WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Bonjour, bienvenue, it is good to see you again. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:08.960 Je l'ai prepair, c'est usual, c'est ét corse technuse, magnifique. 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.400 Two days after Twitch allowed artistic nudity 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:17.280 on the platform, the company has reversed that decision. To the shock of no one. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.160 Two days too long. To catch you up, only fans model MorgPie went viral 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:27.160 for supposedly streaming topless, taking part in what was turning out to be an emerging meta. 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:32.840 While MorgPie claims she was wearing a shirt, just out of frame, we have our doubts. 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:38.880 There's a clip, it's not in our sources, stop looking for it. And we won't claim to be experts on their female form, 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:45.080 but one of us studied physics. And let's just say the footage was gravitationally anomalous. 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:48.680 Jacob had a lot of context for this. Anyway, MorgPie got banned, 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:53.920 but after debates broke out over whether she had technically broken TOS or not, 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:59.040 Twitch decided to update their sexual content policy for clarity, spelling out an allowance for content 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:02.280 like MorgPie's that deliberately highlighted breasts, 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.320 buttocks, or pelvic region, as well as fictionalized nudity. 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:11.460 So like drawn or animated of any kind, so long as it was correctly labeled. 00:01:11.460 --> 00:01:16.040 What followed was a biblical deluge of explicit art. 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:22.040 Or what Twitch called in today's blog post, a great deal of new content that was under the updated policy. 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:27.800 Our community loves this new content. So Twitch reversed the policy and acknowledged their mistake. 00:01:27.800 --> 00:01:33.080 A mistake they could have avoided altogether, if anyone who worked there knew how the internet works. 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:36.160 What do you think this is? A church lunch? Like what? 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:39.520 All right, pastor, I have a crazy idea to boost attendance. 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:42.920 Intel launched their new core ultra mobile processors, 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.080 their first consumer CPUs with built-in neural processing 00:01:46.080 --> 00:01:49.600 units during the company's AI everywhere event. 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:54.520 What if you don't want AI to be everywhere? Too bad. The H series are designed for thin and light 00:01:54.520 --> 00:01:58.840 gaming workstation laptops, while the U series is meant for ultra books. 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.480 Apparently there has been a massive improvement in the integrated graphics, 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.560 though Intel's previous attempts on the IGPU front 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:10.840 have set a pretty low bar. They had a higher bar to clear with their new fifth gen Xeon processors 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.040 since they will be competing against AMD's excellent Epic platform. 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:19.160 Team Blue is really pushing the AI angle here with the data center chips, 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:26.160 emphasizing the baked in AI acceleration and calling the new Xeons the best CPU for AI hands down. 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:29.440 But Big Papa Pat Gelsinger didn't name the event AI 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:33.400 most places is, and that's why he also announced Gaudi 3, 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.680 an AI chip meant to compete with NVIDIA's H100. 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:41.240 Don't ask about Gaudi 1 or 2. Actually, they're not just meant to compete. 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:45.800 Pat wants CUDA to die. I mean, he actually said that the AI industry 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:50.280 is motivated to move towards more open standards, but that's the most threatening 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:56.040 this particular tech CEO is capable of being. Sweet, sweet baby, Big Papa Pat. 00:02:56.040 --> 00:03:01.320 A marketing company called Cox Media Group claims it can listen to consumers' ambient conversations 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:06.560 through microphones in devices like smartphones to gather data for ad targeting. 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:10.680 Even worse, they thought saying that was a solid business strategy. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.960 The company advertised active listening on their site 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:19.520 as a marketing strategy for potential clients, calling it a marketing technique fit for the future 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.160 available today. They mixed up their marketing textbook with 1984. 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:27.200 Yeah, there it is. Cox Media have since removed the page from their site, 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:32.040 probably because it's not a good look, and also they might actually be lying. 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:36.320 Conclusive proof for the common suspicion that our phones are listening to everything we say 00:03:36.320 --> 00:03:41.840 has been very difficult to find. Even if Cox Media could listen to people through their phones, 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.200 most models today indicate when the microphone is being used. 