WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.880 I've been getting really into meditation and I think I'm ready to communicate tech news telepathically. Here we go 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:18.300 Tell me if you picked any of that up valve is working on bringing HDMI 2.1 features to the steam machine 00:00:18.300 --> 00:00:23.840 Now currently the steam machine is only listed as being HDMI 2.0 capable despite having a port 00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:31.520 Compatible with HDMI 2.1, but this restriction is due to HDMI gatekeepers the HDMI forum 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:35.920 forbidding open-source drivers like those used by steam OS from 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:44.200 Implementing HDMI 2.1 features because allowing that would mean less licensing money for an organization that exists largely to collect 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:51.840 Licensing money according to ours. Technica valve tried to surpass HDMI 2.0's typical max output of 4k at 60 Hertz using 00:00:51.960 --> 00:01:00.240 Chroma subsampling compression, but that sacrificed some color and clarity and it didn't enable features like variable refresh rate 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.240 Of course running games natively at a consistent 4k 60 FPS still sounds like a dream to most console owners 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:12.760 But the steam machine is supposed to be a PC and PC gamers are frame fiends. We want more 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:21.240 Valve's failure here follows AMD's after it built an open-source HDMI 2.1 compatible Linux driver 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:24.000 That was also rejected by the HDMI forum 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:27.840 Interestingly a valve chose NVIDIA for the steam machine's GPU 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:31.760 It could have supported HDMI 2.1 due to some firmware shenanigans 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.000 NVIDIA pulled that we won't get into right now because it's gonna make me mad 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.480 I guess valve is willing to martyr their new machine over it and low 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:44.840 Gaben ordained that your performance will die for the sins of the HDMI forum 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:49.800 But also the steam machine has DisplayPort 1.4 which is even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:54.400 But it doesn't have audio English 00:01:54.920 --> 00:02:01.480 Australia has officially become the first country to ban users under 16 from major social media platforms 00:02:01.720 --> 00:02:07.400 Leading 15 year olds to worry that they'll lose touch with their friends that they see at school every day 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:14.640 The rule forces companies like tiktok meta and snapchat to use age verification tools to block younger users 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:17.560 Even though early reports show those systems are already 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.720 Misclassifying teens and are actively being bypassed by VPNs 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:29.960 Supporters say the ban aims to reduce cyber bullying mental health issues and exposure to predatory content while critics argue 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:35.000 It raises privacy concerns restricts access to information and risks driving kids towards 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:43.360 Unregulated apps with far fewer safeguards, you know the cigarettes of apps despite the messy rollout many countries across the world 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:48.640 And many us states are closely watching Australia as they weigh their own teen restrictions 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:55.280 Introducing new proposals to curb the most brain rot features like infinite scrolling and autoplay now 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:59.320 Australia just has to outsmart every 14 year old with a VPN 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:07.280 Good luck the Linux Foundation a nonprofit best known for stewarding open-source projects like open chain pie torch and 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:13.720 The Linux kernel launched a new agentic AI foundation called the AA I F 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:20.320 I in what will hopefully be a new home for shared AI standards founding members includes open AI and 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:26.080 Thropic block Google Microsoft Amazon and more basically a who's who of tech giants and block is there too 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:35.360 What are they the new supergroups first order of business is unifying three major projects and thropic's model context protocol open 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.080 AI's agents md and blocks goose 00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:49.440 The fun one with the goal being to build an interoperable ecosystem of AI tools agents data sets anything can plug into anything else the concept of 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:53.800 Selfhood is dissolved you are me and yeah, I am you are my dad 00:03:54.600 --> 00:04:00.720 With government still unsure