Welcome to another episode of IQMZ Tech, where we explore the latest in tech, politics, and beyond:

1. AI and Copyright: Microsoft's AI CEO claims open web content as "freeware" for AI training, sparking controversy and legal battles.
2. Julian Assange Deal: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange strikes a plea deal with the U.S., leading to debates on press freedom.
3. Space Debris: Increased space missions result in more debris reaching Earth, prompting calls for better reentry controls.
4. CMF's New Gadgets: CMF launches budget-friendly tech, including a smartphone, smartwatch, and earbuds.
5. Mt. Gox Payout: Defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prepares to repay users $9 billion in cryptocurrency.
6. Spotify Comments: Spotify's new feature allows users to comment on podcasts, enhancing interaction and community building.
7. Amazon's Echo Spot: Amazon updates its Echo Spot with improved design and audio for better bedside functionality.
8. Apple's InSight: Apple TV+ introduces InSight for real-time details on actors and music, plus new iOS and tvOS features.

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Stories for this weeks episode.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/google-has-a-new-ai-powered-security-kit-that-should-give-human-researchers-a-break

https://www.engadget.com/google-is-reportedly-building-ai-chatbots-based-on-celebrities-and-influencers-235731655.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxwwz7l02j0o

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182551/tiktok-v-garland-creators-brief-first-amendment

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/us-sues-adobe-for-hiding-termination-fees-and-making-it-difficult-to-cancel-subscriptions/?guccounter=1

https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-readerhttps://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/25/married-women-face-hiring-challenges-at-foxconn-plants-in-india

https://www.phonearena.com/news/oneplus-ace-3-release-date_id159653

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-companies-are-reportedly-still-scraping-websites-despite-protocols-meant-to-block-them-132308524.html

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/24/apple-intelligence-older-iphones/

https://www.popsci.com/technology/electronic-price-tag-groceries/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185684/lifx-super-color-ceiling-light-matter-price-specs

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Google Chrome on Android is adding a new feature called "Listen to this page," which provides built-in text-to-speech capabilities. Accessible through the three-dot overflow menu, this feature opens a mini-player with controls for playback, including adjusting the speed and selecting different voices.

McDonald's is ending its two-year test of AI-powered drive-thru ordering, developed in collaboration with IBM, across more than 100 restaurants. The decision comes after mixed results, including customer complaints about incorrect orders and the technology's accuracy, which did not meet the company's standards.

Proton, the company behind privacy-focused apps like ProtonMail, is transitioning to a non-profit foundation structure. This move aims to better align with its mission of prioritizing user privacy over profit, ensuring long-term sustainability and independence.

Logitech has introduced the MX Ink, the first third-party input device for Meta Quest headsets, designed for creatives in 2D and 3D media. This stylus, compatible with Quest 2 and Quest 3, features a natural pen-like feel, pressure-sensitive tip, and 6DOF spatial tracking.

The US House of Representatives has passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes a provision banning DJI from using FCC frequencies. This ban would prevent DJI drones from being imported or approved in the US, and could potentially ground existing drones.

Microsoft has released a series of Copilot+ PCs featuring Snapdragon X chips designed for enhanced AI processing. These devices, including models from Dell, HP, Acer, and Microsoft, incorporate dedicated neural processing units (NPUs) for local AI tasks and a dedicated Copilot button for AI features. The laptops offer strong performance, extended battery life, and new AI-driven functionalities such as automated photo restoration and real-time translations, though some features like Recall will be initially limited to the Windows Insider Program​​.

Early tests of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite laptops reveal that while they excel in AI tasks, their gaming and 3D performance is underwhelming. The Snapdragon X Elite demonstrated excellent AI performance, significantly outperforming competitors like Apple's M3 and Intel's Core Ultra 7 in AI-specific benchmarks. However, in gaming tests, the Snapdragon X Elite struggled, managing only 30 FPS in games like Baldur's Gate III and Borderlands 3, and requiring low graphics settings to maintain playable performance.

Xreal has launched the Beam Pro, an advanced Android-based device designed to enhance its AR glasses. The Beam Pro features a 6.5-inch 90Hz LCD screen, dual 50MP cameras for 3D photo and video capture, and runs on a customized Android 14-based "nebulaOS" optimized for augmented reality. It supports up to 8GB of RAM, 256GB of expandable storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and includes two USB-C ports for connecting AR glasses and charging​​.

