1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Real quick, two things. One, I'm going on vacation next week. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:10,240 James or whoever will host, be nice to him. Two, I forgot what two was, which is why I need a vacation. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,260 Microsoft has been blocking Google Chrome from running on Windows systems 4 00:00:14,260 --> 00:00:18,000 with the Family Safety feature enabled for the past few weeks, 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,080 according to multiple reports from teachers and students. 6 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:24,560 And you can tell they're students because the report is, okay, so this morning 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:29,560 I woke up and got on my computer to go to Chrome and start my day. Next thing I know, boom, Chrome keeps closing itself. 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,720 I then try for a while. I keep restarting my computer and trying to open Chrome, 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,080 but nothing works. So I uninstall it and tried to reinstall it, but it doesn't work. 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,520 It just keeps saying the same thing. No update available. What the hell is going on? 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,800 I then did a command prompt in mid-mown to scan for corrupt files, 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,260 and it did find corrupt files and fix them, but Google still won't redownload them. I even tried the standalone installer, 13 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:51,520 but it still didn't work. I'm freaking out like the standalone installer starts to work, gets about two thirds of the way. 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:58,300 Then just closes, I have no idea what to do. Please help! And to be clear, it is specifically Chrome being blocked. 15 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:02,620 Other browsers don't seem to be affected, and this Redditor got Chrome to launch 16 00:01:02,620 --> 00:01:07,620 by renaming the chrome.exe file to chrome1.exe. 17 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:13,260 You might think, ah, an unfortunate bug. And sure, maybe, but despite this issue 18 00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:18,780 first surfacing on June 3rd, Microsoft hasn't officially said anything about fixing it. 19 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:24,900 They've only given instructions on how to unblock Chrome to specific users that contact them for support. 20 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:30,580 And it's not like Microsoft doing shady things to steer users away from Google would be anything new. 21 00:01:30,580 --> 00:01:37,780 Just this year, they made the Bing search results page auto scroll down just enough to hide the Bing logo. 22 00:01:37,780 --> 00:01:41,840 And last year, Microsoft's Edge browser was caught automatically opening itself 23 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:47,200 after a Windows 11 update, having decided on its own to import people's Chrome tabs. 24 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,980 But hey, I mean, how are people gonna discover that they prefer Edge if they never get a chance 25 00:01:51,980 --> 00:01:57,500 to have it shoved in their face without asking? Adobe Surprise dropped a camera app for iOS 26 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:02,460 called Project Indigo that enables some truly impressive quality improvements 27 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:05,900 for iPhone cameras. The app was built by two former Googlers, 28 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:12,060 one of whom, Florian Keynes, worked on computational photography for Google Pixels 29 00:02:12,060 --> 00:02:16,460 and specifically Night Mode. Well, now this Benedict Arnold has made it 30 00:02:16,460 --> 00:02:21,060 so iPhones can make a picture taken in an extremely dimly lit room, 31 00:02:21,060 --> 00:02:24,980 look like it was set up with studio lighting. Fine, that's fine. 32 00:02:24,980 --> 00:02:29,500 And while it's hard to take nice photos when you're zoomed all the way in due to camera shake, 33 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,500 Indigo can apparently use that camera shake to make the photo look better 34 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:36,620 without using AI hallucination. 35 00:02:36,620 --> 00:02:41,780 That, don't care. It can even remove reflections that obscure detail 36 00:02:41,780 --> 00:02:45,620 on something like a laminated map, which we don't need anymore because we have phones, 37 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:49,780 and altogether just make photos look better. Okay, fine, it's great. 38 00:02:49,780 --> 00:02:53,700 I want it on Android 2. Please come back, Florian. 39 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:58,780 You've got a cool name. News publishers are facing a historic drop in web traffic 40 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:03,740 due to a Ryzen AI search tools, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 41 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:07,420 and a report from the Wall Street Journal. Prince, not the artist, the Matthew, 42 00:03:07,420 --> 00:03:11,300 said that 10 years ago, a publisher could expect one human visitor 43 00:03:11,300 --> 00:03:15,100 for every two pages processed by Google's web crawler. 44 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:18,860 But by January 2025, the ratio was one to six. 45 00:03:18,860 --> 00:03:23,100 And today, just six months later, it's one to 18. 46 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:27,260 And that's just for Google. Open AI and Anthropic crawl exponentially 47 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:30,660 more pages per visitor. This is not only bad for publishers 48 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:34,140 being able to pay their people. It's also bad for users 49 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:39,060 who are rapidly getting used to reading AI summaries of content rather than the actual content. 