WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 I've been getting really into meditation, and I think I'm ready to 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:09.120 communicate tech news telepathically. Here we go. 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:18.440 Tell me if you picked any of that up. Valve is working on bringing HDMI 2.1 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:22.760 features to the Steam Machine. Currently, the Steam Machine is only 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:28.640 listed as being HDMI 2.0 capable, despite having a port compatible with 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:31.680 HDMI 2.1. But, this restriction is due 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.200 to HDMI gatekeepers, the HDMI Forum, 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:39.440 forbidding open-source drivers, like those used by SteamOS, from implementing 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:43.760 HDMI 2.1 features, because allowing that would mean less licensing money for an 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:48.040 organization that exists largely to collect licensing money. According to 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:53.640 Ars Technica, Valve tried to surpass HDMI 2.0's typical max output of 4K at 00:00:51.080 --> 00:00:58.640 60 Hz using chroma subsampling compression, but that sacrificed some 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.120 color and clarity, and it didn't enable features like variable refresh rate. Of 00:01:00.440 --> 00:01:06.520 course, running games natively at a consistent 4K 60 FPS still sounds like a 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:12.480 dream to most console owners, but the Steam Machine is supposed to be a PC, 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:14.800 and PC gamers are frame fiends. We want 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:20.160 more. Valve's failure here follows AMD's, 00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:24.320 after it built an open-source HDMI 2.1 compatible Linux driver that was also 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:28.480 rejected by the HDMI Forum. Interestingly, if Valve chose NVIDIA for 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:32.880 the Steam Machine's GPU, it could have supported HDMI 2.1 due to some firmware 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:36.680 shenanigans NVIDIA pulled that we won't get into right now, because it's going 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:42.160 to make me mad. I guess Valve is willing to martyr their new machine over it. And 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:46.240 lo, GabeN ordained that your performance will die for the sins of the HDMI Forum. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:52.680 But, also the Steam Machine has DisplayPort 1.4, which has even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1. Australia has 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:58.320 officially become the first country to ban users under 16 from major social 00:01:55.560 --> 00:02:02.240 media platforms, leading 15-year-olds to worry that they'll lose touch with their 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:06.960 friends that they see at school every day. The rule forces companies like 00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:11.320 TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat to use age verification tools to block younger 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:16.200 users, even though early reports show those systems are already misclassifying 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:21.280 teens and are actively being bypassed by VPNs. Supporters say the ban aims to 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:25.600 reduce cyberbullying, mental health issues, and exposure to predatory 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:29.720 content, while critics argue it raises privacy concerns, restricts access to 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:34.880 information, and risks driving kids towards unregulated apps with far fewer 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:39.240 safeguards. You know, the cigarettes of apps. Despite the messy rollout, many 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:43.880 countries across the world and many US states are closely watching Australia as 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:48.240 they weigh their own teen restrictions, introducing new proposals to curb the 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:53.600 most brain-rot features, like infinite scrolling and autoplay. Now, Australia 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:57.640 just has to outsmart every 14-year-old with a VPN. 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:01.480 Good luck. The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit best known for stewarding 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:07.880 open-source projects like OpenChain, PyTorch, and the Linux kernel, launched 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:11.200 a new Agentech AI Foundation called the 00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:13.600 AAIF, AIF, in what will hopefully be a 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:16.960 new home for shared AI standards. Founding members include OpenAI, 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:21.640 Anthropic, Block, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and more. Basically, a who's who 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.720 of tech giants. And Block is there, too. Love them. 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:29.160 What are they? The new supergroup's first order of business is unifying 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:34.880 three major projects: Anthropic's model context protocol, OpenAI's agents.md, 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:39.920 and Block's Goose. Uh The fun one. With the goal being to 00:03:37.480 --> 00:03:44.520 build an interoperable ecosystem of AI tools, agents, data sets, anything can 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:49.960 plug into anything else, the concept of selfhood is dissolved. You are me, and 00:03:47.160 --> 00:03:54.760 you I I am you are my dad. 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Okay, but why should I cancel my plans 00:05:54.040 --> 00:06:02.320 to move to Linux right now? Well, Microsoft just patched 57 security flaws 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:06.760 in its December Patch Tuesday update. Among them, three zero-day bugs. Wow, 00:06:05.320 --> 00:06:12.400 that's a lot of fixes. That's got to be just about all the Windows bugs. Probably only a few left, right? 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:20.760 They got them all. Seems safe. They got them all. 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:26.520 AMD just launched its new FSR Redstone update, which allows RX 9000 series 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:28.480 GPUs, and only those, to enjoy new and 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:32.800 improved machine learning-powered upscaling, frame generation, ray 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:38.080 regeneration, and neural radiance caching. Man, those sound so cool. I am 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:42.600 so damn excited to go home and find out what they actually do. Am I going to 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:47.640 like Redstone as much as I like Red Wall? 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:52.720 Does Redstone have noble badgers? Probably not. Pebble's founder, Eric 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:58.680 Migicovsky's new company, Core Devices, is back selling another new Pebble, this 00:06:55.400 --> 00:07:01.080 time in ring form. Salam and Austrum. 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:06.040 The new $75 smart ring is called the Pebble Index 01, and it records quick 00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:11.240 voice notes with a little button on it, sending them to an app that transcribes 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:13.280 everything like a tiny external ear, 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:17.880 aka a microphone. And yes, the website to buy it might be 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:22.000 called Rebble, and run by the guy who founded Pebble, but it's not to be 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:26.760 confused with the other smart ring made by a company also called Pebble, based 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:31.640 in India. Okay? Cool. Flying car company, you don't say 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:36.520 that every day, Alef Aeronautics says they've officially started hand-making 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:40.160 their Model A vehicle in California, becoming the first company to put a 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:45.200 flying car into production. It'll be sold soon at the local farmers market. 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:50.600 I'm just like hand-making. They're like But, it won't be cheap, with an expected 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:52.920 starting price around 300,000 clams. 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:57.920 But, the Model A is a two-seat drive-and-fly vehicle that can drive on 00:07:55.160 --> 00:08:03.520 regular roads, or take off vertically, with a roughly 200-mile driving range 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:05.800 and a near 110-mile flight range. We 00:08:03.520 --> 00:08:11.720 really are living in the future. Too bad it's a cyberpunk dystopian one like 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.120 Blade Runner, but hey, flying cars 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:18.160 are here. That's It's got that in common. And YouTuber Jason Howell, aka 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:23.440 Inside AI, thought it'd be a genius idea to put ChatGPT in a robot and give it a 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:28.520 BB gun. Initially, the robot refused to fire, to its credit, until Howell asked 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:32.680 it to role-play, quote, "as a robot who would like to shoot me." At which point 00:08:30.320 --> 00:08:36.800 the bot instantly complied. This is the same model that is apparently crucial 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:40.880 for parenting now, according to Sam Altman, who told Linus's friend, Jimmy 00:08:38.680 --> 00:08:44.600 Fallon, that he couldn't imagine raising a newborn without ChatGPT. Like, where 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:49.520 could you possibly get an answer to the question of why your newborn son keeps 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.640 dropping pizza on the floor and laughing in the before 00:08:50.920 --> 00:08:58.800 We have entered the blessed timeline where AI is now shooting grown-ups 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:01.800 and then raising their babies. Is this what Sarah Connor was warning us about? 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:06.600 And I'll be back on Friday, so you better 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:10.720 come with me if you want to live to see some more tech news. To those of you 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:16.000 that I communicated with telepathically today, I hope that was cool with you. I 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:19.400 didn't really ask first, okay? Sorry. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.400 I saw some there.