WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 A little bit of tech news in my life, a little bit of tech news by my side, 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:10.720 a little bit of tech news is all I need, a little bit of tech news is what I see. 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:17.200 ARM has given Qualcomm 60 days notice that their architectural license agreement will be cancelled, 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:23.600 according to Bloomberg, based on alleged trademark infringement and breach of contract in 2022. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.520 The loss of this license would be potentially devastating for Qualcomm, 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:31.840 which uses ARM architecture in almost all of their products. 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:35.360 Shares for both companies fell in response to the news. 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:41.520 Qualcomm by 3% and ARM by 6.4%, indicating that people watching the market are nervous 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.960 that this escalation could cause harm on both sides. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.960 If you didn't know, ARM was already suing Qualcomm over this issue, 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.480 and in fact their trial is coming up on December 16th. 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:58.240 Only 53 days from now, and only a handful of days before ARM's deadline. 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.240 They can start the trial, I guess, and then see what happens. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:12.400 It's a bit of a weird time to send a 60-day notice. At the heart of the disagreement is Qualcomm's 2021 acquisition of server CPU startup Nuvia. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.720 At the time, both Qualcomm and Nuvia had separate licenses from ARM, 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:21.360 but ARM contended that Nuvia's license and the chip designs based on that license 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:27.440 were non-transferrable, and that Qualcomm had a duty to renegotiate its contract upon acquisition 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:32.000 of Nuvia. Qualcomm, of course, went ahead and incorporated Nuvia's tech into its latest 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.640 Snapdragon X series of laptop chips. The suspicious timing of this most recent 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:42.720 threat has led commenters, who, quote, weren't born yesterday, to speculate that ARM is trying to 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:48.240 force, nay, strong ARM, a resolution in its own favor. They just, like, 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:55.760 they like a certain kind of limb. According to Korean news outlet MK, Intel has proposed a 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:02.160 foundry alliance with their foundry rival, Samsung, so they can come together in their fight against 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:07.520 industry-leading semiconductor foundry, TSMC. There's a lot of drama in the foundry world. 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.800 It's kind of a, the enemy of my enemy is also getting his ass beat kind of situation. 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:18.480 Classic. Samsung is doing somewhat better than Intel's struggling foundry division with a foundry 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:26.880 market share of 11.5%, but TSMC has a 62.3% share of the foundry market and a 92% share 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:32.320 of advanced semiconductors. There's plenty of ways that an Intel-Samsung team-up could help 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:37.680 both companies, such as sharing facilities or R&D collaborations, which isn't to say that TSMC's 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:43.440 situation is all roses. The company recently notified the US government that some of their chips 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:49.680 wound up in high-end Huawei devices, which would violate US imposed export restrictions. 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:56.800 Of course, that's only if TSMC knew about the diversion of its chips, which I don't, 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:01.280 we just put them out the door. We don't know where they go. Both companies deny working with each 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:06.320 other, and there's some indication that TSMC identified the client they produced these specific 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:13.120 chips for and halted chipmints to them in mid-October. Which is right now. 00:03:14.720 --> 00:03:18.880 It's exactly how somebody not guilty might act in these circumstances, 00:03:18.880 --> 00:03:23.760 but it wouldn't be the first time a major company intentionally violated a trade ban with China. 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:30.880 The opium war is for one. In AI news, Anthropic has released a new tool called 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:36.640 computer use that allows their chatbot, Claude, to follow multi-step instructions and complete 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:42.480 basic tasks by taking control of a user's mouse and keyboard. While in the grand scheme of things, 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:48.000 it's a somewhat minor and obvious progression in AI ability, it also feels like foreshadowing 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:53.680 from a Black Mirror episode. Despite these kinds of new and unnerving advances, Microsoft and Open 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.320 AI have announced that they will be giving a small group of local media organizations 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:05.120 $10 million to have their newsrooms try using AI tools. Because this is a technology so valuable, 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:10.160 you have to literally bribe businesses to use it. It'll help you, we swear. Just try it. 