WEBVTT 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:07.000 Hi everybody. Are you ready for tech news? 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:15.120 Great. Steam was the subject of a spat between 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:21.880 the world's biggest valve critic {slash} Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and gamers at 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:23.960 large over games that use generative AI. 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:28.800 Currently, developers of such games must disclose how they used AI on their 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:34.840 game's Steam page, but in a reply to a tweet from game dev turned AI lobbyist 00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:40.120 Matt Workman, Sweeney agreed that this is dumb because AI is the future of 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:45.480 games anyway and if we label the games now, the clankers will be upset later. 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:50.360 Oh, no. I could I said it. Sweeney's remarks came after another reply to the 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:55.040 same tweet from an artist at Valve, Ari Sanchez, who pointed out that 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:59.560 transparency on the use of AI or anything else, really, shouldn't be 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:04.720 considered a bad thing in this context. Now, Workman is concerned that labeling 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:07.480 games hurt their sales. Meanwhile, Arc 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:11.480 Raiders has such a label and it's hotter than a jet turbine strapped to the side 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:16.960 of A DATA CENTER. GOT THEM. Sanchez theorizes that the 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:19.200 only devs afraid of an AI label, quote, 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:23.120 are the ones that know their product is low effort. Oh, that's where that's 00:01:21.800 --> 00:01:27.080 where that there. 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:31.880 But oop, here comes Tim Sweeney again to ask why we would stop at labels for AI. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:37.560 We might as well force devs to disclose what shampoo brand the developer uses. 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:41.520 And to be fair, if a developer did find some way to develop a game using 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:45.880 shampoo, I would want to know that. Maybe they're born with it. Maybe it's 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:50.440 programmed. Maybe it's Head and Shoulders. The memory crisis has gotten 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:55.000 so bad that NVIDIA has reportedly stopped including VRAM on the GPU 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:59.160 modules it sells to some of its board partners. According to reasonably 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:03.760 reliable rumor monger Golden Pig Upgrade, now not including VRAM is 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:08.679 apparently standard procedure for NVIDIA sales to the biggest GPU vendors, but 00:02:06.440 --> 00:02:12.960 that's not the case for smaller board partners with fewer memory industry 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:18.320 connections who will now have to wait outside a 7-Eleven panhandling for spare 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:23.200 RAM. But if they can't score any memory chips that way, if they're camped at a 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:27.640 7-Eleven in Korea, they could buy memory themed chips. 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:34.120 Because the convenience store chain collabed with memory company SK Hynix to 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:36.720 launch a snack called HBM chips, which 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:42.560 simultaneously stands for high bandwidth memory and honey banana mat, mat being 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:46.960 the Korean word for flavor. Now, this is extremely confusing to me, possibly 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:52.920 because I'm not Korean enough, but 7-Eleven apparently wants to do stuff 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.200 like this to create unexpected fun 00:02:52.920 --> 00:03:00.200 purchasing experiences for younger consumers who are just bouncing off the 00:02:57.880 --> 00:03:04.680 walls with hype over the next hot new snack from their favorite semiconductor 00:03:02.440 --> 00:03:09.520 manufacturer. Woah, you got the new SK Hynix? Yeah, man. 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:13.280 Smoke some weed. The European Union has agreed on new 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:17.640 rules that would hold tech companies liable for scams hosted on their 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:21.720 platforms. Now, once the EU Parliament and Council adopt the new rules, payment 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:26.360 service providers like PayPal and Stripe, but also social media companies 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:31.360 like Meta and TikTok, will be punished if they fail to remove scams that have 00:03:28.760 --> 00:03:36.080 been reported. So, I guess the EU is still doing stuff to keep big tech in 00:03:33.160 --> 00:03:39.640 check, as long as it's not AI related. The block's Digital Services Act, 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:43.800 Digital Markets Act and it's still developing AI Act have all been put in 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.320 jeopardy by pressure from the US government who would like Europe to stop 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:53.880 telling American companies what they can or can't do in Europe. That's communism. 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:58.440 Correct me if I'm wrong. 