WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 You came for tech news, so that's what I'll give you. 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:10.240 If you also want to hear my sci-fi series pitch, just let me know at any point. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:17.760 Microsoft has reiterated that it will not budge on including TPM 2.0 or the Trusted Platform 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.440 Module as a hardware requirement for Windows 11, with senior product manager Stephen Hosking 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:29.200 writing in the company's IT Pro blog that the security feature is non-negotiable. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:34.880 Unless you're a business and opt for the IoT Enterprise LTSC version of Windows 11, 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:39.360 which doesn't require it, or if you're following guides from Microsoft themselves, 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:43.360 as well as others that tell you how to install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC. 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:51.680 But other than that, it's off the table. The double down comes as Microsoft is ramping up pressure on Windows 10 users to upgrade, 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:57.840 which for many means upgrading their hardware too, because of the phantom menace requirement 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:03.520 different TPM. The whole issue is complicated by the fact that the real requirement, keeping 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:10.640 some users from upgrading, isn't even TPM 2.0. There are a couple generations of Intel and AMD 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.600 processors that have that feature, but aren't included in the list of supported processors 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.240 for Windows 11. So what does Microsoft actually want your PC to have to let you upgrade your OS? 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:28.320 The right vibe? They actually don't even want you to upgrade. They just like popping ads up in 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:34.560 your face. I got them. You're sick. Intel finally unveiled their second gen 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:40.720 ARC GPUs yesterday after busting them out of freshly fired CEO Pat Gelsinger's office. 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:47.600 He was fired because he wouldn't let the company launch them? That's not true. I'm just looking 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:53.200 for a reason that makes sense. Linus Tech Tips has a full breakdown, but the TLDR is the ARC 00:01:53.200 --> 00:02:02.080 B580 will launch for $250 on December 13th with the B570 launching at $220 on January 16th 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:08.480 in a number of colors and flavors, thanks to Intel having more board partners on board this time. 00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:13.600 Despite having a power draw on the lower side with the limited edition reference design only 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:20.640 sporting a single 8-pin connector, Intel says the B580 is 24% faster than the previous gen 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:29.040 ARC A750, a higher tier board, and delivers 64% better ray tracing performance than an RTX 4060. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:35.600 Now you might say, I don't care about ray tracing. Well, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle just 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:41.040 became the first mainstream game to require hardware ray tracing support. You want to give 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:46.640 it with the times or have an atypically swashbuckling archaeologist say that you belong in a museum? 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:52.560 That would not feel good. Alongside architecture improvements, Intel's upgraded their Xe Super 00:02:52.560 --> 00:03:00.880 Sampling Tech to Xe SS2, which now has frame generation like NVIDIA's DLSS3 and AMD's FSR3, 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:06.160 along with a low latency feature. Intel is leaning hard into its aggressive pricing here, 00:03:06.160 --> 00:03:12.160 saying the battle mage cards have 25% better performance per dollar than NVIDIA and AMD's 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:16.720 60-tier cards. And they've got about a month to convince gamers that's the case, 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:22.960 before Team Red and Green start dropping their own next gen GPUs. NVIDIA is heavily expected 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:30.080 to announce the RTX 50 series at CES, and AMD's own recently released code references both the 00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:37.120 RX 8800 and RX 8600. Look at me. You're going to wait for the reviews this time before shooting 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:43.920 your mouth off, right? You can do it. Stay strong. OpenAI has announced 12 days of OpenAI, 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:49.520 which means that, starting tomorrow at 10 a.m. Pacific, it'll host a live stream every day 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:57.280 for 12 days to launch or demo new AI features, a holiday tradition of tech bros since days of 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:03.440 your, or so Chachibi tells me. But Google seized this opportunity to give Sam Altman a taste of his 00:04:03.440 --> 00:04:09.680 own preempt your competitor's AI announcements, medicine. The tech giants suddenly opened access 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:16.640 to their VO video generator through their Vertex AI platform, along with their Imogen 3 image 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:24.000 generator. But more importantly, they unveiled Genie 2, a foundation world model that one ups the 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:30.480 World Labs demo for Monday's episode and generates 3D game worlds you can run around in, or sail 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:38.320 around in, for up to a minute before reality starts to deco here. DeepMind says that Genie 2 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:44.000 generates game content that's plausible, which I was going to say is the bare minimum for games, 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.680 but then I remembered Kingdom Hearts exists. Unlike D-Carts AI generated Minecraft simulation, 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:56.160 Genie 2 can actually make it so the world looks the same, or at least similar, when you turn 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.280 around, imagine, and can generate gameplay in multiple perspectives, like first person, 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:06.560 third person, and isometric. A few demos even showed characters interacting with objects 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:12.560 in ways that stretch the meaning of the word plausible, but again, Death Stranding shipped so. