WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.040 I've been working on the funniest tech news intro ever. 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:10.880 It's not ready. You're not. It's too soon. You're not ready for it yet. Tech news first. Maybe later. Be good. 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.400 Microsoft has heard Windows users loudly saying they don't want an agentic OS, 00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:21.440 but that's clearly because you just don't get it. You're confused. It's OK. 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:28.600 Let them explain in their support article, which describes how secure AI agent workspaces will give agents 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.840 access to shared folders and allow them to work in the background for you, 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.440 completing tasks while you do other weird human things. 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.880 But despite Microsoft's helpful explanation, enthusiasts don't seem to be swayed. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.560 No one was using agentic Windows. And so one intrepid writer from the Verge took one for the team 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:53.560 and spent a week trying to interact with co-pilot the way Microsoft wants us to 00:00:53.800 --> 00:00:57.800 and found that co-pilot made his computer feel incompetent. 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:04.800 Projecting. It had a crisis of confidence, but apparently it's competent enough to install malware. 00:01:04.800 --> 00:01:11.000 As Microsoft's own article states, these kinds of agents would still be vulnerable to malicious prompts 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.200 that may be embedded in emails, documents or web pages. 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:19.440 For some reason, Microsoft seems hellbent on making Windows worse instead of better. 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.960 Like why not do what this programmer did and turn the OpenGL 3D 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:28.040 May screensaver from Windows 95 into a playable game demo thing? 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:33.960 What the? Wait, James, it's your shirt. He already did that, but there are so many more screensavers. 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:38.560 Do the pipes one next. We have a shirt for that too. I didn't even know you were this... 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:44.840 I'll take you to the store. Epic Games and Unity are joining forces to let Unity developers 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:49.560 publish their games directly inside Fortnite through its island discovery system. 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:53.600 And in doing so, tap into its creator economy payouts, 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:57.640 giving small dev teams instant access to one of the biggest audiences in gaming. 00:01:57.720 --> 00:02:00.800 The plan goes along perfectly with Tim Sweeney's vision of Fortnite 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:03.960 as an open metaverse where people can not just play 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.280 but live their entire lives as Homer Simpson half a tar 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.480 who communicates entirely through K-pop inspired emotes. 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.280 Do one. I don't know. 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:17.320 The agreement will also see Unity support games made with Unreal Engine 00:02:17.320 --> 00:02:21.680 on their recently announced Commerce dashboard, which lets creators manage pricing, payments, 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.480 promotions and digital catalogs on multiple platforms. 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:29.520 We're talking about a fairly deep collaboration between two of the most popular game engines here. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:34.440 Maybe Timothy Sweetner is right. This already is his metaverse and we're just living in it. 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:39.200 Zucks right over there. Zucks in high. That's meta, meta. 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:43.480 Yeah, that's that's so meta. Pebble, the once discontinued fan favorite smartwatch, 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:46.400 seemed like it was flying high after being revived. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.800 But now it's hit some turbulence. The community finds itself torn between core devices, 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.040 which now builds new Pebble hardware under original founder, 00:02:55.160 --> 00:02:59.240 Eric Migogovsky and Rebel, 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:03.800 the Solaris that they're called the Rebel, the nonprofit that has maintained the Pebble App Store 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:08.920 and cloud services since the original company shut down. Just weeks ago, both sides announced a deal. 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:13.080 Core would build a new App Store front end. Rebel would continue running the back end. 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.560 And together, they'd support all Pebble users new and old and dead, 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.680 probably such an old device. But talks broke down over who ultimately controls 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.880 the App Store data, which consists of roughly 13,000 apps 00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:29.440 and watch faces that Rebel has maintained since the servers were shut down in 2018. 00:03:29.880 --> 00:03:36.520 Rebel says core demanded unrestricted access, which they fear could allow core to build a closed proprietary store 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:41.680 and leave Rebel behind. And they also accused core of scraping their publicly available data 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:46.000 in violation of the agreement. Core counters that the data shouldn't belong to anyone. 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:49.640 What they want is an open public archive to keep Pebble accessible. 