The Wall Street Journal reports that despite the glamorous perception, many social media influencers struggle financially. While top influencers with millions of followers can command high fees, smaller influencers often find it challenging to secure steady income.

Adobe has updated its terms of service, clarifying that it will not use customer content to train its AI models. The changes come in response to user concerns about data privacy and ownership. Adobe emphasized that customer work remains their property and the Firefly AI models are trained only on licensed and public domain content​.

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At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024, Apple unveiled several significant updates and new features across its product lineup. The highlights include the introduction of iOS 18, which brings extensive enhancements to apps like Mail, Messages, and Photos, as well as new home screen customization options. The AI-powered Apple Intelligence and a more advanced Siri were key announcements, with Siri receiving a major upgrade integrating ChatGPT-like capabilities. macOS 15, named Sequoia, was also revealed, featuring improvements in system settings and enhanced AI functionalities.Elon Musk has threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies in response to Apple's integration of ChatGPT into its systems, as announced at WWDC 2024. Musk expressed concerns over the potential implications of Apple's AI advancements and their impact on his businesses.Elon Musk’s SpaceX is facing a lawsuit and multiple allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination from former employees. The lawsuit claims that SpaceX executives discriminated against women, tolerated sexual harassment, and retaliated against employees who raised concerns. YouTube is testing a new tool that allows creators to experiment with different video thumbnails to see which one performs best. This feature aims to help creators optimize their video presentation by selecting the most engaging thumbnail.Raspberry Pi has successfully gone public, with its shares experiencing a significant increase following the IPO. The company raised $40 million, which it plans to use for engineering projects, improving its supply chain, and other corporate purposes. The IPO has valued Raspberry Pi at around £500 million ($690 million), and major investors like Arm and Lansdowne Partners have committed substantial amounts to support the company's future growth​ Microsoft has responded to backlash over its new Windows Recall feature by making it opt-in rather than enabled by default. The Recall feature, which captures and indexes screenshots of user activity for AI-based searches, raised significant privacy and security concerns. New York's Legislature has passed a bill that bans social media platforms from using "addictive" recommendation algorithms for users under 18. The legislation, known as the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, aims to mitigate the negative impacts of social media on children's mental health by requiring platforms to provide content in chronological order and allowing parents to block notifications during nighttime hours without consent.Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has criticized Nvidia's success in AI chips, attributing it to "extraordinary luck" rather than strategic planning. During the Computex show, Gelsinger highlighted Intel's new products aimed at reclaiming market share and emphasized that AI wasn't initially a focus for Nvidia's GPUs.Adobe's new terms of service have sparked significant controversy, allowing the company access to users' projects for training its AI systems without explicit consent. This move has been criticized for potentially violating user privacy, especially for professionals handling confidential or proprietary information.

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If you want to get things done in America all you have to do is say Ai or be Taylor Swift! Tin foil hat show at the end of the episode if you watch it defiantly comment and let us know where you stand! A U.S. appeals court will hear challenges to a new law requiring ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, to divest its U.S. assets by January 19, 2025, or face a ban. The case will have oral arguments in September 2024. YouTube is intensifying its measures against ad blockers by skipping videos to the end or muting them for users with ad blockers enabled. ICQ, the pioneering instant messaging program launched in 1996, will cease operations on June 26, 2024. Once immensely popular with over 100 million users, ICQ gradually declined after being sold by AOL to Digital Sky Technologies in 2010. A secretive $3 billion program, called Secure Enclave, is undercutting President Biden's tech policy goals, as detailed by a recent POLITICO investigation. This program was integrated into the CHIPS Act funding to gain support from defense-focused lawmakers. Researchers have developed a new metamaterial called Polymer-based Micro-photonic Multi-functional Metamaterial (PMMM) that is more transparent than glass, capable of cooling rooms through radiative cooling, and self-cleaning. Congress has passed a new FAA reauthorization bill, signed by President Biden on May 16, 2024, which allows private aircraft owners to anonymize their registration information. This move significantly impacts the ability to track the private jet activities of celebrities and billionaires, including Taylor Swift and Elon Musk. Apple's Hearing Study, conducted with the University of Michigan, has provided significant insights into tinnitus, a condition characterized by ringing or buzzing in the ears. The study involved over 160,000 participants, revealing that 77.6% had experienced tinnitus. A survey by the Reuters Institute and Oxford University found that very few people are regularly using AI products like ChatGPT. Out of 12,000 respondents across six countries, only 2% of British participants reported daily use. A recent leak of Google’s internal documents has revealed extensive details about the search giant's ranking algorithms, offering unprecedented insight into the factors that influence search results. The documents, comprising over 2,500 modules and 14,000 attributes, include information about how Google evaluates website authority, click data, and user interactions. Visit our website: http://iqmz.com Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ohdoctahhttp://twitter.com/pcgazer

