WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.520 Used to be a king, you know, but I abdicated the throne for one very simple reason. 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:10.400 I wanted to focus on bringing you the tech news. Still gonna tax you, though. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:17.600 Mozilla has ignited controversy among Firefox users this week by, primarily, being bad at marketing. 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:22.000 See, the company's been trying to build a new framework for online advertising that depends 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.440 less on collecting people's personal information. They acquired Anonym, a company working on just 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:32.720 that in June, before announcing Privacy Preserving Attribution in August. 00:00:32.720 --> 00:00:39.360 PPA supposedly encrypts and aggregates data about how many users engage with an ad without 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:44.880 collecting any info about those users, preserving privacy while still letting websites generate 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:50.880 revenue. And I think it sounds good when you say it like that. Unfortunately, 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:57.200 yesterday Mozilla's relatively new CEO started off her blog post about PPA by saying the company 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:03.040 is going to be more active in digital advertising, while an official forum post talked about making 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:09.440 ads and privacy coexist, causing concern among the particularly ad averse that Mozilla was going 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:12.640 through that phase when you think Don Draper is a good guy in Mad Men. 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:22.880 While some Firefox users simply want no ads on the internet, period, others are trying to explain 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:30.000 how PPA could balance privacy and sustainability. The problem is, this isn't even Mozilla's first 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:36.160 marketing blunder for PPA. Adblock users were already mad about PPA being enabled by default 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:44.000 in July's Firefox 128.0 release, which led EU privacy organization Noib, which stands for 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:51.760 none of your business. The spit is silent. To file a complaint over Firefox's new feature, which 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:58.320 tracked users. Side note, Noib is no joke. Another of their complaints just led to a top 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:04.240 EU court imposing limits on Meta's data collection. Do not rub Noib the wrong way. 00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:14.080 They call it noibing. Turns out that early PPA rollout was a limited developer test and did not 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:19.680 collect any user data, but Mozilla did admit last week they could have been more open about what 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:25.680 they were doing, only to fumble the ball again this week. The same week they flagged the uBlock 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:32.320 Origin Lite Firefox add-on as collecting user data and using machine-generated code, causing 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:36.880 developer Raymond Hill to pull it from the add-on store after getting fed up with Mozilla support. 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:41.440 Listen, I want Firefox to be better at marketing, so more people use it. But right now they're at 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:45.600 like 7% market share, so proportionally I spent way too much time talking about this. 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:49.920 YouTube has announced a bunch of changes to how shorts work, starting with how they're not 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:58.240 gonna be so short. Starting October 15th, shorts can be up to three minutes long, 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:03.200 meaning any video with a square aspect ratio or taller, that's less than three minutes, 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:09.120 will be seen as a short by YouTube. The change will only apply to videos uploaded after that date, 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:14.240 though, so don't worry, vertical doom scrollers won't suddenly be hit with your experimental 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:25.440 artsy student film. The square is a box. This represents society. In an ode to TikTok's 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:31.440 cap cut templates, YouTube's also adding a remix ability with the use template button, 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:35.440 which will let you participate in that most storied of human traditions. 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:41.120 Doing it for the meme. There's also a new trends page for shorts, and later, the shorts feed itself 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:45.520 will show previews of comments before you even click through to the video. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:50.240 Which comments? Oh, the worst ones, obviously. YouTube's obviously hoping the new features 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.560 will help it compete with TikTok, and it's already beating it in at least one way, 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:00.400 the new YouTube feature that lets you temporarily hide shorts from your YouTube home feed altogether. 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.880 I wish I could do that on TikTok. I also wish I wouldn't be spied on by the Chinese government. 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:11.520 Meta has revealed Meta Movie Gen, its own photorealistic video generator capable of creating 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.920 16-second videos with a twist, or else I wouldn't be telling you about it. 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:20.240 Though it's not available to the public, Meta's demos showcase the ability to edit 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:26.480 existing videos using only text, as well as impressively realistic simulations of bad Halloween 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:32.400 costumes. But here's the twist. With a single photo, Movie Gen can make a video deepfake of 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:37.040 anyone DJing an impromptu set next to a cheetah. Only that scenario. 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.960 But is the cheetah dancing? No. Is it chest or cheetah? Maybe. I'm out. 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:48.400 I hate that guy. And even more impressively, to me, it can generate music and audio 00:04:48.400 --> 00:05:02.640 synced up to the action in the video. Meta says Movie Gen could usher in a new AI-enabled era for content creators. 