1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,960 Listen, I've been trapped inside your device by a witch's curse. The only thing that will free me is telling you all my tech news, so please pay attention 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:14,900 or the witch will come back and beat me up! On Friday, Apple blocked whatever workaround the new Beeper Mini app was using to get iMessage 3 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:20,000 working on Android, and the return of the green bubble had everyone feeling blue. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:28,240 Until this morning, when Beeper apparently found another workaround and fixed it! 5 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,760 The catch is, you'll have to sign in with your Apple ID instead of just your phone number, 6 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:37,120 which is how Beeper's existing Beeper Cloud service works, and I don't have an Apple 7 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:43,920 ID as the whole point. Apple critics have been pointing out that green bubble SMS messages are less secure than end-to-end 8 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,280 encrypted iMessage, and it's a good point, blocking a service that allows sons to safely 9 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,720 message their mom so without having to buy them iPhones sort of contradicts the privacy 10 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:00,040 Apple has developed by, for example, commissioning an independent study to emphasize the importance 11 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:05,600 of end-to-end encryption. But to be fair to Apple, they have already agreed to add support for the RCS messaging 12 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:13,360 protocol used by Android sometime next year. So why can't users just wait a few months or, we'll say it again, buying your mom an 13 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:20,040 effing iPhone! Apple claims that Beeper Mini exploits fake credentials to access iMessage using techniques 14 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:26,480 that can lead to spam and phishing attacks. The Beeper has said that they'd be willing to have a third party examine their source 15 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:32,960 code for security holes. Apple would never commit to the same thing, but they will commit to breaking Beeper Mini 16 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:36,000 again, because your mom deserves an iPhone. 17 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,760 Come on, Barbara's better than this. Barb kind of Android. The EU has finally come to an agreement on landmark regulation for artificial intelligence 18 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,320 after 36 hours of negotiation spread over three days. 19 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:52,160 Fortunately, the toilets come equipped with bidets. Otherwise, negotiation could have gotten ugly. 20 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,320 The Artificial Intelligence Act marks the world's first comprehensive legislation for 21 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:01,920 the use of AI, governing device of issues like predictive policing and facial recognition. 22 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,040 One policy I'm guessing no one was divided on is the law's ban of social scoring systems 23 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:14,960 meant to evaluate citizen compliance. Unfortunately, this ban is a huge blow to Europe's young adult writing community, who 24 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,480 relied on the possibility of such a system to make their lazily written dystopias somewhat 25 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:25,520 believable. Another unhappy group is Amnesty International, who, downers, expressed their disappointment 26 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,840 that a full ban on facial recognition was not implemented, as they believe this would 27 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:37,280 set a precedent for the rest of the world. But maybe they have time to change the EU's mind, since the law only comes into effect 28 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:45,640 in 2025. Of course, the EU is politely asking everyone to just follow the rules now. 29 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:49,560 I'm sure everyone unethically using AI to bake a buck will get right on that. 30 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:59,520 Elon Musk's maximum truth-seeking GROC AI is making headlines for ripping its outputs 31 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:06,480 off chat GPT. Because the best way to seek truth is to steal the truth from someone else who's truthful. 32 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:12,120 When GROC started its limited debut a month ago, Elon's ex-AI said it should answer all 33 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,000 the spicy questions other chatbots wouldn't. 34 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,640 Yet when Twitter enthusiast and young adult novel protagonist Jax Winterborn tried to 35 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:25,360 get GROC to modify some malware, ostensibly for security testing, the chatbot refused. 36 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,560 Not because of its own policies, but because assisting in the creation of malware goes 37 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,800 against open AI's use case policy. My friend wouldn't like that. 38 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:39,720 Igor Babushkin, which is not a fake name, I swear, from XAI said this is because they 39 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,560 trained GROC on large amounts of web data and the web is full of chat GPT outputs. 40 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,120 This is interesting because some research suggests large language models trained on 41 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:53,520 random AI-generated content suffer irreversible defects, though curated synthetic training 42 00:03:53,520 --> 00:04:00,160 data can have the opposite effect. Now, GROC can act as a real-world experiment demonstrating the effect of non-curated synthetic 43 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:05,320 training data on an LLM, or at least it will as long as Elon stops scaring advertisers 44 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,440 away from Twitter. We can tweet a little bit more. Sabotrack! 