WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 Not a lot of people know this, but the tech news is actually mined 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:08.180 directly from our writer's subconsciouses using an elaborate inception style setup. 00:00:08.180 --> 00:00:11.180 We had to go like three levels deep to get today's news. 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:16.920 We lost some good men down there. Microsoft's Xbox mode, the full-screen gaming interface 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:21.760 it originally built for Windows and held as the full-screen experience started rolling out 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:26.000 to all Windows 11 PCs yesterday. The timing is a little awkward. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.280 Microsoft killed its, this is an Xbox campaign in March. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.280 You know, the one insisting your phone and Fire TV stick were already Xboxes 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:37.580 because it didn't feel like Xbox. Six weeks later, here's a feature 00:00:37.580 --> 00:00:41.160 that makes your laptop feel exactly like an Xbox. 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:45.000 Xbox mode replaces your traditional desktop with a console-style home screen, 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.680 aggregating your library from multiple stores into one window. 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:53.360 Once it shows up on your PC, you can flip it on under settings, gaming, Xbox mode, 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:57.680 or hit the Windows key plus F11 to drop straight in. 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:00.740 Rollout is gradual and limited to select markets, 00:01:00.740 --> 00:01:06.480 expanding over the coming weeks. So if you don't see it yet, your Windows 11 PC is just being shy. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.000 It's okay, little guy. You can be an Xbox too. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:13.520 It's loud now. Meta is threatening to shut down Facebook, Instagram, 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:17.040 and WhatsApp in New Mexico if state prosecutors get their way 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.080 in implementing a list of child safety changes 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:23.440 because they hate children. The threat comes after New Mexico won 00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:26.440 a $375 million dollar lawsuit in March 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:32.440 with a jury finding Meta liable for exposing children to sexual predators on its platforms. 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:36.840 I caramba. During the trial, taped depositions showed Facebook CEO 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:41.120 and man 99% of the way through a fish-to-human transformation, 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.520 Mark Zuckerberg calling harm to kids on his platforms 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:50.360 and inevitability. Now in a court filing, Meta is arguing that the attorney general's proposed reforms, 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:55.520 which includes CSAM detection, age verification, and a restriction on end-to-end encryption for minors 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:00.640 are technologically impractical. According to Meta, the shutdown threat only kicks in 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.440 if the judge sides with the state at the bench trial that begins May 4th, Star Wars Day. 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:10.720 New Mexico attorney general Raul Torres is unmoved 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:15.360 calling the threat a PR stunt, truly known in the universe executes PR stunts 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.680 as cringe as Zuckerberg. Speaking of young people and AI, 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:21.840 minors in the US might not be able to use chatbots 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.760 the same way in the future if a bipartisan bill goes through the legislation 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:30.560 dubbed the Guard Act, would require AI companies to verify the ages of their users 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.200 in order to bar minors from interacting with AI companions. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:37.600 It would also force chatbots to disclose to all users 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:40.640 that they are not human. They're not, okay? 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:43.640 The bill follows a number of lawsuits against open AI, 00:02:43.640 --> 00:02:48.240 Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic over LLMs being involved in several instances 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:53.760 of teen violence and self-harm. The bill cleared committee with a unanimous 22-nothing vote 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:57.400 and now heads to the Senate floor where it could face pushback from politicians 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:02.800 who are subject to lobbying by big tech, DeMoney, Texas Senator and retired member 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.560 of the Nazgul Ted Cruz has already introduced 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:11.560 his own watered down version of the bill in order to protect those innocent AI companies 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:16.560 against the dark specter of child safety. One thing they won't need protection from, 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.600 gross, is our sponsor. The quick bits are a byproduct of the dream mining process. 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:25.800 If we don't collect them and read them on air, they undergo catastrophic decompression 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.920 in the dreamer's mind. It's like the Benz, but imaginary, it's messy. 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:32.960 Chinese GPU maker Lijuan Tech earned Microsoft's 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:38.760 Windows Hardware Quality Labs driver certification for its upcoming LX7G100, 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:42.800 a 4060 class gaming card launching in China this month. 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.880 It's the first Chinese firm and only the fourth GPU maker 00:03:46.920 --> 00:03:51.920 to ever clear WHQL after NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.920 The certification is basically a passport into the Windows ecosystem, 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:02.120 meaning if these cards ever leave China, Western gamers might finally have someone new to root for 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.520 at the budget end of the GPU aisle. 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:10.920 Ubuntu's website and login servers have been knocked offline since Thursday 00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:16.520 by a sustained DDoS attack from Iran-aligned HackedVis Group 313 team 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.680 who paired the assault with an extortion demand. The group has previously hit Blue Sky and Truth Social, 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.000 fair enough, but Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical, 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.080 is their first major open source target. Bold strategy extorting a company 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:34.320 whose main product is free to download, but I see you. 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:37.760 Chinese researchers at the Hefe Institute of Physical Science 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:43.520 have tested the world's first 10 megawatt truck-mounted nuclear reactor, that's a brand new sentence, 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:46.840 capable of running for decades on a single fuel load. 00:04:46.840 --> 00:04:52.240 The team is calling it a nuclear power bank and is now shopping it to potential customers 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:57.600 with potential users including remote islands, ships that could go to remote islands, data centers, 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:02.080 which could be located on remote islands, and space stations, no connection to the previous. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:05.560 They've basically made a USB-C charger the size of a shipping container 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:11.200 that could also irradiate a small town. Disgraced ex-hardward scientist, Charles Lieber, 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:14.320 who is one of the world's leading brain-computer interface researchers, 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:19.520 is rebuilding his lab in China. In 2021, Lieber was convicted of lying to the feds 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:24.560 about accepting $50,000 a month from a Chinese state talent recruitment program. 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:29.960 His work is focused on restoring movement in paralyzed people, something the US hates. 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:34.200 Just joking, but this has the Pentagon concerned 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:39.880 as the People's Liberation Army wants to use the tech to create super soldiers with better mental agility 00:05:39.880 --> 00:05:43.680 and situational awareness. So good luck to Dr. Lieber and his new career 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:48.320 and fingers crossed no one kidnaps his dog, forcing him to complete his current character arc 00:05:48.320 --> 00:05:52.400 of becoming a Cold War era state-backed evil super scientist. 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:56.560 And Huawei unveiled a new version of its X-Pixel headlight tech 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.520 at the Beijing Auto Show, capable of projecting full-color movies 00:06:00.520 --> 00:06:06.120 onto walls in front of a parked car, debuting on the 80M9 with more EVs to follow. 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:10.920 The system can project interactive games for kids on the pavement like hopscotch. 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.280 Finally, a car designed to let your kids play directly in front of it while it's running. 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:18.400 This is what we've been missing. The kids are too soft. 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:22.440 Bobby, go jump in front of that car. It's meant for it. 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:25.720 And you should jump back in front of the tech news on Monday. 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:29.960 That's our show. That's everything we pulled out of the writers' heads today. All the tech news, at least. 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:33.980 There was an ungodly amount of Stomp and Tom Conner's lyrics in there, though. 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:35.480 But those are for the weekend.