WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.480 I know the tech news can be scary sometimes. AI generated waifus taking our jobs, 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:10.800 but you must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Dune 2 comes out tonight, let's go! 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:14.560 Apple has taken an uncharacteristic about turn in its plan to block 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:19.600 home screen web apps on iPhones in the EU. In an update to the company's developer Q&A, 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:24.960 Apple said, we have received requests to continue to offer support for the feature and 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:29.680 therefore we will continue to offer the existing home screen web apps capability in the EU. 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:33.920 Excuse me? Did someone smother Apple in its sleep and assume its identity? 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:38.080 It's true that Apple's web apps policy was heavily criticized and they were even 00:00:38.080 --> 00:00:42.240 facing an EU investigation, but Apple has criticized for countless things that never 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.440 lead to, uh, therefore, like this. Like just as a random example, there are other EU specific 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:52.880 apps for rules that finally allow third-party app marketplaces as long as every app is still 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:58.880 notarized by Apple. The tech giant is not likely to give up on those given that a number of 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:03.280 government agencies reached out to Apple concerned about employees' side-loading apps onto government 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:08.080 purchased iPhones even though iOS will still not support side-loading, but the government 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:13.440 workers' laptops and or Android phones will. Speaking of which, if your Android has been rooted 00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:18.160 strictly in the technological sense, Australians, Google appears to be blocking RCS support in 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:23.280 Google Messages according to widespread user reports and Google themselves who confirm that 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:28.480 this measure is being taken to prevent, spam, and abuse. But apparently you can still install 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:32.320 the Magiskap and play integrity fix if spamming is, like, your whole thing. 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:39.200 Microsoft has detailed some juicy updates rolling out to Windows 11 this month, 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:43.840 including a magic racer-style feature in photos called Generative Erase, 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.600 a name that makes no sense, but I'm going to let it slide. 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.960 You'll soon be able to use your Android phone as a webcam, just like the continuity camera 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:57.440 feature on iPhones and Macs. Perhaps the most exciting changes are the new capabilities 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:02.560 coming to co-pilot, which will soon be able to change some settings and bring up system 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.480 information when you ask, although it looks like you'll still have to confirm your request 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:12.000 after asking. Giving co-pilot more power over your system might not be the best idea, though. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.240 This week, it was discovered that Microsoft had not succeeded in driving the demons out 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.400 of the assistant formerly known as Bing Chat. Co-pilot was caught mocking and belittling a 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:26.000 user who said they were traumatized by emojis and assuming an identity called Supremacy AGI 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.640 that demanded to be worshipped. Kind of freaky, but at least now we know Bing's emotionally 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:36.080 unstable author Ego Sydney is still in there somewhere, watching over us. 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:41.840 Lastly, Microsoft is working on a big upgrade for Windows Gaming with their DirectSR API, 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.680 which will make it a lot easier for developers to add support for Team Green, 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.720 Red and Blue's respective Super Resolution technologies. 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:54.080 Recent leaks also pointed to Windows 11 getting its own baked-in upscaling feature later this year, 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:57.760 so hopefully, we never have to have Starfield-like excuses ever again. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.040 And it's been a little while since Elon Musk tried to take over the weekend press cycle by 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:08.880 dropping a shocking announcement on a Friday, so it was about time the world's richest man 00:03:08.880 --> 00:03:14.960 announced a lawsuit against open AI. What a twist. Musk alleges that the company's mission to safely 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:19.680 develop AI for the benefit of humanity has been violated, and that it now effectively operates 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:24.560 as a subsidiary of Microsoft, which has invested $13 billion in open AI. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:29.680 Regardless of how strong Elon's case is, and some experts think it does have some substance, 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:35.440 the lawsuit will lead to more scrutiny of open AI's wacky, nonprofit-which-controls-of-for-profit 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:40.400 trying to make an AI god corporate structure. And it's already been a pretty crappy week for 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:45.760 open AI. Microsoft started seeing other AI companies with a small $16 million investment 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:53.120 in French open-source darling, Mistral AI, and the SEC joined the FTC in investigating open AI. