WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.360 Aha, I knew you'd come back. You love the tech news. 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:06.600 You always have, something about you. 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:09.680 AMD is making some major moves in Apple's general direction 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:14.720 by releasing the specs for its new Ryzen 740U Phoenix series 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:19.320 mobile processors. The name is a reference to the majesty and renewal 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. 00:00:24.360 --> 00:00:28.080 Got some hot new hardware. According to AMD, their new lightweight chips 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% 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 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.680 at anything? God! AMD is also boasting a major performance lead 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:50.240 over Intel's integrated graphics, probably because bragging about beating Apple at gaming 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.680 is like expecting a medal for whooping a six-year-old in an ARM wrestling competition. 00:00:54.680 --> 00:00:58.000 I mean, I'll do it. But I'm not going to brag. 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, 00:01:02.680 --> 00:01:06.560 but a leak of several Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:10.800 including the RX 7950XT. These names, man. 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. 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. 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:24.600 AMD also reported a 9% drop in earnings. 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 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. 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:38.480 This weekend, AI apocalypse, but boring news, 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.600 IBM plans to pause hiring for around 7,800 jobs 00:01:42.600 --> 00:01:45.640 that could eventually be replaced by AI. 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:49.400 The idea seems to be to take the human out of human resources 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:55.160 by gradually phasing out back office roles, with at least 30% of such jobs being automated 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.800 over the next five years. I always thought Chagy would be good at restocking TP. 00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:05.640 Meanwhile, a German stock photographer sent a cease and desist request to AI training database, 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:10.640 Leon, Leon, Leon, and was met not just with a refusal, 00:02:11.900 --> 00:02:15.840 but with a counterclaim of nearly $1,000 in legal fees. 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.400 Does Leon use his copyrighted photographs? 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.080 Yes, they absolutely do, but they didn't store those images, 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.320 they just linked to them, you see, I didn't inhale. 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 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.720 for even having asked the question. The system is working, and a US congresswoman introduced 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. 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.720 Please keep up. On the one hand, this may mean the end of democracy 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 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.080 for a local school board election where the candidate phases through the podium, 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. 00:03:00.760 --> 00:03:03.920 We've all been there. That was the best. 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, 00:03:10.440 --> 00:03:14.200 which now supports streaming to YouTube using the AV1 encoder. 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. 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 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.200 and a bit rate that can be reduced by up to 40% 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:33.200 without sacrificing image quality, especially if you're using an NVIDIA GPU, 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:37.680 at least according to NVIDIA, the company famous for marketing and selling NVIDIA GPUs. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:42.120 To back up their claim that their AV1 encoder leads to better streaming quality than AMD 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 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, 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 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.720 really anyone who watches internet videos, especially now that NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:07.280 all support it. In response to the news of YouTube streaming getting a huge upgrade Twitch, 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.960 which does not support AV1, loser had this to say. 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.480 Oh. Quick bits. 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.600 Quick bits. Quick bits. What have you considered a quick bits? Quick bits. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.600 Another service has fallen to the blue check mark menace 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.760 as Gmail has announced companies can apply for free 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:31.600 to its new verification program. According, why is this contagious? 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.320 According to Google, the feature is intended to help users distinguish 00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:41.600 between legitimate sources and scam artists. So Gmail users can rest easy with the knowledge 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.720 that the constant broads of emails demanding their time and money are coming from 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 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.320 redditors who commented on piracy related posts. 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 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.680 to piracy committed by its customers. To prove this, 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:07.080 their lawyers served Reddit with a subpoena. But fortunately for us all, that won't happen. 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 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.840 to see the light of the Fiddley Dee day, the horror. 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:18.960 Researchers are using AI to translate the brain activity 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:22.560 of mice into a 95% accurate reconstruction 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.560 of what the mouse was watching when the data was taken 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, 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.400 rodent specific telepathy. This likewise raises the specter 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:39.000 of animal assisted copyright infringement as wannabe pirates sneak into movie theaters 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.080 with a mouse in their pocket like Stuart Little to record the latest Disney feature 00:05:43.080 --> 00:05:46.320 or Hollywood blockbuster. Mickey, how could you? 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, 00:05:52.760 --> 00:05:55.760 PornHub has blocked the entire state of Utah. 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:00.240 And they're good Mormons, so they don't care. Louisiana passed a similar law 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.120 requiring age verification to access sexually explicit sites. 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. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.640 Utah has no such system as taking the surprising position, 00:06:12.640 --> 00:06:16.960 position that Utah citizens should just trust the average online smut peddler 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:21.560 with a photo of their government ID. In unrelated news, Google search data shows 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.360 a substantial spike in searches for VPN in Utah. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:31.600 They're not all good Mormons. And the Jupiter icy moons explore or juice. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.760 Wait, wouldn't it be giant? Anyway, Europe's Jupiter moon probe is suffering 00:06:35.760 --> 00:06:40.640 from a stuck antenna on one of its instruments and the European Space Agency 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:44.520 is exploring options to rectify the problem. 00:06:44.520 --> 00:06:48.080 The probe, one idea being initiating a rocket burn 00:06:48.080 --> 00:06:51.600 to shake the craft and just jiggle it a little bit. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.840 I mean, juice is in ice cold space and now everyone's watching it 00:06:55.840 --> 00:06:59.440 and you expect a probe to fully extend under those circumstances. 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. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.320 You're only making it worse. It retracts. And I don't want to pressure you 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. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.000 Capiche? You f***er.