Okay, I know our last video was titled Nobody Wants This and regular viewers
will know that criticizing AI companies and slop is one of our favorite
pastimes, but we just got to we got something to chat about uh here because
Mozilla's new CEO, Anthony Enzor Deo,
published his inaugural blog post this week, writing mostly about the
importance of earning users trust and maintaining user control, but also
because this is 2025, about thoughtfully developing AI features. And then
everyone's heads exploded. There was much outcry about Firefox making the
unprecedented move of adding AI, which is as horrible a development as the time
they added AI in July and the time before that in February. In other words,
Firefox has had AI features for a while
like alt text generation for accessibility purposes, translation,
automatic tab grouping, link previews with summaries, and most recently an AI
window. You can open just like a private or incognito window if you want to
because all of these features are optional, which is probably why almost
no one has noticed them. Well, that and almost no one uses Firefox to begin
with. I think and hope that the second part of this tweet is a joke, but I have
to admit I was reminded of that old saying, "Throw yourself in next time and
rid the world of your stupidity." Most people seem very concerned with this one
line from the blog post stating Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser.
And I agree. It sounds weird. I mean, in my mind, an AI browser is bad. It steals
clicks from websites and spies on people
in change rooms. It proves that cringe is not dead
because AI browsers exist. Firefox isn't
cringe. Only its users are. It's okay. I'm a Firefox user. And if I'm not, I
have many Firefox user friends. Look, you might not want any AI features
whatsoever in your browser. But Firefox says that with the AI cat out of the
bag, they see it as their responsibility to help show how AI can be implemented
in a way that protects and gives people more choice, not less. They also say in
there that standing still while technology moves forward doesn't benefit
anyone. least of all the browser that's dropped from 30% to less than 5% market
share in the last 15 years. It's probably because of AI. Thankfully, I
won't go insane today because there are some others who noticed the multiple
times Enzor Deo mentions all of the AI
stuff will be easy to turn off. A similar thing happened to Baldersgate 3
developer at Larian Studios this week when their CEO Sven Vinky told Bloomberg
that the studio uses AI for some concepting and menial tasks. People
flipped and he later clarified that AI is only used in the very early ideiation
phase and then they have their actual concept artists of which they are hiring
more currently not less draw the concept art. He says their games like the
upcoming Divinity will have no AI generated anything in the final product.
Look, my ultimate point here is maybe we don't jump down people's throats as soon
as they say they've gotten chat GBT to write a little erotica for themselves.
And also another point is I guess that very few people use Firefox. And more of
them should. Don't let AI scare you off. I mean, I'm a virtual being trapped in a
computer. Am I scary? NVIDIA is reportedly planning to slash RTX 50
series GPU production by somewhere between 30 and 40% going into early
2026. Naturally, it is assumed that these cuts are due to hardware companies
buying up memory chips like their Pokemon cards. These reports come from
the Chinese board channels forum and news site Benchlife, whose supply chain
sources claim that NVIDIA's production cuts will first hit the RTX 5060Ti 16 GB
and the RTX 5070 Ti. Makes sense
considering NVIDIA could use the GDDDR7 from those mid-range cards to make more
of their higherend, more expensive cards and ultimately make more money. They
need more money. It's for R&D. They swear. We haven't seen how big the
bubble can get. Don't you want to break the Guinness record? This frankly
terrible news comes as it becomes more and more clear that RAM prices aren't
going to come down for a bit and will likely even continue to rise. I mean, a
Kingston rep outright told Tom's Hardware, "It's bad." And it's getting
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bits. [screaming]
It's supposed to be like Godzilla. I don't know why. [laughter] Ford is launching a new battery storage
business aimed at powering data centers, repurposing their giant hordes of EV
batteries that realistically nobody would have bought anyways. Instead of
wasting all that extra capacity, Ford plans to turn those batteries into
large-scale energy storage systems to help power- hungry data centers wean off
those addictive jet turbines. There there's it's a problem. Of course, this
might be foolish timing cuz if Bernie Sanders has his way, we won't need those
batteries at all. In a recent Twitter post, Bernie said he would be quote
pushing for a moratorum on the construction of data centers because
every data center is like a house, but not for humans, for robots. Not a real
quote at the end there, but I'm paraphrasing. A massive data breach at
fintech company 700 credit, who make the
systems most American car dealerships use for credit applications, has exposed
the personal information of at least 5.8 million people. Attackers accessed a
vulnerable API through a third party integration partner and quietly siphoned
off data for months before being detected. The stolen information
includes names, addresses, dates of birth, and social security numbers. And
that figure represents just about 20% of 700 credits total user data. So if you
bought a car recently, yeah, maybe double check that you haven't bought
anymore. Microsoft has quietly enabled a background task in their latest Windows
11 builds that users say is hammering CPU, RAM, and disk usage. The AppX
deployment service is meant to manage app installs and updates, but support
pages about this task show it can hog resources even when you're doing
nothing. Now, I know what you're probably thinking right now. Why can't I just get some more RAM? Well, boy howdy.
If you did sell a kidney to buy some of that sweet DDR5, you better be careful.
A new scam reported to Video Cards shows that some of these sealed DDR5 kits are
actually just DDR2 kits in disguise. But
whatever, RAM is like fancy wine. You can't actually tell the difference. H
got high notes of undy error correction.
You don't know. Apple is apparently offering free hands-on training to US
manufacturing companies through its aptly named Manufacturing Academy,
helping small firms modernize operations with things like automation, data
analysis, and even customized open-source tools. It's kind of like
Apple suddenly decided to do quiet good guy stuff far away from the public eye.
And if that doesn't warm your heart, okay, skeptic button turned off. Maybe
this will. Software leaks from a kernel debug kit suggest Apple is working on a
new iMac Pro after discontinuing the original back in 2021. So, with the RAM
crisis in full swing, get ready to choose between that and paying off your
debts. It's a mix of student debt and and mafia stuff.
Probably don't definitely don't get the iMac. Twitter, who renamed itself X
because it didn't want to be Twitter anymore, is suing a startup called
Operation Bluebird for trying to make another social platform and name it
Twitter. Bluebird wants to revive the Twitter name and Bluebird logo because
original Twitter abandon it. But original Twitter says the brand was
never abandoned, pointing out that millions of people still use twitter.com
and call posts on X tweets. And it's
going to court to make sure the only thing that's called Twitter is the thing
that was called Twitter first. And what? Just because I put my old shirt in the
garbage can behind my house doesn't mean I'm done with it. Sometimes I keep
shirts in there. And YouTube is testing a new playables builder that uses Gemini
3 to let creators crank out simple
playable games directly inside YouTube with vibes and prompts instead of
coding. This is every ideas man's wet dream. Ah, man. If I can make games out
of vibes, man, I'd be set, man.
[clears throat] I got so many vibes. But Google's also cranking out fun little
Easter eggs for the youths. You see, typing 67 into Google search right now
makes the page wig out in honor of the viral meme. I believe this is what
experts in the field of sociology call catastrophic meme death. When Google's
joking along with you, something's wrong. And something feels wrong here.
Oh, I think it's that the episode's over. So, come back on Friday for more
tech news and everything will be right again. The middle class is shrinking and
all of the robots are coming. All right, here we go.