WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in. 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 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:13.800 has apparently patched a popular loophole that allowed users to install 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:18.320 Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the outlandish hardware requirements. Why 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:22.040 convince people to download your OS when you can just make it harder to upgrade 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:26.600 for those who actually want to? This particular trick allowed anyone to 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:31.480 bypass the TPM 2.0 chip requirement of Windows 11 by tricking the OS's setup 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:36.720 file into thinking your machine was a server, classic, not a host. 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:41.120 That's another computer and restaurant word. Unfortunately, Twitter user 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:45.680 TheBobPony discovered that the most recent Insider build of Windows now also 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:51.160 requires servers to have TPM 2.0 support. This isn't the case in normal 00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:54.480 Windows yet, but chances are they'll be rolling out an update soon, and that 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.480 could leave you with a non-functional system if you use this workaround to 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:03.000 install Windows 11. There are still other methods to install Windows 11 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:06.920 without having TPM 2.0. For example, open-source utility Rufus apparently has 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:10.440 its own workaround, too. I doubt Microsoft is going to succeed at 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:14.200 patching every method for bypassing the hardware requirements, but I'm happy to 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:17.360 have them try. That means less time for them to program more ads into Windows 00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:22.600 11. Just kidding, they'll make time. Procreate, the company behind the 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:28.240 popular art app for iPad, have pledged to never add AI to their products. This 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:32.160 is despite the existence of the 2010 song "Never Say Never" by Justin Bieber. 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:36.760 In a video posted by the company's Twitter account, CEO Jason Koopa said, 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:41.640 "I really hate generative AI." And Procreate's website features a page 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:45.040 dedicated to their anti-AI stance. As a result, the company has received a lot 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:48.320 of love from digital artists who probably are tired of having generative 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:52.040 AI trained on their work without consent. But painters and illustrators 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:56.120 aren't the only ones seemingly becoming tired of the onslaught of AI tools. AI 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:01.880 photo editing and image processing features are starting to raise questions 00:01:58.160 --> 00:02:03.800 about when a photo stops being a photo. 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:08.600 Just last week, award-winning iPhone camera app Halide has introduced a new 00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:13.080 feature called Process Zero, allowing users to take photos without any AI or 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:16.800 image processing at all. Of course, Halide costs $20 a year, so now 00:02:15.320 --> 00:02:22.520 ironically you need to pay a subscription to not use AI. National 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:24.840 Public Data, or NPD for short, has 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:29.080 finally confirmed it had a data breach, though they don't actually seem too 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:34.000 sure. In their official statement, the data aggregator says, "There appears to 00:02:31.720 --> 00:02:37.080 have been a data security incident." As if hundreds of millions of people's data 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:41.920 ending up on the dark web was somehow not definitive proof enough. While many 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:46.240 reports claim that 2.7 billion people's data was exposed, that's apparently not 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:50.680 quite true. Web security consultant Troy Hunt investigated and found there were 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:55.280 about 134 million unique email addresses. Yet NPD told the Maine 00:02:52.960 --> 00:03:00.000 Attorney General's office that only 1.3 million people were affected, which 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:03.600 would imply that they all have about 100 emails. That's normal non-degenerate 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:08.320 behavior, right? It was also discovered by a company called Atlas Data Privacy 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:12.520 that the leaked data contained 272 million unique social security numbers. 00:03:10.720 --> 00:03:17.520 So every person affected by the breach must have also been born roughly 200 00:03:14.920 --> 00:03:22.360 times. Now to be fair to NPD, millions of these records are for people who no 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:26.600 longer are alive, so maybe they weren't included in the 1.3 million figure. But 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:32.120 it's hard to cut them slack when the hackers may have gotten all this data 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:34.440 because an NPD sister site published a 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:39.600 file containing admin passwords on its homepage that was only removed today. