WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 You know what they say, the more things change, the more they change. 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:08.320 It's called tech news or entropy. Nintendo is suing Tropic Hayes, 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:14.320 the makers of Yuzu, which, according to Google, is either an emulator for the Nintendo Switch 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:17.640 or a small yellow citrus fruit similar to a lemon. 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.880 Who can say? Tropic Hayes sounds like a Gatorade flavor. 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:28.380 In the 41-page lawsuit, Nintendo claims that Yuzu knowingly facilitates piracy on a massive scale. 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 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:37.820 of the legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, 00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:42.580 a bold claim, which was illegally downloaded over a million times in the weeks 00:00:42.580 --> 00:00:48.460 before its official release, around 5% of the amount of official copies sold. 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:51.660 According to Nintendo, around 20% of download links 00:00:51.660 --> 00:00:57.940 pointed prospective pirates to Yuzu. Now to win, Nintendo will have to prove one key fact, 00:00:57.940 --> 00:01:00.980 that the Yuzu emulator was created primarily 00:01:00.980 --> 00:01:05.780 to circumvent anti-piracy protections, rather than its more above-board uses, 00:01:05.780 --> 00:01:09.540 like enabling legitimate owners of a game like Tears of the Kingdom to play it 00:01:09.540 --> 00:01:14.180 on an Android, Linux, or Windows device with a decent frame rate and a controller 00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:18.060 designed for big, meaty adult hands. I'm just a big guy. 00:01:18.060 --> 00:01:23.420 After at least a decade of work behind the scenes, Apple has reportedly killed plans 00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:26.500 to build its own self-driving electric vehicle, 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:29.540 a project that Apple has never officially acknowledged, 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 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? 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? 00:01:42.980 --> 00:01:49.100 I become death. If you break NDA, Barbara and I will find you. 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, 00:01:54.820 --> 00:02:00.340 given that AI's star has risen even as EV sales have significantly slowed. 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, 00:02:06.140 --> 00:02:09.940 claiming that the feature will be too difficult to continue offering in compliance 00:02:09.940 --> 00:02:13.500 with the Digital Markets Act, which requires interoperability 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. 00:02:18.980 --> 00:02:22.380 It could break. Another browser? Are you insane? 00:02:22.420 --> 00:02:25.740 The European Commission, who are being very ungrateful 00:02:25.740 --> 00:02:29.460 at this thoughtful gesture from Apple, are investigating this decision 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:32.620 and have asked developers for feedback concerning the change. 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 00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:43.860 for legacy in-app iOS subscribers. Netflix removed the ability to subscribe 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, 00:02:49.540 --> 00:02:52.740 but grandfathered in pre-existing subscriptions 00:02:52.740 --> 00:02:56.260 who were still responsible for them paying a cut to Apple. 00:02:56.260 --> 00:03:01.380 Now, Netflix can finally be free. Well, not that kind of free, that'll be $15. 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. 00:03:05.620 --> 00:03:11.020 I don't like these shows. Intel has officially added an ambitious 10A, 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:16.860 equivalent to one nanometer, chip process to its 2027 roadmap for development 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:20.940 and possibly production in the last half of 2027. 00:03:20.940 --> 00:03:24.340 Another 14A or 1.4 nanometer node 00:03:24.340 --> 00:03:27.700 is scheduled for production sometime in 2026. 00:03:27.700 --> 00:03:32.460 The A here actually stands for angstrom, which is just a different unit of measurement. 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:38.300 CEO, Pat Gelsinger, voted world's sexiest Pat Gelsinger 62 years in a row. 00:03:38.300 --> 00:03:42.780 That's right. Sorry, other Pat Gelsinger. You're never gonna win, okay? 00:03:42.780 --> 00:03:48.580 He has bet Intel's entire future on the success of its upcoming 18A node, 00:03:48.580 --> 00:03:53.180 which of course equals 1.8 nanometer. See, we're learning together. 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 00:03:57.980 --> 00:04:03.660 as a realistic timeline, given Intel's recent record of over-optimistic projections. 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:07.020 Back in 2012, Intel promised that in 2015, 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. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:17.880 Not only that, but their fab capacity charts don't even have a y-axis. 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:21.920 Intel is also planning hyper-automated 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:26.760 AI-powered fabrication plants at some indefinite time in the future. 00:04:26.760 --> 00:04:31.720 For the near present, however, the company is at least planning to invest $100 billion 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:37.400 into expanding production over the next five years, which will include heavy use of co-bots, 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:40.760 which just seem to be robots designed to work alongside humans, 00:04:40.760 --> 00:04:44.000 a co-worker robot, if you will. So presumably you won't. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.040 Go workers, co-bots in the skies. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.240 You will be the co-bot. Hmm, quick bit? 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.640 No, thanks. That's how I turned into a vampire. And it sucks! 00:04:54.640 --> 00:04:57.840 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, yes! 