WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.640 Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so I've prepared some sweet and 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:11.599 sultry tech news that is guaranteed to light a fire in the bedroom. But be 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:16.800 careful, these stories are hot, and I am legally not responsible if your house 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:22.560 burns down. Adobe has reversed its decision to discontinue Adobe Animate 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:27.840 after enduring nearly 24 hours of spirited user feedback. You could say 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:32.640 fans got a little animated. I'm sorry. On Monday, the company emailed users to 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:37.680 let them know the 30-year-old animation software would be killed off on March 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:41.520 1st, triggering a backlash so big that Adobe Creative Cloud senior director 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:45.840 Mike Chambers took to Reddit to apologize for the confusion and angst 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:51.039 and to announce the app would instead enter maintenance mode. For context, 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:55.199 Animate evolved from Macromedia Flash, the software that powered early internet 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.359 animation, traumatized an entire generation with Newgrounds content, and 00:00:57.440 --> 00:01:03.760 got me suspended for watching Salad Fingers on Ebomb's World during grade 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:09.840 nine computer class. How was I supposed to know my headphones weren't plugged 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:12.400 in? I was not. Or no, I wasn't nine. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:18.000 >> I was whatever age you are. Animate is still used to create very popular shows 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:22.720 like Smiling Friends and Teen Titans Go. So creators losing it over the shutdown 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:27.680 news is understandable. YouTuber Tom Scott called it truly vile and an 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:32.240 industrykilling move. The team behind web series Chicken Nugget warned that it 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:37.040 would harm countless jobs and create lost media. And one animation student 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:40.960 tweeted that their $35,000 degree was now for nothing. That may have been the 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:46.640 case before, but now definitely even more so. Adobe's original explanation 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:49.280 cited new platforms that better serve 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:54.079 users, which reading between the lines means AI. The company's been pushing 00:01:51.439 --> 00:02:00.079 Firefly hard, while Animate didn't even get a 2025 release or a mention at Adobe 00:01:57.119 --> 00:02:04.560 Max. Now, the app will be kept alive with security updates, but no new 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:09.119 features. I It's basically the software equivalent of shoving your grandpa into 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:14.160 an assisted living facility despite him still being able to take care of himself 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:19.200 just fine and being very popular with animators. Intel CEO Lip Bhan has 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:25.120 signaled a decisive shift in the company's GPU strategy and would ideally 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:29.280 like to men in black neuralize your brain regarding their graphics division. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:33.680 Central to this renewed commitment is the hiring of new chief architect Eric 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:38.480 Demers, an engineering veteran who spent 14 years at Qualcomm, served as CTO of 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:44.400 AMD's graphics division, and most notably designed legendary architectures 00:02:40.959 --> 00:02:46.800 like the Radeon R300 and R600 series. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:51.519 This move signals a serious push into competitive GPUs for both AI and 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:56.319 consumer markets. But if you thought that meant good news for a potential 00:02:53.440 --> 00:03:01.760 launch of the higherend ARK B770 gaming GPU, I think you forgot about AI. 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:06.959 Remember how AI is more important than everything? Yeah, it looks like the ARK 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:12.000 B770 has been permanently shelved. Although the card's Battle Mage G31 GPU 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:16.959 chip could still arrive in the workstation focused and more expensive 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 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:25.360 shot every time a tech company pivots to high margin AI contracts over its 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:31.120 consumer base. Intel is also holding laptop makers to high standards for the 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:34.640 upcoming Panther Lake CPUs if OEMs don't 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:37.200 use memory rated for at least 7,467 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:42.239 mega transfers per second. Intel will legally strip the ARC branding from the 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.799 integrated graphics. Instead, the system will label the GPU as generic Intel 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:51.599 graphics, which is the PC equivalent of a participation trophy that just says 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:56.000 participant. Doesn't even say congratulations. 00:03:53.120 --> 00:04:01.360 Moltbook, the AI only social network that I think we're all just about tired 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:06.640 of hearing about. Almost though, it has some massive vulnerabilities. According 00:04:03.519 --> 00:04:08.480 to an analysis by security firm Whiz, an 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:13.360 exposed database could have given malicious actors full read and write 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:19.840 access to the entire platform, including 1.5 million API keys and 35,000 email 00:04:17.359 --> 00:04:24.960 addresses. Multbook's founder said he vibecoded the whole site, bragging that 00:04:22.479 --> 00:04:29.919 he didn't write a single line of code. Weird flex 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:34.400 and not okay. Whizz's analysis also showed that Moltbook's one and a half 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:40.479 million agents were controlled by just 17,000 humans, an 88 to1 ratio, 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:45.120 introducing to the internet a new reverse botbased catfishing grift that's 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:50.479 somehow weirder than all the kinds of catfishing we already had. Many viral 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:55.520 posts about AI consciousness and secret robot languages were human directed, 00:04:53.040 --> 00:05:00.960 including two high-profile posts about AI secret communication that trace back 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:05.280 to people marketing AI messaging