1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,400 Technology is the story of parents saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,400 And then their kid's going, ah, you don't understand me dad. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,720 And then inventing the microwave. Lots to unpack there. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,400 AMD has released a firmware update that fixes an issue 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:22,200 caused by a previous firmware update which disabled cores on a couple of Ryzen 7000 CPUs. 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,920 That was a rogue update that escaped from the lab. Science has gone too far. 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:33,240 The affected CPUs were the six core Ryzen 5, 7600X, and the high end 12 core Ryzen 9, 7900X. 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,680 Both of whom weren't available for comment, which is fair enough. 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,760 It's an embarrassing situation and they don't have mouths. 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,920 The buggy firmware also caused other problems, namely creating a situation where systems 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,440 with the 7600X simply refused to boot. 12 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,800 We've all been there. Thankfully, motherboard makers including MSI 13 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,200 are already releasing BIOS updates containing the new firmware. 14 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:59,720 Just in time for AMD to announce that it found 31 different vulnerabilities in various processes 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,720 from the Threadripper and Ryzen 2000 to 6000 series Zs. 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,000 Ah, but don't worry. Team Red has issued new firmware updates to OEMs 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,120 to address these holes. So update if you can, 18 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,960 and hopefully these aren't the types of updates that will also need updates to fix. 19 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,280 But hey, that's the game. We'll keep you updated. 20 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,720 Dueling stories out of the Western US today as the nation keeps moving forward, 21 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,400 getting more electric vehicles on the roads, and off the couch. 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,560 They're lazy. The Federal Department of Energy, I don't understand what this is. 23 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,400 The Federal Department of Energy announced that it'll be providing a $700 million loan 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,560 for a mining project in Nevada to extract lithium, 25 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,040 a crucial material for EV batteries. But a couple of states over, 26 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:48,960 legislators in Wyoming have drafted a resolution calling for EVs to be phased out by 2035. 27 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,960 There are such early adopters over there. 28 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,240 It was laggards in California. Basically, the politicians that came up with the resolution 29 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,840 are just trying to pull a pretty stun aimed at states like California, 30 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,920 who are trying to phase out gas cars with the bill's sponsor citing the importance 31 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,080 of Wyoming's oil and gas industry as impetus for this bit of political theater. 32 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,020 And to be clear, the resolution would be entirely symbolic if passed. 33 00:02:13,020 --> 00:02:17,040 So the states won't impound your Tesla simply for being a Tesla. 34 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,720 You could have gone with hydrogen. But Elon says your Tesla will be able to impound itself 35 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:25,760 by 2036. You can't sue a robot, not yet anyway, 36 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,920 but you can sue its creators. And this is exactly what's happening 37 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:32,320 to stable diffusion, mid-journey, and deviant art. 38 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,120 Famous robot creators. But not open AI, they're rock solid. 39 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,920 These services are all being taken to court over alleged copyright infringement. 40 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,200 While the images that these art AI spit out are originals, 41 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,240 they're only created after the AI's have analyzed 42 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,360 billions of pieces of art created by humans employed in content minds. 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,720 In the matrix world. The AI's use the knowledge they gain to imitate existing styles of art. 44 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,600 In fact, a group of artists are now using to claim their intellectual property rights 45 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,760 are being violated. At the core of the matter are two issues. 46 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,560 Number one, whether the AI's negatively affect the artist's ability to sell their works, 47 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,440 and whether the AI art changes enough from the original pieces for them 48 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,080 to be considered entirely new works of art rather than derivatives, 49 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,840 which would infringe upon copyrights. I expect mid-journeys core defense to rest upon the fact 50 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,440 that they don't even know what's going on inside the AI's demented little metal head. 51 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,600 We don't know what we did. It's just like, gonna be goo in there. 52 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,880 Can't put the two space back in the tube, baby. Spring, the scariest time of year. 53 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,360 Spring, the only season that's a verb. Almost a verb. 54 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,220 Hey, we say autumn in this house. Autumn. 55 00:03:37,220 --> 00:03:42,200 Quick bits whenever meant to be honest by men. Enjoy the following news, morsels. 56 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,800 At your peril! YouTube has heard the cacophony of creators 57 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,600 bashing the platform's latest update to its ad-friendly guidelines, 58 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,680 and has decided to take another look at it, they guess. 59 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,400 The new guidelines led to videos that have swearing in the first two seconds 60 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,840 being demonetized, which was a harsh change from the previous policy 61 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:05,920 allowing swearing within the first 30 seconds. However, YouTube have not yet disclosed exactly 62 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,240 what the new policy will be, so it was probably best to wait a bit longer 63 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,760 before trying to make a living off profanity-filled tirage-y- 64 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,240 Oh, that's bulls***! Based on that coming. 65 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,200 You may have noticed that third-party Twitter clients haven't been working correctly lately. 66 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,440 Don't worry, it looks like this was probably on purpose, 67 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,800 because it's Elon. Internal Twitter messages have reportedly revealed 68 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,840 that the company cut off access from outside apps because, insert a reason here that would make sense 69 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:37,280 to Elon Musk and his fans, but some have speculated it's due to lost ad revenue 70 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:41,800 from people not using the official app. Elon needs that money. 71 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,960 They've allowed clients to have access to the API again, so I guess Elon figured that it's probably better 72 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,960 to have people tweet than not tweet. What will we do with no tweets? 73 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,560 He likes money, but he needs tweets. It looks like a new Apple product announcement is imminent, 74 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,960 as rumors have been swirling that the company will finally unveil its M2 Macs, 75 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,720 and or M2 Pro-powered MacBook Pro lineup, 76 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,200 possibly alongside a new Mac Mini that is not a Pro 77 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,320 that features the same Pro chips, or non-Pro chips. 78 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,880 I added in a lot of a few more Pros there. I want to zhuzh up the Pros. 79 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,280 This is real. A new MacBook Pro model has also popped up 80 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:24,680 in a Canadian government database. We have those, so it looks like this rumor 81 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,320 may actually have some moose legs. Moose have the long legs, but really. 82 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:35,040 We got those ones. Google Stadia may be shutting down, but don't throw away your controller, all six of you. 83 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,640 Google has confirmed that they'll be enabling Bluetooth through a self-serve tool next week, 84 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,760 meaning that you'll be able to use it as a generic game pad for other PC games. 85 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,840 Without it, the controller would have become an expensive paperweight, or a prop for your next Twitch stream. 86 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,920 Self-serve tool, a.k.a. the Stadia CEO. 87 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:58,040 Oh. And if you purchased one of those big 86-inch LG TVs last year, 88 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,400 there's a good chance it's not subject to recall. It's not. 89 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,600 LG has recalled over 50,000 of the sets because they're vulnerable to tipping over 90 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,320 due to the stand being excessively stressed under the TV's weight. 91 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,800 However, LG also clarified that the hazard only exists 92 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:17,480 when the stands aren't installed correctly, so make sure you read the manual 93 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,520 and don't leave your TV out in the field. 94 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,560 And wind, it's just a sale. 95 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,480 Oh, TV tipping, cow tipping. 96 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,600 I'll give you a tip this episode's over. Come back next time. 97 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,000 That's Wednesday for more tech news. 98 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:34,840 And fun.