1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,160 Apple is already testing an M3 Max chip 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:10,080 according to Mark Gurman, the worm squirming to unravel Tim Cook's Apple 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:16,000 for inside the fruit he finds the seed stirring and learning everything he 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:18,040 needs for the sermon he turns in. 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Thank you, Jacob. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked poetry jam and this 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:27,160 newsletter from the Germ suggests a Mac equipped with a new chip could come as 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:32,680 early as October, potentially setting a Halloween record for the world's worst 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,120 Apple to candy to candy-fy. According to 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:39,640 an App Store developer that spoke to Gurman, the M3 Max will have 16 CPU 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:44,840 cores, four more high-performance cores than the M2 Max, and 40 graphics cores, 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:49,880 meaning any children who try to eat this All Hallows' Eve treat are at risk for 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:54,320 severe cyanide poisoning. The test chip in question also had 48 GB 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:58,840 of memory, a config that wasn't available in the M2 Max, and may 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:03,960 indicate larger RAM options across the board. Besides that, Apple may also be 15 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:09,760 testing an M3 Mac mini, which is great news for mini fans who want number go 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,680 up. Stonks. SanDisk SSDs are under the 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:16,400 microscope again after The Verge published an article as a creative way 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:21,920 to release their frustration over losing 3 TB of data because their cat has been 19 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:26,720 kicked enough. Give them a break. Vjeran Pavic, incredibly a producer for The 20 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:31,320 Verge and not Ian from Smosh, although I'm still not sure. 21 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:37,040 Ian? Put up a picture. Experienced the data loss on the brand new replacement 22 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,240 Extreme Pro SSD SanDisk sent to them 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:44,000 after the first one failed earlier this year during a wave of similar drive 24 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:48,480 failure reports. Third time's the charm. Despite releasing a firmware fix back in 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:53,600 May, reports of failed SanDisk Extreme drives have continued to pop up leading 26 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:57,960 many to ask, rightly, why these drives are still on sale except as a reminder 27 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:02,160 that life is suffering, yet we trudge on through mire and muck yearning for but a 28 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:07,800 fleeting glimpse of a bright sky before it is submerged again above the 29 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,880 encompassing Tartarean barrier. 30 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,840 This is a poetry It's a poetry episode. Do you need a hug? You sound like you 31 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,680 need a hug. But as PC World notes, every drive is at 32 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:21,640 some risk of failure, so important data should always be backed up somewhere 33 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,080 else. Thankfully, Vjeran had most of his data backed up and didn't even lose that 34 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:30,800 much, so I don't see what he's whining about. This doesn't seem like a big deal. New research indicates that some 35 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:35,960 bots have surpassed human beings at solving CAPTCHAs both in terms of speed 36 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:40,360 and accuracy, which isn't ideal given that the whole purpose 37 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:44,760 of the completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans 38 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:48,840 apart is to tell computers and humans apart. And be completely automated. As 39 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,520 bots have become more sophisticated over the last two decades, CAPTCHAs have had 40 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:57,160 to become trickier and trickier to keep them out, but much like trying to design 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,680 a raccoon-proof garbage can, there's a limit to how complicated they can get 42 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:06,320 before humans can't get in them either. And then nobody gets garbage. Is that 43 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,640 what we want? We We call it the smart raccoon dumb human barrier. 44 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:14,160 The research may imply that current CAPTCHAs are probably just a waste of 45 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:18,760 time, time that you could spend scratching your nose or thinking about 46 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:23,160 Trailer Howard, co-star of the Emmy Award-winning television show Monk. Wow, 47 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,680 we're branching out now. There are possible alternatives. 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Thankfully, it was finally discovered last October 65 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,880 except no one bothered to tell the public until yesterday, which is which 66 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,760 which I I'm looking correctly at my 67 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,520 late. The Electoral Commission apologized but not really, minimizing 68 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:57,520 the situation by claiming that much of the data was already in the public 69 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:01,280 domain while also admitting it was not able to know conclusively what 70 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:06,440 information was accessed. Don't worry, citizens. Whatever information we lost, 71 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:10,840 you already had it. Sony has started rolling out a cloud streaming beta to PS 72 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:15,600 Plus Premium subscribers that finally add support for streaming PS5 titles 73 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:20,360 from the cloud. Allegedly, the feature will support PS Plus catalog titles, 74 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:25,920 game trials, and supported digital PS5 titles that players own at up to 4K 75 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:32,920 resolution. Since Xbox Game Pass only offers 1080p at 60 FPS, this could give 76 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:35,680 PS5 the console cloud gaming crown and 77 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:41,320 also might explain Sony's Project Q. We assumed the Q stood for question and 78 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:43,520 that question was, why does this exist? 79 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:47,880 It does like one thing. NVIDIA has announced a new variant of their GH200 80 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:52,760 AI superchip coming in the second quarter of next year. The new variant 81 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:59,000 will be the first with HBM3E memory as opposed to HBM3 no E memory, leading to 82 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:04,760 a 50% increase in GPU memory and a jump from 4 TB a second to 5 TB a second of 83 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:09,440 GPU memory bandwidth. This will be a welcome addition to the AI market where 84 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,880 memory is a serious bottleneck. Man, we should add more E to everything. This is 85 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:18,160 what a a great letter. It's got It's like a It's got the things on it on the 86 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:22,240 side. All the great things start with E. According to a new study, AI can 87 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:27,440 identify keystrokes by sound alone with 95% accuracy, potentially allowing for 88 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,600 theft of passwords and other sensitive information. But before you decide to 89 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:35,320 burn your keyboard and live in the woods, the AI needs to be trained on the 90 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:37,920 sound of the keyboard in question and the recording would need to be 91 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:42,000 reasonably clear. Also, burning a keyboard is not a good 92 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:45,880 campfire. It also typically can't tell when the shift key is released, making 93 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:51,320 it hard to discern between capital and lowercase letters or a string of numbers 94 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:56,040 and a cartoon swear. Which is basically all I ever type. Just dolphin 95 00:06:53,400 --> 00:07:00,920 noises. And a Detroit woman is suing the city after she was falsely arrested for 96 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:05,120 robbery and carjacking due to flawed facial recognition technology. Perhaps 97 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,520 the first discrepancy that should have caught police's attention was the fact 98 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:12,800 that she was 8 months pregnant while the suspect in the surveillance video very 99 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:16,720 much was not. Frankly, if a woman that pregnant manages to steal your car, I 100 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,600 think she gets to keep it. You You deserve to be bum-rushed by a 101 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,560 pregnant woman. Honestly, impressive. This is the third 102 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:27,480 incident where Detroit police have made a false arrest based on algorithmic 103 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:32,520 facial recognition, having apparently forgotten that they, too, have eyes. 104 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,320 They could just use those. When will Detroit learn Androids aren't 105 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,720 the option? They became human already. 106 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,680 And you should point your eyes toward more tech news this Friday when we 107 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:50,480 launch another episode of TechLinked. The news pops when it drops and it never 108 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,680 stops. Oh, that was more poetry. I was like, is 109 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:58,080 this a is this Am I supposed to dance? Dance, monkey. 110 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,080 Cuz I will.