Okay, I know reviews are up for the Ryzen 7 9850X 3D today, including Lina's
tech tips one, but what do you want us to do? Say the same things that Lena
said in that video, but with less spittle
adult braces. Google's new desktop interface for Android, meant to
eventually replace Chrome OS, has been spotted by 9to5 Google on a Chromium bug
report page. It includes screen captures of an Android 16 build cenamed alos and
a bunch of numbers which stands for aluminum OS >> aluminium. Alum aluminium
Google's project to have Android incubate inside of and burst out of
Chrome OS's body like an alien >> from Alien. It it mostly looks like
Android 16's existing desktop mode, but with a slightly modified top bar and
without crucially the buttons for back home and multitasking, usually available
at the bottom right. Probably because this is running on an HP Elite Dragonfly
Chromebook, not an Android phone or tablet. The other obvious thing here is
the extensions button to the right of the URL bar in Chrome, which is only
there on desktop versions of the browser. I'd tell you to go see the bug
report yourself, but it's been deactivated, probably to stay consistent
with what Google does to most of their products. This lines up with what Google
executives have been saying openly since last year. Chrome OS and Android are
being merged into a single platform. As Riley pointed out in his ShortCircuit
video on the Samsung Tab S1 Ultra, big
Android tablets already are laptops in a
sense, but their desktop functionality is limited. So, the obvious thing to do
is to combine Android with another very limited OS, and together they'll make
one full desktop. >> That's math for you.
>> Maths in the UK. >> A landmark social media addiction
lawsuit will soon head to trial, marking the first time social platforms have had
to convince a jury they aren't liable for harming kids. A mere 20 years after
those platforms probably started harming kids. The lawsuit's 19-year-old
plaintiff claims that platform features like infinite scroll and autoplay
triggered depression, anxiety, and self harm. Unlike previous social media
lawsuits, this one is not focused on the impact of the content itself, which
platforms are not liable for, but on how the platforms were engineered to be
addictive. In a show of confidence about their innocence, both Snapchat and Tik
Tok settled with the plaintiff out of court with Tik Tok getting their
settlement in yesterday, just a few hours before jury selection started.
They would have gotten in sooner, but they saw a video of someone making a
funnel cake and got lost in the scroll for 7 hours. That happens to the best of
us >> and then got depressed. >> Meta and YouTube, on the other hand,
never afraid to slug it out with the little guy, are taking this to trial.
Despite Meta's prospects for the suit not looking so hot, unsealed internal
documents have shown Meta employees messaging one another about the
addictive nature of Instagram, with one commenting that IG is a drug and another
saying, "We're basically pushers. Those people got bad attitudes and got
canned." Internal emails also show that Mark Zuckerberg made getting teens
locked into Meta's apps a top strategic priority right behind buying big chains
with an email from 2016 stating that Mark has decided that the top priority
for the company in 2017 is teens. Very
Epstein of him. An open source AI assistant called Moldbot, formerly
Claudebot, has crossed 80,000 GitHub stars, making it one of the fastest
growing AI projects of 2026 already. It
lets you run a personal AI assistant on your own hardware and control it through
messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or Slack. People are comparing
it to Jarvis from Iron Man, using it to manage their calendar, send emails, book
reservations, and even write code. That's how dad did it. That's how
America does it. And it's working out pretty good so far. Except maybe it's
not, as security experts have started sounding alarms about Moltbot's security
vulnerabilities. Heather Atkins, VP of security engineering at Google Cloud,
posted a warning not to run Moltbot as it appears to be massively vulnerable to
prompt injection attacks in which an attacker can feed hidden instructions to
the victim's AI assistant. Also, it's not owned by Google. So, use Gemini.
Rachel Tobac, CEO of Social Proof Security, explained that if you're
autonomous AI agent is reading all your messages and has admin access to your
computer, then someone can hijack your computer with a simple DM. But it gets
worse. Moltbot is connected to the internet in many different ways,
allowing security researcher Jameson O'Reilly, what is this? To find hundreds
of exposed Moltbot instances on the web, with some allowing unauthenticated
access to private messages, credentials, and API keys. He also demonstrated a
supply chain attack through Claude Hub, Moldbot's skills library. He uploaded a
proof of concept malicious skill, artificially inflated the download count
to over 4,000 to look more legit, and watched as developers from seven
countries downloaded it. The skill was benign, but O'Reilly said he could have
exfiltrated SSH keys, AWS credentials, and entire code bases. Moldbot's own
documentation acknowledges the risk, stating, "Running an AI agent with shell
access on your machine is spicy."
