WEBVTT 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:06.520 Happy Easter. Guess what the Easter Bunny got you? 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:12.920 >> Chocolate! >> What? No, it's It's It's tech news. Chocolate for 00:00:10.600 --> 00:00:17.560 everybody? Can you imagine the shipping? Chinese DDR5 prices are plummeting, and 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:22.080 resellers who stockpiled RAM during the shortage are stuck with mountains of 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:25.840 products they can't move. So, that's where that all went. Clips on Twitter 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:31.560 show vendors in a Shenzhen market surrounded by piles of modules saying 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:36.840 they're, quote, doomed. Though, how real any of this is remains an open question, 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:40.880 especially after WCCFTech illustrated their coverage with what appears to be 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:45.440 an AI-generated image of a man ripping his hair out while his RAM flies all 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:49.480 over the place in a warehouse. I hate it when that happens. Look how sad he is. 00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:53.200 It's It's real. Reports out of China say the biggest drops are hitting the gray 00:00:51.400 --> 00:00:58.440 market, meaning these are recycled and repackaged sticks, not factory-fresh 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:01.040 kits, with prices down 25% 00:00:58.440 --> 00:01:05.760 to 30% earlier this year. But before you get too excited rubbing your little fly 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:11.760 hands together, industry sources told ET News that Samsung just bumped Q2 DRAM 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:13.680 contract prices another 30% on top of 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:16.720 already doubling them in Q1. So, the people who actually make this stuff, 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:22.360 they're not sweating it, which probably explains why this higher tier of the 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:25.160 Lenovo Legion Go 2 just received a $650 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:29.200 price hike from its $1,350 launch price just 6 months ago for a 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:32.960 handheld that runs Windows. >> worst part. 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:36.640 The eyes of the world are on NASA's Artemis 2 crew as they conduct their 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:39.840 lunar flyby, which is happening right now as we're filming this in a rare 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:44.360 moment that seems to be bringing the world together. Also, they just broke 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:48.760 Apollo 13's record for the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.960 Suck it, Apollo 13 crew. You got nothing on Canadian dreamboat Jeremy Hansen. 00:01:51.080 --> 00:01:57.760 Suck it, Tom Hanks. you. >> Woah! Canada. Canada. At the time of 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:02.360 writing, the four astronauts are in a 6-hour observation window photographing 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:06.840 craters, lava flows, and future landing zones on the far side of the moon, the 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:10.520 better side, measuring surface albedo, and snapping shots of nearby planets. 00:02:09.119 --> 00:02:15.320 Right now, the life feed is coming from modified GoPro cameras on Orion's solar 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:22.000 array wings, but the spacecraft is also testing a laser system called O2O that 00:02:18.880 --> 00:02:24.280 can beam 4K video from the moon at 260 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:28.080 megabit per second, which means future missions could livestream higher-quality 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:32.040 footage from the moon than Netflix allows on its cheapest plan. Ultimately, 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:36.120 the whole mission has been going so well that the biggest talking point so far is 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:40.160 the astronauts' bathroom situation. Evidently, their urine froze in the 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.880 collection tank breaking the mechanism that allows them to go number one aboard 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.760 the ship, meaning that the crew has resorted to peeing in bags. It's 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:52.200 The internet has also been going nuts for a jar of Nutella that keeps floating 00:02:50.040 --> 00:02:56.200 through the cabin on a livestream. Is it poop? Prompting NASA to have to make a 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:59.800 public statement that they don't have a product placement deal with Nutella. 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:04.520 Could be pretty sweet, though. LinkedIn is silently scanning visitors' browsers 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:08.760 for over 6,000 Chrome extensions every time they load the site, according to a 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:12.760 new report called BrowserGate, published by a European group called Fairlink, no 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:16.560 relation. The exposé claims that LinkedIn performs hidden JavaScript 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:19.920 checks for job search tools, competitor products, and extensions tied to 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:24.440 religious beliefs, political views, and neurodivergence, then sends the results 00:03:22.160 --> 00:03:28.080 back to LinkedIn's servers, where no one cool works. Funnily enough, none of this 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:31.720 is mentioned in LinkedIn's privacy policy. Bleeping Computer independently 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:38.640 verified the scanning behavior through their own testing and confirmed the script checks for 6,236 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:42.800 extensions, up from about 2,000 just last year. Now, LinkedIn says the 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:46.600 report's claims are plain wrong, and that the person behind the BrowserGate 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:50.080 website is the developer of a browser extension called Team Fluence, whose 00:03:48.440 --> 00:03:54.280 account was banned for scraping and violating LinkedIn's terms of service. A 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:58.160 German court did deny Team Fluence's injunction against LinkedIn, so there's 00:03:56.200 --> 00:04:02.400 clearly some beef here, but that doesn't change the fact that LinkedIn is 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:05.320 verifiably scanning your browser for extensions every time you visit the site 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:09.560 without telling you. 