1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,200 You know what they say, the more things change, the more they change. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:08,320 It's called tech news or entropy. Nintendo is suing Tropic Hayes, 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:14,320 the makers of Yuzu, which, according to Google, is either an emulator for the Nintendo Switch 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,640 or a small yellow citrus fruit similar to a lemon. 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,880 Who can say? Tropic Hayes sounds like a Gatorade flavor. 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:28,380 In the 41-page lawsuit, Nintendo claims that Yuzu knowingly facilitates piracy on a massive scale. 7 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:34,260 As part of its case, Nintendo likewise suggests that Yuzu's technology was used to play pirated copies 8 00:00:34,260 --> 00:00:37,820 of the legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, 9 00:00:37,820 --> 00:00:42,580 a bold claim, which was illegally downloaded over a million times in the weeks 10 00:00:42,580 --> 00:00:48,460 before its official release, around 5% of the amount of official copies sold. 11 00:00:48,460 --> 00:00:51,660 According to Nintendo, around 20% of download links 12 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:57,940 pointed prospective pirates to Yuzu. Now to win, Nintendo will have to prove one key fact, 13 00:00:57,940 --> 00:01:00,980 that the Yuzu emulator was created primarily 14 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:05,780 to circumvent anti-piracy protections, rather than its more above-board uses, 15 00:01:05,780 --> 00:01:09,540 like enabling legitimate owners of a game like Tears of the Kingdom to play it 16 00:01:09,540 --> 00:01:14,180 on an Android, Linux, or Windows device with a decent frame rate and a controller 17 00:01:14,180 --> 00:01:18,060 designed for big, meaty adult hands. I'm just a big guy. 18 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:23,420 After at least a decade of work behind the scenes, Apple has reportedly killed plans 19 00:01:23,420 --> 00:01:26,500 to build its own self-driving electric vehicle, 20 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,540 a project that Apple has never officially acknowledged, 21 00:01:29,540 --> 00:01:33,100 but which we all know about because they had to get a bunch of car-related permits 22 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:37,540 and there were like 2,000 people working on it. What's Tim Cook supposed to do? 23 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:42,980 Swear them all to secrecy and force them to live in an isolated community in the middle of the Nevada desert? 24 00:01:42,980 --> 00:01:49,100 I become death. If you break NDA, Barbara and I will find you. 25 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:54,820 At least some of those employees will be shifted over to Apple's AI division, perhaps unsurprisingly, 26 00:01:54,820 --> 00:02:00,340 given that AI's star has risen even as EV sales have significantly slowed. 27 00:02:00,340 --> 00:02:06,140 Another thing Apple has moved to kill is iOS support for progressive web apps in the EU, 28 00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:09,940 claiming that the feature will be too difficult to continue offering in compliance 29 00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:13,500 with the Digital Markets Act, which requires interoperability 30 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:18,980 with browser engines other than Apple's own web kit, something that Apple never designed it to do. 31 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:22,380 It could break. Another browser? Are you insane? 32 00:02:22,420 --> 00:02:25,740 The European Commission, who are being very ungrateful 33 00:02:25,740 --> 00:02:29,460 at this thoughtful gesture from Apple, are investigating this decision 34 00:02:29,460 --> 00:02:32,620 and have asked developers for feedback concerning the change. 35 00:02:32,620 --> 00:02:38,700 But Apple isn't the only killer still on the streets because Netflix is killing off Apple payment 36 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:43,860 for legacy in-app iOS subscribers. Netflix removed the ability to subscribe 37 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:49,540 via its iOS app back in 2018 in order to duck Apple's 15 to 30% cut, 38 00:02:49,540 --> 00:02:52,740 but grandfathered in pre-existing subscriptions 39 00:02:52,740 --> 00:02:56,260 who were still responsible for them paying a cut to Apple. 40 00:02:56,260 --> 00:03:01,380 Now, Netflix can finally be free. Well, not that kind of free, that'll be $15. 41 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:05,620 Please and thank you. You don't want to miss Love is Blind, season whatever it is. 42 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:11,020 I don't like these shows. Intel has officially added an ambitious 10A, 43 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:16,860 equivalent to one nanometer, chip process to its 2027 roadmap for development 44 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:20,940 and possibly production in the last half of 2027. 45 00:03:20,940 --> 00:03:24,340 Another 14A or 1.4 nanometer node 46 00:03:24,340 --> 00:03:27,700 is scheduled for production sometime in 2026. 47 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:32,460 The A here actually stands for angstrom, which is just a different unit of measurement. 48 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:38,300 CEO, Pat Gelsinger, voted world's sexiest Pat Gelsinger 62 years in a row. 49 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:42,780 That's right. Sorry, other Pat Gelsinger. You're never gonna win, okay? 50 00:03:42,780 --> 00:03:48,580 He has bet Intel's entire future on the success of its upcoming 18A node, 51 00:03:48,580 --> 00:03:53,180 which of course equals 1.8 nanometer. See, we're learning together. 52 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:57,980 But as aggressive as this new roadmap is, it's not clear just how much we should trust it 53 00:03:57,980 --> 00:04:03,660 as a realistic timeline, given Intel's recent record of over-optimistic projections. 54 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:07,020 Back in 2012, Intel promised that in 2015, 55 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:13,360 they'd launched their 10 nanometer chips, which they only managed to launch four years later in 2019. 56 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,880 Not only that, but their fab capacity charts don't even have a y-axis. 57 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,920 Intel is also planning hyper-automated 58 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,760 AI-powered fabrication plants at some indefinite time in the future. 59 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,720 For the near present, however, the company is at least planning to invest $100 billion 60 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,400 into expanding production over the next five years, which will include heavy use of co-bots, 61 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,760 which just seem to be robots designed to work alongside humans, 62 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,000 a co-worker robot, if you will. So presumably you won't. 63 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,040 Go workers, co-bots in the skies. 64 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,240 You will be the co-bot. Hmm, quick bit? 65 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,640 No, thanks. That's how I turned into a vampire. And it sucks! 