WEBVTT 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? 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:08.560 Well, that was actually the tech news. Its goal is to unsettle you. 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:12.560 Apple may finally be planning to release its long-awaited HomePad, 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:16.560 something like a HomePod and an iPad, smashed together. 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:22.160 In fall, 2026, according to the leaker, Kousutami, who says they saw prototypes in person, 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.880 if they are a person. It must have been amazing. Kousutami and the original girl boy, 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:32.880 Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, say the HomePad will feature a MagSafe-like snap-to-wall mount 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 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, 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.200 but it was just recently delayed again to a fall launch 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:50.040 since AI-upgraded Siri still isn't ready, 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:54.160 but it will definitely be ready by then, most because she's powered by Gemini now. 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. 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:02.080 But Apple isn't finished with product releases this year. According to Gurman and others, 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:06.360 with the MacBook Neo launched, Apple is prepping more Ultra-tier products, 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.960 including an M5 Ultra Max Studio, Apple Watch Ultra 4, 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:15.960 the first foldable iPhone, ladies and gentlemen, 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.600 a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and the previously leaked camera-equipped AirPods, 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 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.520 as long as they keep pumping out these David Lynchian TikToks 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:33.680 of lemons and limes facetiming each other. They're like us. 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.760 We're the citrus. Squeeze me. 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.120 The Open Claw hype train has gone international. 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.160 A district in Shenzhen, China is drafting public policy 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:47.520 to encourage professional platforms to offer free Open Claw services 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:50.640 with subsidies of up to 2 million yuan for development. 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:54.160 In response, stocks linked to the extremely popular AI assistant 00:01:54.160 --> 00:01:58.480 jumped over 9% and tech giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:02.960 have all rushed to roll out deployment tools with developers from these companies 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. 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:13.400 Over in New York, more than 700 people packed a Manhattan venue for ClawCon, 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:20.840 where sponsors demoed deployment tools and the lobster-themed buffet put most weddings to shame, 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 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.720 that started as a weekend project and went viral almost immediately, like Floatplane. 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:33.920 Despite the love, Open Claw might be one of the biggest 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:39.080 security liabilities in open source software right now. Security researchers have flagged prompt injections, 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:43.080 supply chain vulnerabilities, and tens of thousands of publicly exposed instances 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.960 with unsafe defaults as the three biggest risks. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.000 Over 300 skills on Open Claw's plug-in marketplace, Claw Hub, 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.560 turned out to be straight-up malware, including credential harvesters 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.020 and one crypto trading tool that opened a reverse shell to the attacker's server. 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 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:08.240 to a podcast recording dressed like dickheads in full lobster outfits. 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, 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, 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, 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:28.200 is only 222,000. Cool number though. Not if you use my distro, mine has more. 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, 00:03:33.880 --> 00:03:37.440 proving that all those other lawsuits were just Nintendo's lawyers practicing 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, 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.080 demanding a full refund of the tariffs it has paid, 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.240 plus interest at an exceptional rate. 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 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.880 thanks to last year's tariffs, which the Supreme Court recently ruled 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:02.040 were illegally imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:07.640 which surprisingly is a law intended to help solve international emergencies, not create them. 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:13.200 You were the voted one. February's ruling didn't automatically guarantee refunds. 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:16.520 So now Nintendo is going to court to get its money back. 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. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.360 The official White House Twitter account had recently used artwork 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:28.320 from the dystopian farming horror game, Pokopia, in a MAGA meme without permission. 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:32.720 And back in September, the DHS posted a video that set ice raids 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.880 to the famous Smosh original song, Gotta Catch Them All. 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 00:04:40.200 --> 00:04:44.760 because Nintendo's already got a legendary. Phoenix Wright, use filibuster. 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:48.520 That's enough, come back. Now James, you sponsor Segway. 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, 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.720 to come out and steal your left sock. Just the left one. 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. 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, 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 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.960 at a solid 60 FPS with ray tracing. There is a small catch though. 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:19.400 The exploit only works on very early firmware versions. 00:05:19.400 --> 00:05:22.760 So if your PS5 has ever been updated past version 2.0, 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, 00:05:27.400 --> 00:05:32.120 which gives us a possible release window between tomorrow and literally any time after that 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.480 because GTA 6 isn't ever happening. Get it through your skull. 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, 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:45.240 a card discontinued back in 2024. On its eight nanometer node, 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:49.000 according to Korean news outlet, Hankyunk. Hankyunk. 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:52.040 NVIDIA's newer cards run on TSMC's four nanometer node, 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:56.080 which is maxed out making AI chips. So dusting off the old Samsung production line 00:05:56.080 --> 00:05:59.920 shouldn't eat into Blackwell production at all. This is great news for budget gamers probably, 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. 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.160 I need to get home. My children are probably finding a new dad bite now 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.320 because I'm grandpa's age. Relativity. 00:06:11.320 --> 00:06:16.600 Relativity, no. X has added a new toggle that lets users block GROC 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.320 for modifying their uploaded photos. That's good. 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. 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 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:39.460 only to paying users, which managed to both miss the point and not work. 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. 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:48.960 Unfortunately, the Verge tested it and found they could still edit protected images 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, 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.120 X still hasn't managed to hire any that know how to turn something off. 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.640 It's lost knowledge. The Mayans knew how to do it. 00:07:01.640 --> 00:07:07.280 Qualcomm, which bought Arduino last year, just announced the Arduino Ventuno Q, 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:10.960 a single board computer aimed at AI robotics. 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:14.400 It's packing a dragon wing IQ8 processor 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 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:24.120 and Raspberry Pi hats. The idea is that your robot brain and motor control 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.720 can live on one board instead of a mess of devices talking to each other. 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. 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:37.560 Arduino, are you okay? Say a funny Italian thing if they're hurting you. 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:41.720 Ballerina cappuccina. Oh God. The London Clinic has performed 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 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:51.080 prostate while the patient was 1500 miles away 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:54.200 in Gibraltar with just 60 milliseconds of lag 00:07:54.200 --> 00:07:57.800 in what the medical analysts are calling an epic gamer moment. 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.120 If you can do that with 60 milliseconds of lag, 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.720 you can shut up about Call of Duty. 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. 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 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 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 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.600 to the champions league as far as surgeons are concerned, 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.680 which I'm assuming means something to British people. Happy for them. 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, 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, 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.240 it may haunt you and, by extension, your family. 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.680 This may sound like I'm threatening you into watching tech things, but that's because 00:08:48.680 --> 00:08:52.120 the tech news threatened to haunt me and my family if I didn't. 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.360 We're all in a position. We're all victims.