WEBVTT 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.760 Is it just me or did it just get a lot more tech newsy 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:18.520 in here? Yeah. I like it. Sam Altman will be returning 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:20.080 as CEO of OpenAI only 5 days after he 00:00:18.520 --> 00:00:23.880 was fired. To everyone who took a week-long digital detox retreat or got 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.760 hit in the head with a rock on Friday afternoon, well, you've missed a lot. 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:32.040 Luckily for you, we're mostly back where we started, albeit with an entirely new 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:36.720 board with the exception of Adam D'Angelo who will remain to represent 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:40.960 the views of the former board and to maintain OpenAI leadership's 00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:45.080 all-important skinny twink quota. looking for new info about why Altman 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:49.960 was fired in the first place, don't ask Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella who said 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:53.920 even he still doesn't know. The prevailing hypothesis so far is that the 00:00:52.360 --> 00:00:58.320 difference in values between the cautious, safety-minded board and 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:02.480 Altman's relatively gung-ho attitude towards AI development caught 00:01:00.040 --> 00:01:06.520 relatively. Doesn't know. The prevailing hypothesis so far is that the difference 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:11.520 in values between the cautious, safety-minded board and Altman's 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:16.240 relatively more gung-ho attitude towards AI development caused a schism. Altman's 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:20.840 jet-setting search for investment in other AI-adjacent projects also led to 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:24.520 concerns he may prioritize his own interests ahead of the goals of the 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.800 organization, which wouldn't be that surprising given that Altman was asked 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:33.520 to step down from his leadership position at Y Combinator in 2019 due to 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:38.320 similar concerns. And of course, Altman will be returning as CEO just in time to 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:43.840 deal with yet another copyright lawsuit. This time by nonfiction book authors 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:46.240 against both OpenAI and Microsoft. In 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:49.800 other words, if you were hit with a rock on Friday and then again at the 00:01:47.960 --> 00:01:53.080 beginning of this video, you haven't really missed anything. So, 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.480 as you were. Google will resume rollout of its 00:01:55.000 --> 00:02:02.320 controversial Manifest V3 extension format for Chrome, which will block ad 00:01:59.880 --> 00:02:06.400 blockers even harder. You think they're blocked now? 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:11.680 On June 2024, Google will turn off Manifest V2, the current format for 00:02:09.119 --> 00:02:15.400 Chrome extensions, Chrome Chrome extensions. That's what I use. 00:02:13.880 --> 00:02:19.480 Meaning they'll be unavailable to install from the Chrome Web Store and 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:24.400 will be automatically disabled in users' browsers. Google has argued that 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:26.320 Manifest V3, by limiting extensions, 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:30.240 will better protect user privacy and allow the browser to be lighter on 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:34.320 resources. That's potentially a boon to users like this episode's main writer, 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:38.040 Jessica, whose workstation craps its pants every time she opens more than 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:43.720 four tabs in Chrome, seemingly out of spite. JUST CHROME, EVERY TIME. 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:47.280 I DON'T THINK it likes you. However, civil liberties groups have criticized 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:51.720 Google's pitch with the Electronic Frontier Foundation calling it deceitful 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:55.240 and threatening. While Google is limiting potential harm done by 00:02:53.360 --> 00:03:00.080 malicious extension developers, it's also limiting users' ability to protect 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:03.920 themselves, especially from Google, by knee-capping web filtering, which 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:09.280 includes but is not limited to ad blockers. Manifest V3, as originally 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:14.320 proposed, limited web filters to 5,000 filtering rules, which it has gracefully 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:19.240 loosened. Thank you so much. To a limit of 30,000 rules. That sounds like a lot 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:25.000 until you realize that a tool like uBlock Origin has over 300,000 filtering 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:29.120 rules available to users. And much like a bicycle or hair, you can't just remove 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:33.160 90% of something and expect it to be the same. A lesson I learned the hard way. I 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:38.000 mean, unicycles only have one wheel. Warning to all tech news citizens, your 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:41.960 Plex account just emailed your mom an itemized list of all your favorite adult 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.800 films. It was inevitable. You could have better taste, sweetie. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:50.480 On November 1st, media hosting/sharing/streaming 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:54.000 service Plex publicly launched Discover Together with several social 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:59.200 network-esque features like user profiles, user ratings, and personalized 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:03.720 recommendations. Plex also altered its week in review email that summarizes 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:09.000 their weekly activity, a feature users already hated, so that it also sends 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:13.760 users a summary of their friends' weekly activity, including media that they 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:18.799 uploaded to their own personal server. It's a feature that might appeal to some 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:24.160 people, people with innocent minds and squeaky-clean hard drives, but Plex made 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:26.240 it opt out rather than opt in, meaning 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:30.840 that over the past 3 weeks many users have been unknowingly broadcasting their 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:36.680 obsession with Desperate Housewives and Big Booty Babes Deluxe Edition to their 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:38.840 sweet old Nana. Oh, I I do like those 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:42.200 big old booty babes. You might be doing her a favor, you don't know. So, 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:45.440 changing your privacy settings now might be prudent, especially for Plex users 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:49.240 with certain specific tastes. 