WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.920 You know, we don't have to do this. Give you the tech news. 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:08.800 You know, like we're choosing to do this. I could stop any time. 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.400 Shut up, you're not my dad. YouTube has quietly added the ability 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:17.200 to request a takedown of AI generated or other synthetic content that looks 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:22.400 or even sounds like you, which means I can finally do something about this video. 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:25.560 Oh, you're in big trouble, wise guy. 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:28.560 This differs from YouTube's approach to deep fakes, 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:32.840 which accounts as misleading information and can be reported by anybody. 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:37.800 Requesting takedowns of synthetic impersonation can only be done by the affected individual 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:41.080 or their guardian is subject to a number of criteria 00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:44.960 and isn't guaranteed to result in an actual takedown. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.400 Just like all those times I attacked my older brother after learning about the leg sweep, 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:52.920 success rate zero, I'm bigger than my older brother. 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.520 One thing that will factor into YouTube's decision is whether the creator has marked their video 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.800 as containing AI generated content, something it started requiring creators 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:06.560 and advertisers to do last year. In another surprisingly useful new feature, 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:12.920 the platform has begun a broader rollout of an AI powered erase song feature previously available 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:16.000 in beta that will allow creators to remove songs 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.840 from a video that has a copyright claim on it, while keeping other audio like dialogue 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:25.440 or sound effects intact. This will let YouTube partners keep the video up 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:29.600 and continue making ad revenue. If you're not in the partner program 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:34.000 and your video has over 100,000 views, according to YouTube support page, 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.080 you may not be able to save changes. They'll let you try though, you know. 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:43.600 It's fun for YouTube to play with you regular people. 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:47.560 As the generative AI hype bubble continues to stretch, 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.120 more scrutiny is being leveled at prominent AI companies. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.160 This week, developer Pedro Jose Pereira discovered 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:59.840 that the macOS chat GPT app stored all of its conversations in plain text 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:05.040 in an easily accessible location. This snapped open AI out of staring at the window, 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:11.480 dreaming about omniscient AI waifus long enough to spit out an update that encrypted the conversations. 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:17.080 But then the New York Times reported on an undisclosed breach from April, 2023, 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:21.880 in which a hacker stole sensitive info from open AI's internal employee forum, 00:02:21.880 --> 00:02:26.800 because like why worry about cybersecurity when AI is gonna add us all to the world coin blockchain 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.080 in a couple years. Concern is also growing about the web scrapers 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.760 used to gather AI training data, which have been worming their way 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:40.880 around existing tools meant to block them. Cloudflare just released a new free one-click tool 00:02:40.880 --> 00:02:47.360 that promises to block all AI bots, and Glaze, a tool that poisons artists' images 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.560 so they can't be properly trained on by AI models, is exploding in popularity. 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:58.880 Yep, the arms race is on. In a blog post detailing the most scraped websites of 2024, 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:05.060 data scraping company Smart Proxy advertises advanced APIs to scrape data 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:08.120 even from the most protected online targets, 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:12.240 AKA real human beings trying to bring something other 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.440 than cursed AI slop into our world. 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:18.520 That's actually our painting now, fun fact. 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:24.080 In an ironic twist, a new research paper detailing the myriad ways in which generative AI tools 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.480 have only just begun to, quote, distort collective understanding 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:30.680 of sociopolitical reality or scientific consensus, 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:36.560 was written by researchers at Google who just wanna find the guy responsible for all this. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.560 Look, we're all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanket. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.520 Apple has approved the Epic Games Store as an alternative app marketplace on iOS and iPadOS 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.560 in the EU after Epic Games complained, 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.640 both on Twitter and directly to the European Commission, 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:56.320 about Apple rejecting their submission twice. 00:03:56.320 --> 00:03:59.440 These two companies, man, they're like kids in a preschool. 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:04.320 Tim Cook's trying to build his perfect iPhone out of wooden blocks and Tim Sweeney always crashes in 00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:07.800 like, teacher, teacher, I wanna put my blocks there. 