WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 OK, hey, hey, listen. I'm worried you're not getting enough tech news. 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? 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.880 It's perfect. Apple will finally allow the side loading of apps 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:17.040 in the European Union later this spring. And I mean actual side loading, downloading apps directly 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:20.840 from the developers website, not just from an app store that isn't the app store. 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:24.160 You couldn't hear it, but the second app store was capitalized. 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. 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:33.920 In yet another example of malicious compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act, 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.080 Apple is arguably treating dev websites worse 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 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:45.000 from your own website, which is kind of a wild sentence, 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 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:54.640 for two years or more. You must submit your apps through Apple's notarization 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, 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:04.640 AKA the threshold to be eligible for the core technology 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.320 fee, meaning every subsequent install will cost you 50 Euro cents. 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:12.960 So Craig Federighi can afford his daily hair appointments and continue to look exquisite. 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:17.520 Do they really call them Euro cents? Euro cents! Mm, ins, ins, ins. 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 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.640 seems like three or four scare screens designed 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.960 to trigger a fight or flight response before they download an app from a website. 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. 00:01:35.080 --> 00:01:38.960 You wouldn't download an app. Not unless I said so. 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:43.280 The European Parliament has voted to adopt the EU AI Act, 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:48.000 which limits law enforcement's use of biometrics and prohibits, among other things, 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.000 AI-enabled social scoring, exploitative behavioral 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.680 engineering, and emotion recognition systems at work or school. 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. 00:01:58.160 --> 00:02:02.160 The Federal Bureau of Intimate Feelings. Hey, it's Agent Smith. How are you feeling? 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:07.200 I heard Kevin just broke up with you. The Act also includes stricter scrutiny and transparency 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.400 requirements based on the risk an AI system might pose, 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:16.120 both to society and its users. Some critics within Europe have criticized the Act 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:21.240 for going too far and placing European AI firms at a disadvantage to American rivals 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:25.720 in terms of development, raising capital, and destroying civilization as we know it. 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 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:34.920 over the course of the next two years to give companies time to come into compliance. 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:39.360 But we might need regulations sooner. Take opening eyes eerily convincing text 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.960 to video generator Sora, which CTO Miran Muradi says 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 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:52.080 told Marcus Brownlee that it won't be publicly available 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.720 anytime soon. Muradi also said Sora will get the capability 00:02:55.720 --> 00:02:58.920 to generate audio and maybe even some amount of nudity. 00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:02.120 Not in my kingdom hearts. Hopefully after November's election 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.200 for the sake of all our sanity and eyes. 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 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:14.600 has been published warning that America must take immediate and decisive action to avert serious 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:20.000 security risks, global destabilization, and perhaps even an extinction level threat 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.720 to the human species posed by AI. But maybe instead we could keep arguing 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:27.960 about whether or not American football is ruined now that a pop star kinda likes it. 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:33.200 You kiss your boyfriend behind closed doors. For the past few weeks, users on social media 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:37.480 have been freaking out about the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, a fur that was heightened 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 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. 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, 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:55.960 she's British, and instead of being CEO of Apple, she's the Duchess of Cambridge. 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.280 Oh, I thought you said Canada. I love Prince Harry. Duchess of Cambridge Analytica. 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:05.000 It's probably important to note that Middleton's disappearance wasn't sudden or unexpected. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.080 In mid January, the royal family announced that she would be undergoing some kind of 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:14.160 unspecified abdominal surgery and afterwards take some time off to recover in private. 