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:43.640 Sure, we've been hacked before, but the hackers still had to put in some effort. 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 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:52.920 to make it so so historically accurate? Neither do I, but it seems like a lot, 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:57.720 especially since the game allows you to pilot 2,000 different vehicles into 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:01.440 combat. We're talking planes, tanks, boats, oh my. Plus, War Thunder's 00:03:59.880 --> 00:04:05.440 in-depth customization allows you to fine-tune your vehicles to adapt to any 00:04:03.720 --> 00:04:09.480 battle. Because you deserve to have the tank you always wanted. Click the link 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:13.280 below to start playing on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, and you'll get 00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:19.120 some extra goodies, too. How do you summon Quick Bits? Easy. You just go 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:23.800 Wait, no, that's cats. Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake S desktop CPU lineup is 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:29.080 expected to arrive in October a little fuller than anticipated, a little 00:04:25.640 --> 00:04:32.200 healthier, girthier. A leak, courtesy of 00:04:29.080 --> 00:04:34.760 Jaekin on Twitter, lists 14 SKUs with 00:04:32.200 --> 00:04:40.520 two previously unseen Core Ultra 5 models, the 235 and 225. Another, more 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:44.640 different tweet from fellow leaker OneRaichu, points to the lineup 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:48.640 including one or more additional Core Ultra 3 models with eight cores, like 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. 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:57.960 Those have all gone to join hyperthreading in the great outdated 00:04:55.400 --> 00:05:02.760 tech glossary in the sky. Raspberry Pi, the company whose entire raison d'être 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:07.760 is hyper-affordable mini PCs, has launched a new, even lighter 2 GB 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.800 version of the Pi 5, down from 4 GB. 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 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:18.920 specs remain unchanged. It's also for just 50 bucks, down from 60, for 00:05:17.080 --> 00:05:23.280 consumers who would rather buy a box of nice popsicles than double their 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:27.400 available RAM. Yet unclear is whether Raspberry Pi will follow this up with a 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:31.360 1 GB version, or whether they'll follow that with an infinite number of pies, 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:35.960 each with half the memory of the previous model, Zeno's paradox style. As 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:39.640 in total pies. Comment if you're nerdy enough to get that reference. The Zotac 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:44.000 Zone, first revealed at CES, has now gone up for pre-order in select regions, 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:48.160 hoping to entice foolish gamers into buying what looks like a Steam Deck 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:53.640 thanks to its dual touchpads, but is actually an $800 Windows handheld with a 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:57.760 120 Hz OLED screen, Hall effect joysticks, a selfie camera, and a 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:01.360 kickstand. The real kicker, though, is the RGB strip on the back. Valve 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 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:10.760 at this point. According to TechRadar, Google has quietly confirmed that there 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:11.360 will be no more Fitbit smartwatches 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 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:21.640 then told Ars Technica that TechRadar's article was not correct, but did not 00:06:19.640 --> 00:06:26.120 elaborate on any potential new Fitbit smartwatch products. This confused us 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:29.720 because last week the senior director of product management for Pixel wearables 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:33.800 told Engadget that moving forward Fitbit will be focusing on trackers, not 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:38.920 smartwatches. So I feel like not even Google knows what Google is doing. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:44.120 That's fun. And Tesla's hiring workers to train its humanoid robot Optimus 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:48.400 using mocap suits. Candidates must be reasonably fit and between 5'7" and 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:52.360 5'11". No big boys or short kings allowed. Unfortunately, this training 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:56.400 might take millions of hours of data, meaning that the first sign of the robot 00:06:54.080 --> 00:07:01.640 apocalypse may be an epidemic of repetitive strain injuries. By contrast, 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:05.440 Chinese company Unitree says it has a $16,000 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:09.840 mass-production-ready bot that can jump, jog, withstand kicks, solder 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:12.760 electronics, and flip pancakes with training. It'll be the perfect 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:16.040 bodyguard/butler for all those average-sized men with debilitating 00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:20.240 carpal tunnel. But it would be even more debilitating if you didn't come back on 00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:24.160 Wednesday for more tech news. I know when you aren't here, and frankly 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:28.600 it hurts. Almost as bad as MY CARPAL TUNNEL. AH.