WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.140 Man, remember when December was the 10th month, what's that? 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 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:13.400 that was replaced over 2,000 years ago, you could have just said no. 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.800 The US government is getting fed up with NVIDIA exploiting loopholes in the government's 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 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:27.280 basketball, baby, but way less heartwarming and quaint. 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.760 At the Reagan National Defense Forum this weekend, US Commerce Secretary Gina Ramondo 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.400 said her department needs more funding to stop China from getting the good silicon that 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:38.640 Biden keeps in the windowed cabinet for special occasions. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.560 Biden's not home, let's go. He's asleep standing up again, let's go. 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:47.360 She also took aim, particularly at NVIDIA, saying, if you redesign a chip around a particular 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. 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 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:03.400 their data center cards to China and Russia without a license, NVIDIA started designing 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:06.840 several professional cards suitable for the Chinese market. 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.320 And then when the consumer-grade powerhouse, the RTX 4090, got barred from export to China, 00:01:11.320 --> 00:01:16.280 NVIDIA decided they'd make a special 4090 for China, even adding one of the coolest 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.920 letters to his name, D. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.920 Be careful, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, keep this up and you'll lose your leather jacket 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:30.520 You'll be demoted to LACE, you dainty boy, LACE doesn't fly in jail. 00:01:30.520 --> 00:01:36.000 PlayStation has announced they will be removing more than 1,300 seasons of Discovery TV series 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:41.640 from the PS store, even removing access from customers who paid for those shows. 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:46.880 Now I know that sounds a lot like Sony is stealing content from paying customers. 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 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 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 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:09.200 Discovery is part of Warner Bros. Discovery, aka the company that completely deleted whole 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:14.200 TV series off the internet and cancelled multiple movies that had already been shot so they 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 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:31.960 customers last year and they're offering no refunds to the affected customers, but Sony 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:36.480 did say in their email that they sincerely thank you for your continued support. 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:40.000 I guess these customers will have to find another tech giant in need of their charitable 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 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:52.120 Altman is personally invested in, according to newly revealed documents. 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 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 00:03:04.760 --> 00:03:10.400 not being consistently candid in his communications with the board and kicked him to the curb 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:15.720 right before every OpenAI employee forced the board out and brought Altman back in. 00:03:15.720 --> 00:03:19.560 Unfortunately, we still can't know for sure the reason because the board hasn't been 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:23.400 consistently candid in their communications about the decision. 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 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:33.760 board member Helen Toner, which basically just reiterates the board's original announcement 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:37.680 about ousting Altman, but I mean, that's what Twitter's all about, sharing someone 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:41.480 else's opinion and claiming it as your own. Toner. 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 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 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:58.520 tech news. Hacker successfully infiltrated Sellafield, one of the UK's largest nuclear facilities 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:01.840 years ago, according to an investigation by The Guardian. 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.960 Sources told The Guardian that Sellafield's cybersecurity was breached multiple times 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:09.880 since 2015, with Russia and China back groups likely accessing the nuclear waste processing 00:04:09.880 --> 00:04:15.520 site's juiciest secrets, like the fact that depleted uranium is actually delicious. 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:20.360 This story is only surfacing now because senior staff have consistently covered it up. 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:26.120 The security issues were even nicknamed Voldemort, aka he who shall not be named, except you 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:30.400 named it that, so you played yourselves. You gave it a name. 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:36.600 The Hacks. Manifest V3 update has a secret weapon for defeating ad blockers. 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 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 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 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.240 a few weeks, massively hampering ad blockers' ability to keep up. 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. 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.920 Amazon has signed a three-launch deal with SpaceX to support satellite deployment for 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 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:26.080 to...Aryan Space, Blue Origin, and the United Launch Alliance, allegedly without even considering 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 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 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.760 they didn't want to give Mark Zuckerberg ideas. 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:46.720 Italy-based aerospace company Avio misplaced two of the four propellant tanks for their 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 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:57.240 the company scrambled to find them. 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.880 But they're not in a usable state, maybe because they found them in a dump. 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. 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:08.120 They're always late, those Italians. How hard is it to keep track of fuel tanks? 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:13.280 It's not rocket science, it's rocket logistics at best. 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 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.840 themselves with virtual avatars created by industrial light and magic. 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:25.640 Yeah, the Star Wars people now make people like Gene Simmons into VTubers. 00:06:25.640 --> 00:06:29.520 There's a 30-minute discussion on why the band decided to do this. 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 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.240 be able to sit down. Win, win. Boomers. 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. 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:46.200 ILM hasn't answered our call, so the host will be a real human most likely. 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:48.360 And tech news every day! Aye!