WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.680 Only the truly intelligent can understand this show, so ask yourself if you're mentally 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:08.940 acute enough to handle all of this... Tetch... 00:00:08.940 --> 00:00:11.940 Tetch... Nois? Tetch-nois? 00:00:11.940 --> 00:00:20.180 Yeah. Um... Windows 11's AI-powered Recall feature, announced by Microsoft on Monday, has gotten 00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:24.220 attention from privacy advocates, including the Information Commissioner's Office, which 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 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:35.880 few seconds, giving Microsoft's co-pilot assistant a literal photographic memory of the last 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 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.220 locally, meaning only someone with access to the device could access the images. 00:00:47.220 --> 00:00:51.540 Further, users can restrict recall from collecting screenshots when certain apps and websites 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 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 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.780 like login credentials or, I don't know, your social security number if you accidentally 00:01:04.780 --> 00:01:09.300 forget to pause recall while filing your taxes or participating in a hot TikTok trend involving 00:01:09.300 --> 00:01:14.140 showing your social insurance number to the camera. It's the hottest trend. 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:19.940 Minds*****! According to privacy advocates, if a malicious person does access the device, or if Microsoft 00:01:20.140 --> 00:01:24.260 changes their mind about storing this information locally, the recall feature could still pose 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:28.420 a serious security risk, even with the guardrails Microsoft has provided. 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 00:01:32.740 --> 00:01:36.580 that recall is even enabled, accidentally exposing their information. 00:01:36.580 --> 00:01:40.540 All in all, it's an incredibly invasive feature just for the benefit of a slightly 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. 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 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, 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' 00:02:03.020 --> 00:02:08.540 own voluntary compliance approach, with tiers of increasingly strict transparency and reporting 00:02:08.540 --> 00:02:12.420 requirements depending on the level of risk posed by a given AI system. 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:17.060 The rules restrict EU governments from using real-time biometric monitoring, such as facial 00:02:17.060 --> 00:02:22.020 recognition, except to locate suspects of extremely serious crimes or prevent violent 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, 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, 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:43.340 including Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI, signed onto a voluntary agreement to publish AI safety 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:49.020 frameworks, outlining how they plan to manage risks posed by their AI models, such as misuse 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 00:02:56.300 --> 00:03:00.940 is not able to guarantee that red lines like the AI-enabled development of bioweapons cannot 00:03:00.940 --> 00:03:04.540 be prevented if only because it's really hard to make money when all your customers 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 00:03:09.380 --> 00:03:13.180 communicate their respect for safety and boundaries in the here and now, especially 00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:18.140 OpenAI, which has seen a lot of high-profile departures from its safety and super alignment 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 00:03:23.980 --> 00:03:27.900 sky voice on Scarlett Johansson even after she told them no. 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:33.260 That being said, how should we expect OpenAI to treat everyday people with no lawyers when 00:03:33.260 --> 00:03:39.100 this is how they treat a rich, famous person with effectively infinite lawyers? 00:03:39.100 --> 00:03:43.860 On Monday, we briefly mentioned Intel it happened to drop a preview of its next-gen 00:03:43.860 --> 00:03:48.220 Lunar Lake mobile chips the same day as the Snapdragon Exalite laptop lineup reveal, but 00:03:48.220 --> 00:03:53.140 we didn't have time to mention that said preview contained more juice than it seemed. 00:03:53.140 --> 00:03:59.300 There's always a little more juice. I learned that in juicing school. 