WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.560 It's not every day you get tech news. 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:10.480 So. Especially this coming Monday. It's a stat holiday so we won't be here. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:19.520 Make alternative plans. AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D appears to have been sold out at retailers across North America and Europe, 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:24.560 with even the next batch of pre-orders selling out at German Outlet Mind Factory. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.320 New eggs said their individual units of the CPU are all gone, 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:35.280 but they dug around and managed to find some 9800X3D plus motherboard bundles, 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:40.640 which is not a ploy to sell more inventory. It's a bundle. It came like that. It's a bundle. 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.560 If you missed the boat, it's okay. They'll come back in stock eventually. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:48.240 Maybe even before those new economy saving tariffs drop. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:53.840 Hopefully they drop after AMD also drops the Ryzen 99950X3D, 00:00:53.920 --> 00:01:00.400 because a leaked factorial benchmark shows it running quite a bit faster than the 9800X3D and 00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:07.680 the 7950X3D. Releasing processors that are better than last gen is a winning strategy for AMD right now, 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:13.760 whose desktop CPU market share has climbed 10% in the last year, according to Mercury Research. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.560 Apple appears to be trying the same approach. Reviews for the new MacBook Pros, Mac Mini, 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:25.280 and iMac are all focusing on features other than the M4 chip, because it's just obviously 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:31.040 slapping AMD and Intel's competitors, particularly the M4 Pro and Max variants. 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.080 But don't worry, Intel knows they've got work to do. 00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:39.520 In an interview with Hot Hardware, Intel VP Robert Halleck acknowledged that their desktop 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:46.080 Aero Lake launch didn't go as planned. The company has identified a quote series of issues 00:01:46.080 --> 00:01:51.200 at an OS and a BIOS level, which meant that the performance seen in reviews 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:55.360 quote was not what we expected, not what we intended. 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:01.680 Seemingly forgetting about Intel's own benchmarks showing the flagship Core 9 Ultra 285K 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.600 performing worse than its predecessor in games. 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:12.400 I mean, okay, well, they didn't intend for that to still be the case after the CPUs actually launched. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:17.760 Intel may have seen advice from enthusiasts to not trust first party numbers, 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:25.200 and then applied that to themselves. Aero Lake's middling performance came after a scandal over instability issues in the company's 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:30.160 Raptor Lake lineup, which has now earned them a class action lawsuit. 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:33.520 Morale is probably pretty low among Intel employees right now, 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:39.520 especially after their employer took away their free coffee and tea as a cost-saving measure. 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:46.640 You know things are bad when. Intel just brought it back, which is either a sign that things are looking up, 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:50.560 or the shot you give a dying soldier to ease the pain. 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:55.760 At least we have coffee. Now this next story has some wild turns in it, so hang on. 00:02:55.760 --> 00:03:01.120 A judge has granted a motion filed by meta to dismiss a lawsuit brought against them 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.960 by the man who invented the pop-up ad, Ethan Zuckerman. 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:10.080 The judge thought a lawsuit titled Zuck V Zuck was just too silly. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.080 Could one of you switch the Z for a C? 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:22.080 The lawsuit wasn't about ads. It was a preemptive move to block meta from suing Zuckerman in the future. 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:28.240 If Zuckerman went through with his plan to release a tool called unfollow everything 2.0, 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:32.320 which would allow Facebook users to unfollow everything on the platform, 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:39.280 twice. That's why the two is there. Double tap. Make sure. No, it's 2.0 because there was a 1.0. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:45.760 The first unfollow everything was a browser extension released by Lewis Barclay in 2021, 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:48.960 for which meta called Facebook at the time. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:55.360 Banned Barclay from Facebook and Instagram, and threatened a costly legal battle if he didn't take the tool down, 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:00.320 leading him to write an article in Slate titled Facebook Banned Me For Life 00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:08.720 because I help people use it less. Which, yeah, sounds like what you would expect to happen. 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:12.320 It's not right. It's just also not shocking. Back to Zuckerman though. 00:04:12.320 --> 00:04:18.080 His lawsuit was novel in that it relied on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:22.400 legislation best known for protecting social media platforms like meta, 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:26.000 from liability for the content posted by their users. