okay here's how this works we say the tech news and you absorb it you can
laugh you make some facial expressions maybe write a comment but don't speak we
can't hear you when that Tech is here we'll let you know there were several
new features announced at this year's made on YouTube event many but not all
of which are AI Google deep mind's newest video generation model vo will be
integrated into dream screen which creates still and moving backgrounds for
YouTube shorts in addition to making these backgrounds more realistic vo is
able to edit and remix previously generated footage allowing creators to
fine-tune their very own machine generated Horrors like this inwater shot
of the San Francisco Bay oh
disgusting at some point early next year you'll be able to use dream screen to
fully generate 6sec video clips not a
background an actual video that's right Vine is back baby and now it's 100%
robot hook hallucinations all natural
the opposite YouTube also announced communities which seem to operate like a
Creator controlled Discord or Facebook page where both the Creator and their
subscribers can post in a fun parasocial
little hangout space YouTube is also testing a new hype feature where users
can choose to promote a recent video from a creator with fewer than half a
million subscribers causing it to be served to more people on the platform
instead of an AI choosing to do it for humans
imagine highly hyped videos will appear on a special leaderboard as well as
receiving a badge marking them as fan favorites viewers can hype up to three
videos for free every week or pay for more in a fee which will also be shared
with a Creator all in all it's pretty cool guys yet another feature announced
is a new community Hub in the YouTube studio app which includes AI enhanced
comment reply suggestions to give creators a starting point when a weird
comment leaves them thinking what the heck am I supposed to
say to that you look like my
grandma okay or maybe as a way of
responding to all of those pornbots infesting the comment section just let
the robots sort this out between themselves your videos are such an
inspiration to me oh my gosh I actually kind of like them they're very
encouraging meanwhile the inspiration tab in Analytics is rolling out more
widely to more creators adding AI idea
generation to pre-existing features that show you what your viewers are
supposedly searching for you guys are apparently big into line is Tech tips
what's the story there thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by the
militant group Hezbollah horrifically exploded across the country of Lebanon
in the past 2 days killing at least 22 people and wounding nearly 3,000 leaving
hospitals overrun and many wondering if this was some kind of Cyber attack but
two sources with knowledge of the operation have told axios and other
outlets that Israel in a complex supply
chain maneuver planted explosives in the devices before they were sold to
Hezbollah the destroyed pag is apparently used a design by the
Taiwanese company gold Apollo who says the model in question is actually
licensed and manufactured by a separate company Hungary based BAC Consulting NBC
reached bac's CEO by phone who confirmed their business relationship with gold
Apollo but said they don't make the pagers either claiming to be an
intermediary a statement co-signed by the Hungarian prime minister's office
Israel hasn't explicitly confirmed its behind the attack but has declared it's
shifting its military Focus to its northern region bordering Lebanon where
it will supposedly continue trying to eradicate its enemies by making new ones
AMD's ryen 9000 CPU launch has been one
of the worst in the company's history with abysmal sales numbers in the DIY
Market according to publicly available sales numbers from mind Factory an
online retailer based out of Germany they have only sold a couple hundred
units of these chips since they launched a month ago really this has drawn
comparisons to the 2011 launch of AMD's Infamous bulldozer architecture but
while bulldozer chips had genuinely poor single thread performance Zen 5 really
just seems to be kind of underwhelming particularly in one specific area gaming
that being said your average Tech Enthusiast isn't out here buying the fresh new hotness straight off the line
for the sake of a lightning fast refresh rate in Microsoft Excel AMD is otherwise
doing fine as a company they got a bustling Data Center business as well as
their contracts for consoles and other pre-builts they got their head above
water unlike their nearest competitor Intel which has been thrashing in the
deep end while the Lifeguard has his back turned for a while now but it's not
all doom Gloom Intel CEO Pat Ginger
sadly the Multiverse last surviving Pat
Ginger announced on Monday that the company has received up to $3 billion in
funding from the US government and will be expanding its partnership with Amazon
web services as well as restructuring and making its Foundry division into an
independent subsidiary that still reports to Pat this isn't a huge change
it's kind of like moving out of your parents place and into the Coach House
in their backyard but even then that house would feel like a castle with an
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description okay here come the quick bits for this part you actually can
speak uh they are not going to stop to reply to you those snap of chat Fame
have officially unveiled their new spectacles 5 AR glasses and they look
like if the CIA did a bad job hiding cameras in a pair of 3D glasses but
that's okay because they aren't for you they're for developers who can rent them
for $99 a month what what also isn't for
you is the exclusive use of your face it turns out that Snapchat's AI powered my
selfie feature can be used to serve you ads with your own face in them unless
you toggle off the setting but to be safe you could also uninstall the app
microwave your phone and go live in the forest Apple has temporarily paused the
roll out of iPad OS 18 on newer M4 iPad
Pros due to complaints that the update was bricking the devices this is further
proof that tablet should never have evolved past just being clay the bug
hasn't affected every M4 iPad Pro but the ones that are affected seem
unrecoverable with apple allegedly offering Hardware Replacements to
affected users Apple has put out a statement saying they are working to
resolve the issue but it's a real mystery like something right out of the
Emmy award-winning TV series monk starring Tony shaloo we're back baby
he's back I don't know the is there a
song It's a Jungle Out Here what
disorder and confusion everywhere okay Discord is officially rolling out
Dave a new guy Dave which stands for discord's
audio and video endtoend encryption bizarrely one thing Dave doesn't include
is is encrypted text Communications probably because that would have messed
up their fun acronym Discord says this exception is to ensure they can continue
their current moderation policy but that doesn't explain why an audio call is
somehow less risky than a DM or why they
couldn't use a system similar to Whatsapp where Communications are
encrypted until a user in the conversation reports a message Dave's
like an overbearing parent who insists on reading all your text messages but
hasn't figured out that you've been calling your weed dealer using the landline technically that's hacking a
bipartisan Bill to force vehicle manufacturers to include AM radio has
passed through committee and will now move to a full floor vote in the US
House of Representatives AM radio has been in cars for nearly a century but
some manufacturers have started leaving it out of EV Vehicles because the
electromagnetic forces from the powertrain caus significant interference
there are workarounds but they might require expensive redesigns and
additional shielding you know stuff that cost money lawmakers however argue that
AM radio is a vital tool during natural disasters and other emergencies because
am signals travel much farther than FM signals and pass through solid objects
like the ghost of NPR and Microsoft says all Microsoft 365
co-pilot subscribers can now access co-pilot Academy a product to help you
learn how to use a different product because despite generative AI being
forcefully injected into literally everything industry reports consistently
say that workers and consumers are struggling to figure out how to make it
actually useful you might think that's because it's not actually that useful
for people outside of a few specific niches but you'd be wrong you're just
not using it right with your dumb fleshy sausage fingers move over let the AI use
itself we hear a TechLink love your fleshy sausage fingers and we want to
see them here again on Friday everybody in the office wants a look come on hold
them up look at them
they're great it's a sin against man those look what except no