WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 Hey, I want my news. 00:00:04.060 --> 00:00:07.200 What's techin' so long? 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:13.400 I'm going home. NVIDIA's RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics cards are real 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.720 and they are spectacular. Specs for both cards were tweeted out 00:00:17.720 --> 00:00:23.100 by venerable leaker Copight 7 Kimmy without even acknowledging how bonkers some of them are. 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:27.040 The 5090 apparently takes the 4090's 24 gigabytes of VRAM 00:00:27.040 --> 00:00:33.280 and slides it up to 32 gigabytes. The largest amount of VRAM in a gaming GPU ever. 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:37.280 The RTX 5080 is being held back at the same 16 gigs though, 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:41.600 presumably to atone for the RTX 4070 Ti disguising itself 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.840 as an RTX 4080 at launch, the sins of the father. 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:48.760 Going back to the 5090, Copight says it'll need 600 watts 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:52.640 of power compared to the 4090's 450 watt requirement. 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.260 That would max out a 12V 2X6 connector. 00:00:56.260 --> 00:01:01.640 So it's a good thing that new MSI power supply was recently spotted with two of them. 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:05.640 We're gonna call that whole connector melting thing a learning experience. 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:11.920 But even if there is still a melting risk, the 5090 also apparently has 33% more CUDA cores. 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.280 And isn't that worth it? According to a report from Bench Life, 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.120 the two GPUs are expected to debut at CES in January 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.240 for $40,000 and a breeding pair of goats. 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:27.400 Must be good goat. Reviews for laptops powered by Intel's new Core 200 series, 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:32.280 AKA Lunar Lake, hit the web this week. And unlike the launch of Qualcomm's 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:37.240 Snapdragon X series laptop chips, there is a consensus here. 00:01:37.240 --> 00:01:40.400 Yeah, they're good. Lunar Lake battery life is generally on par 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:46.040 or better than the Snapdragon X series and the upgraded art graphics seem to trade blows 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:50.640 with AMD's mobile competitors. But to make the comparison even worse for Qualcomm, 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:55.240 Intel's new notebooks have full native x86 app support, 00:01:55.240 --> 00:01:59.880 which wouldn't even have been a thing to mention this time last year. But now Intel gets a free win. 00:01:59.880 --> 00:02:01.880 Because ARM's only fluent, best. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.640 Versus native? I read I'm going home. Okay. 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:11.480 Which is great because Intel really needs wins right now. 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:17.280 The Foundry division quit developing their 20A node to focus on the more advanced 18A node, 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.360 which will show up for the first time in Intel's Clearwater Forest Xeon processors. 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:26.800 They better be good or someone's gonna buy you. 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.800 That's how it works. Following Qualcomm's advances, 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:34.560 ARM also apparently shot their shot, but Intel's staying strong. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:39.560 She's independent. She don't need no fellow tech corporation. 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.720 And to prove how much they care, Intel took another look at that instability issue 00:02:43.720 --> 00:02:49.280 in their 13th and 14th gen desktop processors and are releasing another microcode update 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.200 to fix what they now say is the real root cause. 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:57.960 And I'm happy to believe them until they find the next one. Turns out they were haunted. 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.080 Sorry. OpenAI is planning to restructure itself 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.240 so that the for-profit company would no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:11.440 according to a Reuters report. The report also says the plan would see CEO Sam Altman 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:16.720 receiving equity for the first time, worth an estimated $150 billion, 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:19.720 which would pay for more than enough clone bodies. 00:03:19.720 --> 00:03:22.920 He goes through them like that. He's like twink palpitating. 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:27.280 However, at a company all hands this week, Altman denied any plan to get him 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:34.160 a giant equity stake in the company. Although it's unclear what might qualify as a giant amount 00:03:34.160 --> 00:03:37.320 to Sam already a billionaire, Altman. 00:03:37.320 --> 00:03:41.480 His parents named him ambitiously. Actually, Sam is short for Sanbiciously. 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:47.760 Sanbiciously. Also this week, OpenAI's CTO, Mira Murati of face fame, 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:54.400 as well as the chief research officer and VP of research all left the company. 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.840 Seems related to the whole changing to for-profit thing, 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.600 but not to Sam Altman, who tweeted that leadership changes 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:05.800 are a natural part of companies. And while this one was abrupt, 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:11.760 they are not a normal company. And he's right. They have this whole convoluted non-profit controlling 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:16.200 a for-profit structure to protect humanity from AI. Oh right, they're getting rid of that 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:19.320 to become more normal. 