WEBVTT 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 00:00:05.720 --> 00:00:09.160 as an immaterial abstract idea, it has a massive zero. 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:12.200 As a result, I am pathologically gullible. 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:17.620 Valve just updated their branding guidelines for the first time since 2017, adding a section 00:00:17.620 --> 00:00:23.840 for devices powered by SteamOS, which either means Valve is making SteamOS available to 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:29.600 third-party manufacturers to power handhelds that aren't the Steam Deck, or Gabe Newell 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.240 was just using this PDF as his dream journal. Wow, wouldn't that be cool? 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:38.040 You can literally just do that. Fingers crossed. 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 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:50.240 go at that whole Steam Machines concept from a decade ago. 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:56.320 That series of console-like gaming PCs running SteamOS and bundled with a Steam controller 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:01.880 didn't make much sense before Proton changed the Linux gaming game. 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 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:12.000 with neck issues, so I agree with Valve. It's time to steam up these machines. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:17.360 The next step after that is obviously a public release, so anyone can install SteamOS on 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:23.000 any PC. This is something Valve representatives have said is indeed their plan, once they have 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:27.200 a proper build of SteamOS 3 ready to deploy. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:33.160 You can actually still download SteamOS 2 from the Steam Machines era, as well as the 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:38.360 current SteamOS recovery image for the Steam Deck and try to install those on something 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. 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 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 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 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:14.240 10 times the price of ChatGPT Plus, which, going by OpenAI's own benchmarks, seems a 00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:20.480 little overpriced, given the much less than 10 times performance bump 01 Pro has over 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:25.800 vanilla 01. The real selling point for the Pro tier, though, is reliability. 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:31.640 OpenAI says it thinks longer to produce reliably accurate and comprehensive responses, which 00:02:31.640 --> 00:02:37.000 may be attractive to researchers, engineers, and anyone nostalgic for a time when every 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:42.480 product didn't come along with a little homunculus inside constantly tripping on shrooms but insisting 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 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, 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 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:09.520 to deactivate its own oversight mechanisms to prevent its own shutdown. 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 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 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 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 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:36.720 businesses train more helpful assistance, but I think everyone's just wondering whether 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:44.200 Sora's coming shh shh tweeted Sam Altman, which little rude, but okay. 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 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:57.760 to Huggingface and GitHub to prove they're about open source, while Runway demoed a prototype 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:03.200 tool called Graph, which will let you storyboard moments in one long AI generated video, which 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:06.600 frankly would make video generators way more useful. 00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:13.360 Even Humane, makers of the disastrous $700 AI pin, shuffled in to ask whether anyone's 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:19.520 interested in please putting their AI operating system into something else. 00:04:19.520 --> 00:04:25.760 It sucked in the other thing, but like smart speaker, a car, waffle iron? 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 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:34.560 if you touch them, they immediately call the police and frankly, I respect that. 00:04:34.640 --> 00:04:41.560 NZXT CEO Johnny Ho has responded to criticism of his company's Flex subscription program 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 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:52.840 price increase and will never experience one, unless they switch subscription tiers. 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 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 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 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. 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 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.880 SSD upgrades for the Mac Studio, aka the one with the forehead. 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:36.840 Like fellow repair shop owner and YouTuber iBof, PolySoft also plans on developing SSD 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:42.040 upgrades for other Apple Silicon Macs, but for now, they're offering an 8TB storage 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. 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 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:00.200 It's not finished until it touches my lips! 00:06:00.200 --> 00:06:07.080 Lumafield, maker of X-ray CT scanners, have shared scans showing just how much extra stuff 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:14.440 bad actors could be hiding in unfamiliar USB-C cables, including antennae, microprocessors, 00:06:14.440 --> 00:06:18.120 maybe even little AI guys tripping on shrooms, it wouldn't surprise me. 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:24.600 Lumafield's John Bruner compared scans of normal cables to the O.MG cable, a specialized 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:29.480 product created by security researcher Mike Grover, who was even able to fit a hidden 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:35.320 extra processor die on top of the microprocessor that's very difficult to detect. 00:06:35.320 --> 00:06:40.760 And who knows what it's processing? All of your grandma's passwords, probably. 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 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:54.280 The drone is called Raven for robotic avian-inspired vehicle for multiple 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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.