Weekly Tech Rant: Episode 104

Episode 104: It’s time for breaches galore, big tech woes, fines and Nvidia 40 series and Ryzen 7000 updates, Game Pass friends and family leaks

Welcome back to the WTR as Karl and Jay discuss the latest tech news, gadgets, games, & films!

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This week we covered:

• A bad few weeks for big tech!
  • Google fails to overturn EU Android antitrust ruling but reduces its fine by 5 percent
  • Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea
  • Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case
  • Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard will face ‘in-depth’ UK investigation
  • ARM sues Qualcomm, alleging its subsidiary breached a licensing agreement
  • The SEC revealed today that it charged VMWare with fraud . . . then settled for next to nothing
  • Meta axes internal team responsible for asking ‘are we the baddies?’
  • NVIDIA reveals new US government rule restricting export of AI chips to China and Russia
• Breaches Everywhere
  • LastPass Suffers Data Breach, Source Code Stolen
  • Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers
  • Optus (Austrialian Telco) Breached
• Ryzen 7000 Series Launch
  • AMD makes Ryzen 7000 official: Launching September 27, starting at $299
  • AMD Announces B650E Chipset for Ryzen 7000: PCIe 5.0 For Mainstream

• Gaming

• Xbox Game Pass ‘Friends & Family’ leak suggests you can share with friends

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