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:11.720 Build your own iPhone, you quarrelless rodent. 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:16.760 Apple was rejecting Epic submissions over some of their buttons looking too similar 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:19.840 to Apple's buttons, which is an actual restriction 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:25.120 as listed in an Apple document entitled Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.960 Alternative app marketplaces and their apps must not infringe Apple's intellectual property 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:34.320 or appear confusingly similar to the App Store or an Apple Product Service Interface 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:40.280 computer software application or advertising theme. Yet, Apple eventually gave in, making me wonder 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:44.520 how many other roadblocks I could make disappear by snitching to Europe. 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:49.360 Sure, you can write me a speeding ticket officer but Europe is gonna hear about this 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:55.560 and Europe is not gonna be happy. So I'm gonna do the quick bits now. 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:59.640 Is that, I want to do them. 00:04:59.640 --> 00:05:04.720 Twilio, the parent company of two-factor authentication app, Authy, has confirmed 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.840 that they suffered a data breach following the leak of 33 million phone numbers. 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:14.720 Twilio states that it hasn't found evidence that the hackers were able to access its systems 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.560 or any sensitive information like Colonel Sanders, 11 secret herbs and spices, 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.880 or how Lee Harvey Oswald faked the moon landing. 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:26.120 Info they have, apparently. Don't think you're safe though 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:32.040 because Cyber News researchers have also discovered an unrelated compilation of nearly 10 billion 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:37.760 unique passwords leaked on a popular hacking forum by a user called Obamacare. 00:05:37.760 --> 00:05:41.880 Why would the Affordable Care Act do such a thing? Thanks, Obama. 00:05:41.880 --> 00:05:45.640 Ransomware group BrainCypher has apologized 00:05:45.640 --> 00:05:51.160 to the citizens of Indonesia after hacking the country's temporary national data center 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.840 and encrypting several thousand terabytes of information. 00:05:54.840 --> 00:06:00.480 After the attack massively disrupted public services, it was discovered that the affected government agencies 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.160 didn't have mandatory backup policies. Nevertheless, the government didn't pay 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.860 the $8 million ransom BrainCypher was asking for 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:12.880 so the group released the encryption key of their own accord. 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:16.560 Though they did ask the citizens for donations. 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:21.720 They can't afford to hack for free. I mean, in this economy? Toyota is on an audacious mission 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.720 to normalize hydrogen-powered machines that don't blow up, 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:29.040 including this, the world's first hydrogen-powered 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:32.760 stone oven and a hydrogen-powered barbecue 00:06:32.760 --> 00:06:36.800 made in collaboration with Japanese appliance company, Rinnai. 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.980 I don't know if this guy is smiling because the oven's so great at cooking pizza 00:06:39.980 --> 00:06:45.100 or if that's just what he does when he's anxiously thinking about causing another Hindenburg Italian style. 00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:48.940 Does car-making expertise apply to hydrogen-stone ovens? 00:06:48.940 --> 00:06:55.600 Toyota asks, I certainly hope so. This isn't even Toyota's first go at merging cars and pizza. 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.860 They put a pizza oven in a Tundra pickup truck in 2018 00:06:58.860 --> 00:07:02.940 and in the back of a Lexus GX earlier this year. And why stop there? 00:07:02.940 --> 00:07:06.700 I say we put this new oven in a blimp. We've learned so much since then. 00:07:06.700 --> 00:07:10.180 It turns out that F1 cars have IP addresses 00:07:10.180 --> 00:07:13.980 and you can use that IP to make their engines explode. 00:07:13.980 --> 00:07:18.420 XF1 senior systems engineer and apparent Twitter enthusiast, 00:07:18.420 --> 00:07:23.420 Dan, engine mode 11, explained that the danger of remote engine explosion 00:07:23.420 --> 00:07:29.900 apparently isn't from external manufacturers, but from the internal electronics team itself. 00:07:29.900 --> 00:07:35.900 Dan didn't say explicitly, but he strongly implies that one team accidentally flashed 00:07:36.060 --> 00:07:39.940 the electronic control unit, the thing that controls the electrical systems in the car 00:07:39.940 --> 00:07:43.900 while the vehicle was running, causing some amount of kaboom. 00:07:43.900 --> 00:07:50.740 Yet not a single action movie I can think of, not a single one has blown up a car by hacking it. 00:07:50.740 --> 00:07:55.820 And Amazon has decided to discontinue its Astro for Business security robot 00:07:55.820 --> 00:08:02.740 to instead focus on home robotics products such as its Astro household robot, very different. 00:08:02.740 --> 00:08:06.360 That's where the money is. Everyone is buying robots for their homes these days. 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:11.600 Any businesses that purchased the security robot will receive a refund plus a $300 credit 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:16.520 to their Amazon accounts to help support a replacement solution because the best security guards 00:08:16.520 --> 00:08:19.600 prefer to be paid in Amazon gift cards. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:25.060 You'd think customers could just convert the business Astro into a home version, 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:30.480 but no, he's seen too much. He got kicked by one too many hoodlums, 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.920 trying to break into the warehouse. But between you and me, you should come back on Monday for more tech news. 00:08:34.920 --> 00:08:39.520 I mean, it's educational. And well, I'd just like to keep sharing tech news. 00:08:39.520 --> 00:08:43.840 So please support my passion. Okay, thanks, someone else wrote that. 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:44.840 But it's true.