WEBVTT 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 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, 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 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:25.840 iPad OS to make using it more like macOS, according to Mark Gurman of House Bloomberg, 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 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, 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 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:52.400 with Apple for something to help them justify spending thousands of dollars on their S tier 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 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, 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:13.120 Warhammer Gurmentide also mentioned Apple's AR plan, saying Apple's working on a lighter and 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 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 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:30.640 wants to get to market before Meta launches a competing product. Tim is apparently obsessed 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, 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:42.800 or burn. Burn in the fire of your iniquity! Late on Friday, the Trump administration clarified 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:50.000 that semiconductors, smartphones, and various other electronics are exempt from the 145% total 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:55.920 tariff that now applies to other imports from China. Somewhat invalidating much of what I said 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, 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:08.400 US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that these exceptions are temporary, 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 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:21.360 Social to also clarify that smartphones, etc., are subject to the existing 20% tariff, 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:27.840 and there was no tariff exception announced on Friday. The exception to that statement being 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.520 the executive order published on Friday titled Clarification of Exceptions to the Tariffs. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:40.160 But that's just like a slang phrase kids say it doesn't mean anything. 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:46.320 China is currently making no exceptions to its new policy, completely banning all exports of 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:51.360 rare earth minerals and magnets, which are critical to the production of basically any product with 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 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.160 these materials, which are almost entirely sourced and processed in China, but they seem to 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 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.040 those licenses soon, as they just committed $500 billion towards manufacturing their flagship 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:19.760 Blackwell chips in the US at TSMC's Arizona facility. Sure, they've been talking about 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 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 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 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, 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:49.040 but not the US, after already hiking the price for somewhat similar reasons back in 2022. 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:54.160 And according to a component supplier, game consoles are not one of the tariff-exempted 00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:59.440 goods we mentioned earlier, so North American gamers should brace themselves for price increases 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 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.400 literally any second, which in which case we may have just wasted a good couple minutes. 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:15.120 Ah, you weren't doing anything. You might as well check out our sponsor. 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 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. 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, 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 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 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:54.720 gig. Video cards spelled thefunway.com also leaked some specs of the RX 9060 XT, 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, 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:09.520 if you squint. Seems like these cards are coming soon, hopefully intact. 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:15.120 The FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Meta over their possibly anti-competitive acquisition 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:21.040 of Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014 respectively has begun. Meta kicked things off 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:26.400 strong by pointing out that when TikTok was briefly banned earlier this year, users flooded 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 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' 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 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 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 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, 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 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:26.160 they've made progress on an AI model called Dolphin Gemma that could help translate dolphin 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 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 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:44.160 researching dolphin society for decades. They say language is the last barrier to cross before we 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 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 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:01.680 buttons in Palo Alto, California have apparently been hacked to play AI-generated audio clips 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.800 mocking tech CEOs. As documented on TikTok, one button featured an AI Elon Musk failing to 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:22.400 hype his Cybertruck. While another featured an AI Zuck assuring listeners, it's okay, 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 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 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 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:45.120 researcher Deviant Olam pointing out last year that the crosswalk buttons often have an unchanged 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 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 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 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:04.560 really the only, don't Google it.