WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.600 Welcome to the tech news, where every story makes me feel a little bit like 00:00:04.319 --> 00:00:09.519 Elmo, a small red creature screaming 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:13.840 into the void while the man's hand controls everything I do. It's like, 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:18.720 what are you doing? Google is now using AI to replace news headlines in its 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:23.279 search results. The Verge found multiple instances where headlines they wrote 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:27.519 were swapped for AI generated versions, sometimes changing the meaning entirely. 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:32.000 When contacted for comment, Google claimed that this is part of a small and 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:36.880 narrow experiment to explore the effects of serving headlines that better match 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:41.280 the user's profile. With the personalized titles being based on the 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.920 user's query, location, and search history, critics have been quick to call 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:50.160 out that these tailor made headlines go so far as to be clickbaity, something 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.559 that the internet has never had to deal with before. While not great for 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:57.840 journalistic integrity, it does explain why my search results have all been 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.559 clickbait articles for the big shrimp conspiracy that my uncle keeps googling 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:08.400 when he comes over. Dave, big shrimp isn't real. You were on a banana boat 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:12.880 >> and you had heat stroke. >> It's worth noting that Google said that 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:18.400 the insertion of AI headlines into the discover feed back in July was also an 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:22.640 experiment, but a month later they made it a permanent feature. Since then, 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:28.720 publishers have seen organic traffic drops of 30 to 60%. As Google is 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:32.880 actively filling search with slop, over on the YouTube side, they're stopping to 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:36.240 ask, "Hey, how sloppy do you like it?" Users have reported seeing polls 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:41.680 inquiring whether the videos they're watching feel like AI slop, which while 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:45.680 annoying that it's necessary, is at least an indication of some level of 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:49.840 self-awareness. Many were quick to call this out, however, as YouTube just 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:54.479 crowdsourcing free training data for Google's next slot model, which sounds 00:01:51.840 --> 00:02:01.360 like a horrifying reality show. >> Still featuring Tyro Banks though. 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:04.399 They come out onto the runway like, "HI, 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:07.439 SUPER Micro co-founder Wall-E Leah has 00:02:04.399 --> 00:02:09.280 been arrested by the FBI for smuggling$2 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:14.720 and a half billion dollars worth of servers fitted with NVIDIA GPUs to 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:17.280 China. This is before America was trying 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:21.599 to get the China to buy them. Lea together with his Taiwan-based sales 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.280 manager Steven Chang used a front company in Southeast Asia to order the 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:30.319 servers which were delivered to the front company, repackaged into unmarked 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:34.160 boxes, and forwarded to China. To fool inspectors, they stocked the front 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:38.959 company's warehouse with thousands of dummy servers so that when Super Micro's 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:43.440 compliance team or US export officials came to verify the equipment, it looked 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:47.040 like the already smuggled hardware that was already on the ocean was still 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:50.720 sitting right there. Surveillance footage from the warehouse even caught 00:02:48.640 --> 00:02:55.519 workers using a haird dryer to peel serial numbers off the real server and 00:02:53.040 --> 00:03:00.879 press them onto the fakes. These arrests are part of a broader US government 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:02.080 effort to track how restricted AI chips 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:06.560 keep reaching China. >> They keep slipping over there. 00:03:04.720 --> 00:03:11.280 >> They're too slippery. In a statement to the press, FBI assistant director and 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:17.120 Spongebob Squarepants character James C. Barnacle Jr. That's amazing. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:21.440 Says the FBI will hold accountable anyone who uses American companies to 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:26.000 provide export control technology to adversaries. Super Micro itself is not 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:28.879 named as a defendant and says it's cooperating fully with the 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:35.040 investigation. Despite this, Super Micro's stock dropped 25%. As of now, 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:40.640 Lea and a Taiwanese middleman have been arrested, but Chang is on the run. 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:46.799 He's probably repacking himself into an unmarked box labeled not NVIDIA GPUs as 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:52.720 we speak. Happy trails, partner. We hope you live. Google is adding a mandatory 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:56.959 24-hour waiting period to sideloadad apps from unverified developers on 00:03:54.959 --> 00:04:01.760 Android because apparently your phone needs to sleep on it. It's it's a big 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:06.400 decision. Starting in August, the new advanced flow will require users to 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:10.879 enable developer mode, confirm they're not being coerced by a scammer, restart 00:04:08.799 --> 00:04:16.079 their phone, which conveniently kills any active calls from said scammer, and 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:20.000 then just wait a day. Give it a day. see how you feel. After that, you 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:26.160 authenticate with biometrics or a pin and you can allow unverified installs 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:28.479 for 7 days or indefinitely. Oh, okay. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:33.120 So, it's not 24 hours per app. It's 24 hours one time and then it's normal 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:38.080 sideloading. Okay. Google says sideloaded apps carry malware at 50 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:42.960 times the rate of Play Store apps and scammers rely on manufactured urgency to 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:48.400 pressure victims into installing sketchy APKs. So developers can skip the drama 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:53.040 by verifying their identity and paying a $25 fee. And Google's also offering free 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:57.759 limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists to share apps 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:02.400 with up to 20 devices. 