1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in. 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:09,360 I'm just kidding. It's great to see you. Also, that's a weird insult. Microsoft 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:13,800 has apparently patched a popular loophole that allowed users to install 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:18,320 Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the outlandish hardware requirements. Why 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:22,040 convince people to download your OS when you can just make it harder to upgrade 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:26,600 for those who actually want to? This particular trick allowed anyone to 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:31,480 bypass the TPM 2.0 chip requirement of Windows 11 by tricking the OS's setup 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:36,720 file into thinking your machine was a server, classic, not a host. 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:41,120 That's another computer and restaurant word. Unfortunately, Twitter user 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:45,680 TheBobPony discovered that the most recent Insider build of Windows now also 11 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:51,160 requires servers to have TPM 2.0 support. This isn't the case in normal 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:54,480 Windows yet, but chances are they'll be rolling out an update soon, and that 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:58,480 could leave you with a non-functional system if you use this workaround to 14 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:03,000 install Windows 11. There are still other methods to install Windows 11 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:06,920 without having TPM 2.0. For example, open-source utility Rufus apparently has 16 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:10,440 its own workaround, too. I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at 17 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:14,200 patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements, but I'm happy to 18 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:17,360 have them try. That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 19 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:22,600 11. Just kidding, they'll make time. Procreate, the company behind the 20 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:28,240 popular art app for iPad, have pledged to never add AI to their products. This 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:32,160 is despite the existence of the 2010 song "Never Say Never" by Justin Bieber. 22 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:36,760 In a video posted by the company's Twitter account, CEO Jason Koopa said, 23 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:41,640 "I really hate generative AI." And Procreate's website features a page 24 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:45,040 dedicated to their anti-AI stance. As a result, the company has received a lot 25 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,320 of love from digital artists who probably are tired of having generative 26 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:52,040 AI trained on their work without consent. But painters and illustrators 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:56,120 aren't the only ones seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools. AI 28 00:01:54,520 --> 00:02:01,880 photo editing and image processing features are starting to raise questions 29 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:03,800 about when a photo stops being a photo. 30 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:08,600 Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app Halide has introduced a new 31 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:13,080 feature called Process Zero, allowing users to take photos without any AI or 32 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:16,800 image processing at all. Of course, Halide costs $20 a year, so now 33 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:22,520 ironically you need to pay a subscription to not use AI. National 34 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,840 Public Data, or NPD for short, has 35 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:29,080 finally confirmed it had a data breach, though they don't actually seem too 36 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:34,000 sure. In their official statement, the data aggregator says, "There appears to 37 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:37,080 have been a data security incident." As if hundreds of millions of people's data 38 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:41,920 ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough. While many 39 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:46,240 reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data was exposed, that's apparently not 40 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:50,680 quite true. Web security consultant Troy Hunt investigated and found there were 41 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:55,280 about 134 million unique email addresses. Yet NPD told the Maine 42 00:02:52,960 --> 00:03:00,000 Attorney General's office that only 1.3 million people were affected, which 43 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:03,600 would imply that they all have about 100 emails. That's normal non-degenerate 44 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:08,320 behavior, right? It was also discovered by a company called Atlas Data Privacy 45 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:12,520 that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers. 46 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:17,520 So every person affected by the breach must have also been born roughly 200 47 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:22,360 times. Now to be fair to NPD, millions of these records are for people who no 48 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:26,600 longer are alive, so maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure. But 49 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:32,120 it's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data 50 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:34,440 because an NPD sister site published a 51 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:39,600 file containing admin passwords on its homepage that was only removed today. 52 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:43,640 Sure, we've been hacked before, but the hackers still had to put in some effort. 