1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Oh, thank God you're here now. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:15,600 I just, uh, the thought of you out there with no tech news. 3 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:23,200 You're okay. We're okay. More than 1.1 million battery banks are being recalled by Anchor in the United States after 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,920 the company says they received 19 reports of fires and explosions. 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:33,160 Two of those led to minor burn injuries, and 11 of them involved property damage totaling 6 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:39,560 over $60,700. And the cherry on top is that all those people's phones are still dead. 7 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:45,120 Now only one specific model of Power Bank is being recalled, the Powercore 1000, and 8 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:50,720 only the A1263 model, so no need to start looking at your other power banks like they're 9 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:58,160 trying to kill you, although obviously I can't speak for them. If you do have one, fill out the form and you can get a $30 gift card for other Anchor 10 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,720 products or a free different Power Bank that's fine, they promise. 11 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,960 Unless someone proves otherwise, I'm going to assume this all may have played a role 12 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:12,320 in the massive Google Cloud outage that caused multiple services to go offline for hours 13 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,600 yesterday, including Spotify and Google Home. 14 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,600 However, after fixing it, Google said the issue actually occurred due to an invalid 15 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,480 automated quota update to their API management system which was distributed globally, causing 16 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:30,240 external API requests to be rejected, but I don't know, that sounds made up. 17 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:37,560 The Intel Battle Mage GPU ID, BMG G31, has been added by Intel to a driver database more 18 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:44,500 or less confirming that Intel is at least working on another Battle Mage GPU more powerful 19 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:52,600 than the Arc B580. Every Battle Mage news item is like it might be dead, and then it's not dead, maybe. 20 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,320 This was spotted by Videocards.com who also reported that a reference to an unreleased 21 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:05,040 Intel Arc GPU was spotted on the PCI-SIG integrators list with support for a full 16-lane PCI-E 22 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:11,200 5.0 interface. Now you don't have to, but I choose to believe Intel's going to give us a higher end gaming 23 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,960 card, because gamers, it's been said before, but we need Intel to light a fire under Team 24 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:25,200 Green and Red's rectum. Leaker, I didn't have to put that in, but was that allowed? 25 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:32,520 Leaker Mega-sized GPU claims NVIDIA's desktop RTX 5050 will use GDDR6 memory instead of 26 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:38,280 the faster GDDR6X, just like the Radeon RX 9000 series. 27 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:45,040 Although we can't be too mad at AMD, they also just randomly launched the Ryzen 5 5500X3D 28 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,440 3D Cache Gaming CPU for the rest of us. 29 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,640 Five years after the first Ryzen 5000 series launched, they've been shaking the box this 30 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:57,080 whole time and that one just kind of came out. They knew something was stuck in there. 31 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:02,800 In AI News, fans watching the NBA Finals this week were treated to a fully AI-generated 32 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:08,040 ad for Kelshi, the platform that seemingly views everything in the world as simply 33 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:14,720 raw material to fuel gambling addiction. So a frenetic, nonsensical video full of fake humans is kind of on brand. 34 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,280 I mean, you could tell Kelshi, but these aren't real people and they'd say, neither are you, 35 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:27,600 betcha 50 bucks. AI filmmaker PJ Aseturo took responsibility for the ad, he apparently made it for $2,000 36 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,720 worth of VO3 credits in just two days, and then reposted it on YouTube with the title 37 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,680 The Disney Approved Our Insane AI Ad to Run During the NBA Finals. 38 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,760 Ahahahahaha. That's what that emoji sounds like, BTDeps. 39 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:47,520 But if you think AI video isn't art, acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky disagrees with you. 40 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:52,960 He produced a short film written and directed by Eliza McNitt that combines live action 41 00:03:52,960 --> 00:04:00,600 and AI-generated footage to depict a baby in the womb and some animals that look pretty 42 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:07,040 AI-generated to me. But what do I know? I'm not being shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, unless someone is playing this video on a 43 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:11,760 theater screen at the Tribeca Film Festival, in which case, hi guys, this is Cinema. 