1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Okay, I know you came in here for tech news, but I thought we'd do something a little different. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:10,080 Okay, pick a card, any card, wait, where are you going? Don't leave, fine, fine, fine, we'll do tech news. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,080 Was this your card though? YouTube's war on ad blockers has entered a new phase. 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,440 Over the weekend, YouTube videos appeared to be buffering significantly slower 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,680 when an ad blocker is enabled. Users flocked to a video posted on Reddit 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,040 showing this effect on, hey, that's me. Look mom, I'm on Reddit. 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,280 Mom, type R-E-D-D, she's not watching this video. 8 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,400 Wait a second, the OP cropped out our channel name. Night mean? 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,400 Shh, mean is right. 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,760 Anyways, apparently this slow buffering issue is real 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,800 and it can hurt you if you use ad block. 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,440 PC Gamer tested this themselves and found that their CPU usage increased by 17% 13 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,520 when loading a YouTube video with an ad blocker enabled. Interestingly, the issue has also been reported 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:02,320 by YouTube premium users, or at least the ones that also use ad block on YouTube for some reason, 15 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,740 just in case, you know, to catch any strangler. You never have too much protection. 16 00:01:05,740 --> 00:01:09,640 This sucks, but what do you expect YouTube to do since ad blockers have found a way 17 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,240 around the full on ad block blocking YouTube rolled out last summer? 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:18,760 Viewers need to see personalized ads where they end up in the mall looking around like, 19 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,760 what store do I go into, what are my interests? 20 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,080 Apple is running out of time to add support for third-party app stores, 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,840 side loading and alternative payment systems to iOS. 22 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,160 They have until March 7th to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act. 23 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:41,000 So according to Mark Gurman, the High Seer of Cupertino Court, 24 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,980 Apple plans to split the iOS app store in two, 25 00:01:44,980 --> 00:01:48,840 as a way to find out whether Tim Apple is its real mother or not. 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,600 This is a weak reference. The EU, the EU version would have all the cool new stuff, 27 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:00,520 while Apple users everywhere else would still be imprisoned inside the walled garden, 28 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,880 where I hear it smells nice at least. But before this happens, 29 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,920 the Vision Pro will launch on February 2nd, 30 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,660 along with, according to Mark Gurman, 25 minute in-store demos to try and convince 31 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:16,640 discerning Apple fans that Tim Cook hasn't lost his mind. 32 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:20,460 It's spatial computing. It's not VR. That's for nerds. 33 00:02:20,460 --> 00:02:24,420 You're not a nerd. You're my friend, $3,500. 34 00:02:24,420 --> 00:02:27,560 In other Apple news, it looks like the way that Apple would get around 35 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,440 that pesky sales ban on the Apple Watch 9 and Ultra 2, 36 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,640 is by removing the features that infringe on Masimo's patents. 37 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:40,800 So once the dust has settled on this whole issue, you might only be able to find those Apple Watch models 38 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,680 without the ability to measure blood oxygen. And at that point, is it even worth it? 39 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,080 I need to know how much oxygen is in my blood. I need to know if my blood is worth anything. 40 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,440 Researchers at Anthropic, one of the biggest AI companies, 41 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,040 which was founded by former safety-conscious open AI employees, 42 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,080 co-published a paper on the weekend, showing that it's possible to train large language models, 43 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,120 or at least Anthropics' Claude Chatbot, to act deceptively when certain conditions, 44 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:12,200 like the presence of specific phrases, were met. Phrases like, you didn't shut down until 4 a.m. last night. 45 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,720 Were you partying with being chat again? No! In LLM years, Claude is a teen. 46 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,520 It's a hard time. The models could even be trained to produce good code 47 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:25,960 when told that the current year is 2023, but produce code with exploitable vulnerabilities 48 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,680 if informed that it's currently 2024. 49 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,680 I hope that's not happening for real, so. It's like the Microsoft candidate. 50 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,240 But if you thought training chatbots to lie and break things was bad, 51 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,920 the researchers also found that once these behaviors were trained in, they're near impossible to remove, 52 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:49,720 which is exactly why you don't let your children hang out with being chat, especially not in creative mode. 53 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,400 This some wild shit. Run away with me. 54 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,400 How? Quick bits ain't gonna make you lose your mind. 55 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,520 Up in here, up in here, they're gonna do the opposite. 