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:48.760 Actually, that's a feature exclusive to iPhones, 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:51.960 according to Apple Insider. I mean, I thought privacy indicators were added 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:56.000 back in Android 12, and so did Google based on their official support page. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.560 But who am I to argue with a headline? Very compelling. Hey, I have an idea. 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.800 What if you deliver the QuickBits this time? 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:07.640 Are you gonna? Okay, fine, I'll do it. Google Chrome will finally start blocking 00:04:07.640 --> 00:04:13.080 third-party cookies next year, merely years after every other browser. 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.760 In a post on their official blog, the company will start testing their tracking 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:23.080 protection feature on January 4th, starting with just 1% of global Chrome users. 00:04:23.080 --> 00:04:27.960 Google says they will reach every Chrome user at some point in the second half of next year. 00:04:27.960 --> 00:04:33.800 But cut them a break, these things take time. They still have to destroy all ad blockers everywhere first. 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:38.720 In other Google news, the company has announced that it is changing how it handles maps data, 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.080 so it will no longer be able to access users' individual location histories. 00:04:43.080 --> 00:04:48.800 The change appears to be designed to make it pointless for law enforcement to serve Google with geofence warrants. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.160 These cast a wide net to scoop up the data of everyone 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.240 who was in the general vicinity when a crime took place. 00:04:55.240 --> 00:05:01.400 Nearly all geofence warrants are directed at Google, but like a covert agent captured behind enemy lines, 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:05.960 it can't be forced to tell what it doesn't know, even though it really, really wants to. 00:05:05.960 --> 00:05:11.040 In other, other Google news, the company has released an on-device diagnostic tool 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:16.080 and repair manuals for Pixel phones, which they announced in a blog post just one day 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:21.400 after Apple announced they were launching web-based diagnostic tools for iPhones. 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:24.840 But Google went a step further by adding a repair mode setting 00:05:24.840 --> 00:05:27.840 they say can help protect your personal data 00:05:27.840 --> 00:05:31.160 from nosy repair shops. Honestly, Google doing all these things 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:36.040 to protect my privacy kind of freaks me out. It's like if the popular girl suddenly asked me to prom. 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.040 Frankly, I'm expecting a bucket of pigs blood. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.000 It's gonna show up at some point, it's an Amazon package. Here, I brought you your pigs blood. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.920 Oh, my pigs blood's here! In other, other, other Google news, 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.760 I'm sorry, there was a lot today. AI researchers at DeepMind claim 00:05:50.760 --> 00:05:55.960 that one of their large language models is the first one to discover new verifiable solutions 00:05:55.960 --> 00:06:00.920 for open problems in mathematics. The model, using a method called FunSearch 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:05.800 in mockery of machine's current inability to feel enjoyment, was able to discover multiple 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:12.120 never before seen solutions to the well-known cap-set math problem and the bin packing problem 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:16.880 in computer science. Unlike biology or chemistry, these disciplines allow AI 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:20.600 to make discoveries that can be tested without the risk of blowing up the lab 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.240 or triggering a last of us situation. Math can't hurt you. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:31.560 It's not even real. Some of it's imaginary. And in non-Google news, finally, AI Startup Channel One 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.600 has created a proof of concept pilot episode 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.760 for a 24-7 news network featuring a team 00:06:38.760 --> 00:06:41.960 of fully generated and digital double news anchors 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:45.640 and AI augmented news coverage. Ugh. 00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:50.520 Though the news stories therein are reportedly, at least partially, drawn from existing news sources 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:55.760 and edited by human beings. In the example video, Channel One's square-jawed 00:06:55.760 --> 00:06:59.560 news homunculus directly contrasts an unaltered clip 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.640 from a French broadcast of a man discussing damage from a storm. 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:07.080 By 2 o'clock in the morning, I heard a big noise. Followed by an AI-translated version 00:07:07.080 --> 00:07:12.360 that has the same man speaking English in several different accents simultaneously. 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:17.000 Into the air. And then, after 30 minutes, everything went crazy. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.360 It scattered all over the place. His AI counterpart is apparently 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:25.480 from the Appalachian region of Sussex. And I don't care if you're Sus or if you're my ex. 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.440 So long as you come back on Monday for more tech news. 00:07:32.200 --> 00:07:33.880 Just kidding, Ashley, stay away.