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The UK's National Health Service has signed a 330 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:37.320 million-pound contract with Palantir, the US-based data management giant 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:42.640 founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, to build a central federated data platform 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:46.720 or FDP. It's not expensive, it's just really heavy. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:51.080 This has triggered concerns over handing what is reportedly the world's largest 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:55.040 single repository of health info to a data-hungry company best known for its 00:05:53.640 --> 00:05:59.560 shotty human rights record and collaboration with spy agencies. Should 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:03.200 be fine. While Palantir telling the CIA about your ER visit involving a 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:06.720 misplaced jar of marmalade might be embarrassing, would you rather have one 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:09.760 of the other 11 tech companies tastelessly named after Lord of the 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:13.680 Rings? I thought it was named after Planters Wards. I mean, it's just rude 00:06:11.640 --> 00:06:17.280 to Tolkien, really. Like have some respect. I'm actually a little upset 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:21.640 about it, about the naming. Reports indicate a disturbing pattern of 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:26.520 accidents and injuries at Tesla's giant factory in Austin. According to OSHA 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:30.840 data, at least one out of every 21 workers at the factory was injured in 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:34.840 2022. And we're not just talking minor boo-boos here. Reports describe 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:39.480 exploding casting machines, falling overhead beams, and at least one 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:43.040 engineer who got mauled by a robot. But hey, in lighter Tesla news, some 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:48.760 supercharger stations will begin charging users $1 for every minute they 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:52.360 charge above 90% battery as a way of reducing congestion. They could reduce 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:56.280 congestion even further by attacking patrons who charge over 95% with 00:06:54.600 --> 00:07:00.440 murderous robots. Just an idea. Sony has completed a field 00:06:59.080 --> 00:07:05.080 trial in collaboration with the Associated Press for its in-camera 00:07:02.760 --> 00:07:09.120 authenticity technology, which, like similar tech announced by Leica last 00:07:06.840 --> 00:07:12.680 month, adds a digital signature to photos at the moment of capture. Because 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:16.720 how do you know when your photo is really authentic? 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:20.600 When a computer says it is. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe she was 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.600 built in a factory. Maybe it's AI. Seriously though, digital 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:28.960 authentication like this is becoming increasingly necessary as it gets easier 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:33.080 and easier to create photorealistic images with AI. Because I'd like to have 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:36.640 a legitimate way to answer the question, Pope or no Pope? 00:07:35.080 --> 00:07:40.360 Just want to know where the Pope is. Am I looking at the Pope or not? Amazon has 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:44.360 confirmed that it will be laying off several hundred workers in its Alexa 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:48.280 division as part of a shift towards generative AI, despite the fact that 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:53.160 many of their recent efforts involved integrating AI into Alexa. Amazon stated 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.640 that laid-off workers only represent a relatively small percentage of the total 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:00.120 number of people in the devices business, which is a fun way of saying 00:07:58.440 --> 00:08:03.400 your company can casually fire half the population of a large village and not 00:08:01.760 --> 00:08:07.320 even notice. These workers join the over 27,000 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:10.920 employees Amazon has laid off over the course of the past year, who 00:08:08.840 --> 00:08:14.520 collectively are a big enough community to deserve their own mayor and post 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:19.320 office. And NASA is testing ground-to-space optical communication 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:23.080 technology by using lasers to transmit information. The hope is this technology 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:27.400 will help send higher data rate communications to distant places like 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:34.080 Mars as the space agency prepares for more study of the red planet. Red also 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:34.080 being a common color of lasers. 00:08:34.680 --> 00:08:40.479 I ad-libbed that, don't blame Jessica. Their experiment could even expand the 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:45.120 use case for optical data transmission. Right now, the only message a laser can 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:48.880 accurately convey is you are in danger from either bullets or a cat. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:55.600 I liked it. And to make sure the only thing you're in danger of is more tech 00:08:53.280 --> 00:08:57.720 news, make sure to come back on Friday because 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:00.800 if you don't, we can't make any promises.