{"video_id":"fp_3mOhqMPNRx","title":"Nvidia Angers U.S., Sony Cuts TV Access, Sam Altman’s Side Deal, + More!","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2023-12-05T02:02:00.027Z","duration_s":408,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":5.14,"text":"Man, remember when December was the 10th month, what's that?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.14,"end_s":8.64,"text":"You don't because you're not an ageless being who was around for the calendar of Romulus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.64,"end_s":13.4,"text":"that was replaced over 2,000 years ago, you could have just said no.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.4,"end_s":17.8,"text":"The US government is getting fed up with NVIDIA exploiting loopholes in the government's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.8,"end_s":23.12,"text":"export restrictions to China. It's like an airbud when they figure out there's no rule forbidding dogs from playing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.12,"end_s":27.28,"text":"basketball, baby, but way less heartwarming and quaint.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.28,"end_s":30.76,"text":"At the Reagan National Defense Forum this weekend, US Commerce Secretary Gina Ramondo","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.76,"end_s":35.4,"text":"said her department needs more funding to stop China from getting the good silicon that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.4,"end_s":38.64,"text":"Biden keeps in the windowed cabinet for special occasions.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":38.64,"end_s":42.56,"text":"Biden's not home, let's go. He's asleep standing up again, let's go.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":42.56,"end_s":47.36,"text":"She also took aim, particularly at NVIDIA, saying, if you redesign a chip around a particular","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":47.36,"end_s":53.52,"text":"cut line that enables China to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day, Mr.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.52,"end_s":58.68,"text":"I Add to the Mr. He's probably frustrated since after the SEC informed NVIDIA that they couldn't send","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":58.68,"end_s":63.4,"text":"their data center cards to China and Russia without a license, NVIDIA started designing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.4,"end_s":66.84,"text":"several professional cards suitable for the Chinese market.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":66.84,"end_s":71.32,"text":"And then when the consumer-grade powerhouse, the RTX 4090, got barred from export to China,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":71.32,"end_s":76.28,"text":"NVIDIA decided they'd make a special 4090 for China, even adding one of the coolest","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":76.28,"end_s":79.92,"text":"letters to his name, D.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":79.92,"end_s":83.92,"text":"Be careful, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, keep this up and you'll lose your leather jacket","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":84.68,"end_s":90.52,"text":"You'll be demoted to LACE, you dainty boy, LACE doesn't fly in jail.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":90.52,"end_s":96.0,"text":"PlayStation has announced they will be removing more than 1,300 seasons of Discovery TV series","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":96.0,"end_s":101.64,"text":"from the PS store, even removing access from customers who paid for those shows.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":101.64,"end_s":106.88,"text":"Now I know that sounds a lot like Sony is stealing content from paying customers.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":106.88,"end_s":114.4,"text":"I don't have a butt for that statement, that's just how it sounds. Sony posted a legal update notice to their site and sent out emails to the quote-unquote","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":114.4,"end_s":119.12,"text":"owners of effect content saying it will be removed at the end of the year due to content","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":119.12,"end_s":124.28,"text":"licensing arrangements. While everyone is quick to blame Sony and PlayStation for this, let's not forget that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":124.28,"end_s":129.2,"text":"Discovery is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, aka the company that completely deleted whole","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":129.2,"end_s":134.2,"text":"TV series off the internet and cancelled multiple movies that had already been shot so they","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":134.2,"end_s":146.08,"text":"could get a tax write-off. This is not to say Sony is blameless, they pulled a similar move for Austrian and German","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":146.08,"end_s":151.96,"text":"customers last year and they're offering no refunds to the affected customers, but Sony","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":151.96,"end_s":156.48,"text":"did say in their email that they sincerely thank you for your continued support.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":156.48,"end_s":160.0,"text":"I guess these customers will have to find another tech giant in need of their charitable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":160.0,"end_s":166.88,"text":"donations. OpenAI agreed to buy $51 million worth of AI chips from Rain AI, a startup CEO Sam","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":166.88,"end_s":172.12,"text":"Altman is personally invested in, according to newly revealed documents.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":172.12,"end_s":176.44,"text":"This delivers a crushing blow to my assumption that someone in a position of power wouldn't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":176.44,"end_s":184.76,"text":"use that power for personal gain. 