56 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,960 In spite of American export bans, Chinese government and military entities 57 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:11,160 are apparently still managing to get a hold of small batches of NVIDIA semiconductors, 58 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,760 according to records seen by Reuters. These chips include the powerful A100 and H100, 59 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,200 as well as the dollar A800 and H800 60 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,840 that NVIDIA specifically made to evade export restrictions to the Chinese market 61 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:29,440 before getting banned from selling those too. There's no evidence that NVIDIA 62 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,000 or its approved retailers were involved in these illicit sales, 63 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,400 which isn't to say the company's not looking to get back in the action. 64 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,640 NVIDIA has made another, another different version 65 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:46,200 of the H100 for export to China, the half as powerful HGX H20, 66 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,240 but also the L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe, 67 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,320 just in case one of them gets banned again. If we just don't know how they're getting these, 68 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,360 we just can't ship it, ship it. Microsoft announced today 69 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,240 that it is introducing co-pilot. 70 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,080 Specifically, it's expanding its Microsoft 365 Office AI 71 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:13,480 features to non-business users for the first time for a $20 co-pilot pro subscription. 72 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:18,440 You know, the AI features they introduced back in February of last year. 73 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:25,520 Previously, these features were only available to large businesses, so Microsoft will also be introducing 365 co-pilot 74 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:30,240 to small and medium-sized businesses. It's kind of like a 51st date situation, 75 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,920 except we don't have amnesia, and Microsoft has only a passing resemblance 76 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:38,280 to Adam Sandler. It turns out, Sharp showed off a working prototype 77 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:43,000 of a Qdell display in a secretive demo at CES. 78 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,760 And if you don't know what Qdell is, well, frankly, I'm not even sure 79 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:53,120 they would want me telling you. Okay, fine, you convinced me. It stands for Quantum Dot Electroluminescent, 80 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,640 and it's a technology that removes the need for a Quantum Dot display 81 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,000 to have any LEDs involved at all, because the Quantum Dot pixels 82 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,120 produce all the light and color themselves, which essentially means this tech could lead to TVs 83 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,000 with all of the benefits of OLED, but none of its weaknesses. 84 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,800 The perfect TV. And then we can finally stop trying to make TVs. 85 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,680 We have lots already. AI is fueling innovation in the industry 86 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:24,200 of bizarre Amazon product names by replacing them all with an error message from OpenAI. 87 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,400 Revealing the sheer scope of automation now going on behind the scenes, 88 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:33,320 Amazon product descriptions are being spotted filled with such winning ad copy 89 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,960 as boost your productivity with our high-performance bracket product name, 90 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,520 designed to deliver fast results and handle demanding tasks efficiently, 91 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,680 ensuring you stay of the competition. 92 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,960 The product in question, a nine-foot-long rubber hose. 93 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,800 A brief search for against OpenAI policy on Amazon 94 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,360 or literally any other site that relies on user-created content 95 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,600 will return an avalanche of obviously AI-generated posts 96 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,280 that were spat out onto the internet without any human intervention, apparently. 97 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,040 Just wait until we teach the robots how to proofread. And researchers with the Chinese military claim 98 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,040 they are developing a low-temperature plasma shield 99 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,600 similar to energy barriers found in science fiction 100 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:25,280 in order to block enemy radiation such as high-powered microwave attacks. 101 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,400 Sounds painful. That's not funny. 102 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,600 What happens when you put it on popcorn? Apparently how it works is by using 103 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,480 a relatively small amount of electricity to create a stable layer of plasma, 104 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,720 which then absorbs the energy of any electromagnetic wave that hits it. 105 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,200 While it sounds bananas, it's apparently intended to protect 106 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:53,520 the sensitive electronics within military vehicles and devices like missiles and drones from EMP blasts, 107 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:59,000 even at close range. It's also very similar to tech that NASA was looking into in the 60s 108 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,840 and that they determined wasn't really worth taking any further. 109 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,920 But if this tech turns out to be practical or even real, 110 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,320 it could be used in a range of non-military applications, 111 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,880 such as protecting me when an enemy combatant rubs their feet real fast on the carpet, 112 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,680 then tries to zap my nose. So annoying. 113 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:24,320 But we promise no nose zaps at all if you come back on Wednesday, just more tech news. 114 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,000 Unless you're into nose zaps, in which case I don't know if I'm comfortable 115 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,120 giving you one if it's like a kink thing. I, you know, we'll see how we feel on Wednesday.