53 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:49,960 But do you know how much effort our sponsor War Thunder had to put into their free-to-play vehicular combat game 54 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,920 to make it so so historically accurate? Neither do I, but it seems like a lot, 55 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,720 especially since the game allows you to pilot 2,000 different vehicles into 56 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:01,440 combat. We're talking planes, tanks, boats, oh my. Plus, War Thunder's 57 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:05,440 in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any 58 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,480 battle. Because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted. Click the link 59 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,280 below to start playing on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, and you'll get 60 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:19,120 some extra goodies, too. How do you summon Quick Bits? Easy. You just go 61 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:23,800 Wait, no, that's cats. Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is 62 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:29,080 expected to arrive in October a little fuller than anticipated, a little 63 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:32,200 healthier, girthier. A leak, courtesy of 64 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:34,760 Jaekin on Twitter, lists 14 SKUs with 65 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:40,520 two previously unseen Core Ultra 5 models, the 235 and 225. Another, more 66 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:44,640 different tweet from fellow leaker OneRaichu, points to the lineup 67 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,640 including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models with eight cores, like 68 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:53,480 the four P-cores and four E-cores. Although, depending on who you're talking to, these aren't real E-cores. 69 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,960 Those have all gone to join hyperthreading in the great outdated 70 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:02,760 tech glossary in the sky. Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'être 71 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:07,760 is hyper-affordable mini PCs, has launched a new, even lighter 2 GB 72 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,800 version of the Pi 5, down from 4 GB. 73 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:14,600 Beyond the 2 GB drop in memory and a newly optimized SOC, the rest of the Pi 74 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:18,920 specs remain unchanged. It's also for just 50 bucks, down from 60, for 75 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:23,280 consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles than double their 76 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:27,400 available RAM. Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up with a 77 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:31,360 1 GB version, or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number of pies, 78 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,960 each with half the memory of the previous model, Zeno's paradox style. As 79 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,640 in total pies. Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference. The Zotac 80 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:44,000 Zone, first revealed at CES, has now gone up for pre-order in select regions, 81 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:48,160 hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck 82 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:53,640 thanks to its dual touchpads, but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 83 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:57,760 120 Hz OLED screen, Hall effect joysticks, a selfie camera, and a 84 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:01,360 kickstand. The real kicker, though, is the RGB strip on the back. Valve 85 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:05,720 wouldn't do this to us. The Zone reportedly officially launches in September, but I don't know who to trust 86 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:10,760 at this point. According to TechRadar, Google has quietly confirmed that there 87 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,360 will be no more Fitbit smartwatches 88 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:17,560 produced. I'm shocked. No one was more shocked by the story than Google, as a spokesperson 89 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:21,640 then told Ars Technica that TechRadar's article was not correct, but did not 90 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:26,120 elaborate on any potential new Fitbit smartwatch products. This confused us 91 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:29,720 because last week the senior director of product management for Pixel wearables 92 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,800 told Engadget that moving forward Fitbit will be focusing on trackers, not 93 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:38,920 smartwatches. So I feel like not even Google knows what Google is doing. 94 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:44,120 That's fun. And Tesla's hiring workers to train its humanoid robot Optimus 95 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:48,400 using mocap suits. Candidates must be reasonably fit and between 5'7" and 96 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:52,360 5'11". No big boys or short kings allowed. Unfortunately, this training 97 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:56,400 might take millions of hours of data, meaning that the first sign of the robot 98 00:06:54,080 --> 00:07:01,640 apocalypse may be an epidemic of repetitive strain injuries. By contrast, 99 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:05,440 Chinese company Unitree says it has a $16,000 100 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:09,840 mass-production-ready bot that can jump, jog, withstand kicks, solder 101 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,760 electronics, and flip pancakes with training. It'll be the perfect 102 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:16,040 bodyguard/butler for all those average-sized men with debilitating 103 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:20,240 carpal tunnel. But it would be even more debilitating if you didn't come back on 104 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:24,160 Wednesday for more tech news. I know when you aren't here, and frankly 105 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:28,600 it hurts. Almost as bad as MY CARPAL TUNNEL. AH.