1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 It's Black Friday week, which means you sacrifice your bank account balance to improve the health of the economy. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:17,320 And you get AirPods for it, I guess. Apple's going to be making some sacrifices to achieve a thinner body for the iPhone 17 Air rumor to launch next year, 3 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:22,760 which I'm planning on buying just so I can reassure it that it'll always be beautiful no matter what. 4 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:31,280 You encounter that programming. An insider report by the information claims the iPhone Air will be between 5 and 6mm thin, 5 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:39,120 compared to the 7.8 and 8.25mm thicknesses of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro models respectively. 6 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,040 To hit that thinness target, the report says Apple is degrading some iPhone functionality. 7 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,960 The Air will sport a single speaker in the earpiece, dropping the one usually located on the bottom, 8 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,200 while the phone will be the first to sport Apple's in-house 5G modem. 9 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,160 That'll come at the cost of not supporting faster millimeter wave 5G. 10 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,200 And of course, it'll have a smaller and thinner battery. 11 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,840 But who needs to last longer when you look this good? 12 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:18,800 Did that look good? Interestingly, the report says that the thinner design may not stop Apple from adding a physical SIM card tray, 13 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,760 which has been phased out of North American iPhones for a while, to its Chinese models. 14 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,000 It also claims the camera bump will be large and centered on the back. 15 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,080 But you can offset that extra thickness by slapping a big old case on it. 16 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:39,040 Rumors of an impending launch for Intel's next-gen Battle Mage ARC gaming GPUs had some fuel added 17 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:45,360 to the fire this weekend when Amazon listings for ASRock versions of the ARC B580 were spotted 18 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,600 by video cards with a Z, a letter I often wish I could add to my own name. 19 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:55,920 The listings revealed a steel legend 12GB OC, so we can thankfully avoid the whole 20 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,120 is 8GB enough VRAM debate and argue about 12GB instead. 21 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,320 And there was also a listing for another model called Challenger 12GB OC. 22 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:14,240 The B580's predecessor, the Alchemist-powered A580, is a roughly RTX 3060-level card that 23 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:20,640 launched for just $179 about a year ago, so hopefully the B580 has something to say to 24 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,360 NVIDIA's RTX 5060, which is expected sometime next spring. 25 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,240 Because I don't know how much releasing a good graphics card would actually help Intel's bottom 26 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,280 line, but they could sure use a pick-me-up right now. 27 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,320 The delay of their Ohio chip manufacturing plant has led the U.S. Commerce Department to 28 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:44,480 downgrade the company's chips-act funding from $8.5 billion to less than $8 billion, 29 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,920 which would mean a bit more if any of that money had actually reached Intel two years 30 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:56,480 after having been promised. CEO Pat Gelsinger, usually a paragon of positivity in the tech world, 31 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,840 spoke to Bloomberg regarding how long this process is taking. 32 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:05,120 We are disappointed, he said. Somehow still smiling. Just keep smiling, Pat. 33 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:11,600 OpenAI has blamed the New York Times for that accidentally deleted evidence 34 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,000 meant to be used in the newspaper's copyright lawsuit against the tech giant, 35 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,160 but OpenAI might be sort of right. 36 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:25,680 See, the NYT legal team was given access to look through OpenAI servers as part of the 37 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:31,040 evidence discovery process, but according to OpenAI, the team was storing some of their search 38 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:36,000 results on a drive that was meant to be used as a temporary cache. 39 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,960 The NYT team requested a configuration change, which resulted in removing the folder structure 40 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:49,760 and some file names, effectively tossing the data that had been found back into the haystack. 41 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,600 Probably shouldn't have put that particular needle in the temporary needle tray. 42 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:00,080 Why do we have that? No one knows. OpenAI offered multiple times to perform searches for the New York Times, 43 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,120 who nevertheless insist on what OpenAI's team calls inefficient, 44 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,320 boil the ocean searches, using up the AI company's precious hardware performance. 45 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:15,840 Now, discovery for both this case and another one filed by book authors have been complicated 46 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:22,800 by an OpenAI policy that provides plaintiffs with $15,000 worth of credits to prompt 47 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:29,280 OpenAI's LLMs to try and get the evidence and then charges them half the retail cost 48 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:36,320 once they use those credits up. I mean, what? You expect OpenAI to just let the lawyers bother chat GPT all day? 49 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,840 It's got stuff to do. The internet isn't going to sloppify itself. 50 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:45,120 It's like every day this week is Black Friday, but that's a lie because the next day is always 51 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:50,160 just another weekday. And you know who doesn't lie? Quick bits. Asterisk. 52 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:56,720 Sony is working on a proper handheld device that can play PS5 games, although it's a few years away, 53 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,920 according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. 54 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:03,440 Apparently Sony just realized the Nintendo Switch exists, 55 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,360 and maybe there's a market for a handheld product like the PS portal, 56 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,480 but which appeals to someone other than dads who have to constantly let their family use the TV. 57 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:19,360 The sacrifice of a father. The report comes a couple weeks after Phil Spencer confirmed that an Xbox handheld is in 58 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,680 development and is also a few years away, also reported by Bloomberg. 59 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,040 Wow, how does it feel to break all the handheld news, Bloomberg? 60 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:35,600 They just all want to talk to me. I don't know. Microsoft blocked Windows updates from systems which A had already updated to Windows 11, 61 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,520 2.4.H.2, and B had certain Ubisoft games installed, including Star Wars Outlaws, 62 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,040 the Avatar game, and a trio of Assassin's Creed titles. 63 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,400 Apparently something in the 2.4.H.2 update caused these games to crash and experience 64 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,720 various glitches, according to reports on Reddit and the Microsoft forums. 65 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,840 While Ubisoft delivered a temporary fix for Star Wars Outlaws, some games may still be affected, 66 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:05,920 so installing them is one way to prevent Microsoft from slamming an update down your throat. 67 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:12,400 I mean, not sure if Ubisoft games taste any better, but a seven billion pound 68 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,840 class action lawsuit will proceed against Google in the UK for anti-competitive behavior, 69 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:22,560 despite the tech giant trying to appeal, presumably using the same effective arguments 70 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,040 that led to them losing a similar lawsuit in the US. But they think differently over there, 71 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:34,240 though they talk like this. It could work. The lawsuit concerns the usual Google stuff. They control the search engine, 72 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,640 and the browser, and the mobile OS used by the most people, and it's all tied together, 73 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:46,480 and they pay billions of dollars to have other companies use search, but Google keeps getting sued because they're weird about it. Just admit you want a monopoly. 74 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,200 Look what Apple says. We're better than you. See? Just be honest. 75 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:58,800 A company called Ubitium says they're developing a universal processor that can perform the functions 76 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:07,040 of a CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA, other acronyms, and more using a single workload agnostic 77 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:13,360 microarchitecture. That architecture is based on risk five, a rising star in the chip world, 78 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:22,240 which I think might be going to its head a little bit. The idea sounds awesome, but Ubitium's seed funding round just raised 3.7 million dollars, 79 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:28,400 which doesn't exactly scream investor confidence, probably because they didn't talk about AI 80 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:34,960 nearly enough. Oh, oh, yeah, and sentient robots are going to help design it. Oh, 81 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:39,520 why didn't you say so here? Hey, if you want sentient robots to give you the tech news on 82 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,720 Wednesday, I can make that happen. You know, we'll have to have to solve the hard problem of 83 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,200 consciousness, but I got a couple of days and we fine.