WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.960 Intel just unveiled Puma, a photonic chip that sounds less like a real thing 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:10.560 and more like an April Fools' joke from the time before most tech companies 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:15.200 decided that was cringe. Razer didn't get the memo. I'm Riley Murdoch, this is 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:20.600 TechLinked, and you might want to sit down as I tell you that the prototype 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:23.640 CPU Intel showed off at Hot Chips 2023 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:28.520 is based on a custom RISC architecture 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:32.200 with eight cores and 66 threads per core 00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:34.880 for a frankly offensive 528 total 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:40.080 threads. Wow. Modern x86 CPUs usually only have 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:44.680 two threads per core, but that hasn't always been the case. Intel's old Xeon 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:50.280 Phi could do four threads per core, IBM's Power 8 could do eight, and Sun's 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:55.560 SPARC chips thought they were fancy going up to 16. But adding threads makes 00:00:53.400 --> 00:01:00.440 each thread weaker, and a ton of weak threads wouldn't benefit most workloads 00:00:57.680 --> 00:01:05.720 today. Except for the petabyte-scale workloads Intel has designed this CPU to 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:07.920 tackle with its 1 TB per second of data 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:13.040 throughput and optical interconnects between chips so they can be connected 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:15.200 together in eight-socket server sleds 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:21.040 that in turn connect to each other to create Sam Altman's wet dream. Pam 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.960 Anderson, what are you doing here? 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:29.240 She's like made of silicone. iFixit is taking the right to repair 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:33.960 fight to McDonald's because everyone 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:33.960 deserves a burger with all the fixings. 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:41.360 No, the target here is McDonald's notoriously unreliable ice cream 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:43.000 machines. iFixit bought and tore down 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:47.640 one of the machines, which aren't terribly complex. The problem is that 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:52.320 they're prone to overheating. Not ideal in an ice cream machine, and 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:57.200 their error codes are just simply baffling. Employees have tried to read 00:01:55.400 --> 00:02:01.240 the effing manual, but the manual appears to have been written by an 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:05.520 infinite number of chimpanzees with a grudge against the working class. The 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:10.800 machines are built and must be repaired by Taylor, which is either an ice cream 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:15.520 machine company or a 19-year-old sorority sister. Taylor 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:19.320 Taylor is infamously slow to respond to repair requests, probably because she's 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.480 so busy with cheer practice. Is this based on a personal experience 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:27.600 of yours, Jessica? Okay. Despite that, 25% of Taylor's profits 00:02:24.920 --> 00:02:33.160 come from service technician call-outs, which cost $315 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:38.120 per 15 minutes of work. That's like $1,200 an hour. Franchisees 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:42.760 would obviously prefer to work with a cheaper, more responsive repair service, 00:02:40.320 --> 00:02:46.560 but the DMCA is what allowed Taylor to put in a digital lock that prevents 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:50.520 anyone else from getting in there. So, now iFixit is petitioning the Copyright 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:54.960 Office for an exemption that allows third-party repair workers to fix these 00:02:52.600 --> 00:02:59.520 machines and for Congress to fix the DMCA in general because working at 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:03.360 McDonald's is already punishment enough. YouTube will be changing its community 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:07.520 guidelines policy so that creators can get violation warnings removed from 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:12.480 their channel if they complete an educational training course. The course 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:17.200 is intended to explain YouTube's content policies and help creators avoid future 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:21.440 infractions, kind of like sensitivity training for live streamers, which many 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:25.680 of them desperately need. If creators complete the course and go 90 days 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:29.920 without violating the same policy again, then the warning will be lifted. Prior 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:33.240 to this change, that one-time warning would simply stick around forever, 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:36.680 increasing the risk that if a creator accidentally fell afoul of the rules 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:41.440 again years in the future, it might lead to a formal strike against the channel. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:45.960 According to YouTube, more than 80% of creators who receive a warning never 00:03:43.720 --> 00:03:49.520 violate their policies again. And I guess they think that last 20% are 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:55.400 repeat offenders because they simply didn't know being racist is bad. 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:59.640 No one told me. But not every flagged video deserves it. 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So, 00:05:14.840 --> 00:05:22.400 maybe we can finally get Riley to stop crying. I did, just in time to film 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:24.880 this. Thank god. Elon Musk live-streamed 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:29.520 a demonstration of Tesla's updated full self-driving beta, which impressively 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:33.840 uses only cameras and algorithmic intelligence rather than also relying on 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:38.160 other sensors like lidar and radar, which they removed from the cars. During 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:42.520 the demo, Musk sat in the driver's seat filming on his cell phone and 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:47.560 interacting with commenters in violation of automated driving policies put in 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:49.160 place by none other than Tesla. At one 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:53.960 point, the car attempted to accelerate through a red light, requiring Musk to 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:57.960 look up from his phone and intervene. So inconvenient. Police will not be issuing 00:05:56.200 --> 00:06:01.440 a ticket for distracted driving because despite the thousands and thousands of 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:07.120 witnesses, if it doesn't happen in front of the police, it doesn't count. Google 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:13.480 is launching Duet AI for Workspace, which is basically Microsoft's Copilot 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:16.720 AI for Microsoft 365 in both function 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:18.480 and price, but you get to choose which 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:22.760 multi-billion company gets your money. After the free trial, Duet will cost $30 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:27.280 per month per user for large organizations, which is exactly how much 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:32.200 Microsoft charges. However, there's no word yet if Duet will be able to sing 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:34.000 the share part of "I Got You, Babe" at 00:06:32.200 --> 00:06:38.000 your company's annual karaoke night. It's the only thing I would really use it for, so I don't see the point right 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:43.040 now. The FBI announced they were able to dismantle and destroy the QakBot botnet, 00:06:41.520 --> 00:06:47.160 a network of infected computers responsible for worldwide ransomware 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:53.040 attacks and other cybercrimes. The FBI-led Operation Duck Hunt, that's 00:06:50.080 --> 00:06:56.680 real, identified 700,000 infected computers worldwide and disrupted it by 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:02.280 tricking those computers into downloading an uninstaller from FBI 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:04.240 servers, which must have come packaged 00:07:02.280 --> 00:07:07.760 with a GIF of the Super Nintendo dog laughing in your face. But actually, I 00:07:06.200 --> 00:07:11.920 think that would require the FBI to have the sense of humor that they inevitably 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:16.160 lost by seeing what you all do in front of your webcams. I used to love spying 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:21.920 on the populace, and now? I didn't even know you could do that with a cantaloupe. And after nearly a year of 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:26.760 waiting, Meta's virtual avatars finally have legs. The beta for the new limbs 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:31.240 will roll out in Quest Home over the next few weeks, but not in Horizon 00:07:28.960 --> 00:07:35.640 Worlds, where players will continue to resemble a levitating Lieutenant Dan, 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:39.720 but with significantly less existential angst. There are still a few issues to 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:44.440 buff out. For example, you can see your avatar's legs if you look into a virtual 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:49.520 mirror, but not if you look down at your own hovering virtual torso. It's all in 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:53.880 your head, man. Your reflected avatar also doesn't track when you crouch. 00:07:51.880 --> 00:07:58.240 Instead, the camera just sinks about a foot and leaves you staring at your own 00:07:55.880 --> 00:08:00.560 digital belly button, which honestly, I've wanted to do my whole 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:03.320 life. It's so hard. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:11.160 That sounds weird. And all this after only 11 months of development. Truly, we 00:08:09.080 --> 00:08:13.880 live in an age of wonders. The developers wanted to work on the 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:18.080 feature, but Mark Zuckerberg just keeps challenging everyone to bouts of jiu-jitsu. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:21.160 With the senior dev in a rear naked choke. 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:25.360 You can work on that later. Come here, I want to show you something. And it would 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:28.880 be truly wonderful if you came back on Friday for another episode of 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:34.320 TechLinked. If you don't show up, we don't we just we don't really have anything to do, so I just please 00:08:32.479 --> 00:08:36.719 clear your schedule cuz it's lonely in here.