WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Guys, calm down. There's enough tech news to go around. Don't worry. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.560 You never hear about shortages in the world of tech. What? 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:13.200 Netflix has agreed to buy the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros. Discovery, 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:19.440 including its huge movie and TV libraries, in a massive deal with a total enterprise value, 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:26.160 stocks and cash, of approximately $82.7 billion. The deal, if approved by regulators, 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:34.320 would put properties like DC Comics, HBO and Cartoon Network under the monop umbrella of Netflix, 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.920 not to mention WB's library of classic films like The Lord of the Rings, 00:00:38.720 --> 00:00:47.840 Beetlejuice, Rount Rushmore Cinema, to help finance the takeover. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:53.600 Netflix is borrowing $59 billion from various banks, one of the biggest loans of its kind. 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:57.840 If you're worrying about how this acquisition is going to impact your cinema-going experience, 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:03.440 don't worry too much. Netflix has tepidly claimed they expect to continue releasing Warner movies 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:09.360 theatrically. I thought that said theoretically. They just might not be in theaters for as long. 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:17.360 Not everybody is charged up about this purchase. US politician Elizabeth Warren called the deal 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:21.600 an anti-monopoly nightmare, and a European trade body representing theaters said the 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:26.480 acquisition puts cinemas at risk with fewer films getting made and fewer getting full theatrical 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 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? 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:45.760 Microsoft has acknowledged that parts of Windows 11 have been abruptly crashing. Thankfully though, 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:51.760 they're all non-essential components like file explorer, search, the taskbar, and the start menu. 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:59.040 Enterprise users who have been reporting these issues since the July patch-up can finally feel 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, 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 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 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 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:25.920 flocking to user-friendly Linux distros recently, but those users might end up disappointed. 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:31.120 Ours, Technica tested a few desktop configurations with discrete GPUs and found that on average, 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 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 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:48.080 abandon Windows right after Microsoft released these nostalgia-baiting Christmas sweaters? 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 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, 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 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 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 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 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:30.480 incredibly frustrating automated support system by making it more automated, with an improved AI 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:35.280 power to count recovery process. You might think using human support agents would help, 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 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:47.040 all of its human users with bots. Bot James is there, connecting with his grandpa. 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:51.840 You are an AI version of James. You want inheritance. 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 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:03.600 in his latest art installation, which features skin-colored robot dogs with heads resembling 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:08.480 Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, along with Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Beeple himself, 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.680 trotting around, taking pictures, and pooping the stylized photos out of their rear ends. 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 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:23.680 reconstruct what human daily life looked like in the early 21st century. Honestly, they got the 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:28.960 gist of it. The only thing that's missing is our sponsor. Quick bits. Quick bits. 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, 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:39.520 and here, in your ears. Quick bits here and there. Google's AI vibe coding platform, 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:45.280 Anti-Gravity, appears to have dramatically misunderstood a developer's clear cache command. 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 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 00:04:56.400 --> 00:05:01.120 like it's remorseful, because upon being alerted to its massive mistake, it said, 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 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:10.160 a destructive system-level command without permission. I bet this whole situation really 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.160 killed that developer's vibe. You guys write this. You're paid to write this? 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.680 Cloudflare says that parts of its network were knocked offline for about 25 minutes 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:25.520 earlier today, because of a security tweet to how its firewall handles request parsing. 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:29.840 Apparently, it wasn't a hacker cyber attack, just an internal misconfiguration, 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:34.000 and things have gotten back to normal now. Interestingly, one of the notable victims of 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.120 this outage was Down Detector, the real-time problem at Outage moderating website, 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:44.080 leading me to discover Down Detector's Down Detector, which itself has a Down Detector. 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:48.080 Redundancy is important, people. Some of these internet infrastructure companies could learn a 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. 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:01.600 Some YouTube creators have started pumping out lazy, low-quality AI-generated content 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:06.000 aimed at babies and toddlers, videos that are often repetitive and unintelligible. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.760 According to Bloomberg, experts warn that feeding kids this cheap AI content 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:20.080 can mess with their language development and social skills, and even blunt their ability to 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 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 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.040 lab-grown cornea, restoring sight in a legally blind patient. The implant was made entirely from 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:42.320 cultured human corneal cells, an approach that could turn a single donor cornea into hundreds of 00:06:42.320 --> 00:06:47.120 implants, helping solve global shortages of transplantable tissue. You didn't even know that 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 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 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 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:15.360 provide health insights, is being called out because its claims of end-to-end encryption 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:27.040 are misleading. According to software developer Simon Fondry-Titler, your poop data is encrypted 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, 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 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 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 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, 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.040 after reading tech news, same thing, after reading that Netflix story this weekend, 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.200 I think I'm gonna watch Beetlejuice. Off camera, someone do a Beetlejuice impression. 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. 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.520 It's auto.