1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,160 I know you clicked this video because you love Windows, 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:08,580 but I just quickly want to make the case that you should also love something else, yourself. 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,080 Merry Christmas. Microsoft has revealed that in order to keep receiving 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,240 Windows 10 security updates after the OS loses 5 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:22,920 official support in October 2025, Windows 10 users will have to pay the price, 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,680 the blood of their first born. No, it's 30 bucks. 7 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,880 Per year though, that's pretty bad. 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,120 Microsoft first announced their extended security updates 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,920 would be available to non-business users back in 2023, 10 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:43,080 but they finally got more specific at the very bottom of a very long blog post 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,280 about how the best way to deal with Windows 10 losing support 12 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,500 is actually to upgrade to Windows 11. What? 13 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:55,280 Solves the problem. But for a lot of people, that probably requires buying a new PC, 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,840 a device that, infamously, generally costs significantly more than $30. 15 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:06,440 Per year though. However, you could avoid paying if you're a business 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,040 and you already pay to access a Windows 10 PC 17 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,760 through Microsoft's cloud PC service, Windows 365, 18 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,560 which starts at around 30 bucks per user per month anyway. 19 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,560 If Redmond's tactics are working on you and you're finally considering the switch to Windows 11, 20 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,800 at least recall got delayed again. That's good. 21 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,040 If you can swing the 30 bucks per year though, 22 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,520 take note that you can only do that for three years 23 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,960 after October 2025. That's plenty of time to learn how to use Linux. 24 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,080 Good new Linux, Riley. It'll probably take you that long too. 25 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,560 New Linux. Benchmarks for Apple's recently revealed M4 Pro 26 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:49,000 and M4 Max processors are trickling onto the Geekbench database. 27 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,640 And when I say trickling, I mean gushing. We're talking gushers here, flavor slam. 28 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,120 Because the M4 Max, presumably tested 29 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,960 in one of the new MacBook Pros, is getting multi-core scores over 26,000, 30 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,960 beating Intel and AMD's top and mainstream desktop CPUs. 31 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,760 The M4 Pro, meanwhile, a step down from the M4 Max, 32 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:19,520 is scoring around 22,000, which is higher than Apple's own M2 Ultra. 33 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:24,560 And even higher than the participants of MK Ultra. That means the new Mac Mini, 34 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,720 which is just a couple inches chunkier than the Apple TV box, 35 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,720 is faster than the much chunkier Mac Pro and Mac Studio, 36 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,720 which have not yet received their M4 upgrades, 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:42,520 for reasons they know full well. But the most powerful desktop Mac deserves a power button 38 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,840 that doesn't require squirming a finger around under the front like you're tickling a young'un's chin. 39 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,920 We don't really do that anymore. Even for grandmas, it's kind of like, all right. 40 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:56,800 Don't worry, DIYers are designing 3D printed doohickeys 41 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,600 to make hitting the button easier, while also completely negating 42 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:06,560 Apple's more minimalist design choice. But we hit the button on the bottom to make it look clean. 43 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,880 Well, now we're getting dirty. My catchphrase at college. 44 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,080 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Search, 45 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,280 apparently choosing to integrate their previously announced SearchGPT prototype 46 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:24,640 into their existing product, instead of making users keep track of a whole nother GPT. 47 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:30,080 We've got enough GPTs already. They're scurrying around like rats who are great at lying. 48 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,720 ChatGPT Search will give plus and team subscribers 49 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,840 links to relevant web sources in addition to answering their questions, 50 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,520 retaining contextual information as you continue chatting, 51 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,560 or searching, I guess they're kind of the same thing now. 52 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,200 Hey, that kind of sounds like AI search startup perplexity, 53 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,080 which just launched a Mac app to compete with the ChatGPT app. 54 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,480 Anthropic also just dropped apps for its Claude Chatbot 55 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,640 on both Mac and Windows, although they're electron based, 56 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:04,520 so they're basically web apps. Like this playable version of Minecraft 57 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,160 that's generated entirely by AI instead of a traditional game engine. 58 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,480 So it's actually not Minecraft. It's like having a fever dream 59 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,120 in which you're playing Minecraft. Called Oasis, its creators describe it 60 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,240 as the first playable real time open world AI model 61 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,640 made possible by running on ASIC cards from etched 62 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:31,040 that have the transformer large language model architecture etched into their actual chips. 63 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,440 It makes the AI game run fast, but seemingly doesn't fix the issue experienced 64 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,720 by this Redditor who spent a couple minutes building a house 65 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,880 only to have it vanish when they turned around. 