WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 I know you clicked this video because you love Windows, 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. 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.080 Merry Christmas. Microsoft has revealed that in order to keep receiving 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:17.240 Windows 10 security updates after the OS loses 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:22.920 official support in October 2025, Windows 10 users will have to pay the price, 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:26.680 the blood of their first born. No, it's 30 bucks. 00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:30.880 Per year though, that's pretty bad. 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:34.120 Microsoft first announced their extended security updates 00:00:34.120 --> 00:00:37.920 would be available to non-business users back in 2023, 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:43.080 but they finally got more specific at the very bottom of a very long blog post 00:00:43.080 --> 00:00:46.280 about how the best way to deal with Windows 10 losing support 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:49.500 is actually to upgrade to Windows 11. What? 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:55.280 Solves the problem. But for a lot of people, that probably requires buying a new PC, 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.840 a device that, infamously, generally costs significantly more than $30. 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.440 Per year though. However, you could avoid paying if you're a business 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:10.040 and you already pay to access a Windows 10 PC 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.760 through Microsoft's cloud PC service, Windows 365, 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.560 which starts at around 30 bucks per user per month anyway. 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, 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.800 at least recall got delayed again. That's good. 00:01:25.800 --> 00:01:29.040 If you can swing the 30 bucks per year though, 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.520 take note that you can only do that for three years 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:36.960 after October 2025. That's plenty of time to learn how to use Linux. 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:40.080 Good new Linux, Riley. It'll probably take you that long too. 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:44.560 New Linux. Benchmarks for Apple's recently revealed M4 Pro 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.000 and M4 Max processors are trickling onto the Geekbench database. 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.640 And when I say trickling, I mean gushing. We're talking gushers here, flavor slam. 00:01:55.320 --> 00:01:59.120 Because the M4 Max, presumably tested 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:04.960 in one of the new MacBook Pros, is getting multi-core scores over 26,000, 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:09.960 beating Intel and AMD's top and mainstream desktop CPUs. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.760 The M4 Pro, meanwhile, a step down from the M4 Max, 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:19.520 is scoring around 22,000, which is higher than Apple's own M2 Ultra. 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:24.560 And even higher than the participants of MK Ultra. That means the new Mac Mini, 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:28.720 which is just a couple inches chunkier than the Apple TV box, 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:33.720 is faster than the much chunkier Mac Pro and Mac Studio, 00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:36.720 which have not yet received their M4 upgrades, 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:42.520 for reasons they know full well. But the most powerful desktop Mac deserves a power button 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. 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. 00:02:52.920 --> 00:02:56.800 Don't worry, DIYers are designing 3D printed doohickeys 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.600 to make hitting the button easier, while also completely negating 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. 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:10.880 Well, now we're getting dirty. My catchphrase at college. 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:14.080 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Search, 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:19.280 apparently choosing to integrate their previously announced SearchGPT prototype 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:24.640 into their existing product, instead of making users keep track of a whole nother GPT. 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. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.720 ChatGPT Search will give plus and team subscribers 00:03:33.720 --> 00:03:37.840 links to relevant web sources in addition to answering their questions, 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:41.520 retaining contextual information as you continue chatting, 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.560 or searching, I guess they're kind of the same thing now. 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.200 Hey, that kind of sounds like AI search startup perplexity, 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:53.080 which just launched a Mac app to compete with the ChatGPT app. 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.480 Anthropic also just dropped apps for its Claude Chatbot 00:03:56.480 --> 00:03:59.640 on both Mac and Windows, although they're electron based, 00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:04.520 so they're basically web apps. Like this playable version of Minecraft 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:09.160 that's generated entirely by AI instead of a traditional game engine. 00:04:09.160 --> 00:04:13.480 So it's actually not Minecraft. It's like having a fever dream 00:04:13.480 --> 00:04:18.120 in which you're playing Minecraft. Called Oasis, its creators describe it 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:22.240 as the first playable real time open world AI model 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.640 made possible by running on ASIC cards from etched 00:04:25.640 --> 00:04:31.040 that have the transformer large language model architecture etched into their actual chips. 