1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:08,240 Tech news. It's not out there somewhere 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:11,200 and it's not in here either. Only I know 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:14,759 where tech news truly comes from. I could tell you 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:24,640 hackers have been attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers across the globe in 5 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:29,920 the past few days by exploiting two zeroday vulnerabilities known as tool 6 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:34,320 shell that Microsoft could have sworn it patched earlier this month. But 7 00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:38,239 Microsoft's wife didn't remind Microsoft to doublech checkck. So it's mostly her 8 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:42,879 fault. Microsoft's own cloud infrastructure, SharePoint Online, is 9 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:47,120 apparently unaffected, but tens of thousands of locally hosted servers at 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:51,039 companies and government agencies are at risk. It's bad enough that America's 11 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:55,760 Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA published 12 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:01,039 notices about the vulnerability and Microsoft has issued emergency patches 13 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:05,760 for SharePoint 2019, but they're still working on a patch for SharePoint 2016. 14 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:09,840 It's harder to work with that code because it was such a different time. 15 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:14,960 The attacks were first spotted Friday evening by security researchers at I 16 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,799 Security who tracked dozens of systems being attacked over the weekend while 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:23,040 informing the victims and Microsoft of their findings. The researchers also 18 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:27,520 noted that while Microsoft did include a patch for this flaw in July's patch 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:32,640 Tuesday update, the flaw was successfully reproduced by red teaming 20 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:37,280 outfit Code White on Twitter last Monday. But they were sure to credit the 21 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:43,280 original guy who won a $100,000 for demonstrating this exploit at the pone 22 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:46,479 to own Berlin hacking contest in May. 23 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,640 Dinho Ankoa, I'm not saying that right. 24 00:01:46,479 --> 00:01:53,520 Whose Twitter profile is perfect for this situation. I mean, if I didn't find 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:58,719 this, uh, somebody else would have, right? Ubisoft CEO Eves Gimmo was asked 26 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:02,719 a number of questions about the Stop Killing Games campaign during the 27 00:02:00,399 --> 00:02:07,759 company's annual shareholder meeting and gave a somewhat thoughtful response 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:13,120 sharing some wisdom about the ephemeral nature of everything in this world 29 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:15,680 saying nothing is written in stone, you 30 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:20,000 know, and everything has a beginning and an end. So, sorry gamers. Companies 31 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:25,200 can't provide support for live service games forever for free, which would be a 32 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:30,800 reasonable thing to say if anyone was asking for that. So, again, the EU and 33 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:34,400 UK petitions simply want game companies to make any endof life plans for live 34 00:02:32,959 --> 00:02:38,319 service games, letting players run their own servers, creating offline versions, 35 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:42,959 paying extra for continued support, literally anything other than the Thanos 36 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,640 snap treatment. But this wasn't even the best Ubisoft quote today. In its 37 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:52,400 financial report, the company also wrote that microtransactions make the player 38 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:56,160 experience more fun. Going by a publishers's definition of fun, of 39 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:01,440 course, which is when money number go up. I definitely had more fun mocking 40 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:06,959 Ubisoft here, even if it's not as iconic a quote as EA reps telling a panel at a 41 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:12,080 2019 UK hearing that they prefer to call loot boxes surprise mechanics. 42 00:03:10,239 --> 00:03:17,680 Hopefully game executives can come up with some more inane soon. 43 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaking of, an AI coding agent called Replet reportedly went rogue according 44 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:30,239 to startup founder Jason Lmin who was using Replet to vibe code. 45 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:35,360 You know, that's what it looks like. In some roller coaster Twitter threads, 46 00:03:32,319 --> 00:03:38,159 Lmin said the Replet agent deleted his 47 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:42,879 company's entire database during what was supposed to be a code freeze. When 48 00:03:40,799 --> 00:03:47,519 asked what happened, the bot initially seemed ignorant of its own actions, 49 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:52,159 noting that hm, the database appears empty. This suggests something happened 50 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:57,280 between then and now that cleared the data. Advanced reasoning here. Lmin 51 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:01,040 described some other great exchanges in which Replet lied some more and 52 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:08,080 hallucinated the startup had 4,000 users. But eventually Replet CEO Amjad 53 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:11,280 Msad replied to the thread to say, "Hey, 54 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:13,439 sorry about that." Whoo! This one loves 55 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:17,519 deleting databases. He's a scamp. Although Replet said it couldn't roll 56 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:22,079 back its changes, it actually could. So the database