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One way you can know we always keep it real on this show is the fact that I

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forgot to write an intro for this one. I'm just going off the cuff here just

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telling you straight up. Isn't that endearing? >> He just read that off the prompt.

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>> The YouTube view apocalypse, as some have called it, may not be YouTube's

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fault, despite some commentators basing entire jokes on that very assumption. In

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their blog post on Monday, YouTube mentioned the possibility that updates

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to ad blockers may have caused some views to stop being counted. And

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YouTube's own liaison Renee Richie reiterated that YouTube didn't change

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anything. And turns out he was right. As

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explained on Twitter by YouTuber and former expert troll Theo Joe, he's

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changed his ways. On August 11th, a URL

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filter was added to Easy List, specifically its affiliated Easy Privacy

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List, which is used by multiple ad blockers to let them know what to block.

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But this change appears to have inadvertently blocked YouTube's method

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of counting views. Fellow YouTuber and Extra Dad, in case you need one, Jeff

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Gearling also drew attention to this with a blog post with much additional

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discussion taking place in this GitHub thread between him, Theo Joe, Yuki, the

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volunteer who made the change on August 11th, and who we love and appreciate for

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their work, even if they accidentally kicked all this off, and Scratchy, who

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did a lot of investigating and made a guide for how users can override this

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change, so creators can benefit from registering their views properly while

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still protecting their privacy. You dropped this king. Can you can you put a

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crown there? Yeah. Thank you. Hold on. Wait a second. Privacy. Yeah. You see,

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while any ad block user could go and manually remove the easy privacy filter

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from their ad blocker settings, they might not want to do that, even if it

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would mean allowing YouTube to count their views. Because the main reason

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many people use ad blockers is to protect their privacy. Because fun fact,

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most ads are also trackers. Isn't that

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fun? Why not both? So, where does all this leave us? Well, another update to

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Easy List has apparently made it so that only third-party hit counters will be

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filtered out, which should mean YouTube's view tracking should work

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properly again. So, at the end of the day, it looks like YouTube wasn't the

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immediate cause of this change. But that doesn't mean they can't mess up the

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platform in other ways, like announcing that today they're integrating their V3

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AI video and audio generator directly into shorts because the internet doesn't

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have nearly enough slop yet. More slop immediately, please. Tell you what, we

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need slop block is what we need. Okay, somebody get on that. Not me, though.

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Google is launching something that's either terrifying or very useful

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depending on how much access to your computer you like to give to third

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parties. It's Google's new app for Windows that helps you find what you

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need faster. Just install it, hit alt

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space, kind of like the shortcut on Mac for Spotlight, and let it sift and

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search through all of your local files as well as Google Drive, your installed

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apps, and the web. If you're intrigued by the idea of anything that could be

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even slightly better than Windows Search, it's available now, but only in

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the US. Still, somehow I managed to

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download it from Google Labs. And yeah, it searches your files, but if you're

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expecting something better than Windows search that doesn't have web search

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involved, I I mean, it very much is still involved. Sometimes it could find

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specific files when I search for the file name, but other times I just got

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web results, so I don't know. Maybe it'll get better over time. Windows

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Search didn't. Windows Search couldn't

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ships, and one of the most sophisticated vehicle damage models in gaming. We're

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talking individual components, models like engines, fuel tanks, weapons, and

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even crew members. This is still a video game, so they are a component. All

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susceptible to damage or disabling by enemy shells or missiles. different

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types of which behave differently according to the type of armor you have

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equipped. This is basically the Matrix. You can learn about how all those things

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interacted to cause you to blow up using the X-ray view, which would be great to

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using our links in the description. And I don't know, it's just like it's just

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sad because most people watching the show, they don't have any quick bits

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when the show starts. So then I'm like, I gota we should give them we should

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give them quick bits, right? Because it's just Oh. Oh, it's recording. Oh,

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you just I found a natural moment. Oh, Mark. Oh, what? Okay. All right. A

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couple huge VR events are happening this evening. One is the Meta Connect event,

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which I think is happening as we're filming this right now because of course

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they scheduled it for 5:00 p.m. Come back on Friday for coverage of that.

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They probably released some new smart glasses. Please ask Mark to run the

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event earlier next time. Mark Zuckerberg. Not this, not Mark.

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>> I'm sorry Gabber. Okay. Then there's a bunch of prominent VR content creators

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who have been heading to Seattle possibly to get a sneak peek of the new

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Steam frame, but I wouldn't know for sure because Gabe didn't invite me.

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That's okay. Uh maybe next time. Uh sounds like we'll find out more soon, so

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stay tuned. That was You're like, what was the news there? It was there was no

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news. That's the problem. Tesla has settled another wrongful death lawsuit

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due to its autopilot technology. This one comes from 2019 when a 15-year-old

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riding in a truck with his pops was hit by a Model 3 going over 60 mph. That's

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almost 100 kmh for the Europeans out there. Tesla has of course argued that

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it's the driver who's at fault here, not their trusty autopilot. But they lost a

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similar case in Florida last month that's going to cost them $243 million.

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They don't want to lose another $243 million. So now they're settling out of

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court for an undisclosed amount. Can't win them all.

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But you could try to settle them. What's the No, you can't. But AMD just won

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another battle in the eternal CPU war against its blue rival, Intel. See, Team

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Blue likes to release two generations of CPUs per motherboard socket over two or

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three years, while AMD likes to release

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at least three generations over 9 years.

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How do they do it? By releasing a clock down version of the Ryzen 5 5600 and

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calling it the new 5600F. Is it the best upgrade if you're still

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on AM4? Not really, but people just like options, you know. But sometimes you

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pick the wrong one. SKH Heinix and their DDR5 DIMs are in some hot water for

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remaining vulnerable to a variant of the

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Rowhammer exploit called Phoenix or if

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you're cultured like me, CVE 20256202.

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Okay. Researchers from ETHZurich and Google found a blind spot in the refresh

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sampling logic and used one of two patterns to flip bits on 15 different

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oni ECC memory modules made between 21 and 2024. Hey, that's the same year

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Casio's Mofflin launched. And I'm telling you that now because it's

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finally coming to America. What it's a fuzzy, cuddly, cute AI robot thing that

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is surprisingly, maybe unsurprisingly, selling out in Japan. So, the Tyrell

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Corporation, I mean Casio, decided it

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was time to spread the love. Pre-orders are already up for the gold or silver

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fuzzball. And it costs a lot for a smart

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companion designed to support, reassure, and grow with you through life's

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everyday moments. Who needs that? And with two axes of movement, operating

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temperatures of up to 35° C, and an included Mofflin bed, it sounds like I'd

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be dumb not to buy one on October 1st. And I'd be dumb not to make more tech

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news for you to watch on Friday. So, I

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guess I will. Hey, see you then. And um

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thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe. Okay, bye.

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