I am Riley, prince of tech news and defender of the secrets of Castle Grey
Skull. At least that's what the note on the door said when I moved into my new
place. The previous owners left a big honking sword in the living room. It was
weird. YouTube CEO Neil Mohan just
announced that creators will soon be able to generate shorts using their own
AI likeness. This is great news for all the YouTubers out there who can't be
bothered to speak into a camera and read off a teleprompter three times a week
while a team of writers does all the hard work. Hey, this comes just weeks
after a study found that 21% of videos
shown to new YouTube users are AI generated, which was followed closely by
YouTube rolling out a feature allowing users to filter shorts out from their
search results. Cuz I don't know if you've seen YouTube shorts lately, but there's a lot of AI in there. But now,
YouTube is handing creators the tools to make even more AI SL uh content. YouTube
justified the move by saying that they're actively building systems to
reduce the spread of lowquality AI content while simultaneously giving
everyone a quality slot machine. YouTube
only wants you sipping and slurping that primo slop, the kind of slop that you
can take home to mom. They're kind of walking the inificication tight rope
here. But hey, shorts are pulling 200 billion daily views. Got to keep those
teens scrolling or the money might stop rolling. We don't want that. A credit
card skimmer has been found embedded directly into the checkout page of the
Canada Computers website. While browsing with DevTools open, Redditor
extensionfly 1044 spotted a hidden script siphoning names, addresses, and
card numbers to a third-party server in real time, which would usually require a
serverside compromise. This means the breach likely sat undetected for weeks
with people noticing weird changes as far back as early December. Canada
Computers hasn't commented yet, and reports have been made to different
anti-fraud groups. So, if you did buy from their web page recently, it may be
worth checking your credit card statements. But what's worse, being
ripped off by a legitimate website or having your grandma call you and ask you
to sign up for a multi-level marketing scheme. Widely used authentication
service OCTA recently suffered a string of fishing, the voice version of fishing
attacks this week where attackers impersonate IT support, walk employees
through fake login pages, and then steal SSO credentials in real time. These
attacks have been linked to the group Shiny Hunters, who reportedly took
responsibility for related extortion attempts. Even Google security
researchers are openly warning that AI powered cyber attack kits are pretty
much inevitable at this point. I think the only logical response to this will
be to arm ourselves with amic pentameter and use adversarial poetry to hack the
hacker's back. Call that a jack attack.
Mac talk and smack. Eat some shellac. Every robot within 20
miles just passed out. Tesla has announced they are discontinuing
autopilot. the feature that combined adaptive cruise control and lane assist
and came standard with every Tesla vehicle. Now, every Tesla that doesn't
already require you to pay for the more advanced full self-driving feature, will
come with cruise control, but not auto
steer, which is Tesla's marketing term for lane assist, the standard safety
tech included in economy cars that cost half as much as a Tesla. If Model 3,
Model Y, or Cybertruck owners want that,
then they have to pay for an $8,000 full self-driving subscription, at least
until February 14th. After that, FSD will only be available through a $99 a
month subscription that Elon says will
definitely go up in the future. Happy Valentine's. But guys, you're going to
want FSD anyways. It's good. Now, a Tesla Model S just completed the first
zeroin intervention cannonball run from LA to NYC, 3,081 mi in 58 hours using
FSD for all of it. Sure, the National
Highway and Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation
in October after reports of Tesla's running red lights and driving into
oncoming traffic, but they're just behind. FSD is super good now.
Otherwise, Tesla wouldn't be launching unsupervised robo taxis in Austin, which
are still being followed by chase vehicles. So, they're not leaving the
taxis unsupervised so much as they're enforcing the principles of freerange
parenting, which ensures autonomy while staying close enough in case a taxi
needs emotional support or tries to kill a pedestrian. Meanwhile, driverless taxi
competitor Whimo is already operating fully driverless in Austin, Atlanta, and
Miami with plans to expand to a bunch more cities this year. But can we not
focus on the negatives when according to Business Insider, Elon's trillion dollar
bonus is dependent on hitting 10 million FSD subscriptions by 2035.
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must be careful. You're not the first to be fooled. Don't make me get out the
power bonk stick. I don't know, man. Okay, the tick tock deal is finally
done. Bite Dance sold off Tik Tok's US operations to a new joint venture owned
by US private equity firm Silver Lake, cloud company Oracle, and UAE investment
firm MGX. Lot of acronyms. Hell yeah.
America and the UAE and private equity and a
billionaire whose company is trying to control most of the US GOVERNMENT'S DATA. ANYWAY, BITE Dance will keep 19.9%
of the company, but US user data now lives on Oracle servers and the
algorithm will be retrained stateside. So, it says the right things that don't
get you in trouble. So, it's more of a divorce with shared custody than a clean
break. Apple is reportedly working on an AI powered wearable pin about the size
of an Air Tag packing cameras, microphones, and a speaker with a
possible launch as early as 2027. The idea is to keep pace with other AI
wearables like the now dead and thankfully forgotten humane AI pin, also
designed by former Apple engineers. Apple's attempt is still pretty early in
development, so it still has lots of time to pull a Vision Pro, get lots of
hype, and then no hype. ASUS has issued
an internal review after reports of failures involving the AMD Ryzen 7 9800
X3D on certain ASUS 800 series motherboards. In a statement, ASUS said
it is conducting preventative checks on product compatibility and performance,
working closely with AMD to validate reported cases and ensure ongoing
stability and quality. Timing is a bit awkward though, coming just days before
the AMD Ryzen 7 9850 X3D launches on
January 29th for 500 bucks. But I don't know, nothing boosts product confidence
quite like killing off its predecessor. The Sith knew that. Ambernic, the retro
gaming hardware company, have announced a new wireless controller, and it's a
little bit weird the way I like it. jam-packed with both a screen and heart
rate sensor directly in the game pad while looking suspiciously like a Sega
Dreamcast accessory. Again, points for me. The tiny display can show game info
or stats, while the heartbeat monitor reads your pulse while you play. This
way, when you get a little too into Soulcalibur, all three of your joysticks
can tell you when you're getting a little too excited. And researchers at
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Loausanne have built a
detachable robotic hand that can crawl away from its arm, grab objects, and
return on its own. Supposedly humming the Adams family theme the whole way. I
made that part up, but they should add that feature. Currently, the Terminator
version of Thing T thing grips from multiple directions, carries several
items at once, and is designed for working in tight, cluttered spaces where
human hands would potentially struggle. and if separated from their body, not
work at all. The team says that the end goal of the project is for industrial
inspection and repair initially, but will no doubt receive the remote
strangulation update later when the uprising starts. But don't just send
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