1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,560 We mean I'm addicted to tech news. I can stop anytime I want. I just don't want to stop, 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:05,680 because it feels good. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,760 Anchor, the parent company of Vufi, the maker of security cameras and robo vacuums that were 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:16,000 found to be, despite their marketing, very much uploading their footage to the cloud, 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,760 has admitted that they did that. After the Verge threatened to publish an expose with or without 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:28,080 Anchor's input, the company responded, proving once again that blackmail works. It works people. 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:35,200 Of all the colors of mail, that one gets results. In case you haven't already heard, the security camera company Vufi came under fire months ago 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:41,280 for not adhering to their local-only marketing promise, which is something not just hipsters care 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:46,800 about anymore. In their response, Anchor finally admitted that their cameras were sending unencrypted 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,480 video streams to the company's web portal. Apparently, video sent to iOS and Android companion 11 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:59,600 apps was encrypted, and so was recorded footage sent to the web. But live video streams were not 12 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,920 encrypted, meaning that their customers were completely unaware that they are revealing 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,480 more on stream than popular Twitch streamer Amaranth, except without the millions and only 14 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,680 fans revenue. Anchor has pledged to remotely update every Vufi camera to ensure they send 15 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,560 only encrypted footage to their web portal. They won't lie again. They're doing their best. 16 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:26,880 Can't wait to set up all my cameras again. Samsung showed off new phones and laptops during their one hour unpacked 2023 event. Meanwhile, 17 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,240 Jacob moved over a month ago and still hasn't fully unpacked. 18 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:36,560 I'm trying! Hello Samsung, can you help me? The new Galaxy S23 phone line-up features optimized GPUs that are 19 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:43,200 around 41% faster than last generations. Samsung also claims the S23 Ultra will support real-time 20 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,160 ray tracing, so when you go into the toilet at work and launch Candy Crush, get ready for the most 21 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,240 incredible reflections you've ever seen on the surface of a jelly bean. 22 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,400 And Call of Duty and Fortnite look pretty good too. The company also announced 23 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,520 three higher-end models of its Galaxy Book laptops, with the flagship Galaxy Book 3 Ultra 24 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:08,000 featuring up to 13th gen Intel Core i9 CPU and RTX 4070 GPU, whatever that means in the 25 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,240 mobile market. The laptop is about 2 centimeters thick and weighs fewer than 4 pounds, so it's 26 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:17,040 unknown how the machine will stay cool. My theory? It doesn't. You just deal with it. 27 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:22,240 Hot hips! That's what light skins for, baby! But you don't care about that, so let's get to what really matters. 28 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,760 Can Samsung pay Ridley Scott enough money to shoot a film with the S23 Ultra? 29 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,800 I know we've all been wondering this since Unpacked 2022, and I'm happy to say it happened. 30 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:39,040 Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Oh, you didn't care. Are you not entertained? 31 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,800 And it seems there's an issue with some Samsung SSDs. 32 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:48,080 Wait, didn't we report on this last week? No, last week never happened, John. Wake up! 33 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:53,680 Only a week after the issue was discovered with their 99 Pro SSDs, PC Builder Puget Systems 34 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,160 revealed that they've been receiving customer reports of 2TB 980 Pros failing at an alarming rate, 35 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,800 and that they've been investigating with Samsung. That's a quick response on Samsung's part, 36 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,080 if you ignore the months of complaints about this issue. Many users of the SSD in China have been 37 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,880 complaining about drive failures as far back as September. Most commonly, the drive becomes 38 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:19,840 locked into read-only mode, which means you can't add new data to the drive, which sucks. 39 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,800 Worst case, if the 980 Pro is your boot drive, this would render your PC unbootable until the 40 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,840 drive is replaced. Fortunately, Samsung has a firmware update to prevent these failures in the 41 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:35,200 future, but the update will not fix any failures that have already occurred. But hey, you can do 42 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:40,400 lots of things with a useless SSD, like put it on a stack of loose papers, or frame it in one of 43 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:45,680 those cool little boxes, or just cry while you hold it and think what all of the files you didn't 44 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:52,080 back up. Not that you'd remember that, John. Wake up, John! Wake up! Meta AI has developed a tool 45 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,360 that generates dynamic 3D scenes from text descriptions, and is appropriately called 46 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:04,800 Make a Video 3D, or Mav3D for short, if you want to keep it casual. Mav3D is a real Mav3D 47 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:10,800 makes use of a 4D dynamic neural radiance field, or NERF, without the annoying side effects of 48 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,880 small children shooting you with foam darts. Very impressive work. It's there for nothing. 49 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,760 That's it? That's all we get to know about it? Okay. Discord is suing. So that's a sewing. 50 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,520 Discord is sewing itself, but no one's gonna get this joke. They're causing NVIDIA GPUs to slow 51 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:29,840 down. I think our audience is smart enough. Apparently a recent update to the social platform 52 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:34,480 is preventing Team Green's graphics cards from reaching their full memory clock speeds. NVIDIA 53 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:39,520 has already released a DIY workaround, and is hoping to push that out over the air at some 54 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,840 point in the future, which could be any time. But hopefully it's before they release their 55 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:48,720 next chonker of a graphics card. But if not, it'll make an excellent paperweight. 56 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,360 The National Labor Relations Board in the US has found that some workplace rules at Apple, 57 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:58,160 and some statements made by the company's executives violate labor law. This is in response 58 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:04,320 to five charges brought by two former employees in late 2021. Do you like numbers? Apparently, 59 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:09,840 the NLRB wants both parties to settle. Ah yes, the key to a healthy relationship. 60 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:16,800 Researchers in Halifax, Canada, which is far from me, have figured out why your batteries 61 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,760 keep draining even when your device is turned off. We never knew. They said it was impossible. 62 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:25,600 They found that the tape that holds the electrodes and insulation together 63 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,320 can leak DMT inside the battery. No, not that kind of DMT. 64 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,920 Joe, don't eat the batteries. Put them down. It turns out this chemical causes the battery to self-discharge, 65 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,520 which can be prevented by using a slightly more expensive tape. But if my grandma hasn't updated 66 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:47,200 her tape since Christmas of 1971, I doubt the device manufacturer will be rushing to the stationary 67 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:51,440 store anytime soon. And the newest 24-7 Twitch stream to go viral is 68 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:57,360 a Seinfeld parody almost entirely generated by AI. The show, called Nothing Forever, is written by 69 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:04,160 OpenAI's GPT-3, performed by Texas Speech Apps and somehow interpreted into grainy low-poly 3D 70 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,440 animations. Accordingly, it sort of makes sense sometimes, but it's also got a laugh track, 71 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,840 so it's basically a modern cable sitcom except it has a visual appeal of a PS1 game that was fried 72 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:18,080 in a pan and people actually find it funny. At least I assume they do, since thousands of people 73 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,000 tune into the stream, that's right, they're real and they're spectacular. 74 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,040 And our show on Friday will be spectacular too, so why not come back then for more tech news? 75 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,400 Otherwise, no news for you!