1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,640 Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so I've prepared some sweet and 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:11,599 sultry tech news that is guaranteed to light a fire in the bedroom. But be 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:16,800 careful, these stories are hot, and I am legally not responsible if your house 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:22,560 burns down. Adobe has reversed its decision to discontinue Adobe Animate 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:27,840 after enduring nearly 24 hours of spirited user feedback. You could say 6 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:32,640 fans got a little animated. I'm sorry. On Monday, the company emailed users to 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:37,680 let them know the 30-year-old animation software would be killed off on March 8 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:41,520 1st, triggering a backlash so big that Adobe Creative Cloud senior director 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,840 Mike Chambers took to Reddit to apologize for the confusion and angst 10 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:51,039 and to announce the app would instead enter maintenance mode. For context, 11 00:00:48,399 --> 00:00:55,199 Animate evolved from Macromedia Flash, the software that powered early internet 12 00:00:53,039 --> 00:00:59,359 animation, traumatized an entire generation with Newgrounds content, and 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,760 got me suspended for watching Salad Fingers on Ebomb's World during grade 14 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:09,840 nine computer class. How was I supposed to know my headphones weren't plugged 15 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:12,400 in? I was not. Or no, I wasn't nine. 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:18,000 >> I was whatever age you are. Animate is still used to create very popular shows 17 00:01:15,119 --> 00:01:22,720 like Smiling Friends and Teen Titans Go. So creators losing it over the shutdown 18 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:27,680 news is understandable. YouTuber Tom Scott called it truly vile and an 19 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:32,240 industrykilling move. The team behind web series Chicken Nugget warned that it 20 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:37,040 would harm countless jobs and create lost media. And one animation student 21 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:40,960 tweeted that their $35,000 degree was now for nothing. That may have been the 22 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:46,640 case before, but now definitely even more so. Adobe's original explanation 23 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:49,280 cited new platforms that better serve 24 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:54,079 users, which reading between the lines means AI. The company's been pushing 25 00:01:51,439 --> 00:02:00,079 Firefly hard, while Animate didn't even get a 2025 release or a mention at Adobe 26 00:01:57,119 --> 00:02:04,560 Max. Now, the app will be kept alive with security updates, but no new 27 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:09,119 features. I It's basically the software equivalent of shoving your grandpa into 28 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:14,160 an assisted living facility despite him still being able to take care of himself 29 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:19,200 just fine and being very popular with animators. Intel CEO Lip Bhan has 30 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:25,120 signaled a decisive shift in the company's GPU strategy and would ideally 31 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:29,280 like to men in black neuralize your brain regarding their graphics division. 32 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,680 Central to this renewed commitment is the hiring of new chief architect Eric 33 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:38,480 Demers, an engineering veteran who spent 14 years at Qualcomm, served as CTO of 34 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:44,400 AMD's graphics division, and most notably designed legendary architectures 35 00:02:40,959 --> 00:02:46,800 like the Radeon R300 and R600 series. 36 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:51,519 This move signals a serious push into competitive GPUs for both AI and 37 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:56,319 consumer markets. But if you thought that meant good news for a potential 38 00:02:53,440 --> 00:03:01,760 launch of the higherend ARK B770 gaming GPU, I think you forgot about AI. 39 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:06,959 Remember how AI is more important than everything? Yeah, it looks like the ARK 40 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:12,000 B770 has been permanently shelved. Although the card's Battle Mage G31 GPU 41 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:16,959 chip could still arrive in the workstation focused and more expensive 42 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:21,040 Arc Pro B70 in the fall. Hey, here's a fun idea for a drinking game. take a 43 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:25,360 shot every time a tech company pivots to high margin AI contracts over its 44 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:31,120 consumer base. Intel is also holding laptop makers to high standards for the 45 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,640 upcoming Panther Lake CPUs if OEMs don't 46 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:37,200 use memory rated for at least 7,467 47 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:42,239 mega transfers per second. Intel will legally strip the ARC branding from the 48 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:46,799 integrated graphics. Instead, the system will label the GPU as generic Intel 49 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:51,599 graphics, which is the PC equivalent of a participation trophy that just says 50 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:56,000 participant. Doesn't even say congratulations. 51 00:03:53,120 --> 00:04:01,360 Moltbook, the AI only social network that I think we're all just about tired 52 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:06,640 of hearing about. Almost though, it has some massive vulnerabilities. 