WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.520 Have you ever wanted tech news like so bad that just the idea of of waiting while some guy 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:16.720 he just kind of just talking he just goes and there's unrelated thing. So how did and how did 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:23.840 that feel? Apple's week of announcements continued this morning with the MacBook Neo powered by an 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:32.320 A18 Pro, the same chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro models. What or almost the same. The Neo loses 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:38.640 one GPU core but keeps the six CPU cores and sadly the paltry eight gigabytes of unified memory. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:44.560 But hey, Agent Smith also underestimated Neo, the guy, not the MacBook. And look what happened to him. 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:51.920 Melted into goo. I saw the movies. Really the key detail here is the MacBook Neo starts with 256 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:59.040 gigs of storage for $599 at a time when computer prices are threatening to get on a big rocket and 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:04.560 leave the solar system. The power of Apple's chips has essentially been overkill for their devices 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:10.880 for a while. So I will be a bit shocked if this entry level MacBook isn't enough for most people. 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:16.480 Speaking of overkill though, Apple also announced that 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros can now be 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:24.000 configured with the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max, which not only feature more cores memory and storage, 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:30.080 but also a new chiplet based design we're supposed to call fusion architecture if we don't want to 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:37.440 incur Tim Cook's wrath. Oh, gnashing of teeth. That was Tim Cook, by the way. Apple has also 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:43.280 done some confusing things with their CPU cores. Efficiency cores are the same, but what used to 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:50.480 be called performance cores are now called super cores. And in between them, there's a new third 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:56.160 type of core that is taking the performance core designation from what are now called super cores. 00:01:56.160 --> 00:02:00.560 Do you understand? Look, TLDR, the chips are powerful enough to make more of whatever is going 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:05.920 on with this beautiful mesmerizing CGI goo. And that's good enough for me. There's also a new 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:12.000 M5 MacBook Air, whose promo video specifically mentions starting with 16 gigabytes of unified 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.480 memory and 512 gigabytes of storage in what seems like a very topical call out, current events. 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:23.920 Then there's also a new studio display and studio display XDR, which seem cool, but we don't even 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:30.160 have time to talk about them. Six products during a non-Apple event? The cook was feeling 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:38.480 saucy this week. Get it? That's a two for one pun. Tim Cook. Apple sauce. Connor? Okay. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:45.680 OpenAI CEO and boot Somalia Sam Altman is claiming he's renegotiating OpenAI's Pentagon 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:50.800 contract in response to backlash from users and employees. The negative response was prompted 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:56.400 by what happened last Friday, when hours after the government blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:01.920 let the Pentagon use Claude without safety guardrails, OpenAI swooped in and announced its own deal with 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:09.600 the Department of War. Naturally, this went over great, with Chajipiti uninstalled, surging 295% 00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:14.960 in the fallout and Anthropic's Claude shooting to number one on the App Store. Altman eventually 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.880 admitted the original deal seemed opportunistic and sloppy in an internal memo that he also posted 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:26.880 to Twitter, stating now that new contract language would explicitly prohibit the use of OpenAI's 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:32.800 models for domestic surveillance of Americans. Scam, I'm sorry. Sam Altman is now claiming that 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:38.240 the Department of War has agreed to OpenAI's red lines on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:43.760 but according to multiple sources who spoke to the Verge and many other people, the Pentagon never 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:49.760 actually budged on the contract terms. OpenAI's contract simply defers to existing U.S. laws 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:55.520 that have historically been used to justify mass surveillance. OpenAI's own former head of policy 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:02.000 research said employees should assume that OpenAI caved and then framed it as not caving. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.960 So to sum up, the guy whose first company got acquired after he lied about how many users 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:10.800 there were then got fired from being president of Y Combinator for conflicts of interest, 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.960 then started the non-profit that stole the entire Internet, then withheld information from his 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:20.800 board about launching Chajipiti, then arguably stole Scarlett Johansson's voice for Chajipiti, 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.800 then argued that AI training is fine because it uses less energy than human life, 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:33.120 is continuing to be less than forthright with the public. No! An investigation by Swedish 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:41.120 newspapers SVD and Gutbergs Posten, sure, has found that Meta has been sending intimate user 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:48.720 footage from its Ray-Ban AI glasses to human moderators in Kenya. Kenya? Of all places. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.160 Workers at Meta subcontractor Sama said they've reviewed videos of people wearing these glasses 00:04:54.160 --> 00:05:01.200 on the toilet, undressing, and being intimate with each other. Which is impressive. It can't 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:06.160 be easy attracting a mate while wearing one of these things. One worker told reporters that they 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:13.280 regularly see everything from banking details to naked bodies. All the things you'd want. 