WEBVTT 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. 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:14.000 J.D. Power & Associates best truck ever. Now here's a RAM you can't drive. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:21.900 Apple may have decided to increase the minimum RAM specs for MacBooks from 8GB to 16GB, 00:00:21.900 --> 00:00:26.100 perhaps in an effort to join the rest of us in this decade. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.300 I'm sorry, the good news was provided by none other than Mark Gurman. 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? 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. 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, 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. 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. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.400 So naturally, they've started working on robots. That's the obvious. 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:42.000 A friend that's an iPad on a robot ARM. On a robot ARM. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.300 Is this a robot ARM holding a little guy? 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:49.700 Hey guy, what do you want to do? Turn up the volume? Okay. 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, 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:03.600 which law enforcement believes has allowed cybercrime, drug trafficking, and more to occur. 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:07.400 They're not sure though. It could be either of them. 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:11.500 Telegram has released a statement saying Durov has nothing to hide. 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. 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. 00:02:29.100 --> 00:02:34.900 101 children, let's go! He watched Denise movies and he just got real excited. 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. 00:02:41.500 --> 00:02:46.500 As pointed out by many, such as Professor Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University, 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. 00:02:55.300 --> 00:03:00.300 And even if you do so, it only encrypts one-on-one conversations, not group chats. 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. 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:08.800 Really? Wow. All in all, it seems like a terrible app for doing crimes. 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. 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:21.600 Just last week, Twitter user PhantomOfEarth discovered a Windows support page for hot patches, 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:24.600 updates that don't require a restart. 00:03:24.600 --> 00:03:27.900 What? That's crazy, most of you are probably thinking. 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:31.500 The rest of you are Linux users. I didn't know that. 00:03:31.500 --> 00:03:35.700 Linux master race indeed. I want that market share keep going up. 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:40.200 Unfortunately for those hoping for Windows to catch up to GNU slash Linux, 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:44.900 thank you, Jacob. Microsoft pulled the article two days after it was discovered. 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. 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:56.800 Because it seems like someone started a Windows support article from a template 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. 00:04:02.900 --> 00:04:07.900 This isn't the only time this week Microsoft has walked back a radical Windows change. 00:04:07.900 --> 00:04:12.800 The company has seemingly also backtracked on getting rid of the control panel. 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:17.400 Last week, a support article was changed to say that the control panel app 00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:21.600 was in the process of being deprecated in favor of the settings app. 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. 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:31.700 So they're delaying the murder until they make the settings app good. 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. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:42.100 Windows 10 settings app's better. I don't understand. What are these modules? 00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:48.400 Toggles? Ah! Meanwhile, I've been waiting forever to make this sick pass. 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:51.600 Everyone knows what it's called when you're down with the sickness. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.100 But when you're down with the quickness, that's called quick bits. 00:04:57.100 --> 00:05:04.700 Oklahoma City Police are using AI-powered software to turn body cam audio into police reports. 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. 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. 00:05:18.700 --> 00:05:23.600 Now, at least in theory, the AI's output is only intended as a first draft 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.800 that is then reviewed and edited by a police officer. 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. 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:38.900 And then he borrowed the pool noodle. Ha ha ha ha ha. 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 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.000 with Blackjack and open source architectures. 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.500 The startup, called Ahead Computing, one word, will focus on risk five based processors 00:05:56.500 --> 00:05:59.800 and clearly not branding and marketing. That's a little harsh. 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 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. 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:16.100 See, they're smart. Just, just not with branding. 00:06:16.100 --> 00:06:19.600 Ahead computing. Where do I put the emphasis? 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:23.200 Amazon is a joint employer of their delivery drivers, 00:06:23.200 --> 00:06:27.800 according to the National Labor Relations Board, America's federal labor regulator, 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.300 who issued the determination after a year long investigation. 00:06:31.300 --> 00:06:37.200 Amazon has maintained that the people wearing Amazon uniforms and driving Amazon branded delivery vans 00:06:37.200 --> 00:06:42.200 were exclusively employees of the tech giant's delivery service partners. 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:46.400 Like if Amazon was on TV and Maury said, You are not the employer. 00:06:46.400 --> 00:06:49.400 They'd be like, woo, I'm free. I told you. 00:06:49.400 --> 00:06:52.700 But now that the government says Amazon is a joint employer, 00:06:52.700 --> 00:06:56.100 they have to bargain with driver unions over their working conditions. 00:06:56.100 --> 00:06:59.900 Like add an onboard toilet, maybe. Or like a boot. A better pee bottle. 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:06.500 A big Amazon branded pee bottle. Products made by Chinese PC hardware manufacturer Deepcool 00:07:06.500 --> 00:07:11.600 are being rebranded on marketplace sites, seemingly to dodge US sanctions. 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. 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.900 Something that's neither very deep nor very cool. 00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:28.800 Now, YouTuber Greg Salazar has found Deepcool and other brands sold on Amazon 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.100 under the name Shaking Tank. That sounds like it's malfunctioning. 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? 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 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 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. 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 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:05.600 forgot to pick them up from soccer practice since June 6th, 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:10.200 will need to spend another six months as crew onboard the ISS 00:08:10.300 --> 00:08:15.000 before they can return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.600 Congratulations to Boeing for making an Elon Musk-led company 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. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:30.600 What? Would you rather not have tech news abandon me? 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.200 In my time of need? For shame, sir! 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.800 Please. Um, please come back.