1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,960 OK, hey, hey, listen. I'm worried you're not getting enough tech news. 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,880 But don't worry, don't worry, I got you, I got you. I got some for you here, all right? 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,880 It's perfect. Apple will finally allow the side loading of apps 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,040 in the European Union later this spring. And I mean actual side loading, downloading apps directly 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,840 from the developers website, not just from an app store that isn't the app store. 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,160 You couldn't hear it, but the second app store was capitalized. 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:29,480 Unfortunately, this doesn't quite mean that Apple just went full Android as put by Android police. 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,920 In yet another example of malicious compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act, 9 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,080 Apple is arguably treating dev websites worse 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,720 than it's treating alternative app stores. To be eligible to allow users to download your app 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,000 from your own website, which is kind of a wild sentence, 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,120 you are required to have been enrolled in the Apple Developer Program as an EU organization with good standing 13 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:54,640 for two years or more. You must submit your apps through Apple's notarization 14 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:01,440 process, and one of your apps must have already been installed more than one million times on iOS in the EU, 15 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,640 AKA the threshold to be eligible for the core technology 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,320 fee, meaning every subsequent install will cost you 50 Euro cents. 17 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:12,960 So Craig Federighi can afford his daily hair appointments and continue to look exquisite. 18 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:17,520 Do they really call them Euro cents? Euro cents! Mm, ins, ins, ins. 19 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,640 Devs will have to meet a handful of other requirements, while iPhone users will have to wade through what 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,640 seems like three or four scare screens designed 21 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,960 to trigger a fight or flight response before they download an app from a website. 22 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:35,080 If you're covered in cold sweat by the time the app appears on your home screen, Apple's done their job. 23 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,960 You wouldn't download an app. Not unless I said so. 24 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:43,280 The European Parliament has voted to adopt the EU AI Act, 25 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,000 which limits law enforcement's use of biometrics and prohibits, among other things, 26 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 AI-enabled social scoring, exploitative behavioral 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,680 engineering, and emotion recognition systems at work or school. 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,160 I'm going to miss those. I just want the FBI to know when I have a bad day. 29 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,160 The Federal Bureau of Intimate Feelings. Hey, it's Agent Smith. How are you feeling? 30 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,200 I heard Kevin just broke up with you. The Act also includes stricter scrutiny and transparency 31 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,400 requirements based on the risk an AI system might pose, 32 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:16,120 both to society and its users. Some critics within Europe have criticized the Act 33 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,240 for going too far and placing European AI firms at a disadvantage to American rivals 34 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,720 in terms of development, raising capital, and destroying civilization as we know it. 35 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,600 It will be some time before the new law takes full effect with its new provisions rolling out in phases 36 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,920 over the course of the next two years to give companies time to come into compliance. 37 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:39,360 But we might need regulations sooner. Take opening eyes eerily convincing text 38 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,960 to video generator Sora, which CTO Miran Muradi says 39 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:48,320 will be available to the public sometime this year, just days after the leader of the Sora team 40 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,080 told Marcus Brownlee that it won't be publicly available 41 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,720 anytime soon. Muradi also said Sora will get the capability 42 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,920 to generate audio and maybe even some amount of nudity. 43 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:02,120 Not in my kingdom hearts. Hopefully after November's election 44 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,200 for the sake of all our sanity and eyes. 45 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,680 I don't wanna see anything huge, you know what I mean? Meanwhile, a report commissioned by the US government 46 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,600 has been published warning that America must take immediate and decisive action to avert serious 47 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:20,000 security risks, global destabilization, and perhaps even an extinction level threat 48 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,720 to the human species posed by AI. But maybe instead we could keep arguing 49 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,960 about whether or not American football is ruined now that a pop star kinda likes it. 50 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:33,200 You kiss your boyfriend behind closed doors. For the past few weeks, users on social media 51 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,480 have been freaking out about the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, a fur that was heightened 52 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,680 into a full blown hella baloo. When a Mother's Day image of her posted to her 53 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:47,360 and her husband's Instagram and sent to various wire services turned out to have been significantly edited. 54 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,840 Now, if you're unfamiliar with Kate Middleton, she's a lot like Tim Cook except she's a woman, 55 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,960 she's British, and instead of being CEO of Apple, she's the Duchess of Cambridge. 56 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,280 Oh, I thought you said Canada. I love Prince Harry. Duchess of Cambridge Analytica. 57 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:05,000 It's probably important to note that Middleton's disappearance wasn't sudden or unexpected. 58 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,080 In mid January, the royal family announced that she would be undergoing some kind of 59 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:14,160 unspecified abdominal surgery and afterwards take some time off to recover in private. 60 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,760 But apparently a month and a half is just a crazy amount of time to take off after getting stabbed 61 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,720 in the gut by a trained professional. Wire services typically allow a small degree 62 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,120 of purely cosmetic edits like cropping and retie removal, 63 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,640 but not the kind of significant edits found in the Mother's Day photo, which included 64 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,520 a disappearing sleeve, and a zipper that splits into two, but not in the normal way, 65 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:39,240 and also green leaves on the trees in a photo supposedly taken in March. 