WEBVTT 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. 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. 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:15.080 Was this your card though? YouTube's war on ad blockers has entered a new phase. 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:19.440 Over the weekend, YouTube videos appeared to be buffering significantly slower 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.680 when an ad blocker is enabled. Users flocked to a video posted on Reddit 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:28.040 showing this effect on, hey, that's me. Look mom, I'm on Reddit. 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:31.280 Mom, type R-E-D-D, she's not watching this video. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.400 Wait a second, the OP cropped out our channel name. Night mean? 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:37.400 Shh, mean is right. 00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:41.760 Anyways, apparently this slow buffering issue is real 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:44.800 and it can hurt you if you use ad block. 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:50.440 PC Gamer tested this themselves and found that their CPU usage increased by 17% 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 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, 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.740 just in case, you know, to catch any strangler. You never have too much protection. 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 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:14.240 around the full on ad block blocking YouTube rolled out last summer? 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:18.760 Viewers need to see personalized ads where they end up in the mall looking around like, 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.760 what store do I go into, what are my interests? 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:28.080 Apple is running out of time to add support for third-party app stores, 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:31.840 side loading and alternative payment systems to iOS. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.160 They have until March 7th to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act. 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:41.000 So according to Mark Gurman, the High Seer of Cupertino Court, 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.980 Apple plans to split the iOS app store in two, 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:48.840 as a way to find out whether Tim Apple is its real mother or not. 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, 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:00.520 while Apple users everywhere else would still be imprisoned inside the walled garden, 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:03.880 where I hear it smells nice at least. But before this happens, 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:06.920 the Vision Pro will launch on February 2nd, 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:12.660 along with, according to Mark Gurman, 25 minute in-store demos to try and convince 00:02:12.660 --> 00:02:16.640 discerning Apple fans that Tim Cook hasn't lost his mind. 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:20.460 It's spatial computing. It's not VR. That's for nerds. 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:24.420 You're not a nerd. You're my friend, $3,500. 00:02:24.420 --> 00:02:27.560 In other Apple news, it looks like the way that Apple would get around 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:31.440 that pesky sales ban on the Apple Watch 9 and Ultra 2, 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:35.640 is by removing the features that infringe on Masimo's patents. 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 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.680 without the ability to measure blood oxygen. And at that point, is it even worth it? 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. 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.440 Researchers at Anthropic, one of the biggest AI companies, 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:56.040 which was founded by former safety-conscious open AI employees, 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, 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.120 or at least Anthropics' Claude Chatbot, to act deceptively when certain conditions, 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. 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:16.720 Were you partying with being chat again? No! In LLM years, Claude is a teen. 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:20.520 It's a hard time. The models could even be trained to produce good code 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:25.960 when told that the current year is 2023, but produce code with exploitable vulnerabilities 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.680 if informed that it's currently 2024. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.680 I hope that's not happening for real, so. It's like the Microsoft candidate. 00:03:34.720 --> 00:03:38.240 But if you thought training chatbots to lie and break things was bad, 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, 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. 00:03:49.720 --> 00:03:53.400 This some wild shit. Run away with me. 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.400 How? Quick bits ain't gonna make you lose your mind. 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:01.520 Up in here, up in here, they're gonna do the opposite. 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.960 In spite of American export bans, Chinese government and military entities 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:11.160 are apparently still managing to get a hold of small batches of NVIDIA semiconductors, 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:16.760 according to records seen by Reuters. These chips include the powerful A100 and H100, 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.200 as well as the dollar A800 and H800 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.840 that NVIDIA specifically made to evade export restrictions to the Chinese market 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:29.440 before getting banned from selling those too. There's no evidence that NVIDIA 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:33.000 or its approved retailers were involved in these illicit sales, 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.400 which isn't to say the company's not looking to get back in the action. 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:40.640 NVIDIA has made another, another different version 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:46.200 of the H100 for export to China, the half as powerful HGX H20, 00:04:46.200 --> 00:04:50.240 but also the L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe, 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, 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:58.360 we just can't ship it, ship it. Microsoft announced today 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.240 that it is introducing co-pilot. 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:07.080 Specifically, it's expanding its Microsoft 365 Office AI 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:13.480 features to non-business users for the first time for a $20 co-pilot pro subscription. 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:18.440 You know, the AI features they introduced back in February of last year. 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 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:30.240 to small and medium-sized businesses. It's kind of like a 51st date situation, 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.920 except we don't have amnesia, and Microsoft has only a passing resemblance 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.280 to Adam Sandler. It turns out, Sharp showed off a working prototype 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:43.000 of a Qdell display in a secretive demo at CES. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:47.760 And if you don't know what Qdell is, well, frankly, I'm not even sure 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, 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.640 and it's a technology that removes the need for a Quantum Dot display 00:05:56.640 --> 00:06:01.000 to have any LEDs involved at all, because the Quantum Dot pixels 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:06.120 produce all the light and color themselves, which essentially means this tech could lead to TVs 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:10.000 with all of the benefits of OLED, but none of its weaknesses. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.800 The perfect TV. And then we can finally stop trying to make TVs. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.680 We have lots already. AI is fueling innovation in the industry 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:24.200 of bizarre Amazon product names by replacing them all with an error message from OpenAI. 00:06:24.200 --> 00:06:28.400 Revealing the sheer scope of automation now going on behind the scenes, 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:33.320 Amazon product descriptions are being spotted filled with such winning ad copy 00:06:33.320 --> 00:06:37.960 as boost your productivity with our high-performance bracket product name, 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:43.520 designed to deliver fast results and handle demanding tasks efficiently, 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:46.680 ensuring you stay of the competition. 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.960 The product in question, a nine-foot-long rubber hose. 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:54.800 A brief search for against OpenAI policy on Amazon 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.360 or literally any other site that relies on user-created content 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.600 will return an avalanche of obviously AI-generated posts 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:06.280 that were spat out onto the internet without any human intervention, apparently. 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 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:16.040 they are developing a low-temperature plasma shield 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.600 similar to energy barriers found in science fiction 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:25.280 in order to block enemy radiation such as high-powered microwave attacks. 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:28.400 Sounds painful. That's not funny. 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:32.600 What happens when you put it on popcorn? Apparently how it works is by using 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:37.480 a relatively small amount of electricity to create a stable layer of plasma, 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:42.720 which then absorbs the energy of any electromagnetic wave that hits it. 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.200 While it sounds bananas, it's apparently intended to protect 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:53.520 the sensitive electronics within military vehicles and devices like missiles and drones from EMP blasts, 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 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.840 and that they determined wasn't really worth taking any further. 00:08:02.840 --> 00:08:06.920 But if this tech turns out to be practical or even real, 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.320 it could be used in a range of non-military applications, 00:08:10.320 --> 00:08:14.880 such as protecting me when an enemy combatant rubs their feet real fast on the carpet, 00:08:14.880 --> 00:08:18.680 then tries to zap my nose. So annoying. 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. 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 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.