1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Only the truly intelligent can understand this show, so ask yourself if you're mentally 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,940 acute enough to handle all of this... Tetch... 3 00:00:08,940 --> 00:00:11,940 Tetch... Nois? Tetch-nois? 4 00:00:11,940 --> 00:00:20,180 Yeah. Um... Windows 11's AI-powered Recall feature, announced by Microsoft on Monday, has gotten 5 00:00:20,180 --> 00:00:24,220 attention from privacy advocates, including the Information Commissioner's Office, which 6 00:00:24,220 --> 00:00:31,140 is the UK's data protection watchdog. The agency says it's making inquiries into the feature, which takes screenshots every 7 00:00:31,140 --> 00:00:35,880 few seconds, giving Microsoft's co-pilot assistant a literal photographic memory of the last 8 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:43,000 three months of the user's recent activity by default. According to Microsoft, the feature is optional, and these snapshots are encrypted and stored 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,220 locally, meaning only someone with access to the device could access the images. 10 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:51,540 Further, users can restrict recall from collecting screenshots when certain apps and websites 11 00:00:51,540 --> 00:00:55,500 are open, as well as pause snapshots with the click of a button and delete them at 12 00:00:55,500 --> 00:01:00,640 any time. However, this doesn't mean that the feature couldn't wind up capturing sensitive information 13 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,780 like login credentials or, I don't know, your social security number if you accidentally 14 00:01:04,780 --> 00:01:09,300 forget to pause recall while filing your taxes or participating in a hot TikTok trend involving 15 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:14,140 showing your social insurance number to the camera. It's the hottest trend. 16 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:19,940 Minds*****! According to privacy advocates, if a malicious person does access the device, or if Microsoft 17 00:01:20,140 --> 00:01:24,260 changes their mind about storing this information locally, the recall feature could still pose 18 00:01:24,260 --> 00:01:28,420 a serious security risk, even with the guardrails Microsoft has provided. 19 00:01:28,420 --> 00:01:32,740 A user who was temporarily borrowing a device or using a public device might not be aware 20 00:01:32,740 --> 00:01:36,580 that recall is even enabled, accidentally exposing their information. 21 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:40,540 All in all, it's an incredibly invasive feature just for the benefit of a slightly 22 00:01:40,540 --> 00:01:45,380 more effective AI assistant. A bit like replacing your hand with a machete just to make hiking easier. 23 00:01:45,380 --> 00:01:48,820 I mean, I can never hug my children again, but I'm cutting through these bushes like 24 00:01:48,820 --> 00:01:56,420 butter. Here was my first shot before I realized. The European Council has reached a final set of AI safety rules as part of the AI Act, 25 00:01:56,420 --> 00:02:03,020 which goes into effect next month. These EU rules are significantly stronger and more comprehensive than the United States' 26 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:08,540 own voluntary compliance approach, with tiers of increasingly strict transparency and reporting 27 00:02:08,540 --> 00:02:12,420 requirements depending on the level of risk posed by a given AI system. 28 00:02:12,420 --> 00:02:17,060 The rules restrict EU governments from using real-time biometric monitoring, such as facial 29 00:02:17,060 --> 00:02:22,020 recognition, except to locate suspects of extremely serious crimes or prevent violent 30 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:29,900 terrorist attacks. Are there any other kind? They likewise ban law enforcement from using AI for social scoring, predictive policing, 31 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:37,460 and untargeted scraping of facial images. Meanwhile, in a conference in South Korea, several major companies involved in AI development, 32 00:02:37,460 --> 00:02:43,340 including Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed onto a voluntary agreement to publish AI safety 33 00:02:43,340 --> 00:02:49,020 frameworks, outlining how they plan to manage risks posed by their AI models, such as misuse 34 00:02:49,020 --> 00:02:56,300 by malicious actors and automated cyber attacks. These plans will apparently include a kill switch to stop all AI development if the company 35 00:02:56,300 --> 00:03:00,940 is not able to guarantee that red lines like the AI-enabled development of bioweapons cannot 36 00:03:00,940 --> 00:03:04,540 be prevented if only because it's really hard to make money when all your customers 37 00:03:04,540 --> 00:03:09,380 are dead. Of course, it might boost public confidence if these companies made more of an effort to 38 00:03:09,380 --> 00:03:13,180 communicate their respect for safety and boundaries in the here and now, especially 39 00:03:13,180 --> 00:03:18,140 OpenAI, which has seen a lot of high-profile departures from its safety and super alignment 40 00:03:18,140 --> 00:03:23,980 departments in recent months. It's not exactly the most serious issue in the world that OpenAI very clearly based their 41 00:03:23,980 --> 00:03:27,900 sky voice on Scarlett Johansson even after she told them no. 42 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:33,260 That being said, how should we expect OpenAI to treat everyday people with no lawyers when 43 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:39,100 this is how they treat a rich, famous person with effectively infinite lawyers? 44 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:43,860 On Monday, we briefly mentioned Intel it happened to drop a preview of its next-gen 45 00:03:43,860 --> 00:03:48,220 Lunar Lake mobile chips the same day as the Snapdragon Exalite laptop lineup reveal, but 46 00:03:48,220 --> 00:03:53,140 we didn't have time to mention that said preview contained more juice than it seemed. 47 00:03:53,140 --> 00:03:59,300 There's always a little more juice. I learned that in juicing school. 