What the freak is up, mother truckers? There's so much crazy shoot happening in tech today,
you might just pee pee yourself with excitement, heck.
If you're wondering what that was all about, YouTube has innovated yet another way
to make the platform worse for its creators. A large number of creators in the gaming community right now
are upset with recent changes to the platform.
In November, YouTube updated their ad guidelines
surrounding violence and inappropriate language, stating that standard gameplay where gory injuries
are present must occur after the first eight seconds
of a video or it may be demonetized.
You also can't use profanities within that oddly specific time frame,
but hey, hell and damn aren't swear words anymore, hell yeah.
Man, wouldn't it be weird if YouTube specifically stated they were allowing for profanity
in the first 30 seconds of a video as recently as April,
2021? Oh, they did? YouTube's gonna be so upset when they hear what YouTube said.
Now, YouTube has made policy changes like this before,
but what makes this update particularly egregious is how quietly it was rolled out.
No one really knew about it until their video started getting demonetized.
After reaching out to YouTube about a recent video that was age restricted, Daniel Condren of RT Game
said multiple videos, including at least one from 2020
and a private video from 11 years ago, were subsequently mass flagged as well.
This stealth rollout has become quite a bit of a trend
since YouTube's experiments with upping the number of ads on a video and locking 4K behind a premium subscription.
I mean, better ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.
But they didn't ask for either of those. Curse.
An issue with the computer system causes all US flights
to be grounded because flights getting screwed up is a pretty popular meme right now.
Also, they said a no-no word to their mom. You can't come out for two weeks.
Early this morning, the FAA announced their notice to air missions, which alerts pilots of potential hazards
along flight routes suffered some kind of malfunction
and ordered a pause on all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern time.
The White House stated officially on Twitter that there was no evidence of a cyber attack,
stopped thinking about it. The computers that we depend on
to make sure jet-propelled tuna cans packed full of people cans
can continue to travel safely through the air. They're just bad computers.
They're bad. Sorry. The flight tracker, FlightAware,
listed that over 17,000 flights were delayed,
which isn't actually that strange based on the number of delayed flights from Sunday.
Man, air travel sucks. But if you look at the number of delays
within, into, or out of the United States today,
it is almost twice as high as normal.
And the number of cancellations is 10 times as high.
Truly, this is a terrible time for air travel, but a great time for airport liquor stores.
USA. Which brings two to your eye. And Microsoft is going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
The Cocoa Puffs in this scenario is AI. The company has developed a new neural codec language model
called VAL-E that can mimic someone's voice
using only a three-second sample of that person talking.
Would it always make some sound like they're asking a question?
Oh, it doesn't? Oh, VAL-E. That's very good.
VAL-E can even preserve the speaker's emotional tone
and simulate their acoustic environment.
Her face was against his breast. We have to reduce the number of plastic bags.
Number 10, Fresh Nelly's waiting on you. Good night, husband.
The demonstrations they've made public alternate between sounding like a voice changer
from a spy movie and bad video game voice acting.
But when it works, it very works. The tech uses Meta's end codec audio compression tech,
which compresses high quality audio to very small sizes
using AI. Apparently it's this tech that allows Microsoft
to make text to speech synthesis that found more realistic with very short voice samples.
And that's really cool when you aren't thinking of the terrifying ramifications.
The software giant has even more plans for AI though. According to some insiders,
Microsoft is planning on incorporating OpenAI's GPT
into some Windows applications. Apparently they want to use the model
to make outlook search results more accurate. Or you could just make your spam recognition better
so actual emails are easier to find. One of the two.
That's right, I still have a hotmail account. You could have used regular intelligence.
Where'd I put those quick bits? Have you checked your butt? What?
Windows 7 and 8.1 are officially on their own
in the update list, Wildlands. Both operating systems stopped receiving security updates
yesterday and in a few days, they won't even get updates to Microsoft Edge,
which I'm sure will affect many person. Official support for Windows 7 ended three years ago,
but businesses could pay for up to three years of additional support while they transitioned
from 10 to 11. Microsoft didn't offer the same courtesy for 8.1
because it was bad. No one asked.
The UK government has announced big internet news. Any new homes that are built must be fitted
with the infrastructure to allow for gigabit broadband.
But only in England. Hey Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
I guess Rishi's Sunak doesn't know you exist yet.
Have you tried being rich? I hear that gets his attention.
Never fails. You flipped your kilt and it's just money underneath.
Mercedes is officially the first automaker to offer level three self-driving in the US
as Nevada has approved the company's drive pilot system.
Level three self-driving, in case you forgot, means the machine can pilot the car at speeds
of under 37 miles per hour and on suitably traffic dense motorways.
Motorways, I could put it way in Europe. I had assumed that owners would have to battle
their self-driving cars for control of the vehicle and that the level meant how much harder the fight would be.
But this is an Elidan ring. It isn't cool, I guess.
Yet. Yoshi P, a producer for the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI.
It's also Yoshi's rap name. The P stands for producer.
Doesn't understand why people think that a PC version of a game will be coming out.
During a live stream, Yoshi claimed nobody said anything about a PC release and that he didn't know
why people thought one would be coming out six months after the PS5 release.
He's completely right. Other than the trailer that said the game would also be available on PC and the trailer
that said the game would be available on non-PS5 platforms six months after the launch,
nothing has been said about a PC release six months after the game's launch.
Yoshi doesn't know why you would think that. What's wrong with people?
That's why he's the big P. And some mad lad decided to build a meme search engine.
Said lad, going by I am mandatory on Twitter.
I thought that said I am mad, lad, mandatory, but anyways.
Took time out of his busy schedule of teaching underprivileged youth how to skateboard
to build a tool that would allow people to search for those memes they only half remember.
The system is looking for contributors to upload memes that are missing.
So if you're looking to dedicate yourself to a divine cause, I think you found it.
Move over priesthood, embrace the teachings of the memes.
And you should embrace our teachings on Friday when we upload another episode from the church of Techlinked.
Our communion is computer chips.
It hurts your teeth. There's still one in there. They go down rough.