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You know, we don't have to do this. Give you the tech news.

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You know, like we're choosing to do this. I could stop any time.

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Shut up, you're not my dad. YouTube has quietly added the ability

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to request a takedown of AI generated or other synthetic content that looks

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or even sounds like you, which means I can finally do something about this video.

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Oh, you're in big trouble, wise guy.

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This differs from YouTube's approach to deep fakes,

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which accounts as misleading information and can be reported by anybody.

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Requesting takedowns of synthetic impersonation can only be done by the affected individual

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or their guardian is subject to a number of criteria

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and isn't guaranteed to result in an actual takedown.

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Just like all those times I attacked my older brother after learning about the leg sweep,

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success rate zero, I'm bigger than my older brother.

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One thing that will factor into YouTube's decision is whether the creator has marked their video

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as containing AI generated content, something it started requiring creators

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and advertisers to do last year. In another surprisingly useful new feature,

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the platform has begun a broader rollout of an AI powered erase song feature previously available

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in beta that will allow creators to remove songs

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from a video that has a copyright claim on it, while keeping other audio like dialogue

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or sound effects intact. This will let YouTube partners keep the video up

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and continue making ad revenue. If you're not in the partner program

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and your video has over 100,000 views, according to YouTube support page,

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you may not be able to save changes. They'll let you try though, you know.

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It's fun for YouTube to play with you regular people.

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As the generative AI hype bubble continues to stretch,

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more scrutiny is being leveled at prominent AI companies.

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This week, developer Pedro Jose Pereira discovered

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that the macOS chat GPT app stored all of its conversations in plain text

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in an easily accessible location. This snapped open AI out of staring at the window,

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dreaming about omniscient AI waifus long enough to spit out an update that encrypted the conversations.

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But then the New York Times reported on an undisclosed breach from April, 2023,

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in which a hacker stole sensitive info from open AI's internal employee forum,

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because like why worry about cybersecurity when AI is gonna add us all to the world coin blockchain

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in a couple years. Concern is also growing about the web scrapers

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used to gather AI training data, which have been worming their way

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around existing tools meant to block them. Cloudflare just released a new free one-click tool

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that promises to block all AI bots, and Glaze, a tool that poisons artists' images

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so they can't be properly trained on by AI models, is exploding in popularity.

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Yep, the arms race is on. In a blog post detailing the most scraped websites of 2024,

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data scraping company Smart Proxy advertises advanced APIs to scrape data

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even from the most protected online targets,

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AKA real human beings trying to bring something other

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than cursed AI slop into our world.

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That's actually our painting now, fun fact.

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In an ironic twist, a new research paper detailing the myriad ways in which generative AI tools

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have only just begun to, quote, distort collective understanding

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of sociopolitical reality or scientific consensus,

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was written by researchers at Google who just wanna find the guy responsible for all this.

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Look, we're all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanket.

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Apple has approved the Epic Games Store as an alternative app marketplace on iOS and iPadOS

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in the EU after Epic Games complained,

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both on Twitter and directly to the European Commission,

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about Apple rejecting their submission twice.

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These two companies, man, they're like kids in a preschool.

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Tim Cook's trying to build his perfect iPhone out of wooden blocks and Tim Sweeney always crashes in

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like, teacher, teacher, I wanna put my blocks there.

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Build your own iPhone, you quarrelless rodent.

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Apple was rejecting Epic submissions over some of their buttons looking too similar

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to Apple's buttons, which is an actual restriction

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as listed in an Apple document entitled Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU.

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Alternative app marketplaces and their apps must not infringe Apple's intellectual property

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or appear confusingly similar to the App Store or an Apple Product Service Interface

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computer software application or advertising theme. Yet, Apple eventually gave in, making me wonder

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how many other roadblocks I could make disappear by snitching to Europe.

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Sure, you can write me a speeding ticket officer but Europe is gonna hear about this

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and Europe is not gonna be happy. So I'm gonna do the quick bits now.

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Is that, I want to do them.

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Twilio, the parent company of two-factor authentication app, Authy, has confirmed

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that they suffered a data breach following the leak of 33 million phone numbers.

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Twilio states that it hasn't found evidence that the hackers were able to access its systems

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or any sensitive information like Colonel Sanders, 11 secret herbs and spices,

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or how Lee Harvey Oswald faked the moon landing.

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Info they have, apparently. Don't think you're safe though

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because Cyber News researchers have also discovered an unrelated compilation of nearly 10 billion

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unique passwords leaked on a popular hacking forum by a user called Obamacare.

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Why would the Affordable Care Act do such a thing? Thanks, Obama.

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Ransomware group BrainCypher has apologized

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to the citizens of Indonesia after hacking the country's temporary national data center

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and encrypting several thousand terabytes of information.

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After the attack massively disrupted public services, it was discovered that the affected government agencies

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didn't have mandatory backup policies. Nevertheless, the government didn't pay

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the $8 million ransom BrainCypher was asking for

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so the group released the encryption key of their own accord.

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Though they did ask the citizens for donations.

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They can't afford to hack for free. I mean, in this economy? Toyota is on an audacious mission

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to normalize hydrogen-powered machines that don't blow up,

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including this, the world's first hydrogen-powered

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stone oven and a hydrogen-powered barbecue

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made in collaboration with Japanese appliance company, Rinnai.

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I don't know if this guy is smiling because the oven's so great at cooking pizza

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or if that's just what he does when he's anxiously thinking about causing another Hindenburg Italian style.

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Does car-making expertise apply to hydrogen-stone ovens?

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Toyota asks, I certainly hope so. This isn't even Toyota's first go at merging cars and pizza.

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They put a pizza oven in a Tundra pickup truck in 2018

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and in the back of a Lexus GX earlier this year. And why stop there?

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I say we put this new oven in a blimp. We've learned so much since then.

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It turns out that F1 cars have IP addresses

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and you can use that IP to make their engines explode.

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XF1 senior systems engineer and apparent Twitter enthusiast,

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Dan, engine mode 11, explained that the danger of remote engine explosion

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apparently isn't from external manufacturers, but from the internal electronics team itself.

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Dan didn't say explicitly, but he strongly implies that one team accidentally flashed

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the electronic control unit, the thing that controls the electrical systems in the car

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while the vehicle was running, causing some amount of kaboom.

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Yet not a single action movie I can think of, not a single one has blown up a car by hacking it.

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And Amazon has decided to discontinue its Astro for Business security robot

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to instead focus on home robotics products such as its Astro household robot, very different.

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That's where the money is. Everyone is buying robots for their homes these days.

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Any businesses that purchased the security robot will receive a refund plus a $300 credit

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to their Amazon accounts to help support a replacement solution because the best security guards

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prefer to be paid in Amazon gift cards.

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You'd think customers could just convert the business Astro into a home version,

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but no, he's seen too much. He got kicked by one too many hoodlums,

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trying to break into the warehouse. But between you and me, you should come back on Monday for more tech news.

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I mean, it's educational. And well, I'd just like to keep sharing tech news.

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So please support my passion. Okay, thanks, someone else wrote that.

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But it's true.