WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.279 Here ye, here ye, the kingdom of TECH DOTH BRING NEWS MOST urgent from the 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:13.440 digital realm. The trebushchets ARE LOADED. THE ZUCKERBERG APPROACHES. LOOSE 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:15.280 THE NEWS. 23 major news outlets are 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:20.400 blocking the internet archives incredibly useful way back machine from 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:24.800 crawling their sites because, you know, we cannot in fact have nice things 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:28.720 anymore. USA Today just recently used the Wayback Machine to call out ICE for 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:32.160 altering detention stats and then immediately blocked the archival tool 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:37.440 from crawling their own site, which is frankly just rude. The news outlets say 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:42.160 this is necessary to stop AI crawlers from treating their sites like an all 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:46.239 you can scrape buffet. But not all of them are blocking Wayback's crawler. The 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:50.800 Guardians director of business affairs said that the Wayback Machine's API is a 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:55.199 real AI risk, so they are only going to be blocking that. So maybe don't attack 00:00:53.039 --> 00:01:00.559 them on social media. Wayback's director Mark Graham responded, calling those AI 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:04.960 fears unfounded and restating how much effort they put into preventing possible 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:09.200 abuses of the crawler. Groups like Fight for the Future and Electronic Frontier 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:13.760 Foundation are rallying journalists to publicly back the archive, and over 100 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.680 of them have signed a letter thanking the Internet Archive and the Way Back 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.080 Machine for being an essential and critical tool. In other words, uh please 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:26.479 don't die. We kind of need you to fact check our bosses, please. Google, 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:30.960 Microsoft, and Meta are all tracking users even when they opt out of cookies. 00:01:29.119 --> 00:01:35.280 According to an independent privacy audit, Web X-Ray, a privacy focused 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:40.880 search engine, which is founded by a former Google privacy engineer, scanned 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:43.200 over 7,000 popular California websites, 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:48.479 finding that 55% did set ad cookies even after users 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:53.759 clicked reject. Big tech isn't respecting people's privacy. No way. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:59.680 According to the report, Google, Microsoft, and Meta failed to honor the 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:02.640 opt outs 86, 50, and 69% of the time, 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:06.960 respectively. Nice. Sorry, the number, not the situation. Unsurprisingly, all 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:11.440 three companies disputed the findings with Google calling it a fundamental 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:15.280 misunderstanding of the technology with Microsoft complaining that a rejection 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:19.599 of all cookies would cause some websites to break. According to Web X-Ray's 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:23.520 founder, the three companies have paid billions in privacy related fines 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:27.680 already, but that they see these payments as part of a cost of doing 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:31.760 business. You know what they say, you can't make an omelette without breaking 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:36.080 a a few billion eggs. The FCC just granted Netgear a conditional exemption 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:41.280 from the US ban on importing new models of foreign routers, making it the only 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:46.160 company currently allowed to import and sell foreignade consumer routers. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:49.599 Neither the FCC nor Netgear have explained why this special privilege has 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:55.280 been granted. The only possible explanation, Netgear is FCC Chair 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:59.360 Brendan Carr's illegitimate son. Or maybe they just bought a load of Trump 00:02:56.959 --> 00:03:03.599 phones. The whole thing is genuinely baffling, especially since the FCC's 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:09.360 original justification for the ban was the Volt Typhoon hack, which primarily 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:13.760 targeted Cisco and guess what? Netgear routers. 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Alexander H, whose work contributed to Microsoft delaying 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:31.440 the original version of the feature. H's tool Total Recall Reloaded, demonstrates 00:05:28.400 --> 00:05:34.400 how malware can ride along with Windows 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:40.160 Recall, getting a free pass to the PC's entire history, which is precisely the 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:44.880 scenario Microsoft's architecture should restrict. Despite Alexander submitting a 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:48.560 full report to Microsoft, they denied that it was an issue, saying that it 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:52.080 falls within the current documented security design. I guess that means it's 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:57.280 not a bug, but a feature if they put it in the manual, right? Uh, really makes 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.520 me recall why Windows gives me the ick. 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:04.560 See what I did there? China has just tested a device that can cut undersea 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:09.120 cables at a depth of 3,500 m, hailing it as a breakthrough in 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:13.120 pipeline repair and causing other governments to flip out. The 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:17.440 announcement comes amidst global tension around a string of suspected sabotage 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:20.479 incidents in which undersea cables carrying the world's internet 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:24.639 communications were severed. This prompted NATO to patrol the waters near 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:28.240 these cables to protect them. So, you better torrent your anime now, boys, if 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:34.160 you ever want to find out if Princess Monoke finally gets her 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:37.440 glass slippers back. Snap CEO Evan 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.560 Spiegel announced plans to lay off 1,000 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:42.960 employees, which is 16% of the workforce 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:47.360 because AI has the capability of being the company's hardest working intern. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:52.240 Spiegel says AI productivity gains will let smaller teams reduce repetitive work 00:06:49.919 --> 00:06:57.440 and increase velocity, which tracks since Snapchat's product roadmap has 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:03.199 historically been 90% new filters and 10% wondering if anyone asked for them. 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:05.360 NVIDIA paid out almost 900 million in 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.680 warranty claims last year. That is 10 times more than the previous year thanks 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:14.960 to the 16pin power connectors continuing to melt themselves into modern art. Look 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:19.759 what they did to my boy. There is actually a silver lining in all of this 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:22.240 though. At least one Taiwanese RTX490 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:26.720 owner was able to prevent a potential houseire last week. It was after his cat 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:31.039 started screaming when it smelled rayraced fumes. 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:37.520 I guess the most reliable thermal monitoring tool in 2026 might in fact be 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:40.720 a cat. And Chinese automaker Sarah was 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:43.120 just granted a patent for an invehicle 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:47.520 toilet. The good news is the toilet seat is not permanently fixed and can be 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:51.759 hidden under the seat. Otherwise, your butt would get all, you know, sloshy and 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:55.520 no one wants that. Hopefully, the creator of the motorized toilet has had 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:59.520 his invention patented. Otherwise, there's going to be a serious legal 00:07:57.599 --> 00:08:04.400 battle. I for one am on the side of THE MOTORIZED TOILET. I WILL NOT STAND for 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:09.520 big auto monopolizing the mobile bowel movement. That's just ridiculous. Ah, 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:15.520 the siege is over. The kingdom of tech has fallen. But take heart, for now we 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:18.080 rebuild. Two days hence, on the 17th of 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:23.440 April, we shall gather arms once more and RAIN TECH NEWS UPON THE HEADS OF OUR 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:26.240 ENEMIES. This metaphor needs more work, but you kind of