1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,280 And you get an M4! And you get an M4! Hey, look under your seat! It's Tim Cook! How long has he 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:14,000 been there? We don't know! Apple has followed up Monday's new M4 iMac reveal by unveiling the 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:21,120 M4 Mac Mini on Tuesday and the M4 MacBook Pros today, this morning. I'm not sure how much longer 4 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:25,600 this Apple a day trend will continue, but as soon as it stops, I'm going to see my doctor. 5 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:31,760 The new 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros are largely hardware refreshes priced the same as their 6 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:38,640 predecessors and coming in M4, M4 Pro and M4 Max flavors with the Pro and Max variants 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,960 upgrading their three Thunderbolt 4 ports to Thunderbolt 5. But that's not the case for the Mac Mini. 8 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:50,320 In its first major redesign since 2010, the Mini has become significantly 9 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:57,600 minier, shrinking in total volume by around 40%. To achieve this, Apple reduced the Mini's footprint 10 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:04,160 to 5 inches by 5 inches, while also increasing its height to 2 inches, which I wouldn't necessarily 11 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:10,640 call Mini. I mean, sounds perfectly average to me. Huge, even. Can I tell them that a woman wrote that? 12 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:19,920 This little guy starts at just $5.99 and it doesn't get an M4 Max option, just M4 and M4 Pro. 13 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,360 The latter of which again gets you three Thunderbolt 5 ports. Apple even caved to public pressure 14 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:31,760 and moved another two non-Thunderbolt USB-C ports and a headphone jack to the front of the device, 15 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,840 making them easier to access. Wow, thanks Apple. But in order to keep its D&D alignment firmly in 16 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:43,600 chaotic neutral, my favorite alignment, they stuck the power button on the bottom in what I can only 17 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,560 assume is meant to troll critics of the Magic Mouse design. Oh, you like things on the bottom, 18 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,440 you like that, huh? You don't like that. There's apparently enough space to stick a finger down 19 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,800 there without lifting the whole thing up, but this is going to confuse more than a few grandmas. 20 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,760 Pray for your local IT support technician. Just press the power button. It doesn't have one! 21 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:09,760 Apple reacted to public outcry over their previously standard 8GB of RAM in a different way, though. 22 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:16,080 Every new Mac announced this week comes with 16GB of RAM in the base model, an upgrade that was 23 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:22,000 also backported to the M2 and M3-powered MacBook Air. But don't forget, the most important detail 24 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,560 of the Mac Mini, it's apparently the first carbon-neutral Mac, which Apple has accomplished 25 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,360 by throwing a mature redwood into the bottomless pit underneath their Cupertino headquarters for 26 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:37,520 every purchase. Microsoft has accused Google of running a shadow campaign to sway European 27 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:44,480 regulators against Microsoft's Azure services using the Open Cloud Coalition as an astroturfing 28 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:50,320 front. Now, would Google ever do something like that? Well, I mean, yeah, possibly. 29 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,680 Google is a member of the Open Cloud Coalition, alongside several smaller cloud organizations. 30 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,800 But Microsoft has insinuated that Google may have bribed those smaller providers 31 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,440 as a means of disguising its influence. Microsoft's allegations are apparently in 32 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:11,040 response to an antitrust complaint filed by Google against Azure in the EU, 33 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:16,720 alleging that Microsoft is using unfair licensing contracts to make it harder and more expensive 34 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:23,840 to run non-Azure cloud services on a Windows-based server. Ooh, that's monopoly, baby. 35 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,280 Google's cloud services are only the third largest globally after Microsoft's Azure and 36 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:34,240 Amazon Web Services. That being said, Google parent company Alphabet had its third quarter 37 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:40,800 profit spike by 34% this year, due largely to increased demand for cloud services, 38 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,760 as generative AI training slurps up all available compute and data resources. 39 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:52,320 It's not for you anymore, it's for them. This will most likely calm investor concerns about 40 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:59,200 how much Alphabet itself has been spending on AI. Indeed, Google CEO Sundar Pichai claims that over 41 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:06,400 25% of the company's new code is now AI-generated, which is either an astounding achievement in 42 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,880 efficiency or the death knell of modern civilization, depending on whether we're talking about 43 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:16,160 skilled engineers getting an assist filling in basic code or an advanced autocorrect farting 44 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:26,080 around basically unsupervised. They should have a limited amount of farts. Wow, that was really good. 45 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,800 Good news! We've used the quantum instability of the quick bits to replicate Riley. 