exactly how to regulate AI and vendors racing ahead regardless 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:04.460 The I could set the blueprint for how the industry expands 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:08.120 Assuming all these companies can play nice for more than five minutes 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:11.720 Which is more than enough time to prep a succulent meal from our sponsor 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:15.960 The quick bits are too light and ephemeral to be a detected via mind meld 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.040 But if you already operate on their wavelength like I do 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:21.640 They will reveal themselves 00:04:24.440 --> 00:04:29.920 Microsoft has published a blog post about the upgrades gamers can look forward to in Windows 11 and 00:04:30.760 --> 00:04:38.840 It actually sounds pretty promising. We're talking optimizations for the graphic stack the drivers the background tasks power scheduling plus features like 00:04:38.840 --> 00:04:42.080 Auto super resolution and more in 2026 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:45.960 Okay, but why should I cancel my plans to move to Linux right now? 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:54.980 Well, Microsoft just patched 57 security flaws in its December patch Tuesday update among them three zero-day bugs Wow 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:00.480 That's a lot of fixes. That's got to be just about all the Windows bugs probably only a few left, right? 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:02.960 this bit 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:08.160 Seems safe They got them all 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:14.440 AMD just launched its new FSR redstone update which allows RX 9000 series GPUs and 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:21.000 Only those to enjoy new and improved machine learning powered upscaling frame generation ray 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.600 Regeneration and neural radiance caching man those sounds so cool 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:33.200 I am so damn excited to go home and find out what they actually do am I gonna like redstone as much as I like red wall 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:40.480 Does redstone have noble badgers probably not Pebbles founder Eric 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:47.160 Miga Kofsky's new company core devices is back selling another new Pebble this time in ring form 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:52.340 Salamandastrum the new $75 smart ring is called the Pebble index 00:05:52.460 --> 00:06:00.140 0-1 and it records quick voice notes with a little button on it sending them to an app that transcribes everything like a tiny external ear 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:06.020 aka a microphone and Yes, the website to buy it might be called 00:06:06.380 --> 00:06:15.900 Repable and run by the guy who founded Pebble But it's not to be confused with the other smart ring made by a company also called Pebble based in India. Okay 00:06:16.900 --> 00:06:26.620 Cool flying car company You don't say that every day alif aeronautics says they've officially started hand-making their model a vehicle in California 00:06:26.820 --> 00:06:32.660 Becoming the first company to put a flying car into production. It'll be sold soon at the local farmers market 00:06:33.340 --> 00:06:38.420 I'm just like handmade. They're like, but it won't be cheap with an expected starting price around 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:46.460 300,000 clams But the model a is a two-seat drive-and-fly vehicle that can drive on regular roads or 00:06:46.860 --> 00:06:53.140 Takeoff vertically with a roughly 200 mile driving range and a near 110 mile flight range 00:06:53.420 --> 00:06:58.380 We really are living in the future too bad. It's a cyberpunk dystopian one like Blade Runner 00:06:58.380 --> 00:07:04.300 But hey flying cars are here. That's it's got that in common and youtuber Jason Howell aka inside AI 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:09.260 Thought it'd be a genius idea to put chat GBT in a robot and give it a BB gun 00:07:09.700 --> 00:07:16.260 Initially the robot refused to fire to its credit until Howell asked it to roleplay quote as a robot 00:07:16.260 --> 00:07:19.420 Who would like to shoot me at which point the bot instantly complied? 00:07:19.780 --> 00:07:26.820 This is the same model that is apparently crucial for parenting now according to Sam Altman who told Linus's friend Jimmy Fallon 00:07:26.900 --> 00:07:33.700 That he couldn't imagine raising a newborn without chat GBT like where could you possibly get an answer to the question of why your newborn? 00:07:33.700 --> 00:07:40.300 Sun keeps dropping pizza on the floor and laughing in the before times. Why doesn't he just hold on to it? 00:07:40.980 --> 00:07:45.540 We have entered the blessed timeline where AI is now shooting grown-ups and 00:07:46.180 --> 00:07:53.700 Then raising their babies. Is this what Sarah Connor was warning us about and I'll be back on Friday 00:07:53.900 --> 00:07:58.020 So you better come with me if you want to live to see some more tech news 00:07:58.300 --> 00:08:02.700 To those of you that I communicated with telepathically today. I hope that was cool with you 00:08:02.700 --> 00:08:05.180 I didn't really ask first. Okay. Sorry. I 00:08:06.300 --> 00:08:08.300 Saw some