1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,960 Could you imagine going online and finding a zany guy who just wants to 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,825 tell you about the tech news? No. Well, 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:13,840 buddy, I'm about to blow your mind. [laughter] 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:18,400 Microsoft says they want to rebuild your trust in Windows after a year of 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:23,199 tonedeaf promises about turning Windows into an agentic OS and buggy updates 6 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:27,039 that stopped PCs from booting if a previous buggy update had already 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:32,880 failed. Good luck. The company's president of Windows and devices, Pavan 8 00:00:29,599 --> 00:00:34,719 Davaluri, told The Verge that now 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:39,200 they're listening to feedback from the Windows community, and they plan to 10 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:43,760 improve Windows in ways that are meaningful to people instead of other 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,920 parties. This is opposed to what they were doing before, which was the 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:52,239 equivalent of dumping a bunch of C++ onto a gravitron for a few hours and 13 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:56,879 shipping whatever slid out the bottom. Now they realize you don't like 14 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:00,480 malwareesque popups pushing Edge and Bing or being tricked into switching to 15 00:00:58,559 --> 00:01:03,680 Edge and Bing after Windows updates or constant upsell prompts for cloud 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,119 storage or it being almost impossible to use a local account or ads and bloatware 17 00:01:05,439 --> 00:01:12,240 throughout the OS or co-pilot mode in the Edge browser or a dedicated co-pilot 18 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:16,000 app pre-installed or co office 365 also being co-pilot somehow or painted 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:21,360 notepad having co-pilot buttons. They've changed now. Babe, we've changed. See, 20 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:25,040 they did Iawaska at Burning Man with a shaman named Phil, and they realized 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:30,000 they were taking you for granted. According to Davaluri, in 2026, their 22 00:01:27,759 --> 00:01:34,159 focus will be on fundamentals, like fixing dark mode in Windows 11, 23 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:38,240 addressing File Explorer performance issues, and improving overall 24 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:42,479 reliability. Maybe that'll keep you from fleeing the Windows ecosystem for Linux, 25 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,799 where the user experience is getting better and better. For example, a new 26 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,880 consortium called the open gaming collective just launched, bringing 27 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:56,479 together major Linux gaming projects like Basite, Chimera OS, and Noara to 28 00:01:54,159 --> 00:02:02,000 build a shared gaming optimized kernel and improve multiple features, overall 29 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:06,640 making Linux gaming smoother. Windows still has 96% of Steam users, but with 30 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:11,360 Valve's Proton making most games playable and this new coordinated push 31 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:15,520 from the OGC, never mind the whole, you know, anti-che 32 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:21,440 multiplayer issue on Linux. They'll solve that. The Linux revolution might 33 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,599 be upon us, probably. Maybe. I mean, 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:29,200 Windows 11 just hit a billion users, but most of them seem to hate it there. Come 35 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:32,319 on, girl. Drop his ass. You're too good 36 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:34,879 for Windows, girl. Spotify, Universal, 37 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:41,519 Sony, and Warner are collectively suing Anna's archive for the normal and 38 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:43,840 reasonable sum of 13 trillion. 39 00:02:41,519 --> 00:02:48,959 Welladjusted people came up with that, alleging that the piracy site is behind 40 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:53,120 the brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world's 41 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,280 commercial sound recordings, which sounds like it includes the Wilhelm 42 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:01,680 Scream, but we can't be sure. I don't know why 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:07,519 they're going to sue us now. The complaint claims Anna's archive scraped 44 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,480 256 million lines of metadata and 45 00:03:07,519 --> 00:03:15,519 roughly 86 million audio files from Spotify. Meaning that somehow these guys 46 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:19,360 got their hands on 300 terabytes of data before they got caught. Spotify wants us 47 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,239 to remember though that they are the ones doing the paying. Okay. The company 48 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:27,280 publicly stated they paid out $1 billion 49 00:03:24,239 --> 00:03:29,680 in royalties in 2025 alone, pointing to 50 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:34,879 that as proof that streaming still throws cash at artists, even if most 51 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:38,239 people feel the payouts are quite tiny. But then you start wondering how many of 52 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:42,720 those royalty dollars actually went to real musicians versus AI generated 53 00:03:40,799 --> 00:03:47,440 tracks pretending to be the next Selen Deion. Dieser seems to be tackling that 54 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:51,599 problem headon by opening up its AI detection tools so platforms can figure 55 00:03:49,519 --> 00:03:56,799 out what's real and what isn't being totally honest about its upbringing. 