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Sesame Street characters and Tuxios under federal 00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:26.039 investigation. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:34.160 Meta has reversed its decision to shut down VR support for its VR ccentric 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:39.520 social platform, Horizon Worlds. Just two days after confirming the shutdown, 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:44.080 CTO Andrew Bosworth said on an Instagram Q&A they decided to keep it running 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:48.479 after a fan reached out saying they were heartbroken that it would be shut down, 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:53.120 which might be the single most powerful customer complaint in history. Who is 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:58.000 this person? Horizon Worlds will stay on Quest for all existing games, but any 00:06:55.840 --> 00:07:01.440 new development will be mobile only. Okay, interesting. They're like 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:06.240 grandfathering it. Bosworth previously said the team was having to build 00:07:03.039 --> 00:07:08.240 everything twice for phones and VR. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:14.160 Apparently, that includes the decision to kill it, too. 00:07:10.479 --> 00:07:16.639 It's so nice they decided it twice. The 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:23.120 world's largest coalition of botnets, Isuru, Kim Wolf, Jack Skid, and MSAD. 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:28.960 >> I think it's unrelated. >> Different MSAD. It's a different song 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:34.720 >> has been taken down in a joint operation between American, German, and Canadian 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:38.080 federal police. Hey, we were there, too. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.000 >> That was a was it that was a eh, not a 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:45.039 like a y. All right. The four botnets compromised 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:50.560 over 3 million IoT devices like routers and webcams, launching DOS attacks that 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:52.400 peaked at a record-breaking 31.4 terabs 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:56.960 per second, enough to knock basically anything offline. Authorities seized 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:01.280 domains, servers, and crypto worth tens of thousands of dollars. But while two 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:04.479 suspected admins were identified, no arrests have been made. The police are 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:07.599 like, "We got tired from carrying all the servers and stuff, okay? We're just 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:12.479 going to come back tomorrow, okay? Don't go anywhere. We just We're going on a 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:16.960 donut break. Just stop. >> We're trusting you." 00:08:15.039 --> 00:08:21.840 A North Carolina musician just pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:27.039 fraud for stealing over $10 million in streaming royalties. Michael Smith, 00:08:24.479 --> 00:08:32.560 first indicted in 2024, colluded with an unnamed AI music company. Uhhuh. Uh to 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:37.919 generate hundreds of thousands of AI tracks. Smith then used a botnet to 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:43.039 stream the massive catalog billions of times, spreading plays across thousands 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:49.920 of fake artists to dodge detection. Smith faces up to 5 years in prison and 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:52.080 has agreed to forfeit over $8 million. 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:55.040 >> That's nice of him. >> Some of it. 00:08:52.959 --> 00:08:59.040 >> Yeah. What? What? In their press release on the case, the DOJ says they're 00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:03.519 dedicated to prosecuting AI powered theft from real artists. Except if 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:07.760 you're training an AI model, then it's Yeah, that's fine. We don't really care 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:14.480 what copyright is anymore. NVIDIA has seemingly confirmed that DLSS5 is 00:09:10.959 --> 00:09:17.120 basically just a very fast fancy AI 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:22.800 image to image model. NVIDIA rep Jacob Freeman told YouTuber Daniel Owen that 00:09:19.760 --> 00:09:25.040 the tech takes a single 2D frame plus 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:29.360 motion vectors, which is just like saying where things are going to move in 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:36.160 the frame as input. The model does not have direct awareness of the 3D geometry 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:39.519 in the scene. no depth data and no PBR 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:42.240 materials, just what it can see. It was 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:47.360 also revealed that if the AI yosifies a game character a bit too much, devs only 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:52.959 have the option to either turn it down, uh, mask out items in the scene 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:54.959 entirely, or tweak color information 00:09:52.959 --> 00:10:00.399 just a little bit, which is a far cry from Jensen's claim that DLSS 5 critics 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:02.640 were completely wrong. It sounds like 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:07.519 they were mostly right. billions of dollars in R&D. And we got a really 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:12.320 expensive Instagram filter. Some people want it. They shouldn't, but And 00:10:09.839 --> 00:10:17.839 scientists at Singapore's NTEU have built cyborg cockroaches that pull 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:25.279 miniature camera rigs through pipelines to detect leaks. Yeah. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:27.600 Like each roach gets a tiny electronic 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:32.320 backpack that steers it via electrical pulses. And a new process can assemble 00:10:30.160 --> 00:10:37.120 its little payload in just over a minute. Project lead Hiro Takasato 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:41.680 already deployed 10 of these bad boys to Myanmar after last year's earthquake to 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:46.560 aid with search and rescue. And apparently a German startup is working 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:52.079 on their own cyborg cockroaches for military recon and espionage. 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:55.760 Sam Fischer wishes he was this good at crawling through tight spaces 00:10:53.200 --> 00:11:02.880 undetected. Just like I wish I'll see you on Monday for more tech news. Or El 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:06.320 or Elmo will find you. And not in a 00:11:02.880 --> 00:11:09.600 tickle me way, in a Elmo has your IP 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:12.399 address and Elmo doesn't forget way. See 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.399 you next time.