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:18.960 Genie 2 can render game protagonists as well as NPCs and lead to some fun situations, like this 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:24.080 one where the player just stood in a garden and didn't move at all and eventually a ghost appears. 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:29.040 Huh? If that's not creepy enough, the Googlers took their previously announced 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:34.320 generalist AI agents capable of operating in any game and dropped them into these 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:38.000 nonsensical dream worlds, presumably as a kind of prank. 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:46.480 Hey, wait a sec, is this AI? Yeah, just like you. Just like me. Aw, that's funny. 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.600 Oh, DeepMind also showed their new GenCast AI weather forecasting system 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.240 outperforming the current best-in-class model, but that's like actually practical stuff. 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:05.200 A thousand years in the future, a space travel experiment has torn the fabric of reality and there's portals everywhere. Also, humans have evolved tails again. They came 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:11.440 back. I'm working on it. But first, quick bits. In response to the US tightening export restrictions 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:17.120 even more, China said it would ban rare minerals crucial to tech production 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:22.880 from being exported to the US, who said it's just now realizing how much rejection can hurt. 00:06:22.880 --> 00:06:28.880 The banned minerals include gallium and germanium, of which China is the biggest producer. 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:35.040 On the plus side, if stuff isn't being exported to the US, then it can't be subject to tariffs, 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.960 so at least American companies won't have to pay extra for it. Win-win. 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:45.840 The FBI and CISA, America's cyber defense agency, have warned the nation about the dangers of using 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:51.040 unencrypted messaging, such as text messages sent between iPhones and Android phones. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.760 It's a bit of a strange warning coming from the FBI, which has historically 00:06:55.760 --> 00:07:01.600 opposed encryption, which makes it harder to get into people's phones for national security purposes. 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:08.000 The thing is, it looks like Chinese hackers still have deep access to American communication 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:14.880 after using a government backdoor to break in. So please make sure to use encrypted messaging 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:19.920 apps until we can get these hackers out of here, and then we can go back to unencrypted, 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:25.840 so the right government can spy on you properly. Ubisoft has announced it's shutting down its 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:32.720 free-to-play shooter, X Defiant, less than a year after launching and less than two months after 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:37.920 denying reports that it was going to do this very thing. While the game's Season 3 content 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:43.840 will still launch with servers remaining live until June 2025, the news also means the shutdown 00:07:43.840 --> 00:07:50.400 of three different production studios and 277 employees being laid off. My heart goes out to 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:56.240 those developers, one of whom I really hope brought up the fact that that name sounds like a call of 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:02.800 duty parody game they made up for a B movie to avoid licensing fees. X Defiant. It sounds like 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:08.720 a translation error. And the FTC won't let scummy companies be proposing orders yesterday 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:15.760 that would ban location data firms Ventel and Mobile Walla from selling location data, 00:08:15.760 --> 00:08:21.120 which can reveal details about consumers visits to medical clinics and places of worship, 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:26.160 sensitive areas. The ban would prevent these companies, which are some of the most prominent 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.040 of their kind, from conducting their main business, providing location information to 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:38.160 advertisers as well as government agencies like the IRS, DAA, and FBI. Man, they're not going to 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:43.920 be able to arrest anyone soon. Thankfully, the proposal is subject to public comment for 30 days 00:08:43.920 --> 00:08:49.440 before it can be made final, so go let the FTC know if you really want weird companies to still 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:54.320 be able to dox you. And let me know if you want more tech news by coming back here on Friday for 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:59.840 more. I think I'm going to take a page from Tim Cook and keep doing this until the voice in my 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:06.640 head says it's time. It hasn't said it yet. It says all kinds of other fun things though.