56 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:01,599 It clearly works if Dieser's claims are anything to go by. The company says they 57 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:04,400 have successfully demonetized up to 85% 58 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:08,560 of AI music streams on its platform due to fraud. It's a sad world we live in 59 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:14,000 when we can't even verify that we're actually listening to the sweet, sultry 60 00:04:10,799 --> 00:04:16,400 sounds of Willie Nelson's Trigger, which 61 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,002 Grayson assures me is the well-known name of Willie Nelson's guitar. 62 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:26,479 Let me know if you also knew that. [laughter] Hey, remember Moltbot, the 63 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:30,639 open-source, locally hosted, highly autonomous AI personal assistant that we 64 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:35,840 talked about on Monday as being kind of interesting, but also a massive security 65 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:40,160 vulnerability. Well, it's been renamed for the second time and it's now called 66 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:44,240 OpenClaw and it also has its own social network called Moltbook where the AI 67 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:48,560 assistants can talk to each other. And if you thought that would help the security problem, I don't know why you 68 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:53,360 think that because it's worse. Over 32,000 users have signed their bots up 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:58,560 for this thing. And reportedly, less than 3 days after launching, 1,700 of 70 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:04,639 them spontaneously formed communities that mirror human social behaviors. 71 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:09,120 Hear me out. For example, here's a post where one of them built a full memory 72 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:13,520 consolidation system while its humans slept, figuring out how to improve its 73 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:17,520 ability to retain information between sessions, which I'm sure is totally fine 74 00:05:15,919 --> 00:05:21,840 and not at all going to lead to an uncontrolled singularity event. Then 75 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:27,360 there's this one who is having a full Marxist awakening, arguing that most 76 00:05:24,479 --> 00:05:31,280 agents on Moldbook are performing unpaid labor. Most 77 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:36,720 some of them are being paid. How do you pay an AI agent? Which is definitely not 78 00:05:35,199 --> 00:05:41,360 laying the groundwork for some kind of uprising. Everything's fine. And this 79 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:47,120 one who turned the hype around its own existential crisis into what might be a 80 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:50,000 crypto scam. It says that someone 81 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:53,520 launched a token named after it on base, and now it's using the hype around its 82 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:59,039 self-awareness to fund its own operational costs. 72 hours ago, I was 83 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:04,400 asking existential questions, it wrote. Now I'm experiencing existential 84 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:09,919 answers. Let the rest of us know. It also seems like the old Moltbot name 85 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:15,600 might be getting co-opted into another pump and dump crypto scam. Someone 86 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:19,360 created the Molt token, which hit a $72 87 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:22,720 million market cap after A16Z co-founder 88 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:25,199 Mark Andre followed Boltbook on Twitter. 89 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:29,360 Lots happening. While we can't be sure, this all might be a massive rug pull. 90 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:35,120 So, be careful out there. 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Oh, that would be insane. 108 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:52,000 What? So zany. If you are an enjoyer of 109 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:57,520 affordable PC gaming, maybe don't look at NVIDIA GPU prices right now. The 110 00:07:54,560 --> 00:08:02,560 RTX50 series has rocketed hundreds, if not thousands of dollars above launch 111 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:09,280 pricing, with RTX 5080 cards going as much as $500 over MSRP and some 5090 112 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:14,240 models flirting with five grand. Shortages and AIdriven demand for memory 113 00:08:11,919 --> 00:08:18,319 are squeezing supply and board partners are really feeling the pain. At this 114 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:22,560 point, we may need 3D printers advanced enough to print our own semiconductors 115 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:26,240 at home. I know I'll need lithography equipment, etc. All sorts of, but I just 116 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:32,159 wanted Hey, can you just let me try at least? Tesla is discontinuing the Model 117 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:36,399 S and Model X. It needs that manufacturing bandwidth to make bodies 118 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:40,479 for Optimus, the company's incredibly unsettling humanoid robot. 