1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Ever heard that scratching outside your bedroom window at night and just chalked it up to the wind? 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,560 Well, that was actually the tech news. Its goal is to unsettle you. 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,560 Apple may finally be planning to release its long-awaited HomePad, 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,560 something like a HomePod and an iPad, smashed together. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:22,160 In fall, 2026, according to the leaker, Kousutami, who says they saw prototypes in person, 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,880 if they are a person. It must have been amazing. Kousutami and the original girl boy, 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,880 Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, say the HomePad will feature a MagSafe-like snap-to-wall mount 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,680 so you can presumably move the seven-inch square-shaped display between different points in your home 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,960 if you can't afford it by multiple scrub. Gurman says the device was going to launch sooner, 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,200 but it was just recently delayed again to a fall launch 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:50,040 since AI-upgraded Siri still isn't ready, 12 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:54,160 but it will definitely be ready by then, most because she's powered by Gemini now. 13 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:58,080 There comes a time in any group project when you throw up your hands and let the smart one finish it. 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,080 But Apple isn't finished with product releases this year. According to Gurman and others, 15 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,360 with the MacBook Neo launched, Apple is prepping more Ultra-tier products, 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,960 including an M5 Ultra Max Studio, Apple Watch Ultra 4, 17 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:15,960 the first foldable iPhone, ladies and gentlemen, 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,600 a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and the previously leaked camera-equipped AirPods, 19 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:26,480 which I'm still not totally sold on, but I'll just buy them anyway. But honestly, they can release whatever they want 20 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,520 as long as they keep pumping out these David Lynchian TikToks 21 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,680 of lemons and limes facetiming each other. They're like us. 22 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,760 We're the citrus. Squeeze me. 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,120 The Open Claw hype train has gone international. 24 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,160 A district in Shenzhen, China is drafting public policy 25 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,520 to encourage professional platforms to offer free Open Claw services 26 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,640 with subsidies of up to 2 million yuan for development. 27 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,160 In response, stocks linked to the extremely popular AI assistant 28 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,480 jumped over 9% and tech giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu 29 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,960 have all rushed to roll out deployment tools with developers from these companies 30 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:08,040 holding a public event outside the Tencent building to help people set up Open Claw for free. 31 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:13,400 Over in New York, more than 700 people packed a Manhattan venue for ClawCon, 32 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:20,840 where sponsors demoed deployment tools and the lobster-themed buffet put most weddings to shame, 33 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:26,080 except Indian weddings, their next level. If you're not aware of the hype, Open Claw is an open source AI personal assistant 34 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,720 that started as a weekend project and went viral almost immediately, like Floatplane. 35 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,920 Despite the love, Open Claw might be one of the biggest 36 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:39,080 security liabilities in open source software right now. Security researchers have flagged prompt injections, 37 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,080 supply chain vulnerabilities, and tens of thousands of publicly exposed instances 38 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,960 with unsafe defaults as the three biggest risks. 39 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,000 Over 300 skills on Open Claw's plug-in marketplace, Claw Hub, 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,560 turned out to be straight-up malware, including credential harvesters 41 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,020 and one crypto trading tool that opened a reverse shell to the attacker's server. 42 00:02:59,020 --> 00:03:04,280 But it's not just tech nubes exposing themselves to these risks. Why Combinator leadership recently showed up 43 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,240 to a podcast recording dressed like dickheads in full lobster outfits. 44 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:13,040 In all honesty, the tool must be genuinely amazing for people to put themselves at so much risk to use it, 45 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:19,120 which you can see even looking at its GitHub repo. Open Claw has almost 290,000 stars on GitHub, 46 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,680 which is insane when you learn that the Linux kernel, which runs basically everything in the world, 47 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,200 is only 222,000. Cool number though. Not if you use my distro, mine has more. 48 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,880 Nintendo's lawyers went absolutely sick, Omo, this week and filed a lawsuit against the US government, 49 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,440 proving that all those other lawsuits were just Nintendo's lawyers practicing 50 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,520 for their own personal Super Bowl. The company filed a complaint with the court of international trade on March 6th, 51 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,080 demanding a full refund of the tariffs it has paid, 52 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,240 plus interest at an exceptional rate. 53 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:54,560 Nintendo is trying to reclaim their share of the more than $200 billion the US government collected 54 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,880 thanks to last year's tariffs, which the Supreme Court recently ruled 55 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,040 were illegally imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 56 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:07,640 which surprisingly is a law intended to help solve international emergencies, not create them. 57 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,200 You were the voted one. February's ruling didn't automatically guarantee refunds. 58 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,520 So now Nintendo is going to court to get its money back. 59 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,160 While they're at it, they might have some other legal bones to pick with the Trump administration. 60 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,360 The official White House Twitter account had recently used artwork 61 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,320 from the dystopian farming horror game, Pokopia, in a MAGA meme without permission. 