1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,900 Tech news is important. Without it, many people would think RAM was just a pickup truck brand Sam Elliott can't stop talking about. 2 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:14,000 J.D. Power & Associates best truck ever. Now here's a RAM you can't drive. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:21,900 Apple may have decided to increase the minimum RAM specs for MacBooks from 8GB to 16GB, 4 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:26,100 perhaps in an effort to join the rest of us in this decade. 5 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:30,300 I'm sorry, the good news was provided by none other than Mark Gurman. 6 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:38,000 He claims that each of the four new M4-powered Macs being tested by everyone's favorite inedible fruit company, Inedible? 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,400 Did we try eating the MacBook? Okay. The new Macs have either 16GB or 32GB of RAM. 8 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:51,300 Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like these will be seen at Apple's upcoming now confirmed event on September 9th, 9 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:57,100 which Gurman says will be dedicated to the new iPhone 16 as well as watches and AirPods. 10 00:00:57,100 --> 00:01:05,000 While that all sounds like classic Apple, Gurman has also stated the company wants to expand beyond the iPhone. 11 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,400 So naturally, they've started working on robots. That's the obvious. 12 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:15,300 Apparently, this is where Apple put a lot of its resources after canning its self-driving car project. 13 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:23,500 And now the company hopes robotics will help it break even further into the smart home market, but not break into homes. 14 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:29,100 That's different. A vital part of that seems to be the development of an AI personality. 15 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:37,500 You know, something that will make their rumored iPad on a robot ARM feel less like an iPad on a robot ARM and more like a friend. 16 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:42,000 A friend that's an iPad on a robot ARM. On a robot ARM. 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,300 Is this a robot ARM holding a little guy? 18 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:49,700 Hey guy, what do you want to do? Turn up the volume? Okay. 19 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:57,400 Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been arrested by French authorities because of his platform's lack of moderation, 20 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:03,600 which law enforcement believes has allowed cybercrime, drug trafficking, and more to occur. 21 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,400 They're not sure though. It could be either of them. 22 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,500 Telegram has released a statement saying Durov has nothing to hide. 23 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:19,100 Frankly, I believe them because Durov recently confessed he has over 100 children thanks to his enthusiastic sperm donation. 24 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:29,100 He just volunteered that information. He also posted this shirtless photo online, which I believe was taken just moments before he tried to get that sand dune in the background pregnant. 25 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:34,900 101 children, let's go! He watched Denise movies and he just got real excited. 26 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:41,500 What's weird about this whole situation is that Telegram isn't actually a great private messaging app. 27 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:46,500 As pointed out by many, such as Professor Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University, 28 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:55,300 Telegram isn't encrypted by default. You actually have to go into the settings to turn on the secret chats option for every private chat you want to have. 29 00:02:55,300 --> 00:03:00,300 And even if you do so, it only encrypts one-on-one conversations, not group chats. 30 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:05,200 It also doesn't work if the person you want to chat with isn't online when you activate secret chats. 31 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,800 Really? Wow. All in all, it seems like a terrible app for doing crimes. 32 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:15,600 Zero out of ten. Microsoft just can't seem to decide what the hell it wants to do with Windows 11. 33 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:21,600 Just last week, Twitter user PhantomOfEarth discovered a Windows support page for hot patches, 34 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,600 updates that don't require a restart. 35 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,900 What? That's crazy, most of you are probably thinking. 36 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:31,500 The rest of you are Linux users. I didn't know that. 37 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:35,700 Linux master race indeed. I want that market share keep going up. 38 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:40,200 Unfortunately for those hoping for Windows to catch up to GNU slash Linux, 39 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,900 thank you, Jacob. Microsoft pulled the article two days after it was discovered. 40 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:52,900 Probably because that article sounded less like a guide about hot patches and more like a guide on how to write a good Windows support article. 41 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:56,800 Because it seems like someone started a Windows support article from a template 42 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,900 and containing instructions about how to write a good support article. And then changed the title and nothing else. 43 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:07,900 This isn't the only time this week Microsoft has walked back a radical Windows change. 44 00:04:07,900 --> 00:04:12,800 The company has seemingly also backtracked on getting rid of the control panel. 