1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Sometimes tech news is good, sometimes it's bad, 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,880 but I can always share it with you, and that makes me glad. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:12,680 I love you, James. China has decided to block the use of Intel and AMD chips 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:17,140 from government, PCs, and servers in a brilliant masterclass on how to use 5 00:00:17,140 --> 00:00:20,520 the Uno reverse card. While we are just finding out about this, 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,800 China's new computer guidelines came into effect on December 26th of last year. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,920 Honestly, it was nice of them to let American CPU manufacturers 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:33,680 enjoy Christmas before breaking everyone's hearts. The government has an approved list of only 18 processors, 9 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:38,880 and only one of them uses the x86 architecture, a chip made by a Chinese company with a normal length name, 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,240 Shanghai Xiaogen, integrated circuit company, limited. 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:48,280 Every other chip on China's list of the coolest CPUs uses either ARM cores or RISC-5 architecture. 12 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:54,360 In addition to hardware, they are sidelining Microsoft Windows and any foreign-made database software. 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,280 This makes sense, since just last year, China unveiled its first homegrown, 14 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,120 open-source desktop operating system. That was really just the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,000 with a Windows-esque coat of paint. And can you really blame China for this move? 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,440 I mean, the US is doing the same thing to China, looking at all their stuff that they left in your house 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,800 just hurts too much. Oh, you forgot your scarf. 18 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,880 Can I see you again? The EU is investigating Apple, Meta, and Google 19 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,520 for non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act. Noticeably absent from the list is Microsoft. 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,960 In fact, the Verges Tom Warren claimed on Twitter that Microsoft is the only big tech company 21 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:31,200 that the EU isn't investigating for DMA non-compliance. 22 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:36,960 I mean, the European Commission even launched investigatory steps for Amazon's ranking practices. 23 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:42,200 I guess Microsoft hasn't done anything wrong since the DMA took effect in May of last year, 24 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,200 except that they have, they have. 25 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,720 Everyone except for the EU knows that Microsoft has been challenging your mom 26 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,000 for the award for best guilt trips for the sometime now. 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,000 In October, the company decided to expand on their deluge of banners and stopgaps 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,320 when users dared to install Chrome using the Edge browser 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,960 by adding a poll to ask, what did we do wrong? Like an overbearing X. 30 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,600 Two months after that, Edge users that set their default search engine to Google 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,440 found their browser would get blocked by a pop-up, asking them to switch to Bing. 32 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,360 Just this month, Microsoft confirmed that they were rolling out one-time pop-up ads 33 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,920 in Windows 10 and 11 to convince Chrome users to also use Bing as a search engine. 34 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,520 Why not both, you know? Maybe Microsoft doesn't do these things in Europe, 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:29,320 giving the continent something else to make fun of North America for when they drink their wine and olive oil. 36 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,440 Fancy cheeses. They're dipping things in the, no, no, no. 37 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,520 OpenAI has apparently gone to Hollywood to take meetings with directors and film studios 38 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,520 according to reports from Bloomberg. Apparently, COO Brad Lightcap and some colleagues 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,040 are giving demonstrations of their AI video generator, Sora, in the hopes that filmmakers 40 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,360 will integrate it into their work. And indeed, they also just published 41 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:54,160 a bunch of little shorts made by filmmakers, they're artsy, but they're not real, but they are real. 42 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,800 Best consumed with drugs. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,680 used this as an excuse to attend parties during Oscar weekend like the total chat he is. 44 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,680 While Sora isn't available to the public, OpenAI has reportedly granted access 45 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,960 to a few big name actors and directors. Probably just Altman's drink buddies, no one else. 46 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,400 This is not the first time Sora has affected the industry. About a month ago, filmmaker Tyler Perry, 47 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:22,400 best known by his drag name, Madia, announced he put an $800 million expansion 48 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,240 to his Atlanta studio on hold because of AI like Sora. 49 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,520 Apparently, he believes he may not need to do on location shooting anymore. 50 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,040 If he wants to shoot a living room in the mountains, he can sit in an office and do this with a computer. 51 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,200 Perry actually used AI power de-aging techniques 52 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,960 on two of his films, and that brings up a good point. Actors and writers have gone on strike over AI, 53 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,280 but now the technology is affecting makeup artists, contractors who build sets and studios, 54 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:52,280 and even location scouts. All of these jobs are in jeopardy because one guy saw a fake video of a woman walking in Tokyo. 