One way you can know we always keep it real on this show is the fact that I
forgot to write an intro for this one. I'm just going off the cuff here just
telling you straight up. Isn't that endearing? >> He just read that off the prompt.
>> The YouTube view apocalypse, as some have called it, may not be YouTube's
fault, despite some commentators basing entire jokes on that very assumption. In
their blog post on Monday, YouTube mentioned the possibility that updates
to ad blockers may have caused some views to stop being counted. And
YouTube's own liaison Renee Richie reiterated that YouTube didn't change
anything. And turns out he was right. As
explained on Twitter by YouTuber and former expert troll Theo Joe, he's
changed his ways. On August 11th, a URL
filter was added to Easy List, specifically its affiliated Easy Privacy
List, which is used by multiple ad blockers to let them know what to block.
But this change appears to have inadvertently blocked YouTube's method
of counting views. Fellow YouTuber and Extra Dad, in case you need one, Jeff
Gearling also drew attention to this with a blog post with much additional
discussion taking place in this GitHub thread between him, Theo Joe, Yuki, the
volunteer who made the change on August 11th, and who we love and appreciate for
their work, even if they accidentally kicked all this off, and Scratchy, who
did a lot of investigating and made a guide for how users can override this
change, so creators can benefit from registering their views properly while
still protecting their privacy. You dropped this king. Can you can you put a
crown there? Yeah. Thank you. Hold on. Wait a second. Privacy. Yeah. You see,
while any ad block user could go and manually remove the easy privacy filter
from their ad blocker settings, they might not want to do that, even if it
would mean allowing YouTube to count their views. Because the main reason
many people use ad blockers is to protect their privacy. Because fun fact,
most ads are also trackers. Isn't that
fun? Why not both? So, where does all this leave us? Well, another update to
Easy List has apparently made it so that only third-party hit counters will be
filtered out, which should mean YouTube's view tracking should work
properly again. So, at the end of the day, it looks like YouTube wasn't the
immediate cause of this change. But that doesn't mean they can't mess up the
platform in other ways, like announcing that today they're integrating their V3
AI video and audio generator directly into shorts because the internet doesn't
have nearly enough slop yet. More slop immediately, please. Tell you what, we
need slop block is what we need. Okay, somebody get on that. Not me, though.
Google is launching something that's either terrifying or very useful
depending on how much access to your computer you like to give to third
parties. It's Google's new app for Windows that helps you find what you
need faster. Just install it, hit alt
space, kind of like the shortcut on Mac for Spotlight, and let it sift and
search through all of your local files as well as Google Drive, your installed
apps, and the web. If you're intrigued by the idea of anything that could be
even slightly better than Windows Search, it's available now, but only in
the US. Still, somehow I managed to
download it from Google Labs. And yeah, it searches your files, but if you're
expecting something better than Windows search that doesn't have web search
involved, I I mean, it very much is still involved. Sometimes it could find
specific files when I search for the file name, but other times I just got
web results, so I don't know. Maybe it'll get better over time. Windows
Search didn't. Windows Search couldn't
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susceptible to damage or disabling by enemy shells or missiles. different
types of which behave differently according to the type of armor you have
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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
sad because most people watching the show, they don't have any quick bits
when the show starts. So then I'm like, I gota we should give them we should
give them quick bits, right? Because it's just Oh. Oh, it's recording. Oh,
you just I found a natural moment. Oh, Mark. Oh, what? Okay. All right. A
couple huge VR events are happening this evening. One is the Meta Connect event,
which I think is happening as we're filming this right now because of course
they scheduled it for 5:00 p.m. Come back on Friday for coverage of that.
They probably released some new smart glasses. Please ask Mark to run the
event earlier next time. Mark Zuckerberg. Not this, not Mark.
>> I'm sorry Gabber. Okay. Then there's a bunch of prominent VR content creators
who have been heading to Seattle possibly to get a sneak peek of the new
Steam frame, but I wouldn't know for sure because Gabe didn't invite me.
That's okay. Uh maybe next time. Uh sounds like we'll find out more soon, so
stay tuned. That was You're like, what was the news there? It was there was no
news. That's the problem. Tesla has settled another wrongful death lawsuit
due to its autopilot technology. This one comes from 2019 when a 15-year-old
riding in a truck with his pops was hit by a Model 3 going over 60 mph. That's
almost 100 kmh for the Europeans out there. Tesla has of course argued that
it's the driver who's at fault here, not their trusty autopilot. But they lost a
similar case in Florida last month that's going to cost them $243 million.
They don't want to lose another $243 million. So now they're settling out of
court for an undisclosed amount. Can't win them all.
But you could try to settle them. What's the No, you can't. But AMD just won
another battle in the eternal CPU war against its blue rival, Intel. See, Team
Blue likes to release two generations of CPUs per motherboard socket over two or
three years, while AMD likes to release
at least three generations over 9 years.
How do they do it? By releasing a clock down version of the Ryzen 5 5600 and
calling it the new 5600F. Is it the best upgrade if you're still
on AM4? Not really, but people just like options, you know. But sometimes you
pick the wrong one. SKH Heinix and their DDR5 DIMs are in some hot water for
remaining vulnerable to a variant of the
Rowhammer exploit called Phoenix or if
you're cultured like me, CVE 20256202.
Okay. Researchers from ETHZurich and Google found a blind spot in the refresh
sampling logic and used one of two patterns to flip bits on 15 different
oni ECC memory modules made between 21 and 2024. Hey, that's the same year
Casio's Mofflin launched. And I'm telling you that now because it's
finally coming to America. What it's a fuzzy, cuddly, cute AI robot thing that
is surprisingly, maybe unsurprisingly, selling out in Japan. So, the Tyrell
Corporation, I mean Casio, decided it
was time to spread the love. Pre-orders are already up for the gold or silver
fuzzball. And it costs a lot for a smart
companion designed to support, reassure, and grow with you through life's
everyday moments. Who needs that? And with two axes of movement, operating
temperatures of up to 35° C, and an included Mofflin bed, it sounds like I'd
be dumb not to buy one on October 1st. And I'd be dumb not to make more tech
news for you to watch on Friday. So, I
guess I will. Hey, see you then. And um
thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe. Okay, bye.
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