1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,080 Sometimes, tech news can be so confusing. It's like learning another language. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,640 Well, one of those can be a lot easier. Thanks to Babbel, today's sponsor, especially with 60% off on subscription. 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,960 Huh, what? Don't worry, we'll tell you about it later. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,000 Google has lost its court battle with the U.S. Department of Justice, 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,840 who initially sued the tech giant for violating antitrust laws back in 2020. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,960 Because Google is used for more than 90% of search queries in the U.S., 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:29,600 D.C. district judge, Amit Mehta, wrote in his final ruling that Google is a monopolist. 8 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,480 Get them a monocle, and it abuses that position by paying companies like Apple 9 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:40,400 as much as $20 billion a year to be the default search engine on their devices. 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,200 As pointed out by The Verge, Mehta's ruling summarized some spicy moments 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:50,000 from the trial, like Apple exec Eddie Q, saying during testimony that I don't believe 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,480 there's a price in the world that Microsoft could offer us 13 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:57,480 to replace Google with Bing. This is more about Bing, honestly. 14 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:02,360 He continued, they offered to give us Bing for free. They could give us the whole company. 15 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,120 Google's superiority as a product isn't really in question here, 16 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,560 but Mehta points out that Google felt so secure 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,920 in their position, they made controversial product changes 18 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,840 without concern that its users might go elsewhere, 19 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,720 which brings a distinct stench, 20 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,440 more than a whiff of monopoly to the nostrils. So what happens now? 21 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,600 Does Google get broken up into separate companies, each of which go to jail? 22 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,200 Well, if this plays out like Microsoft's antitrust conviction back in 1999, 23 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,960 the year of the best movies ever, Google may end up reaching a settlement 24 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:42,800 that forces them to even the playing field. Unfortunately, that might not be enough 25 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:50,360 to save Mozilla of Firefox fame, which brought in $593 million of revenue in 2022, 26 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,040 510 of which came from Google's search payments. 27 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,920 Suddenly Bing ain't looking so bad, baby. 28 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,080 I add these voices to myself. Reviews are out for AMD's Ryzen 5, 9600X, 29 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:08,240 and Ryzen 7, 9700X CPUs, and the results look pretty good. 30 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:14,040 The new Zen 5 chips show a clear performance improvement over their previous gen counterparts and run cooler. 31 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:19,080 That's thanks in part to AMD's claimed 15% improvement in thermal resistance, 32 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,880 a claim that almost sounds like it means something until you read it a second time. 33 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:26,880 Thermal resistance is a measurable property. Did it increase or decrease? 34 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,040 That's like me saying, I improved the meters on my weekly run. 35 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,400 Anyway, the 9600X and 9700X not only outperformed 36 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:40,200 the 7700X and 7600X, but do so while consuming 40% less power, 37 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,640 at least for the most part. Tech PowerUp found that on average during gaming, 38 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:48,480 the 9600X and 9700X consume about the same amount of juice 39 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,640 as the 7600X and 7700X respectively. 40 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:55,440 In terms of pricing, it's also a bit of a good news, bad news situation. 41 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,120 AMD's announced prices for the entire Ryzen 9000 series 42 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,440 are cheaper than the launch price of the Ryzen 7000 chips. 43 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,840 Sure, but the situation completely flips when you look at Ryzen 7000's current prices. 44 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,840 For instance, the 9700X costs $69 more than the 7700X. 45 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:22,680 Ironically, that's not the very nice. NVIDIA has been scraping 80 years worth of videos daily 46 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,520 to train their AI without permission, according to leaked documents and Slack messages. 47 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:33,520 An internal chart shows the company compiled 38.5 million video URLs for download, 48 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,880 all with the blessing of CEO, Jensen Huang, 49 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:41,320 and his leather jacket, who really calls the shots. Huang's just a puppet. 50 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,720 They won't let me stop. This is despite the fact that those videos came 51 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,320 from platforms like Netflix and YouTube. And this isn't like that earlier 52 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,680 NVIDIA AI scraping controversy where they used a third party dataset 53 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,800 that contained unauthorized YouTube data from channels like MKBHD. 54 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,360 Messages show that NVIDIA employees were encouraged to suggest specific YouTube channels 55 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:08,760 whose videos should be downloaded and used for training. One of those channels was, you guessed it, MKBHD. 