WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 Hello and welcome to GameLegged. Sights, no, it's tech news time. 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:11.520 Oh my God, you're so good. Intel has called out AMD for misleading branding 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:14.640 in an arguably hypocritical new marketing presentation 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.840 it published before swiftly taking it down 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:22.600 when it was spotted by Tom's hardware and others. Sadly for Intel and Barbara Streisand, 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.640 the internet never forgets. The presentation tech uses imagery to represent AMD 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:34.560 as an untrustworthy snake oil salesman and contains four core truths intended to help consumers 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:40.480 see through its competitors' witchcraft. The first is that current gen Ryzen processors 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:45.480 secretly use AMD's 2019 chip architecture 00:00:45.480 --> 00:00:52.120 unlike current gen Intel processors which use Intel's top of the line 13th gen architecture 00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:58.200 released in 2023 and created by very slightly tweaking Intel's 12th gen architecture from 2021. 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:03.520 So much is much different. Never mind Intel's 2015 14 nanometer Skylake architecture 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:11.480 which as PC gamers Jeremy Laird points out, Intel rebadged twice and sold as 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th gen. 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:15.480 It's like when I was a kid, my parents gave me the same easy bake oven 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:20.320 five years in a row for my birthday. To be fair to Intel, there's more than a little truth 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:24.720 to some of their accusations like Ryzen's naming conventions being confusing 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:29.080 but that's as rich as a triple thick chocolate pie coming from Intel. 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:32.480 Intel could have also helped its own case if it didn't cherry pick benchmarks 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.760 in its real world performance marketing push back in 2019 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:39.800 and wasn't equally guilty of oiling the old snake. 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:43.920 That's what snake oil is for, right? That sounds like an innuendo. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.200 Thankfully AMD actually did help Intel's case today 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.760 by unveiling its Ryzen 8040 series of laptop chips 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:57.040 which appear to be pretty much the same hardware wise 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.200 as last year's 7040 series but with higher clock speeds and other optimizations. 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:06.840 Look, I don't wanna blame the victim here but maybe AMD should fix their naming scheme 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.360 if they don't want other companies to post mean PDFs about them. 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:16.800 Didn't work for me but I never know. Google has finally launched their new AI model Gemini 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:21.040 which it claims beats GPT-4 on a wide range of benchmarks 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:26.360 but notably not in Heliswag which is self evidently the most important one. 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:29.600 Google describes Gemini as natively multimodal 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:33.000 as it was trained on images, text and video itself 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.020 instead of relying on plugins to other models. 00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:41.680 Gemini also comes in three versions, Nano which is more lightweight, Pro which is more middleweight 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.720 and Ultra which can canonically defeat Goku. 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:48.240 It's called Gemini, that's why there's three of them. Yeah, what? 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:54.160 As of today, Gemini Pro is now powering Google's AI chatbot, Bart. 00:02:54.160 --> 00:02:57.960 It's currently in English only but it will soon be available in 170 markets 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.160 around the world. Still not Europe or Canada though, 00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:04.520 presumably due to a fear of adequate antitrust regulations 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:08.800 and moose, they're everywhere, they're in the walls. 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.000 As of December 13th, Gemini Pro will be available to developers as well as Google's enterprise customers 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.360 via Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI. 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:22.040 Then at some point in 2024, Gemini Ultra will replace Gemini Pro within Bard 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:25.400 and will be made available to users through a cloud API. 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.080 Despite recent turbulence, OpenAI's GPT-4 remains Google's and everyone else's 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.600 biggest rival in the LLM space to the point that chat GPT was Wikipedia's 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:39.040 most viewed article of 2023 with over 49 million page views. 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:42.240 That's at least better than last year when the Russian invasion of Ukraine 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.280 got beat out by Jeffrey Dahmer. That came out of nowhere. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.360 Twitch has announced that by the end of February next year, 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:57.000 it will end all business in South Korea, where it says its cost to operate is prohibitively expensive. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:02.040 According to Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, the company has been running at a loss in South Korea. 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:05.920 And despite reducing source quality to a maximum of 720p 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:10.680 and experimenting with peer-to-peer models for source quality, its network fees in the country 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.600 are still 10 times more expensive than most other countries. 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.160 Clancy has stated that Twitch will work with affected streamers 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.360 and will help them migrate to alternative streaming platforms like YouTube and the Korean based Africa. 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:28.080 Hmm. That is a name. 