WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.099 why look at you you're nothing but Skin and Bones come sit down let me hand feed 00:00:05.460 --> 00:00:13.320 you a healthy helping of tech news now 100 sugar-free Intel has partnered with 00:00:11.099 --> 00:00:17.880 chip giant Media Tech in an effort to close the gap on manufacturing Rivals 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:22.680 Intel Foundry services will manufacture chips for medical devices industrial 00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:27.240 Computing and more as they invest over 40 billion dollars building new 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:31.260 fabrication plants around the world the aggressive play is in line with Intel 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.280 CEO Pat gelsinger's pledge to make The Foundry business a key priority in the 00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:40.620 face of stiff competition from the likes of tsmc and Samsung who now account for 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:44.760 over 70 percent of global Foundry production it's really heartwarming to 00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:48.719 see two small companies that are worth only a couple hundred billion dollars 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:52.980 each come together to take on the big guys last year Intel announced it would 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:57.000 build trips for Qualcomm as it launched its Foundry play and it hopes to catch 00:00:55.260 --> 00:01:02.280 up to its rivals in the Asia region sometime in the 2025 time frame 00:01:00.059 --> 00:01:08.100 meanwhile the U.S Senate readies itself to potentially pass the chips act 00:01:04.500 --> 00:01:10.500 offering up to 52 billion in subsidies 00:01:08.100 --> 00:01:15.659 to Makers who design and manufacture their own chips by suddenly hungry I'm 00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:19.860 wearing cheesy guys security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered what 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:25.560 appears to be a root kit in ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards running Intel 8th 00:01:21.900 --> 00:01:27.299 gen chips nicknamed Cosmic strand this 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:31.259 isn't a new strain of ultra potent marijuana but rather a malicious piece 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:35.400 of code which runs during the low-level UEFI startup when you first power on 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:39.299 your machine not as good the root kit embeds a series of nasty hooks into 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:43.439 startup processes in order to gain access to a target's machine and since 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:49.680 it's embedded in the low level firmware it can persist there even after a clean 00:01:46.380 --> 00:01:52.380 install it's like a monkey pox rash you 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:57.600 can't just scrub it clean analysis and comparisons to similar code 00:01:55.140 --> 00:02:01.320 patterns from crypto mining bot my Kings has led researchers to believe that 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:04.619 Cosmic strand is connected to a chinese-speaking individual and it's 00:02:03.119 --> 00:02:09.599 thought to have been circulating in the wild since 2016. that's right they've 00:02:07.380 --> 00:02:13.920 got your entire depraved search history stored on a server somewhere 00:02:11.819 --> 00:02:17.640 but then again Google and Facebook have had that for years now do something new 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:22.260 hackers Amazon is hiking the prices of its Prime 00:02:20.099 --> 00:02:27.360 subscription service across Europe a Mid-State Rising tide of inflation the 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:32.160 company announced that customers in the UK would say a 20 jump in their annual 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:36.060 subscription fees while Germans can expect to pay 30 more what did the 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:41.819 Germans ever do and those in France will see a 00:02:37.980 --> 00:02:44.099 staggering 43 increase though In 00:02:41.819 --> 00:02:48.599 fairness France kind of had it coming sorry France snails are not a delicacy 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:52.500 and I haven't forgiven you yet for exporting that idea 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:56.160 the move follows a similar price increase in the U.S in February where 00:02:54.660 --> 00:03:02.459 American customers saw their yearly memberships bumped up to 139 dollars 00:02:58.739 --> 00:03:03.560 from 119. Amazon CEO Andy jassy I mean 00:03:02.459 --> 00:03:08.340 how am I going to get used to that referenced higher costs driven by 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:12.720 inflation and supply chain shortages as well as the addition of new products and 00:03:10.440 --> 00:03:16.739 digital content in Amazon's catalog as justification for the changes I mean the 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:24.000 money has to come from somewhere and we know that Daddy Bezos doesn't have pockets