WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.680 Oh, thank God you're here now. 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:15.600 I just, uh, the thought of you out there with no tech news. 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 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:27.920 the company says they received 19 reports of fires and explosions. 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:33.160 Two of those led to minor burn injuries, and 11 of them involved property damage totaling 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. 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:45.120 Now only one specific model of Power Bank is being recalled, the Powercore 1000, and 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 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 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:02.720 products or a free different Power Bank that's fine, they promise. 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:06.960 Unless someone proves otherwise, I'm going to assume this all may have played a role 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:12.320 in the massive Google Cloud outage that caused multiple services to go offline for hours 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:15.600 yesterday, including Spotify and Google Home. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:20.600 However, after fixing it, Google said the issue actually occurred due to an invalid 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:25.480 automated quota update to their API management system which was distributed globally, causing 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:30.240 external API requests to be rejected, but I don't know, that sounds made up. 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 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:44.500 or less confirming that Intel is at least working on another Battle Mage GPU more powerful 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. 00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:57.320 This was spotted by Videocards.com who also reported that a reference to an unreleased 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 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 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 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? 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:32.520 Leaker Mega-sized GPU claims NVIDIA's desktop RTX 5050 will use GDDR6 memory instead of 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:38.280 the faster GDDR6X, just like the Radeon RX 9000 series. 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 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:48.440 3D Cache Gaming CPU for the rest of us. 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:53.640 Five years after the first Ryzen 5000 series launched, they've been shaking the box this 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. 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 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:08.040 ad for Kelshi, the platform that seemingly views everything in the world as simply 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. 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, 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 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 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:37.680 The Disney Approved Our Insane AI Ad to Run During the NBA Finals. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.760 Ahahahahaha. That's what that emoji sounds like, BTDeps. 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:47.520 But if you think AI video isn't art, acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky disagrees with you. 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.960 He produced a short film written and directed by Eliza McNitt that combines live action 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 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 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:11.760 theater screen at the Tribeca Film Festival, in which case, hi guys, this is Cinema. 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 00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:25.080 AI overview stuff normally, but this could let you listen to search results while you're 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:28.120 driving or something. But also, don't do that. 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 00:04:33.200 --> 00:04:38.360 a Windows Insider build features a settings agent that can help you find stuff and even 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.520 change settings itself if you let it. 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 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 00:04:55.400 --> 00:05:00.400 way, and Business Insider spotted a guy role playing, talking to his wife, who died from 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 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:12.400 boomers at least to understand what they're clicking? 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:18.040 Please check your parents and grandparents' phones stat, and then check out our sponsor. 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.240 Okay, good job. Hey, hey, hey, don't run away yet. 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, 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:34.200 who coaxed the new console into running grid autosport and alien isolation at higher graphics 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 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 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. 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 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:11.760 to use smartwatches to intercept ultrasonic signals from air-gapped systems, aka computers 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:16.720 that are physically isolated from external networks, from up to 6 meters away. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:21.360 The possibilities for someone to dress up like a watchdog's character and crouch behind 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 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.720 by right next to them without seeing them are endless. 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 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.080 their surroundings, has been rolling around for a while. 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 00:06:46.200 --> 00:06:52.160 the Italian region of Apulia, so the government can know how healthy the road is. 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 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:02.920 to the US ban on Chinese car-related hardware and software. 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:09.520 Huh? Yeah, Pirelli has a Chinese investor who's probably hacked their whole system by now. 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 00:07:15.400 --> 00:07:19.360 parody Spaceballs is happening. 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, 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:31.240 the character, alongside Bill Pullman as Lone Star, Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet, and Daphne 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:34.240 Zuniga as Princess Vespa. 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 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 00:07:47.520 --> 00:07:51.720 is going to be parodied by one of their biggest streaming competitors. 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. 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:03.360 Yes, you've got tech news, but is that enough? Please, come back on Monday. 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.280 And I'll give you some more, otherwise it's just gonna sit in the fridge.