55 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,520 I didn't know there were any women in Tokyo. He's like, wow, she's pretty hot. 56 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,240 Is that a city? She's convincingly hot. I wasn't always the quick bits man. 57 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,360 I used to tell longer news stories, like just a few months ago in this episode. 58 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,400 Oh, I remember that. NVIDIA's AI dominance is being challenged 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,200 by basically every other company. The United Acceleration Foundation, 60 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:16,480 formed last year by Intel, Google, ARM, Qualcomm, Samsung, and others, is gunning for NVIDIA's CUDA. 61 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,560 The group has been working on an open-source software suite 62 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,320 that they say will reach a mature state in the second half of this year. 63 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,960 However, there's no final release target yet, so I guess NVIDIA is free to count their trillions 64 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,880 until then. But we'll get ya. The leather jacket is to save your skin 65 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,800 when you're Scrooge McDuck into a pile of gold. His gold coins are hard. 66 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,000 Google has apparently begun testing AI-generated summaries of search results on a small subset of queries 67 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,880 by users who did not opt into its search generative experience in order to see how the general public 68 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,640 will respond to the new feature. These AI summaries come with a warning label 69 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,920 explaining that the feature is experimental, possibly because they seem to have a bad habit 70 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,560 of redirecting users towards spam and scam websites, 71 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,680 ranging from low-quality to actively malicious. 72 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,880 Unlike regular Google. No, shit. 73 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,280 Maybe the real experiment is to find what percentage of users will gladly type their social security number 74 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,600 into a capture. In worst Google news, the company was ordered 75 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:18,600 by federal investigators to hand over the personal information of YouTube users who watched certain videos. 76 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,360 Links to the videos and questions were sent by undercover agents to a suspected cryptocurrency 77 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,240 launderer. So naturally, the feds wanted Google to hand over names, 78 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:33,120 addresses, telephone number, and user activity, and IP addresses of anyone who watched those videos. 79 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,400 Videos that have been watched more than 30,000 times. While that sounds bad, it could have been a lot worse. 80 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,840 The FBI could have re-rolled the suspect. And that's embarrassing in 2024. 81 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:47,360 Even worse, you guys are now on a list. Microsoft has big plans to make life better 82 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,920 for Windows 11 and Xbox gamers at the Game Developers Conference last week 83 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,040 of the company unveiled DirectSR, a tool that makes it a lot easier for devs 84 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:00,120 to add support for multiple upscalers like NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR, 85 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:06,040 and or Intel's SES. I mean, XS, SES pool. 86 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:12,080 Microsoft also just filed a patent for a technique that would improve ray tracing performance on AMD GPUs, 87 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,040 including the ones in Xbox consoles and desktop radio and graphics cards. 88 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,120 See NVIDIA? You don't have to choose between AI-powered world domination 89 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,360 and throwing your gaming customers a bone. You can do both. 90 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:29,120 Piles of bones, like the future in Terminator 2. And EVGAs in hot water, 91 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,360 after an unannounced pin layout change, fried a customer's hard drives. 92 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:39,000 A Redditor, RMA, their power supply, and was clearly told not to send back their modular cables. 93 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,280 When they hooked the new PSU to their original EVGA cables, 94 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:46,360 it killed their SATA hard drives. Turns out the pin layout of the power supply model 95 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,280 had been changed, making them incompatible with the cables from the old unit. 96 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:53,440 But no one at EVGA told the customer. Got ya. 97 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,800 Now EVGA is refusing to cover the damage. That's not like you. Even better, this may not be a new issue. 98 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,920 It is like you. After Lewis Rossman posted a video on the subject, 99 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:09,040 the YouTube account for a PC building company commented that they reported this issue to EVGA two years ago. 100 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,920 So that's why EVGA broke up with NVIDIA. They wanted to cook different parts, 101 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,280 their customer's PCs. It's varieties of spice and light. 102 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,960 You all gonna burn. And you should come back to see what we cook up 103 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,040 for you on Wednesday. It's a block party. Do you like gumbo? 104 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,840 Because it won't be gumbo, it'll be more tech news. That's all, it's the only thing. 105 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,600 What is a gumbo? A toy.