WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.680 The tech news is a microscopic life form 00:00:03.280 --> 00:00:11.040 that resides in all technological objects. They continually speak to us, 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:17.119 telling us the wheel of computers. I know it was Qui-Gon, but you can't do a 00:00:14.719 --> 00:00:22.640 Qui-Gon impress. Ah, Leon Niss, it doesn't work. Google is walking back 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:26.080 their plan to lock down sideloading on Android. In August, the company 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:30.160 announced that starting next year, Android users would only be able to 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:35.280 install apps made by verified developers, even for apps not listed on 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:40.559 the Play Store, which critics said would seriously hinder indie devs, emulator 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:45.840 projects, and that one guy on GitHub who ports Doom to everything. What about 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:48.960 that guy? Who's going to verify him? 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.600 Now, Google says that experienced users 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:56.559 will still be able to install apps from wherever they want, even from unverified 00:00:54.399 --> 00:01:00.399 developers. Although, it'll take a few extra steps, a handful of warnings, and 00:00:58.879 --> 00:01:06.280 swearing you're not going to blame Google when your phone mysteriously 00:01:02.239 --> 00:01:06.280 starts speaking in tongues. 00:01:07.119 --> 00:01:12.320 >> I don't think anyone's going to understand that at all. >> It's Latin. 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:15.200 >> It's like a alternate universe where the Holy Spirit is malware. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:21.600 >> Yeah. [laughter] According to Google's blog post, the idea is to curb malware without 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.759 completely shutting the door on Android's openness, which has always 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:30.560 been one of its defining features. The change is a response to heavy push back 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:36.880 from developers, industry groups, and everyday users who didn't love Google 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:39.840 deciding for them what trusted means. So 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:43.200 yeah, sideloading is back, baby, just with training wheels. And when those 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:48.320 come off, I guess that's when we really learned about malware. It feels like 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:49.280 like a concrete skin burn. Skin burn. 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:54.159 What do you call >> road rash? >> Road rash. That's how I learned not to 00:01:51.840 --> 00:02:01.360 longboard down hills with no protective equipment. Vine, the 67 67 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:04.640 video app. Oh man, we have to leave that 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:07.680 in. Vine, the 6-second video app shut 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:10.560 down by Twitter in 2017, is back at it 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:15.920 again at Crispy Cream in the form of a new app called Divine, complete with a 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:21.520 sizable chunk of the original video library. The app was created by former 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:23.520 Twitter employee Evan Henshaw Pla aka 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:28.800 Rabbel while working for Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's notfor-profit 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:34.080 and other stuff. He didn't work for Jack Dorsey's not for-p profofit and also for 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:39.360 other stuff. The not forprofit's called and other stuff. Okay. [laughter] 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:44.000 Using data previously stored by archive team which is again a separate entity 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:51.120 not the same as the archive.org team. Okay. Rabbel was able to restore 150 to 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:54.080 200,000 original vines from 60,000 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:58.400 creators who can contact him if they want to take control of their 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:03.040 reconstructed accounts. Wow. And it seems like he's hoping that they will. 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:08.879 Divine breaks from its short form video brethren like Tik Tok by banning AI 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:14.000 generated content. It'll use tech from the human rights nonprofit The Guardian 00:03:11.519 --> 00:03:20.000 Project to confirm that a clip was truly captured on a smartphone. If Divine 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:23.040 spots AI slop, it'll yell, "Is that a 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.840 weed?" and call the police, not on a 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:30.560 microwave. So with Divine, when you say, "Look at all those chickens," be assured 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:35.120 that while you might not actually be pointing at chickens, you certainly 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.959 won't be pointing at AI chickens. And that's all we want at the end of the 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:44.159 day. Anthropic is in the spotlight after alleging that Chinese state- linked 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:47.200 hackers used their clawed chatbot to try 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:49.519 and hack into 30 of what Anthropic calls 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:55.680 critical organizations. [music] And some of those intrusions actually succeeded 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:00.000 supposedly. According to Anthropic, attackers fed Claude detailed prompts, 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.080 giving it tasks like finding vulnerabilities on selected targets, 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:10.000 exploiting them, and even harvesting data. Claude was apparently able to 00:04:06.799 --> 00:04:11.840 oblige them, but it also hallucinated 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:17.600 portions of its results, meaning that the world's first AI orchestrated cyber 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:21.040 espionage campaign included completely fictional cyber security threats. It's 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:24.880 like staging a heist with that one overconfident guy who points at every 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:30.320 wall and says, "There's a safe behind that." And uh there isn't. Anthropic 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:35.040 claimed the attack was up to 90% autonomous, a figure that a ton of other 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:39.680 researchers immediately questioned, arguing that white hat hackers haven't 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:45.440 been able to coax Claude into doing anything close to what's described here. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:48.080 So, it's unlikely the spy ring actually 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:52.560 reached near full autonomy. Still, the fact that an LLM could meaningfully 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:56.639 assist at all is probably raising the blood pressure of IT admins across the 00:04:54.800 --> 00:05:01.040 world, especially given how friendly these chatbots seem to be when you talk 00:04:58.960 --> 00:05:07.680 to them. But at least for now, this is less like Claude the Black Hat and more 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:08.880 like Claude the Duncap. 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:12.880 >> Get him, Riley. >> Oh 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.600 man, that was a burn that's almost as sick as our sponsor Microenter. Hey 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:20.880 Arizona, I your sports teams aren't doing so hot. I'm sorry about that. But 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:26.639 guess what? 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In it, you'll be able to chat with an AI assistant and get help while 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:37.120 you browse, but only if you want because 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:41.600 you can totally ignore this feature. and not use it if you're prejudiced against 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:45.840 clankers. Mosilla is asking their community to help shape this feature by 00:06:43.919 --> 00:06:49.520 signing up to test it and then give feedback. Seems like Mozilla is trying 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:54.080 to keep up with all the trending AI browsers while still protecting their 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:59.120 users privacy like me in the shallow end at a pool party. I'm present. I'm there, 00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:02.560 but I don't want to drown. I'm sorry. There's a lot of kids over there and 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:07.759 they can all grab your face at any one time. Microsoft has fixed an issue where 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:13.759 some Windows 10 users couldn't enroll for extended security updates to get an 00:07:10.400 --> 00:07:15.599 extra year of free updates. But wait, 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:20.319 don't you have to be enrolled in that program to get more updates in the first 00:07:17.919 --> 00:07:24.720 place? Is Microsoft trapping users in liinal space where they're both getting 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:30.560 updates and blocked from getting updates at the same time? No. Thankfully, this 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:36.560 isn't a catch22 situation, and every Windows 10 user can get this new fix, 00:07:33.520 --> 00:07:38.560 which will allow them to use the ESU 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.479 enrollment wizard and collapse the quantum uncertainty. And we're back in 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:46.000 our home dimension. Very good. Good job, Microsoft. So kind of you to allow 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:53.360 people to do the thing you said they could do. Tesla is recalling over 10,000 of its 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:58.800 Power Wall 2 home battery units in the US because a third-party battery cell 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:03.599 defect can lead to overheating, smoke, or even fires. The company says it has 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:08.000 remotely discharged nearly all affected units to make them safe and will replace 00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:13.919 them free of charge with certified installers reaching out to customers. 00:08:11.039 --> 00:08:19.840 Oh, hello, certified installer. Is it getting hot in here? Or is that just me? 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:25.520 What? Uh, my house is battery's on fire. Chat GPT is rolling out group 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:31.440 chats in select countries, letting users invite contacts to join their chat GBT 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:34.560 session. So, you can use chat GPT to 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:36.880 actually chat with another human now, as 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:39.599 long as an AI is there to supervise. This is great news, especially if you 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:45.120 want someone to mediate your dysfunctional family arguments about what to get for dinner tonight. Yeah, 00:08:42.959 --> 00:08:50.000 this is the what to do. Meanwhile, WhatsApp is launching third-party chat 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:54.480 integration across Europe, allowing fully encrypted conversations with 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:58.320 people on other messaging platforms as part of the new requirements laid out by 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:03.440 the digital markets act. It doesn't look like chat GBT is one of those now 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:07.600 interoperable chat apps. So, at least it won't butt in and offer to write some 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:12.959 erotica or something, which is always it always does this. So annoying. Open chat 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:21.200 GBD. Good morning. Want some erotica? Stop. Stop asking. And a heal. A heal. A 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:23.760 new smart bandage uses an AI powered 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:28.959 camera to take pictures of a wound every couple of hours, figure out how it's 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:31.839 healing, and then either zap it with 00:09:28.959 --> 00:09:36.480 tiny pulses of electricity or release drugs to help speed the healing up, 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:38.800 which seems better, more useful to me. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:43.680 In How's that healing? Oh, it's all right. Ah, what do you trust me? I'm a 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:48.959 doctor. In tests on pigs, the bandage doubled the growth of new skin and cut 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.720 inflammation. However, the effects are still modest, and there's more work to 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:57.279 do before it's ready for people. Animal testing can be a touchy subject, but 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:02.320 that pig looks comfortable enough and cool in their little healing vest, so 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:06.080 totally worth it. So, any animal testing is actually fine as long as they look 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:09.680 cool while they're doing it. >> Yeah. pretend. [laughter] 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:15.440 That's actually how we found out cigarettes are fine because the animals 00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:16.959 look like bad asses. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:22.079 >> Those are the coolest monkeys I've ever seen. And I bet whoever's hosting on 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:25.839 Monday will look cool, too. How could they not? So, make sure to come back. 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:31.040 I'm going to take the weekend to look into the Tech News sequels. I haven't 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:35.760 seen them yet, but I I bet they have to be meticulously plotted. What else would 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:39.519 you do with a giant important franch? No. No way they'll leave me disappointed 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:44.000 in questioning my lifelong love for tech news. This will be fine.