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Technology, phones, computers.

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These are just some of the words you may hear in today's video.

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Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 lineup could include

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an iPhone Air, according to insider Mark Gurman.

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Not to be confused with Mark Merman, the aquatic humanoid that's squatting in my pool.

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I've had enough. Gurman suggests the iPhone Air will be Apple's latest attempt

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at trying to sell an iPhone model that isn't just the iPhone, the iPhone Pro,

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or the iPhone Pro Max, because the company definitely wasn't already struggling

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to come up with more than two options. What's more than Pro?

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Pro Max, extra. The phone concept was also discussed two weeks ago

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by John Prosser of Front Page Tech. According to Prosser, the rumored thickness

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for the slim iPhone 17 is just five millimeters.

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To put that in perspective, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is 8.2 millimeters thick.

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And I mean, it's thick.

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It's not, it's not that. A clap of its ass cheeks.

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Do we need this? Meanwhile, the iPhone 16 lineup we're gonna see this fall

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will be boring. Sure, the action button's coming to non-Pro models

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and the Pros might be getting another button as a camera shutter.

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It's just hand me down buttons. That's the paradigm here. But Gurman says there won't be any other

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truly meaningful changes. And that must be saying something.

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When the most notable change for the 16th successor is just fat shaming.

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TikTok is under fire for sending news alert style notifications to advertise misinformation.

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According to a report from the Financial Times, these alerts have contained complete falsehoods,

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such as a claim that Taylor Swift called Florida racist

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and canceled all her tour dates there, which is why one of her recently popular songs

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is called Florida with three exclamation marks. She's upset.

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Florida, stop. In addition to fake news,

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TikTok has also promoted out-of-date news, at least one user received an alert this January

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about a tsunami warning in Japan more than three weeks after the natural disaster warning

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had actually been issued. Several users who clicked on the notification

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claimed they were then led to a TikTok video from an account they don't even follow.

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It's not even the fake news they want. This doesn't fit my agenda at all.

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This is an exactly good publicity for the platform, which is already facing an upcoming ban in the US

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if it isn't sold off by Chinese owner ByteDance.

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TikTok and ByteDance are also being sued by the Justice Department

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for violating children's privacy laws. All in all, it's a great time for TikTok.

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That's according to a notification I got from TikTok. Annual hacking conference, DEFCON, occurred this weekend,

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giving us an opportunity to be reminded that the technology we rely on every day

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is incredibly fragile and vulnerable. For example, researchers discovered

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hundreds of millions of AMD processors dating as far back as 2006

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that suffer a major security flaw, allowing attackers to install malware

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virtually undetectably. While AMD is patching many of its processors,

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they won't be fixing chips outside of their software support window

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like the Ryzen 3000 series. Fortunately for those affected,

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the exploit is actually sort of difficult for hackers to use

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since it requires them to already have kernel level access to a machine.

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In other DEFCON news, researchers found 10 separate flaws

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in Google's Quick Share file transfer tool, with some allowing remote code execution

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on nearby Windows PCs. Fortunately, all of these vulnerabilities

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were reported and fixed. Thanks, hackers!

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Meanwhile, separate researchers got a different response when they discovered they could hack vacuum

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and lawnmower robots made by Ecovax and use them to spy on their owners.

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The researchers say they never heard back from Ecovax and they believe the vulnerabilities aren't fixed.

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Fortunately, owners of Ecovax devices may be able to fix the issue themselves

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using a common debugging tool called a baseball bat.

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Okay, who's ready for QuickBits?

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If you're not, you should probably pause the video here

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until you should be ready. One of Intel's next-gen battle-mage gaming GPUs

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has been spotted in a Linux boot-up log as discovered by a non-tech forum user, Gav87,

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who immediately informed the police. It shouldn't be there. The single line of text in the log was noteworthy

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because if it's legit, it signifies an incoming

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mid-tier Intel ArcGPU with more and faster RAM

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than its predecessors, 12 gigabytes running at 19 gigabytes per second.

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Are we as an industry finally accepting that maybe eight gigabytes of graphics memory isn't enough?

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Did Intel hide this in a log as a prank before they go out of business?

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Good questions! Apple is forcing Patreon to exclusively use

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the App Store's in-app purchasing system in their iOS app,

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saddling all transactions with Apple's cut of 30%,

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or four times what Patreon takes on its own platform.

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I mean, it's only fair. You think extortion grows on trees? Thankfully, existing subscription memberships

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won't be affected, but creators will have to choose

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between absorbing the cost themselves or passing it on to their patrons for new subscriptions

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and purchases in the iOS app. Patreon is doing a good job explaining things

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in their official blog post, help articles, and CEO Jack Conte's blurry-ass video.

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You couldn't use your 8% cut to buy a cloth to wipe your webcam?

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Geez! I can barely see your earnest eyes and wiggly hands,

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and I want to. I actually like him, he's cool. That's a wiggly hand that do this.

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I get where you're coming from! Two patent infringement lawsuits filed against Bamboo Lab

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could have far-reaching consequences for the 3D printing hobby.

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We're calling it a hobby. Let's a little detrimental. Do you have any money printing little screws?

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Oh, you're a professional 3D printer? Nah, that's cute. What do you do for work?

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Ha! U.S. industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Stratasys,

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filed, who are just having fun. U.S. industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Stratasys,

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filed the lawsuits, alleging that 10 of their patents

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have been infringed upon by Bamboo Lab. However, one of these patents is for a heated build platform,

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something found on only like every consumer 3D printer ever.

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If Stratasys somehow manages to win the case, it will be bad news,

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not just for 3D printing hobbyists, we did it again, but for their friends,

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who constantly have to hear them talk about 3D printing. What did 3D printers do to you, Jacob?

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I'm the friend. Ha!

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They're like the vegans of tech people. Waymo will begin testing dwivalis wabotaxis.

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Waymo will begin testing, Waymo will begin testing,

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Stop. Waymo will begin testing driverless robotaxis

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on San Francisco freeways after receiving approval

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from California regulators back in March. The company has also begun testing the patience

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of software engineer Sophia Tong by renting a parking lot outside her building

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for their robotaxis to park slash honk in

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at 4 a.m. every night. Naturally, Tong responded the only way

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a sane human being can, by setting up a 24 hour live stream of the lot

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featuring lo-fi hip hop to park slash honk too.

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Listen, she hasn't been sleeping very well. And Google DeepMind has done the unthinkable.

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They've created a robot that's okay at ping pong. In a paper, the organization detailed their ping pong

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playing robot saying that it won 100% of its matches

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against beginner human players, but only 55% of matches against intermediate players.

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It really tried to make it sound good there for a second. Demonstrating solidly amateur human level performance.

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And it can do all the moves. Forehands, backhands, other, other hands.

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Pops, pop shove-its.

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It does it all. And it does it at a level deemed acceptable.

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And it would be more than acceptable if you came back on Wednesday for more tech news.

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You're a pretty good listener, and I like that about you.