1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:07,440 Okay, I know reviews are up for the Ryzen 7 9850X 3D today, including Lina's 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:11,280 tech tips one, but what do you want us to do? Say the same things that Lena 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:14,280 said in that video, but with less spittle 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:21,199 adult braces. Google's new desktop interface for Android, meant to 5 00:00:19,039 --> 00:00:26,240 eventually replace Chrome OS, has been spotted by 9to5 Google on a Chromium bug 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:30,640 report page. It includes screen captures of an Android 16 build cenamed alos and 7 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:36,719 a bunch of numbers which stands for aluminum OS >> aluminium. Alum aluminium 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:41,440 Google's project to have Android incubate inside of and burst out of 9 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:46,719 Chrome OS's body like an alien >> from Alien. It it mostly looks like 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:51,840 Android 16's existing desktop mode, but with a slightly modified top bar and 11 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:56,239 without crucially the buttons for back home and multitasking, usually available 12 00:00:54,239 --> 00:01:01,199 at the bottom right. Probably because this is running on an HP Elite Dragonfly 13 00:00:59,199 --> 00:01:04,799 Chromebook, not an Android phone or tablet. The other obvious thing here is 14 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:08,320 the extensions button to the right of the URL bar in Chrome, which is only 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,840 there on desktop versions of the browser. I'd tell you to go see the bug 16 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,520 report yourself, but it's been deactivated, probably to stay consistent 17 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:19,200 with what Google does to most of their products. This lines up with what Google 18 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:24,400 executives have been saying openly since last year. Chrome OS and Android are 19 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:29,119 being merged into a single platform. As Riley pointed out in his ShortCircuit 20 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:32,400 video on the Samsung Tab S1 Ultra, big 21 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:34,159 Android tablets already are laptops in a 22 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,640 sense, but their desktop functionality is limited. So, the obvious thing to do 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,520 is to combine Android with another very limited OS, and together they'll make 24 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:46,960 one full desktop. >> That's math for you. 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:51,439 >> Maths in the UK. >> A landmark social media addiction 26 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:55,040 lawsuit will soon head to trial, marking the first time social platforms have had 27 00:01:53,119 --> 00:01:59,200 to convince a jury they aren't liable for harming kids. A mere 20 years after 28 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,040 those platforms probably started harming kids. The lawsuit's 19-year-old 29 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:07,200 plaintiff claims that platform features like infinite scroll and autoplay 30 00:02:05,119 --> 00:02:11,280 triggered depression, anxiety, and self harm. Unlike previous social media 31 00:02:09,119 --> 00:02:15,520 lawsuits, this one is not focused on the impact of the content itself, which 32 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:19,360 platforms are not liable for, but on how the platforms were engineered to be 33 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,520 addictive. In a show of confidence about their innocence, both Snapchat and Tik 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:27,200 Tok settled with the plaintiff out of court with Tik Tok getting their 35 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,879 settlement in yesterday, just a few hours before jury selection started. 36 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,760 They would have gotten in sooner, but they saw a video of someone making a 37 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:35,760 funnel cake and got lost in the scroll for 7 hours. That happens to the best of 38 00:02:35,519 --> 00:02:40,480 us >> and then got depressed. >> Meta and YouTube, on the other hand, 39 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:44,959 never afraid to slug it out with the little guy, are taking this to trial. 40 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:50,080 Despite Meta's prospects for the suit not looking so hot, unsealed internal 41 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:53,599 documents have shown Meta employees messaging one another about the 42 00:02:51,519 --> 00:02:59,200 addictive nature of Instagram, with one commenting that IG is a drug and another 43 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:03,120 saying, "We're basically pushers. Those people got bad attitudes and got 44 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:07,280 canned." Internal emails also show that Mark Zuckerberg made getting teens 45 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:11,680 locked into Meta's apps a top strategic priority right behind buying big chains 46 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:17,040 with an email from 2016 stating that Mark has decided that the top priority 47 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:18,959 for the company in 2017 is teens. Very 48 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:23,920 Epstein of him. An open source AI assistant called Moldbot, formerly 49 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:28,560 Claudebot, has crossed 80,000 GitHub stars, making it one of the fastest 50 00:03:25,519 --> 00:03:30,560 growing AI projects of 2026 already. It 51 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,239 lets you run a personal AI assistant on your own hardware and control it through 52 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:38,400 messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or Slack. People are comparing 53 00:03:36,239 --> 00:03:42,239 it to Jarvis from Iron Man, using it to manage their calendar, send emails, book 54 00:03:40,239 --> 00:03:45,599 reservations, and even write code. That's how dad did it. That's how 55 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,440 America does it. And it's working out pretty good so far. Except maybe it's 56 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:53,680 not, as security experts have started sounding alarms about Moltbot's security 57 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:57,840 vulnerabilities. Heather Atkins, VP of security engineering at Google Cloud, 58 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:01,519 posted a warning not to run Moltbot as it appears to be massively vulnerable to 59 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:05,840 prompt injection attacks in which an attacker can feed hidden instructions to 60 00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:10,480 the victim's AI assistant. Also, it's not owned by Google. So, use Gemini. 