WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.480 Real quick, two things. One, I'm going on vacation next week. 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. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.260 Microsoft has been blocking Google Chrome from running on Windows systems 00:00:14.260 --> 00:00:18.000 with the Family Safety feature enabled for the past few weeks, 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.080 according to multiple reports from teachers and students. 00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:24.560 And you can tell they're students because the report is, okay, so this morning 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. 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:32.720 I then try for a while. I keep restarting my computer and trying to open Chrome, 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. 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:39.520 It just keeps saying the same thing. No update available. What the hell is going on? 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.800 I then did a command prompt in mid-mown to scan for corrupt files, 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, 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. 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. 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:02.620 Other browsers don't seem to be affected, and this Redditor got Chrome to launch 00:01:02.620 --> 00:01:07.620 by renaming the chrome.exe file to chrome1.exe. 00:01:07.780 --> 00:01:13.260 You might think, ah, an unfortunate bug. And sure, maybe, but despite this issue 00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:18.780 first surfacing on June 3rd, Microsoft hasn't officially said anything about fixing it. 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. 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. 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. 00:01:37.780 --> 00:01:41.840 And last year, Microsoft's Edge browser was caught automatically opening itself 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:47.200 after a Windows 11 update, having decided on its own to import people's Chrome tabs. 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 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 00:01:57.500 --> 00:02:02.460 called Project Indigo that enables some truly impressive quality improvements 00:02:02.460 --> 00:02:05.900 for iPhone cameras. The app was built by two former Googlers, 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:12.060 one of whom, Florian Keynes, worked on computational photography for Google Pixels 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:16.460 and specifically Night Mode. Well, now this Benedict Arnold has made it 00:02:16.460 --> 00:02:21.060 so iPhones can make a picture taken in an extremely dimly lit room, 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:24.980 look like it was set up with studio lighting. Fine, that's fine. 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, 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:33.500 Indigo can apparently use that camera shake to make the photo look better 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:36.620 without using AI hallucination. 00:02:36.620 --> 00:02:41.780 That, don't care. It can even remove reflections that obscure detail 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:45.620 on something like a laminated map, which we don't need anymore because we have phones, 00:02:45.620 --> 00:02:49.780 and altogether just make photos look better. Okay, fine, it's great. 00:02:49.780 --> 00:02:53.700 I want it on Android 2. Please come back, Florian. 00:02:53.700 --> 00:02:58.780 You've got a cool name. News publishers are facing a historic drop in web traffic 00:02:58.780 --> 00:03:03.740 due to a Ryzen AI search tools, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 00:03:03.740 --> 00:03:07.420 and a report from the Wall Street Journal. Prince, not the artist, the Matthew, 00:03:07.420 --> 00:03:11.300 said that 10 years ago, a publisher could expect one human visitor 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:15.100 for every two pages processed by Google's web crawler. 00:03:15.100 --> 00:03:18.860 But by January 2025, the ratio was one to six. 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:23.100 And today, just six months later, it's one to 18. 00:03:23.100 --> 00:03:27.260 And that's just for Google. Open AI and Anthropic crawl exponentially 00:03:27.260 --> 00:03:30.660 more pages per visitor. This is not only bad for publishers 00:03:30.660 --> 00:03:34.140 being able to pay their people. It's also bad for users 00:03:34.140 --> 00:03:39.060 who are rapidly getting used to reading AI summaries of content rather than the actual content. 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 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? 