56 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,560 But it was only because his videos are super high quality. 57 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,760 And it's a compliment. Dang it. 58 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,660 Upon hearing the news, Marquez tweeted the word, cool, six times in a row. 59 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:22,700 Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yet for some reason I suspect 60 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:27,660 that he thinks it's actually not cool. I know it sounds weird, but I'm just getting the vibe. 61 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:30,720 NVIDIA has given a response that was definitely proofread 62 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:35,220 saying they respect the rights all of content creators, 63 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:40,140 but they are complying with the letter and spurt of copyright law, 64 00:04:40,140 --> 00:04:45,060 because they're just learning information from different sources to make their own expressions. 65 00:04:45,060 --> 00:04:49,540 You know, I tried that excuse for plagiarism once, but my university didn't like it very much. 66 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:54,380 Quick bits have been a part of important historical events. For example, during the American Revolution, 67 00:04:54,380 --> 00:04:58,580 Paul Revere famously told the Patriots that the quick bit ish were coming. 68 00:04:58,580 --> 00:05:03,340 X has filed a federal lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, 69 00:05:03,340 --> 00:05:06,620 accusing the coalition of colluding to create an ad boycott 70 00:05:06,620 --> 00:05:11,000 on the Elon Musk on platform. The lawsuit was accompanied by an amazing video 71 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,480 from ex CEO Linda Hacharino, 72 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,600 who communicated her thoughts both in English and American stern mom sign language. 73 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,100 The suit is a bit surprising since Musk famously told advertisers to go fuck themselves. 74 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:28,100 Is he upset they listened? Someone took my advice, you're not supposed to do that. 75 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:31,480 You fuck myself. Google has announced they are killing the Chromecast 76 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:36,960 for Google TV devices in a blog post discussing memorable moments in Chromecast history, 77 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,760 because there's nothing more Google than saying, remember this cool stuff we did? 78 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,840 Anyway, it's dead now. The company is launching a new product 79 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,320 called the Google TV Streamer, a premium priced, of course, HDMI set top box 80 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,440 that doubles as a smart home hub. It costs twice as much 81 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,280 as the now discontinued 4K Chromecast for Google TV dongle, 82 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:00,440 but it does not include an HDMI cable in the box. 83 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,000 Nothing says premium, quite like supplying your own fucking cables. 84 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,120 Dell is allegedly laying off more workers. 85 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,680 It's all part of a reorganization effort that is also meant to create a new group 86 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,320 within its sales team focusing on artificial intelligence products and services, 87 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,160 making this possibly the most roundabout way that jobs have been lost due to AI. 88 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,760 Several sources claim 12,500 jobs are being cut, 89 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,320 bringing the total number of Dell layoffs over the past 50 months to 24,500. 90 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,360 After Intel announced they were laying off 15,000 people last week, 91 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:37,440 we hear a tech link specifically requested that everyone stop competing for the biggest status number. 92 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,600 We even said please. Reddit CEO and arch enemy of Reddit users, 93 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,760 Steve Huffman has suggested paywalling subreddits 94 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,960 as a potential source of income for the site, paywalling certain subreddits. 95 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,040 During an earnings call, Huffman suggested that the current free version of Reddit 96 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,800 would continue to exist. They just create cool new subreddits 97 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,640 with exclusive content in private areas. Huffman also announced the site 98 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:05,600 would be testing AI powered search results pages to summarize and recommend content. 99 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,480 Something he believes will increase ad revenue. Ooh, AI and ads? 100 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,720 Say less, Steve. Seriously, please stop talking. And Logitech is now backpedaling after their CEO 101 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,320 claimed the company wanted to release a subscription based forever mouse 102 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,600 in an interview with the Verge. This is the second statement the company 103 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:27,200 has had to walk back from, from that interview. As Logitech also had to assure customers 104 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:32,280 it wasn't discontinuing its smart home cameras. Logitech now says they have no plans 105 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:38,240 to release a subscription based mouse and called the idea provocative internal thinking, 106 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,560 which is also how my problematic uncle defends his past comments. 107 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,800 Here's a provocative comment. You should come back on Friday for more tech news. 108 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,440 What, what did you think I was gonna say? It's not provocative actually, it's normalize it.