44 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:19,640 There is some useful AI news. Google's starting to make some search results available as an AI podcast, and I hate the 45 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:25,080 AI overview stuff normally, but this could let you listen to search results while you're 46 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,120 driving or something. But also, don't do that. 47 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,200 Microsoft's co-pilot app on Windows 10 and 11 can see your screen now in the US, and 48 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:38,360 a Windows Insider build features a settings agent that can help you find stuff and even 49 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,520 change settings itself if you let it. 50 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:47,160 Not so useful is the meta AI discover public feed, since tons of people apparently don't 51 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:54,840 know they are posting on it. You've got people uploading audio recordings, asking the AI why some farts stink a certain 52 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:00,400 way, and Business Insider spotted a guy role playing, talking to his wife, who died from 53 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:09,200 cancer. It's not great. Now you do have to click multiple buttons to post on the feed, but do you expect some 54 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,400 boomers at least to understand what they're clicking? 55 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:18,040 Please check your parents and grandparents' phones stat, and then check out our sponsor. 56 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,240 Okay, good job. Hey, hey, hey, don't run away yet. 57 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:28,360 You gotta finish your quick bits. Another little Switch 2 mini-hack has been demoed, this time by YouTube channel Naga, 58 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:34,200 who coaxed the new console into running grid autosport and alien isolation at higher graphics 59 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:41,120 settings than the default. They did this by modifying a save file for those games on a jailbroken Switch 1 and then 60 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:48,640 syncing that save file to a Switch 2. And you might think the risk of Nintendo bricking your console isn't worth it to have slightly 61 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:54,560 better graphics in your game, but you don't get it. For people like Naga, that is the game. 62 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:05,480 They probably love Kelshi. A new vulnerability called Smart Attack has been discovered that could allow attackers 63 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:11,760 to use smartwatches to intercept ultrasonic signals from air-gapped systems, aka computers 64 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:16,720 that are physically isolated from external networks, from up to 6 meters away. 65 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,360 The possibilities for someone to dress up like a watchdog's character and crouch behind 66 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,720 the desk next to the desk where the computer is that they're hacking while a guard walks 67 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,720 by right next to them without seeing them are endless. 68 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:36,800 Of course, you can't see you. You're in cover mode. The Pirelli Cyber Tire, which has sensors to give a vehicle's driver information about 69 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,080 their surroundings, has been rolling around for a while. 70 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:46,200 But Pirelli says the tires will now take part in a new pilot program to monitor roads in 71 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:52,160 the Italian region of Apulia, so the government can know how healthy the road is. 72 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:58,640 Has it been eating its quick bits? Unfortunately, Pirelli probably won't be able to do the same thing in the States thanks 73 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,920 to the US ban on Chinese car-related hardware and software. 74 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:09,520 Huh? Yeah, Pirelli has a Chinese investor who's probably hacked their whole system by now. 75 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:15,400 Maybe with a smartwatch. And I couldn't believe it yesterday when I saw that a sequel to the 1987 Star Wars 76 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,360 parody Spaceballs is happening. 77 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:25,600 Spaceballs 2 will bring back 98-year-old Mel Brooks as a producer and to play Yogurt, 78 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:31,240 the character, alongside Bill Pullman as Lone Star, Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet, and Daphne 79 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,240 Zuniga as Princess Vespa. 80 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:39,880 The movie is being described as a non-prequel, non-reboot sequel part two, but with reboot 81 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:47,520 elements franchise expansion film. And it's being made by Amazon, which means that Disney's, mostly bad, Star Wars run 82 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,720 is going to be parodied by one of their biggest streaming competitors. 83 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:58,160 Get em, Amazon! And then you die too. Okay, I can't believe it's actually time to send you back out into the world. 84 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,360 Yes, you've got tech news, but is that enough? Please, come back on Monday. 85 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,280 And I'll give you some more, otherwise it's just gonna sit in the fridge.