1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,360 Aha, I knew you'd come back. You love the tech news. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,600 You always have, something about you. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,680 AMD is making some major moves in Apple's general direction 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:14,720 by releasing the specs for its new Ryzen 740U Phoenix series 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,320 mobile processors. The name is a reference to the majesty and renewal 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,360 of the mythological Phoenix, and not the whole thing where some of the processors burst into flames last week. 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,080 Got some hot new hardware. According to AMD, their new lightweight chips 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:36,040 are ready to go head to head with Apple's M2 processors. For example, the Ryzen 7 7840U supposedly performed 75% 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:41,600 better than the M2 in Passmark 10, when's the last time you performed 75% better than anyone 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,680 at anything? God! AMD is also boasting a major performance lead 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,240 over Intel's integrated graphics, probably because bragging about beating Apple at gaming 12 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,680 is like expecting a medal for whooping a six-year-old in an ARM wrestling competition. 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,000 I mean, I'll do it. But I'm not going to brag. 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,680 Come back when you're seven. The other major team red news is not an official announcement, 15 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,560 but a leak of several Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, 16 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,800 including the RX 7950XT. These names, man. 17 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,040 It's exciting news, especially for AMD, who, much like Apple and Intel, is in desperate need of a win. 18 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,520 The entire PC industry is in a slump, seeing shipments drop by 30% in the first quarter of this year. 19 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,600 AMD also reported a 9% drop in earnings. 20 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,720 Better than expected, but still kind of scary. Like a theme park ride that makes you convinced 21 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:35,360 of your impending demise for about half a second, and then your butthole relaxes, and you get some donuts. 22 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,480 This weekend, AI apocalypse, but boring news, 23 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,600 IBM plans to pause hiring for around 7,800 jobs 24 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,640 that could eventually be replaced by AI. 25 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,400 The idea seems to be to take the human out of human resources 26 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:55,160 by gradually phasing out back office roles, with at least 30% of such jobs being automated 27 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,800 over the next five years. I always thought Chagy would be good at restocking TP. 28 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:05,640 Meanwhile, a German stock photographer sent a cease and desist request to AI training database, 29 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,640 Leon, Leon, Leon, and was met not just with a refusal, 30 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:15,840 but with a counterclaim of nearly $1,000 in legal fees. 31 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,400 Does Leon use his copyrighted photographs? 32 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,080 Yes, they absolutely do, but they didn't store those images, 33 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,320 they just linked to them, you see, I didn't inhale. 34 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,800 So they can't delete them, he can't tell them to stop using them, and he should pay the damages 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,720 for even having asked the question. The system is working, and a US congresswoman introduced 36 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:42,360 a bill requiring disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads, because yes, of course that's happening. 37 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,720 Please keep up. On the one hand, this may mean the end of democracy 38 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,520 as we know it, big whoop. On the other hand, I'm excited to see an ad 39 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,080 for a local school board election where the candidate phases through the podium, 40 00:02:54,080 --> 00:03:00,760 punches a baby into the sun with one of her 12-fingered hands, then devolves into a sentient mass of bees. 41 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,920 We've all been there. That was the best. 42 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:10,440 And live streaming on YouTube just got an upgrade thanks to the newly released OBS Studio 29.1, 43 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,200 which now supports streaming to YouTube using the AV1 encoder. 44 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:19,840 For those of you whose ears didn't just perk up when I said AV1 encoder, it's okay. 45 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,960 You're actually the more normal people in the room. Streaming with AV1 results in boosted image quality 46 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,200 and a bit rate that can be reduced by up to 40% 47 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,200 without sacrificing image quality, especially if you're using an NVIDIA GPU, 48 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,680 at least according to NVIDIA, the company famous for marketing and selling NVIDIA GPUs. 49 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,120 To back up their claim that their AV1 encoder leads to better streaming quality than AMD 50 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:48,080 or Intel's encoders, NVIDIA provided this graph, which is actually just three screen caps from Fortnite 51 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,880 with green squares all over it. Wow. As far as I'm concerned, the case is closed, 52 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:58,000 but even if NVIDIA is right, more AV1 out there in the wild is a better thing for 53 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,720 really anyone who watches internet videos, especially now that NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs 54 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,280 all support it. In response to the news of YouTube streaming getting a huge upgrade Twitch, 55 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,960 which does not support AV1, loser had this to say. 56 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,480 Oh. Quick bits. 57 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,600 Quick bits. Quick bits. What have you considered a quick bits? Quick bits. 58 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,600 Another service has fallen to the blue check mark menace 59 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,760 as Gmail has announced companies can apply for free 60 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,600 to its new verification program. According, why is this contagious? 61 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,320 According to Google, the feature is intended to help users distinguish 62 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:41,600 between legitimate sources and scam artists. So Gmail users can rest easy with the knowledge 63 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,720 that the constant broads of emails demanding their time and money are coming from 64 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:51,000 the trusted brands you know and tolerate. A judge has ruled to protect the anonymity of eight 65 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,320 redditors who commented on piracy related posts. 66 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,600 A group of film studios were trying to prove that internet service provider RCN was turning a blind eye 67 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,680 to piracy committed by its customers. To prove this, 68 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:07,080 their lawyers served Reddit with a subpoena. But fortunately for us all, that won't happen. 69 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:12,160 If those redditors were unmasked, we all know that Yara Har Fiddley Dee won't be the only sin 70 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,840 to see the light of the Fiddley Dee day, the horror. 71 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,960 Researchers are using AI to translate the brain activity 72 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,560 of mice into a 95% accurate reconstruction 73 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,560 of what the mouse was watching when the data was taken 74 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,680 in its little mouse mind's eye. Finally, what we always wanted from the sci-fi future, 75 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,400 rodent specific telepathy. This likewise raises the specter 76 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,000 of animal assisted copyright infringement as wannabe pirates sneak into movie theaters 77 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,080 with a mouse in their pocket like Stuart Little to record the latest Disney feature 78 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,320 or Hollywood blockbuster. Mickey, how could you? 79 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:52,760 In response to a bill that allows pornographic websites to be sued if a minor accesses their content, 80 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,760 PornHub has blocked the entire state of Utah. 81 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,240 And they're good Mormons, so they don't care. Louisiana passed a similar law 82 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,120 requiring age verification to access sexually explicit sites. 83 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,720 But it has a state-run digital wallet that allows websites to check a user's official age. 84 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,640 Utah has no such system as taking the surprising position, 85 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,960 position that Utah citizens should just trust the average online smut peddler 86 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,560 with a photo of their government ID. In unrelated news, Google search data shows 87 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,360 a substantial spike in searches for VPN in Utah. 88 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:31,600 They're not all good Mormons. And the Jupiter icy moons explore or juice. 89 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,760 Wait, wouldn't it be giant? Anyway, Europe's Jupiter moon probe is suffering 90 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,640 from a stuck antenna on one of its instruments and the European Space Agency 91 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,520 is exploring options to rectify the problem. 92 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,080 The probe, one idea being initiating a rocket burn 93 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,600 to shake the craft and just jiggle it a little bit. 94 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,840 I mean, juice is in ice cold space and now everyone's watching it 95 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,440 and you expect a probe to fully extend under those circumstances. 96 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:04,480 I can't even pee when there's someone in the neighboring urinal. Just stop pressuring juice so much. 97 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,320 You're only making it worse. It retracts. And I don't want to pressure you 98 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:14,000 but if you came back on Friday for some more tech news, that'd probably be the best for you and your family. 99 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Capiche? You f***er.