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 00:04:18.760 --> 00:04:22.720 in the gut by a trained professional. Wire services typically allow a small degree 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.120 of purely cosmetic edits like cropping and retie removal, 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.640 but not the kind of significant edits found in the Mother's Day photo, which included 00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:34.520 a disappearing sleeve, and a zipper that splits into two, but not in the normal way, 00:04:34.520 --> 00:04:39.240 and also green leaves on the trees in a photo supposedly taken in March. 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:43.440 This led to the photo being retracted and to some excited social media sleuths 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:46.640 claiming that the photo was entirely AI fabricated 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:51.480 or that the princess's face was photoshopped over a stand-in by somebody talented enough 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 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.840 delete part of her daughter's sweater? All right. It's a post-truth world. 00:04:59.840 --> 00:05:03.160 Where were you at Sweatergate? According to Tom Warren of The Verge, 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 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:11.320 a 2022 version of Photoshop from before AI features 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. 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:20.360 They're not made of money, just mostly. A tweet apparently directly from the princess 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 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. 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:33.160 I was trying to make my butt look bigger. By not showing it at all. 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:37.400 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat appetizers after your entree? 00:05:37.400 --> 00:05:43.320 My guy. Let me introduce you to the quick bits. NVIDIA absolutely dominates the accelerator market, 00:05:43.320 --> 00:05:46.480 but there have been a couple recent developments and alternatives. 00:05:46.520 --> 00:05:51.760 Infamous hardware hacker George Hotz's company, The Tiny Corp, is building The Tiny Box, 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:56.760 a $15,000 AI server powered by RX 7900 XTX GPUs. 00:05:57.200 --> 00:06:02.040 The Hot Box. The Hot Tiny Box. Or it will be if Tiny can convince AMD 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:06.080 to fix their basic shit in their AI acceleration toolkit 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:09.840 or open source the firmware and let old Geohot fix it himself. 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:14.440 But if that doesn't work out, legendary chip designer Jim Keller's company, TENS Torrent, 00:06:14.440 --> 00:06:19.160 launched DevKit's for its risk five based gray skull AI accelerator cards 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:22.680 right after partnering with multiple Japanese chip companies. 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. 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:31.720 Oh no. Hello, Japan. Wait, what? 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 00:06:36.760 --> 00:06:40.600 was not a flashy sports car, but a mini van. Oh God. 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.960 Presumably it would have allowed Tim Cook to say, buy your mom an car. 00:06:44.960 --> 00:06:49.240 Gurman also said the Apple Silicon team was heavily involved in the Apple car, 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:54.640 designing an AI brain that was as powerful as four M2 Ultra chips combined. 00:06:54.640 --> 00:06:57.920 Oh my God. The chip was apparently nearly finished 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.040 when the car was scrapped. Maybe Tim can use it to give life to an Android, 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. 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 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:19.280 because their cars are tracking them. Some car manufacturers like GM, Honda, Kia and Hyundai 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:23.320 offer optional features in their connected car apps that track and rate your driving. 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 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:33.440 and former adult film star Lexus Nexus, who then sell the information to insurance companies. 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:38.200 Apparently some GM drivers were still tracked without enabling the tracking feature, 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:42.440 leading to increased insurance premiums. Now that adult film star thing was a joke, 00:07:42.440 --> 00:07:45.600 but apparently Lexus Nexus has screwed lots of people. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:49.920 Airbnb will start banning the use of indoor security cameras inside rentals 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:54.520 starting April 30th. The previous policy tried to restrict the use of cameras, 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 00:07:59.320 --> 00:08:02.740 shouldn't be a big deal to host since most of Airbnb's listings 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, 00:08:08.060 --> 00:08:12.580 but it sounds like Airbnb knows there are some people covertly capturing buttholes in 4K. 00:08:12.580 --> 00:08:16.380 Those cameras are already in. And researchers from the University of Chicago 00:08:16.380 --> 00:08:19.740 have claimed that virtual reality headsets like the Quest and Vision Pro 00:08:19.740 --> 00:08:22.860 might leave users vulnerable to inception attacks. 00:08:22.860 --> 00:08:27.380 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Where a hacker connected to the same Wi-Fi network 00:08:27.380 --> 00:08:31.860 can control the user's VR environment and manipulate interactions with other users. 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, 00:08:36.100 --> 00:08:39.540 just take it off. This might become a more serious risk 00:08:39.540 --> 00:08:42.820 as these headsets get used in more professional applications. 00:08:42.820 --> 00:08:45.900 The Vision Pro, for instance, was recently used during neurosurgery, 00:08:45.900 --> 00:08:49.060 where it was definitely not hacked and used to trick the surgeon 00:08:49.060 --> 00:08:52.940 into implanting a small rubber duck next to the patient's medulla. 00:08:52.940 --> 00:08:55.980 Every time you breathe, you quack. And it's not a trick when I tell you 00:08:55.980 --> 00:09:00.980 to come back on Friday for more tech news. It's friendship. 00:09:00.980 --> 00:09:04.440 Seriously, man, like you need to get more tech news. I'm worried about your levels.