WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 Do you suffer from intense cravings for knowledge of tech-related events? 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:08.560 Do you frequently wake up screaming, the latest driver borks the BIOS? 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:13.200 Ask your doctor if tech news is right for you, or just keep watching and ask him later. 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:17.440 Reviews for Intel's AeroLake refresh CPUs are out, 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.800 and they make me want to yell Intel's so back, 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.840 even if ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger's not. 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:29.920 Because the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:38.080 could politely be called flagship killers, beating their own predecessors and performing nearly as well as AMD's top chips in gaming. 00:00:38.080 --> 00:00:42.240 But at a much lower price, 300 and 200 US dollars, 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.440 respectfully and respectively. And they do even better in multi-core productivity-focused stuff. 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:50.560 This is like Intel's MacBook Neo moment. Almost. 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:55.040 What would get them over the line is allowing desktop sockets to support multiple CPU generations, 00:00:55.040 --> 00:00:59.440 something Vice President Robert Halleck said he could see Intel doing in the future. 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:02.400 But that's not now. So you're telling me there's a chance. 00:01:03.360 --> 00:01:09.200 Intel got another small win today. Brand new, jack-of-all-trades master of none video game Crimson Desert 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.960 will support ArcGPUs after blocking ArcGPU owners from even getting past the title screen of the game. 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:22.000 Today's update lets users finally run the game, but poorly, since the devs ignored Intel's many offers to help with optimization. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:28.400 But they say they're working on it now, which is a big improvement over telling Arc owners to just get a refund. 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.760 You bitch. Scrub, who buys Arc? 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:36.160 Microsoft has released an emergency patch to fix issues stemming from their March, 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:39.840 patch Tuesday update. Have we been living in the same week for the last few months? 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:44.160 The original update broke Microsoft account sign-ins in a bunch of Microsoft apps. 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:49.200 When trying to log in, users were met with a, you'll need the internet for this chief notification, 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.800 even when their devices were clearly online. Or were they? 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:58.560 They're so online, it's like unhealthy. Microsoft's initial suggestion is to try restarting your PC, 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.880 as dictated by the tech scriptures. Just make sure you stay connected while you do it, 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:06.080 because restarting without the internet could make things worse. 00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:10.960 Best go download the KB5085516 patch officially, 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:16.960 if you have been affected, and hope that Microsoft is getting as annoyed by all this instability as you are. 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:22.160 VP Scott Hanselman publicly said he hates mandatory Microsoft account requirements 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:26.000 during Windows 11 setup, and might do something about it. Key word, might. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:31.600 So you're telling me there's a chance. Windows chief Pavan Davaluri announced in a blog post that they're rolling back 00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:35.200 co-pilot integrations from snipping tool photos, widgets, and notepad, 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:38.960 promising to only put AI where it's genuinely useful. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:44.160 Hope you're fun. Davaluri shared the sentiment of not wanting to be slop. 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:49.840 And that's great, because we are in a time that requires awarding points for doing the bare minimum. 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:56.240 Between fixing what they broke, enforcing accounts nobody wanted, and removing AI absolutely no one not a soul asked for, 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:00.400 is Microsoft listening? Someone checking on them, and sure they haven't been hacked. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.400 The White House just released a national AI legislative framework covering 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:09.120 everything from child protections to intellectual property, not property of intellectual children, their mind. 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:16.320 Central to the plan is preempting state AI laws, arguing that a patchwork of conflicting state laws could undermine American innovation. 00:03:16.320 --> 00:03:21.200 That should be fine. Pretty sure the U.S. has historically been totally chill about states' rights. 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:25.520 Not really an issue. The framework also codifies Trump's rate payer protection pledge, 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.280 requiring tech firms to pay for the electricity their data centers consume, 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:33.200 so regular people aren't stuck with the bill. Which sounds good. 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:40.880 But ProPublica released an investigation Friday that found Doge officials have been installed inside America's nuclear regulator, 00:03:40.880 --> 00:03:44.480 the NRC, to fast track reactor approvals for AI companies, 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:50.080 with one telling staff to assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do. 