WEBVTT 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. 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, 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:15.920 is leaving the company because, if his previous post as head of AMD's 00:00:15.920 --> 00:00:20.640 Radeon GPUs is any indication, launching new products that failed to live up to the hype 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.080 is kind of his MO. Hey, that's not nice. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:29.120 Okay, seriously, we needed Intel Arc GPUs, but they still need some work, 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.400 and he's moving on, so we can joke, right? Okay, we can be friends. 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:35.600 We can be friends, make jokes. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.200 Anyways, Raja's off to form his own gaming startup, focused on... 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 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:51.440 that are compatible with basically any processor, not just chips from NVIDIA. 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:54.880 It's only fair that Kaduri is taking the risk of going independent now, 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.160 having worked directly for Apple, AMD, and Intel. 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:02.960 I mean, how old is he? 55? Yeah, that's prime midlife crisis territory. 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.160 Again, this is not... He seems nice. I'm not trying to... 00:01:06.160 --> 00:01:08.480 It's just middle-aged man. Something happens up here, okay? 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.720 So, to Mr. Kaduri's credit, under his leadership while Intel's 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:16.400 Arc graphics cards suffered delays and initially lagged behind the competition 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.320 in terms of performance, that gap has started closing significantly 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, 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:31.600 making it a qualified success for Intel, which has otherwise had a pretty rough year. 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:36.080 Not rough as in sandpaper, rough as in getting dragged along the highway 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... 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:45.200 She did. The Windows 11 snipping tool and Windows 10 snipping sketch 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.360 have a bug where it may be possible to recover and view the original screenshot 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 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, 00:02:02.160 --> 00:02:05.200 they appear to have made the exact same error. 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:09.120 When the newly cropped image saves, it saves over the original image, 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. 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, 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.920 like say photo ID or important documents or genitalia, 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:32.320 that information may be recoverable. And by that information, I mean quite possibly an uncensored photo 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? 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 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:48.720 most popular OS, it may be possible to unredact sensitive information released 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:52.000 by reporters, whistleblowers, and government agencies. 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. 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. 00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:04.960 And Google is opening early access to its AI chatbot, 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.200 Bard, and the reviews are in. It's just okay. 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 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, 00:03:20.160 --> 00:03:24.000 but tech personalities like Marques Brownlee and Luke LaFrenier 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.880 have given this experimental version of Bard a resounding. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.680 If anything, Bard feels extremely cautious compared to everything else we've seen in 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:35.600 recent months, perhaps understandably so given past hiccups. 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:38.720 Bard's page is covered in disclaimers and caveats, 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:42.320 warning users that its output may not be fully trustworthy, 00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:45.760 and the waitlist is currently restricted to users 18 and older. 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:49.280 Just in case you might want to get into some saucy search engine roleplay. 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 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.160 to look at alternative drafts of Bard's responses, 00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:05.680 allowing users to contrast and compare. Unlike Bing, it doesn't always cite its sources, 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.720 which led to it answering a question from a Tom's hardware writer 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:12.640 with information taken word for word from a Tom's hardware article. 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:15.680 When the writer then asked if Bard had just committed plagiarism, 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.800 the AI fully agreed. You got me. 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 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:28.400 is that it's just as eloquent as Microsoft's new Bing, 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:31.520 it's also never threatened anyone, accused them of murder, 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:33.600 or tried to convince them to leave their spouse. 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. 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 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.560 which Adobe says have been trained without stealing the copyrighted work of artists, 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.320 only the freshest, locally sourced, organic stock photos. 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.960 Adobe will automatically tag content developed with Firefly as AI-assisted 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:04.240 and is developing a do-not-train metadata tag 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.920 for artists who don't want their work used to train AI art systems. 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 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:18.640 and then combining them into a massive underwear database, then procedurally generating remarkably similar underpants 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:22.320 without proper attribution. It's a real problem in the hotel industry. 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:25.360 Step four, profit. At some point. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.560 DPReview, one of the world's best resources on cameras, 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.600 is being shut down because they're owned by Amazon, 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.680 a company that infamously does not care about the quality of consumer reviews. 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.280 DPReview has been providing detailed, comprehensive reviews on cameras 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:44.480 for the past 25 years, serving the enthusiast community with invaluable information, 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:49.840 something that didn't change when they were subsumed by Amazon's amorphous mass in 2007. 00:05:53.520 --> 00:05:54.720 No lunch breaks. 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:00.800 Get in the happy box. But Amazon needs to make cuts, 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.400 and clearly the best place to start is a successful enthusiast resource 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:06.800 with a powerful brand and hundreds of thousands of fans. 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 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.960 will arrive this summer as a free update to CSGO, 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:20.000 complete with overhauled visuals, volumetric smoke grenades, 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.200 and what Valve calls sub-tick update architecture, 00:06:23.200 --> 00:06:26.480 meaning that the speed of players' actions won't rely on their tick rate. 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, 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. 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.320 What is too bad is EA delisting Battlefield 1943 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. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.760 Sure, we could change the game so that you can buy it 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:51.040 and play the single player without requiring it to call our servers first, 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.240 but honestly, we're kind of warming up to the whole piracy thing, 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. 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:01.520 They want you to steal it. Hackers have stolen one and a half million dollars 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:05.040 worth of digital dash from cryptocurrency ATMs 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:11.120 due to an unusual zero-day vulnerability. The terminals allowed customers to exchange various cryptocurrencies. 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. 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 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.240 which then drained several hot wallets, which are like regular wallets, 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.600 except they're connected to the internet and they're incredibly sexy. 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 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. 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. 00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:54.000 The compound in question is uracil, one of the four nucleobases that form RNA 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.040 and not actually medication for people within continents. 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, 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.560 which means exactly what it sounds like. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:12.640 While most scientists believe life on Earth arose from a warm mixture of organic compounds 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 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 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? 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:36.880 I want to believe. I always thought I was different. 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. 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.360 I keep telling you this. 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