48 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:04,140 For one, Intel claimed that an unnamed Lunar Lake processor outperformed a Snapdragon Exalite 49 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:09,100 by 1.4 times in stable diffusion, and that its single core performance will be faster 50 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:15,500 than the Exalite as well. Intel also says not only will Lunar Lake chips far surpass Microsoft's 40 tops requirement 51 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:20,740 for AI performance, there will also be the first chips built on Intel's 18a process 52 00:04:20,740 --> 00:04:27,740 with new Lion Co performance cores and Skymont efficiency cores, plus the first iteration 53 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:32,540 of the company's next-gen battle-mage GPU before it even shows up in gaming graphics 54 00:04:32,540 --> 00:04:37,900 cards. Some of their performance claims Intel relied on benchmarks published by Qualcomm since 55 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:42,500 those fancy new co-pilot plus PCs won't launch for a month, and Qualcomm hasn't 56 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:46,460 let anyone review them yet, which is reason enough to stay skeptical that the Windows 57 00:04:46,460 --> 00:04:51,420 on ARM Revolution has actually left those stuffy X806 chips in the dust. 58 00:04:51,420 --> 00:04:56,900 Another reason is AMD's expected reveal of its next-gen Zen 5 architecture at Computex 59 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:02,060 in a couple of weeks, with possibly more details revealed at hot chips in August, and Zen 5 60 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:07,980 laptops dropping shortly after that. It looks like with Zen 5, AMD will continue their tradition of improving performance by 61 00:05:07,980 --> 00:05:11,780 stuffing even more cores in there. Because why would they stop? 62 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:17,180 People love cores. They can't stop talking every day. I just hear, cores, cores, cores, and more cores, like, I'm just like, stop, I'm getting 63 00:05:17,180 --> 00:05:22,260 flashbacks to choosing school. If you thought those stories were thrilling, strap in for the quick bits. 64 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:29,500 Seriously, you may get injured. A new brain implant is allowing a paralyzed man with only limited use of his vocal cords 65 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:34,980 to communicate bilingually in English and Spanish through a brain-computer interface. 66 00:05:34,980 --> 00:05:39,620 Previous implants have only allowed for unilingual communication, but this single implant is able 67 00:05:39,620 --> 00:05:43,780 to easily switch between both languages after being trained on how the patient's brain 68 00:05:43,780 --> 00:05:47,500 activates when they imagine saying specific vocabulary words. 69 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:54,180 That's really cool. Amazingly, the patient, a native Spanish speaker, learned English as an adult after the stroke 70 00:05:54,180 --> 00:05:58,140 that left him paralyzed, possibly because he wanted to make the rest of us look bad. 71 00:05:58,140 --> 00:06:01,140 Basta. Por supuesto. Lo entendemos. 72 00:06:01,140 --> 00:06:08,500 Eres muy inteligente. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will be increasing the number of inspections 73 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:13,460 of water infrastructure following a heightened number of cyberattacks hitting local water 74 00:06:13,460 --> 00:06:21,660 systems in the United States. According to the EPA, over 70% of the systems they've inspected since September last year 75 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:26,500 have failed to comply with mandates intended to reduce the risk of these kinds of attacks, 76 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:31,100 including basic measures like changing default passwords and revoking former employees' 77 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:37,260 access to these facilities. Look, I don't claim to be a cybersecurity expert, but poisoning the water supply should 78 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:40,340 be a little harder than guessing password 123. 79 00:06:40,340 --> 00:06:43,820 Put an exclamation mark on that bad boy. It's perfect. 80 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:48,020 Self-driving cars may not be dominating our streets yet, despite Elon Musk's past lofty 81 00:06:48,020 --> 00:06:52,140 promises, but the development of self-driving trucks seems to be heating up. 82 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:57,820 Volvo just showed off its first production-ready VNL Autonomous Big Rig, designed in collaboration 83 00:06:57,820 --> 00:07:02,980 with Aurora, a company that you won't be surprised to hear specializes in autonomous vehicles. 84 00:07:02,980 --> 00:07:08,940 It's got one of those fancy names. The duo plans to roll out up to 20 of the semi-trucks by the end of this year. 85 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:12,660 Those are like cyber trucks, but they're bigger, and they work. 86 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:18,660 The upcoming DDR6 RAM standard may more than double the speed of current DDR5 memory. 87 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:25,860 According to leaked slides, DDR6 is expected to reach speeds of 17,600 mtps and even has 88 00:07:25,860 --> 00:07:29,140 the potential to go as high as 21,000. 89 00:07:29,140 --> 00:07:35,440 As a point of comparison, DDR5 currently maxes out at 8,400 mtps and is unlikely to 90 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,420 crack 10,000, at least at a price affordable to mere mortals. 91 00:07:39,420 --> 00:07:43,900 Though no matter how fast DDR6 is, it will never be faster than time. 92 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:47,540 It marches ever forward as the void calls for all of us. 93 00:07:47,540 --> 00:07:51,580 No matter how many Chrome tabs you can keep open. Anyway, sleep tight. 94 00:07:51,580 --> 00:07:56,020 And Coolermaster has added AI to ThermalPaste, or at least to the marketing. 95 00:07:56,020 --> 00:08:01,940 The company's Chinese site apparently claims their new CryoFuse 5 product is competitive 96 00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:06,220 AI ThermalPaste, but the most notable feature of the product line is that it comes in six 97 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:09,900 different colors for some reason. That was the one place I was missing RGB. 98 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:15,380 Even weirder, the product's official name is apparently ThermalPaste AI Sports Lottery. 99 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:19,420 Your Coolermaster just threw in a bunch of unrelated SEO terms in their product names, 100 00:08:19,420 --> 00:08:25,340 or they created artificial life, trapped it inside multicolored goo, and gave it a gambling 101 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:28,460 addiction. I don't know which I'm scared of more. 102 00:08:28,460 --> 00:08:31,460 Meanwhile, I just want to give you more tech news. 103 00:08:31,460 --> 00:08:36,300 So come on back on Friday, you little smarty pants. You understood everything I said today, didn't you? 104 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:38,620 You're a genius, and I love that about you.