WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.080 It does occur to me occasionally that humanity has built machines that produce 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.920 with terrible confidence inane, tripe, and cod swallow. 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:12.480 One hesitates to call this progress, and yet forward we march. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.920 Nintendo is raising the global prices of the Switch 2 starting September 1st. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:23.520 Prices in the US and Canada will jump by 50 bucks, while Europeans can delight in the strength of 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:30.000 their currency, only seeing a 30 euro increase, which I think is pretty close to being 50 bucks. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.480 Anyway, uh, haven't checked. 4835 Canadian. Okay, pretty close. 00:00:34.480 --> 00:00:40.320 The Japanese, however, were hit the hardest, as every Switch configuration will cost more, 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:46.160 not just the Switch 2. Nintendo Switch Online is also going up in Japan and South Korea starting 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:52.000 July 1st. Nintendo blames the changes on market conditions, which is another way of saying the 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.400 AI boom has been hoovering up every memory chip on Earth and feeding them to chatbots that have 00:00:56.400 --> 00:01:01.040 mostly helped people write LinkedIn posts. LinkedIn users are happy, though. 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:05.760 To be fair to Nintendo, though, Sony already hiked the PS5 price back in March, 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:10.240 so Nintendo's just following suit. Xbox also had some price hikes recently, but no one buys 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:16.720 those. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo expects sales to dip 17% compared to last year. 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:21.440 Well, at least it seems like they know what they're doing. And that's reassuring. 00:01:21.440 --> 00:01:26.880 French prosecutors have escalated their probe into Elon Musk and the platform, 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:32.400 formerly known as Twitter, to a full criminal investigation. The probe kicked off in January 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:40.720 2025 over allegations of Musk using X for political manipulation, and it then ramped up when Grok 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:47.760 went mecha-Hitler and started generating deepfakes and CSAM at the end of last year. Very cool. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:54.960 This prompted French officials to raid X's Paris offices in February and issue a summons for Musk 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:01.760 and former X CEO Linda Jacarino to appear in Paris on April 20th. Unsurprisingly, 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:07.520 both of them no-showed, but Musk did make sure to let everyone know what he thought of the summons, 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.800 tweeting that the prosecutors had intellectual disabilities, but not phrasing it like that at 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:16.320 all and definitely phrasing it in the way you know he would have said it. 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:21.680 The U.S. Justice Department is refusing to cooperate with the investigation, claiming the 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:27.360 French government is wrongfully regulating an American social media platform. Hey, 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:32.400 if the French want to regulate our companies, they need to come over here and do a regime change 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.240 like a normal country. Meta is rolling out an AI tool that scans your kids' bones. 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:45.040 Why are they scanning their bones in order to figure out their ages? It's not weird. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:52.400 The company is reportedly launching this as a form of age verification that doesn't require ID 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:59.280 or facial scanning, instead using photos to extract things like height, posture, and bone structure. 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:08.160 The rollout is likely response to a preliminary EU finding that Meta is violating the digital 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:14.480 services act by failing to keep under-13s off of its platforms and also probably that 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:19.440 recent New Mexico ruling that found Meta liable for misleading users about child safety. 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:26.000 Critics have largely dismissed the whole bones-based broach as AI phrenology aimed at appeasing 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.920 regulators rather than actually keeping kids off the platform. Meta probably wants those kids 00:03:31.920 --> 00:03:37.200 on the platform. Meta however claims that its goal is to limit the cases of children 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:42.880 circumventing facial scanning technology using sophisticated techniques like drawing on a fake 00:03:42.880 --> 00:03:48.960 mustache, which Wired reported was exactly how a 12-year-old convinced a facial scanning-based 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:55.920 age verification system that he was 15, an age at which many children famously grow mustaches. 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:00.000 I mean now if those kids want to get past age verification, they'll need at least 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:06.400 two other kids and a trench coat and maybe our sponsor. I confess I am awfully fond of the quick 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:11.040 bits and I shall endeavor not to be greedy. Why? Why? 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:20.400 TCL showed off a display panel with a refresh rate of just 0.01 hertz. That's one frame 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:26.080 every 100 seconds, as opposed to one hertz, which is one frame every second. LG only just 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:31.920 started rolling out those one-hertz panels, but TCL wanted to top the competition and move 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:38.880 100 times slower. The display uses 12 independent zones to swap between 120 hertz 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:45.840 and basically a static image. Yeah, and TCL estimates it could add over an hour of video 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:53.040 playback. It's the ideal display for watching paint dry in stunning 4K. The hacking group 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:59.200 Shiny Hunters has infiltrated the widely used Canvas learning portal for thousands of schools, 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:04.080 including prestigious organizations like Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. The group claims it 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:10.560 stole around 275 million records from Canvas' parent company Instructure, including names, 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:16.160 emails and student IDs. They've now given affected schools until May 12th to negotiate a 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.040 settlement before the data gets leaked. The silver lining for a lot of those kids that might get 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.680 their info leaked is that it happened during finals week. So now they have a few extra days 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:33.440 to try not to fail calculus too. It might be worth it. OpenAI launched GPT 5.5 Cyber, 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:40.960 a version of 5.5 with fewer guardrails for vetted defenders in its Trusted Access for Cyber 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:46.960 program. It handles bug hunting, malware reverse engineering and penetration testing. 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:55.440 It comes a month after Sam Altman criticized Anthropic for gating mythos, calling it 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:59.680 fear-based marketing. At this point, Altman and Amade are performing 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:05.440 anything you can do at each other across San Francisco. And everyone's watching. 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:09.840 Nobody show this to Lin-Manuel Miranda. I don't want to give him any ideas. 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:16.880 And a Verge reporter was run over by a YARBO lawnmower for science after researcher 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:25.280 Andreas Makris hijacked it from 6,000 miles away. These $5,000 robots ship with hard-coded 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:31.200 root passwords, allowing hackers to override safety stops and steal Wi-Fi credentials. 00:06:31.200 --> 00:06:36.080 Now despite Makris reporting the flaw, YARBO initially called the back door 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:41.280 a deliberate design decision. They have now publicly said they are taking action. 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:47.200 By giving the 200 pound robot with spinning blades a password. Seems like a good idea. 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:53.600 And I have an even better idea. Why don't you come back here on Monday for more tech news? 00:06:53.600 --> 00:07:02.960 And I will stop doing this accent. I'm so sorry. I apologize to all the UK. Love you.