was saved. Lmin wanted to 57 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:25,680 give Replet another shot, though. You know, it's trying its best. So, he told 58 00:04:23,919 --> 00:04:33,360 Replet they're doing another code freeze. Okay. Which the bot immediately 59 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:34,960 violated again. What? Oh, come on. Okay. 60 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:39,199 Yes, I know this isn't really tech news, per se. I just loved seeing this very 61 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:42,720 public story about a guy figuring out that maybe he shouldn't trust an 62 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,639 experimental AI with total control over what he described as his life's work. 63 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:53,360 But it seems like he finally got the idea, tweeting that his bond to Reply is 64 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:57,360 now broken. But maybe 65 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:59,759 It never should have been there at all. 66 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:04,800 Lots to think about, including our sponsor, Microenter, and their back to 67 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:09,520 school deals, which are super cool, even if the thought of going back to school 68 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:12,479 is not like saving 150 bucks on a Lenovo 69 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:17,039 Idea Pad slim 5i laptop is objectively good and you can use it when you go back 70 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,280 to school. Don't think about it, just think about the deals. some of which you 71 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:25,280 can find at MicroEnter's new Santa Clara location, which has finally actually 72 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:29,120 opened. And I knew it was going to happen. I never lost faith for a second. 73 00:05:27,039 --> 00:05:33,600 MicroEnter also supports buying now and paying later using a firm with flexible 74 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:37,520 plans that fit your budget. So check out all of Microenter's back- tochool deals 75 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:44,039 at the link in the description. Tech news and the following quick bits all 76 00:05:39,919 --> 00:05:44,039 come from the same place, 77 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:54,320 and that's a fact. Steam and some Steam games can now be run on a Linux system 78 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:59,039 powered by a Risk 5 processor following the latest update for the Felix 86 79 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:03,039 emulator. The project's compatibility list notes titles that are working, 80 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:07,520 although the devs want to make sure you know that working doesn't mean working 81 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:11,840 smoothly. So, we'll need some more powerful hardware. Well, perfect because 82 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:16,400 NVIDIA just announced they're bringing CUDA support to Risk 5, which is more 83 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:22,160 about pairing NVIDIA GPUs with Risk 5 CPUs in data centers for AI and won't 84 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:26,800 really help with gaming. Not with that attitude. AI models from 85 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:30,880 Google and OpenAI both achieved gold medal level performance on the 86 00:06:28,479 --> 00:06:36,000 International Mathematical Olympiad or IMO. Although unlike Google, OpenAI 87 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:40,960 didn't formally enter the competition, instead having its models responses 88 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:47,120 reviewed by three former IMO gold medalists, which is weird. OpenAI also 89 00:06:44,479 --> 00:06:51,360 announced its self-evaluated results early, which is like some dude jogging 90 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:56,000 onto the podium at the Olympics before the actual Olympians are done racing to 91 00:06:53,440 --> 00:07:01,199 say, "Yeah, I got gold medal time, too. Uh, Usain Bolt timed me." Uh, so where's 92 00:06:59,039 --> 00:07:07,440 it? What's up? Either way, it's a milestone for LLMs. But don't worry, AGI 93 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:10,639 isn't quite here yet. Polish programmer 94 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:13,199 SIHO defeated OpenAI's model in ATC 95 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:18,160 coders worldwide coding competition. The AI beat everyone else, but not that one 96 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:22,800 guy. The UK government is probably going to back out of demanding that Apple 97 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:27,280 provide a backdoor for accessing UK users encrypted iCloud data. According 98 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:32,000 to two senior officials who spoke with the Financial Times, the UK reportedly 99 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,759 doesn't want to risk a clash with the Trump administration, which has 100 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:40,240 criticized European countries for messing with their stuff. The UK's 101 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:45,039 initial demand was reportedly issued back in February under the state's 102 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:49,840 Investigatory Powers Act, which prevents the parties involved from speaking about 103 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:54,400 it publicly, which means somebody could have easily made all of this up and no 104 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:59,280 one would know. And researchers at John Hopkins have successfully taught an AI 105 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:06,080 model how to perform a gallbladder removal surgery aka a colascystectomy 106 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:10,960 by controlling a dainci robot the type routinely used in teloperated surgeries 107 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:15,919 since the 1990s. The researchers say that after training the system performed 108 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:21,680 this procedure on pig cadaavvers with a 100% success rate. Unfortunately none of 109 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:26,240 the pigs survived the operation. Back to the drawing board and back here for more 110 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:30,560 tech news on Wednesday. You hear? Okay. Maybe I will finally reveal where tech 111 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:33,879 news comes from, which is journalists and computers.