a good one too digital cpm that wasn't a failure all right me right uh pc dos okay i don't consider that a failure either i think i know i guess what they mean is the the non microsoft firm bos rest in peace gos for the cometer 64 okay windows 8.1 was great copeland got another one wow that's a that's a deep cut i like that i might make the list tallage and bos is going to be number one i have a feeling dos four nice one this is just me saying operating systems out loud i realize that bos forever bos forever thank you zoe all right lots of twitter responses me go os yeah now i'm on mastodon there's less engagement but it's more um it's more substantive that's how i would say twitter gets a lot of like one-off quippy things mastodon is is people who've really thought through their responses so when i get a response it's usually got more thought and substance to it os2 warp uh how i miss you 53 floppy disks i'm gonna note that yeah not as much not as much um take up on mastodon let's see what blue sky blue sky i get almost no engagement at all web os okay so i got one microkin os all right yeah that's that's about it from blue sky now for threads sorry i got distracted with a text message that was populating my sms with a bunch of replications of my niece windows mobile another windows phone one i mean i guess i could write anything about worm gpt yeah yeah i did whistle um i almost put it in gdi well blue sky jack doesn't have anything to do with blue sky and there's no crypto involvement in it um jack started blue sky he spun it out of twitter but and i think he's probably technically still on the board but he has virtually no day-to-day stuff anyway the worm gpt stuff i looked at it it's interesting might wait and see if there's more out of it today uh i almost put it in gdi but sometimes i i i want to customize the gdi conversation to who's on yeah deburr oh you know what i probably could do a tick talk of this hmm uh okay atari gem oh second atari gem mention web os i should probably just do the threads web interface shouldn't i even though you can't post to it all right not not much uh not much take up on threads for that question i bet it comes later i have noticed that threads seems to be a slower burn i'll do that i will do the tick talks where is who posting gauging gadgets i was if you mean me i was posting at blue sky mastered on twitter and threads for this particular question face detect el cars el cars is very successful solemn don't you dare call it a failure don't you dare all right well that was fun got some good top five stuff i have to take out the trash and then get ready for a meeting so oh substack notes i did whistle i did oh next step good one i mean i don't know if it makes the list but it's a good one to consider for sure all right uh thanks y'all i'm going to end the broadcast here and i will talk to you for good day internet slash dtns in um just a little more than an hour bye he has titled this tom reads os names to himself goodbye