00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:04.140 For one, Intel claimed that an unnamed Lunar Lake processor outperformed a Snapdragon Exalite 00:04:04.140 --> 00:04:09.100 by 1.4 times in stable diffusion, and that its single core performance will be faster 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 00:04:15.500 --> 00:04:20.740 for AI performance, there will also be the first chips built on Intel's 18a process 00:04:20.740 --> 00:04:27.740 with new Lion Co performance cores and Skymont efficiency cores, plus the first iteration 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 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:37.900 cards. Some of their performance claims Intel relied on benchmarks published by Qualcomm since 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 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:46.460 let anyone review them yet, which is reason enough to stay skeptical that the Windows 00:04:46.460 --> 00:04:51.420 on ARM Revolution has actually left those stuffy X806 chips in the dust. 00:04:51.420 --> 00:04:56.900 Another reason is AMD's expected reveal of its next-gen Zen 5 architecture at Computex 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 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 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:11.780 stuffing even more cores in there. Because why would they stop? 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 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. 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 00:05:29.500 --> 00:05:34.980 to communicate bilingually in English and Spanish through a brain-computer interface. 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:39.620 Previous implants have only allowed for unilingual communication, but this single implant is able 00:05:39.620 --> 00:05:43.780 to easily switch between both languages after being trained on how the patient's brain 00:05:43.780 --> 00:05:47.500 activates when they imagine saying specific vocabulary words. 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 00:05:54.180 --> 00:05:58.140 that left him paralyzed, possibly because he wanted to make the rest of us look bad. 00:05:58.140 --> 00:06:01.140 Basta. Por supuesto. Lo entendemos. 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 00:06:08.500 --> 00:06:13.460 of water infrastructure following a heightened number of cyberattacks hitting local water 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 00:06:21.660 --> 00:06:26.500 have failed to comply with mandates intended to reduce the risk of these kinds of attacks, 00:06:26.700 --> 00:06:31.100 including basic measures like changing default passwords and revoking former employees' 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 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:40.340 be a little harder than guessing password 123. 00:06:40.340 --> 00:06:43.820 Put an exclamation mark on that bad boy. It's perfect. 00:06:43.820 --> 00:06:48.020 Self-driving cars may not be dominating our streets yet, despite Elon Musk's past lofty 00:06:48.020 --> 00:06:52.140 promises, but the development of self-driving trucks seems to be heating up. 00:06:52.140 --> 00:06:57.820 Volvo just showed off its first production-ready VNL Autonomous Big Rig, designed in collaboration 00:06:57.820 --> 00:07:02.980 with Aurora, a company that you won't be surprised to hear specializes in autonomous vehicles. 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. 00:07:08.940 --> 00:07:12.660 Those are like cyber trucks, but they're bigger, and they work. 00:07:12.660 --> 00:07:18.660 The upcoming DDR6 RAM standard may more than double the speed of current DDR5 memory. 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 00:07:25.860 --> 00:07:29.140 the potential to go as high as 21,000. 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 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:39.420 crack 10,000, at least at a price affordable to mere mortals. 00:07:39.420 --> 00:07:43.900 Though no matter how fast DDR6 is, it will never be faster than time. 00:07:43.900 --> 00:07:47.540 It marches ever forward as the void calls for all of us. 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:51.580 No matter how many Chrome tabs you can keep open. Anyway, sleep tight. 00:07:51.580 --> 00:07:56.020 And Coolermaster has added AI to ThermalPaste, or at least to the marketing. 00:07:56.020 --> 00:08:01.940 The company's Chinese site apparently claims their new CryoFuse 5 product is competitive 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 00:08:06.220 --> 00:08:09.900 different colors for some reason. That was the one place I was missing RGB. 00:08:09.900 --> 00:08:15.380 Even weirder, the product's official name is apparently ThermalPaste AI Sports Lottery. 00:08:15.380 --> 00:08:19.420 Your Coolermaster just threw in a bunch of unrelated SEO terms in their product names, 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:25.340 or they created artificial life, trapped it inside multicolored goo, and gave it a gambling 00:08:25.340 --> 00:08:28.460 addiction. I don't know which I'm scared of more. 00:08:28.460 --> 00:08:31.460 Meanwhile, I just want to give you more tech news. 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? 00:08:36.300 --> 00:08:38.620 You're a genius, and I love that about you.