Tech Brewed Tech News from October 23, 2024

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Tech News October 23, 2024

00:00:05 Greg Doig: What's up, tech enthusiasts? Welcome back to Tech Brood. I'm your host, Greg Doig. And it's October 23rd, 2024. Time to geek out over some of today's tech headlines. Let's boot up with Apple's latest moves. They're apparently developing a dedicated game store, which is fascinating from an API perspective. We might finally see some real low level hardware access for iOS game developers. But here's the real plot twist. Rumors suggest they're sunsetting vision pro production by December. We'll see. For those keeping score, that's barely a year after launch. Could this mean they're pivoting to a more compact form factor? Or maybe they've cracked the code on Micro-Led displays for version 2.0. Time will tell. Now, brace yourselves for some serious Silicon drama, Arum is threatening to revoke Qualcomm's architectural license agreement. For my fellow chip architecture nerds out there, this isn't just about losing access to standard air, of course. We're talking about the fundamental instruction set architecture that powers Qualcomm's custom CPU designs. Without this license, their entire Snapdragon roadmap could be in jeopardy. Their custom cradled cores potentially toast And here's something to make your neural networks tingle. AI systems are now matching human specialists and diagnosing infectious eye conditions. We're talking about convolutional neural networks processing retinal images with accuracy levels that could make a GP. You blush? Yeah. The training datasets must be absolutely massive. And speaking of massive data flows, let's talk infrastructure. those undersea cables everyone takes for granted. They're getting some serious attention from Capitol Hill. We're looking at fiber optic superhighways capable of pushing hundreds of terabits per second across oceans. The security implications are mind boggling. Imagine a physical breach of one of these bad boys. That's why senators are pushing for a comprehensive security audit. And in the world of corporate tech politics, Mehta is still the heavyweight champion of lobby and probably trying to smooth the way for their next gen VR protocols in the AI implementations. Meanwhile, there's a fascinating battle brewing over broadband data caps. The technical argument here is whether modern network infrastructure actually needs these caps for traffic management or if it's just artificial scarcity. Spoiler alert. Most network engineers I know are rolling their eyes at the network congestion excuses. And finally, in Orbital News, a Boeing satellite decided to go full space debris mode for the space junk trekkers among us. This means NORAD's space surveillance network just gets some extra objects to track.

00:03:04 Greg Doig: Let's hope they implemented proper orbital decay protocols. And that's your Daily Dose of tech for October 23rd. And remember. Stay curious. Stay geeky.