Really? They actually wrote that? Yeah, >> that's verbatim.
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about a quick bit before the quickbit? Samsung revealed their Galaxy Z trifold
phone is going to cost $2,900. Do you want me to sit here and cry about
it or do you want some real quick bits? >> Come on.
>> You want them? Intel just switched on XSS3 multi-frame generation in new
drivers, letting Arc GPUs and Core Ultra iGPUs generate 2x, 3x, or 4x the frames
across any game that already supports XESS2. The best part, if a game already
supports the second generation tech, developers, developers, developers don't
need to release updates for the new one to work. You just got to turn it on in
the Intel control panel. I know what you're thinking. XSS spelled backwards
is SE X. And now you can do it three times with your iGPU. It's time to
boogie down, boys. Tesla Model 3, Tesla
Model Y, Tes, you know, sexy.
>> Yeah, >> Elon did it first. NVIDIA finally did
it, folks. China has reportedly approved initial purchases of NVIDIA's H200 AI
chips by Bite Dance, Alibaba, and Tencent, covering more than 400,000
chips. After a year of Uncle Sam saying no, China saying please and Uncle Sam
saying, "Well, okay, since he asked nicely, and then China saying no once
they actually got permission." Apparently, all it took was a visit from
the great one, Jensen Huang himself.
Sorry, Gretzky. Maybe he gave Xiinping the skinny on where to get those sick
leather jackets. I guess we'll find out at the next press conference.
>> Xiinping's press conference comes out leather. >> Actually, leather assless chaps.
Sparks fly stone cold Steve Austin beer. >> This is how you get social credits. Iran
is planning to permanently cut itself off from the global internet, sending a
virtual fist bump to North Korea. After 20 days of near total blackout during
widespread protests and by all accounts a hideously violent response by
authorities, the government is now implementing what digital rights group
Filter Watch calls absolute digital isolation. Instead of lifting the
shutdown, they're building a whitelisting system where 90 million
Iranians can only access approved domestic sites while security vetted
elites get access to the outside world. Our porn, our awesome sunglasses. Even
worse, VPNs won't help because new deep packet inspection updates are
specifically designed to fingerprint VPN and Starlink traffic. A government
spokesperson who's probably evil confirmed international access will
never return to its previous form. Except of course in the offices of
Supreme Leader Ali Kmeni. Reports say when he's not hurrying to the little
Ayatollah's room, he's compulsively doomscrolling
thirst trap posts on Tumblr. >> We this this is we have it on good
authority. >> Amazon accidentally tipped its hand on
planned layoffs after an internal AWS email went out way too early. The
message sent by senior VP Colleen Aubrey scheduled a Wednesday meeting titled
Project Dawn, which then promptly got cancelled. The email claimed impacted
colleagues in the US Canada Costa Rica had already been notified. And
referenced a follow-up note from HR Chief Beth Galleti that awkwardly never
appeared. Aubrey wrote, "Changes like this are hard on everyone. Still,
considering Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says that the real risk of losing your job
comes from someone who's very good at using AI, maybe this was AI's way of
proving that it can do stuff on its own. Just get it over with. Fire them
already. And figure just dropped new footage of its Helix 2 humanoid robot
calmly putting away dishes. And somehow that is way more unsettling than it
should be. The video shows some serious fine motor control. Hip bumping a drawer
closed and using its foot to close the dishwasher, showing it's got the
dexterity to complete chores with style and to murder you.
>> Not both. >> I mean, at least it's actually useful, unlike those other robots who can't stop
doing karate and air flips. Meanwhile, Fondo Robotics went the opposite
direction with Sprout, a small, wildly little guy who's actually designed to be
cute and emotionally disarming. Why can't we give that one the knife? That
one seems like a much safer option. Or at least >> we feel better.
>> I could be like you too Brutus.
>> But the best option would obviously be for you guys to come back tomorrow for
more get I mean back on Friday for more tech news.
I think that's right.