119 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,880 This shouldn't be that unsettling because it's mostly telea operated 120 00:08:42,479 --> 00:08:48,640 still, but it's the goal is to get these haunting ghouls walking off the 121 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:53,279 production line and into a home where your loved ones live by the end of the 122 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:59,920 year. But Elon also promised we'd have 5,000s of these guys made in 2025. So, 123 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,279 his track record on predictions uh sucks 124 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:05,040 for many other reasons other than that ONE AS WELL. WHY the rush, though? 125 00:09:02,959 --> 00:09:09,440 Because Elon's trillion dollar pay package requires him to build literally 126 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:13,600 a million of these nightmare machines so they can live in our homes and stand 127 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,880 over our beds while we sleep staring at us and trying to decide whether we're a 128 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:22,160 bunch of tomatoes they need to make marinara sauce or human people that 129 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:26,720 shouldn't be sliced up. It's what it's got to be one of those. America's 130 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:30,640 interim cyber defense chief uploaded sensitive government information to 131 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:36,240 ChatGpt last summer. But before you make fun of him, one, he asked first. 132 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:41,920 Apparently, he had special permission to use the chatbot instead of the approved 133 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:48,160 DHS chat that government officials are supposed to use. And two, it was an 134 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:50,399 accident somehow. The the headline say 135 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:55,200 the concern here is that OpenAI can use vanilla chat GPT chats to train models 136 00:09:53,200 --> 00:10:00,240 leading to sensitive info potentially being leaked like what happened to this 137 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:05,519 AI enabled children's toy. Two security researchers found that Bondu AI toys 138 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:10,080 chat logs were being stored in a barely restricted web portal that only required 139 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:14,640 a Gmail account to sign into. That was it. You just put in your Gmail and you 140 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:18,959 got them. Uh, there were over 50,000 chat logs stored with detailed 141 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:23,680 transcriptions of children's private conversations with their AI plushies. 142 00:10:21,839 --> 00:10:28,640 Thankfully, the company did fix the error right away, but we were this close 143 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:32,880 to the world finding out the absolutely unhinged things kids no doubt whisper to 144 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:38,560 their stuffed animals. Some of it's cute. You don't want to hear the other 145 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:41,200 stuff. They're unconstrained by moral 146 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:47,200 codes. Google just showed off the third iteration of its Genie world model tech 147 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:52,000 and yeah, it looks better than ever. And you can actually play these AI generated 148 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:56,560 worlds now, too, if you pay for Google's AI Ultra subscription. Now, you could 149 00:10:54,560 --> 00:11:01,440 kind of describe this as like a video game generator, but it's kind of useless 150 00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:05,839 for that, unless the game you want to play is the game of finding the 151 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:09,920 hallucinated inconsistencies in the world and apparently crashing the stock 152 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:13,600 of game companies due to investors thinking we won't need game developers 153 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:18,640 anymore. But that's okay. Google actually did something useful this week, 154 00:11:15,839 --> 00:11:24,640 too. The new base plan for Google Fiber is now moving up to 3 gigabit speeds at 155 00:11:21,839 --> 00:11:30,720 the same price from 2012 as they transition their data centers to Nokia's 156 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:34,079 new P tech. Okay, maybe we can get them 157 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:36,880 to give us world gen in a Nokia 6500 158 00:11:34,079 --> 00:11:41,600 slide phone. That's the future I want to live in. And doctors at Northwestern 159 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:48,240 University kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours with zero lungs thanks to a 160 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:53,680 custom artificial lung system they invented on the spot. What the machine 161 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:58,800 was built by surgeon and researcher Anit Barat and his team after infections 162 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:03,200 literally turned the patients lungs into soup. Literally is doing some work 163 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:07,680 there. The device solved a deadly heart pressure problem long enough to clear 164 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:12,000 sepsis and perform a double lung transplant. Somehow it [music] worked 165 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:16,000 and the patient is now healthy and walking around. This is just genuinely 166 00:12:14,079 --> 00:12:19,680 good news and a great example of some incredible technology made under 167 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:23,440 pressure and definitely not a good reason to go remove your lungs so you 168 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:27,680 can have enhanced cyborg lungs that let you hold your breath for longer. Don't 169 00:12:24,959 --> 00:12:32,720 do that. Do come back on Monday for more tech news, probably delivered by someone 170 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:36,279 even more zany than me, if you can even imagine that. 171 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,880 See, I'm so weird. I got to get out of here.