1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,760 Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:17,000 Congratulations, you're back for more tech news YouTube has finally given users a way to kill shorts the new setting lets you crank the existing daily shorts watch time limit 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,640 Down to zero minutes, which effectively pauses the feed before it starts 4 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,880 It's rolling out now to both iPhone and Android users 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:29,800 Unfortunately, it's only on mobile so all you boomers watching shorts on desktop will continue to have your brain 6 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:35,400 Cook sous vide style by the never-ending dopamine machine public sentiment has been generally pretty positive 7 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,980 Which makes sense given that a December study showed that more than half of shorts recommendations served to new users 8 00:00:40,980 --> 00:00:47,120 Were AI slop or brain rot content still with shorts averaging 200 billion daily views 9 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:51,880 Oh this next generation hamstring it like this has got to be a tough call for YouTube 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,840 You might think we're being hypocritical since TechLinked also has posted shorts 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:04,360 But those were all accidents the YouTube interface is confusing now and our fingers slipped our phones are so slippery. Okay, they just 12 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:12,400 The European Union just unveiled its long-awaited age verification app with European Commission President Ursula von Leyen 13 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:18,720 triumphantly declaring that online platforms would have no more excuses not to verify kids ages 14 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,720 Because the app met the highest privacy standards within hours security researchers reported 15 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,400 They could break into the app in under two minutes. Of course security consultant Paul Moore led the charge 16 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,880 Detailing that the encrypted pin isn't cryptographically tied to the identity vault 17 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,960 The rate limiting is just a counter in a config file 18 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:42,280 You can reset to zero and biometric authentication is a single boolean flag. You can flip a huff 19 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,460 The entire demonstration was so short He was able to fit it into a single tweet 20 00:01:47,780 --> 00:01:52,140 Telegram CEO Pavel Duroff piled on calling the app hackable by design 21 00:01:52,260 --> 00:01:56,860 The EU has since confirmed a new version is being rolled out to patch the flaws 22 00:01:57,460 --> 00:02:05,100 Adobe's Domination over the creative app industry looks a little weaker this week after some major competitors made their apps much cheaper 23 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:11,100 And in some cases totally free as the Verge reports canva just made cavalry its professional motion graphics app 24 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:15,620 completely free following the same move it made with the affinity suite last year and 25 00:02:15,980 --> 00:02:21,780 Maxon relaunched autograph a previously dead After Effects competitor also free for individual artists 26 00:02:21,780 --> 00:02:27,340 So if you want to do what After Effects does Now you have two more options than you did on Monday 27 00:02:27,340 --> 00:02:33,780 But the real gut punch came from black magic design which unveiled the Vinci Resolve 21 at NAB this week 28 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:36,940 The video editor already had Premiere Pro cornered on price 29 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:42,180 But the new update adds a full photo editing page that lets you organize raw files 30 00:02:42,340 --> 00:02:47,740 Import your existing lightroom catalogs and adds the ability to tether your camera for live capture 31 00:02:48,180 --> 00:02:53,940 Adobe charges 10 bucks a month for just lightroom and now that's looking like a hard sell 32 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:57,300 Kind of like holding onto your phone without our sponsor 33 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:03,580 Einstein's equals MC squared tells us energy equals mass times the speed of light squared apply it here 34 00:03:03,580 --> 00:03:07,260 And we find that these quick bits contain the energy of a small Sun 35 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:18,380 Don't look directly at them NVIDIA is reportedly bringing back the RTX 3060 12 Gigabyte this June because the RTX 5050 9 Gigabyte has been delayed with no clear launch window 36 00:03:18,580 --> 00:03:23,780 According to the leaker mega size GPU the 3060 is two generations old 37 00:03:23,780 --> 00:03:27,460 But it still has 12 gigabytes of VRAM more than the newer card was ever gonna offer 38 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:32,260 NVIDIA apparently looked at its GPU lineup and said actually 2021 was fine 39 00:03:32,260 --> 00:03:39,900 And if you lived it, you know, it wasn't Microsoft is giving away two million dollars with a million dollar cash prize and three Mercedes 40 00:03:40,020 --> 00:03:47,860 Benzes Benz I to anyone willing to set edge as their default browser and do one Bing search as part of an 41 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:53,260 Part of it. I haven't seen this. This is hilarious as part of a new sweepstakes running until May 21st 42 00:03:53,380 --> 00:03:58,660 cheesy guys Years of aggressive pop-ups and dark patterns failed to move the needle 43 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:01,780 So apparently the plan now is just straight up bribery 44 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:07,460 Meta is jacking up the price of the quest 3 by 100 bucks and the quest 3s by 50 bucks 45 00:04:07,460 --> 00:04:09,940 And they're pinning it on the global RAM shortage 46 00:04:10,660 --> 00:04:15,660 Sure that checks out. It's definitely the memory crisis and not the 70 billion dollars 47 00:04:15,660 --> 00:04:20,060 They torched on the metaverse before pivoting to becoming a sunglasses company 48 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:25,620 He smart sunglasses next quarter will be in the price of the quest for on mercury being in retrograde 49 00:04:26,060 --> 00:04:33,340 Europol emailed 75,000 people this week as part of operation power off a crackdown on DDoS for higher services 50 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:40,180 For arrests were made 53 domains taken down and the remaining users received warning letters 51 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:44,460 Which loosely translated to we know you live to drive the message home 52 00:04:44,460 --> 00:04:49,260 Europol also dropped an iron maiden style music video following Melvin a chip addicted 53 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:55,300 Skeletor playing kid who just wanted to DDoS someone for killing his vibe or Melvin that 54 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,180 grotesque little guy and a new study found that sperm whales 55 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:07,180 Language has vowels and they work almost identically to ours despite the two species diverging 90 million years ago 56 00:05:07,180 --> 00:05:10,420 I swear I still have memories from the womb the whale 57 00:05:11,260 --> 00:05:17,900 Two vowel types have been identified so far each used in distinct structured ways across different whales and context 58 00:05:18,020 --> 00:05:21,500 So yeah vowels have apparently evolved completely independently twice 59 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:26,700 Which is either the most humbling discovery in linguistics or a real bad sign for whoever's next 60 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:31,340 Just like it'll be a real bad time for you if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news 61 00:05:31,460 --> 00:05:37,980 That's all for today. I'm gonna stick my tongue out at a photographer and accidentally create the most reproduced image of the 20th century 62 00:05:37,980 --> 00:05:39,980 Bye