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:14.880 The AI isn't making us do this. Trust me. While there's probably some value in local news outlets 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:20.000 getting access to high-tech resources, we should probably be relatively cautious about introducing 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.400 computers who lie into the news. There may be some hope for the concept of reality though, 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:32.080 as Google is now making SynthID, its developer tool that watermarks AI content, 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:37.680 more widely available. Even without a watermark, however, Alcon Entertainment is pretty sure that 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:44.480 Tesla used an AI-generated image based on Blade Runner 2049 at a promotional event for the CyberCab. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:50.160 In part, it's because Tesla approached Alcon to lease the rights and the entertainment company 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:55.600 refused, which is why Alcon is now suing. See how that works? Honestly, it's like yesterday, 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:00.480 your co-worker's dog went missing and then you show up with an almost identical dog in a fake 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:06.400 mustache. This is Alberto. He has nothing to do with your dog. Always being watched is a reality 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:11.520 of the modern world. I'm being watched by you while you're being watched by interdimensional 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:18.640 beings called QuickBits. Some of them are friendly. A lawsuit has been filed in Norfolk, 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:25.360 Virginia, over a network of 172 AI-powered cameras that track what cars are driving by 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:31.120 using license plate recognition. The cameras are sold by Flock, who has sold similar networks to 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:36.400 more than 5,000 other communities in the United States. The lawsuit claims that police can track 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:41.600 citizens' daily habits and routines using the cameras. Because they've got nothing else to do. 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.560 It argues that police can infer where one of the plaintiffs, Lee Schmidt, is going, 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:51.600 based on where he turns at a monitored intersection near his house. And Schmidt essentially can't 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.520 leave his neighborhood without being caught on camera. And since he's always on camera, 00:05:55.520 --> 00:06:00.720 he always looks 10 pounds heavier than he is. This is an issue. They don't even get his good side. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:07.440 Apple is reportedly working on a new dedicated game store and social app for iPhone, according to 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:13.200 a report from 9 to 5 Mac. Sources tell the outlet that the app will feature game suggestions and 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:18.480 tabs for friends and challenges. Apparently, Apple is even experimenting with FaceTime and 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.600 iMessage integration to help gamers connect with each other. The timing is a little suspect, 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:30.320 seeing as Epic just won the right to put their game store on iOS in the EU. If Apple is copying 00:06:30.320 --> 00:06:36.480 Epic, I really want to see Tim Cook promote a Fortnite clone at WWDC. Alright squad, where are 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:43.680 we dropping? I will end you. A proposed FCC rule that would require carriers to unlock phones for 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:50.640 use on other networks 60 days after activation is shockingly unpopular with the aforementioned 00:06:50.640 --> 00:06:56.800 carriers. In a filing with the FCC, T-Mobile, who locks their phones for up to a year, said that 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:03.760 mandating earlier unlocks would mean that consumers risk losing access to the benefits of free or 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:10.000 heavily subsidized handsets. A risk that T-Mobile would be powerless to do anything about. AT&T 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:16.800 agrees, saying such a policy would harm consumers by creating upward pressure on handset prices. Why? 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:26.800 Why do quarks spin? Because little tiny overpaid executives make them, obviously. Fun fact in 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:34.080 Canada, phones are legally required to be unlocked. And it's okay, it's fine. TikTok's STEM tab, 00:07:34.080 --> 00:07:39.440 which shows curated educational material, is now enabled by default on the app, 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:44.320 meaning that it's now just as easy to fat-finger away into an explanation of the Doppler effect as 00:07:44.320 --> 00:07:50.640 it is somebody's sleepstream. The tab itself isn't new, it was added on March 14th, aka 00:07:50.640 --> 00:07:56.000 Pi Day last year. Its increased prominence is probably an attempt by ByteDance to convince 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:02.880 lawmakers that an app as addictive as heroin is somehow educational. Hold on, there's something 00:08:02.880 --> 00:08:09.040 there. Maybe we should give students heroin. And a satellite designed and built by Boeing, 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.840 of course, mysteriously shattered, oh god, this fucking company, I don't understand. And a 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:20.800 satellite designed and built by Boeing mysteriously shattered into at least 57 separate pieces. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:25.040 Did they start building their things with paper glue or something? What's going on? 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:30.720 Just slam dunked it like Ramazern. This is while two astronauts sent into space by 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:36.000 Boeing's Starliner in June are still stranded on the International Space Station. It's not 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:41.120 going that much better for the company on land, either, as Boeing is trying to convince its workers 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:47.280 not to strike pleas for a sixth week. Of course, there was also the cabin panel blowout of a Boeing 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:54.320 Max jet back in January, so space, air, and land are losing fronts. Maybe try the sea? 00:08:55.680 --> 00:08:59.680 Actually, maybe don't. But maybe you should try coming back on Friday for more tech news. 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:02.720 We promise there will be no incidents.