WEBVTT 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 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 00:00:14.900 --> 00:00:20.000 working on Android, and the return of the green bubble had everyone feeling blue. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:28.240 Until this morning, when Beeper apparently found another workaround and fixed it! 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, 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 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 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:49.280 encrypted iMessage, and it's a good point, blocking a service that allows sons to safely 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:53.720 message their mom so without having to buy them iPhones sort of contradicts the privacy 00:00:54.720 --> 00:01:00.040 Apple has developed by, for example, commissioning an independent study to emphasize the importance 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 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 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:20.040 effing iPhone! Apple claims that Beeper Mini exploits fake credentials to access iMessage using techniques 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 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 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:36.000 again, because your mom deserves an iPhone. 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 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:47.320 after 36 hours of negotiation spread over three days. 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:52.160 Fortunately, the toilets come equipped with bidets. Otherwise, negotiation could have gotten ugly. 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:56.320 The Artificial Intelligence Act marks the world's first comprehensive legislation for 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.920 the use of AI, governing device of issues like predictive policing and facial recognition. 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 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 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:19.480 relied on the possibility of such a system to make their lazily written dystopias somewhat 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:25.520 believable. Another unhappy group is Amnesty International, who, downers, expressed their disappointment 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.840 that a full ban on facial recognition was not implemented, as they believe this would 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 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:45.640 in 2025. Of course, the EU is politely asking everyone to just follow the rules now. 00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:49.560 I'm sure everyone unethically using AI to bake a buck will get right on that. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:59.520 Elon Musk's maximum truth-seeking GROC AI is making headlines for ripping its outputs 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. 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 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.000 the spicy questions other chatbots wouldn't. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:19.640 Yet when Twitter enthusiast and young adult novel protagonist Jax Winterborn tried to 00:03:19.640 --> 00:03:25.360 get GROC to modify some malware, ostensibly for security testing, the chatbot refused. 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.560 Not because of its own policies, but because assisting in the creation of malware goes 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:33.800 against open AI's use case policy. My friend wouldn't like that. 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 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. 00:03:44.600 --> 00:03:48.120 This is interesting because some research suggests large language models trained on 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:53.520 random AI-generated content suffer irreversible defects, though curated synthetic training 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 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 00:04:05.320 --> 00:04:08.440 away from Twitter. We can tweet a little bit more. Sabotrack! 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 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:15.320 of corporal being for long enough to use the bathroom. 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, 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:25.240 according to Keeper of Apple lore, his Girm ship, Mark German. 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 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.760 to get trained on how to set up and use the Vision Pro. 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:37.440 Those workers will then return from Mount Sinai with stone tablets upon which shall be written 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:41.400 The Divine Commandments concerning how to sell AR goggles to moms. 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 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:50.400 probably still be that. An embarrassment of riches. 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 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:01.600 pumps in four of its MAG core liquid e-cooler models. 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:06.760 According to a translation of the press release when operating between 1600 and 1800 RPM, the 00:05:06.760 --> 00:05:11.080 impeller in these faulty pumps would make contact with the pump's cavity. 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. 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:19.640 However, this appears to be an issue with quality control rather than an overall flaw 00:05:19.640 --> 00:05:24.080 in the design. It's unclear why this was only announced by MSI Japan. 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. 00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:32.080 Wakara and I. Maybe that's right. 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:38.280 Apple again. Apple again is reportedly planning to financially incentivize musicians to record in Dolby Atmos 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:42.200 an immersive surround sound format that many popular music streaming services, including 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:45.720 Spotify, don't even support. But Tidal does. 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:54.400 According to Bloomberg sources, Apple plans to weigh streams of songs mixed in Dolby Atmos 00:05:54.400 --> 00:05:59.880 more heavily in its royalty system, potentially resulting in significantly higher payments. 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 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:07.480 is in the room with you, lurking just outside your peripheral vision, watching, waiting, 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.680 judging, look at the baby, look at the baby. 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 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.000 about users from the images in their Google photos. 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:26.520 God. You can separate your life into chapters like specific vacation or your school years, plus 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, 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 00:06:38.280 --> 00:06:44.000 justice. Richard David Elmin was a literary critic who wrote biographies about pivotal writers 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. 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:57.800 And researchers have developed VR goggles for mice, while scientists have been trying 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.920 to simulate environments to study mouse brains for years. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.320 A team at Northwestern University didn't think the flat displays typically used were 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:09.320 a mess. 00:07:09.320 --> 00:07:14.360 The new VR apparatus has also allowed the simulation of overhead threats for the first 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. 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. 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 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. 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:34.440 You're free!