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:54.320 Also totally fine, it's not like hastily constructed cooling and containment facilities 00:03:54.320 --> 00:03:58.880 for nuclear plants have caused that many issues before. A couple times, Mac. 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:03.040 They're not irrevocable. Critics have called out the framework for being too industry friendly, 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:08.400 with Bloomberg calling it a blueprint for AI companies to carry on with business as usual, 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:12.080 and they're owned by a billionaire. Meanwhile, Stralia just took the opposite approach, 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:17.680 telling data center operators to generate their own energy, pay for infrastructure, and invest in local jobs, 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.280 or their proposals won't even be considered. Which is, of course, translated from the original Australian, 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:26.800 Oi, that will be stole my vegetable! A beautiful language. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.800 Beautiful people. One proposal the regulators haven't considered is that, 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.880 I'm a sponsor! Whether your doctor says they're right for you or not, 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:36.960 you should definitely watch the quick bits. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.360 Doctors. They're just googling everything anyway. I can do that. 00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:45.040 Samsung's Galaxy S26 is getting Apple AirDrop support this week 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:50.160 via a Quick Share update. It takes advantage of the same workaround that Google developed back in November, 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.760 which allowed iPhones and Pixel 10 series phones to send files to each other 00:04:53.760 --> 00:04:59.680 via AirDrop and Quick Share, respectively. While Tim Cook slammed his hands on the other side of the glass and screamed, 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:04.880 You will burn! Android users will be expected to enable it manually in settings, 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:08.640 and have a device with Play Services 26.11 or higher. 00:05:08.640 --> 00:05:12.160 So, you still get a whiff of that Apple elitist experience. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:18.800 Graphino S, the privacy-focused Android fork, announced on Friday that they will never require the collection of personal information, 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.480 age verification laws, or no. In the tweet equivalent of that, 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:29.600 do you hear the people sing song from Les Mis? This comes not long after Graphino S announced a long-term partnership with Motorola, 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:34.640 who I'm guessing will want to comply with laws? 00:05:34.640 --> 00:05:39.040 Big Daddy Motorola has yet to comment. But I expect they might go all Jean Valjean on Graphine. 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:43.360 Justals! They're French, right? 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.200 Hacking Group's shiny hunters have claimed responsibility for a data breach 00:05:47.200 --> 00:05:53.840 at Crunchyroll, Sony's anime streaming platform. The hackers reportedly made off with 100 gigabytes of user data, 00:05:53.840 --> 00:05:58.400 including credit card details and email addresses. Wait, they had all that anime sitting there, 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:01.680 and all they took was boring credit card numbers? What a bunch of rubes! 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.920 The hackers reportedly got in through Tellus Digital, Crunchyroll's outsourcing partner, 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.640 which shiny hunters breached earlier this month, stealing 700 terabytes of internal data. 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:14.720 Come on, shiny hunters! First, Panera Bread, then Tellus? 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.760 Now, anime is nothing sacred to you. 00:06:17.760 --> 00:06:21.120 At Northwestern University, researchers have developed AI-evolved, 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.160 legged metamachine straight out of Metal Gear Solid Revengeance. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:29.040 Rather than creating a specialized machine, or manually configuring the best all-terrain design, 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:35.440 the researchers decided to let the machine configure itself. These modular robots snap together in various legged configurations 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:39.120 and adapt their movements to different terrain in real time. 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:43.680 You can even chop one in half, and it'll continue to drag itself by its remaining limbs 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.840 in a charming display of resilience that a few years from now probably won't seem 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:52.960 like an ill-thought-out ability to give a robot. Researchers say these bots can hit the ground running 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:57.520 in unstructured outdoor environments, which is great because soon that's where we'll all be living! 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.640 Hey, they can't find us among the trees! And stopping prescriptions suddenly can be dangerous, 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:06.320 so make sure you come back here on Wednesday for your next scheduled dose of tech news. 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:11.440 Side effects may include irrational fear of Microsoft Update spontaneous, ranting about Apple, and recurring dreams 00:07:11.440 --> 00:07:15.440 in which Peter Thiel breastfeeds you. Wait, what? I thought that was normal.