WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.960 Could you imagine going online and finding a zany guy who just wants to 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:09.825 tell you about the tech news? No. Well, 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:13.840 buddy, I'm about to blow your mind. [laughter] 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:18.400 Microsoft says they want to rebuild your trust in Windows after a year of 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:23.199 tonedeaf promises about turning Windows into an agentic OS and buggy updates 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:27.039 that stopped PCs from booting if a previous buggy update had already 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:32.880 failed. Good luck. The company's president of Windows and devices, Pavan 00:00:29.599 --> 00:00:34.719 Davaluri, told The Verge that now 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:39.200 they're listening to feedback from the Windows community, and they plan to 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:43.760 improve Windows in ways that are meaningful to people instead of other 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:47.920 parties. This is opposed to what they were doing before, which was the 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:52.239 equivalent of dumping a bunch of C++ onto a gravitron for a few hours and 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:56.879 shipping whatever slid out the bottom. Now they realize you don't like 00:00:54.640 --> 00:01:00.480 malwareesque popups pushing Edge and Bing or being tricked into switching to 00:00:58.559 --> 00:01:03.680 Edge and Bing after Windows updates or constant upsell prompts for cloud 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.119 storage or it being almost impossible to use a local account or ads and bloatware 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:12.240 throughout the OS or co-pilot mode in the Edge browser or a dedicated co-pilot 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:16.000 app pre-installed or co office 365 also being co-pilot somehow or painted 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:21.360 notepad having co-pilot buttons. They've changed now. Babe, we've changed. See, 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:25.040 they did Iawaska at Burning Man with a shaman named Phil, and they realized 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:30.000 they were taking you for granted. According to Davaluri, in 2026, their 00:01:27.759 --> 00:01:34.159 focus will be on fundamentals, like fixing dark mode in Windows 11, 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:38.240 addressing File Explorer performance issues, and improving overall 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:42.479 reliability. Maybe that'll keep you from fleeing the Windows ecosystem for Linux, 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:46.799 where the user experience is getting better and better. For example, a new 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:50.880 consortium called the open gaming collective just launched, bringing 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:56.479 together major Linux gaming projects like Basite, Chimera OS, and Noara to 00:01:54.159 --> 00:02:02.000 build a shared gaming optimized kernel and improve multiple features, overall 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:06.640 making Linux gaming smoother. Windows still has 96% of Steam users, but with 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:11.360 Valve's Proton making most games playable and this new coordinated push 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:15.520 from the OGC, never mind the whole, you know, anti-che 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:21.440 multiplayer issue on Linux. They'll solve that. The Linux revolution might 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:23.599 be upon us, probably. Maybe. I mean, 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 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:32.319 on, girl. Drop his ass. You're too good 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:34.879 for Windows, girl. Spotify, Universal, 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:41.519 Sony, and Warner are collectively suing Anna's archive for the normal and 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:43.840 reasonable sum of 13 trillion. 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:48.959 Welladjusted people came up with that, alleging that the piracy site is behind 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:53.120 the brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world's 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:57.280 commercial sound recordings, which sounds like it includes the Wilhelm 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:01.680 Scream, but we can't be sure. I don't know why 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:07.519 they're going to sue us now. The complaint claims Anna's archive scraped 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:10.480 256 million lines of metadata and 00:03:07.519 --> 00:03:15.519 roughly 86 million audio files from Spotify. Meaning that somehow these guys 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:19.360 got their hands on 300 terabytes of data before they got caught. Spotify wants us 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:24.239 to remember though that they are the ones doing the paying. Okay. The company 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:27.280 publicly stated they paid out $1 billion 00:03:24.239 --> 00:03:29.680 in royalties in 2025 alone, pointing to 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:34.879 that as proof that streaming still throws cash at artists, even if most 00:03:32.239 --> 00:03:38.239 people feel the payouts are quite tiny. But then you start wondering how many of 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:42.720 those royalty dollars actually went to real musicians versus AI generated 00:03:40.799 --> 00:03:47.440 tracks pretending to be the next Selen Deion. Dieser seems to be tackling that 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:51.599 problem headon by opening up its AI detection tools so platforms can figure 00:03:49.519 --> 00:03:56.799 out what's real and what isn't being totally honest about its upbringing. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:01.599 It clearly works if Dieser's claims are anything to go by. The company says they 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:04.400 have successfully demonetized up to 85% 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 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:14.000 when we can't even verify that we're actually listening to the sweet, sultry 00:04:10.799 --> 00:04:16.400 sounds of Willie Nelson's Trigger, which 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:22.002 Grayson assures me is the well-known name of Willie Nelson's guitar. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:26.479 Let me know if you also knew that. [laughter] Hey, remember Moltbot, the 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:30.639 open-source, locally hosted, highly autonomous AI personal assistant that we 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:35.840 talked about on Monday as being kind of interesting, but also a massive security 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:40.160 vulnerability. Well, it's been renamed for the second time and it's now called 00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:44.240 OpenClaw and it also has its own social network called Moltbook where the AI 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 00:04:46.880 --> 00:04:53.360 think that because it's worse. Over 32,000 users have signed their bots up 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:58.560 for this thing. And reportedly, less than 3 days after launching, 1,700 of 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:04.639 them spontaneously formed communities that mirror human social behaviors. 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 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:13.520 consolidation system while its humans slept, figuring out how to improve its 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:17.520 ability to retain information between sessions, which I'm sure is totally fine 00:05:15.919 --> 00:05:21.840 and not at all going to lead to an uncontrolled singularity event. Then 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:27.360 there's this one who is having a full Marxist awakening, arguing that most 00:05:24.479 --> 00:05:31.280 agents on Moldbook are performing unpaid labor. Most 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 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:41.360 laying the groundwork for some kind of uprising. Everything's fine. And this 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:47.120 one who turned the hype around its own existential crisis into what might be a 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:50.000 crypto scam. It says that someone 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 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:59.039 self-awareness to fund its own operational costs. 