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.320 But an obscure clause in that section arguably protects the developers 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:34.240 of third-party content curation tools, like unfollow everything. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:37.440 And Zuckerman's lawyers still believe that's true. 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:42.080 So they'll soon be back with a lawsuit to prevent meta from suing their client, 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:46.320 to prevent him from suing meta, to prevent meta from suing themselves, 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:49.440 to prevent me from telling you about our sponsor, but I won't let that. 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.920 Fun fact, it is actually every day that you get quick bits. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.000 They just only appear in the visible light spectrum when they want you to see them. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.600 Having apparently run out of other programs to AIFI, 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:07.600 Microsoft will be adding generative features to Notepad.exe and MS Paint, 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.160 two programs that have been around in roughly the same form since the 1980s. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:17.280 Notepad, which got spellcheck, autocorrect, and window tabs earlier this year, 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:23.040 will now have a feature called Rewrite, which surprise surprise, Rewrites highlighted text. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:27.120 Similarly, MS Paint will be getting generative fill and erase features, 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:32.880 to make your hasty re-edit of a deep-fried meme from the depths of 4chan a more elegant affair. 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:39.520 But the normies are getting even more AI stuff. Microsoft is also adding an AI support chatbot to Xbox, 00:05:39.520 --> 00:05:46.400 as well as natural language search. Because if there's anything Xbox users know, it's natural language. 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:50.240 As well as the very unnatural language they use to talk about my mother, 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:55.120 which I don't appreciate, even if some of it is very clever. 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.840 The Canadian government has ordered TikTok to end operations in the country, 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:02.880 citing unclear national security concerns. 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:06.080 To be clear though, this isn't a ban like in the US, 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:10.480 access to the app for the rank and file isn't going to be affected. 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.400 TikTok will have to shut down its offices in Toronto and Vancouver, 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:18.400 but everyday Canadians will still have the right to destroy their brains with endless 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.080 Ed Ed and Eddie little dark age edits if they so choose. 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:26.800 The Australian government meanwhile has proposed a blanket social media ban 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.400 for kids and teens under 16. If passed, the bill could take effect as soon as late next year, 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:37.280 which is likely because it has cross-partisan support with the opposition liberal party. 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:39.840 Finally, something to bring us all together. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:46.880 Instagram sucks. Law enforcement in Michigan has become concerned after multiple iPhones 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:51.200 stored for forensic analysis have unexpectedly rebooted themselves 00:06:51.200 --> 00:06:57.280 and locked investigators out. This is despite the phones being disconnected from cellular networks, 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:01.600 and in at least one case, stored in a Faraday cage. 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.800 Has Apple unlocked teleportation? What's happening? 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.800 Rebooting an iPhone makes it harder to unlock, which believe it or not, 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:15.200 is the opposite of what the police wanted. Officers apparently believe that iPhones with iOS 18.0 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:20.720 brought into their forensic lab may have communicated with the other powered on iPhones 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.080 and told them to reboot after a certain period of time. 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:28.320 Or maybe it was the iPhone Fairy. Make a wish. 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:32.000 Nintendo has found their next target for a juicy lawsuit, 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.360 a man who streamed pirated and emulated games in Nintendo's defense. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.880 Sometimes he would stream these games before they were even released. 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:47.440 We get it, dude. Your uncle is hacking Nintendo. Jesse Kagan, a.k.a. every game guru online, 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:55.360 has particularly irked the Mario Mafia because their usual tactics of shutting down his streams and channels didn't work. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.400 Instead, he'd open a new channel on another platform. 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:03.440 He'd even email Nintendo directly bragging about all his burner accounts, 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:06.080 saying, we can do this all day. 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:09.840 We may have just discovered Nintendo's final boss. 00:08:10.320 --> 00:08:13.920 But you'll never discover more tech news if you come back on Monday, 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.200 because again, it's a stat. We are going to be sleeping. 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:23.360 So come back on Wednesday and you'll discover so much more than you would on Monday, which is nothing.