1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,960 I usually tell you the tech news in English, but this video is sponsored by Babbel who are giving 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:10,640 our audience 60% off their language learning subscriptions, so I might suddenly lapse into 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:16,560 Mandarin. We'll have to see. The European Commission has officially charged Apple with 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:22,000 non-compliance under the Digital Markets Act for preventing app store developers from 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,120 freely steering consumers to alternative channels. While Apple has recently allowed 6 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:32,000 in-app links to developer websites where users can buy stuff without giving Apple a cut, 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,600 devs still can't provide pricing information in the app, leaving it up to users to figure out 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:42,960 why that button is there. This button goes to our website. You've got a website. Great job. 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:51,920 Apple could be fined up to $30 billion for the violation, but EU regulation moves real slow. 10 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:57,600 Now Apple is supposed to examine the commission documents and reply in writing, 11 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:03,920 then the EU will make a final ruling by March 2025. The commission is also just now starting 12 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,800 another investigation into whether Apple's policies concerning third-party app stores 13 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:14,480 and their ridiculous core technology fee also violates the DMA because they just can't tell 14 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,200 you yet. I just don't, it could be fine. I mean, Apple's response statement says that they're 15 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,040 confident they are in compliance with the DMA. It's also confusing. Honestly, Apple seems a bit 16 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,440 confused as well. They just added the ability to format external drives to the iOS 18 beta, which 17 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:37,440 is cool, but it's not what the EU is asking for. Apple, do you understand this? They're like, 18 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,440 look, you can change your home screen icon color now. Is that good? What do you want? 19 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:47,280 The confusing launch of co-pilot plus Windows PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chips 20 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:53,920 continues. A lot of coverage really wants to position this as a revolutionary moment for PCs, 21 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,560 but performance and battery life tests still make the new laptops feel kind of like you're a 22 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,600 kindergarten teacher and a kid just handed you the best drawing of a horse in the whole class 23 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,280 that still mostly looks like a pile of unpeeled potatoes. Good job. But maybe it's not Qualcomm's 24 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,600 fault for misleading us. A fairly helpful video was posted by YouTuber Alex Ziskind on Saturday 25 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:22,960 looking at the Samsung Book 4 Edge with the flagship Snapdragon X Elite X1E84100, horrible names, 26 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:30,320 and two Surface Laptop 7s with the 8100 and the Snapdragon Plus 64100. Ziskind explains 27 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:36,160 how messed up Windows 11's power settings are. After fiddling around and finally enabling the 28 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:41,360 highest possible power profile, he witnessed a huge boost in performance compared to using 29 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:47,760 the balanced mode. He also noted a very small difference in performance between the Plus and 30 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:55,760 Elite chips. While emulation continues to be a sticking point for some, reviews continue to 31 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,640 trickle out as people actually get their hands on these machines. So hopefully I'll soon have 32 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:05,680 something to tell my tech illiterate friends and family when they inevitably ask about co-pilot plus 33 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:12,560 PCs other than do not date co-pilot. She will break your heart. There is at least one definite 34 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,480 win to award Microsoft's newest Surface devices, though. iFixit has given both the Surface Laptop 35 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:24,800 7 and Surface Pro 11 an 8 out of 10 for repairability after giving both of their original 36 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:31,280 incarnations a 0 and a 1, respectively. Just like a binary joke to make there, but not right now. 37 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,560 Unlike Samsung, which iFixit recently broke up with, Microsoft seems to have actually taken 38 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:42,640 repairability to heart, adding nice touches like a QR code visible as soon as you remove the bottom 39 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:47,600 plate that links to Microsoft's Surface manuals. Don't give Microsoft too many kudos though because 40 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,320 of anything their attitude about Windows 11's enthusiast friendliness seems to be getting 41 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:58,480 worse. They just removed instructions for how to sign in to a local account on Windows from a 42 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,200 support page while leaving up the instructions for how to convert a local account to a Microsoft 43 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,920 account. And the Windows 11 setup process reportedly no longer prompts you with a local 44 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,560 account sign in option either, even if you put in an email address that doesn't exist. 