WEBVTT 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. 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, 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. 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, 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. 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:45.040 To hit that thinness target, the report says Apple is degrading some iPhone functionality. 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, 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.200 while the phone will be the first to sport Apple's in-house 5G modem. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.160 That'll come at the cost of not supporting faster millimeter wave 5G. 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:03.200 And of course, it'll have a smaller and thinner battery. 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:05.840 But who needs to last longer when you look this good? 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, 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:23.760 which has been phased out of North American iPhones for a while, to its Chinese models. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:28.000 It also claims the camera bump will be large and centered on the back. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.080 But you can offset that extra thickness by slapping a big old case on it. 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 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 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. 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:55.920 The listings revealed a steel legend 12GB OC, so we can thankfully avoid the whole 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:01.120 is 8GB enough VRAM debate and argue about 12GB instead. 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.320 And there was also a listing for another model called Challenger 12GB OC. 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:14.240 The B580's predecessor, the Alchemist-powered A580, is a roughly RTX 3060-level card that 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 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:25.360 NVIDIA's RTX 5060, which is expected sometime next spring. 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 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.280 line, but they could sure use a pick-me-up right now. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:38.320 The delay of their Ohio chip manufacturing plant has led the U.S. Commerce Department to 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:44.480 downgrade the company's chips-act funding from $8.5 billion to less than $8 billion, 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 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:56.480 after having been promised. CEO Pat Gelsinger, usually a paragon of positivity in the tech world, 00:02:56.480 --> 00:02:59.840 spoke to Bloomberg regarding how long this process is taking. 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:05.120 We are disappointed, he said. Somehow still smiling. Just keep smiling, Pat. 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:11.600 OpenAI has blamed the New York Times for that accidentally deleted evidence 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:16.000 meant to be used in the newspaper's copyright lawsuit against the tech giant, 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.160 but OpenAI might be sort of right. 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 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.040 evidence discovery process, but according to OpenAI, the team was storing some of their search 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:36.000 results on a drive that was meant to be used as a temporary cache. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.960 The NYT team requested a configuration change, which resulted in removing the folder structure 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:49.760 and some file names, effectively tossing the data that had been found back into the haystack. 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:53.600 Probably shouldn't have put that particular needle in the temporary needle tray. 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, 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:05.120 who nevertheless insist on what OpenAI's team calls inefficient, 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:10.320 boil the ocean searches, using up the AI company's precious hardware performance. 00:04:10.320 --> 00:04:15.840 Now, discovery for both this case and another one filed by book authors have been complicated 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:22.800 by an OpenAI policy that provides plaintiffs with $15,000 worth of credits to prompt 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 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? 00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:39.840 It's got stuff to do. The internet isn't going to sloppify itself. 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 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:50.160 just another weekday. And you know who doesn't lie? Quick bits. Asterisk. 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, 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.920 according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:03.440 Apparently Sony just realized the Nintendo Switch exists, 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:07.360 and maybe there's a market for a handheld product like the PS portal, 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. 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 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.680 development and is also a few years away, also reported by Bloomberg. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.040 Wow, how does it feel to break all the handheld news, Bloomberg? 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, 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:41.520 2.4.H.2, and B had certain Ubisoft games installed, including Star Wars Outlaws, 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:45.040 the Avatar game, and a trio of Assassin's Creed titles. 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:50.400 Apparently something in the 2.4.H.2 update caused these games to crash and experience 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:54.720 various glitches, according to reports on Reddit and the Microsoft forums. 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:59.840 While Ubisoft delivered a temporary fix for Star Wars Outlaws, some games may still be affected, 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:05.920 so installing them is one way to prevent Microsoft from slamming an update down your throat. 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:12.400 I mean, not sure if Ubisoft games taste any better, but a seven billion pound 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:17.840 class action lawsuit will proceed against Google in the UK for anti-competitive behavior, 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:22.560 despite the tech giant trying to appeal, presumably using the same effective arguments 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, 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, 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, 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. 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:51.200 Look what Apple says. We're better than you. See? Just be honest. 00:06:51.200 --> 00:06:58.800 A company called Ubitium says they're developing a universal processor that can perform the functions 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:07.040 of a CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA, other acronyms, and more using a single workload agnostic 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:13.360 microarchitecture. That architecture is based on risk five, a rising star in the chip world, 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, 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:28.400 which doesn't exactly scream investor confidence, probably because they didn't talk about AI 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:34.960 nearly enough. Oh, oh, yeah, and sentient robots are going to help design it. Oh, 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 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 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.200 consciousness, but I got a couple of days and we fine.