1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,320 You know when your friend shows you something they've been working really hard on and it's like 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:09,440 pretty bad, so rather than sparing their feelings, you're just honest with them? 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:14,720 I wish Intel had a friend like that. Because reviews of the company's core Ultra 200 series, 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:21,600 aka Aero Lake, are excoriating Team Blue's latest desktop processors, and not even me showing up 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,680 in a turtleneck in the LTT review could do anything about it. As Digital Foundry delicately puts it, 6 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:34,880 there are serious problems with, particularly, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K's gaming performance, 7 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:41,200 that problem being that it's bad. The new chip is routinely beaten by its own predecessor, 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:50,800 the Core i9-14900K, but also by its competitors, the Ryzen 99950X and Ryzen 77800X3D. In their 9 00:00:50,880 --> 00:01:00,320 written review, Eurogamer even found the 285K losing to a Core i5-12600K from three generations ago. 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,440 Now there is a bit of light on Intel's horizon here. Computerbase saw some 11 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:11,280 disproportionate performance boosts by overclocking their system's RAM, and Durbauer increased 12 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:18,960 FPS by 7% in Counter-Strike 2 by specifically boosting the 285K's ring clock. So just spend 13 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:23,920 a bunch of time tweaking your components' voltages without frying anything, and you'll be fine. 14 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:29,200 Despite the overclocking potential, it's not a great launch week for Intel, especially when leaks 15 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:37,120 are making the Ryzen 7 9800X3D look pretty good, and the 9000 series in general is performing 16 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:43,920 7-10% better in games than they did at launch thanks to updates. Not all of the criticism is fair, 17 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:49,920 though. PCWorld points out that AeroLake performs extra horribly under Windows Default 18 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:55,120 Balanced Power Mode, but PC users are going to be using the High Performance Mode anyway. 19 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,440 It's not like this whole CPU lineup was specifically engineered to prioritize energy 20 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:07,520 efficiency or anything. Wait, it was? No! Citing insider sources, the Verge confidently reported 21 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:13,760 yesterday that OpenAI plans to release Orion, its next big AI model and a proper follow-up to 22 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:20,320 GPT-4 by December. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly replied on Twitter, writing, 23 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:30,960 Fake news out of control. Send. Yeah. Yeah, cancel the launch. Cancel the- I will eat you! 24 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,240 Now, the Verge's sources could have been wrong, but whatever the truth is, sifting the real news 25 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,880 from the fake is about to get harder, not just because of AI, but because of people trying to 26 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:48,320 outwit AI. Members of the r slash London subreddit have taken to heaping praise upon less popular 27 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:54,640 restaurants to taint Google's often Reddit-fueled AI overview search results and keep influencers 28 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:00,000 and tourists away from the really good sandwich shop. But I'm worried about the precedent this 29 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:06,240 sets. OpenAI and Google have deals to train their AI on Reddit posts. Does the dead internet theory 30 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:12,240 factor in redditors doing a 2024 version of back off, get your own sandwich? I wasn't sure about 31 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:18,560 that reference. I don't get it. We really? No. Oh wow. Is it from a commercial? This is a mistake. 32 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:24,080 Guys, I don't think we're ready. And neither does OpenAI's senior advisor for AGI readiness, 33 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:30,960 who just resigned, writing that no one, not even OpenAI or their peers, is ready for artificial 34 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,920 general intelligence, the word we made up for something that doesn't exist yet. But ready or not, 35 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:42,880 here it comes. The latest iOS 18.2 developer beta adds chat GPT integration and image generation 36 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:48,880 to Apple intelligence, bringing AI features to the iPhone people. But maybe wait for the full 37 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:54,400 release before you let your mom install it on her iPhone though. You got her one, right? 