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Many viral 62 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:55,520 posts about AI consciousness and secret robot languages were human directed, 63 00:04:53,040 --> 00:05:00,960 including two high-profile posts about AI secret communication that trace back 64 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:05,280 to people marketing AI messaging apps. One of OpenAI's co-founders, Andre 65 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:09,120 Carpathy, who initially called it genuinely the most incredible sci-fi 66 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:14,000 takeoff adjacent thing I've seen recently, walked back his remarks, 67 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:16,240 admitting it was a lot of garbage. But 68 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:21,759 we're just starting the climb up garbage mountain. Another vibe coder launched 69 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:24,880 rent a human.ai, a service that lets AI 70 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:28,720 agents hire actual humans for realworld 71 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:31,199 tasks at $50 to $175 an hour. 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Sure, the update brings some muchneeded stability 107 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:06,479 fixes, but users are finding it hard to celebrate when your OS is jamming AI in 108 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:09,919 your own personal folders. Hey, what you 109 00:08:06,479 --> 00:08:14,000 got in here? Ah, knock. French police 110 00:08:09,919 --> 00:08:16,160 raided Twitter aka X's Paris offices as 111 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:21,199 part of a criminal probe into Grock generated sexual deep fakes, alleged 112 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:25,360 distribution of seessam, and Holocaust denial content. Yesesh. The 113 00:08:23,919 --> 00:08:31,120 investigation has been running since January 2025 and expanded to include 114 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:36,399 Grock in July. It's around the time the Chapa was trying on the nickname Mecca 115 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:42,320 Hitler just to see how it feel. Um Musk and former CEO Linda Yakarino have both 116 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:46,959 been summoned to testify in April. Ex's global affairs account called the raid 117 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:51,120 politically motivated which seems like a real own goal given the kind of thing 118 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:55,839 that's being investigated here. you're for this or meanwhile Spain announced 119 00:08:53,519 --> 00:09:01,120 plans to join Australia in banning social media for kids under 16 prompting 120 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:05,360 Musk still somehow the richest man in the world we haven't done anything about 121 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:09,360 this somehow to respond with a hilarious tweet giving Spanish Prime Minister 122 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:15,040 Pedro Sanchez the nickname Dirty Sanchez. Well, there are worse 123 00:09:11,839 --> 00:09:17,519 nicknames. Ryzen CPUs are still being 124 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:21,360 fried on ASRock motherboards, even on systems equipped with BIOSes that were 125 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:27,200 supposed to fix the issue. Reports from Reddit indicate a combined 10 recent 126 00:09:23,839 --> 00:09:30,480 Ryzen 9000 series CPU deaths on ASRock 127 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:32,080 and ASUS 800 series motherboards. ASUS 128 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:37,519 has launched an immediate internal review following the tragic deaths of 129 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:40,080 five Ryzen 7 9800 X3D chips, but the 130 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:44,320 failures echo previous AM5 burnout scandals likely linked to badly tuned 131 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:49,360 firmware pushing certain voltages beyond safe levels. Builders should prioritize 132 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:54,720 BIOS updates or delay builds until stability is confirmed. I see you shiver 133 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:59,040 with anticipation, but sadly that shiver is just your 134 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:05,560 voltage regulation failing, causing a rocky and a sus horror hardware show. 135 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:14,399 I don't know. AMD is finally listening 136 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:17,200 to Intel, huh? The upcoming Zen6 137 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:22,640 architecture is ditching the ancient IDT framework for Intel's flexible return 138 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:26,480 and event delivery or FRED. It's a modern standard for handling system 139 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:30,720 interrupts, the constant signals from hardware that tell the CPU to switch 140 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:34,959 tasks and also just a friendly guy that wants to help. Won't you let Fred give 141 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:38,720 you a hand? The move replaces old and clunky protocols with a streamlined 142 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:42,959 architecture, making communication between hardware and software 143 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:48,399 significantly more efficient. Even Linux creator and tech company disliker Lionus 144 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:53,360 Torvalds praised the standard, saying it deletes the legacyinduced crap holding 145 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:58,399 x86 back, although he still found a way to sound cranky saying it. And GitHub 146 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:02,320 has been flooded by vibecoded slop submissions to open source projects and 147 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:07,839 is now considering giving open source maintainers the option to disable pull 148 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:10,880 requests entirely to stem the tide. 149 00:11:07,839 --> 00:11:12,800 Product manager Camila Mores opened a 150 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:18,079 community discussion calling it a critical issue. One maintainer described 151 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:22,720 AI submissions as plausible nonsense. He only caught after spending significant 152 00:11:20,079 --> 00:11:27,200 time reviewing them. And evidently only one out of 10 AI generated pull requests 153 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:31,360 actually meet the standards required to submit code. But are the maintainers 154 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:37,600 considering the value of the code's vibes? Like some of that code could feel 155 00:11:35,839 --> 00:11:42,079 really cool. Oh man, it will feel even cooler though 156 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:46,240 if you come back on Friday if your house is still standing after all that hot 157 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:52,000 tech news that is. And if you burn down your house, you cannot sue me. I warned 158 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,000 you. Go back.