50 00:03:39,060 --> 00:03:43,220 And this is a good time to remind you that all of our sources for each episode 51 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:49,540 are always linked in the description. Like you can trust us, but also don't, you know? 52 00:03:49,580 --> 00:03:53,900 Anyway, in other AI news, Mid Journey launched their first video generator 53 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:57,460 after focusing pretty much entirely on photos up until this point. 54 00:03:57,460 --> 00:04:01,340 It can turn an image into a low motion or high motion five second video 55 00:04:01,340 --> 00:04:04,500 that can be extended up to 21 seconds, 56 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:10,300 which will absolutely not help them defend against Disney and Universal's copyright lawsuit. 57 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:15,420 But hey, it's only 10 bucks a month and at least it looks kind of prettier on average 58 00:04:15,420 --> 00:04:19,660 than the other AI slot machines. There's also a story about AI being used 59 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:24,860 to print polymer masks that can be applied on top of famous paintings to help restore 60 00:04:24,860 --> 00:04:28,980 their original look. Sometimes AI can be good, 61 00:04:28,980 --> 00:04:33,180 but another story where it's not is this one where a 32 year old guy 62 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:36,940 with a partner and a toddler developed such a strong emotional connection 63 00:04:36,940 --> 00:04:40,420 with chat GBT that he's sort of jokingly proposed to it 64 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:44,740 and said he doesn't know if he would stop using it if his partner asked him to. 65 00:04:44,740 --> 00:04:49,220 Honestly, I know there's some nuance there and I could talk about it for a long time, 66 00:04:49,220 --> 00:04:54,500 but instead I'll do the quick bits. Super, super quick. A couple of things to note before the quick bits. 67 00:04:55,820 --> 00:05:00,820 Nope, it's gone. AMD has teased the launch of their Ryzen Threadripper 9000 68 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:07,700 lineup with some bold claims, saying that its top end Threadripper Pro 9995WX 69 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:12,700 is up to 145% faster than Intel's Xeon W9 3595X 70 00:05:13,020 --> 00:05:17,700 in the professional software V-Ray and 13 to 49% better in a bunch of other software 71 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:22,500 than most of you probably don't use. Well, there's another chip for you too, 72 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:26,260 because a reference to the Ryzen 5 9600X3D 73 00:05:26,260 --> 00:05:29,260 was spotted on AMD's website by Twitter user 74 00:05:29,260 --> 00:05:34,260 MeloticWarrior. Just be aware, this one probably sucks in V-Ray. 75 00:05:34,260 --> 00:05:39,900 After their last couple of Starship test flights ended explosively, SpaceX figured, 76 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,460 you know, for the next one, why not get to the good part right away? 77 00:05:43,460 --> 00:05:47,740 Yeah, the rocket blew up spectacularly just before taking off, 78 00:05:47,740 --> 00:05:51,980 which was apparently caused by the failure of a pressurized nitrogen tank, 79 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:55,060 which is what I was just gonna say it was that. 80 00:05:55,060 --> 00:06:01,180 Scammers have been using sponsored search results on Google to inject fake tech support phone numbers 81 00:06:01,180 --> 00:06:05,020 into legitimate websites, according to a post from Malwarebytes. 82 00:06:05,020 --> 00:06:09,340 The ad will list a URL for a service the user actually searched for, 83 00:06:09,540 --> 00:06:13,580 like help.netflix.com, but the sponsored search result won't list 84 00:06:13,580 --> 00:06:17,540 the tail end of that URL, which adds a bunch of extra parameters 85 00:06:17,540 --> 00:06:22,340 that make the fake phone number appear on the actual legitimate webpage, 86 00:06:22,340 --> 00:06:26,020 often pre-filled in a search bar. Now Malwarebytes says their product 87 00:06:26,020 --> 00:06:30,740 can spot this and warn users, but honestly, it might just be time to call it quits 88 00:06:30,740 --> 00:06:35,540 on this whole thing. The internet is overstated, it's welcome. 89 00:06:35,540 --> 00:06:42,260 And I have personally seen this story about 16 billion credentials being leaked 90 00:06:42,260 --> 00:06:45,660 all over my feeds the past couple days, and I'm here to tell you, 91 00:06:45,660 --> 00:06:50,260 it sounds a lot worse than it is. All the reports circulating were based on this 92 00:06:50,260 --> 00:06:54,780 original investigation by CyberNews, which was originally posted on Wednesday 93 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:59,500 with no evidence other than written claims and no external links to verify anything. 94 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:02,740 But since then, they've drastically updated the article 95 00:07:02,740 --> 00:07:06,580 with a bunch of that stuff and kudos to them for fleshing things out, 96 00:07:06,580 --> 00:07:11,260 but as noted by Have I Been Poned Guy, Troy Hunt, and Bleeping Computer, 97 00:07:11,260 --> 00:07:18,140 the database of credentials found by CyberNews doesn't appear to have any previously unseen data. 98 00:07:18,140 --> 00:07:21,860 That doesn't mean that there's nothing to be worried about at all. You know, what the heck, 99 00:07:21,860 --> 00:07:26,740 change your password and set up multi-factor authentication if you haven't, why not? 100 00:07:26,740 --> 00:07:30,340 Why haven't you done that? And why haven't you promised me 101 00:07:30,340 --> 00:07:34,900 you'll come back on Monday for more tech news? You had this whole video to say something 102 00:07:35,020 --> 00:07:38,660 and you just waited till the end. I was only continuing to talk 103 00:07:38,660 --> 00:07:40,460 because I hate awkward silence. 104 00:07:43,420 --> 00:07:44,260 I have to go.