38 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,440 You were told to get her one. We've been working hard on these quick bits, so 39 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:06,160 tell us what you think and be honest. The US copyright office has granted a partial exemption 40 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:11,280 allowing individual franchise owners and independent restaurateurs to diagnose and repair 41 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:17,280 their own equipment at their own restaurants. This includes those notoriously always broken 42 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:22,080 soft serve machines at McDonald's, which are purposefully finicky to work with and have 43 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,680 digital locks that couldn't legally be interfered with under the terms of the DMCA. 44 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:32,880 That's right, they copyrighted the ice cream machine so they could get more money from fixing it. 45 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:38,480 Now however, the copyright office has sided with non-profit public knowledge and I fix it, 46 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:44,480 meaning that all the little children and the large adult men will be able to get their flurry fix. 47 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:53,440 I'm loving that. Intel has finally won a near 15 year legal battle against a 1.06 billion euro 48 00:04:54,240 --> 00:05:00,880 Back in 2009, the EU Commission, the bloc's antitrust watchdog, alleged Intel had engaged in 49 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:06,800 two illegal practices, giving rebates to computer manufacturers for buying their chips and paying 50 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:12,480 manufacturers to halt or delay the launch of products containing AMD's chips. Two years ago, 51 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:18,160 a court annulled the charges related to the rebates, which was then appealed by the commission. 52 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:24,320 That appeal has now failed, stay with me, so Intel doesn't have to pay the billion euro fine. 53 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:31,200 Intel does still have to pay a nearly 400 million euro fine for the sales restrictions, but that's 54 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:36,400 just peanuts. I mean, it's not to them right now. 400 million euros? That's fine. An investigation 55 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:42,080 into the company Babble Street has revealed how mobile advertising data can be used to spy 56 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:47,920 on almost anyone. The company sales a platform called LocateX that allows you to see a time-lapse 57 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,920 of the movement of mobile devices in and out of almost any area on a world map. Customers can 58 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:59,120 also track individuals using their mobile advertising ID, a unique identifier built into 59 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:05,280 all Android and iOS mobile devices. While the tech is supposedly limited to government use, 60 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:10,720 when an investigator asked for a two-week free trial mentioning they were considering government 61 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:16,960 contract work, the Babble Street salesperson said, that's good enough, and they don't actually check. 62 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,880 Oh, cool. Thanks. I'm microwaving my phone and living in the forest. This is the last episode 63 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:27,760 of TechLink, FYI. Elon Musk has admitted that most existing Teslas may not actually be able 64 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:34,080 to ever drive themselves. Tragic. Specifically, he said Hardware 3, the self-driving computer and 65 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:42,240 sensors equipped in Teslas from 2019 to 2023, may not be capable of unsupervised full self-driving. 66 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:48,960 But Elon says if that's the case, Tesla will upgrade full self-driving customers to Hardware 4 67 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:54,480 for free. However, according to Electric, that might be difficult, if not impossible. 68 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,440 Not only is the Hardware 4 computer a different form factor, Hardware 4 Teslas also have different 69 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,760 cameras and different power and camera harnesses. But if anyone can figure out the upgrade, 70 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,400 it's the guy that said Tesla will solve autonomous driving by the end of the year for the past five 71 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,840 years. I think he's got it. This time, he's serious. 72 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:18,640 And researchers want to create paleo-inspired robots as a way of studying extinct animals. 73 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:24,400 These moving physical models could be used to better understand extinct animals anatomy and 74 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,800 how they might have moved back when they were alive and had all their flesh on. 75 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,240 While these off-brand dinobots probably don't transform like the ones you had as a kid, 76 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,640 they could be used to test competing hypotheses about ancient life. 77 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:43,760 On the other hand, this also feels exactly like how you get Horizon Zero Dawn robot dinosaurs. 78 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,160 And do you really want our future clone descendants to have to fight raptor lawnmowers 79 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,200 on their way to school every day? We're just trying to think ahead. 80 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:56,000 But we won't blame you if you skip out on school on Monday to watch another episode of TechLinked. 81 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,680 You probably shouldn't, though, for your own sake. But we shouldn't be encouraging this.