WEBVTT 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 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:10.640 our audience 60% off their language learning subscriptions, so I might suddenly lapse into 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:16.560 Mandarin. We'll have to see. The European Commission has officially charged Apple with 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:22.000 non-compliance under the Digital Markets Act for preventing app store developers from 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.120 freely steering consumers to alternative channels. While Apple has recently allowed 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:32.000 in-app links to developer websites where users can buy stuff without giving Apple a cut, 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 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. 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. 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:57.600 Now Apple is supposed to examine the commission documents and reply in writing, 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 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.800 another investigation into whether Apple's policies concerning third-party app stores 00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:14.480 and their ridiculous core technology fee also violates the DMA because they just can't tell 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 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 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 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, 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? 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:47.280 The confusing launch of co-pilot plus Windows PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chips 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:53.920 continues. A lot of coverage really wants to position this as a revolutionary moment for PCs, 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 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 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 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:15.600 fault for misleading us. A fairly helpful video was posted by YouTuber Alex Ziskind on Saturday 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:22.960 looking at the Samsung Book 4 Edge with the flagship Snapdragon X Elite X1E84100, horrible names, 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:30.320 and two Surface Laptop 7s with the 8100 and the Snapdragon Plus 64100. Ziskind explains 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:36.160 how messed up Windows 11's power settings are. After fiddling around and finally enabling the 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:41.360 highest possible power profile, he witnessed a huge boost in performance compared to using 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:47.760 the balanced mode. He also noted a very small difference in performance between the Plus and 00:02:47.760 --> 00:02:55.760 Elite chips. While emulation continues to be a sticking point for some, reviews continue to 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 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 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 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.480 win to award Microsoft's newest Surface devices, though. iFixit has given both the Surface Laptop 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 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. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.560 Unlike Samsung, which iFixit recently broke up with, Microsoft seems to have actually taken 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 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 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:52.320 of anything their attitude about Windows 11's enthusiast friendliness seems to be getting 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 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 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:07.920 account. And the Windows 11 setup process reportedly no longer prompts you with a local 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. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:17.200 Thankfully, many workarounds still exist for using a local account and Microsoft won't 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 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***. 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:36.320 AMD's highly anticipated Strix Point laptop processors may be dwarfed by their big brother 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 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 00:04:51.280 --> 00:04:58.240 Intel might be adapting an Aero Lake desktop processor into a laptop version with 24 threads. 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. 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:09.680 Reports that Apple is currently in partnership talks with Meta are actually old news, according to 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:16.240 the Herald of Girmageddon, Mark Gurman. Apparently, Meta pitched their AI services to Apple who 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, 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 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 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 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. 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 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 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:07.360 jettisoned from the ISS, embarrassingly using the Canada ARM to robotic ARM, we're so sorry, 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. 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:18.560 Had the ISS instead committed an accidental DIY airstrike against a home in a different country, 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:23.200 they would be clearly obligated to provide compensation under the terms of the 1972 00:06:23.200 --> 00:06:29.600 Space Liability Convention. US law, however, is less clear. The Recording Industry Association 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:36.720 of America has filed lawsuits against two AI music generators, Suno and Udio, for alleged 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.880 copyright infringement. The RIA claims that Suno and Udio have used massive amounts of 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:48.560 unlicensed music to train their models, and that that is wrong. While neither music generator 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.640 will specify what songs they used, some of their outputs seem rather telling, including one song 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:09.760 neighbors say? Probably something like, LOL, what a cool person. Get away from the Windows, Mark.