WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.020 Ah, that's good. 00:00:04.020 --> 00:00:08.920 CES is over. Thank God. And that Vegas strip smell is gone. 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. 00:00:13.340 --> 00:00:17.720 I don't like it. That prodigious provider of Apple-related prophecies, 00:00:17.720 --> 00:00:21.400 Mark Gurman, has analyzed the usual animal entrails 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:25.520 and published another set of predictions about what 2023 will look like. 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:30.440 The Gurm Terms? The Gurm Terms says Apple's mixed reality headset 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:35.520 will finally launch this year. But while fellow far-seeing oracle Ming-Chi Kuo 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 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.200 with an actual launch in the fall, according to Gurmanopoulos. 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.480 At which time, Apple devotees will finally be able to live 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:52.600 in that brushed aluminum fantasy land they try to create in real life, 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.800 where iPhones will always use lightning ports. 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.120 It escaped to the I-verse. Part of the reason the headset has been delayed 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 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:09.680 that we'll see barely any other major product updates in 2023. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:12.960 A new Apple Silicon Mac Pro is slated to launch this year, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:16.160 but Gurman says it'll probably feature an M2 version 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:20.680 of the M1 Ultra SOC found in last year's Mac Studio 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 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:30.720 or M2 Pro. Or an M3. Or an M2 anything else. 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, 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:38.200 okay, these names are a little much. We should have stopped at Macs. 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.600 I mean, that's the top, they could call it M2 a little much. 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 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:53.360 signed an agreement that will allow the repair of John Deere tractors by independent third parties 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.840 or farmers themselves, or anyone that owns a tractor. 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.200 Or Nicholas Sparks, wait, no, that was Deere John. He has one for sure. 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.880 That's different. Deere John Deere. Please let me repair my tractor. 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:06.960 That's the whole book. I know you're warned, but please. 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:11.360 The two parties signed a hilariously named Memorandum of Understanding, 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.040 designed to make sure John understands how wrong it was 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:18.600 to strip customers of the right to repair their own purchased products 00:02:18.600 --> 00:02:24.120 when it changed the license agreement in 2016. John, do you understand? 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:28.520 Sign the paper. The agreement follows US President Biden's executive order 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 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:38.240 with the, I mean, just stop with it. They wanna fix things. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.840 Did that make you think of Biden at all? Yes, all of it. Okay. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:47.440 And Seattle Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against basically every major social media platform 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:51.840 for exploiting the neurophysiology of kids' brains, 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.560 which they definitely do. But couldn't that also be said for like, 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:00.320 I don't know, toys and candy? Like anything marketed towards anyone? 00:03:00.320 --> 00:03:03.880 Cocoa melon? Don't get me started on Cocoa Melon. 00:03:03.880 --> 00:03:07.400 The makers of YouTube, TikTok, Snip, Snip Chat. 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.400 That's the other one. Snip Snap? We don't call it, talk about it. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.520 Instagram and Facebook, so that would be Google, ByteDance, Snap, Inc. and Meta, 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:19.440 were named as defendants in the lawsuit, which seeks financial damages and other remedies, 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:24.640 like presumably changing said platform so kids aren't hooked into feedback loops of excessive use 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:29.880 where they're exposed to damaging trends like disordered eating, self-harm, and cyber bullying. 00:03:29.880 --> 00:03:34.080 It's simple. And though this is very much a think of the children thing, 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.200 the lawsuit cites recent research linking teen use 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:41.360 of social media to those trends. So it's a good thing Instagram 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.920 is going to get rid of the shopping tab. That's step one. 00:03:44.920 --> 00:03:49.600 And Snap is getting rid of the Snap camera? Snap, getting rid of the Snap. 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, 00:03:54.040 --> 00:03:57.760 but the QuickBits aren't sentient yet. Thank God. 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:01.400 Reviews of the non-X variants of AMD's Ryzen 7000 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.160 desktop chips are up, and reception seems to be pretty positive, 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. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:13.120 Usually things are way worse when you take the X off. NCI, C. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:18.060 Rated? Not only are they cheap, the new chips are super power efficient 00:04:18.060 --> 00:04:22.300 and can be overclocked within a hair's breadth of their exified siblings. 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:26.740 Plus, with a non-X chip, maybe you can avoid this bug that disabled cores 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:30.860 on the 7600X. Full disclosure, that bug could very well still affect 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:34.820 the 7600 non-X, this is not investment advice. In other AMD news, 00:04:34.820 --> 00:04:39.020 one thing that we glossed over last week was TeamBread's unveiling of the new 00:04:39.020 --> 00:04:42.340 Instinct MI300 data center processor. 00:04:42.340 --> 00:04:45.700 Because it's not just a processor, it's an APU. 00:04:45.700 --> 00:04:50.940 The first data center chip to combine a CPU, GPU and memory on a single package. 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. 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. 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. 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:13.780 NVIDIA is reportedly working on having AI optimize their graphics drivers 00:05:13.780 --> 00:05:18.300 instead of only humans, which could lead to anywhere from 10 to 30% 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. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.020 I mean, human workers will probably still be required to make those optimizations work. 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 00:05:32.340 --> 00:05:35.460 and human optimizers work together. Most of it will probably be fine, 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. 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. 00:05:44.420 --> 00:05:49.380 The developer of MSI's popular afterburner overclocking utility has said that the project 00:05:49.380 --> 00:05:54.700 is semi-abandoned by the company who hasn't paid him for nearly a year. 00:05:54.700 --> 00:05:57.740 MSI says that's because the dev is Russian national 00:05:57.740 --> 00:06:01.380 Alexei Nikolaychuk, aka Unwinder, 00:06:01.380 --> 00:06:04.980 and paying him wasn't possible due to the situation in Ukraine, 00:06:04.980 --> 00:06:08.420 even though MSI hardware has continued being sold in Russia. 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 00:06:13.640 --> 00:06:17.120 using some method other than the myriad legal ways 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.200 that you can still use to pay people in Russia 00:06:20.200 --> 00:06:23.640 that you can find with a simple Google search. Bitcoin. 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? 00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:32.760 And get ready for chat GPT-powered stuff to show up in more than just Bing, 00:06:32.760 --> 00:06:37.800 customer service provider Ada has made a deal with OpenAI to roll out support chatbots 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:42.220 using the company's large language model. Meanwhile, researchers at Checkpoint Security 00:06:42.220 --> 00:06:45.840 have reported chat GPT being used by cyber criminals 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:51.600 with little or no coding experience to write functional malware and phishing material. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.120 What's next? Kids using it to generate new playground insults? 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:00.200 You think TikTok slang is confusing now? Wait until every bully has a unique hurtful poem 00:07:00.200 --> 00:07:03.960 for each of his victims. That was a real Chumba thing to say, Riley. 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. 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. 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:17.960 We think. Honestly, some of these scripts make me question everything.