1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,360 For today's presentation of tech news, I please ask that you remain seated or standing or whatever 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:12,400 you're doing. The point is to try not to make a scene, okay? This isn't the Minecraft movie, 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:18,320 chicken jockey is not, that's a no. Apple is expected to roll out a software overhaul for 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:25,840 iPad OS to make using it more like macOS, according to Mark Gurman of House Bloomberg, 5 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:32,800 watcher of the infinite loop. His grimness doesn't go into specifics, but does say that changes to 6 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:40,400 iPad OS 19 will be a big theme at WWDC in June, focusing on improvements to productivity, multitasking, 7 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:46,880 and window management. Noting this will be great news to iPad power users who've been pleading 8 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,400 with Apple for something to help them justify spending thousands of dollars on their S tier 9 00:00:52,400 --> 00:01:00,720 iPad desktop setup. It's a good setup, and it works for me. Right? Hey, I empathize, I've wanted 10 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,800 the iPad to be a Mac since before my mustache came in. Without even asking me first, by the way, 11 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:13,120 Warhammer Gurmentide also mentioned Apple's AR plan, saying Apple's working on a lighter and 12 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:18,320 cheaper version of the Vision Pro, as well as another model meant to be used while plugged in 13 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:25,120 to a Mac. And those are separate from the sleek, screen-equipped AR glasses that Tim Cook really 14 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:30,640 wants to get to market before Meta launches a competing product. Tim is apparently obsessed 15 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:36,160 by this idea. He's already written his own commercial for it. By your mom on Apple glasses, 16 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:42,800 or burn. Burn in the fire of your iniquity! Late on Friday, the Trump administration clarified 17 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:50,000 that semiconductors, smartphones, and various other electronics are exempt from the 145% total 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,920 tariff that now applies to other imports from China. Somewhat invalidating much of what I said 19 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:03,200 in Friday's episode, so embarrassing, except I joked that the tariffs would change soon, and oh, 20 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:08,400 US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that these exceptions are temporary, 21 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:14,240 so I guess it wasn't a joke, and I was serious the whole time. Except Trump posted on Truth 22 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:21,360 Social to also clarify that smartphones, etc., are subject to the existing 20% tariff, 23 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,840 and there was no tariff exception announced on Friday. The exception to that statement being 24 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:33,520 the executive order published on Friday titled Clarification of Exceptions to the Tariffs. 25 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:40,160 But that's just like a slang phrase kids say it doesn't mean anything. 26 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:46,320 China is currently making no exceptions to its new policy, completely banning all exports of 27 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:51,360 rare earth minerals and magnets, which are critical to the production of basically any product with 28 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,800 a circuit in it. The Chinese government is building a new system to administer licenses for exporting 29 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,160 these materials, which are almost entirely sourced and processed in China, but they seem to 30 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,120 lack the motivation to get that set up quickly. NVIDIA is probably hoping they can get one of 31 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:13,040 those licenses soon, as they just committed $500 billion towards manufacturing their flagship 32 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:19,760 Blackwell chips in the US at TSMC's Arizona facility. Sure, they've been talking about 33 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,200 doing this since last year, and those US made chips will still have to be shipped over to Taiwan 34 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,320 to use TSMC's packaging tech, but hey, that's, I mean, just look at what tariffs can do. Ask 35 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:35,760 if tariffs are right for your family. Back in consumer land, Sony has vaguely alluded to Trump's 36 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:41,600 tariffs as the reason for increasing the price of the PS5 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, 37 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:49,040 but not the US, after already hiking the price for somewhat similar reasons back in 2022. 38 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:54,160 And according to a component supplier, game consoles are not one of the tariff-exempted 39 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,440 goods we mentioned earlier, so North American gamers should brace themselves for price increases 40 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:06,400 on the PS5 and the Switch 2 potentially as well. On the plus side, all of this could change at 41 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,400 literally any second, which in which case we may have just wasted a good couple minutes. 42 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,120 Ah, you weren't doing anything. You might as well check out our sponsor. 43 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:20,720 Okay, it's intermission. Thank you for respecting the show and not making your bags of popcorn 44 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:25,840 explode like it's a bed in the nether dimension, except for Travis's group over there. 45 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:33,040 So, but they will get what's coming to them. What's coming to us is the RTX 5060 Ti, 46 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:39,360 at least according to video cards with a Z.com who posted full specs and 3D mark results provided 47 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:47,840 by their sources, showing the 5060 Ti 16 gig version performing about 20% better than the 4060 Ti 16 48 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:54,720 gig. Video cards spelled thefunway.com also leaked some specs of the RX 9060 XT, 49 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:02,880 including its 2048 stream processors, making it kind of look like an RX 9070 XT cut in half, 50 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:09,520 if you squint. Seems like these cards are coming soon, hopefully intact. 51 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:15,120 The FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Meta over their possibly anti-competitive acquisition 52 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:21,040 of Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014 respectively has begun. Meta kicked things off 53 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:26,400 strong by pointing out that when TikTok was briefly banned earlier this year, users flooded 54 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:33,360 onto Meta's platforms. It's simple. People use other social media sites, so Meta couldn't have 55 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:40,000 bought WhatsApp and Insta to absorb competition. Also, Meta's going to train their AI on EU users' 56 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:50,160 unless they opt out. Speaking of AI, OpenAI announced GPT 4.1 this morning. A new family 57 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:57,200 of models that OpenAI says outperform its current general purpose GPT 4.0 family across the board 58 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:04,800 while now supporting up to 1 million tokens of context. OpenAI also says they'll now phase out 59 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:15,600 GPT 4.5 because it's worse than the newly announced GPT 4.1. Welcome to who's AI is it anyway, 60 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,400 where the numbers are made up and IP doesn't matter. But you can't make this up. Google says 61 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:26,160 they've made progress on an AI model called Dolphin Gemma that could help translate dolphin 62 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:31,920 sounds into human language. Alright, you could totally make that up. And I think it has been 63 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,880 already. I take it back. The model is a collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project who has been 64 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:44,160 researching dolphin society for decades. They say language is the last barrier to cross before we 65 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:49,840 finally give dolphins the ability to ask us directly if we would kindly f*** off. They're 66 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:55,120 very busy getting high off of pufferfish toxin and we're harshing their vibe. And many crosswalk 67 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:01,680 buttons in Palo Alto, California have apparently been hacked to play AI-generated audio clips 68 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:08,800 mocking tech CEOs. As documented on TikTok, one button featured an AI Elon Musk failing to 69 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:22,400 hype his Cybertruck. While another featured an AI Zuck assuring listeners, it's okay, 70 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:27,920 they can't stop the AI slot. As we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious 71 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:33,360 experience and I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry because there's absolutely 72 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,240 nothing you can do to stop it. Anyway, see ya. The hack probably had something to do with security 73 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:45,120 researcher Deviant Olam pointing out last year that the crosswalk buttons often have an unchanged 74 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:51,200 default password. Either that or the clips are real and this is a cry for help. There's no way to 75 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:56,800 know. Thanks AI. There is a way for you to get more tech news though, just come back on Wednesday 76 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:03,120 and that is the only way, uh, according to science. They've done lots of, lots of testing and that's 77 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,560 really the only, don't Google it.