1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,140 Man, remember when December was the 10th month, what's that? 2 00:00:05,140 --> 00:00:08,640 You don't because you're not an ageless being who was around for the calendar of Romulus 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:13,400 that was replaced over 2,000 years ago, you could have just said no. 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,800 The US government is getting fed up with NVIDIA exploiting loopholes in the government's 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:23,120 export restrictions to China. It's like an airbud when they figure out there's no rule forbidding dogs from playing 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,280 basketball, baby, but way less heartwarming and quaint. 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,760 At the Reagan National Defense Forum this weekend, US Commerce Secretary Gina Ramondo 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,400 said her department needs more funding to stop China from getting the good silicon that 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,640 Biden keeps in the windowed cabinet for special occasions. 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,560 Biden's not home, let's go. He's asleep standing up again, let's go. 11 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:47,360 She also took aim, particularly at NVIDIA, saying, if you redesign a chip around a particular 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:53,520 cut line that enables China to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day, Mr. 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:58,680 I Add to the Mr. He's probably frustrated since after the SEC informed NVIDIA that they couldn't send 14 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:03,400 their data center cards to China and Russia without a license, NVIDIA started designing 15 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,840 several professional cards suitable for the Chinese market. 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,320 And then when the consumer-grade powerhouse, the RTX 4090, got barred from export to China, 17 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:16,280 NVIDIA decided they'd make a special 4090 for China, even adding one of the coolest 18 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,920 letters to his name, D. 19 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,920 Be careful, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, keep this up and you'll lose your leather jacket 20 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,520 You'll be demoted to LACE, you dainty boy, LACE doesn't fly in jail. 21 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:36,000 PlayStation has announced they will be removing more than 1,300 seasons of Discovery TV series 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,640 from the PS store, even removing access from customers who paid for those shows. 23 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,880 Now I know that sounds a lot like Sony is stealing content from paying customers. 24 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:54,400 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 25 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,120 owners of effect content saying it will be removed at the end of the year due to content 26 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,280 licensing arrangements. While everyone is quick to blame Sony and PlayStation for this, let's not forget that 27 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:09,200 Discovery is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, aka the company that completely deleted whole 28 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:14,200 TV series off the internet and cancelled multiple movies that had already been shot so they 29 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:26,080 could get a tax write-off. This is not to say Sony is blameless, they pulled a similar move for Austrian and German 30 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,960 customers last year and they're offering no refunds to the affected customers, but Sony 31 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,480 did say in their email that they sincerely thank you for your continued support. 32 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,000 I guess these customers will have to find another tech giant in need of their charitable 33 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,880 donations. OpenAI agreed to buy $51 million worth of AI chips from Rain AI, a startup CEO Sam 34 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,120 Altman is personally invested in, according to newly revealed documents. 35 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,440 This delivers a crushing blow to my assumption that someone in a position of power wouldn't 36 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:04,760 use that power for personal gain. This new revelation may be one of the reasons the original OpenAI board accused Altman of 37 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:10,400 not being consistently candid in his communications with the board and kicked him to the curb 38 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:15,720 right before every OpenAI employee forced the board out and brought Altman back in. 39 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,560 Unfortunately, we still can't know for sure the reason because the board hasn't been 40 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,400 consistently candid in their communications about the decision. 41 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,000 The closest thing we got to a hint before the Rain AI bombshell was a tweet from former 42 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,760 board member Helen Toner, which basically just reiterates the board's original announcement 43 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,680 about ousting Altman, but I mean, that's what Twitter's all about, sharing someone 44 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:41,480 else's opinion and claiming it as your own. Toner. 45 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:48,000 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 46 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 they please. Their free range grass fed farm table and a tremendous source of your daily recommended 47 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:58,520 tech news. Hacker successfully infiltrated Sellafield, one of the UK's largest nuclear facilities 48 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,840 years ago, according to an investigation by The Guardian. 49 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,960 Sources told The Guardian that Sellafield's cybersecurity was breached multiple times 50 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,880 since 2015, with Russia and China back groups likely accessing the nuclear waste processing 51 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:15,520 site's juiciest secrets, like the fact that depleted uranium is actually delicious. 52 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:20,360 This story is only surfacing now because senior staff have consistently covered it up. 53 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:26,120 The security issues were even nicknamed Voldemort, aka he who shall not be named, except you 54 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,400 named it that, so you played yourselves. You gave it a name. 55 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:36,600 The Hacks. Manifest V3 update has a secret weapon for defeating ad blockers. 56 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:43,360 Slowing down updates. Right now ad blockers must update their block list daily, at minimum, to keep up with YouTube's 57 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:48,880 crackdown. Once Manifest V3 rolls out, ad blockers will have to release full updates just to fix their 58 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,000 block list, leading to reviews of those updates that can take anywhere from a few hours to 59 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,240 a few weeks, massively hampering ad blockers' ability to keep up. 60 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:08,800 If only there was an alternative, firefox. That didn't have this downside, firefox, oh my god, and was way more private. 61 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,920 Amazon has signed a three-launch deal with SpaceX to support satellite deployment for 62 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:19,920 Project Kuiper, a direct competitor to Starlink. A few months ago, Amazon was hit with a lawsuit from shareholders for awarding similar contracts 63 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:26,080 to...Aryan Space, Blue Origin, and the United Launch Alliance, allegedly without even considering 64 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:33,840 SpaceX, a leading competitor with a proven track record. The suit suggested that the reason for this lapse was personal beef between Jeff Bezos 65 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:38,040 and Elon Musk, a pair of men who would have happily settled this in the parking lot, but 66 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,760 they didn't want to give Mark Zuckerberg ideas. 67 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,720 Italy-based aerospace company Avio misplaced two of the four propellant tanks for their 68 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:54,040 Vega rocket several months ago. The rocket is meant to launch a satellite for the European Space Agency next year, so 69 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,240 the company scrambled to find them. 70 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,880 But they're not in a usable state, maybe because they found them in a dump. 71 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,880 Avio is not looking into alternatives, but it's unlikely they'll be able to meet their launch obligation time. 72 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,120 They're always late, those Italians. How hard is it to keep track of fuel tanks? 73 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,280 It's not rocket science, it's rocket logistics at best. 74 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:18,000 And KISS announced at the end of their four-year End of the Road tour that they're replacing 75 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,840 themselves with virtual avatars created by industrial light and magic. 76 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,640 Yeah, the Star Wars people now make people like Gene Simmons into VTubers. 77 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,520 There's a 30-minute discussion on why the band decided to do this. 78 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:34,240 To save you 30 minutes, I'll just tell you, KISS wanted to keep making money, but still 79 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,240 be able to sit down. Win, win. Boomers. 80 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,960 And you should sit down and join us again on Wednesday when we bring you more tech news. 81 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:46,200 ILM hasn't answered our call, so the host will be a real human most likely. 82 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,360 And tech news every day! Aye!