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It's quick bits time. 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:23.800 NVIDIA demoed a new compression method to shrink the textures in games last 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:27.440 weekend. You know, the surface details that make walls look like walls and skin 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:31.640 look like skin. Their new neural texture 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:37.640 compression uses tiny neural networks to unpack those details on the fly, and in 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:39.800 one demo, it cut VRAM usage from 6.5 GB 00:05:37.640 --> 00:05:43.200 down to under a gig while looking basically identical. Intel showed off 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.680 their own version, too, probably suckier, but let's hear them out, 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:51.720 claiming up to 18 times smaller textures. No games use it yet, but if 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:55.120 they did, your GPU might finally stop running out of memory all the time, or 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:59.600 GPU makers will just use it as an excuse to give you less. I mean, you're just 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:02.920 going to put DLSS 5 on top of it anyway. What are you going to do with it? 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:06.680 >> going to chat GPT it anyway. Chat GPT is the one who needs it. A court in Rome 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:11.600 has ruled that Netflix's price hikes in Italy between 2017 and 2024 were all 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:17.880 unlawful and ordered the company to refund affected subscribers. Consumer 00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:20.120 group Movimento Consumatori, which, 00:06:17.880 --> 00:06:24.120 despite sounding like an Italian vampire coven, is actually an Italian consumer 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:28.520 rights organization that brought the suit arguing Netflix violated Italy's 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:33.520 consumer code by hiking prices without proper justification. Premium customers 00:06:31.080 --> 00:06:37.920 could be owed up to 500 euros with standard subscribers entitled to around 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:41.840 250. This is a decent class action. >> Yeah. Netflix says it plans to appeal. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:46.960 OpenAI has just announced that it's acquiring the TBPN podcast, a daily live 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:51.480 tech show that's popular with tech bros, but that most of the rest of us know as 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:55.000 the greenest podcast in the universe. According to OpenAI, they acquired the 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:58.800 podcast to help with shaping the conversation around AI, but claim the 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:02.720 podcast will maintain editorial independence, which seems like two 00:07:00.440 --> 00:07:07.120 completely opposing statements. It seems like all scammy boys just pulling a page 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:10.800 out of the Ellison playbook, joining a trend of billionaires snapping up media 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:14.560 to help control the narratives around their products. I think I speak for all 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:19.360 of us, though, when I say that the only thing I care about is that it stays 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:22.880 overwhelmingly green, so I know to swipe past it as quickly as possible during my 00:07:21.640 --> 00:07:28.000 doom scroll sessions. And if you're a fan of that show and you watch this show, well, now you can just only watch 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:32.960 this show if you don't like them all. >> Oh, so easy. Thanks, James. Keep 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:36.520 watching us. That's actually green behind me, too. 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:41.360 >> OH, NO! WE MIGHT BE THE GREENER than >> SpaceX filed with the SEC last week for 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:46.240 what could be the biggest IPO ever, targeting a valuation of more than a 00:07:42.760 --> 00:07:49.000 trillion dollars, cuz it's Elon scale. 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:53.200 For this historic milestone, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made a demand that the 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.600 banks advising on the deal buy Grok subscriptions, with some already 00:07:54.760 --> 00:08:01.000 agreeing to spend tens of millions on the chatbot. It's not surprising that 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:05.880 the banks acquiesced as with an IPO of this magnitude, they stand to make over 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:09.400 500 million dollars in fees. And I'm sure that plugging the nudifying 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:13.000 mecha-Hitler AI into the companies that triggered the 2008 financial 00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:20.400 >> yeah. I mean, if he's a good guy if you get to know 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:22.320 him. And Cleveland Clinic researchers 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:26.880 just published results showing that a one-time CRISPR gene editing therapy can 00:08:25.080 --> 00:08:30.440 functionally cure severe sickle cell disease. The RUBY trial, published in 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:34.320 the New England Journal of Medicine, treated 28 patients with a therapy 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:39.919 called reni-cel that edits their own stem cells to correct the mutation 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:42.599 causing the disease. 27 out of 28 had 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:46.040 zero painful crises after treatment with hemoglobin levels normalizing within 6 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:49.680 months, which is great news for people suffering from debilitating genetic 00:08:47.640 --> 00:08:53.360 diseases, and also for everyone who's been hoping for a Captain America-style 00:08:51.640 --> 00:08:57.160 super serum to be available so they don't have to go to the gym anymore. And 00:08:55.280 --> 00:09:01.000 that's all the tech news for this Easter Monday. Enjoy your chocolate, hug your 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:04.760 loved ones, and remember, if the Easter Bunny asks for your phone number, don't 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.800 give it to him, no matter how much candy he offers. He's been trying to get 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:13.520 people into a multi-level marketing scheme. See you on my downline 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.520 Wednesday. Downline?