WEBVTT 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:50.320 In its first major redesign since 2010, the Mini has become significantly 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 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 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? 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. 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 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, 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 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 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, 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 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. 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! 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. 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 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 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.560 of the Mac Mini, it's apparently the first carbon-neutral Mac, which Apple has accomplished 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.360 by throwing a mature redwood into the bottomless pit underneath their Cupertino headquarters for 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:37.520 every purchase. Microsoft has accused Google of running a shadow campaign to sway European 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:44.480 regulators against Microsoft's Azure services using the Open Cloud Coalition as an astroturfing 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:50.320 front. Now, would Google ever do something like that? Well, I mean, yeah, possibly. 00:02:50.320 --> 00:02:55.680 Google is a member of the Open Cloud Coalition, alongside several smaller cloud organizations. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.800 But Microsoft has insinuated that Google may have bribed those smaller providers 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.440 as a means of disguising its influence. Microsoft's allegations are apparently in 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:11.040 response to an antitrust complaint filed by Google against Azure in the EU, 00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:16.720 alleging that Microsoft is using unfair licensing contracts to make it harder and more expensive 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:23.840 to run non-Azure cloud services on a Windows-based server. Ooh, that's monopoly, baby. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.280 Google's cloud services are only the third largest globally after Microsoft's Azure and 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:34.240 Amazon Web Services. That being said, Google parent company Alphabet had its third quarter 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:40.800 profit spike by 34% this year, due largely to increased demand for cloud services, 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:45.760 as generative AI training slurps up all available compute and data resources. 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 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 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 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.880 efficiency or the death knell of modern civilization, depending on whether we're talking about 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:16.160 skilled engineers getting an assist filling in basic code or an advanced autocorrect farting 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:26.080 around basically unsupervised. They should have a limited amount of farts. Wow, that was really good. 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:30.800 Good news! We've used the quantum instability of the quick bits to replicate Riley. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:36.720 Oh, who am I, you ask? Well, I'm Riley. I killed the other one. 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:43.600 AMD has confirmed that their next-gen RDNA4 GPUs will be launching early next year, 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, 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:58.000 titled Neural Super Sampling and Denoising for Real-Time Path Tracing. It appears AMD may be 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. 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 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 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.400 as Team Red doesn't also copy NVIDIA's pricing. They're so expensive. Got em! 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:26.560 Recent reporting indicated that YouTube might be testing a homepage layout that lacks any view 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 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:37.200 YouTube now, wouldn't it? YouTube, however, has explicitly denied that this is the case. 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:41.440 Users who experienced missing view counts most likely encountered a bug caused by 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:44.640 certain browser extensions being enabled, according to YouTube. 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:50.880 Adblockers! YouTube, of course, suggests disabling these extensions and letting them know if the 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:55.200 issue continues. Maybe if you just put down the adblock at the dinner table for once, 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! 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:07.920 Modder Beth Lee has built a mostly 3D printed, fully functional gaming handheld using a 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 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:18.800 something like this has happened either. Modern Tommy B made something like it back in March. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:24.800 However, this new handheld, called fittingly the Beth Deck, is both more polished and apparently 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. 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, 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:41.200 which will have better airflow. I personally find the smell of melted plastic accentuates that DIY 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:46.800 feel. Plastic Fume Rush. It feels so good right before you fall unconscious. 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:52.560 A Russian court has ruled that Google unlawfully blocked the content of Russian media stations 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. 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 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 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, 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. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:32.640 And a recently filed criminal complaint claims that a fired Disney employee 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:37.920 used his still functional work credentials to access third-party menu creation software 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:44.000 and add profanity and remove allergy warnings from the menus. Disney staff discovered the breach 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:51.040 after all of the fonts in the database were replaced by wingdings. We're normally looking 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:58.560 at 40% wingdings at best. Fixing this required restoring a backup, meaning the system was down 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 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:09.440 under the credentials of other employees, leading to them being locked out of their accounts. 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:14.080 Personal information for several of these employees was also found in a folder on the 00:08:14.080 --> 00:08:20.480 ex-employee's computer labeled DOCS, which is right below not porn in terms of subtlety. 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. 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. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:34.800 Friday. Okay? Even you, Europe. Make it happen.