WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 I will continue writing the tech news in English, but I could switch to another language at 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:09.400 any time. Not saying which one, just stand your toes. 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:14.800 NVIDIA's rumored ARM-based laptop chip may be arriving this year, if details from multiple 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:18.200 data miners, leakers, and scoundrels are to be believed. 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:23.120 Not like bad scoundrels, like hand solo types, like, ah, use scamp. 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:28.920 Lenovo laptop model names and job listings were spotted by Walking Cat and Huang Anfu 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:35.800 on Twitter that included references to a chipset codenamed N1X, which doesn't match any of 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:39.280 the usual suspects in terms of CPU manufacturers. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:45.800 Lenovo's platform codes use I for Intel, A for AMD, and Q for Qualcomm, so it makes 00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:51.880 sense that N would be NVIDIA, unless Lenovo's also working on another version of its Steam 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.280 OS handheld that runs Nintendo software, but that's silly. 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.280 Even if it was officially licensed, Nintendo might sue anyway, it's an addiction. 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:07.760 They need help. Leaker QQ Timmy further shared supply chain info pointing to two chip variants, a high 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:14.440 end N1X and a mid-range N1, which could break cover at Computex. 00:01:14.440 --> 00:01:18.040 And in case you think this is coming out of left field, Jensen pretty much said they're 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:24.840 working with ARM CPU maker MediaTek to launch mainstream products for end users, which I 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:30.040 think is NVIDIA's term for users who will end soon, because why do we need people when 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:36.480 we have robots? TikTok's hearing with the US Supreme Court last week reportedly didn't go super well, 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:41.920 so faced with their favorite app probably being banned on suspicion of ties to the Chinese 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:48.080 government, TikTokers have flocked to the even more Chinese social media app, Xiaohang 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:55.400 Xu aka Red Note, catapulting it to the top downloaded spot on Apple's US App Store. 00:01:55.400 --> 00:02:03.960 The second most downloaded app? Lemon8, an Instagram competitor also owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, who has 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:08.360 been pushing TikTokers to migrate to Lemon8 with sponsored posts. 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:13.120 This account is almost entirely videos of other creators sending people to the other 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:20.440 app. This is bad. Meta should stick to American platforms like Facebook, where Meta began blocking any posts 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:24.440 linking to pixel fed, another Instagram type platform. 00:02:24.440 --> 00:02:29.800 Meta said the post removals were a mistake, but it echoed Elon Musk's blocking of Twitter 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.760 posts linking to Substack and Mastodon last year. 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:40.120 The creator and CEO of Mastodon, Oigen Rockko, doesn't want any single person to have that 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.840 kind of control, so he's transferring management of the decentralized social network to a 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:52.400 non-profit. Meanwhile, the FreeRFeeds project aims to raise billions to create more easily switchable 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.640 alternative social platforms built on Blue Sky's AT protocol, which has received some 00:02:57.640 --> 00:03:01.200 criticism for not being decentralized enough. 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:05.880 But if this project is excellent enough for Alex Winter aka Bill from Bill and Ted's 00:03:05.880 --> 00:03:12.840 excellent venture who co-signed the project, then it's excellent enough for me. 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:18.320 The outgoing Biden administration has just announced new restrictions on exports of AI 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:23.720 chips that more or less divides the world into three tiers of access based on whether 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.760 you replied to Joe's Christmas card. He spends a lot of time on those. 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:32.760 China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea will still be essentially banned from buying American 00:03:32.760 --> 00:03:39.880 AI chips. About 120 other countries will have quotas of some kind, while 18 close US allies can 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:47.960 gorge themselves on AI chips. The White House confusingly called the order a rule on AI diffusion, which sounds like 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:53.040 they're trying to address the internet's infestation by growing hordes of stable diffusion 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:57.400 generated waifus. But the chip industry isn't confused about this. 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:02.520 The semiconductor industry association called the rules onerous and rushed, while NVIDIA 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:09.640 labeled it sweeping overreach. The tech giant went on to say that America wins by sharing our technologies with the 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:14.320 world, not by retreating behind a wall, and then went on to announce that they would open 00:04:14.320 --> 00:04:19.320 source their GPU drivers and CUDA, because otherwise that would sound a little hypocritical. 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:24.080 Qwikas Bitus is actually the Latin name for when you're running so fast in the Circus 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:29.040 Maximus that you trip and skid over the finish line on your butt, so you didn't know that. 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:35.480 It looks like the Nintendo Switch 2 may be revealed this Thursday, January 16th. 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:40.440 That info was first shared on the Nate the Hate podcast, and then corroborated by Tom 00:04:40.440 --> 00:04:46.560 Warren and Video Games Chronicle and Eurogamer and the Verge ads. 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:52.040 They think there will be an announcement of the reveal the day before on Wednesday. 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:57.080 You know, a reveal of a reveal is somehow perfect for a console that was pre-announced 00:04:57.080 --> 00:05:01.040 this many times. The madness can finally end! 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:07.240 TSMC's chip making facility near Phoenix, Arizona has started producing 4nm chips that 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:12.320 are on par with those produced in Taiwan in terms of quality, according to US Commerce 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:15.960 Secretary Gina Raimondo, as reported by Reuters. 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:21.560 It's the first time a process node that cutting edge has been manufactured on American soil. 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:26.280 In Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday that TSMC could go ahead with 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:31.720 their plans to bring production of more advanced 2nm chips overseas as well. 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:36.040 Did the Ministry also say anything about bringing more bubble tea franchises to North America? 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.080 No, which is a shame because that shit's delicious. 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:45.160 Sonos announced this morning that their CEO of 8 years, Patrick Spence, is stepping down. 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.640 Probably because the last one of those years was a freaking gong show. 00:05:49.640 --> 00:05:54.920 Sonos rolled out an app update that users said wasn't just poorly designed. 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.040 It was riddled with bugs that rendered some systems unusable. 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:03.600 I bet Spence is hoping to find ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the bar to bond over their 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:10.200 shared pain. But he'll be disappointed because Pat will be at home making Bible verse inspired TikToks 00:06:10.200 --> 00:06:18.640 with his loving family. He's busy, Spence! And a Sony patent spotted by techforgamers.com describes a system that could predict and 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:24.900 execute player inputs using a camera to watch the player's hands, detecting a thumb moving 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:29.740 towards a button, and triggering that button to press before the player does. 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:35.180 The system could also apparently detect incomplete controller actions and surmise what the player 00:06:35.180 --> 00:06:38.180 was trying to do and then do that. 00:06:38.180 --> 00:06:42.380 Now you might feel like, pfft, what's the point of playing a game when it can just predict 00:06:42.380 --> 00:06:45.780 how I'll play it and take the reins from there. 00:06:45.780 --> 00:06:51.860 Exactly. I get home from work and I'm tired. This is going to make button mashing 10 times more effective. 00:06:52.300 --> 00:06:55.380 PS5, take the wheel. 00:06:55.380 --> 00:06:59.860 I'm playing right now. And you should wheel yourself back here on Wednesday for more tech news. 00:06:59.860 --> 00:07:04.660 Or maybe we can predict what the news is going to be and put out an early episode on Tuesday. 00:07:04.660 --> 00:07:07.820 No thanks.