WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 Good news! I have undergone an experimental operation to infuse tech news throughout my 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:12.320 entire body. Bad news, my kidneys are now proprietary. Dark clouds appeared on the horizon for 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:17.280 apps that allow ad-free viewing as YouTube published a memo indicating that they would 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.560 be upping enforcement against third-party apps that violate YouTube's terms of service. 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:26.000 And if that wasn't clear enough, the next thing they say is specifically they're talking about 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:30.800 ad blocking apps, okay? I'm sorry. It's not clear whether YouTube will be completely blocking 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:35.680 offending apps from using their API, but the company warned that these apps' users 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:41.360 might experience service issues like buffering, error messages, and videos failing to load. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:46.400 Of course, these third-party clients could simply comply with YouTube's terms of service and turn 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:52.640 on ads, but I think we all know that ad blocking and free access to premium features is a significant 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.200 part of the appeal for some of them. For others, it's just the culture. In their memo, 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:02.080 YouTube emphasized the importance of ads in supporting creators and their content, 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:08.640 which is an argument that I find at least somewhat persuasive, both as a creator and a big fan of 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.800 living indoors, at least somewhere where the owner of the building knows that I'm there. 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:17.840 The Chrome Store, however, doesn't seem to have got the memo, seeing as it still offers 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.240 several ad blocking third-party YouTube apps. That's entrapment, Google. 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:33.840 After over a decade, Boston Dynamics will be retiring its iconic, yet terrifying, human robot 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.960 human robot. It was a human in there the whole time. Humanoid robot Atlas, and replacing it with 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:44.240 an even scarier humanoid robot, also called Atlas. That's all for today. See you later. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:50.800 The primary difference between the two models is that the OG Atlas used hydraulics while the 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:57.760 new Atlas is fully electric, has a fully rotating torso, limbs, and head, and moves like it's been 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:03.520 demotically possessed. That's a feature. Don't worry, they haven't added the firmware to make any babies yet. 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:07.120 Nothing gets me excited for the robot future like abject terror. 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:08.560 Why did they introduce it like that? 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:22.640 Over the course of its development, Atlas has gone from barely being able to balance, 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:27.760 pathetic, to performing ambitious feats of athleticism. But we've yet to see popular 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:32.640 adoption of these kinds of humanoid robots, primarily because this one wasn't for sale. 00:02:33.600 --> 00:02:38.160 Tech companies clearly think we're on the verge of a tipping point. Given the amount of investment 00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:43.600 there's been in new Android concepts from companies like Figure and Aptronic, even though 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:48.400 neither of them can spin their head like the chick from The Exorcist. This one can, though. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:56.640 The United Kingdom has passed a new law criminalizing the creation of sexually explicit deep fakes 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:02.080 without consent, in what appears to be a legal first. Offenders prosecuted under the law would 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:07.520 most likely face a criminal conviction and a fine with jail time as a possibility if the 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:13.280 offender also shares or distributes this now illegal material. Aspiring adult filmmakers 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:18.000 will still have the option of creating filth featuring consenting people, fake people, 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:23.360 and, of course, popular serial mascots. I mean, those options are great. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:32.080 Oh man. Non-consensual deep fake pornography has been a problem for years, but the proliferation 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:37.280 of deep fakes as AI technology becomes more and more sophisticated has apparently brought the 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.480 issue to the forefront of the legislative agenda. UK officials are also apparently in the early 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:49.040 stages of drafting legislation to more closely regulate AI in general. But I bet we could speed 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:53.760 up the process significantly by sending our legislators AI-generated photos of themselves 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:59.200 robbing banks. Seem important now? I weep for the AI future, but I also weep for the future where 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:04.400 people see that and think it's real. All of our parliamentarians? The agriculture minister! 