WEBVTT 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 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.440 pretty bad, so rather than sparing their feelings, you're just honest with them? 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, 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 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, 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:34.880 there are serious problems with, particularly, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K's gaming performance, 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, 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 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. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:05.440 Now there is a bit of light on Intel's horizon here. Computerbase saw some 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:11.280 disproportionate performance boosts by overclocking their system's RAM, and Durbauer increased 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 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:23.920 a bunch of time tweaking your components' voltages without frying anything, and you'll be fine. 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.200 Despite the overclocking potential, it's not a great launch week for Intel, especially when leaks 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 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, 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:49.920 though. PCWorld points out that AeroLake performs extra horribly under Windows Default 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.120 Balanced Power Mode, but PC users are going to be using the High Performance Mode anyway. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.440 It's not like this whole CPU lineup was specifically engineered to prioritize energy 00:01:59.440 --> 00:02:07.520 efficiency or anything. Wait, it was? No! Citing insider sources, the Verge confidently reported 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 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:20.320 GPT-4 by December. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly replied on Twitter, writing, 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! 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 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 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 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:54.640 restaurants to taint Google's often Reddit-fueled AI overview search results and keep influencers 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 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 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 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. 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, 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 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, 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 00:03:42.880 --> 00:03:48.880 to Apple intelligence, bringing AI features to the iPhone people. But maybe wait for the full 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? 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 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 00:04:06.160 --> 00:04:11.280 allowing individual franchise owners and independent restaurateurs to diagnose and repair 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:17.280 their own equipment at their own restaurants. This includes those notoriously always broken 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:22.080 soft serve machines at McDonald's, which are purposefully finicky to work with and have 00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:27.680 digital locks that couldn't legally be interfered with under the terms of the DMCA. 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. 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:38.480 Now however, the copyright office has sided with non-profit public knowledge and I fix it, 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. 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 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:00.880 Back in 2009, the EU Commission, the bloc's antitrust watchdog, alleged Intel had engaged in 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:06.800 two illegal practices, giving rebates to computer manufacturers for buying their chips and paying 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:12.480 manufacturers to halt or delay the launch of products containing AMD's chips. Two years ago, 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:18.160 a court annulled the charges related to the rebates, which was then appealed by the commission. 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. 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 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 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:42.080 into the company Babble Street has revealed how mobile advertising data can be used to spy 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 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 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:59.120 also track individuals using their mobile advertising ID, a unique identifier built into 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:05.280 all Android and iOS mobile devices. While the tech is supposedly limited to government use, 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:10.720 when an investigator asked for a two-week free trial mentioning they were considering government 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. 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 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:27.760 of TechLink, FYI. Elon Musk has admitted that most existing Teslas may not actually be able 00:06:27.760 --> 00:06:34.080 to ever drive themselves. Tragic. Specifically, he said Hardware 3, the self-driving computer and 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. 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 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:54.480 for free. However, according to Electric, that might be difficult, if not impossible. 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 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:03.760 cameras and different power and camera harnesses. But if anyone can figure out the upgrade, 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 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:11.840 years. I think he's got it. This time, he's serious. 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:18.640 And researchers want to create paleo-inspired robots as a way of studying extinct animals. 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:24.400 These moving physical models could be used to better understand extinct animals anatomy and 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:28.800 how they might have moved back when they were alive and had all their flesh on. 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, 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.640 they could be used to test competing hypotheses about ancient life. 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. 00:07:43.760 --> 00:07:48.160 And do you really want our future clone descendants to have to fight raptor lawnmowers 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:51.200 on their way to school every day? We're just trying to think ahead. 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. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:01.680 You probably shouldn't, though, for your own sake. But we shouldn't be encouraging this.