66 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:46,120 This kind of volatility is probably why Anthropic published an article 67 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,880 urging governments to take action within the next 18 months 68 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,400 to mitigate the serious risk posed by AI. 69 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,640 Because we cannot afford to make the housing crisis even worse. 70 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,720 You leave your house for one second and it's gone. 71 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,240 But here's something to make life even better. Our sponsor. 72 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,440 Have you gotten all your Christmas shopping done yet? Time's a ticking. 73 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,920 I already got you these quick bits. The gaming legend continues 74 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:17,000 as the press release title AMD went with when confirming that the X3D chip launching next week 75 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,120 is the Ryzen 7 9800 X3D. 76 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,120 The company claims it averages 8% better gaming performance 77 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,800 than the 7800 X3D. And they also claim it's 20% better at gaming 78 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,960 than the Intel Core Ultra 9285K. 79 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,200 But that's just typical cherry pick data from AMD. They should have compared performance 80 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,680 with something better like Intel's last gen chips. 81 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,880 Team Redd also confirmed that you can overclock the 9800 X3D. 82 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:50,080 And that's pretty fire, according to the Twitter account for the game awards. 83 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,560 My go-to account for stuff like that. 84 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:58,880 Or maybe Jeff Keely's thumb slipped. I don't know. Intel had a predictably brutal earnings call, 85 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,440 though they chalked up most of their losses to write-offs and the cost of restructuring. 86 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:09,600 On the call, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who placed fourth in a recent Pat Gelsinger look-alike contest, 87 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,560 said the on-package RAM design 88 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,080 of their current Lunar Lake mobile chips was a one-off, 89 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,400 a passing flirtation with integrated memory, if you will. 90 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:26,040 In their upcoming Arrow Lake and Panther Lake chips, memory will be firmly off-package. 91 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:31,400 Gelsinger also claims that there will be less need for discrete graphics in the market going forward, 92 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:36,600 which does not bode well for the future of the company's discrete desktop gaming GPUs. 93 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,000 But I think we were all mentally preparing for this already. 94 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,480 Indonesia has banned the sale of Google phones 95 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:48,480 within the country, just one week after also banning iPhone 16s. 96 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,280 Apparently the company mandates that 40% of the effort 97 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:57,920 or stuff that goes into a phone be produced locally. 98 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,560 This can be met by manufacturing a percentage of parts locally, 99 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:06,400 developing software locally, or even by setting up R&D centers in Indonesia. 100 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,680 These banned phones can still be brought into the country, 101 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,680 they just can't be sold. Visiting tourists, for example, 102 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,040 may carry up to two iPhone 16s. 103 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,280 That's pretty generous when you consider zero phones are allowed entry into my grandma's dining room. 104 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,400 We're gonna have a real conversation. I ain't worried hard on this meal. 105 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,400 Reddit has had a profitable financial quarter 106 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,560 for the first time in its two-decade history. 107 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,800 Reddit made a net income of $30 million 108 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,600 as opposed to this time last year where the site made negative $7 million. 109 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:45,280 You might reasonably guess that this change in fortune is due to Reddit's recent partnerships 110 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,240 with Google and OpenAI, or the way that Google has placed Reddit 111 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:55,280 at the top of nearly every search page. However, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says it's mostly due 112 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,920 to a new AI translation feature that has increased the site's popularity 113 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,840 with non-English speakers. Okay, quick question for our multilingual viewers. 114 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:11,320 How do they say BS where you're from? And Meta says it's developing robot hands and fingertips 115 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,960 that can better physically feel by way of tactile sensors. 116 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,040 This isn't meant to help build better prosthetics 117 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:24,040 for human beings, though to be clear, Mark, an actual human being would have at least led 118 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,920 with that possibility. Rather, it's meant to help scientists create AI models 119 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,920 that better understand the physical world and can grasp fragile cylindrical objects 120 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,000 without crushing them. Why did we say cylindrical? 121 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,040 It kind of goes along with Meta's whole theme right now. Zuckerberg recently told Meta investors 122 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,720 that they'd be developing a new category for their social platforms, 123 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,720 which is nothing but AI-generated and AI-curated content. 124 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,760 But can you feel it? No, it won't be good for the users. 125 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,960 Why are you asking that? It's for the robots. 126 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,880 The robots are gonna have a great time. But this show is for you. 127 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,080 So why don't you come back on Monday for another episode of Tech News? 128 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,640 It'll be curated and cured, like a nice slice of meat. 129 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,620 Only the choices cuts here. Because, prosciutto. 130 00:09:13,620 --> 00:09:17,200 Double gold. Because you deserve it. 131 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,160 And that's what Christmas is all about. 132 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,640 And happy Hanukkah. The season has begun!