1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,020 Ah, that's good. 2 00:00:04,020 --> 00:00:08,920 CES is over. Thank God. And that Vegas strip smell is gone. 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,340 I don't know how it gets up there. Even when we don't physically go, it's strong. 4 00:00:13,340 --> 00:00:17,720 I don't like it. That prodigious provider of Apple-related prophecies, 5 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,400 Mark Gurman, has analyzed the usual animal entrails 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,520 and published another set of predictions about what 2023 will look like. 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,440 The Gurm Terms? The Gurm Terms says Apple's mixed reality headset 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,520 will finally launch this year. But while fellow far-seeing oracle Ming-Chi Kuo 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:41,320 said it'd be out by spring, we should actually expect an unveiling by WWDC in June 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,200 with an actual launch in the fall, according to Gurmanopoulos. 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,480 At which time, Apple devotees will finally be able to live 12 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:52,600 in that brushed aluminum fantasy land they try to create in real life, 13 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,800 where iPhones will always use lightning ports. 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,120 It escaped to the I-verse. Part of the reason the headset has been delayed 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:05,880 is its failure to perform well in drop tests. But Apple is so focused on refining the product 16 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,680 that we'll see barely any other major product updates in 2023. 17 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,960 A new Apple Silicon Mac Pro is slated to launch this year, 18 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,160 but Gurman says it'll probably feature an M2 version 19 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,680 of the M1 Ultra SOC found in last year's Mac Studio 20 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,960 instead of like an M2 Extreme, which is even better than the M2 Ultra or M2 Macs 21 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:30,720 or M2 Pro. Or an M3. Or an M2 anything else. 22 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,800 But then maybe V and W would get upset. I'm hoping that's because even Apple was like, 23 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,200 okay, these names are a little much. We should have stopped at Macs. 24 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,600 I mean, that's the top, they could call it M2 a little much. 25 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:48,000 The right to repair movement got a big win on Sunday when John Deere and the American Farm Bureau Federation 26 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,360 signed an agreement that will allow the repair of John Deere tractors by independent third parties 27 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,840 or farmers themselves, or anyone that owns a tractor. 28 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,200 Or Nicholas Sparks, wait, no, that was Deere John. He has one for sure. 29 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,880 That's different. Deere John Deere. Please let me repair my tractor. 30 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,960 That's the whole book. I know you're warned, but please. 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,360 The two parties signed a hilariously named Memorandum of Understanding, 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,040 designed to make sure John understands how wrong it was 33 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,600 to strip customers of the right to repair their own purchased products 34 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:24,120 when it changed the license agreement in 2016. John, do you understand? 35 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:28,520 Sign the paper. The agreement follows US President Biden's executive order 36 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:34,600 last year telling John Deere and other companies to quit the malarkey and get their keysters in order 37 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,240 with the, I mean, just stop with it. They wanna fix things. 38 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,840 Did that make you think of Biden at all? Yes, all of it. Okay. 39 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:47,440 And Seattle Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against basically every major social media platform 40 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,840 for exploiting the neurophysiology of kids' brains, 41 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,560 which they definitely do. But couldn't that also be said for like, 42 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,320 I don't know, toys and candy? Like anything marketed towards anyone? 43 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,880 Cocoa melon? Don't get me started on Cocoa Melon. 44 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,400 The makers of YouTube, TikTok, Snip, Snip Chat. 45 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,400 That's the other one. Snip Snap? We don't call it, talk about it. 46 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,520 Instagram and Facebook, so that would be Google, ByteDance, Snap, Inc. and Meta, 47 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,440 were named as defendants in the lawsuit, which seeks financial damages and other remedies, 48 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:24,640 like presumably changing said platform so kids aren't hooked into feedback loops of excessive use 49 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:29,880 where they're exposed to damaging trends like disordered eating, self-harm, and cyber bullying. 