66 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,840 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, yes! 67 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:04,320 Adobe has revealed a new generative AI tool that allows users to both generate and edit music, 68 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,720 customizing tempo, intensity, melodic structure, 69 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,840 and use of air horns, the four elements of music. 70 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:14,400 Only the avatar. The tool's just a prototype right now, 71 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,800 which explains why it was named Project Music Gen AI Control, 72 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,080 by either an AI or a human who are both terrible at naming. 73 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:28,800 Of course, many generative AI music tools exist, but the innovation here is the editing capability 74 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,800 and the fact that Adobe will probably integrate it 75 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,360 into Premiere and Audition, like they integrated generative fill into Photoshop, 76 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,720 ensuring the last remains of humanity will wither and perish 77 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,880 in the rubble of their destroyed cities. Oh, sorry, there's a few steps in between those. 78 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,680 I skipped them. Yada, yada, yada. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 79 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,240 The White House has released an executive order aimed at stamping out the sale 80 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,560 of American citizens' sensitive personal data to foreign adversaries of the United States, 81 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,000 most pointedly, China and Russia, which I think is a failure to foresee 82 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,880 the growing Liechtenstein menace. They're hiding it in plain sight. 83 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,000 The order means that the DOJ will need to draft a rule 84 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,320 requiring U.S. companies and data brokers to ensure that entities purchasing large amounts of data 85 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:20,040 from them will not then turn around and sell that information to a hostile foreign power. 86 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,760 That might be important in a landscape where the information collected by companies 87 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,760 is getting weirder and more invasive all the time, 88 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,160 like Meta's plan to start collecting anonymized data 89 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,080 about quest headset usage, including body movement and eye tracking, 90 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,560 and even data about the physical environment you're in, 91 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,480 not virtually. You better not tell Kim Jong-un about my eyeballs, Zuckerberg. 92 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:48,480 That's between you and me. Tumblr and WordPress.com want to sell user data 93 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,800 to mid-journey and open AI, according to documentation seen by 404 Media. 94 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,160 The documents don't seem to specify what data is being sold, 95 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,680 but the Tumblr data appears to include public post content 96 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:07,160 between 2014 and 2023. Tumblr users now have to opt out of third-party sharing 97 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,360 for their blogs to prevent their data from being sold. Hopefully, everyone does that. 98 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,800 I can't think of anything worse than a chatbot trained on nearly 10 years of posts 99 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,880 written by pretentious 14-year-olds. No one understands my dark mind. 100 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,840 They're just discovering so much about the world. Odysseus, the first private spacecraft 101 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,960 to make a soft landing on the moon, has less than a day left to live 102 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,080 because it landed with its solar panels at the wrong angle. 103 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,920 It tipped over as soon as it landed. And you would too. That was an exhausting trip. 104 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,000 If this sounds familiar, it's because you're thinking of Slim, 105 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,160 the first Japanese probe to land on the moon that had less than a day to live 106 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,360 because it landed with its solar panels at the wrong angle. This is so tired. 107 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,520 Knock it out. Slim, however, has managed to survive 108 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,760 in the cold of a lunar night, which is about 15 Earth days long, 109 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:01,480 despite not being designed to do so. It's like a modern-day Japanese Hanaka? 110 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:06,760 Yes. Whatever they end up calling it, I can't wait to hear Smokey Robinson mispronounce it. 111 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,960 I don't know what Chinooka is. Oh, I wish I knew this reference before now. 112 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:16,000 And Honda has figured out why VR hasn't gone mainstream yet. 113 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,720 No one's tried riding the company's new hands-free personal mobility device 114 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:25,200 while playing what looks like a cereal box CD-ROM game from the late 90s. 115 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,800 It just makes the case right away. Rollercoaster Tankoomies. 116 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,080 The mobility device is called the Uni One 117 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,160 because Uni One Uno Solo was a bit redundant. 118 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,560 And beyond being used as a callback to decade-old VR demos 119 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:42,760 when it's shown off at South by Southwest in March, the device is apparently designed 120 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,240 so that people with lower limb impairments can sit with their head closer to the eye level 121 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,680 of the average standing person. That way, you can both wear Apple Vision Pros, 122 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:54,760 stare into each other's cold, stretched out virtual eyes 123 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,080 and agree that your purchases were a mistake. You could upgrade your wheelchair for those prices. 124 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,480 Well, you did apparently in this scenario. That one was not a mistake. It actually looks kind of cool. 125 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,960 But it won't be a mistake to come back on Friday for more tech news. 126 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,880 Just make sure you're not watching TechLinked instead of watching the stove top. 127 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,160 The tech news won't burn your house down if you look away. Although I've never tested this. 128 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:16,000 No guarantees.