1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 The phrase green bubbles used to make me think of the beer some people add green food coloring to 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:10,560 on St. Patrick's Day and I don't know why because I don't think he would have stood for that. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:17,360 Apple has finally added support for rich communication services or RCS to the iOS 18 beta 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:22,560 allowing both iPhone and Android users the opportunity to experience what it's like to 5 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:28,640 receive a photo that doesn't look like it was taken on a palm pilot. Yep, iMessage now graciously 6 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:34,560 lets both types of users send high-quality media, start group chats, see typing indicators, and 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:41,600 even read receipts. What it doesn't do is change Android messages from green to blue. So no, Gizmodo, 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:47,360 the green bubble nightmare is not over. Although now it is more like a fever dream. 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,960 Need to go to the hospital. While this is arguably one of the most impactful feature drops announced 10 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:58,880 at WWDC, Apple dedicated a single sentence to it in the press release mentioning a better 11 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:05,040 experience when messaging contacts who do not have an Apple device. You may know them by their 12 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:11,040 other name, most people. Now this is a beta so there are some quirks. For example, RCS isn't yet 13 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:17,200 supported if your iPhone is on an MVNO network like Google Fi. But can you blame Google for not 14 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,880 having this ready on their own network? They've been texting Apple to see if they want to come 15 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:27,920 over for years and then suddenly they show up at the door? How did it get so messy? One second. 16 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:35,760 YouTube has begun rolling out new features for premium users, including the jump ahead button 17 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:41,840 after a limited testing phase. Premium subscribers on Android in the US will see the button when 18 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,720 double tapping to skip forward in a video. YouTube says instead of doing that manually, 19 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:51,840 you can just tap the button and it'll take you right where you want to go. What's that? 20 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:57,600 How does the button know where you want to go? What are you, a free thinking individual with 21 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,880 your own preferences and opinions? Get out of here. YouTube's also bringing back its conversational AI 22 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,120 for premium users, which can answer questions about the content of a video like, 23 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,680 Hey, conversational AI, what was in that part that I skipped over? Ah, you weren't looking for 24 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,120 that. Don't worry about it. The YouTube app also now supports viewing shorts in picture in picture 25 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,800 mode for subway surfers fans and apparently more types of YouTube premium plans are on the way 26 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:28,160 with new ways to share your benefits with friends who don't have an AI to tell them the only parts 27 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:35,040 of a video that are worth watching. Those poor people. The CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleiman, 28 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:41,200 went a bit viral this week for calling web content freeware that AI companies are totally 29 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:47,200 fine to train their AI models on under the social contract of fair use that has been standard 30 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:53,520 since the nineties. And while calling what is in many cases copyrighted works, freeware 31 00:02:54,240 --> 00:03:00,400 seems bad. His core argument there is defendable and really nothing new. That's how all the big 32 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:07,680 LLMs have been trained. But he also called it a gray area when websites explicitly tell web 33 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:14,000 crawlers not to scrape their sites for content. A quote I could easily work into a joke about consent, 34 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,800 but I won't because I told myself no. Suleiman said the gray stuff will work its way through 35 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,640 the courts. And he's right. The nonprofit behind Mother Jones and the reveal radio show, 36 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:32,720 the center for investigative reporting just sued Microsoft and open AI for copyright violations. 37 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:39,200 The same day open AI added Time Magazine to the list of outlets it's formed content partnerships 38 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,560 with. An acknowledgement of the grayness of the copyright question. But as for AI search company 39 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:50,560 Perplexity, well, given their recent plagiarism scandals, it seems like they don't care as much 40 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:55,760 which shade of gray the chips land on, which kind of tracks with the fact that its CEO told 41 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,640 Lex Friedman his company got its start by making fake academic accounts so they could 42 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:05,440 scrape Twitter's data to use in their product. I think it's well past time a trustworthy, 43 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:10,800 morally upstanding entity investigated these guys. Amazon. They'll let us know whether 44 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:16,320 Perplexity staff have access to enough fabric lined weeping booths. There aren't merely enough 45 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,360 people here peeing in bottles. You need to do something about this. Okay, now you're gonna 46 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,920 want to get in a more stable stance for when these quick bits come through, okay? And when they hit 47 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:29,520 shit, don't don't push back. Just let them go because you do not want to make these things angry. 48 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,080 Due to a glitch with Apple Pay, many Hungarian iPhone users found themselves 49 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:39,280 getting mistakenly charged for payments they never made. Thankfully, it seems that affected 50 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:44,400 customers will be reimbursed in the coming week. While typically these charges were only small 51 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:49,120 amounts, some users found themselves getting charged several times in a row, with one user 52 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:55,680 getting charged for nearly $1,500 across 74 transactions in the space of five minutes 53 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,240 before the bank blocked any further withdrawals. It's like your bank account deciding on your 54 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,920 behalf that you deserve a little treat. A little treat. A little treat. Oh, I see. 55 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:12,320 Intel has shown off a prototype optical interconnect chip that could allow server 56 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:18,080 processors to support up to four terabits per second interlinks. Interlinked. Interlinked, 57 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,800 sorry. It's still early days for the prototype, but Intel is apparently working with select 58 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,480 customers on incorporating it into SoC designs. Thomas Lielberg, a director on the project, 59 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:34,480 said that server needs are straining the capabilities of electrical IO designs, and that 60 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,920 servers also look super, super boring right now, so we need to get some laser action in their stat. 61 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:46,400 Oh no, servers are getting boring? Somebody play Sandstorm. OpenAI has announced a new AI model 62 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,160 intended to critique Chachi BT and help human trainers spot errors in its output. 63 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,840 They called it CriticGPT, so don't worry AI skeptics, AI can now do your job too. 64 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,240 The same day Google announced a partnership with Data Services giant Moody's, which should 65 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:10,080 help Google's enterprise customers to create AI chatbots grounded in facts instead of what they 66 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:16,640 were previously grounded in, 4chan green text stories. I for one celebrate our AI overlords 67 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:22,480 attempts to not blatantly make s**t up. The FCC has been inundated with complaints against 68 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:27,600 T-Mobile following the company's decision to raise prices for cellular customers to whom it 69 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,840 repeatedly and explicitly promised a lifetime price freeze. However, it turns out that in a 70 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:40,480 separate FAQ, the only real guarantee in the Uncarrier's Uncontract was to pay customers 71 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:46,720 final phone bill if they decided to cancel following their inevitable betrayal. It was 72 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,080 always a little fiscally dubious for T-Mobile to promise so many of its customers a lifetime 73 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,760 price freeze back in 2017, unless for some reason it thought that most of those customers were going 74 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,480 to die in a terrible plague only a few years later. I'm just saying T-Mobile are psychic. 75 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,880 And a computer comprised of plastic cubes which can change its pattern to represent data 76 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:15,200 without using any electricity has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State University. 77 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:22,480 Why? I don't know, seems weird. The design was inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, 78 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:28,880 which I can only describe as origami remastered. Binary ones and zeros are represented in the 79 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:35,280 positions of the component cubes, which can be pushed up and down either manually or using magnets. 80 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,680 We've got a long way to go before we can use these to fight back against autonomous robot 81 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,240 dogs with guns, but hey, it's a good start. And even better start would be you coming back on 82 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:50,640 Monday for a talk linked episode I recorded with Jonathan Horst of Mac Address. We argue about 83 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,680 Apple and the safety of motorcycles. Go check it out.