00:04:06.160 --> 00:04:14.000 Quick bits, eh? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. 24 hours at least. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.000 America's Federal Communications Commission is a week away from voting on rules enforcing net 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.200 neutrality, the idea that internet service providers should have a neutral stance towards 00:04:25.200 --> 00:04:30.000 all network traffic treating it all equally. But critics say that while the proposed rules 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:36.560 forbid ISPs from slowing down certain types of traffic, speeding up some traffic, say gaming 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:42.640 or streaming video, by putting it in fast lanes would be allowed thanks to a feature of 5G networks 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:48.240 called network slicing. All internet traffic would still be equal. Some would just be more 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:54.080 equal than others. The US has had net neutrality rules before. They were first adopted in 2015 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:59.280 before being unadopted in 2018. I'm assuming because the FCC found out the child they'd 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:05.120 welcomed into their home was actually Satan's baby. Altstore Pal, the first consumer-focused 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:11.200 third-party app marketplace for iOS, has launched in the European Union, opening up a new avenue 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:17.680 for iPhone users to discover countless new apps. It's nice. Right now, Altstore has two apps. 00:05:17.760 --> 00:05:23.680 Oh, that's not countless at all. There's Delta, a rare Nintendo console emulator, and Clip, 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:30.240 a Clipboard Manager, both developed by the same guy that made Altstore, Riley Testit. It is a name. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.720 With the EU investigating whether Apple's new rules are kosher or not, 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.760 Apple's alternative app store rules may change further, but should be fine. Riley's just 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:41.920 testing it out. It's a different last name than mine. 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:50.320 TSMC has reportedly shared 200,000 kilowatt hours of energy from its backup power generators, 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:55.680 with the rest of the Taiwanese power grid to help prevent power outages. Taiwan, of course, 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.720 suffered a massive earthquake only two weeks ago, which caused eight of the country's major power 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:06.880 generators to fail. TSMC, a critical part of the global semiconductor supply chain, 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:11.840 only paused work for a day to allow for safety inspections, in part because the company has 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:18.160 prioritized earthquake preparedness ever since Taiwan's last major quake in 1999. They're 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:24.720 so prepared that their buildings offer earthquake protection 25% above the legally mandated standard. 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:29.440 Honestly, if the bombs ever do drop, the post-apocalyptic wasteland is getting repopulated 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:35.600 by TSMC workers who just happen to be on shift. NASA is going to send a giant nuclear-powered 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:41.280 robot dragonfly to Saturn's largest moon. Just regular science things. It sounds like a plan 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:49.760 someone came up with while they were high. The rotorcraft is planned to be launched in 2028, 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:57.760 though it won't reach Saturn's moon Titan until 2034, because Titan is, I'm told, very far away. 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:02.960 It's also rich in organic molecules, which is why NASA is launching this mission in the first place. 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:09.280 The complex chemistry of this moon, reminiscent of pre-life Earth, could give scientists insight 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:13.840 into the origin of life in the solar system. Its secondary objective is to make me feel 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:17.360 way less cool about what I do for work. And I don't appreciate it. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.840 I would love to fly a robot dragonfly, no one asks me. 00:07:21.840 --> 00:07:29.040 And a startup called Ozzit announced Paintcam Eve, an AI-powered security camera that can fire 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:35.840 paintballs containing either UV paint or tear gas at intruders. And you thought the last story 00:07:35.840 --> 00:07:41.920 started with a wild sentence. The UV paint is meant to allow police to identify intruders after the 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:48.320 fact while the tear gas is literally tear gas. I mean, it's self-explanatory. It makes them think 00:07:48.320 --> 00:07:53.520 of sad things. There are several models available, with the higher-end versions unlocking the ability 00:07:53.520 --> 00:08:00.400 to recognize animals and human faces. Like all great ideas, Paintcam Eve will launch on Kickstarter. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:06.560 On April 23rd, you'll have the chance to actively advance the death of humanity by funding an AI 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:16.800 weaponization campaign. The next generation of neighbor-to-neighbor warfare. But you'll have 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:23.280 the chance on Friday to watch more tech news. Even better, there will be a 0% chance of tear gas. 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:26.080 I'm still figuring that out.