46 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:36,720 Oh, who am I, you ask? Well, I'm Riley. I killed the other one. 47 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:43,600 AMD has confirmed that their next-gen RDNA4 GPUs will be launching early next year, 48 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:52,000 and they may be launching with some added oof. On Monday, the company wrote a post on GPU Open, 49 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,000 titled Neural Super Sampling and Denoising for Real-Time Path Tracing. It appears AMD may be 50 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:04,080 taking a page out of NVIDIA's book and creating their own AI Denoiser to boost ray tracing results. 51 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:09,840 On top of that, they may be adding dedicated AI hardware to their GPUs, similar to NVIDIA's 52 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:15,360 Tensor Cores. Honestly, copying some of NVIDIA's ideas sounds like a win for PC gamers, as long 53 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,400 as Team Red doesn't also copy NVIDIA's pricing. They're so expensive. Got em! 54 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:26,560 Recent reporting indicated that YouTube might be testing a homepage layout that lacks any view 55 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:32,640 counts or upload dates, which a lot of people believed because, well, that would be just like 56 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,200 YouTube now, wouldn't it? YouTube, however, has explicitly denied that this is the case. 57 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,440 Users who experienced missing view counts most likely encountered a bug caused by 58 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,640 certain browser extensions being enabled, according to YouTube. 59 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,880 Adblockers! YouTube, of course, suggests disabling these extensions and letting them know if the 60 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,200 issue continues. Maybe if you just put down the adblock at the dinner table for once, 61 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:01,920 we could enjoy these view counts together as a family. 34! That's great. Apologize to your mother! 62 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,920 Modder Beth Lee has built a mostly 3D printed, fully functional gaming handheld using a 63 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:14,080 framework laptop motherboard, an 8-inch touchscreen, and a USB-C dongle. This isn't the first time 64 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:18,800 something like this has happened either. Modern Tommy B made something like it back in March. 65 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:24,800 However, this new handheld, called fittingly the Beth Deck, is both more polished and apparently 66 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:30,560 far easier to assemble. According to Beth, you can put the whole thing together in around 15 minutes. 67 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,960 If you're interested, you might want to wait for a revised version of the 3D printed chassis, 68 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:41,200 which will have better airflow. I personally find the smell of melted plastic accentuates that DIY 69 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:46,800 feel. Plastic Fume Rush. It feels so good right before you fall unconscious. 70 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,560 A Russian court has ruled that Google unlawfully blocked the content of Russian media stations 71 00:06:52,560 --> 00:07:01,680 on YouTube and is serving them with a fine of 20 decillion rubles. That's 20, followed by 33 zeros. 72 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:08,640 Or if you prefer, 2 non-illion US dollars, which is a 2, followed by 30 zeros. And an amount of 73 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:14,720 money that makes the total global GDP look like a rounding error. The court reached this objectively 74 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:22,160 bananas some by imposing a fine of 100,000 rubles a day with the total doubling every week, 75 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:27,920 leading them to demand that a single company pay a fine worth more money than has ever existed. 76 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,640 And a recently filed criminal complaint claims that a fired Disney employee 77 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,920 used his still functional work credentials to access third-party menu creation software 78 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:44,000 and add profanity and remove allergy warnings from the menus. Disney staff discovered the breach 79 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:51,040 after all of the fonts in the database were replaced by wingdings. We're normally looking 80 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:58,560 at 40% wingdings at best. Fixing this required restoring a backup, meaning the system was down 81 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:04,800 for around two weeks. This ex-employee also used a script to attempt thousands of incorrect logins 82 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,440 under the credentials of other employees, leading to them being locked out of their accounts. 83 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,080 Personal information for several of these employees was also found in a folder on the 84 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:20,480 ex-employee's computer labeled DOCS, which is right below not porn in terms of subtlety. 85 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,400 But I don't want to be too subtle when I tell you to come back on Friday for more tech news. 86 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:30,160 It's really important to me that that's clear. Friday or Saturday, depending on your time zone. 87 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,800 Friday. Okay? Even you, Europe. Make it happen.