1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 Tech stuff happens, so we're here doing a video about it. It's like a company fires off an email, and now I have to work. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:11,920 I have breaks, you know. See, how does this make sense? This is Raja Kaduri, chief architect of Intel's discreet graphics cards, 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,920 is leaving the company because, if his previous post as head of AMD's 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,640 Radeon GPUs is any indication, launching new products that failed to live up to the hype 5 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,080 is kind of his MO. Hey, that's not nice. 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,120 Okay, seriously, we needed Intel Arc GPUs, but they still need some work, 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,400 and he's moving on, so we can joke, right? Okay, we can be friends. 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,600 We can be friends, make jokes. 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,200 Anyways, Raja's off to form his own gaming startup, focused on... 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,800 What else? AI. It'll apparently focus on creating generative AI tools for movies, games, and other media 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,440 that are compatible with basically any processor, not just chips from NVIDIA. 12 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,880 It's only fair that Kaduri is taking the risk of going independent now, 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,160 having worked directly for Apple, AMD, and Intel. 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,960 I mean, how old is he? 55? Yeah, that's prime midlife crisis territory. 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,160 Again, this is not... He seems nice. I'm not trying to... 16 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,480 It's just middle-aged man. Something happens up here, okay? 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,720 So, to Mr. Kaduri's credit, under his leadership while Intel's 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,400 Arc graphics cards suffered delays and initially lagged behind the competition 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,320 in terms of performance, that gap has started closing significantly 20 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:27,040 as Intel releases improved drivers. It was the first time that a major player entered the dedicated graphics market in years, 21 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,600 making it a qualified success for Intel, which has otherwise had a pretty rough year. 22 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,080 Not rough as in sandpaper, rough as in getting dragged along the highway 23 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,360 with your ankle caught in a tow rope. Okay, I didn't write that one. That was... 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,200 She did. The Windows 11 snipping tool and Windows 10 snipping sketch 25 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,360 have a bug where it may be possible to recover and view the original screenshot 26 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:55,120 after it has been cropped or censored. Now, if that sounds familiar, it might be because basically the same issue 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:02,160 was patched on the Google Pixel earlier this week. Despite the fact that Microsoft and Google built these tools entirely separately, 28 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,200 they appear to have made the exact same error. 29 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,120 When the newly cropped image saves, it saves over the original image, 30 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:16,560 but that new image is smaller than the original image. And much like a large man in a tiny thong, it doesn't cover everything. 31 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,560 What this means is that if you had something in a picture that you didn't want people to see, 32 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,920 like say photo ID or important documents or genitalia, 33 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:32,320 that information may be recoverable. And by that information, I mean quite possibly an uncensored photo 34 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:38,080 of your social insurance number and or penis. What if it's my social insurance number written along with me? 35 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:44,000 What if that's where I keep it? Even worse, given the widespread use of a screenshot editor on literally the world's 36 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,720 most popular OS, it may be possible to unredact sensitive information released 37 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,000 by reporters, whistleblowers, and government agencies. 38 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,120 So, Julie and Assange might still be locked up, but I think we're about to learn some stuff. 39 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,600 Is he locked up? Oh, he is in prison. Yes. Fantastic. I mean, that's not fantastic, but okay. 40 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,960 And Google is opening early access to its AI chatbot, 41 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,200 Bard, and the reviews are in. It's just okay. 42 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:14,640 I mean, it's a chatbot. There's been like a million of these things at this point, and I'm starting to get their names confused 43 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:20,160 like a forgetful uncle who never calls. For a long time, Google was the big dog in the AI space, 44 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,000 but tech personalities like Marques Brownlee and Luke LaFrenier 45 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,880 have given this experimental version of Bard a resounding. 46 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,680 If anything, Bard feels extremely cautious compared to everything else we've seen in 47 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,600 recent months, perhaps understandably so given past hiccups. 48 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,720 Bard's page is covered in disclaimers and caveats, 49 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,320 warning users that its output may not be fully trustworthy, 50 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,760 and the waitlist is currently restricted to users 18 and older. 51 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,280 Just in case you might want to get into some saucy search engine roleplay. 52 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:56,960 A lot of people do that. One interesting addition to the AI chatbot formula is that Google has included an option 53 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,160 to look at alternative drafts of Bard's responses, 54 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:05,680 allowing users to contrast and compare. Unlike Bing, it doesn't always cite its sources, 55 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,720 which led to it answering a question from a Tom's hardware writer 56 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,640 with information taken word for word from a Tom's hardware article. 