50 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,080 It's simple. And though this is very much a think of the children thing, 51 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,200 the lawsuit cites recent research linking teen use 52 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,360 of social media to those trends. So it's a good thing Instagram 53 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,920 is going to get rid of the shopping tab. That's step one. 54 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,600 And Snap is getting rid of the Snap camera? Snap, getting rid of the Snap. 55 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,040 For some people, QuickBits are the best part of the video, and I wish I could say vice versa, 56 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,760 but the QuickBits aren't sentient yet. Thank God. 57 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,400 Reviews of the non-X variants of AMD's Ryzen 7000 58 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,160 desktop chips are up, and reception seems to be pretty positive, 59 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,000 which you wouldn't expect due to these processors not having an X on the end of their name. 60 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,120 Usually things are way worse when you take the X off. NCI, C. 61 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:18,060 Rated? Not only are they cheap, the new chips are super power efficient 62 00:04:18,060 --> 00:04:22,300 and can be overclocked within a hair's breadth of their exified siblings. 63 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:26,740 Plus, with a non-X chip, maybe you can avoid this bug that disabled cores 64 00:04:26,740 --> 00:04:30,860 on the 7600X. Full disclosure, that bug could very well still affect 65 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:34,820 the 7600 non-X, this is not investment advice. In other AMD news, 66 00:04:34,820 --> 00:04:39,020 one thing that we glossed over last week was TeamBread's unveiling of the new 67 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:42,340 Instinct MI300 data center processor. 68 00:04:42,340 --> 00:04:45,700 Because it's not just a processor, it's an APU. 69 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:50,940 The first data center chip to combine a CPU, GPU and memory on a single package. 70 00:04:50,940 --> 00:04:57,820 It's like an Apple M1 or M2, but with 24 Zen 4 cores and 128 gigabytes of a HBM3 memory. 71 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:04,740 I mean, good luck shoving this thing in a laptop, but if nothing else, it's an achievement in making computer hardware cuter. 72 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:09,540 Just don't call it that to its face. You know, it's got all those cores that Barks has bite, so. 73 00:05:09,540 --> 00:05:13,780 NVIDIA is reportedly working on having AI optimize their graphics drivers 74 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:18,300 instead of only humans, which could lead to anywhere from 10 to 30% 75 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:24,000 more performance, more quicklier. If a tweet from Capframe X is anything to go by that is. 76 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,020 I mean, human workers will probably still be required to make those optimizations work. 77 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:32,340 So while I'm excited for faster optimizations, I'm also excited to see how the AI 78 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:35,460 and human optimizers work together. Most of it will probably be fine, 79 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:39,700 but there's always that one AI in the office. One's by the book and one's a wild card. 80 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:44,420 Whoa, watch out for this AI. Human AI. These the AI you call when things get rough. 81 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:49,380 The developer of MSI's popular afterburner overclocking utility has said that the project 82 00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:54,700 is semi-abandoned by the company who hasn't paid him for nearly a year. 83 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:57,740 MSI says that's because the dev is Russian national 84 00:05:57,740 --> 00:06:01,380 Alexei Nikolaychuk, aka Unwinder, 85 00:06:01,380 --> 00:06:04,980 and paying him wasn't possible due to the situation in Ukraine, 86 00:06:04,980 --> 00:06:08,420 even though MSI hardware has continued being sold in Russia. 87 00:06:08,420 --> 00:06:13,640 MSI says the project isn't dead and they're figuring out how to solve the issue 88 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,120 using some method other than the myriad legal ways 89 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,200 that you can still use to pay people in Russia 90 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,640 that you can find with a simple Google search. Bitcoin. 91 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:28,280 That's one. MSI is all about innovation. They wanna come up with their own thing, you know? 92 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:32,760 And get ready for chat GPT-powered stuff to show up in more than just Bing, 93 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,800 customer service provider Ada has made a deal with OpenAI to roll out support chatbots 94 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,220 using the company's large language model. Meanwhile, researchers at Checkpoint Security 95 00:06:42,220 --> 00:06:45,840 have reported chat GPT being used by cyber criminals 96 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:51,600 with little or no coding experience to write functional malware and phishing material. 97 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,120 What's next? Kids using it to generate new playground insults? 98 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,200 You think TikTok slang is confusing now? Wait until every bully has a unique hurtful poem 99 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,960 for each of his victims. That was a real Chumba thing to say, Riley. 100 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,520 It's a hellscape. What is a Chumba? You wouldn't know you don't go on TikTok. 101 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:13,200 And make sure you come back on Wednesday for more unique tech news, yes, still written by humans. 102 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,960 We think. Honestly, some of these scripts make me question everything.