WEBVTT 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 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 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:20.640 Down to zero minutes, which effectively pauses the feed before it starts 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.880 It's rolling out now to both iPhone and Android users 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 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 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 00:00:40.980 --> 00:00:47.120 Were AI slop or brain rot content still with shorts averaging 200 billion daily views 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 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.840 You might think we're being hypocritical since TechLinked also has posted shorts 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 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 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:18.720 triumphantly declaring that online platforms would have no more excuses not to verify kids ages 00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:23.720 Because the app met the highest privacy standards within hours security researchers reported 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 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:33.880 Detailing that the encrypted pin isn't cryptographically tied to the identity vault 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.960 The rate limiting is just a counter in a config file 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 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:47.460 The entire demonstration was so short He was able to fit it into a single tweet 00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:52.140 Telegram CEO Pavel Duroff piled on calling the app hackable by design 00:01:52.260 --> 00:01:56.860 The EU has since confirmed a new version is being rolled out to patch the flaws 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 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 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:15.620 completely free following the same move it made with the affinity suite last year and 00:02:15.980 --> 00:02:21.780 Maxon relaunched autograph a previously dead After Effects competitor also free for individual artists 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 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 00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:36.940 The video editor already had Premiere Pro cornered on price 00:02:36.940 --> 00:02:42.180 But the new update adds a full photo editing page that lets you organize raw files 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:47.740 Import your existing lightroom catalogs and adds the ability to tether your camera for live capture 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 00:02:53.940 --> 00:02:57.300 Kind of like holding onto your phone without our sponsor 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 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:07.260 And we find that these quick bits contain the energy of a small Sun 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 00:03:18.580 --> 00:03:23.780 According to the leaker mega size GPU the 3060 is two generations old 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 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:32.260 NVIDIA apparently looked at its GPU lineup and said actually 2021 was fine 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 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 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 00:03:53.380 --> 00:03:58.660 cheesy guys Years of aggressive pop-ups and dark patterns failed to move the needle 00:03:58.700 --> 00:04:01.780 So apparently the plan now is just straight up bribery 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 00:04:07.460 --> 00:04:09.940 And they're pinning it on the global RAM shortage 00:04:10.660 --> 00:04:15.660 Sure that checks out. It's definitely the memory crisis and not the 70 billion dollars 00:04:15.660 --> 00:04:20.060 They torched on the metaverse before pivoting to becoming a sunglasses company 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 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 00:04:33.580 --> 00:04:40.180 For arrests were made 53 domains taken down and the remaining users received warning letters 00:04:40.180 --> 00:04:44.460 Which loosely translated to we know you live to drive the message home 00:04:44.460 --> 00:04:49.260 Europol also dropped an iron maiden style music video following Melvin a chip addicted 00:04:49.500 --> 00:04:55.300 Skeletor playing kid who just wanted to DDoS someone for killing his vibe or Melvin that 00:04:56.300 --> 00:04:59.180 grotesque little guy and a new study found that sperm whales 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 00:05:07.180 --> 00:05:10.420 I swear I still have memories from the womb the whale 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 00:05:18.020 --> 00:05:21.500 So yeah vowels have apparently evolved completely independently twice 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 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 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 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:39.980 Bye