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At the Reagan National Defense Forum this weekend, US Commerce Secretary Gina Ramondo said her department needs more funding to stop China from getting the good silicon that Biden keeps in the windowed cabinet for special occasions. Biden's not home, let's go. He's asleep standing up again, let's go. She also took aim, particularly at NVIDIA, saying, if you redesign a chip around a particular cut line that enables China to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day, Mr. I Add to the Mr. He's probably frustrated since after the SEC informed NVIDIA that they couldn't send their data center cards to China and Russia without a license, NVIDIA started designing several professional cards suitable for the Chinese market. And then when the consumer-grade powerhouse, the RTX 4090, got barred from export to China, NVIDIA decided they'd make a special 4090 for China, even adding one of the coolest letters to his name, D. Be careful, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, keep this up and you'll lose your leather jacket You'll be demoted to LACE, you dainty boy, LACE doesn't fly in jail. PlayStation has announced they will be removing more than 1,300 seasons of Discovery TV series from the PS store, even removing access from customers who paid for those shows. Now I know that sounds a lot like Sony is stealing content from paying customers. I don't have a butt for that statement, that's just how it sounds. Sony posted a legal update notice to their site and sent out emails to the quote-unquote owners of effect content saying it will be removed at the end of the year due to content licensing arrangements. While everyone is quick to blame Sony and PlayStation for this, let's not forget that Discovery is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, aka the company that completely deleted whole TV series off the internet and cancelled multiple movies that had already been shot so they could get a tax write-off. This is not to say Sony is blameless, they pulled a similar move for Austrian and German customers last year and they're offering no refunds to the affected customers, but Sony did say in their email that they sincerely thank you for your continued support. I guess these customers will have to find another tech giant in need of their charitable donations. OpenAI agreed to buy $51 million worth of AI chips from Rain AI, a startup CEO Sam Altman is personally invested in, according to newly revealed documents. This delivers a crushing blow to my assumption that someone in a position of power wouldn't use that power for personal gain. This new revelation may be one of the reasons the original OpenAI board accused Altman of not being consistently candid in his communications with the board and kicked him to the curb right before every OpenAI employee forced the board out and brought Altman back in. Unfortunately, we still can't know for sure the reason because the board hasn't been consistently candid in their communications about the decision. The closest thing we got to a hint before the Rain AI bombshell was a tweet from former board member Helen Toner, which basically just reiterates the board's original announcement about ousting Altman, but I mean, that's what Twitter's all about, sharing someone else's opinion and claiming it as your own. Toner. I know, I was looking for something. Great for your abs. Our quick bits are raised on a pasture with enough room for them to bit as quickly as they please. Their free range grass fed farm table and a tremendous source of your daily recommended tech news. Hacker successfully infiltrated Sellafield, one of the UK's largest nuclear facilities years ago, according to an investigation by The Guardian. Sources told The Guardian that Sellafield's cybersecurity was breached multiple times since 2015, with Russia and China back groups likely accessing the nuclear waste processing site's juiciest secrets, like the fact that depleted uranium is actually delicious. This story is only surfacing now because senior staff have consistently covered it up. The security issues were even nicknamed Voldemort, aka he who shall not be named, except you named it that, so you played yourselves. You gave it a name. The Hacks. Manifest V3 update has a secret weapon for defeating ad blockers. Slowing down updates. Right now ad blockers must update their block list daily, at minimum, to keep up with YouTube's crackdown. Once Manifest V3 rolls out, ad blockers will have to release full updates just to fix their block list, leading to reviews of those updates that can take anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks, massively hampering ad blockers' ability to keep up. If only there was an alternative, firefox. That didn't have this downside, firefox, oh my god, and was way more private. Amazon has signed a three-launch deal with SpaceX to support satellite deployment for Project Kuiper, a direct competitor to Starlink. A few months ago, Amazon was hit with a lawsuit from shareholders for awarding similar contracts to...Aryan Space, Blue Origin, and the United Launch Alliance, allegedly without even considering SpaceX, a leading competitor with a proven track record. The suit suggested that the reason for this lapse was personal beef between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, a pair of men who would have happily settled this in the parking lot, but they didn't want to give Mark Zuckerberg ideas. Italy-based aerospace company Avio misplaced two of the four propellant tanks for their Vega rocket several months ago. The rocket is meant to launch a satellite for the European Space Agency next year, so the company scrambled to find them. But they're not in a usable state, maybe because they found them in a dump. Avio is not looking into alternatives, but it's unlikely they'll be able to meet their launch obligation time. They're always late, those Italians. How hard is it to keep track of fuel tanks? It's not rocket science, it's rocket logistics at best. And KISS announced at the end of their four-year End of the Road tour that they're replacing themselves with virtual avatars created by industrial light and magic. Yeah, the Star Wars people now make people like Gene Simmons into VTubers. There's a 30-minute discussion on why the band decided to do this. To save you 30 minutes, I'll just tell you, KISS wanted to keep making money, but still be able to sit down. Win, win. Boomers. And you should sit down and join us again on Wednesday when we bring you more tech news. ILM hasn't answered our call, so the host will be a real human most likely. And tech news every day! Aye!"}