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is imposing fines totaling nearly $200 million on the largest US mobile carriers for allegedly illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent. The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Tesla CEO Elon Musk regarding his "Twitter sitter" case. Musk had an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that required an in-house lawyer to pre-approve his social media posts about Tesla Inc. Musk argued that this agreement, which was signed in 2018, now infringes on his constitutional right to free speech. However, the justices refused to hear these claims and left the agreement intact. In a surprising turn, Jack Dorsey has resigned from the board of his social networking startup, Bluesky. This news comes just as he publicly endorsed Elon Musk's X, referring to it as "freedom technology." Dorsey had been a strong advocate for Bluesky after selling his other co-founded social network, Twitter, to Musk. TikTok has initiated a federal lawsuit to challenge a new law that mandates either a sale or ban of the app, implying a potential legal battle concerning national security and freedom of speech in this era of worldwide information warfare. The lawsuit, filed with a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., aims to obtain a court order to prevent the U.S. from enforcing the bipartisan law that President Biden signed last month. Nintendo, the Japanese video game company, has announced that it will reveal plans for a successor to its popular Switch home console before March 2025. The announcement comes as the company reports a 13% increase in profit for the fiscal year ending in March, largely driven by the demand for Switch software. However, details about the new product, including its launch timeline, remain undisclosed. Disney CEO, Bob Iger, announced on Tuesday that by the end of 2024, Disney+ will feature select live games and studio shows from ESPN. This move follows successful early results from adding Hulu programming to Disney+. Iger sees this as a precursor to the launch of an enhanced standalone ESPN streaming service in Fall 2025. U.S. prosecutors are currently investigating whether Tesla, guided by CEO Elon Musk, committed securities or wire fraud by potentially misleading investors and consumers about the self-driving capabilities of its electric vehicles. This investigation centers around Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems, which, despite assisting with steering, braking, and lane changes, are not completely autonomous. The Justice Department is particularly interested in statements from Tesla and Musk that insinuate full self-driving capability. Apple's new iPad Pro with the M4 chip brings a number of major improvements, but there are a few points to consider. The ultra-wide camera has been removed from the rear camera module in this generation. Additionally, the 10-core CPU, which Apple has emphasized for its performance increase, is only available in the 1 TB and 2 TB iPad Pro models. Lower storage iPads will feature a 9-core CPU and half the RAM. Reddit's shares surged by 11% in premarket trading following the release of its first quarterly results since its IPO in March. The company reported a loss per share of $8.19, with revenues of $243 million, a 48% increase from the previous year. For the second quarter, Reddit anticipates revenue between $240 million and $255 million, exceeding analysts' expectations. CEO Steve Huffman described this as the "beginning of a new chapter" for the company. Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaFold 3, the latest version of their revolutionary machine learning model that predicts protein structures and behaviors. The updated model is not only more precise but can also anticipate interactions with other biomolecules, enhancing its utility as a research tool.

Missed a couple of weeks.. but nothing has changed. Ai, TikTok, and apple still control most of the Tech world!

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Samsung is expected to launch two models of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 this year, and now a new leak shows a model number for an “Ultra” model. GalaxyClub is now reporting that the model number for this new Galaxy Z Fold 6 will be “SM-F958.”

Google's Find My Device network has apparently been on hold as it waits for Apple to implement unknown tracker alerts. Google is said to want Apple device users to be able to spot its trackers in case someone is using them maliciously.

When Gmail launched with a suspiciously-times press release 20 years ago today, the tech world brushed it off as a hoax.

Google Podcasts, which as long been the Android equivalent to the Podcasts app on the iPhone, is shutting down next week.

A new book titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt Allen Lane is making some startling and concerning statements regarding the wiring of the teenage brain and how the social media firehose is negatively affecting its development.

ChatGPT will no longer require you to sign in to use the popular AI chat service, but there is a catch. If you choose to remain anonmymous, you can't tell OpenAI not to use your chat to help train the model and you will have more restrictive experience than if you had signed in.

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