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:52.960 And that the scraping Rebels referring to was just Eric 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:57.160 using a simple web tool to browse watch faces. Eric does that all the time. 00:03:57.160 --> 00:04:02.400 He doesn't scrape. He's not a scraper. Both sides claim they're protecting Pebble's future, 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.840 which looks increasingly uncertain as long as mom and dad keep fighting. 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:10.240 Please stop. But hey, at least the watches still tell the time. 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:14.960 Right? Got another call home from school. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.760 The quick bits are in trouble again. They just cannot sit still and listen. 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:27.120 Too much sugar. Cloudflare had a major outage yesterday that knocked out big services like chat, APT and X for thousands of users. 00:04:27.320 --> 00:04:30.640 The outage came after a change in permissions caused too many entries 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:34.600 to be added to a file connected to Cloudflare's bot management system, 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:38.800 causing it to buckle under the load and crash out harder than a real housewife. 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:43.200 Cloudflare says they fix the issue and stressed that there was no sign of a cyber attack. 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:46.640 However, this was the third major internet outage in a month. 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:52.720 And people are starting to wonder what can be done to prevent these crashes and what backups we have in place for when they do happen. 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.720 Like how I always keep an extra new toothbrush in the house, 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.080 just in case the data center powering my normal one goes down. 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.200 AMD is officially launching its next AI powered upscaling tech, 00:05:04.200 --> 00:05:12.240 FSR Redstone on December 10th. In a tweet, AMD exec Jack Quinn declared that where darkness ends, Redstone begins. 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:20.240 Do-do-do-do-do-do. Oh, no, no. Before showing off a pretty bland, seemingly Marvel Studios title card inspired video. 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:27.840 At the moment, not much is known about FSR Redstone, but words like Neural Radiance Cashing and Ray Regeneration. 00:05:30.440 --> 00:05:33.560 I've been thrown around and those sound hella fancy. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.960 I guess AMD is hoping it's fancy enough to justify the reported desire 00:05:37.960 --> 00:05:42.000 to increase GPU prices according to a post on China's board channels 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.920 with memory prices increasing, a price hike on AMD's GPUs is imminent. 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.000 Obviously, I'll tell you AMD. 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:53.240 Tobin McGuire, Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland together on screen. 00:05:53.640 --> 00:05:58.880 This is not disappointed. Again, disappointed. 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:03.080 Google just launched Gemini 3, which it's calling its smartest AI model yet. 00:06:03.320 --> 00:06:08.680 You would hope if Google's benchmarks are to be believed, Gemini 3 might actually be a new era of intelligence, 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.920 considering it's apparently significantly better at understanding text, 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:15.880 images, audio and a lot of other stuff than some of its competitors. 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:22.240 Can you understand my wife? The new Gemini is built into both the Gemini app and Google search from day one. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:25.080 But being that it's a Gemini, 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.800 is it ever really going to get away from the stereotypes 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.880 that it's indecisive, impulsive, unreliable and nosy? 00:06:32.440 --> 00:06:35.560 Russia is now cutting mobile internet for travelers 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:39.840 entering the country for up to 24 hours, claiming it stops Ukrainian drones 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:46.360 from using SIM cards for navigation. The system has caused chaos in border regions where roaming happens accidentally. 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:50.960 This happens to me all the time. Oh, man. Phones that reconnect after being on foreign networks 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:54.480 get automatically quarantined until users prove using captchas 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.440 or by dialing a call center that they're a human, not a quadcopter. 00:06:58.440 --> 00:07:03.080 Oh, it's every day. I keep telling people, not a quadcopter. 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:08.960 Riley keeps buzzing in my ear. And TikTok is rolling out a new AI-generated content slider 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:14.600 in its managed topic settings. So you can choose to see more or less slop in your for you feed. 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:20.240 TikTok is also working on invisible watermarking to make AI videos easier to spot, but they're invisible. 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:26.800 The watermarks that only TikTok can read will help them identify AI content, even if it's edited or re-uploaded. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.600 The platform announced that these features will be rolling out in the coming weeks. 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:36.680 What do you think the person who slides their AI content slider to only AI is like? 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.600 I bet they're a Gemini. And I bet you'll be back on Friday for more tech news. 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:44.200 I've got to go. I wanted to keep working on my funny intro a bit, 00:07:44.200 --> 00:07:47.400 but now I've got a parent-teacher conference about the quick bits to go to. 00:07:47.400 --> 00:07:49.000 They're not even my frickin' kids!