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:18.400 In Gadget noted that reporters had to jump through a bunch of hoops just to find Meta's wearable 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:25.120 privacy policy, which puts the onus on users to not share sensitive information. Meta's AI 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:30.480 terms of service explicitly state that Meta retains the right to review your interactions with its 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:37.360 AIs and that review may be automated or manual. The only solution Meta offers is to tell users 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:43.040 not to share information on these recordings, I guess, that you don't want the AIs to use and 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:49.120 retain. Which basically translates to don't record it if you don't want a stranger to see it. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:53.600 And with Meta's upcoming name tag feature adding facial recognition to the glasses, 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.520 this mass data collection doesn't bode well for human beings who don't like being mass-surveilled 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:05.440 in a Neil Stevenson-esque dystopia. What's that? You'd prefer AI-enabled products to have rigorous 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:12.000 security standards and to explicitly promise not to train AI models on your data? Then that's our 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:22.480 sponsor. And now we got a, what? Okay, quick bits. Headlines about Windows 12 releasing this year 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:28.240 flooded the internet this week, all tracing back to a PC World article translated from their German 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:36.720 sister site PC Welt, which sourced a bunch of rumors from apparently Irageses. Context clues, 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:44.560 what do you think it means? There but. PC World has since admitted the piece failed editorial 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:49.520 standards, with Windows Central stepping in to quickly debunk the mess, confirming that Windows 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:56.080 12 is absolutely probably not happening this year. Great news, as Microsoft still needs at least 00:06:56.080 --> 00:07:01.680 a few years to figure out how to squeeze ads into the volume slider. There's a way. Google is 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:07.280 officially rolling out Android 16's desktop mode after it was trapped for a year in the developer 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:12.960 beta. The feature allows all Pixel phones newer than the Pixel 8 to connect to an external display 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:18.240 via a USB-C cable that supports DisplayPort for a full desktop experience. The mode features 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:23.040 multi-window app support and works seamlessly with a keyboard and mouse. Now, you can proudly 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:27.600 tell your boss you're working from your phone. And they'll forgive you for getting less work done, 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:33.200 even though you could get more work done because your phone is a desktop now. Oh man, 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:40.480 that'll get them so good. AI's hunger for tasty DDR5 RAM has allowed the market to be exploited 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:48.240 by scalper bots. Security firm Datadome detected one operation that fired over 10 million scraping 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:55.680 requests at DDR5 product pages. One sample extracted over one hour had 50,000 requests, 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:01.520 with one hit every 6.5 seconds. While the top 100 tech companies have enough market leverage 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:07.920 to secure supply, the RAM shortage has left a battleground where 190,000 small to mid-sized 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:15.040 enterprises are left fighting scalp and nail. Can't wait for Michael Bay's AI Aliens versus 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:21.520 scalper predators rated R for restricted memory. Google's threat intelligence group exposed 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:27.520 Koruna, a powerful iPhone exploit. Uh oh, didn't want to make it sound cool. That can affect 00:08:27.520 --> 00:08:36.400 iPhones running iOS 13 through 17.2.1, which came out in 2023. The kit entails 23 vulnerabilities 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:42.320 across five attack chains and can be used to bypass iPhone defenses and silently install malware 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:48.000 as soon as your device visits a website containing the exploitation code. Security firm iVerify 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:53.600 suggests Koruna was initially used by the US government, bearing similarities to the eternal 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:59.120 blue Windows exploit. It's already been used by suspected Russian spies against Ukrainians and in 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:04.720 a hacking campaign infecting Chinese crypto and gambling sites. It's unlikely these hackers will 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:10.000 target your parents who would rather eat lead than update their phones, but you might want to try 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.960 convincing them one more time, just in case. And Xiaomi has reported success with tests around 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:21.680 integrating humanoid robots into assembly line work in its EV factory in China. Xiaomi posted a 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:26.960 video showing off the robots working on the floor and according to the company, they hit a 90% 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:33.920 success rate over three straight hours, completing each cycle in 76 seconds to match the production 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:39.760 line's pace with the human workers. President Liu Y. Bing told CNBC that at their current level 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:45.760 of performance, they see the robots more like interns. Wow, here in the west we're worried 00:09:45.760 --> 00:09:50.880 that robots will be faster and better than human workers. Workers in China get so much done that 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:55.280 the robots have to intern first just to keep up. They can build a hospital in like 30 minutes. 00:09:55.280 --> 00:10:00.720 Hopefully the robots are getting credits for it at Robo University and you better enroll here again 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:05.680 on Friday or you're not going to have enough tech news credits to graduate and then you won't get a 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:09.760 good tech news watching job and you'll have to move back in with your parents. Just kidding, 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:16.080 you never moved out of your parents in this economy. So that's why you should come back.