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:35.440 It makes the AI game run fast, but seemingly doesn't fix the issue experienced 00:04:35.440 --> 00:04:38.720 by this Redditor who spent a couple minutes building a house 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.880 only to have it vanish when they turned around. 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:46.120 This kind of volatility is probably why Anthropic published an article 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.880 urging governments to take action within the next 18 months 00:04:49.880 --> 00:04:53.400 to mitigate the serious risk posed by AI. 00:04:53.400 --> 00:04:57.640 Because we cannot afford to make the housing crisis even worse. 00:04:57.640 --> 00:05:00.720 You leave your house for one second and it's gone. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.240 But here's something to make life even better. Our sponsor. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.440 Have you gotten all your Christmas shopping done yet? Time's a ticking. 00:05:08.440 --> 00:05:11.920 I already got you these quick bits. The gaming legend continues 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 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.120 is the Ryzen 7 9800 X3D. 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.120 The company claims it averages 8% better gaming performance 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.800 than the 7800 X3D. And they also claim it's 20% better at gaming 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.960 than the Intel Core Ultra 9285K. 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:35.200 But that's just typical cherry pick data from AMD. They should have compared performance 00:05:35.200 --> 00:05:38.680 with something better like Intel's last gen chips. 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:44.880 Team Redd also confirmed that you can overclock the 9800 X3D. 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:50.080 And that's pretty fire, according to the Twitter account for the game awards. 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:53.560 My go-to account for stuff like that. 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, 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:03.440 though they chalked up most of their losses to write-offs and the cost of restructuring. 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, 00:06:09.880 --> 00:06:13.560 said the on-package RAM design 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.080 of their current Lunar Lake mobile chips was a one-off, 00:06:17.080 --> 00:06:20.400 a passing flirtation with integrated memory, if you will. 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:26.040 In their upcoming Arrow Lake and Panther Lake chips, memory will be firmly off-package. 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, 00:06:31.400 --> 00:06:36.600 which does not bode well for the future of the company's discrete desktop gaming GPUs. 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:40.000 But I think we were all mentally preparing for this already. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.480 Indonesia has banned the sale of Google phones 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:48.480 within the country, just one week after also banning iPhone 16s. 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.280 Apparently the company mandates that 40% of the effort 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:57.920 or stuff that goes into a phone be produced locally. 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.560 This can be met by manufacturing a percentage of parts locally, 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:06.400 developing software locally, or even by setting up R&D centers in Indonesia. 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:09.680 These banned phones can still be brought into the country, 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.680 they just can't be sold. Visiting tourists, for example, 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.040 may carry up to two iPhone 16s. 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. 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:26.400 We're gonna have a real conversation. I ain't worried hard on this meal. 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:29.400 Reddit has had a profitable financial quarter 00:07:29.400 --> 00:07:32.560 for the first time in its two-decade history. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.800 Reddit made a net income of $30 million 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:40.600 as opposed to this time last year where the site made negative $7 million. 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:45.280 You might reasonably guess that this change in fortune is due to Reddit's recent partnerships 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:49.240 with Google and OpenAI, or the way that Google has placed Reddit 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 00:07:55.280 --> 00:07:59.920 to a new AI translation feature that has increased the site's popularity 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:04.840 with non-English speakers. Okay, quick question for our multilingual viewers. 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 00:08:11.320 --> 00:08:15.960 that can better physically feel by way of tactile sensors. 00:08:15.960 --> 00:08:19.040 This isn't meant to help build better prosthetics 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 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.920 with that possibility. Rather, it's meant to help scientists create AI models 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.920 that better understand the physical world and can grasp fragile cylindrical objects 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.000 without crushing them. Why did we say cylindrical? 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 00:08:42.040 --> 00:08:45.720 that they'd be developing a new category for their social platforms, 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:50.720 which is nothing but AI-generated and AI-curated content. 00:08:50.920 --> 00:08:54.760 But can you feel it? No, it won't be good for the users. 00:08:54.760 --> 00:08:57.960 Why are you asking that? It's for the robots. 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.880 The robots are gonna have a great time. But this show is for you. 00:09:01.880 --> 00:09:05.080 So why don't you come back on Monday for another episode of Tech News? 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:09.640 It'll be curated and cured, like a nice slice of meat. 00:09:09.640 --> 00:09:13.620 Only the choices cuts here. Because, prosciutto. 00:09:13.620 --> 00:09:17.200 Double gold. Because you deserve it. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.160 And that's what Christmas is all about. 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:24.640 And happy Hanukkah. The season has begun!