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:31.640 Is that what it's called? Yes. Did they get licensing for that? 00:04:31.640 --> 00:04:35.080 Streamers outside of South Korea with significant Korean fan bases 00:04:35.080 --> 00:04:38.080 may also see a significant hit to revenue. 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:42.240 It's hard to understand how Twitch, the world's largest live streaming platform, 00:04:42.280 --> 00:04:45.920 could fail in South Korea, a global hotspot for eSports. 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:49.120 But the answer may lie in South Korea's 2016 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:53.580 sending party network pays law, which requires parties sending information 00:04:53.580 --> 00:04:56.840 over the internet to pay a fee to telecoms 00:04:56.840 --> 00:05:01.000 rather than just the receiving party, which is how it works everywhere else. 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:05.560 This effectively allows South Korean telecoms to double charge for internet traffic. 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:09.400 It's like splitting the check on a date, except that both parties pay the full price 00:05:09.400 --> 00:05:14.440 for the entire meal. No wonder it's hard to find someone right now. Quick bits are a lot like seafood stew. 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:17.800 It's a bunch of tasty little bite-sized chunks. And if you consume it more than four days 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:23.000 after it was prepared, it'll make you sick. iMessage support on Android is finally here 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:28.120 for real this time. Thanks to messaging company Beeper's new app, Beeper Mini. 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.200 Unlike Sunbird, which shut down after huge security concerns were brought to light, 00:05:32.200 --> 00:05:36.320 and Beeper's existing service, combining iMessage with other chat apps, 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:39.440 Beeper Mini doesn't sign in with your Apple ID 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:45.520 on a Mac and a server farm somewhere. Instead, Beeper claims to have reverse engineered iMessage, 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:49.840 allowing Android users to sign in directly to Apple services. 00:05:49.840 --> 00:05:53.640 It's not free though. It costs two bucks a month, which should keep the ship afloat 00:05:53.640 --> 00:05:57.040 until Tim's elite assassins extrapolate Beeper's location. 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:01.840 What? They're in the house. Barbara, get down. 00:06:01.840 --> 00:06:04.880 I and Barbara will find you. 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:09.680 Come on, Barbara, let's go. Some of the earliest videos posted to Instagram 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:13.440 have been losing audio. And are instead displaying an error message 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:17.880 claiming that the video has no sound. Several users have reported distress 00:06:17.880 --> 00:06:23.880 after finding that old videos of precious memories and deceased loved ones and pets lacked all audio. 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:27.300 Luckily, according to The Verge, that audio isn't lost forever. 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:32.520 The videos can be heard when played through a browser, just not in the app itself. 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:35.960 Meta is apparently aware of the issue and working to fix it, but in the meantime, 00:06:35.960 --> 00:06:39.360 consider somewhere more secure to keep your important data. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.240 Maybe a hard drive in an existential despair proof bunker. 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.840 Are you really relying on Instagram to keep these? 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:50.260 All right. A lawsuit against Amazon for selling spy cams 00:06:50.260 --> 00:06:54.360 is going forward after the company's motion to dismiss the case was denied. 00:06:54.360 --> 00:07:00.120 The plaintiff claims that the E-giant should have foreseen that a camera hidden in a clothes hook 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.200 that won't attract attention, according to its product listing, 00:07:04.200 --> 00:07:07.720 might be used to illegally record people while they're getting undressed. 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:11.240 I just, just maybe. 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:15.680 Confirming that they do indeed have a brain, the judge agreed this claim was credible enough 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.000 for the suit to go forward. While Amazon may have put people at risk 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.080 by selling this camera, if this lawsuit exposes them, 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:26.740 they will at least have the luxury of not being filmed. Microsoft has announced that individuals, 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:31.160 not just businesses, will be able to pay for Windows 10 extended security updates 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:36.160 past the OS's scheduled expiry date of October 14th, 2025, 00:07:36.200 --> 00:07:40.800 just over 10 years after it launched. It's seemingly the tech giant's latest admission 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:45.680 that Windows users don't actually prefer it when you make basic features worse. 00:07:46.840 --> 00:07:50.420 How could we have known? Microsoft is already committed to bringing co-pilot 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:53.440 and other previously Windows 11 exclusive AI features 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:57.300 to the older OS, a year after saying Windows 10 wouldn't receive 00:07:57.300 --> 00:08:00.300 any more big feature updates. It's all a little confusing, 00:08:00.300 --> 00:08:05.720 but I understand that Microsoft has its hands full finding more products that can slap a co-pilot sticker on. 00:08:06.520 --> 00:08:09.920 And the UK is considering using face scanning tech 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:14.520 to age gate pornography, following the controversial online safety bill 00:08:14.520 --> 00:08:18.240 passing into law. To be fair, some supermarkets in the UK 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.560 allow customers to buy booze with a face scan itself checkout, 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:27.320 but that's at a physical location with human staff there to spot any 14 year old wearing a fake mustache. 00:08:27.320 --> 00:08:31.440 The UK wants adult websites to estimate a person's age from a selfie, 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:37.160 which sounds super cool, but the government does admit to one small problem. 00:08:37.160 --> 00:08:40.500 Quote, there's little evidence that the AI method of age estimation 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:45.120 will be fair, reliable, or effective. But once they figure that out, there'll be no problem. 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:51.360 It'll be working like a charm. Once we figure out this whole, it works thing. 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.240 Just like you'll be able to come back here on Friday for more TechLinked, no face scans required. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.800 We trust that you wouldn't look at anything you're not supposed to. You're a good person. 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:00.640 Don't.