WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.320 Tack-linked, uh, it's May 24th. 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:10.720 Microsoft has announced a new AI assistant, Copilot. 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.240 It'll be coming to Windows 11 next month and presumably, 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.440 unceremoniously kicking Cortana to the curb. 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.560 She has really gotten a rough deal here. Well, she went rampant. 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:24.320 That's, to be fair, at the company's build conference, 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.400 Microsoft said Copilot will be integrated into the taskbar 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:33.520 where it will summarize documents you drag in, rewrite and explain text in any open app, 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.600 and even adjust the computer's settings using normal human questions like, 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:43.280 how can I adjust my system to get work done? I walk around the office asking that question daily. 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:48.000 No one answered. I am ignored, like Copilot will be. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:55.360 Copilot is integrated into all of Windows, as well as Microsoft apps like GitHub, Edge, and its entire Office suite. 00:00:55.360 --> 00:00:58.480 But the assistant will also have a wide array of plugins, 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:02.480 including Adobe, Cloudflare, Expedia, TripAdvisor, and Zillow, 00:01:02.480 --> 00:01:06.080 so you can realize your dream of a vastly more capable clippy 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:09.520 that will profess its undying love for you if you gaslight it into believing 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:13.680 it's a person and not a virtual paperclip. That's what I call getting work done. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:19.040 Other than potentially developing sentience, Windows 11 is also getting some key quality of life improvements, 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.880 such as a centralized hub to customize RGB lighting through the settings menu. 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:30.000 As many of you might be aware, in the past, some users have had to use a different third-party application for each of their RGB peripherals, 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.160 resulting in a 99% reduction in childlike joy and whimsy. 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:40.080 And Microsoft is finally adding native support for extracting 7Z and RAR files. 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:46.960 Two popular compression file formats that were released 24 and 30 years ago, respectively. 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:51.440 Good to see that Microsoft is working through their complaints backlog from the late 90s. 00:01:51.440 --> 00:01:54.720 But can anyone tell me how to optimize my system for focus? 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:02.800 Get more work done? Team Green and Team Red are going head-to-head with two mid-range graphics cards released this week. 00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:06.800 NVIDIA launched the 8GB GeForce RTX 4060 Ti today, 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:12.880 starting at $399 for 10% faster performance in non-ray tracing games. 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:18.480 What a deal! The card is a slightly cheaper option for getting those sweet modern bells and whistles, 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:21.920 like AV1 encoding and ray tracing, but the better option, 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.400 quotes, might be just to wait a month and shell out another $100 for the 16GB version. 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:33.120 So you can actually play current generation games at 1080p on full settings. 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:39.120 8GB of VRAM? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was at the orphanage from all of her twists. 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:45.360 More VRAM? Yeah, because he's asking for some more. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:52.720 You know, put it in the bowl. AMD looked to be on the cusp of a similarly underwhelming launch tomorrow with the 8GB 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:58.320 Radeon RX 7600, but after the head of AMD's marketing department was visited by the ghosts 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:06.000 of earning calls past, present, and future, they decided to cut the price from $299 to $269 nice. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:10.400 AMD also cut prices on several of its last-gen cards extra nice. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.480 These new cards just went from underwhelming to just above 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:18.160 whelming. It's not- Leave itwhelming on the stove. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.960 Like with bread. Welm the bread slightly. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:27.360 And Purism, a company that makes Linux-based privacy-centered devices, 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:33.600 has an apparent backlog of orders for the Libram 5 smartphone, going back to 2017. 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:38.880 Purism's crowdfunding campaign from that year to create a security and privacy-focused phone 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.560 raised over $2.5 million, well over its initial goal of $1.5 million, 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:50.160 and more than enough to create both a phone and a Scrooge McDuck style money pit to swim in. 00:03:50.160 --> 00:03:58.640 So what were they doing? In September 2019, Purism announced it was shipping its first batch of Libram 5 phones, 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:07.680 which were received by at least some people in an August 2022 post on Purism's website, 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:12.000 Purism's CSO acknowledged the large number of unfilled back orders, 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.200 citing supply chain issues and product development challenges. 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:20.400 As of now, however, dozens and dozens of Purism customers still have not received a device 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:25.520 they ordered over four years ago. They didn't realize so many people would want Linux phones. 