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:23.360 Something Sam has strived for all his life. He may have been pleased to hear then 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.000 that while touring the globe, trying to gather $7 trillion to build dozens 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:31.000 of new chip making plants, the New York Times says that TSMC executives 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.320 dismissed Altman as a podcasting bro, 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:37.520 which is about as basic as it gets. Good job, Sam. 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:41.000 One day he won't be an Altman, he'll be a normal man. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.880 Hey, isn't this where the quick bits usually are? 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:48.640 Yeah, we're about to happen right now. I don't see him anywhere. 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:51.640 Microsoft is once again trying to make fetch happen 00:04:51.640 --> 00:04:55.840 with an adjusted version of its controversial recall feature. 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:00.720 It's back. It's that classic Microsoft wisdom. If you announce something enough times, 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:06.240 eventually the public will be too exhausted to get angry. The company says the feature will be opt in by default 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.480 and its locally stored files will be encrypted 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.560 and require reauthentication to access. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.360 The new and improved recall will operate 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.680 inside a VBS enclave and will only operate 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:23.000 when BitLocker and device encryption is fully enabled. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.120 But most importantly, it can also now be uninstalled. 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.680 Hallelujah, amen. When Zuck announced at MetaConnect 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:35.400 that Facebook and Instagram would start serving users AI generated content based on their interests, 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:39.800 he didn't mention that the content may also contain your face. 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.720 Any users that have onboarded to Meta's Imagine Me feature, 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.440 which allows the creation of AI selfies based on users' photos, 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:51.640 may see AI images of themselves in their feeds. 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:57.480 Ah! That's not the stopian at all. This is quite similar to the story we covered last week 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.960 about Snapchat, where the company was able to use AI generated images of users' faces 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:05.920 in ads that only the user sees. However, this story is scarier 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.120 because people actually use Instagram. Ooh, got him. 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:14.360 Apparently people use Snapchat. I don't know who. Researchers revealed they could hack 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:19.480 into millions of vehicles thanks to a bug in automaker Kia's website. 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.400 The vulnerability allowed them to gain access to backend dealer APIs. 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:28.160 That's a problem because Kia apparently gives their dealers the ability to assign control 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.200 of the internet-connected features of any car 00:06:31.200 --> 00:06:34.920 to any customer account. With just a license plate number, 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:39.240 this bypass could unlock a vehicle's doors and start its engine. 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:46.280 Even worse, the vehicle could be remotely located and any installed 360-degree cameras could also be accessed. 00:06:46.280 --> 00:06:49.640 Also the attack takes like 30 seconds. Oh! You know, I'm starting to think 00:06:49.640 --> 00:06:54.120 that turning everything into a computer was a bad idea. Maybe we draw the line at plants. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:07:01.480 Fuck, they hacked my ficus! A paraplegic man who relies on a $100,000 exoskeleton 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:06.560 was left unable to walk for two months after the manufacturer, Rewalk, 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.960 refused to fix a wiring issue with the watch he uses to control the device. 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:15.440 When the man, former jockey Michael Strait, contacted the company, they told him 00:07:15.440 --> 00:07:18.560 they no longer work on devices older than five years. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.000 Hope you had fun. Strait got his a decade ago. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.240 So I guess instead of fixing his $20 watch battery, 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.240 he should just drop Porsche money on a whole new device and hope insurance will cover it. 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:35.480 Of course, Mr. Strait's story hit the local news and Rewalk mysteriously found their soldering kit 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.240 between the couch cushions and fixed his watch a few days later. 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:44.440 Thank goodness, that's lucky. And if you like your gaming mice equal parts modular, 00:07:44.440 --> 00:07:51.480 ergonomic, and horror inducing, look no further than the Piot Design Statial Dot B. 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:57.200 An open source DIY mouse design that only looks like an alien parasite a little bit. 00:07:57.200 --> 00:07:59.360 I rate it A for, ah! 00:08:00.280 --> 00:08:03.360 The idea is instead of settling for a set mouse shape, 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.920 you 3D print and assemble dozens of adjustable parts 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:12.320 to create the mouse shape you want. As long as that shape is existential dread. 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:15.880 What are you scared? It's just a mouse. Just put your hand on it. 00:08:15.880 --> 00:08:20.760 Merge with it. Gordinovsh! But don't join with us on Monday for more tech news 00:08:20.760 --> 00:08:24.240 because it's what the government calls a statutory holiday 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:30.400 despite presenting no evidence that they exist in the wild which means they probably just made it up just like birds. 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.720 Okay. Whatever, man! Right, Wednesday, Wednesday.