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, 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:07.720 customizing tempo, intensity, melodic structure, 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.840 and use of air horns, the four elements of music. 00:05:10.840 --> 00:05:14.400 Only the avatar. The tool's just a prototype right now, 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:18.800 which explains why it was named Project Music Gen AI Control, 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:23.080 by either an AI or a human who are both terrible at naming. 00:05:23.080 --> 00:05:28.800 Of course, many generative AI music tools exist, but the innovation here is the editing capability 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.800 and the fact that Adobe will probably integrate it 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.360 into Premiere and Audition, like they integrated generative fill into Photoshop, 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.720 ensuring the last remains of humanity will wither and perish 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. 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:47.680 I skipped them. Yada, yada, yada. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:52.240 The White House has released an executive order aimed at stamping out the sale 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.560 of American citizens' sensitive personal data to foreign adversaries of the United States, 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:02.000 most pointedly, China and Russia, which I think is a failure to foresee 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.880 the growing Liechtenstein menace. They're hiding it in plain sight. 00:06:05.880 --> 00:06:09.000 The order means that the DOJ will need to draft a rule 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.320 requiring U.S. companies and data brokers to ensure that entities purchasing large amounts of data 00:06:14.320 --> 00:06:20.040 from them will not then turn around and sell that information to a hostile foreign power. 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:23.760 That might be important in a landscape where the information collected by companies 00:06:23.760 --> 00:06:26.760 is getting weirder and more invasive all the time, 00:06:26.760 --> 00:06:30.160 like Meta's plan to start collecting anonymized data 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:34.080 about quest headset usage, including body movement and eye tracking, 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:37.560 and even data about the physical environment you're in, 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:42.480 not virtually. You better not tell Kim Jong-un about my eyeballs, Zuckerberg. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:48.480 That's between you and me. Tumblr and WordPress.com want to sell user data 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.800 to mid-journey and open AI, according to documentation seen by 404 Media. 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.160 The documents don't seem to specify what data is being sold, 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.680 but the Tumblr data appears to include public post content 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:07.160 between 2014 and 2023. Tumblr users now have to opt out of third-party sharing 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:11.360 for their blogs to prevent their data from being sold. Hopefully, everyone does that. 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 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.880 written by pretentious 14-year-olds. No one understands my dark mind. 00:07:19.880 --> 00:07:24.840 They're just discovering so much about the world. Odysseus, the first private spacecraft 00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:28.960 to make a soft landing on the moon, has less than a day left to live 00:07:28.960 --> 00:07:32.080 because it landed with its solar panels at the wrong angle. 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. 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.000 If this sounds familiar, it's because you're thinking of Slim, 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 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:48.360 because it landed with its solar panels at the wrong angle. This is so tired. 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.520 Knock it out. Slim, however, has managed to survive 00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:55.760 in the cold of a lunar night, which is about 15 Earth days long, 00:07:55.760 --> 00:08:01.480 despite not being designed to do so. It's like a modern-day Japanese Hanaka? 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. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.960 I don't know what Chinooka is. Oh, I wish I knew this reference before now. 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:16.000 And Honda has figured out why VR hasn't gone mainstream yet. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.720 No one's tried riding the company's new hands-free personal mobility device 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:25.200 while playing what looks like a cereal box CD-ROM game from the late 90s. 00:08:25.200 --> 00:08:28.800 It just makes the case right away. Rollercoaster Tankoomies. 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:32.080 The mobility device is called the Uni One 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:35.160 because Uni One Uno Solo was a bit redundant. 00:08:35.160 --> 00:08:38.560 And beyond being used as a callback to decade-old VR demos 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:42.760 when it's shown off at South by Southwest in March, the device is apparently designed 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 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:51.680 of the average standing person. That way, you can both wear Apple Vision Pros, 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:54.760 stare into each other's cold, stretched out virtual eyes 00:08:54.760 --> 00:08:59.080 and agree that your purchases were a mistake. You could upgrade your wheelchair for those prices. 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. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.960 But it won't be a mistake to come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:10.880 Just make sure you're not watching TechLinked instead of watching the stove top. 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. 00:09:15.160 --> 00:09:16.000 No guarantees.