1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 Technology, phones, computers. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,440 These are just some of the words you may hear in today's video. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,080 Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 lineup could include 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,560 an iPhone Air, according to insider Mark Gurman. 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,160 Not to be confused with Mark Merman, the aquatic humanoid that's squatting in my pool. 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:24,400 I've had enough. Gurman suggests the iPhone Air will be Apple's latest attempt 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,760 at trying to sell an iPhone model that isn't just the iPhone, the iPhone Pro, 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:33,360 or the iPhone Pro Max, because the company definitely wasn't already struggling 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,800 to come up with more than two options. What's more than Pro? 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,920 Pro Max, extra. The phone concept was also discussed two weeks ago 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,680 by John Prosser of Front Page Tech. According to Prosser, the rumored thickness 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,240 for the slim iPhone 17 is just five millimeters. 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:54,880 To put that in perspective, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is 8.2 millimeters thick. 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,640 And I mean, it's thick. 15 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,440 It's not, it's not that. A clap of its ass cheeks. 16 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,400 Do we need this? Meanwhile, the iPhone 16 lineup we're gonna see this fall 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:10,420 will be boring. Sure, the action button's coming to non-Pro models 18 00:01:10,420 --> 00:01:14,360 and the Pros might be getting another button as a camera shutter. 19 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,440 It's just hand me down buttons. That's the paradigm here. But Gurman says there won't be any other 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,160 truly meaningful changes. And that must be saying something. 21 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:27,000 When the most notable change for the 16th successor is just fat shaming. 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:33,280 TikTok is under fire for sending news alert style notifications to advertise misinformation. 23 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,160 According to a report from the Financial Times, these alerts have contained complete falsehoods, 24 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,720 such as a claim that Taylor Swift called Florida racist 25 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,240 and canceled all her tour dates there, which is why one of her recently popular songs 26 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,920 is called Florida with three exclamation marks. She's upset. 27 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,320 Florida, stop. In addition to fake news, 28 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:58,520 TikTok has also promoted out-of-date news, at least one user received an alert this January 29 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,940 about a tsunami warning in Japan more than three weeks after the natural disaster warning 30 00:02:03,940 --> 00:02:07,200 had actually been issued. Several users who clicked on the notification 31 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,440 claimed they were then led to a TikTok video from an account they don't even follow. 32 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,680 It's not even the fake news they want. This doesn't fit my agenda at all. 33 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,880 This is an exactly good publicity for the platform, which is already facing an upcoming ban in the US 34 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,560 if it isn't sold off by Chinese owner ByteDance. 35 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,960 TikTok and ByteDance are also being sued by the Justice Department 36 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,880 for violating children's privacy laws. All in all, it's a great time for TikTok. 37 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:38,800 That's according to a notification I got from TikTok. Annual hacking conference, DEFCON, occurred this weekend, 38 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,440 giving us an opportunity to be reminded that the technology we rely on every day 39 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,120 is incredibly fragile and vulnerable. For example, researchers discovered 40 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,520 hundreds of millions of AMD processors dating as far back as 2006 41 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,680 that suffer a major security flaw, allowing attackers to install malware 42 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,840 virtually undetectably. While AMD is patching many of its processors, 43 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,200 they won't be fixing chips outside of their software support window 44 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,040 like the Ryzen 3000 series. Fortunately for those affected, 45 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,360 the exploit is actually sort of difficult for hackers to use 46 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,280 since it requires them to already have kernel level access to a machine. 47 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,120 In other DEFCON news, researchers found 10 separate flaws 48 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,880 in Google's Quick Share file transfer tool, with some allowing remote code execution 49 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,960 on nearby Windows PCs. Fortunately, all of these vulnerabilities 50 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,080 were reported and fixed. Thanks, hackers! 51 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,000 Meanwhile, separate researchers got a different response when they discovered they could hack vacuum 52 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,280 and lawnmower robots made by Ecovax and use them to spy on their owners. 53 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,920 The researchers say they never heard back from Ecovax and they believe the vulnerabilities aren't fixed. 54 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,840 Fortunately, owners of Ecovax devices may be able to fix the issue themselves 55 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,920 using a common debugging tool called a baseball bat. 56 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,360 Okay, who's ready for QuickBits? 