62 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,720 And back in September, the DHS posted a video that set ice raids 63 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,880 to the famous Smosh original song, Gotta Catch Them All. 64 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,200 Also fucked and also without permission. I think they might wanna start training their legal Pokemon roster 65 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,760 because Nintendo's already got a legendary. Phoenix Wright, use filibuster. 66 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,520 That's enough, come back. Now James, you sponsor Segway. 67 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,680 I'm a Pokemon now. The quick bits, like the boogie man, wait for you to fall asleep, 68 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,720 to come out and steal your left sock. Just the left one. 69 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:00,040 It's not the sock stealing that's meant to bother you. It's the wondering why. 70 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:05,640 Why didn't he want my other sock? Security researcher Andy Newn got Linux running on a PS5, 71 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:11,480 effectively turning Sony's console into a steam machine. And to prove it works, he ran GTA V enhanced edition 72 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,960 at a solid 60 FPS with ray tracing. There is a small catch though. 73 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,400 The exploit only works on very early firmware versions. 74 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,760 So if your PS5 has ever been updated past version 2.0, 75 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,400 you're out of luck. The UN says a full public release is coming before GTA 6, 76 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,120 which gives us a possible release window between tomorrow and literally any time after that 77 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,480 because GTA 6 isn't ever happening. Get it through your skull. 78 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:41,440 The whole trailer was CGI. Don't you get it? Samsung is restarting production of NVIDIA's RTX 3060, 79 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,240 a card discontinued back in 2024. On its eight nanometer node, 80 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,000 according to Korean news outlet, Hankyunk. Hankyunk. 81 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,040 NVIDIA's newer cards run on TSMC's four nanometer node, 82 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,080 which is maxed out making AI chips. So dusting off the old Samsung production line 83 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,920 shouldn't eat into Blackwell production at all. This is great news for budget gamers probably, 84 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:05,120 but it's like being stuck on a space station and hearing you'll get a fresh delivery of food paste tubes. 85 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,160 I need to get home. My children are probably finding a new dad bite now 86 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,320 because I'm grandpa's age. Relativity. 87 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:16,600 Relativity, no. X has added a new toggle that lets users block GROC 88 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,320 for modifying their uploaded photos. That's good. 89 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:27,840 This comes after the chatbot was infamously used to generate a mountain of deep fake nudes earlier this year. 90 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:34,080 X's initial move was to try and restrict the use of GROC's non-consensual deep fake image generation features 91 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:39,460 only to paying users, which managed to both miss the point and not work. 92 00:06:39,460 --> 00:06:45,080 After three months of S tier level software engineering, they finally released their ultimate solution, the toggle. 93 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,960 Unfortunately, the Verge tested it and found they could still edit protected images 94 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,920 by simply opening them in the GROC app. I guess after firing huge swaths of Twitter software engineers, 95 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,120 X still hasn't managed to hire any that know how to turn something off. 96 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,640 It's lost knowledge. The Mayans knew how to do it. 97 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:07,280 Qualcomm, which bought Arduino last year, just announced the Arduino Ventuno Q, 98 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,960 a single board computer aimed at AI robotics. 99 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,400 It's packing a dragon wing IQ8 processor 100 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,800 with a dedicated NPU, 16 gigs of RAM, and it's compatible with both Arduino UNO shields 101 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,120 and Raspberry Pi hats. The idea is that your robot brain and motor control 102 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,720 can live on one board instead of a mess of devices talking to each other. 103 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:33,280 It's slated for our Q2 2026 release at a price of just under $300, which seems okay. 104 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,560 Arduino, are you okay? Say a funny Italian thing if they're hurting you. 105 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,720 Ballerina cappuccina. Oh God. The London Clinic has performed 106 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:47,560 the UK's first remote tele-surgery. A surgeon in London removed a prostate cancer patient's 107 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,080 prostate while the patient was 1500 miles away 108 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,200 in Gibraltar with just 60 milliseconds of lag 109 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,800 in what the medical analysts are calling an epic gamer moment. 110 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,120 If you can do that with 60 milliseconds of lag, 111 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,720 you can shut up about Call of Duty. 112 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,440 The patient said it was a no-brainer to be the guinea pig and said he felt great just a few days after the operation. 113 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,600 This isn't the first time remote surgery has been done globally, but it does show the tech 114 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:20,120 is maturing to the point where specialists treating patients in remote areas could become less of a proof of concept 115 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:26,160 and more of a just normal thing you can do if you're rich. The patient said they've gone from being in the championship 116 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,600 to the champions league as far as surgeons are concerned, 117 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,680 which I'm assuming means something to British people. Happy for them. 118 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:37,920 That must be good, I guess. Good day, mate. If you know what would mean everything to me, 119 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,600 you coming back on Wednesday for more tech news. Bear in mind that if you don't, 120 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,240 it may haunt you and, by extension, your family. 121 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,680 This may sound like I'm threatening you into watching tech things, but that's because 122 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:52,120 the tech news threatened to haunt me and my family if I didn't. 123 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,360 We're all in a position. We're all victims.