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A huge shakeup considering Apple's M 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:25.840 series chips are currently built overseas by TSMC. Now, according to 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:31.000 Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, if this happens, Intel will use the 18A 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:36.240 P advanced node to help MacBooks and iPads get made in USA silicon while 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:39.720 Apple keeps its top-end chips being produced at TMC. Apple began 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:43.640 transitioning away from Intel processors in 2020, but with everybody scrounging 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:47.240 to get chips manufactured these days, it looks like the two tech giants have been 00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:50.840 brought back together by a force that has rekindled many a relationship, 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:54.640 desperation. Let's have a baby. That'll save our 00:05:52.880 --> 00:06:00.320 marriage. MIT researchers say their iceberg index 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:06.240 simulation of the US labor market shows that 11.7% of US jobs could already be 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:10.520 handled by current AI, no problem. Importantly, the tool is meant to flag 00:06:08.200 --> 00:06:15.720 vulnerable roles, not to predict layoffs. At least jobs appear safe from 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:18.360 AI at NVIDIA where CEO Jensen Huang told 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:22.320 an all-hands meeting that AI will not replace them and asked managers who have 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:28.400 been telling their employees to use less AI, are you insane? Meanwhile, NVIDIA 00:06:25.760 --> 00:06:34.240 tried to calm financial analysts worried about the company's books, insisting in 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:37.720 a leaked memo that they are not Enron. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:39.440 Okay. Not Enron, the poster child for 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:43.320 accounting fraud. Now, I'm not sure if that's going to calm anyone down. A 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:48.720 business bringing up Enron feels a bit like saying Macbeth in the theater. 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:52.800 The theater! Of course, if you do that, then Dbrand 00:06:50.640 --> 00:06:58.160 steals your soul. 404 Media reporter Joseph Cox has 00:06:55.400 --> 00:07:03.000 reported that his iDevices bizarrely began suddenly opening random podcasts 00:07:00.880 --> 00:07:06.760 all on their own. Some with silent audio, which is even more creepy, and 00:07:04.840 --> 00:07:11.000 others linking to pages that could be considered malicious. Security 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:15.960 researcher Patrick Wardle was able to replicate the phenomenon, but qualified 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:20.280 that it isn't a full-blown hack yet. However, it would be a great delivery 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:24.600 system if a real flaw exists. A few outlets reached out to Apple for 00:07:21.880 --> 00:07:29.280 clarification and in true Apple fashion, they haven't commented yet and probably 00:07:26.840 --> 00:07:34.600 won't because you. Taiwanese authorities have raided the home of former TSMC 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:36.360 senior VP Lo Wei-Jen who's accused of 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:41.640 leaking trade secrets to his new employer Intel, who insists Lo didn't 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.800 hand over anything sensitive, just the normal stuff. But investigators still 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:51.400 searched his Taipei and Hsinchu residences and froze assets as part of a 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:55.440 national security probe tied to TSMC's cutting-edge chip tech, which Taiwan 00:07:53.760 --> 00:08:00.040 views as incredibly important to their security and sovereignty. Intel thinks 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:03.720 the whole thing is overblown, though. And if they had gotten secrets, you'd 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:07.280 definitely see their chips running a little bit faster by now, so. And 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:11.720 scientists at Tulane University have made a major breakthrough this week in 00:08:09.080 --> 00:08:16.560 finding a literal pain switch in the brain. I mean, not literal in the switch 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:22.240 it's not a but you get it. An enzyme called VLK that neurons launch outside 00:08:19.640 --> 00:08:27.600 the cell to crank up pain signals after injury. Mice without VLK barely felt 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:31.440 post-surgery pain and still moved normally, suggesting that future meds 00:08:29.640 --> 00:08:35.200 could target this switch without the messy side effects of current pain 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:39.120 relief medications. If the study holds up and the same is found to be true in 00:08:36.599 --> 00:08:44.360 humans, then who we, pain relief may have just gotten a whole 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:51.240 lot less painful. Pain switch in the membrane. Pain switch IN THE BRAIN. 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:58.120 BACKPACK. HEY, THANKS FOR exploring the wild and wacky world of tech news with 00:08:53.560 --> 00:08:58.120 me today. What was your favorite part? 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:05.240 Fantastico. Remember, come back on Monday for another Riley adventure. And 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:12.280 if TSMC raids your home, remember to repeat after me, SWIPER, NO SWIPING. 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.280 HASTA LUEGO, me amigos.