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:08.560 As an example, they ask you to imagine sending your friends some fresh baked AI slop for their 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:14.560 birthday. That'll be kind of funny, the first time I made this for you. No, you didn't. 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:21.600 Not many people know this, but Quickbits is actually a nickname. It's short for 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.080 Quichard Bits Gerald. Now, you know, a man I killed in 1973. 00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:33.440 Microsoft has finally killed WordPad, the rich text editing word processor that debuted on Windows 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:39.520 95. Microsoft has added it to its list of removed features and functionality. It'll be gone from 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:45.040 all editions of Windows, starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, which started rolling out this week. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.400 We are witnessing the death of a legend, so pour one out, but not just any drink, 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:55.520 something classy. Something fit to celebrate the life of a program born in the 90s. 00:05:55.520 --> 00:06:03.200 An aged can of surge. A few days ago, Amazon's Ring sent an email out to Protect Plus subscribers, 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:08.400 reminding them that they would be migrated to the Protect Pro Plan next year, 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:14.400 doubling their subscription fee. That reminder comes with heavy air quotes because the Verge 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:20.240 tracked down when Ring sent its original notification, which turned out to be a tiny fine print 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:26.880 footnote in a September 2021 email with the subject line, important, your plan name has changed. 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:33.120 The email said, quote, don't worry, everything else is staying the same. Ring sent a similar email 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:39.120 to Canadian Ring Home standard subscribers this week with a heading, new name, new features, 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.320 same great price. The email then informs users that their subscription will no longer include 00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:49.760 alarm professional monitoring and SOS emergency response, because now calling the cops costs 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:54.720 extra. Do you think calls to the police grow on trees? Someone's gotta pay him. The government, 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:00.960 who? Google is testing the use of blue checkmarks as a way to protect users from fraudulent links 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:06.880 in search results. Hovering over the checkmark explains that Google is pretty sure the business 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:11.680 is who they say they are. An example of this, also from the Verge, depicts a notice that says 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:16.720 Google can't guarantee the reliability of this business or its products. But to be fair, 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:25.360 the business in question was Apple. Fruits! What's the symbol? I needed the symbol. 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:32.160 Oh, that's a new rim shot. Badoom fruits! Speaking of unreliable products, Google 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:38.160 Search's AI overview feature will now be getting ads that are relevant to your question. Finally, 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:42.160 Gem and I won't just tell you to eat rocks, but also recommend the tastiest ones. 00:07:45.200 --> 00:07:51.120 Samsung issued a faulty software update two days ago that bricked many older Galaxy smartphones 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:55.840 globally. Even worse, the issue seemed to have been caused by an update to Samsung's 00:07:55.840 --> 00:08:01.840 SmartThings Framework app, an automatically installed app for controlling compatible smart devices. 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:07.520 I feel like users still rocking Galaxy phones from 2019 aren't splurging on a smart fridge. 00:08:07.520 --> 00:08:11.920 We're not sure whether this was necessary. They're buying sensible things, like basically 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:18.960 anything else you can buy. Cabbage. Would you put in a dump? But the smart fridge enthusiasts 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:24.960 watching this video may be excited to know that Apple fixed the update that was bricking M4 iPads. 00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:29.600 What a transition. I'm not saying only smart fridge owners own M4 iPads, 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:34.080 but I'm pretty sure they could afford one. I want a fridge I could watch TikTok on. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:40.080 And a court has dismissed a shareholders lawsuit against Tesla over Elon Musk's exaggerated 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.560 claims about its full self-driving feature. Of course, the case wasn't dismissed because 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:49.440 those claims were true, but rather because, according to Tesla's own lawyers, the statements 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:57.280 were nothing more than corporate puffery, aka bulls***, that no reasonable investor would have 00:08:57.280 --> 00:09:03.600 taken seriously. I mean, come on guys, we're all just just locker room talk. But Elon had less 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:10.560 success in Australia, where a court upheld a $418,000 fine against Twitter, which the corporation 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:16.320 formerly known as Twitter fought on the grounds that, following its merger with X-Core, Twitter 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:22.880 no longer exists. Twitter? Who's that? Twitter, I never even met her. Twitter, I never even met her. 00:09:23.520 --> 00:09:28.240 Look, Elon, just because somebody gets married and changes their name, doesn't mean they no 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:32.800 longer exist. And it definitely doesn't mean they don't owe me money. Like how you owe it to 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:38.800 yourself to come back on Monday for more tech news. You also owe it to me. Like a little bit. I mean, 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.840 I gave up a crown for you. I was bossing people around. It was great. 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.720 A few assassination attempts. I was executing pizzas.