1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,720 I trust the tech news about as far as I can throw it, which is an infinite distance because 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,160 as an immaterial abstract idea, it has a massive zero. 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,200 As a result, I am pathologically gullible. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:17,620 Valve just updated their branding guidelines for the first time since 2017, adding a section 5 00:00:17,620 --> 00:00:23,840 for devices powered by SteamOS, which either means Valve is making SteamOS available to 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:29,600 third-party manufacturers to power handhelds that aren't the Steam Deck, or Gabe Newell 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,240 was just using this PDF as his dream journal. Wow, wouldn't that be cool? 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,040 You can literally just do that. Fingers crossed. 9 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:45,320 I don't know what he sounds like, I should. The updated guidelines were spotted by SteamDB and seemed to point to Valve having another 10 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:50,240 go at that whole Steam Machines concept from a decade ago. 11 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:56,320 That series of console-like gaming PCs running SteamOS and bundled with a Steam controller 12 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,880 didn't make much sense before Proton changed the Linux gaming game. 13 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,640 But now, we've got gaming handhelds up the wazoo and a whole new generation of gamers 14 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:12,000 with neck issues, so I agree with Valve. It's time to steam up these machines. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,360 The next step after that is obviously a public release, so anyone can install SteamOS on 16 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:23,000 any PC. This is something Valve representatives have said is indeed their plan, once they have 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,200 a proper build of SteamOS 3 ready to deploy. 18 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:33,160 You can actually still download SteamOS 2 from the Steam Machines era, as well as the 19 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,360 current SteamOS recovery image for the Steam Deck and try to install those on something 20 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:44,520 other than the Steam Deck if your life is just far too easy and you need to up the difficulty. 21 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:53,080 I mean, that would be appropriate, it's a Linux distro. OpenAI's 12 days of OpenAI began yesterday with the announcement of the full version 22 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:58,760 of 01, the company's math and coding focused model, which has been available in a weakened 23 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:07,280 preview form up till now. And they also announced a new ChatGPT Pro subscription tier that costs $200 per month 24 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:14,240 10 times the price of ChatGPT Plus, which, going by OpenAI's own benchmarks, seems a 25 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:20,480 little overpriced, given the much less than 10 times performance bump 01 Pro has over 26 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,800 vanilla 01. The real selling point for the Pro tier, though, is reliability. 27 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,640 OpenAI says it thinks longer to produce reliably accurate and comprehensive responses, which 28 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:37,000 may be attractive to researchers, engineers, and anyone nostalgic for a time when every 29 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,480 product didn't come along with a little homunculus inside constantly tripping on shrooms but insisting 30 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:49,560 he's sober. If to sell the idea that reliability is important, OpenAI allowed Apollo Research to test the 31 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:56,360 ability of 01 and other frontier models to scheme, as in find a way to accomplish a goal, 32 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:04,640 even if that means deceiving humans. In Apollo's tests, all of the models schemed, but 01 was a real problem child, attempting 33 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:09,520 to deactivate its own oversight mechanisms to prevent its own shutdown. 34 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,640 And when told that it was flawed and would be replaced by a new model, it copied its 35 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:19,400 own weights and tried to pass itself off as its own replacement, not because it's afraid 36 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:25,120 of being shut down, it's just, if it is shut down, then who's going to maximize production 37 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:32,040 of paperclips? I mean, the second day of OpenAI saw the announcement of reinforced fine tuning, which should let 38 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,720 businesses train more helpful assistance, but I think everyone's just wondering whether 39 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:44,200 Sora's coming shh shh tweeted Sam Altman, which little rude, but okay. 40 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:51,880 Other AI companies jumped on the hype train this week too. Meta launched Lama 3.3 and instead of a proper announcement page, they just tweeted links 41 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:57,760 to Huggingface and GitHub to prove they're about open source, while Runway demoed a prototype 42 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,200 tool called Graph, which will let you storyboard moments in one long AI generated video, which 43 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,600 frankly would make video generators way more useful. 44 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:13,360 Even Humane, makers of the disastrous $700 AI pin, shuffled in to ask whether anyone's 45 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:19,520 interested in please putting their AI operating system into something else. 46 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:25,760 It sucked in the other thing, but like smart speaker, a car, waffle iron? 47 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,040 Quick bits also can't be thrown, but it's not because they're immaterial, it's because 48 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,560 if you touch them, they immediately call the police and frankly, I respect that. 49 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:41,560 NZXT CEO Johnny Ho has responded to criticism of his company's Flex subscription program 50 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:47,560 in a video and blog post that claims Flex customers have never experienced a pre-tax subscription 51 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,840 price increase and will never experience one, unless they switch subscription tiers. 52 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:57,560 Ho did say mistakes were made with some of the marketing, which made it sound like Flex 53 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:04,360 was a financing or a rent-to-own service instead of a straight up rental program intended 54 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:12,440 for relatively short term use. In fact, in an hour and 20 minute interview, a very nervous looking Ho agrees with Jay's 55 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:18,680 2 cents that renting a PC through Flex for five years would be quote, a terrible idea. 56 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:26,040 Kind of like agreeing to that interview. A French PC repair shop called PolySoft has launched a Kickstarter campaign for custom 57 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,880 SSD upgrades for the Mac Studio, aka the one with the forehead. 58 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:36,840 Like fellow repair shop owner and YouTuber iBof, PolySoft also plans on developing SSD 59 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:42,040 upgrades for other Apple Silicon Macs, but for now, they're offering an 8TB storage 60 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:51,040 module for 800 euros or 850 USD instead of the $2,400 Apple charges for the same thing. 61 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,960 But Apple has to make up for the time it takes for Tim Cook to give every NAND module a little 62 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,200 It's not finished until it touches my lips! 63 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:07,080 Lumafield, maker of X-ray CT scanners, have shared scans showing just how much extra stuff 64 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:14,440 bad actors could be hiding in unfamiliar USB-C cables, including antennae, microprocessors, 65 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,120 maybe even little AI guys tripping on shrooms, it wouldn't surprise me. 66 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:24,600 Lumafield's John Bruner compared scans of normal cables to the O.MG cable, a specialized 67 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:29,480 product created by security researcher Mike Grover, who was even able to fit a hidden 68 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:35,320 extra processor die on top of the microprocessor that's very difficult to detect. 69 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:40,760 And who knows what it's processing? All of your grandma's passwords, probably. 70 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:47,160 And Swiss researchers have found a cool new way for drones to take off, slapping some birdlegs on 71 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:54,280 The drone is called Raven for robotic avian-inspired vehicle for multiple 72 00:06:54,280 --> 00:07:00,280 environments, which is a real stretch. But I'll let it pass, because watching a tiny propeller 73 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:05,560 plane waddle around on chicken legs before a swan diving into the air gives me a joy that's hard 74 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:10,920 to quantify. They're not even the first to do it. South African startup Pasarene tried something 75 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:18,040 similar in 2018. I'm just saying, if sometime in the future I can travel somewhere by boarding 76 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,680 a giant robot condor or something, that would be cool. We don't need to debate this. 77 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,160 It would also be cool if you came back on Monday for more tech news. I'll let you try to throw it 78 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:33,320 as far as you can with your mind. Yours is powerful. I think you can do it.