Tell me in a comment below why you clicked on this video and whether me
baking fresh cookies a few minutes ago had anything to do with it. Everybody
loves the smell of fresh cookies. I just
thought. Anyway, tech news time. Google has admitted in a court filing posted on
Friday that the open web is already in rapid decline. Finally, someone said it
>> as Google of all people. As spotted by Jason Kint on Twitter, Google submitted
the filing after crashing into a courthouse dressed in a hot dog costume
and assuring everyone that like them, Google is just trying to find the guy
who caused this rapid decline. Okay. Uh
Google's statement here reeks of just trying to get an even weaker punishment
in its antitrust case because the statement conflicts with everything else
they've publicly said recently about how AI search isn't destroying the web by
leading to less clickthroughs to publisher websites at all. And in fact,
the web is thriving according to Nick Fox, Google's senior VP of knowledge and
information. Pretty sure you have to be pretty smart to get that job. probably
won Jeopardy at least a couple times.
Move over, Ken Jennings. I forgot. I would not win
Jeopardy. So, it's jarring to hear Google say something that seems to agree
with recent research saying that AI tools are negatively affecting traffic
to publisher sites, decreasing the ad revenue they can collect, and imperiling
the already fragile economic model of the web. Now, obviously, Google doesn't
want people to get the wrong idea here. As explained on Twitter by Google VP of
global ads Dan Taylor, what Google meant to imply in the filing is that open web
display advertising is in decline, not
the open web as a whole. The open web isn't going anywhere. It's just that the
only people who will make any money on it is Google. Wait, wait. Aren't they in
charge of the display advertising, too? Is it? Hope this helps. One half billion
dollars. That's the amount that Anthropic just agreed to cough up in a
firstofits-kind copyright settlement with authors Andrea Barts, Charles
Greyber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson because writing a book is so hard, and
they just deserve it. It was like a tip. But also because they initiated a class
action against the company, claiming it used tons of pirated books to train its
clawed chatbot. >> So many tokens. Bling bling bling. The
settlement is particularly interesting because back in June, a US district
judge ruled that using legally obtained books to train AI software is not
actually a violation of US copyright law, which implied that you could just
buy one copy of a book and train your AI on it and it's fine. But in the
settlement filing, the plaintiffs state that if approved, this landmark
settlement will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history,
setting a precedent for the future of training large language models using
just about anything they can find online as long as they pay for it. Because the
big takeaway here is that training AI on copyrighted stuff you actually bought
might still be fair use, but pirated books, well, that's going to be a
billion half dollar oopsie. Damage to subca cables in the Red Sea is wreaking
havoc on internet performance across Asia and the Middle East. On Saturday,
multiple critical undersea fiber links decided to cause play as spaghetti just
on their own near Jedha, Saudi Arabia, triggering widespread latency spikes in
India, Pakistan, and the UAE. Microsoft
confirmed that its Azure cloud services were also affected. Though traffic
wasn't halted, many users experienced noticeable delays as Microsoft rerouted
network traffic via longer alternative paths. >> It's actually worse, I think,
>> going the long way around. Status updates later indicated that Azure
services in the Middle East have been restored, though ongoing high latency
lingers for some users. Cable operators and monitoring group NetBlocks reported
that telecom networks across the UAE also felt the pinch with disruptions
continuing as repair efforts ramp up. The worst part of all of this is that
repair timelines are still up in the air, partly because the Red Sea isn't
exactly the friendliest neighborhood for weekend cable fixing parties right now.
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said ODU can help you succeed. It's in my mind. You know, at a certain point in
life, everyone has that moment where they stop and think to themselves, hm, I
wonder where those quick bits went. Where are they? Well, guess what? I
found them. I found them. Back in March, Neuralink
tried trademarking telepathy and telekinesis, promising a future where
you could move stuff with your mind or whisper secrets without opening your
mouth. >> Elon should try thinking.
>> But last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office denied those
applications. Turns out they were snagged way back in May 2023 and August
2024 by Wesley Berry, founder of a lucid
dreaming startup called Prophetic, which is building a matrix style headset you
wear while sleeping to trigger lucid dreams. Sex dreams you can control or
any other kind of dreams, Riley.
Still, Neurolink's own filings make it clear they want telepathy on the market,
a brain computer interface for thought-based communication and device
control. But if you ask me, maybe Elon should try trademarking empathy instead.
You know, people have feelings, and that one's also taken. Amazon's
Starlink competitor Project Kyper is finally showing off what it can do,
hitting speeds of up to 1.28 gigabits per second in tests last week. That's
faster than a lot of groundbased ISPs,
but they, you know, they have to go through the ground. It's a little harder than >> space, Riley. It's space.
>> It's space. And now it's not just a lab demo either. JetBlue has signed on as
the first airline partner. Starting in 2027, about a quarter of their fleet
will get Kyper powered Wi-Fi, which JetBlue says will be free for
passengers. Only 2 years. Yes, finally streaming Netflix at 35,000 ft without
watching the buffer wheel do laps. Although that can be entertaining when
there's nothing else going on. Just use it to focus when there's a baby crying.
Microsoft has open sourced Bill Gates and Rick Wland's Whan's n 1976 version
of 652 basic. The code that once powered
icons like the Commodore 64, Apple 2, and Vic 20 with nearly 7,000 lines of
handtuned assembly now free on GitHub.
Free lines of assembly. Researchers can
dig into the DNA of early personal computing, seeing how software was
optimized when every bite mattered. They have souls. For historians, it's a rare
glimpse into Microsoft's scrappy garage era roots. For Redditors, it's a great
way to see Bill Gates's sense of humor in the assembly comments. He's such a
little, you know, he's he's a little sassy guy. Very rich. And globally,
Hollow Night Silk Song is basking in
very positive Steam reviews. But in China, not so much. Over 14,000 negative
reviews have dragged the simplified Chinese version of the game's rating
down to mixed. Why? Players say the translation makes it read less like a
game and more like your buddy's D&D campaign notes after three Red Bulls if
they were tossed into an anime girl dating simulator. Sounds fun, but one
localization expert even compared it to a high school drama club's Elizabeth and
Improv. Imagine trying to fight bosses while everyone's talking like
Shakespeare. Again, I don't it's not doesn't sound horrible. Team Cherry
quickly apologized, promising to fix the translation in the coming weeks. But
thanks to Valve's updated review policy, the fallout is mostly quarantined to
China. Global players still see very positive. So, the angry views are less
worldending bomb and more localized
explosion. Speaking of free things, which is a segue left over from when
there was a different story there, come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
Completely free >> of bomb >> as as long as the economic model of the
web is still intact by then. Hopefully there's hopefully a bomb
didn't we were saying we're going to get demonetized. >> We're giving you a hoyfree guarantee.
She's Louise.