that deep saving up for a new 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:29.340 mega yacht give the guy a break a summer break this Heat's got me parched now to 00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:33.180 James for the weather now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by sea 00:03:30.959 --> 00:03:36.420 Sonic their Prime TX 1000 watt power supply is a great choice if you're 00:03:34.739 --> 00:03:40.379 building a high performance system them it features an 80 plus titanium rating 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:45.060 which means less power gets wasted during power 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00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:32.419 million pre-teen girls screeching at their iPhones 00:04:30.300 --> 00:04:37.440 you're done goofed now Instagram e-commerce giant Shopify is laying off a 00:04:35.699 --> 00:04:40.440 thousand employees citing a miscalculation 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:50.460 miscalculated bet that e-commerce would continue to grow beyond the pandemic CEO 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:59.280 Toby litke announced that shopify's Workforce grew from 1900 in 2016 to 10 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:02.100 000 in 2021 which apparently was too 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:06.000 much good to know the employees will receive a generous 16 weeks of severance 00:05:04.380 --> 00:05:10.800 pay which hopefully will give them plenty of time to be rejected from other 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:16.500 prospective jobs as many tech companies have actually implemented hiring freezes 00:05:13.080 --> 00:05:19.500 amidst this pandemic-ish recessiony 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:21.600 thing that we're calling 2022. 00:05:19.500 --> 00:05:26.160 meta will be upping the price of the quest to VR heads is there any good news 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:31.740 today no by a hundred dollars in August that's right like Pokemon cards or a 00:05:28.979 --> 00:05:36.780 used car the now two-year-old headset is actually getting a price increase meta's 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.280 official reasoning for the adjustment is something to do with something something 00:05:38.220 --> 00:05:43.740 Rising costs inflation Etc that's been a 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:48.419 theme today meta's VR Hardware division reportedly lost nearly three billion 00:05:46.020 --> 00:05:53.880 dollars last quarter though so quite frankly I think they should have 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:56.300 increased the price more 00:05:53.880 --> 00:05:56.300 I 00:05:57.539 --> 00:06:05.280 am involved in that company so maybe he can just keep finding it 00:06:02.419 --> 00:06:09.360 in other billionaire news Elon Musk and his team are jocking over Twitter's 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:14.160 alleged unwillingness to cooperate in the 44 billion dollar acquisition of the 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:18.060 social media giant musk aims to back out of the contract as his lawyers allege 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:22.440 that Twitter is being difficult about providing necessary documentation and 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:26.220 has not been truthful regarding the metrics for fake accounts and user 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.419 engagement on the platform this is like a bad episode of divorce court at this 00:06:28.259 --> 00:06:36.419 point accusations are hurled left and right and all I want to do is know which 00:06:33.419 --> 00:06:38.580 one of them actually loves me more I'm 00:06:36.419 --> 00:06:41.639 going with Mom you can buy it you can buy my love 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:44.520 and Russia has said that it will not renew its current commitment to the 00:06:43.139 --> 00:06:49.139 International Space Station when it expires in 2024 heightened tensions 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:53.100 between the U.S and Russia over the past year have seen Russia pull away from the 00:06:50.940 --> 00:06:58.740 ISS in hopes of launching its own Russian orbital space station or Ross 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:04.139 who we all know was the best friend the ISS I'm kidding the ISS was planned to 00:07:02.220 --> 00:07:08.460 operate until being decommissioned in 2030 but with Russia no longer 00:07:06.539 --> 00:07:13.259 cooperating as a partner the station's future is called into question without 00:07:10.860 --> 00:07:18.000 the help of our comrades it may drift Evermore into the endless black void of 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:23.160 space or lose thrust power and crash into the ocean because if the Russians 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:26.580 can't have it I guess nobody can and who knows what the tech news will 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:30.120 bring on Friday so come back then or risk losing your thrust okay that 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.039 transition didn't make much sense when I changed some stuff but I'm sticking with 00:07:31.860 --> 00:07:34.039 it