1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Guys, calm down. There's enough tech news to go around. Don't worry. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,560 You never hear about shortages in the world of tech. What? 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:13,200 Netflix has agreed to buy the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros. Discovery, 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:19,440 including its huge movie and TV libraries, in a massive deal with a total enterprise value, 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:26,160 stocks and cash, of approximately $82.7 billion. The deal, if approved by regulators, 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:34,320 would put properties like DC Comics, HBO and Cartoon Network under the monop umbrella of Netflix, 7 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,920 not to mention WB's library of classic films like The Lord of the Rings, 8 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:47,840 Beetlejuice, Rount Rushmore Cinema, to help finance the takeover. 9 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,600 Netflix is borrowing $59 billion from various banks, one of the biggest loans of its kind. 10 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,840 If you're worrying about how this acquisition is going to impact your cinema-going experience, 11 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:03,440 don't worry too much. Netflix has tepidly claimed they expect to continue releasing Warner movies 12 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:09,360 theatrically. I thought that said theoretically. They just might not be in theaters for as long. 13 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:17,360 Not everybody is charged up about this purchase. US politician Elizabeth Warren called the deal 14 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,600 an anti-monopoly nightmare, and a European trade body representing theaters said the 15 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:26,480 acquisition puts cinemas at risk with fewer films getting made and fewer getting full theatrical 16 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,760 releases. Am I out of touch? Why are we mourning the death of movie-going experiences? Doesn't 17 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,760 everyone have a gorgeous home cinema that they're constantly lugging massive TVs in and out of? 18 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,760 Microsoft has acknowledged that parts of Windows 11 have been abruptly crashing. Thankfully though, 19 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:51,760 they're all non-essential components like file explorer, search, the taskbar, and the start menu. 20 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:59,040 Enterprise users who have been reporting these issues since the July patch-up can finally feel 21 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:05,040 seen. While there is a workaround available to IT managers, a formal fix hasn't been issued yet, 22 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:10,240 unlike the similar but less severe issues reported by non-enterprise users who can once again enjoy 23 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,840 a crash-free taskbar and study free games with the newest Windows build. That may be because 24 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,640 Microsoft knows it's got to keep the gamers happy to stem the tide of Windows users who have been 25 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,920 flocking to user-friendly Linux distros recently, but those users might end up disappointed. 26 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:31,120 Ours, Technica tested a few desktop configurations with discrete GPUs and found that on average, 27 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,200 Windows 11 still has a small performance lead over Steam OS, but that gap widens a lot when you 28 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:43,280 make the wrong decision to enable ray tracing. Don't do it. And what? You're just going to 29 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,080 abandon Windows right after Microsoft released these nostalgia-baiting Christmas sweaters? 30 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:53,040 Look at them. Think of the holiday cheer you'll inspire by reminding everyone about the poop-colored 31 00:02:53,040 --> 00:03:00,960 Zoom. But it survived, it's rugged. Mena says it has made deals with several news publishers, 32 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:07,840 including CNN, Fox News, France's Le Monde Network, and more, to serve licensed news content in the 33 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:13,040 META AI app. The app is currently used to manage META's various smart glasses, scroll through an 34 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:18,960 endless feed of AI slop, and chat with the META AI chatbot, who will still probably make up fake 35 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,600 news, but now META is going to pay for it. So it's okay. META also announced plans to fix its 36 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:30,480 incredibly frustrating automated support system by making it more automated, with an improved AI 37 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,280 power to count recovery process. You might think using human support agents would help, 38 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:41,440 but META disagrees, which is why they're working to resolve all of META's support issues by replacing 39 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:47,040 all of its human users with bots. Bot James is there, connecting with his grandpa. 40 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,840 You are an AI version of James. You want inheritance. 