WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.080 Oh, so it's tech news you want. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.080 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.380 Apple has been making some positively wacky moves lately, with notoriously accurate analyst 00:00:16.380 --> 00:00:23.240 Ming-Chi Kuo claiming a more affordable MacBook is coming next year with an A18 Pro processor. 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:27.520 Yeah, as in the chip that powers the iPhone 16 Pro. 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:31.800 If any other company was putting a phone CPU in a laptop, we'd probably all immediately 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.960 burst out laughing. But this is an Apple Silicon chip. 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.920 Scientists don't even know how to measure its upper limits. I'm pretty sure it could power an Ironman suit. 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:46.320 Lending some credence to Kuo's claim, MacRumor said they spotted references to this iPhone 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:49.480 book in some back-end code last year. 00:00:49.480 --> 00:00:57.160 So, uh, Kuo also made it clear Apple ain't given up on special computing just yet, predicting 00:00:57.160 --> 00:01:03.600 a new Vision Pro with an M5 chip launching this year, a Vision Air and XR glasses in 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.440 2027 followed by a Vision Pro 2 in 2028. 00:01:08.440 --> 00:01:13.060 Maybe by then, they'll have stopped trying to slither around EU regulations, like they 00:01:13.060 --> 00:01:18.760 did last week when they announced a new tiered commission system that punishes iOS app developers 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:24.120 with less visibility on the app store and the removal of basic features unless they 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:28.500 pay Apple a 13% commission on external purchases. 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:34.880 Apple also said they have no choice but to withhold some iOS 26 features from EU users 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:40.680 due to bureaucratic complexities introduced by the so-called Digital Markets Act, and 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:46.200 they implore regulators to consider making it easier for small businesses such as themselves 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:55.340 to make a living and say hi to your mother for me. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring adult websites to verify 00:01:55.340 --> 00:02:01.680 the age of their users, indicating that similar laws passed in nearly half of all U.S. states 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:07.120 are totally fine, despite Pornhub ceasing operations in many of them, and horn dogs 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.600 have nowhere else to go. Twitter's not a thing anymore. 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:15.480 The ruling is igniting Dick's source, I mean discourse, around how such laws interact 00:02:15.480 --> 00:02:20.760 with the First Amendment, a.k.a. free speech, with some analysts saying age verification 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:26.720 could demolish the internet as a tool for speech and that the Supreme Court judges are scared 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:32.440 of nudity. And while there are legitimate concerns about how easy it is to legalize censorship as long 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:37.600 as you're doing it to protect the kids, more and more countries and U.S. states are passing 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:40.840 age verification laws for social media, too. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.760 Now, if we could just find a way to do it without forcing people to upload their driver's 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:50.400 licenses or something, because we'd have to start giving kids driver's licenses, and 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:57.480 that's a whole other can of worms. Supposed human person Mark Zuckerberg has announced all of Meta's AI stuff is being 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:03.480 restructured under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by scale 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:09.880 AI founder Alexander Wang, who was recruited earlier this month as part of a $14 billion 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:17.520 investment in scale AI. Zuck also treated himself to some billionaire fun, you know, he splurged a bit, offered 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:24.200 massive pay packages and successfully poached 11 top researchers from Google Anthropic and 00:03:24.200 --> 00:03:28.600 especially OpenAI, where so many employees were getting Meta offers that the company 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:34.000 is now recalibrating compensation for staff and giving them the whole week off so the 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.600 execs can please have quiet in the office for five seconds. 00:03:38.600 --> 00:03:43.400 Meta wants all those AI researchers because A, Meta's models need some serious work to 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:49.920 catch up and B, they really want AI in every corner of their products, including Facebook, 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:55.520 where users have reported being shown AI versions of private pictures from their camera roll. 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:02.280 This is a feature, not a bug. In the U.S. at least, some users were shown a pop-up with allow and disallow options 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:07.360 for letting Meta AI automatically AI-ify your private photos. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:12.560 In the EU, some users say they got an email to opt out, which was likely missed by many. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:17.200 Regardless, you can opt out yourself on the Facebook mobile app, can't do it on desktop, 00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:21.600 by going to settings, then preferences, then camera roll sharing suggestions. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.680 Meta AI, the personal AI that understands you because it already went through all of 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:32.200 your sh**. What? Now you want a quick bits? 00:04:32.200 --> 00:04:33.720 Tell me you're joking. 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:42.400 Microsoft is making it easier for regular non-business users to stay on Windows 10 for an extra year 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:48.040 by making extended security updates free for users who sync their PC settings to Windows 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:56.160 backup with their Microsoft account. You can still pay 30 bucks if you prefer, or you can now redeem a thousand Microsoft 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.600 rewards points, if you know what those are, because I don't. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:04.240 Microsoft's even just providing an option in Windows settings to enroll in the ESU program 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.040 because Windows 10's end of support in October is fast approaching, and I guess they'll do 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:15.520 anything to stop you from migrating to Linux. For they know the pain that awaits you there. 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:22.520 Anchor has announced another recall for five more of the company's power banks, the A-1257, 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:27.480 A-1647, I'm not going to read all of those, they don't exactly roll off the tongue. 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:32.480 Unlike the previous recall of the Powercore 10,000 power bank, there are reportedly no 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:38.000 reports of explosions, but Anchor figured, hey, why not try being proactive and do something 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.720 to stop their batteries from exploding before they explode? 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:49.920 It's weird and new, but they're open-minded. Canada has canceled plans to enact a digital services tax on American tech companies, the 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.600 first payments of which were supposed to start coming in today. 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.080 U.S. President Trump ended all trade talks with Canada on Friday in response to the tax, 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:07.880 which left Canada feeling pretty dumb. So, you know, sorry, but that, and after making their tiny humanoid robots fight each other 00:06:07.880 --> 00:06:14.360 physically, China is making them play the world's most popular game, a football. 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.440 While humans may love it, the robots show no celebration whatsoever when they score 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.000 a goal, but they do capture the spirit of the game perfectly in one respect. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.520 These bots take some of the most dramatic dives I've ever seen, for no discernible reason 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:30.520 at all. Oh, what? They're bringing out the stretcher? 00:06:30.520 --> 00:06:36.440 Come on, he's fine. I won't be fine if you don't come back on Wednesday for more tech news, though. 00:06:36.440 --> 00:06:40.960 It'll be as emotionally damaging to me as it is to soccer players, none of whom have 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:44.080 ever suffered a single real injury. I love sports.