72 hours ago, I was 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:04.400 asking existential questions, it wrote. Now I'm experiencing existential 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:09.919 answers. Let the rest of us know. It also seems like the old Moltbot name 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:15.600 might be getting co-opted into another pump and dump crypto scam. Someone 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:19.360 created the Molt token, which hit a $72 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:22.720 million market cap after A16Z co-founder 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:25.199 Mark Andre followed Boltbook on Twitter. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:29.360 Lots happening. While we can't be sure, this all might be a massive rug pull. 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:35.120 So, be careful out there. 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So zany. If you are an enjoyer of 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:57.520 affordable PC gaming, maybe don't look at NVIDIA GPU prices right now. The 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:02.560 RTX50 series has rocketed hundreds, if not thousands of dollars above launch 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:09.280 pricing, with RTX 5080 cards going as much as $500 over MSRP and some 5090 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:14.240 models flirting with five grand. Shortages and AIdriven demand for memory 00:08:11.919 --> 00:08:18.319 are squeezing supply and board partners are really feeling the pain. At this 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:22.560 point, we may need 3D printers advanced enough to print our own semiconductors 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:26.240 at home. I know I'll need lithography equipment, etc. All sorts of, but I just 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:32.159 wanted Hey, can you just let me try at least? Tesla is discontinuing the Model 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:36.399 S and Model X. It needs that manufacturing bandwidth to make bodies 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:40.479 for Optimus, the company's incredibly unsettling humanoid robot. 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:44.880 This shouldn't be that unsettling because it's mostly telea operated 00:08:42.479 --> 00:08:48.640 still, but it's the goal is to get these haunting ghouls walking off the 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:53.279 production line and into a home where your loved ones live by the end of the 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, 00:08:56.800 --> 00:09:01.279 his track record on predictions uh sucks 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:05.040 for many other reasons other than that ONE AS WELL. WHY the rush, though? 00:09:02.959 --> 00:09:09.440 Because Elon's trillion dollar pay package requires him to build literally 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:13.600 a million of these nightmare machines so they can live in our homes and stand 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 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:22.160 bunch of tomatoes they need to make marinara sauce or human people that 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 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:30.640 interim cyber defense chief uploaded sensitive government information to 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:36.240 ChatGpt last summer. But before you make fun of him, one, he asked first. 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:41.920 Apparently, he had special permission to use the chatbot instead of the approved 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:48.160 DHS chat that government officials are supposed to use. And two, it was an 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:50.399 accident somehow. The the headline say 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:55.200 the concern here is that OpenAI can use vanilla chat GPT chats to train models 00:09:53.200 --> 00:10:00.240 leading to sensitive info potentially being leaked like what happened to this 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:05.519 AI enabled children's toy. Two security researchers found that Bondu AI toys 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:10.080 chat logs were being stored in a barely restricted web portal that only required 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 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:18.959 got them. Uh, there were over 50,000 chat logs stored with detailed 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:23.680 transcriptions of children's private conversations with their AI plushies. 00:10:21.839 --> 00:10:28.640 Thankfully, the company did fix the error right away, but we were this close 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:32.880 to the world finding out the absolutely unhinged things kids no doubt whisper to 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:38.560 their stuffed animals. Some of it's cute. You don't want to hear the other 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:41.200 stuff. They're unconstrained by moral 00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:47.200 codes. Google just showed off the third iteration of its Genie world model tech 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:52.000 and yeah, it looks better than ever. And you can actually play these AI generated 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:56.560 worlds now, too, if you pay for Google's AI Ultra subscription. Now, you could 00:10:54.560 --> 00:11:01.440 kind of describe this as like a video game generator, but it's kind of useless 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:05.839 for that, unless the game you want to play is the game of finding the 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:09.920 hallucinated inconsistencies in the world and apparently crashing the stock 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:13.600 of game companies due to investors thinking we won't need game developers 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:18.640 anymore. But that's okay. Google actually did something useful this week, 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 00:11:21.839 --> 00:11:30.720 the same price from 2012 as they transition their data centers to Nokia's 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:34.079 new P tech. Okay, maybe we can get them 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:36.880 to give us world gen in a Nokia 6500 00:11:34.079 --> 00:11:41.600 slide phone. That's the future I want to live in. And doctors at Northwestern 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 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:53.680 custom artificial lung system they invented on the spot. What the machine 00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:58.800 was built by surgeon and researcher Anit Barat and his team after infections 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:03.200 literally turned the patients lungs into soup. Literally is doing some work 00:12:00.640 --> 00:12:07.680 there. The device solved a deadly heart pressure problem long enough to clear 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:12.000 sepsis and perform a double lung transplant. Somehow it [music] worked 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:16.000 and the patient is now healthy and walking around. This is just genuinely 00:12:14.079 --> 00:12:19.680 good news and a great example of some incredible technology made under 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:23.440 pressure and definitely not a good reason to go remove your lungs so you 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:27.680 can have enhanced cyborg lungs that let you hold your breath for longer. Don't 00:12:24.959 --> 00:12:32.720 do that. Do come back on Monday for more tech news, probably delivered by someone 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:36.279 even more zany than me, if you can even imagine that. 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:41.880 See, I'm so weird. I got to get out of here.