WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160 Hello, I'm working on a Shonda Rhimes style graze anatomy ass drama about tech journalism 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:11.920 where the central love triangle will be between me and a pair of polar opposite quirky AI chatbots. 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:15.720 Will we all hook up or not? I'm accepting donations. 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:22.280 OpenAI's Sora app has hit number one on Apple U.S.'s app store after launching on iOS on Wednesday, 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:27.880 featuring exclusive access to Sora 2. OpenAI's latest video generation model. 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:31.880 And we clearly weren't the only ones taking notice of the app. 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:36.040 Despite being launched only in the U.S. and Canada and being invite only, 00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.400 Sora saw 56,000 downloads on its first day. 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:44.480 And now it sits ahead of Google's Gemini and OpenAI's chat GPT on Apple's app store. 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:48.920 The app's hype makes a lot of sense once you get a load of the wild content 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:53.000 its users are generating. Sora has already been used to deep fake videos 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.400 of OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, stealing GPUs from Target 00:00:56.400 --> 00:01:00.960 and as an Ulu Kitty man. While OpenAI says Sora has settings 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:05.120 that will allow you to stop others from making unwanted deep fakes of yourself, 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:08.640 Sam has clearly opened the floodgates. He's into this. 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.200 Now, some journalists are already calling this new app a fever dream 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.960 and wondering if we should stop the slop. Well, I don't see that happening, 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:22.200 considering Bloomberg just reported that OpenAI has received a $500 billion valuation, 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:26.120 which puts it ahead of SpaceX as the world's most valuable private company. 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:32.440 So, let there be slop. Let the slop consume you be one with the slop. 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:35.840 Get sloppy. Google has put out a blog post claiming 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:40.360 that sideloading on Android isn't going anywhere. Guys, for real, please calm down. 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:44.120 About a month ago, it came out that Google would be requiring developer verification 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.400 for apps outside the Google Play Store, which has Android users concerned 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.520 about the ability to sideload apps that's installing them from a third party 00:01:52.520 --> 00:01:56.880 or non-official source. Well, in their blog post, Mr. Google says 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:02.000 that the developer verification is meant to protect users, heard that before, not limit choice. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.320 There will be a free developer account for teachers, students, and hobbyists, but these accounts will likely have greater limits 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:11.720 on how many devices can download their apps. Of course, this means that Google will be able 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:15.760 to control how broad a third party's apps reach is, 00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:20.140 and they will also get to collect the data of those creating developer accounts. 00:02:20.140 --> 00:02:26.680 Ultimately, like Google says, sideloading isn't going away, but it's sort of transforming into something different, 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.800 something maybe worse, probably worse. 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.960 We can still be mad. I think we can still be mad. Apple has removed IceBlock, 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.480 an immigration enforcement tracking app from the app store. 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:40.540 US Attorney General Pam Bondy told Fox News 00:02:40.540 --> 00:02:45.640 that pressure was applied on Apple to take down the app, which allows users to monitor the movement 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:50.160 of immigration enforcement officers. Apple told Business Insider that the app was taken down 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:55.360 because it presented safety risks. Following suit, Google removed a similar ice tracking app, 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.960 Red Dot, from their play store. Google told 404 Media that these ice spotting apps 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:03.600 have a high risk of abuse and describe ice as a vulnerable group, 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:08.840 which is why they elected to remove the app from their store. However, this whole story seems far from done, 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:13.120 as IceBlock's owner, Joshua Allen, says he's determined to fight Apple's decision, 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.400 going as far as to compare his app to speed trap trackers, 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.280 which are implemented in many map applications, even Google's own. 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:24.800 I think we gotta get a speed tracker for that guy on his e-bike that evaded ice in Chicago the other day. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.800 That guy was flying! In the mid-season finale of my tech news TV drama, 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:35.640 I call it off with both the AI chatbots, actually, because it's the quick bits that'll always have my heart. 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:40.040 Tesla is being sued for the wrongful death of a pair of college students, 00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:44.480 whose deaths their families claim were caused by faulty Cybertruck door designs. 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:48.800 The students were passengers in the rear seat of a Cybertruck that crashed into a tree 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:53.000 before it's battery lit on fire. The lawsuit claims that the rear passengers' injuries 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:58.880 were minor, but they died because of burns and smoke inhalation when they couldn't find the Cybertruck's manual door releases. 