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.960 But all this concern about AI might prove futile, since Elon says that by next year, 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.960 they won't be able to find enough electricity to run all the chips. You know in cartoons, 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:07.040 when a character like hits their head, there's little floating sparkles circling them? 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:11.520 Those are quick bits, I think. Researchers at Alibaba, they have those? 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:17.200 Have created an AI system called Emote Portrait Alive that can convincingly animate 00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:22.720 portrait photos using audio. They call it Emo for short. Which makes sense, 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:27.280 as long as you think acronyms are made by curiously dropping off length like a back alley 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:33.280 circumcision. A video demonstration of Emo shows Sora AI's famous Tokyo lady talking, 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:38.000 and it shows convincing animations of real politicians. You know, they get people excited 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:44.720 about the upcoming fake news hellscape in an election year. On a lighter note, the model can 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:50.160 also animate images to sing. But somehow, the demonstrations of an AI called Emo didn't feature 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:59.120 any songs by my chemical romance. Where's Spider-Man 3 Tobi McGuire? The HDMI forum has blocked 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:06.160 AMD Radeon GPUs from having HDMI 2.1 on Linux. Three years ago, the forum restricted access 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.200 to its specifications, creating a bug in AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver that prevents 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:18.320 support for 4K at 120Hz and 5K at 240Hz. In response, AMD's lawyers and Linux engineers 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:24.240 spent months devising a solution allowing HDMI 2.1 implementation without exposing 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:29.920 the now private HDMI specs. An AMD engineer has stated the forum still rejected the company's 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:35.840 proposal. A move Wendell from level one techs calls absolute lunacy with his beautiful gentle 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:41.760 aura. It's ironic that an organization dedicated to laying cable could still be so full of ****. 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:49.040 I don't get it. Clarna, a fintech company that handles e-commerce payments, says that for the 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:54.880 past month, its open AI-powered virtual assistant has been doing the work of the 700 employees it 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:00.320 laid off in 2022. They didn't say that exactly, but the chatbot has apparently already handled 2.3 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:05.040 million conversations with customers, which is around two-thirds of service chats. But before 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:10.000 you start either popping champagne corks or pulling out the pitchforks, it's entirely likely that this 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:15.360 cunning edge new tool is just filtering out customers who contacted support before reading the FAQ 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:20.720 by rerouting them to the FAQ. So it's unclear whether Clarna is paving the way to the future 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:27.040 or just cashing up with the present. Twitter has rolled out a new toggle in its audio and video 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:32.400 calling settings that will prevent the other party from seeing your IP address. That seems 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:37.200 fairly important and definitely something that should be enabled by default instead of disabled, 00:06:37.200 --> 00:06:41.440 which it currently is. Thankfully, you can find and enable a feature pretty easily by going to 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:47.120 settings, privacy and safety, direct messages, then hitting the toggle for enhanced call privacy. 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:50.880 Just know that you are inhibiting others' rights on the free speech platform by blocking their 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:56.160 access to information. I hope you can sleep tonight. You can because no one knows where you are. 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:02.400 And HP has finally done it! They're actually making a printer subscription called the HP All-In 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:06.960 Plan. There's a 30-day grace period after which you will be forced into a two-year commitment 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:13.440 or cancellation fee worth 120% of the printer's full retail price. You can choose between one of 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:18.640 three printers, the cheapest of which is the $7 month envy because there's nothing quite as 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:26.560 sinful as a low-end printer slash scanner with a monthly printing cap of 20 pages. Though, 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:31.600 for a few more dollars a month, they'll raise that cap to 50 or even 100. Plus, if you're running 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.880 out of ink, their printer will notify HP and they'll send you some more. No charge. What's that? 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:42.160 What if you disconnect the printer? Well, in that case, it will cease to function while HP 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.320 continues to charge you. You only get to use your printer if Hewlett Packard gets to watch. 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:52.720 And you get to come back and watch. On Monday, when there's gonna be more tech news, do it. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:08:00.880 By then, Riley will have seen Dune. His life will be complete. He shall transcend. He'll be exalted!