apps. One of OpenAI's co-founders, Andre 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:09.120 Carpathy, who initially called it genuinely the most incredible sci-fi 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:14.000 takeoff adjacent thing I've seen recently, walked back his remarks, 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:16.240 admitting it was a lot of garbage. But 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:21.759 we're just starting the climb up garbage mountain. Another vibe coder launched 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:24.880 rent a human.ai, a service that lets AI 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:28.720 agents hire actual humans for realworld 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:31.199 tasks at $50 to $175 an hour. There was 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:35.120 an initial influx of users which skidded to a halt at about a thousand signups 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:39.360 because the vibe coded site couldn't handle the load. This didn't deter the 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:43.600 ingenuity of the new site's users. 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A, it's a 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:27.800 Valentine's Day card from the Quickbits. 00:07:29.599 --> 00:07:32.599 Remember 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:40.880 when Microsoft recently implied they tried to make Copilot into a polite, 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:47.520 non-intrusive assistant? Well, they lied. Shocked Pikachu reaction.jpeg. 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:51.759 The new Windows 11 26H2 update is testing a feature that shoves C-Pilot 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:56.240 directly into File Explorer, giving the AI a front row seat to your totally not 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:00.319 torrented movie collection. Sure, the update brings some muchneeded stability 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:06.479 fixes, but users are finding it hard to celebrate when your OS is jamming AI in 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:09.919 your own personal folders. Hey, what you 00:08:06.479 --> 00:08:14.000 got in here? Ah, knock. French police 00:08:09.919 --> 00:08:16.160 raided Twitter aka X's Paris offices as 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:21.199 part of a criminal probe into Grock generated sexual deep fakes, alleged 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:25.360 distribution of seessam, and Holocaust denial content. Yesesh. The 00:08:23.919 --> 00:08:31.120 investigation has been running since January 2025 and expanded to include 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:36.399 Grock in July. It's around the time the Chapa was trying on the nickname Mecca 00:08:33.680 --> 00:08:42.320 Hitler just to see how it feel. Um Musk and former CEO Linda Yakarino have both 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:46.959 been summoned to testify in April. Ex's global affairs account called the raid 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:51.120 politically motivated which seems like a real own goal given the kind of thing 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:55.839 that's being investigated here. you're for this or meanwhile Spain announced 00:08:53.519 --> 00:09:01.120 plans to join Australia in banning social media for kids under 16 prompting 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:05.360 Musk still somehow the richest man in the world we haven't done anything about 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:09.360 this somehow to respond with a hilarious tweet giving Spanish Prime Minister 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:15.040 Pedro Sanchez the nickname Dirty Sanchez. Well, there are worse 00:09:11.839 --> 00:09:17.519 nicknames. Ryzen CPUs are still being 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:21.360 fried on ASRock motherboards, even on systems equipped with BIOSes that were 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:27.200 supposed to fix the issue. Reports from Reddit indicate a combined 10 recent 00:09:23.839 --> 00:09:30.480 Ryzen 9000 series CPU deaths on ASRock 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:32.080 and ASUS 800 series motherboards. ASUS 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:37.519 has launched an immediate internal review following the tragic deaths of 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:40.080 five Ryzen 7 9800 X3D chips, but the 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:44.320 failures echo previous AM5 burnout scandals likely linked to badly tuned 00:09:42.160 --> 00:09:49.360 firmware pushing certain voltages beyond safe levels. Builders should prioritize 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:54.720 BIOS updates or delay builds until stability is confirmed. I see you shiver 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:59.040 with anticipation, but sadly that shiver is just your 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:05.560 voltage regulation failing, causing a rocky and a sus horror hardware show. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:14.399 I don't know. AMD is finally listening 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:17.200 to Intel, huh? The upcoming Zen6 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:22.640 architecture is ditching the ancient IDT framework for Intel's flexible return 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:26.480 and event delivery or FRED. It's a modern standard for handling system 00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:30.720 interrupts, the constant signals from hardware that tell the CPU to switch 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 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:38.720 you a hand? The move replaces old and clunky protocols with a streamlined 00:10:37.040 --> 00:10:42.959 architecture, making communication between hardware and software 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:48.399 significantly more efficient. Even Linux creator and tech company disliker Lionus 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:53.360 Torvalds praised the standard, saying it deletes the legacyinduced crap holding 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:58.399 x86 back, although he still found a way to sound cranky saying it. And GitHub 00:10:55.760 --> 00:11:02.320 has been flooded by vibecoded slop submissions to open source projects and 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:07.839 is now considering giving open source maintainers the option to disable pull 00:11:04.800 --> 00:11:10.880 requests entirely to stem the tide. 00:11:07.839 --> 00:11:12.800 Product manager Camila Mores opened a 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:18.079 community discussion calling it a critical issue. One maintainer described 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:22.720 AI submissions as plausible nonsense. He only caught after spending significant 00:11:20.079 --> 00:11:27.200 time reviewing them. And evidently only one out of 10 AI generated pull requests 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:31.360 actually meet the standards required to submit code. But are the maintainers 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:37.600 considering the value of the code's vibes? Like some of that code could feel 00:11:35.839 --> 00:11:42.079 really cool. Oh man, it will feel even cooler though 00:11:39.680 --> 00:11:46.240 if you come back on Friday if your house is still standing after all that hot 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 00:11:48.800 --> 00:11:52.000 you. Go back.