WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 We make these videos in a single day, so saving time is super important, which is why I'm just 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:08.720 gonna tell you that Magical is sponsoring this video and move on, okay? I'll tell you more 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.840 later, don't worry about it. The United States Department of Justice sued Apple on Thursday for 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:20.160 monopolizing smartphone markets, which is a bolder and broader claim than even Epic Games made 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.840 in their lawsuit. They should have thought of that before they became a video game company 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:29.680 instead of a government institution. The sheer scope of the DOJ's complaints make this probably 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:36.960 the largest antitrust case since the DOJ sued Microsoft back in 1998, which led to the company 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.320 pinky swearing to not be so monopolistic in shoving Internet Explorer down consumers' 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.000 throats. But when you change the browser name to Edge, pinky promises don't count. That's 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.680 playground rules. In a nutshell, the reason for the DOJ's lawsuit is basically summarized by Tim 00:00:51.680 --> 00:01:05.600 Cook's now classic line, buy your mom an iPhone. Join me or be cast into the piercing void with 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:12.720 the rest of your contemptible kind, unworthy scum. Cook said this in response to a reporter talking 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:17.440 about how pictures and videos look like grainy garbage when they're sent between iPhones and 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:22.880 Androids, and it's even quoted in the DOJ's complaint. They also mentioned the iOS app store's 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:29.200 restrictive rules, specifically claiming that Apple blocks super apps like WeChat, which basically 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.240 serves as an app platform in itself in China. And they also bring up hardware incompatibility, 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:39.920 citing the Apple Watch's lack of Android support. But that's apparently not for a lack of trying. 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:46.640 Apple told 9to5Mac that it spent three years investigating whether Android support could 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:52.800 be added to Apple Watch, ultimately deciding it would never work because of technical limitations. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.640 Pretty much any issue with iOS you've ever heard of is cited in this lawsuit. And it's clear the 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:06.320 DOJ thinks Apple's walled garden approach isn't cool anymore. In a statement issued to the press, 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:13.600 Apple says the lawsuit threatens who we are. And yeah, yeah, it does. That's kind of the whole 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:18.640 point. You're toxic. I'm slipping under. But for me, the most scandalous part of all of this 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:24.000 is that Tim Sweeney can't even tweet about it until he's done giving testimony in the Australian 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.840 Epic Games vs. Apple trial. What does he think? If he does tweet, it spins the opposite way. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain computer interface company posted a live stream on Twitter proving 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.920 that their first human patient is not only alive, he is killing it at chess. 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:50.480 Nolan Arbach received the wireless implant in January and can now easily move a mouse cursor 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:56.640 with his mind well enough to play Civilization 6 for eight hours straight, only stopping because 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:01.200 he had to charge it. Now, while this is certainly impressive, BCI experts have pointed out that 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.880 the basic technology here isn't new. I mean, here's a video from 2007 of a guy controlling 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:12.080 a mouse cursor with his mind. Academic researchers and startups like Synchron and BlackRock, 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:17.680 the Neurotech company, not the one you're thinking of, have all achieved similar results. 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:23.760 But it's clear that Neuralink is trying to create the iPhone moment for BCIs with its minimalist 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:32.000 design and sexy neural threads that get all up inside your brain. And to be fair, it does seem 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:37.680 like Neuralink has stirred up a lot of hype, thanks in no small part to Elon making claims 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:43.280 like this one, where he says it's possible to shunt brain signals past a spinal injury so 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:48.720 paralyzed people can walk again, which would obviously be awesome. But I've also seen a lot 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:55.280 of this guy's rockets explode, so I just don't know. Microsoft has hired the CEO and founder of 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:01.840 Inflection AI, the company behind the popular Pi Chatbot, to head up its Microsoft AI division. 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:08.640 Also hired by Microsoft, most of Inflection's other 70 employees in what many in the industry 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:14.560 are calling an aqua hire and what a smaller group is calling a higher-quisition. It's just me 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:20.640 saying that, you know, I don't even like it. Microsoft will also pay Inflection $620 million 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:27.040 to license their Pi models and another $30 million to keep their lips shut about the whole poaching 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:32.640 a whole company thing. Don't spread this around. In a blog post, the survivors at Inflection 00:04:32.640 --> 00:04:37.520 referred to the gutting of their company as an important change to how we'll work. 