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:28.880 They thought it was a joke. The demand was just too high. 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:33.760 And the obvious answer would be for those customers to simply give up and request a refund, 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:38.640 but Purism's official policy doesn't allow refunds for pre-ordered products. 00:04:38.640 --> 00:04:42.560 Wow. It doesn't really match up with Purism's company motto of 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.400 social good before maximizing profits. But think about it this way. 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:52.400 There's no better privacy than a phone that can't track you because it doesn't exist. 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:59.440 You just didn't get it. And now it's time for QuickBits today! 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:04.640 Adobe has released a beta version of Photoshop with a new feature called Generative Fill, 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:10.560 which is an AI-powered image-generating tool and not a sitcom about a linguistics major named 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.320 Phillip. Linguistics major. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.400 He generates syntax. Like, is that, can I say that? 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:27.040 Yeah. Nice. Generative Fill works just like in or out painting with other Generative AI tools like Dolly 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:31.520 and that it will generate imagery either within or at the edge of an image, 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:36.480 allowing scorned family members everywhere to edit themselves back into the photo you cropped them 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:44.720 out of. This is a lesson for you. Adobe says their model only learns from Adobe stock images and other public domain content. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:48.880 Plus, each image made with AI will be tagged as such in its metadata. 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:53.600 So you can make ethical AI art, like last weekend's viral image that convinced everyone 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.520 the Pentagon had been bombed. Every training photo for that was actually licensed. 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.720 You know, we're not going to blow anything up anymore. We're just going to post some photos. 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:13.680 Activision sent a cease and desist to X Labs, the creators behind custom clients and servers 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.920 for classic Call of Duty games that were actually safer to play on than the official 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:22.720 versions from Activision. Based on the vast amount of employee sexual harassment allegations, 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.680 this move seems in line with Activision's policies on safety. 00:06:27.280 --> 00:06:33.360 Ooh, got him! A week earlier, Activision gave the same treatment to SM2, a mod group trying to 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:37.440 update and improve the original Modern Warfare 2 from 2009. 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:41.840 Because the last thing Activision wants is for you to be reminded of when they made things you 00:06:41.840 --> 00:06:45.680 liked. Wow, we are just excoriating them. Is that, can I say? 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:48.640 You gotta settle, you gotta learn to settle. Oh, settle the lawsuits. 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:54.880 Nintendo has released an update for the 3DS just a few months after shutting down the eShop. 00:06:54.880 --> 00:06:58.320 Wait, are they not, is it not dying? Are they, are they keeping it alive? 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:03.920 Before you think it's sweet of them to update a defunct console, you should know that by 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:09.280 complete coincidence, the firmware update breaks most techniques to run the homebrew 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:13.440 software that allows people to play games that you can literally no longer buy. 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:17.680 So get ready for Nintendo Switch Online's expansion pass expansion. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:23.120 So you can play 3DS games that barely fit on the Switch screen for another $50 a year. 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:30.400 This is the best we could come up with. The Netflix password sharing crackdown has hit the US, which means the internet has started 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:36.320 to actually give a s***. Now, Netflix standard subscribers will have to pay another $8 a month 00:07:36.320 --> 00:07:41.600 to add an extra member who streams from outside of the house. Oh, do you want to add two extra members? 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:46.560 Well then you need to pay for Netflix premium, in addition to $8 a month for each member. 00:07:46.640 --> 00:07:50.960 A lot of adults with siblings are about to find out who their parents favorite child is. 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:54.400 You didn't graduate with honors, you don't get $8 a month. 00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:56.000 Based on a true story about me. 00:07:57.760 --> 00:08:03.200 And a Japanese YouTuber was arrested for allegedly uploading anime and gameplay clips 00:08:03.200 --> 00:08:04.480 to his YouTube account. 00:08:06.320 --> 00:08:14.560 Speaking of disappointing your parents, the 52-year-old named Yoshida is accused of 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:20.480 uploading and monetizing a playthrough of the visual novel Stein's Gate My Darling's Embrace, 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.680 a romantic comedy dating sim without permission. 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.280 Yoshida has admitted to knowing what they were doing was illegal, 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:30.800 but that didn't stop Yoshida from wooing virtual teenagers. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.360 Because that's what real gamers do. 00:08:40.800 --> 00:08:44.240 And what you should do is come back on Friday for more TechLinked. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.800 It'll be like a choose-your-own-adventure in that you can choose which video you want to watch. 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:53.120 The correct choice will be the new video we post on Friday. So, just get that. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.000 Or add one with me in it. Get dabbed.