45 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,200 Thankfully, many workarounds still exist for using a local account and Microsoft won't 46 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,960 send killer robots to your house if you use them yet. They're co-pilot powered. She breaks hearts 47 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:29,920 and bones. Quick b****s. Why are you censoring that? Quick b****s. B****s. This is bull s***. 48 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:36,320 AMD's highly anticipated Strix Point laptop processors may be dwarfed by their big brother 49 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:43,200 lineup of Strix Halo APUs, according to a recently leaked shipping manifest. It lists boards with a 50 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:51,200 120 watt TDP and 128 gigabytes of RAM, which is a bit overkill. But another leak indicates that 51 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:58,240 Intel might be adapting an Aero Lake desktop processor into a laptop version with 24 threads. 52 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:03,920 That's right, this fall's hottest laptop trend is overkill. Three touchpads or I won't buy it. 53 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:09,680 Reports that Apple is currently in partnership talks with Meta are actually old news, according to 54 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:16,240 the Herald of Girmageddon, Mark Gurman. Apparently, Meta pitched their AI services to Apple who 55 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:21,280 rejected them. Can you blame them? I mean, Meta's Lama AI models are kind of open source, 56 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:26,000 but a lot of Apple's own models are too. Then there's the fact that Facebook has been tagging 57 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:33,040 real life photos as made with AI. It would never work. Apple's kind of the privacy company, and 58 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:39,360 Meta's kind of the feed three billion users data into Zuckerberg's gaping ma um-num-num-num 59 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,240 company. So every time I look at my bedroom window, I never see Tim Cook. Mark, get out of there. 60 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,880 I want the other guy. A Florida family has filed a formal request that NASA compensate them for 61 00:05:52,880 --> 00:06:00,800 $80,000 in damages following an incident in March where a 1.6 pound metal part from a battery palette 62 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:07,360 jettisoned from the ISS, embarrassingly using the Canada ARM to robotic ARM, we're so sorry, 63 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,560 failed to burn up in the atmosphere and instead blew a hole straight through their two-story home. 64 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:18,560 Had the ISS instead committed an accidental DIY airstrike against a home in a different country, 65 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:23,200 they would be clearly obligated to provide compensation under the terms of the 1972 66 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:29,600 Space Liability Convention. US law, however, is less clear. The Recording Industry Association 67 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:36,720 of America has filed lawsuits against two AI music generators, Suno and Udio, for alleged 68 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,880 copyright infringement. The RIA claims that Suno and Udio have used massive amounts of 69 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:48,560 unlicensed music to train their models, and that that is wrong. While neither music generator 70 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:54,640 will specify what songs they used, some of their outputs seem rather telling, including one song 71 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:00,640 from Udio that copies the entire first verse of Green Day's American Idiot, followed by a chorus 72 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:06,400 of the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Which is how I wish that song went the first time, 73 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:19,520 but I mean, we fixed it. And the internet has responded to Luma Lab's Free to Try Dream Machine 74 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:26,960 video generator by using it to turn static images into uncanny, meme-worthy videos as the AI struggles 75 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:34,080 to comprehend the horror that is wide-Linus and the human skeleton. Even historical images got this 76 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:39,040 treatment, leading to this video of the head of the Soviet secret police running across the water 77 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,880 of the Volga Canal like a combination of Bugs Bunny and Jesus. But at least the AI memes are 78 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:50,560 staying on the internet. Oh god, the AI generated an actual rocket engine. Not with a dream machine 79 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,920 thing, this was a different model, but maybe we should try it. It could be funny. What would be 80 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:02,080 even funnier is if you came back on Wednesday for more tech news. Can you imagine? What would your 81 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:09,760 neighbors say? Probably something like, LOL, what a cool person. Get away from the Windows, Mark.