45 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,400 Last week, a support article was changed to say that the control panel app 46 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,600 was in the process of being deprecated in favor of the settings app. 47 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:27,900 But now it just says that many of the control panel features are being migrated to the settings app. 48 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,700 So they're delaying the murder until they make the settings app good. 49 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:37,600 Which should only take like forever because they've already gone backwards with the Windows 11 settings app. 50 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,100 Windows 10 settings app's better. I don't understand. What are these modules? 51 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:48,400 Toggles? Ah! Meanwhile, I've been waiting forever to make this sick pass. 52 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,600 Everyone knows what it's called when you're down with the sickness. 53 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,100 But when you're down with the quickness, that's called quick bits. 54 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:04,700 Oklahoma City Police are using AI-powered software to turn body cam audio into police reports. 55 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:12,100 This sounds like a great idea. The software, Draft One, is sold by Axon, formerly Taser International. 56 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:18,700 Yes, that Taser, who are likewise the number one supplier of police body cameras in the United States. 57 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:23,600 Now, at least in theory, the AI's output is only intended as a first draft 58 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,800 that is then reviewed and edited by a police officer. 59 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:35,400 Both because the officer may have to testify in court, but also because it would be really bad if somebody went to jail over a detail an AI just made up. 60 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,900 And then he borrowed the pool noodle. Ha ha ha ha ha. 61 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:46,800 And then he turned into a pool noodle. A quartet of Intel's most experienced CPU architects have founded their own damn chip startup 62 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,000 with Blackjack and open source architectures. 63 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,500 The startup, called Ahead Computing, one word, will focus on risk five based processors 64 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:59,800 and clearly not branding and marketing. That's a little harsh. 65 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:07,000 But that's fair. They're not marketing people. They're chip people rumored to have been working on Intel's transformative royal core design 66 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:12,500 before getting fed up and leaving the company a couple weeks before 15% of its workforce got the axe. 67 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:16,100 See, they're smart. Just, just not with branding. 68 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:19,600 Ahead computing. Where do I put the emphasis? 69 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,200 Amazon is a joint employer of their delivery drivers, 70 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,800 according to the National Labor Relations Board, America's federal labor regulator, 71 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,300 who issued the determination after a year long investigation. 72 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:37,200 Amazon has maintained that the people wearing Amazon uniforms and driving Amazon branded delivery vans 73 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:42,200 were exclusively employees of the tech giant's delivery service partners. 74 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,400 Like if Amazon was on TV and Maury said, You are not the employer. 75 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,400 They'd be like, woo, I'm free. I told you. 76 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,700 But now that the government says Amazon is a joint employer, 77 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,100 they have to bargain with driver unions over their working conditions. 78 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:59,900 Like add an onboard toilet, maybe. Or like a boot. A better pee bottle. 79 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:06,500 A big Amazon branded pee bottle. Products made by Chinese PC hardware manufacturer Deepcool 80 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:11,600 are being rebranded on marketplace sites, seemingly to dodge US sanctions. 81 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:19,600 Two months ago, the US State Department sanctioned Deepcool after the company was apparently caught doing business with Russian companies involved in the Ukraine war. 82 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,900 Something that's neither very deep nor very cool. 83 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:28,800 Now, YouTuber Greg Salazar has found Deepcool and other brands sold on Amazon 84 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,100 under the name Shaking Tank. That sounds like it's malfunctioning. 85 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:37,100 It's the off-brand shark tank. Can you make a pitch while you're being jostled? 86 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:43,300 It's not clear who's selling them, but I do know that selling sanctioned air coolers is ironically 87 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:49,900 one of the least cool crimes I've heard of. And NASA has officially decided that its Boeing Starliner spacecraft 88 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:55,500 will return to Earth without its crew, due to the risk posed by a problem with its thrusters. 89 00:07:55,500 --> 00:08:02,400 The two astronauts who rode up on Starliner, who have been sitting on the ISS like a pair of kids whose non-custodial parent 90 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,600 forgot to pick them up from soccer practice since June 6th, 91 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:10,200 will need to spend another six months as crew onboard the ISS 92 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:15,000 before they can return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. 93 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,600 Congratulations to Boeing for making an Elon Musk-led company 94 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:26,800 into the sane, responsible alternative. But the most responsible alternative is if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. 95 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,600 What? Would you rather not have tech news abandon me? 96 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,200 In my time of need? For shame, sir! 97 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,800 Please. Um, please come back.