57 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,520 If you're not, you should probably pause the video here 58 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:05,080 until you should be ready. One of Intel's next-gen battle-mage gaming GPUs 59 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:11,440 has been spotted in a Linux boot-up log as discovered by a non-tech forum user, Gav87, 60 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:16,960 who immediately informed the police. It shouldn't be there. The single line of text in the log was noteworthy 61 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,960 because if it's legit, it signifies an incoming 62 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,200 mid-tier Intel ArcGPU with more and faster RAM 63 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,560 than its predecessors, 12 gigabytes running at 19 gigabytes per second. 64 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,760 Are we as an industry finally accepting that maybe eight gigabytes of graphics memory isn't enough? 65 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,000 Did Intel hide this in a log as a prank before they go out of business? 66 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,240 Good questions! Apple is forcing Patreon to exclusively use 67 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,840 the App Store's in-app purchasing system in their iOS app, 68 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,000 saddling all transactions with Apple's cut of 30%, 69 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,120 or four times what Patreon takes on its own platform. 70 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,400 I mean, it's only fair. You think extortion grows on trees? Thankfully, existing subscription memberships 71 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,400 won't be affected, but creators will have to choose 72 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:06,800 between absorbing the cost themselves or passing it on to their patrons for new subscriptions 73 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,600 and purchases in the iOS app. Patreon is doing a good job explaining things 74 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:17,120 in their official blog post, help articles, and CEO Jack Conte's blurry-ass video. 75 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,760 You couldn't use your 8% cut to buy a cloth to wipe your webcam? 76 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,240 Geez! I can barely see your earnest eyes and wiggly hands, 77 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,440 and I want to. I actually like him, he's cool. That's a wiggly hand that do this. 78 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:34,680 I get where you're coming from! Two patent infringement lawsuits filed against Bamboo Lab 79 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,760 could have far-reaching consequences for the 3D printing hobby. 80 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,800 We're calling it a hobby. Let's a little detrimental. Do you have any money printing little screws? 81 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,160 Oh, you're a professional 3D printer? Nah, that's cute. What do you do for work? 82 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,160 Ha! U.S. industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Stratasys, 83 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:57,480 filed, who are just having fun. U.S. industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Stratasys, 84 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,120 filed the lawsuits, alleging that 10 of their patents 85 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:08,320 have been infringed upon by Bamboo Lab. However, one of these patents is for a heated build platform, 86 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,960 something found on only like every consumer 3D printer ever. 87 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,120 If Stratasys somehow manages to win the case, it will be bad news, 88 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:21,080 not just for 3D printing hobbyists, we did it again, but for their friends, 89 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:27,080 who constantly have to hear them talk about 3D printing. What did 3D printers do to you, Jacob? 90 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:28,960 I'm the friend. Ha! 91 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:36,320 They're like the vegans of tech people. Waymo will begin testing dwivalis wabotaxis. 92 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,360 Waymo will begin testing, Waymo will begin testing, 93 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,920 Stop. Waymo will begin testing driverless robotaxis 94 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,200 on San Francisco freeways after receiving approval 95 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:00,360 from California regulators back in March. The company has also begun testing the patience 96 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,840 of software engineer Sophia Tong by renting a parking lot outside her building 97 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:07,920 for their robotaxis to park slash honk in 98 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,840 at 4 a.m. every night. Naturally, Tong responded the only way 99 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,720 a sane human being can, by setting up a 24 hour live stream of the lot 100 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,160 featuring lo-fi hip hop to park slash honk too. 101 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:24,280 Listen, she hasn't been sleeping very well. And Google DeepMind has done the unthinkable. 102 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,920 They've created a robot that's okay at ping pong. In a paper, the organization detailed their ping pong 103 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,760 playing robot saying that it won 100% of its matches 104 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:39,400 against beginner human players, but only 55% of matches against intermediate players. 105 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:45,000 It really tried to make it sound good there for a second. Demonstrating solidly amateur human level performance. 106 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:52,120 And it can do all the moves. Forehands, backhands, other, other hands. 107 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,760 Pops, pop shove-its. 108 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:01,200 It does it all. And it does it at a level deemed acceptable. 109 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,600 And it would be more than acceptable if you came back on Wednesday for more tech news. 110 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,120 You're a pretty good listener, and I like that about you.