WEBVTT 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, 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:05.680 because it feels good. 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:11.760 Anchor, the parent company of Vufi, the maker of security cameras and robo vacuums that were 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:16.000 found to be, despite their marketing, very much uploading their footage to the cloud, 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 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:28.080 Anchor's input, the company responded, proving once again that blackmail works. It works people. 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 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:41.280 for not adhering to their local-only marketing promise, which is something not just hipsters care 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:46.800 about anymore. In their response, Anchor finally admitted that their cameras were sending unencrypted 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:52.480 video streams to the company's web portal. Apparently, video sent to iOS and Android companion 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 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.920 encrypted, meaning that their customers were completely unaware that they are revealing 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.480 more on stream than popular Twitch streamer Amaranth, except without the millions and only 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:13.680 fans revenue. Anchor has pledged to remotely update every Vufi camera to ensure they send 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. 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, 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:30.240 Jacob moved over a month ago and still hasn't fully unpacked. 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 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:43.200 around 41% faster than last generations. Samsung also claims the S23 Ultra will support real-time 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 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:52.240 incredible reflections you've ever seen on the surface of a jelly bean. 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:56.400 And Call of Duty and Fortnite look pretty good too. The company also announced 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:01.520 three higher-end models of its Galaxy Book laptops, with the flagship Galaxy Book 3 Ultra 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 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 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. 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. 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.760 Can Samsung pay Ridley Scott enough money to shoot a film with the S23 Ultra? 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. 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:39.040 Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Oh, you didn't care. Are you not entertained? 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:42.800 And it seems there's an issue with some Samsung SSDs. 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! 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 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, 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, 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 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:14.880 complaining about drive failures as far back as September. Most commonly, the drive becomes 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. 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 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.840 drive is replaced. Fortunately, Samsung has a firmware update to prevent these failures in the 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 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 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 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 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:57.360 that generates dynamic 3D scenes from text descriptions, and is appropriately called 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 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 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.880 small children shooting you with foam darts. Very impressive work. It's there for nothing. 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. 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 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:29.840 down. I think our audience is smart enough. Apparently a recent update to the social platform 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:34.480 is preventing Team Green's graphics cards from reaching their full memory clock speeds. NVIDIA 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 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 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:48.720 next chonker of a graphics card. But if not, it'll make an excellent paperweight. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:53.360 The National Labor Relations Board in the US has found that some workplace rules at Apple, 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:58.160 and some statements made by the company's executives violate labor law. This is in response 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:04.320 to five charges brought by two former employees in late 2021. Do you like numbers? Apparently, 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:09.840 the NLRB wants both parties to settle. Ah yes, the key to a healthy relationship. 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:16.800 Researchers in Halifax, Canada, which is far from me, have figured out why your batteries 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. 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:25.600 They found that the tape that holds the electrodes and insulation together 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:30.320 can leak DMT inside the battery. No, not that kind of DMT. 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, 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 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 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:51.440 store anytime soon. And the newest 24-7 Twitch stream to go viral is 00:05:52.080 --> 00:05:57.360 a Seinfeld parody almost entirely generated by AI. The show, called Nothing Forever, is written by 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 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:09.440 animations. Accordingly, it sort of makes sense sometimes, but it's also got a laugh track, 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 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 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:22.000 tune into the stream, that's right, they're real and they're spectacular. 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? 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.400 Otherwise, no news for you!