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:53.900 Anyway, in other AI news, Mid Journey launched their first video generator 00:03:53.900 --> 00:03:57.460 after focusing pretty much entirely on photos up until this point. 00:03:57.460 --> 00:04:01.340 It can turn an image into a low motion or high motion five second video 00:04:01.340 --> 00:04:04.500 that can be extended up to 21 seconds, 00:04:04.500 --> 00:04:10.300 which will absolutely not help them defend against Disney and Universal's copyright lawsuit. 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 00:04:15.420 --> 00:04:19.660 than the other AI slot machines. There's also a story about AI being used 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:24.860 to print polymer masks that can be applied on top of famous paintings to help restore 00:04:24.860 --> 00:04:28.980 their original look. Sometimes AI can be good, 00:04:28.980 --> 00:04:33.180 but another story where it's not is this one where a 32 year old guy 00:04:33.180 --> 00:04:36.940 with a partner and a toddler developed such a strong emotional connection 00:04:36.940 --> 00:04:40.420 with chat GBT that he's sort of jokingly proposed to it 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. 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, 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. 00:04:55.820 --> 00:05:00.820 Nope, it's gone. AMD has teased the launch of their Ryzen Threadripper 9000 00:05:00.820 --> 00:05:07.700 lineup with some bold claims, saying that its top end Threadripper Pro 9995WX 00:05:07.700 --> 00:05:12.700 is up to 145% faster than Intel's Xeon W9 3595X 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 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:22.500 than most of you probably don't use. Well, there's another chip for you too, 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:26.260 because a reference to the Ryzen 5 9600X3D 00:05:26.260 --> 00:05:29.260 was spotted on AMD's website by Twitter user 00:05:29.260 --> 00:05:34.260 MeloticWarrior. Just be aware, this one probably sucks in V-Ray. 00:05:34.260 --> 00:05:39.900 After their last couple of Starship test flights ended explosively, SpaceX figured, 00:05:39.900 --> 00:05:43.460 you know, for the next one, why not get to the good part right away? 00:05:43.460 --> 00:05:47.740 Yeah, the rocket blew up spectacularly just before taking off, 00:05:47.740 --> 00:05:51.980 which was apparently caused by the failure of a pressurized nitrogen tank, 00:05:51.980 --> 00:05:55.060 which is what I was just gonna say it was that. 00:05:55.060 --> 00:06:01.180 Scammers have been using sponsored search results on Google to inject fake tech support phone numbers 00:06:01.180 --> 00:06:05.020 into legitimate websites, according to a post from Malwarebytes. 00:06:05.020 --> 00:06:09.340 The ad will list a URL for a service the user actually searched for, 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:13.580 like help.netflix.com, but the sponsored search result won't list 00:06:13.580 --> 00:06:17.540 the tail end of that URL, which adds a bunch of extra parameters 00:06:17.540 --> 00:06:22.340 that make the fake phone number appear on the actual legitimate webpage, 00:06:22.340 --> 00:06:26.020 often pre-filled in a search bar. Now Malwarebytes says their product 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 00:06:30.740 --> 00:06:35.540 on this whole thing. The internet is overstated, it's welcome. 00:06:35.540 --> 00:06:42.260 And I have personally seen this story about 16 billion credentials being leaked 00:06:42.260 --> 00:06:45.660 all over my feeds the past couple days, and I'm here to tell you, 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:50.260 it sounds a lot worse than it is. All the reports circulating were based on this 00:06:50.260 --> 00:06:54.780 original investigation by CyberNews, which was originally posted on Wednesday 00:06:54.780 --> 00:06:59.500 with no evidence other than written claims and no external links to verify anything. 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:02.740 But since then, they've drastically updated the article 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:06.580 with a bunch of that stuff and kudos to them for fleshing things out, 00:07:06.580 --> 00:07:11.260 but as noted by Have I Been Poned Guy, Troy Hunt, and Bleeping Computer, 00:07:11.260 --> 00:07:18.140 the database of credentials found by CyberNews doesn't appear to have any previously unseen data. 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, 00:07:21.860 --> 00:07:26.740 change your password and set up multi-factor authentication if you haven't, why not? 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:30.340 Why haven't you done that? And why haven't you promised me 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 00:07:35.020 --> 00:07:38.660 and you just waited till the end. I was only continuing to talk 00:07:38.660 --> 00:07:40.460 because I hate awkward silence. 00:07:43.420 --> 00:07:44.260 I have to go.