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:02.080 To manually open a Cybertruck's back door, is you need to lift a rubber mat 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.920 on the bottom of the door storage pocket. Oh, God. 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:09.840 You need to lift a rubber mat on the bottom of the door's storage pocket 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:11.720 and pull a cord underneath. 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:17.800 That does sound needlessly complicated, especially in emergency situations, but I'm sure Elon isn't too worried. 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:22.800 He just became the first person worth half a trillion dollars. 00:04:22.840 --> 00:04:26.840 Deadly trucks and earning tons of bucks. Elon's got his priorities straight. 00:04:26.840 --> 00:04:32.360 Another trillionaire news, NVIDIA's issues with 16-pin GPU power connector meltdowns 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.120 might have finally been solved by someone other than them. 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.640 Someone else did it, of course. Agua Computer has introduced Ampenal, 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:44.880 a tool that connects to the NVIDIA connector and proactively balances the power load 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:48.520 by evenly spreading it across the cables of various little wires. 00:04:48.520 --> 00:04:52.120 Sadly, this isn't a free solution to what really is a concerning issue 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:57.280 and the tool costs $95. Oh, one Reddit commenter astutely observed, 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:03.000 I feel like things like this should be kept in a museum chronicling the downfall of mankind. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:09.080 In this exhibit, we have a $95 gadget that you need to keep your $3,000 gadget from self-immulating. 00:05:09.080 --> 00:05:12.880 Sick burn. Harvard and MIT physicists just built a quantum computer 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:15.960 that ran continuously for over two hours. 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:21.600 I've never even done that. You might be saying to yourself, what's the big deal? My computer runs for more than two hours every day. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.320 But this is a huge deal when you consider that previous record-breaking quantum computer run times 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:29.800 were just a little over 10 seconds. Holy shit. 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.640 Thought I was gonna say minutes. Quantum computers rely on subatomic particles, 00:05:33.640 --> 00:05:37.440 cutely named qubits, it's kinda like quick bits, to store and process data. 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:41.400 But these computers lose their qubits in something called atom loss, 00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:46.200 which the physicists seem to have overcome by using an optical conveyor belt and tweezers 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:50.320 to replace qubits. Is this serious? With this new process, some of the researchers 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:54.600 believe quantum computers that can run forever might be just three years away. 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:59.080 This is such optimistic news. I love it, but have you seen the other tech news? 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:02.400 Do we have three years? Maybe the slop will distract us long enough 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:08.520 to not destroy ourselves. Slop. Japan is running out of Asahi Super Dry Beer 00:06:08.520 --> 00:06:12.560 as the company deals with a fallout from a cyber attack. What a weird sentence. 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:17.640 The devastating attack caused a system outage and forced Asahi Group to suspend operations 00:06:17.640 --> 00:06:22.000 shutting down most of its 30 factories. Now, after several days, 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:28.040 they've just begun to take manual orders, visiting customers in person and taking handwritten orders. 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:32.600 Reuters points out that this is one in a string of recent cyber attacks hitting global companies, 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.720 including Jaguar Land Rover and Marks & Spencer. 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.680 Honestly though, I don't think this is too bad. It gives Japanese salarymen an opportunity 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:45.960 to go home to their families instead of feeling obligated to go out drinking with their bosses and coworkers 00:06:45.960 --> 00:06:49.840 and paid entertainment. Nomakai can wait. Go hug your children. 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:51.720 If you have children, you're in Japan. 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:58.360 University of California researchers have made a way to use computer mice to capture vibrations 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.600 and convert them into audio data. In a Tom's Hardware article, 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.200 that's as interesting as it is scary, the researchers work is summarized 00:07:05.200 --> 00:07:09.920 as using high performance optical mice, signal processing and machine learning 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.720 to pick up what people are saying through their desks, 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.440 that kind of audio. Damn it. Mice with a DPI of 20,000 or above 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:21.120 are vulnerable to this attack and it doesn't have to be a complex virus that exploits them. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:25.680 It can be as simple as a creative app or a video game that asks for frequent mouse data, 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.240 which can then be collected and processed. Come on, man. 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.400 None of this is as chill as I thought it would be. It's Friday. 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:35.600 It's certainly not as cute as real life trained mouse with a microphone. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.000 You know what would be that cute though? If you guys just came back on Monday 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.160 and watched more tech news, I'm gonna keep working on my TV drama. 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:47.760 Those devastating season finale twists aren't gonna write themselves. Spoiler alert, one of the chatbots gets amnesia 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:49.720 after a big software update. 00:07:52.200 --> 00:07:56.080 I thought you were gonna say gets pregnant. It threw off my tone. 00:07:56.080 --> 00:07:57.560 But it's a crazy world.