57 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,680 When the writer then asked if Bard had just committed plagiarism, 58 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,800 the AI fully agreed. You got me. 59 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:24,960 Guilty as charged. They're still working on me, so even if the best thing we can say about Bard right now 60 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,400 is that it's just as eloquent as Microsoft's new Bing, 61 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,520 it's also never threatened anyone, accused them of murder, 62 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,600 or tried to convince them to leave their spouse. 63 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,800 Yet, give it time. They call me the quick-bit kid, and I'm the quickest bit in the west. 64 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:47,600 No one's really checked as though so. Adobe has launched the beta of Firefly, a set of generative AI tools 65 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,560 which Adobe says have been trained without stealing the copyrighted work of artists, 66 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,320 only the freshest, locally sourced, organic stock photos. 67 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,960 Adobe will automatically tag content developed with Firefly as AI-assisted 68 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,240 and is developing a do-not-train metadata tag 69 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,920 for artists who don't want their work used to train AI art systems. 70 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,960 It's like one of those do-not-disturb signs that stop hotel maids from stealing guests' underpants 71 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,640 and then combining them into a massive underwear database, then procedurally generating remarkably similar underpants 72 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,320 without proper attribution. It's a real problem in the hotel industry. 73 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,360 Step four, profit. At some point. 74 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,560 DPReview, one of the world's best resources on cameras, 75 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,600 is being shut down because they're owned by Amazon, 76 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,680 a company that infamously does not care about the quality of consumer reviews. 77 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,280 DPReview has been providing detailed, comprehensive reviews on cameras 78 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:44,480 for the past 25 years, serving the enthusiast community with invaluable information, 79 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,840 something that didn't change when they were subsumed by Amazon's amorphous mass in 2007. 80 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:54,720 No lunch breaks. 81 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:00,800 Get in the happy box. But Amazon needs to make cuts, 82 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,400 and clearly the best place to start is a successful enthusiast resource 83 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,800 with a powerful brand and hundreds of thousands of fans. 84 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,360 Don't even, don't really need that. Valve suddenly announced this morning that Counter-Strike 2 85 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,960 will arrive this summer as a free update to CSGO, 86 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,000 complete with overhauled visuals, volumetric smoke grenades, 87 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,200 and what Valve calls sub-tick update architecture, 88 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,480 meaning that the speed of players' actions won't rely on their tick rate. 89 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,840 We'll have to wait to hear about more features, which will be announced closer to launch, 90 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,160 but since the sequel took 23 years to come out a few months, it's not bad. 91 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,320 What is too bad is EA delisting Battlefield 1943 92 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:44,160 and both bad companies from digital stores in advance of their online services shutting down in December. 93 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,760 Sure, we could change the game so that you can buy it 94 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,040 and play the single player without requiring it to call our servers first, 95 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,240 but honestly, we're kind of warming up to the whole piracy thing, 96 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,680 is probably what they're thinking. I have to imagine. That's the only thing that makes sense. 97 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,520 They want you to steal it. Hackers have stolen one and a half million dollars 98 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,040 worth of digital dash from cryptocurrency ATMs 99 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:11,120 due to an unusual zero-day vulnerability. The terminals allowed customers to exchange various cryptocurrencies. 100 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:16,960 That part makes sense. Or they could also, for some unclear reason, upload videos to the ATM. 101 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:26,160 It's just for Rick Rowling. The hacker used this system to upload and execute a malicious program 102 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,240 which then drained several hot wallets, which are like regular wallets, 103 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,600 except they're connected to the internet and they're incredibly sexy. 104 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,960 What's a cold wallet then? It's where you put your bitcoin in a USB drive 105 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,640 and hide it under your mattress. That's actually just not a joke. That's just what it is. 106 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:49,200 And scientists have found a key compound for the formation of organic life in samples taken from an asteroid. 107 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,000 The compound in question is uracil, one of the four nucleobases that form RNA 108 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,040 and not actually medication for people within continents. 109 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:04,160 That's where I thought it was. This is the strongest evidence yet discovered of a theory known as panspermia, 110 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,560 which means exactly what it sounds like. 111 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,640 While most scientists believe life on Earth arose from a warm mixture of organic compounds 112 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:19,680 that started getting uppity one day, it's possible that those compounds originated somewhere other than Earth 113 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:25,760 and traveled here on meteorites. It's also possible that the sample may have been contaminated somehow 114 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:32,400 or altered by its passage through the atmosphere, but let me dream my possibly extraterrestrial dreams, okay? 115 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,880 I want to believe. I always thought I was different. 116 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:42,320 And you don't have to dream about getting more tech news if you just show up on Friday when we post another episode. 117 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,360 I keep telling you this. Just subscribe. 118 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,360 Just don't be late.