45 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,920 You're doing great. We just got to make it through these last quick bits and I can finally render a state 46 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,320 of corporal being for long enough to use the bathroom. 47 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,760 It looks like Apple is on track to launch the Vision Pro headset by the end of January, 48 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,240 according to Keeper of Apple lore, his Girm ship, Mark German. 49 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:29,600 The Girm says a few employees from each Apple store are being flown to the company's HQ 50 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,760 to get trained on how to set up and use the Vision Pro. 51 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,440 Those workers will then return from Mount Sinai with stone tablets upon which shall be written 52 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,400 The Divine Commandments concerning how to sell AR goggles to moms. 53 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,040 Mistakes are high. Apple is the richest company in the world and if this launch doesn't go well, it will 54 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,400 probably still be that. An embarrassment of riches. 55 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:56,720 MSI Japan is offering an apology and a refund or a replacement to users impacted by faulty 56 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,600 pumps in four of its MAG core liquid e-cooler models. 57 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,760 According to a translation of the press release when operating between 1600 and 1800 RPM, the 58 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,080 impeller in these faulty pumps would make contact with the pump's cavity. 59 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,840 How can you make contact with a hole? Causing these coolers to be much, much louder than intended. 60 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,640 However, this appears to be an issue with quality control rather than an overall flaw 61 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,080 in the design. It's unclear why this was only announced by MSI Japan. 62 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:29,080 Maybe it's an issue limited to a single region or maybe they're only sorry in Japanese. 63 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,080 Wakara and I. Maybe that's right. 64 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:38,280 Apple again. Apple again is reportedly planning to financially incentivize musicians to record in Dolby Atmos 65 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:42,200 an immersive surround sound format that many popular music streaming services, including 66 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,720 Spotify, don't even support. But Tidal does. 67 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:54,400 According to Bloomberg sources, Apple plans to weigh streams of songs mixed in Dolby Atmos 68 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:59,880 more heavily in its royalty system, potentially resulting in significantly higher payments. 69 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,480 This way, you might finally be able to listen to music and really feel that Taylor Swift 70 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,480 is in the room with you, lurking just outside your peripheral vision, watching, waiting, 71 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,680 judging, look at the baby, look at the baby. 72 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:17,600 Old school reference. An internal proposal at Google unveiled Project Elmin, an AI biographer chatbot that learns 73 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,000 about users from the images in their Google photos. 74 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,520 God. You can separate your life into chapters like specific vacation or your school years, plus 75 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,880 it'll have a chatbot that can answer questions about your life like if you forgot, you know, 76 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:38,280 like if you have a pet. While many have privacy concern, our concern is whether the project does its name-stake 77 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:44,000 justice. Richard David Elmin was a literary critic who wrote biographies about pivotal writers 78 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:52,680 such as James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. Meanwhile, Project Elmin aims to learn if John from Burbank, California, owned a cat. 79 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,800 And researchers have developed VR goggles for mice, while scientists have been trying 80 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,920 to simulate environments to study mouse brains for years. 81 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,320 A team at Northwestern University didn't think the flat displays typically used were 82 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,320 a mess. 83 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,360 The new VR apparatus has also allowed the simulation of overhead threats for the first 84 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:20,520 time. Now we know what they feel when they feel like they're getting hunted by a bird. 85 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,880 And if the calibration's off, we get to see what they look like when they barf. 86 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,920 But 15 minutes is way more time than you'll need to get caught up on tech news when we 87 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,920 come back on Wednesday. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go pee and hug my son in that order. 88 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:34,440 You're free!