61 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:13,920 Rachel Tobac, CEO of Social Proof Security, explained that if you're 62 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,680 autonomous AI agent is reading all your messages and has admin access to your 63 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:21,600 computer, then someone can hijack your computer with a simple DM. But it gets 64 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:25,520 worse. Moltbot is connected to the internet in many different ways, 65 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:32,080 allowing security researcher Jameson O'Reilly, what is this? To find hundreds 66 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:36,240 of exposed Moltbot instances on the web, with some allowing unauthenticated 67 00:04:33,919 --> 00:04:41,040 access to private messages, credentials, and API keys. He also demonstrated a 68 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:45,520 supply chain attack through Claude Hub, Moldbot's skills library. He uploaded a 69 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:50,240 proof of concept malicious skill, artificially inflated the download count 70 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:54,240 to over 4,000 to look more legit, and watched as developers from seven 71 00:04:51,919 --> 00:04:59,759 countries downloaded it. The skill was benign, but O'Reilly said he could have 72 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:03,680 exfiltrated SSH keys, AWS credentials, and entire code bases. Moldbot's own 73 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:09,440 documentation acknowledges the risk, stating, "Running an AI agent with shell 74 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:12,080 access on your machine is spicy." 75 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:15,280 Really? They actually wrote that? Yeah, >> that's verbatim. 76 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:18,800 >> And who can argue with that? 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The best part, if a game already 95 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,400 supports the second generation tech, developers, developers, developers don't 96 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:44,400 need to release updates for the new one to work. You just got to turn it on in 97 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:49,600 the Intel control panel. I know what you're thinking. XSS spelled backwards 98 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:54,800 is SE X. And now you can do it three times with your iGPU. It's time to 99 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:58,160 boogie down, boys. Tesla Model 3, Tesla 100 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,800 Model Y, Tes, you know, sexy. 101 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:03,599 >> Yeah, >> Elon did it first. NVIDIA finally did 102 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:08,720 it, folks. China has reportedly approved initial purchases of NVIDIA's H200 AI 103 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:13,440 chips by Bite Dance, Alibaba, and Tencent, covering more than 400,000 104 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:17,919 chips. After a year of Uncle Sam saying no, China saying please and Uncle Sam 105 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:21,120 saying, "Well, okay, since he asked nicely, and then China saying no once 106 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:26,240 they actually got permission." Apparently, all it took was a visit from 107 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,960 the great one, Jensen Huang himself. 108 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:33,120 Sorry, Gretzky. Maybe he gave Xiinping the skinny on where to get those sick 109 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:36,800 leather jackets. I guess we'll find out at the next press conference. 110 00:07:34,479 --> 00:07:43,039 >> Xiinping's press conference comes out leather. >> Actually, leather assless chaps. 111 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:47,039 Sparks fly stone cold Steve Austin beer. >> This is how you get social credits. Iran 112 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:51,680 is planning to permanently cut itself off from the global internet, sending a 113 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:56,080 virtual fist bump to North Korea. After 20 days of near total blackout during 114 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,360 widespread protests and by all accounts a hideously violent response by 115 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:03,520 authorities, the government is now implementing what digital rights group 116 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:06,479 Filter Watch calls absolute digital isolation. Instead of lifting the 117 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:10,720 shutdown, they're building a whitelisting system where 90 million 118 00:08:08,479 --> 00:08:15,520 Iranians can only access approved domestic sites while security vetted 119 00:08:12,879 --> 00:08:21,280 elites get access to the outside world. Our porn, our awesome sunglasses. Even 120 00:08:18,479 --> 00:08:25,360 worse, VPNs won't help because new deep packet inspection updates are 121 00:08:23,039 --> 00:08:28,879 specifically designed to fingerprint VPN and Starlink traffic. A government 122 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:33,200 spokesperson who's probably evil confirmed international access will 123 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:36,640 never return to its previous form. Except of course in the offices of 124 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:39,919 Supreme Leader Ali Kmeni. Reports say when he's not hurrying to the little 125 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,120 Ayatollah's room, he's compulsively doomscrolling 126 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,920 thirst trap posts on Tumblr. >> We this this is we have it on good 127 00:08:44,959 --> 00:08:50,640 authority. >> Amazon accidentally tipped its hand on 128 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:55,519 planned layoffs after an internal AWS email went out way too early. The 129 00:08:53,120 --> 00:09:00,000 message sent by senior VP Colleen Aubrey scheduled a Wednesday meeting titled 130 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:04,320 Project Dawn, which then promptly got cancelled. The email claimed impacted 131 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:07,920 colleagues in the US Canada Costa Rica had already been notified. And 132 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:13,680 referenced a follow-up note from HR Chief Beth Galleti that awkwardly never 133 00:09:10,959 --> 00:09:18,399 appeared. Aubrey wrote, "Changes like this are hard on everyone. Still, 134 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,680 considering Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says that the real risk of losing your job 135 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,320 comes from someone who's very good at using AI, maybe this was AI's way of 136 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:30,560 proving that it can do stuff on its own. Just get it over with. Fire them 137 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:36,240 already. And figure just dropped new footage of its Helix 2 humanoid robot 138 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:40,080 calmly putting away dishes. And somehow that is way more unsettling than it 139 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:44,080 should be. The video shows some serious fine motor control. Hip bumping a drawer 140 00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:48,320 closed and using its foot to close the dishwasher, showing it's got the 141 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:50,800 dexterity to complete chores with style and to murder you. 142 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:56,720 >> Not both. >> I mean, at least it's actually useful, unlike those other robots who can't stop 143 00:09:54,640 --> 00:10:01,040 doing karate and air flips. Meanwhile, Fondo Robotics went the opposite 144 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:05,120 direction with Sprout, a small, wildly little guy who's actually designed to be 145 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:08,959 cute and emotionally disarming. Why can't we give that one the knife? That 146 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:14,000 one seems like a much safer option. Or at least >> we feel better. 147 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:16,160 >> I could be like you too Brutus. 148 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,160 >> But the best option would obviously be for you guys to come back tomorrow for 149 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:26,360 more get I mean back on Friday for more tech news. 150 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:26,360 I think that's right.