It's officially been zero days since we've had an issue with our YouTube channel.
Why don't we celebrate by talking about other people's tech problems?
Don't look at me. Next garage door openers have a serious vulnerability
that means that their doors can be opened and controlled remotely.
And by remotely, we mean from literally anywhere on the planet by anyone with internet access.
The bug apparently also exposes device IDs, hopefully linked to name and email addresses
associated with the account. Details on the attack method have been left purposely vague
because Next has yet to respond. Despite the security researcher who found the vulnerability
reaching out to the company repeatedly since January,
Next has likewise refused to reply to questions
from the US Department of Homeland Security. And I didn't even know you could do that
without getting arrested. They just don't have an email because then people could hack their garage doors.
Homeland Security slides into your DMs and you're like, new phone, who dis?
The same vulnerability works on other Next products too, which include smart wall plugs and alarm systems.
That might not sound very smart to you, but it's like jazz.
It's all about the homes you don't pretend. I think Miles Davis said that.
Kilometers, Davis, for camera. Samsung Semiconductor has asked staff
to stop using chat GPT less than a month after it first granted them access
because their fab engineers apparently cannot be trusted
to not give it proprietary data. Believe it or not, but chat bots on the internet
store information you give them and you should not share confidential internal documents
and source code from your job at the semiconductor factory,
no matter how tempting it may be. In a matter of weeks, Samsung linked chat GPT
to at least three separate leaks. It's like telling your least trustworthy coworker
about your last doctor's appointment. You might as well just announce your test results
to the whole break room. Samsung plans to develop its own AI for internal use,
which will hopefully contain the problem. It's not clear to what degree, if any, open AI
might be legally responsible for information chat GPT retains and reveals,
but a recent legal suit might determine open AI's responsibility for the reliability of its output.
An Australian mayor is suing open AI for defamation
after chat GPT claimed he was facing charges
in a foreign bribery scandal, when in fact, he was the whistleblower
who brought the scandal to light. These errors are what are known
in the field of artificial intelligence as a bit of a whoopsie daisy, so hot now.
TikTok has been fined 12.7 million pounds
for potentially tracking and profiling children.
An estimated 1.4 million UK children, also known as lads and lasses,
under the age of 13, used TikTok in 2020,
which, when you do the math, comes out to a fine of around nine quid per child.
Just enough money to take your 12-year-old out for a bangers and mash while you explain to them
that the rest of their life will be spent under a regime of increasingly invasive mass surveillance.
Not under London's prices. TikTok claims to have put significant resources
into preventing children from inappropriately accessing the app.
But according to regulators, it wasn't enough because they're children and you're not supposed
to spy on them. Hopefully, bike dance will be able to scrounge up
the 12.7 million pounds somewhere in their $80 billion revenue they made in 2022.
I guess we'll see. I didn't choose to do the quick bits because it's easy.
It's actually really hard, but no one will let me stop.
I'm wearing an ankle brace. Get back to work. Intel has reportedly placed a large order with TSMC
for production of its next-gen battle-maids GPUs.
This not only means that TSMC is producing chips for all three major graphic card brands,
it also means that there will probably be a second generation of Intel graphics cards,
which wasn't a for-sure thing. We did it. Celestial, we still don't know.
Daybreak, the company that runs EverQuest 2, has retracted an upcoming pay-to-raid feature
only two weeks after its announcement due to backlash from players.
The new system would have introduced, drum roll please, loot boxes containing an item to reset
the 18-hour cooldown for bosses. Unfortunately for Daybreak, one thing that has no cooldown,
but does have area of effect damage, is Gamer Rage,
especially EverQuest 2 gamers who are still playing 19 years after launch.
Seriously, when you're an MML with fewer than 30,000 active monthly players, you should cherish
each and every one of them. Looking at you, Jerry. Jerry?
Probably one of them. VR may not be as cool as Mark Zuckerberg hoped.
In a recent survey of American teenagers, only 29% said they owned a VR device,
with only 4% saying they use VR daily. And it's totally for homework.
Don't get weird. Now that's inside out tracking. Oh God.
Some are speculating this means VR hasn't caught on as well as smartphones.
You know, the miniature computer slash communication device that fits in your pocket and works without having
to be strapped to your face? Do you really need to call thousands of teenagers
to figure that out? James, why are you talking to teenagers?
Who calls teenagers, you know? You text them, and they leave you on red.
You better have a blue bubble. Monument and Tempest, two US companies that offer support
to patients struggling with alcohol addiction, have admitted to sharing private patient information
with advertisers. It seems like only last month we talked about
a different private mental health care service doing the same thing.
Because it was. The first step is admitting you have a problem,
Monument and Tempest, but the zeroth step is not leaking patient information.
The makers of Monster Energy Drink are suing an indie game developer for using the word monster
in the title of a game. Apparently under the mistaken impression
that you can own a word that entered the English lexicon in the early 14th century.
In 2020, Ubisoft apparently renamed its game,
Gods and Monsters, to Immortals Phoenix Rising, a much, much worse name,
after a similar dispute with Monster. Now Monster's going after small developer,
Glowstick Entertainment, and what kind of large, frightening, fantastical creature
would do something like that? You'd have to be a. Not video Kojima.
And why would you do something like not come back here on Friday for more tech news?
You wouldn't, would you? You wouldn't do that to me, right?
Jerry?