Tech stuff happens so we're here doing a video about it it's like it's like a
company fires off an email and now I have to work
how does this make sense this is Raja kaduri Chief Architect of Intel's
discrete graphics cards is leaving the company because if his previous post as
head of AMD's Radeon gpus as any indication launching new products that
failed to live up to the hype is kind of his ammo hey that's not nice
okay seriously we needed Intel Arc gpus
but they still need some work and he's moving on so we can joke right okay
we can be still friends friends make jokes anyways raja's off to form his own
gaming startup focused on what else AI it'll apparently focus on
creating generative AI tools for movies games and other media that are
compatible with basically any processor not just chips from NVIDIA it's only
fair that kaduri is taking the risk of going independent now having worked
directly for Apple AMD and Intel I mean how old is he 55 yeah that's that's
Prime midlife crisis territory again this is not he seems nice I'm not trying
to it's just middle-aged man something happens up here okay so to Mr kadiri's
credit under his leadership while Intel's arc graphics card suffered
delays and initially lagged behind the competition in terms of performance that
Gap has started closing significantly as Intel releases improve drivers it was
the first time that a major player entered the dedicated graphics Market in
years making it a qualified success for Intel which has otherwise had a pretty
rough year not rough as in sandpaper rough as in getting dragged along the
highway with your ankle caught in a tow rope okay I didn't write that one that
was it she did the Windows 11 Snipping Tool and
Windows 10 snip and sketch have a bug where it may be possible to recover and
view the original screenshot after it has been cropped or censored now if that
sounds familiar it might be because basically the same issue was patched on
the Google pixel earlier this week despite the fact that Microsoft and
Google built these tools entirely separately they appear to have made the
exact same error when the newly cropped image saves it saves over the original
image but that new image is smaller than the original image and much like a large
man and a tiny thong it doesn't cover
everything what this means is that if you had something in a picture that you
didn't want people to see like say photo ID or important documents or
genitalia that information may be recoverable and by that information I
mean quite possibly an uncensored photo of your social insurance number and or
penis what if it's my social insurance number written along with me what if
that's where I keep it even worse given the widespread use of a screenshot
editor on literally the world's most popular OS it may be possible to
unredact sensitive information released by reporters whistleblowers and
government agencies so Julian Assange might still be locked up but I think we
about to learn some stuff is he locked up oh he is in prison yes
fantastic I mean that's not fantastic but okay and Google is opening early
access to its AI chatbot Bard and the reviews are in it's just okay I mean
it's a chatbot there's been like a million of these things at this point and I'm starting to get their names
confused like a forgetful Uncle who never calls for a long time google was
the big dog in the AI space but Tech personalities like Marquez Brownlee and
Luke lafrenier have given this experimental version of Bard a
resounding if anything Bard feels extremely cautious compared to
everything else we've seen in recent months perhaps understandably so given
past hiccups Bard's page is covered in disclaimers and caveats warning users
that its output may not be fully trustworthy and the wait list is
currently restricted to users 18 and older just in case you might want to get
into some Saucy search engine role play
a lot of people do that one interesting addition to the AI
chatbot formula is that Google hasn't has included an option to look at
alternative drafts of Bard's responses allowing users to contrast and compare
unlike Bing it doesn't always cite its
sources which led to it answering a question from a Tom's Hardware writer
with information taken word for word from a Tom's Hardware article when the
writer then asked if Bard had just committed plagiarism the AI fully agreed
you got me
they're still working on me so yeah so even if the best thing we can say about
Bard right now is that it's just as eloquent as Microsoft's new Bing it's
also never threatened anyone accused them of murder or tried to convince them
to leave their spouse yet give it time now it's time for quick
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west no one's really checked though so Adobe has launched the beta of firefly a
set of generative AI tools which Adobe says have been trained without stealing
the copyrighted work of artists only the freshest locally sourced organic stock
photos Adobe will automatically tag content developed with firefly as AI
assisted and is developing a do not train metadata tag for artists who don't
want their work used to train AI art systems it's like one of those do not
disturb signs that stop hotel maids from stealing guests Underpants and then
combining them into a massive underwear database than procedurally generating
remarkably similar Underpants without proper attribution it's a real problem
in the hotel industry step profit at some point DP Review one of
the world's best resources on cameras is being shut down because they're owned by
Amazon a company that infamously does not care about the quality of consumer
reviews DP Review has been providing detailed comprehensive reviews on
cameras for the past 25 years serving the Enthusiast Community with invaluable
information something that didn't change when they were subsumed by Amazon's
amorphous mass in 2007.
no lunch breaks
get in the happy box but Amazon needs to
make cuts and clearly the best place to start is a successful Enthusiast
resource with a powerful brand and hundreds of thousands of fans I have to
don't even don't really need them valve suddenly announced this morning
that Counter-Strike 2 will arrive this summer as a free update to CS go
complete with overhauled visuals volumetric smoke grenades and what valve
calls subtic update architecture meaning that the speed of players actions won't
rely on their tick rate we'll have to wait to hear about more features which
will be announced closer to launch but since the sequel took 23 years to come
out a few months so what is too bad is EA de-listing
Battlefield 1943 and both bad companies
from digital stores in advance of their online services shutting down in
December sure we could change the game so that you can buy it and play the
single player without requiring it to call our servers first but honestly
we're kind of warming up to the whole piracy thing is probably what they're
thinking I have to imagine that's the only it's the only thing that makes sense
hackers have stolen one and a half million dollars worth of digital dash
from cryptocurrency ATMs due to an unusual zero day vulnerability the
terminals allowed customers to exchange various cryptocurrencies that part makes
sense or they could also for some unclear reason upload videos to the ATM
it's just for Rick Rolling the hacker used this system to upload and execute a
malicious program which then drained several hot wallets which are like
regular wallets except they're connected to the internet and they are incredibly
sexy what's a cold wallet then it's where you
put your Bitcoin in a USB drive and hide it under your mattress that's actually
just not a joke that's just what it is and scientists have found a key compound
for the formation of organic life in samples taken from an asteroid the
compound in question is uracil one of the four nucleobases that form RNA and
not actually medication for people with incontinence that's that's where I well
I thought it was this is the strongest evidence yet discovered of a theory
known as panspermia which means exactly
what it sounds like While most scientists believe life on
Earth arose from a warm mixture of organic compounds that started getting
uppity one day it's possible that those compounds
originated somewhere other than Earth and traveled here on meteorites it's
also possible that the sample may have been contaminated somehow or altered by
its Passage through the atmosphere but let me dream my possibly
extraterrestrial dreams okay I want to
believe I always thought I was different and you
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