WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:08.240 Tech news. It's not out there somewhere 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.200 and it's not in here either. Only I know 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:14.759 where tech news truly comes from. I could tell you 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:24.640 hackers have been attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers across the globe in 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:29.920 the past few days by exploiting two zeroday vulnerabilities known as tool 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:34.320 shell that Microsoft could have sworn it patched earlier this month. But 00:00:31.599 --> 00:00:38.239 Microsoft's wife didn't remind Microsoft to doublech checkck. So it's mostly her 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:42.879 fault. Microsoft's own cloud infrastructure, SharePoint Online, is 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:47.120 apparently unaffected, but tens of thousands of locally hosted servers at 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:51.039 companies and government agencies are at risk. It's bad enough that America's 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:55.760 Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA published 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:01.039 notices about the vulnerability and Microsoft has issued emergency patches 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:05.760 for SharePoint 2019, but they're still working on a patch for SharePoint 2016. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:09.840 It's harder to work with that code because it was such a different time. 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:14.960 The attacks were first spotted Friday evening by security researchers at I 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.799 Security who tracked dozens of systems being attacked over the weekend while 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:23.040 informing the victims and Microsoft of their findings. The researchers also 00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:27.520 noted that while Microsoft did include a patch for this flaw in July's patch 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:32.640 Tuesday update, the flaw was successfully reproduced by red teaming 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:37.280 outfit Code White on Twitter last Monday. But they were sure to credit the 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:43.280 original guy who won a $100,000 for demonstrating this exploit at the pone 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:46.479 to own Berlin hacking contest in May. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:48.640 Dinho Ankoa, I'm not saying that right. 00:01:46.479 --> 00:01:53.520 Whose Twitter profile is perfect for this situation. I mean, if I didn't find 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:58.719 this, uh, somebody else would have, right? Ubisoft CEO Eves Gimmo was asked 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:02.719 a number of questions about the Stop Killing Games campaign during the 00:02:00.399 --> 00:02:07.759 company's annual shareholder meeting and gave a somewhat thoughtful response 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:13.120 sharing some wisdom about the ephemeral nature of everything in this world 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:15.680 saying nothing is written in stone, you 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:20.000 know, and everything has a beginning and an end. So, sorry gamers. Companies 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:25.200 can't provide support for live service games forever for free, which would be a 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:30.800 reasonable thing to say if anyone was asking for that. So, again, the EU and 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:34.400 UK petitions simply want game companies to make any endof life plans for live 00:02:32.959 --> 00:02:38.319 service games, letting players run their own servers, creating offline versions, 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:42.959 paying extra for continued support, literally anything other than the Thanos 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:46.640 snap treatment. But this wasn't even the best Ubisoft quote today. In its 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:52.400 financial report, the company also wrote that microtransactions make the player 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:56.160 experience more fun. Going by a publishers's definition of fun, of 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:01.440 course, which is when money number go up. I definitely had more fun mocking 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 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:12.080 2019 UK hearing that they prefer to call loot boxes surprise mechanics. 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:17.680 Hopefully game executives can come up with some more inane soon. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:23.280 Speaking of, an AI coding agent called Replet reportedly went rogue according 00:03:20.480 --> 00:03:30.239 to startup founder Jason Lmin who was using Replet to vibe code. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:35.360 You know, that's what it looks like. In some roller coaster Twitter threads, 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:38.159 Lmin said the Replet agent deleted his 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:42.879 company's entire database during what was supposed to be a code freeze. When 00:03:40.799 --> 00:03:47.519 asked what happened, the bot initially seemed ignorant of its own actions, 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:52.159 noting that hm, the database appears empty. This suggests something happened 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:57.280 between then and now that cleared the data. Advanced reasoning here. Lmin 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:01.040 described some other great exchanges in which Replet lied some more and 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:08.080 hallucinated the startup had 4,000 users. But eventually Replet CEO Amjad 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:11.280 Msad replied to the thread to say, "Hey, 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.439 sorry about that." Whoo! This one loves 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:17.519 deleting databases. He's a scamp. Although Replet said it couldn't roll 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:22.079 back its changes, it actually could. So the database was saved. Lmin wanted to 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:25.680 give Replet another shot, though. You know, it's trying its best. So, he told 00:04:23.919 --> 00:04:33.360 Replet they're doing another code freeze. Okay. Which the bot immediately 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:34.960 violated again. What? Oh, come on. Okay. 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 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:42.720 public story about a guy figuring out that maybe he shouldn't trust an 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:46.639 experimental AI with total control over what he described as his life's work. 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:53.360 But it seems like he finally got the idea, tweeting that his bond to Reply is 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:57.360 now broken. 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So check out all of Microenter's back- tochool deals 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:44.039 at the link in the description. Tech news and the following quick bits all 00:05:39.919 --> 00:05:44.039 come from the same place, 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 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:59.039 powered by a Risk 5 processor following the latest update for the Felix 86 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:03.039 emulator. The project's compatibility list notes titles that are working, 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:07.520 although the devs want to make sure you know that working doesn't mean working 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:11.840 smoothly. So, we'll need some more powerful hardware. Well, perfect because 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:16.400 NVIDIA just announced they're bringing CUDA support to Risk 5, which is more 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:22.160 about pairing NVIDIA GPUs with Risk 5 CPUs in data centers for AI and won't 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:26.800 really help with gaming. Not with that attitude. AI models from 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:30.880 Google and OpenAI both achieved gold medal level performance on the 00:06:28.479 --> 00:06:36.000 International Mathematical Olympiad or IMO. Although unlike Google, OpenAI 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:40.960 didn't formally enter the competition, instead having its models responses 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:47.120 reviewed by three former IMO gold medalists, which is weird. OpenAI also 00:06:44.479 --> 00:06:51.360 announced its self-evaluated results early, which is like some dude jogging 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:56.000 onto the podium at the Olympics before the actual Olympians are done racing to 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 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 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:10.639 isn't quite here yet. Polish programmer 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:13.199 SIHO defeated OpenAI's model in ATC 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:18.160 coders worldwide coding competition. The AI beat everyone else, but not that one 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:22.800 guy. The UK government is probably going to back out of demanding that Apple 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:27.280 provide a backdoor for accessing UK users encrypted iCloud data. According 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:32.000 to two senior officials who spoke with the Financial Times, the UK reportedly 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:35.759 doesn't want to risk a clash with the Trump administration, which has 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:40.240 criticized European countries for messing with their stuff. The UK's 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:45.039 initial demand was reportedly issued back in February under the state's 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:49.840 Investigatory Powers Act, which prevents the parties involved from speaking about 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:54.400 it publicly, which means somebody could have easily made all of this up and no 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:59.280 one would know. And researchers at John Hopkins have successfully taught an AI 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:06.080 model how to perform a gallbladder removal surgery aka a colascystectomy 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:10.960 by controlling a dainci robot the type routinely used in teloperated surgeries 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:15.919 since the 1990s. The researchers say that after training the system performed 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:21.680 this procedure on pig cadaavvers with a 100% success rate. Unfortunately none of 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:26.240 the pigs survived the operation. Back to the drawing board and back here for more 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:30.560 tech news on Wednesday. You hear? Okay. Maybe I will finally reveal where tech 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.879 news comes from, which is journalists and computers.