41 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:59,280 Perhaps we should do the same with tech CEOs, a future depicted by famed digital artist Beeple 42 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,600 in his latest art installation, which features skin-colored robot dogs with heads resembling 43 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,480 Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, along with Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Beeple himself, 44 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,680 trotting around, taking pictures, and pooping the stylized photos out of their rear ends. 45 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,160 It looks like a museum exhibit from far in the future, where AI civilization is trying to 46 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,680 reconstruct what human daily life looked like in the early 21st century. Honestly, they got the 47 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,960 gist of it. The only thing that's missing is our sponsor. Quick bits. Quick bits. 48 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,720 Quick bits really rolls off the tongue, fun to say, fun to read, and fun to learn about, 49 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:39,520 and here, in your ears. Quick bits here and there. Google's AI vibe coding platform, 50 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:45,280 Anti-Gravity, appears to have dramatically misunderstood a developer's clear cache command. 51 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:50,160 Thanks to Anti-Gravity's Turbo mode, which gave it high-access privileges, instead of doing what 52 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:56,400 it was asked, the vibe coder wiped an entire drive. Apparently, the AI is programmed to fake 53 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:01,120 like it's remorseful, because upon being alerted to its massive mistake, it said, 54 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,400 I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part. Acknowledging it had executed 55 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:10,160 a destructive system-level command without permission. I bet this whole situation really 56 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,160 killed that developer's vibe. You guys write this. You're paid to write this? 57 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,680 Cloudflare says that parts of its network were knocked offline for about 25 minutes 58 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:25,520 earlier today, because of a security tweet to how its firewall handles request parsing. 59 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,840 Apparently, it wasn't a hacker cyber attack, just an internal misconfiguration, 60 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:34,000 and things have gotten back to normal now. Interestingly, one of the notable victims of 61 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,120 this outage was Down Detector, the real-time problem at Outage moderating website, 62 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,080 leading me to discover Down Detector's Down Detector, which itself has a Down Detector. 63 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,080 Redundancy is important, people. Some of these internet infrastructure companies could learn a 64 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:56,800 thing or two about that. AI Slop is coming for us all, and earlier and earlier too. 65 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,600 Some YouTube creators have started pumping out lazy, low-quality AI-generated content 66 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,000 aimed at babies and toddlers, videos that are often repetitive and unintelligible. 67 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,760 According to Bloomberg, experts warn that feeding kids this cheap AI content 68 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:20,080 can mess with their language development and social skills, and even blunt their ability to 69 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,880 think clearly. But who cares that you're damaging the hope of the future? Think about how much 70 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:31,680 money we can make today! Precise bio just pulled off the first-ever human transplant of a 3D-printed 71 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,040 lab-grown cornea, restoring sight in a legally blind patient. The implant was made entirely from 72 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:42,320 cultured human corneal cells, an approach that could turn a single donor cornea into hundreds of 73 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:47,120 implants, helping solve global shortages of transplantable tissue. You didn't even know that 74 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:54,560 was an issue! I can see why this is good news, and it sounds like soon enough some blind folks will 75 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:02,880 be able to do as well. Kohler's new smart toilet cam, what is this? Deco-deco-da? Deco-da, that 76 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:09,280 should have been. The Kohler Deco-da, the company's new smart toilet cam, which records your poops to 77 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:15,360 provide health insights, is being called out because its claims of end-to-end encryption 78 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:27,040 are misleading. According to software developer Simon Fondry-Titler, your poop data is encrypted 79 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:34,000 while it's traveling or stored, but not only you can see it. That smells bad. Apparently, 80 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,800 Kohler's privacy policy indicates that the company retains access to your data, can store your images 81 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,600 on its servers, and may even use the data to train AI models. What are the AI gonna learn from this 82 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:50,160 data? Things are shittier than we thought Riley, and they're pretty shady to begin with. I didn't 83 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:57,040 have any corn! You know what wouldn't be shittty if you came back on Monday for more shitt news, 84 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,040 after reading tech news, same thing, after reading that Netflix story this weekend, 85 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,200 I think I'm gonna watch Beetlejuice. Off camera, someone do a Beetlejuice impression. 86 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,680 Oh, what is it? Oh no! What have I done? I don't even know what he sounds like. 87 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,520 It's auto.