66 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,440 This led to the photo being retracted and to some excited social media sleuths 67 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,640 claiming that the photo was entirely AI fabricated 68 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,480 or that the princess's face was photoshopped over a stand-in by somebody talented enough 69 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,240 to perfectly match the lighting of her face to the scene. But not good enough not to accidentally 70 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,840 delete part of her daughter's sweater? All right. It's a post-truth world. 71 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:03,160 Where were you at Sweatergate? According to Tom Warren of The Verge, 72 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:08,240 the photo's metadata indicates that it was shot on a Canon 5D Mark IV and edited using 73 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,320 a 2022 version of Photoshop from before AI features 74 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:16,400 were added, possibly because the royal family doesn't want to pay $23 a month for the updates. 75 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,360 They're not made of money, just mostly. A tweet apparently directly from the princess 76 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:25,640 has claimed fault for the bad Photoshop job. So I mean, either she's dead or she just had major surgery 77 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,120 and was hoping that a quick Photoshop job on an old photo would make you guys leave her alone. 78 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,160 I was trying to make my butt look bigger. By not showing it at all. 79 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,400 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat appetizers after your entree? 80 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:43,320 My guy. Let me introduce you to the quick bits. NVIDIA absolutely dominates the accelerator market, 81 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,480 but there have been a couple recent developments and alternatives. 82 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:51,760 Infamous hardware hacker George Hotz's company, The Tiny Corp, is building The Tiny Box, 83 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:56,760 a $15,000 AI server powered by RX 7900 XTX GPUs. 84 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:02,040 The Hot Box. The Hot Tiny Box. Or it will be if Tiny can convince AMD 85 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,080 to fix their basic shit in their AI acceleration toolkit 86 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,840 or open source the firmware and let old Geohot fix it himself. 87 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:14,440 But if that doesn't work out, legendary chip designer Jim Keller's company, TENS Torrent, 88 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:19,160 launched DevKit's for its risk five based gray skull AI accelerator cards 89 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,680 right after partnering with multiple Japanese chip companies. 90 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:28,080 Because it's time to reduce the chip market's reliance on island nations that have a tense relationship to China. 91 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,720 Oh no. Hello, Japan. Wait, what? 92 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,760 According to Mark Gurman, who I write slam poetry about, Apple's now canceled electric vehicle project 93 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,600 was not a flashy sports car, but a mini van. Oh God. 94 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,960 Presumably it would have allowed Tim Cook to say, buy your mom an car. 95 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,240 Gurman also said the Apple Silicon team was heavily involved in the Apple car, 96 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:54,640 designing an AI brain that was as powerful as four M2 Ultra chips combined. 97 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,920 Oh my God. The chip was apparently nearly finished 98 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,040 when the car was scrapped. Maybe Tim can use it to give life to an Android, 99 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:07,360 the likes of which hasn't been birthed by mortals since the assembly of, well, Mark Zuckerberg. 100 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:12,840 It'll be very expensive. But it might be very good at BJJ. Drivers have found their insurance has increased 101 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:19,280 because their cars are tracking them. Some car manufacturers like GM, Honda, Kia and Hyundai 102 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,320 offer optional features in their connected car apps that track and rate your driving. 103 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,560 What they don't say is that they sell that driving data to entities like Data Brokerage 104 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:33,440 and former adult film star Lexus Nexus, who then sell the information to insurance companies. 105 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,200 Apparently some GM drivers were still tracked without enabling the tracking feature, 106 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,440 leading to increased insurance premiums. Now that adult film star thing was a joke, 107 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,600 but apparently Lexus Nexus has screwed lots of people. 108 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,920 Airbnb will start banning the use of indoor security cameras inside rentals 109 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,520 starting April 30th. The previous policy tried to restrict the use of cameras, 110 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:59,320 but was vague enough that abuse has occurred in the past. In their policy update, the company said the change 111 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,740 shouldn't be a big deal to host since most of Airbnb's listings 112 00:08:02,740 --> 00:08:08,060 do not report having a security camera. Now I know that's meant to be careful legal speak, 113 00:08:08,060 --> 00:08:12,580 but it sounds like Airbnb knows there are some people covertly capturing buttholes in 4K. 114 00:08:12,580 --> 00:08:16,380 Those cameras are already in. And researchers from the University of Chicago 115 00:08:16,380 --> 00:08:19,740 have claimed that virtual reality headsets like the Quest and Vision Pro 116 00:08:19,740 --> 00:08:22,860 might leave users vulnerable to inception attacks. 117 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:27,380 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Where a hacker connected to the same Wi-Fi network 118 00:08:27,380 --> 00:08:31,860 can control the user's VR environment and manipulate interactions with other users. 119 00:08:31,860 --> 00:08:36,100 It's just like the Christopher Nolan movie, except that you can just take the headset off, 120 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:39,540 just take it off. This might become a more serious risk 121 00:08:39,540 --> 00:08:42,820 as these headsets get used in more professional applications. 122 00:08:42,820 --> 00:08:45,900 The Vision Pro, for instance, was recently used during neurosurgery, 123 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:49,060 where it was definitely not hacked and used to trick the surgeon 124 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:52,940 into implanting a small rubber duck next to the patient's medulla. 125 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:55,980 Every time you breathe, you quack. And it's not a trick when I tell you 126 00:08:55,980 --> 00:09:00,980 to come back on Friday for more tech news. It's friendship. 127 00:09:00,980 --> 00:09:04,440 Seriously, man, like you need to get more tech news. I'm worried about your levels.