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:43.440 But analyst Tony Wang, and everyone else with eyes, says this is basically an acquisition 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:48.320 of Inflection without having to go through regulatory approval. It's clear that Microsoft 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:53.760 CEO Satya Nadella is serious about his company's dominance in AI. In the wake of this story, 00:04:53.840 --> 00:04:57.520 a quote has gone viral from one of his interviews back in November, 00:04:57.520 --> 00:05:03.520 when Microsoft was briefly going to hire open AI CEO Sam Altman and much of that company's staff. 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:08.880 Asked about the possibility of open AI folding, Nadella said Microsoft would be fine because, 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:14.560 quote, we have all the IP rights and all the capability. We have the people, we have the 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:20.960 compute, we have the data, we have everything. We are in there, we are below them, above them, 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:25.760 around them. We are the Senate. He didn't say that last part. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:35.360 AMD has announced FSR 3.1, which not only adds substantial improvements to its upscaling technologies, 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:43.040 but also greatly expands access to frame generation. The update allows for the decoupling of AMD's 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:49.120 frame generation tech from its FSR 3 upscaling, allowing other upscaling solutions like NVIDIA's 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.520 DLSS or Intel's XESS to use Team Red's frame generation feature. Apparently, 00:05:55.520 --> 00:06:02.560 NVIDIA RTX 20 series cards and above are supported. Though AMD's upscaling also got some love, FSR 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:08.560 3.1 improves temporal stability and reduces ghosting, which AMD demonstrated using GIFs 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:13.760 that are definitely from Ratchet and Clanked Rift Apart and totally aren't just AI-generated 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.560 acclaimation. Why are they so small? Look how good this looks! 00:06:20.320 --> 00:06:26.720 SUYU, a non-profit open source Nintendo Switch emulator based on the recently defunct Yuzu, 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:32.480 released its first build on Wednesday, only to have it immediately pulled down by GitLab 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:38.160 on the grounds that it's a fork of a public repo against which we previously received a DMCA 00:06:38.320 --> 00:06:45.280 notice. However, the SUYU team says they will still continue the project. The build is available 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:50.160 for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and they've apparently added several fixes and removed 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:55.120 all telemetry, which is probably a good idea given what happened to the last guy who tangled with 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.600 Nintendo's enforcers. Those goombas look not threatening, but... 00:07:00.640 --> 00:07:06.960 At a virtual event, Microsoft unveiled the brand new Surface Pro X and Surface Laptop 6. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.400 For business. No, but seriously, if you're excited about the new ARM powered devices, 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:18.080 don't be. For these, these products use Intel Core Ultra chips, which are still new. 00:07:18.080 --> 00:07:22.880 The rumored Snapdragon X Elite notebooks won't be coming until May, but it might be worth the 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:28.800 wait. Qualcomm claims most Windows games should just work on their processors. You know what else 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.800 works? Co-pilot. Before announcing the new Surface devices, Microsoft rehashed all of their AI's 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:40.560 greatest hits. Like a Rolling Stones concert. If no one wanted to listen to the Rolling Stones. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:46.080 How they gonna tick it? Apple's M-series chips have an un-patchable side-channel vulnerability 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:51.600 allowing attackers to extract encryption keys from Macs. A team of researchers from multiple 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:57.280 universities detailed an attack called GoFetch, which uses an app that doesn't require any root 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:03.360 access to the target Mac. Only the same user privilege is needed by most third-party macOS apps. 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:08.720 The vulnerability is due to the design of the silicon itself, so it can't be patched, 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.440 only mitigated by software defenses that could severely affect performance. I also have an 00:08:13.440 --> 00:08:18.720 un-patchable flaw that affects my performance. It's called depression. And security researchers 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:24.080 say that around 13,000 buildings, predominantly hotels from around the world, are currently 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:30.160 vulnerable to an exploit that allows a master key to be created for the entire building using just 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:36.480 an NFC-enabled Android device and a key card from that hotel. It can also be used to override 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:41.920 deadbolts, so you're gonna want to hope that little chain can hold. This vulnerability affects 00:08:41.920 --> 00:08:52.800 safflock locks created by Dormacaba. Dormacama is aware of the issue and had so far replaced or 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:59.440 patched 36% of the affected locks. Wow. There are no known cases of this exploit being used in the 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:05.760 wild. This is very much a horror we have uncovered for ourselves in captivity, much like the Zonki, 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:13.760 the unholy offspring of a zebra and a donkey. That's Jessica's fun fact. Fun horror for the day. 00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:18.400 And you'll uncover more tech news if you come back on Monday for another episode of TechLinked.