WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.920 Oh, don't even talk to me until I've had my tech news. 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:08.080 Mostly because I would have nothing to say. Without that, it's basically empty up here. 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:13.440 Intel really wants you to know that they have not solved the instability issue 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:18.240 with their high-end CPUs. Thank you. Last week, Igor's lab published a report 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:21.240 allegedly quoting confidential Intel documents. 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:24.400 Those documents said the root cause of the instability 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:27.680 is a bug in the microcode for ETVB, 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:31.280 which is an Intel Raptor Lake feature that overclocks processor cores 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:36.440 above the maximum turbo frequency when the chip isn't facing thermal or power limits. 00:00:36.440 --> 00:00:40.200 These Intel documents suggest this bug may have allowed chips 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.800 to enter high-performance states even when the chip was too hot to handle it. 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:50.560 It wasn't ready. But someone had an issue with Intel's Intel, Intel. 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.800 Team Blue later told Tom's hardware that this bug is not the only problem, 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:59.680 but rather a contributing factor. This makes sense since the ETVB feature 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:05.360 is exclusive to Core i9 processors and Core i7 processors have also been 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:09.200 facing instability issues. But at least the company is making progress. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:13.480 Intel confirmed to Tom's hardware that they have a patch for the microcode bug 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:18.000 that should at least help. But a full solution requires more investigation, 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.240 which takes time. I mean, not everyone can crack a case 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:25.080 like Detective Adrian Monk, protagonist of the Emmy-winning series Monk, 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:29.760 starring Tony Shalhoub. He's the best of us. The US Department of Justice 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.920 is filing a lawsuit against Adobe on a referral from the FTC. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:37.480 And weirdly, the fact that Premiere can't seem to go five minutes without crashing 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:42.640 didn't factor into the decision at all. The lawsuit alleges that Adobe has harmed consumers 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.760 by enrolling them in their annual, paid monthly subscription plan by default 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:52.680 without adequately disclosing that customers are agreeing to a year-long commitment. 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:57.160 Adobe also doesn't make it clear that, should you become concerned with said commitment 00:01:57.160 --> 00:02:01.720 and wanna end it early, it comes with a cancellation fee of hundreds of dollars. 00:02:01.720 --> 00:02:07.440 According to the FTC's filing, this early termination fee is only clearly disclosed 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:11.400 once subscribers actually try to cancel, which sounds less like a service 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:15.840 and more like an extortion racket. Thus, the lawsuit. 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.240 The FTC even called out the delays and resistance consumers have reported facing 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.400 when contacting customer service directly. So hopefully that means the next company 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.480 to face the FTC is every other company with a customer service department, 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:31.920 except ours, lttstore.com. I legally have to say that. 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:36.160 AMD is getting called out for publishing incredibly misleading benchmarks 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:40.760 for some of its new CPUs. Although new is a relative term, 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:44.240 AMD announced new Ryzen 5000 CPUs 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:48.440 alongside the arguably newer Ryzen 9000 series of chips. 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:53.800 Now AMD's benchmarks showed their newly announced Ryzen 7 5800 XT 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:58.400 beating Intel's last gen Core i5-13600K 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:05.840 while they're similarly new with an asterisk, Ryzen 9 5900 XT was shown beating the Core i7-13700K. 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:12.560 Hardware unboxed had something to say about this during a Q&A video after a fan going by Lech 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:15.880 brought up that the GPU AMD used for these tests 00:03:15.880 --> 00:03:19.600 was a underpowered Radeon RX 6600. 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:24.240 Now by doing this, AMD made the performance bottleneck the GPU, not the CPU. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.240 And since AMD processors work better with AMD graphics cards, 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:33.600 the new Zen 3 chips looked better than Intel's more recent 13th gen. 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:37.280 Now to be fair, Intel is getting a little taste of their own medicine here. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.720 They're also a fan of misleading benchmarks. The company famously tried to argue 00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:46.360 that third-party benchmarks don't represent real-world desktop usage using data 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.200 they gathered from notebook users. More recently, Team Blue was also accused 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:55.740 of artificially inflating benchmark results for its Xeon server processors. 00:03:55.740 --> 00:03:58.760 So moral of the story here, trust no one, 00:03:58.760 --> 00:04:02.400 never leave your house, or just wait for independent reviews, 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.880 so that's better. Ah, you must be here for the quick bits. 00:04:05.880 --> 00:04:09.520 I just, I swear, I swear I just had them. One second. 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:14.760 Oh, they're in my other pants. Proton, the company that asked the question, 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:17.640 what if Google didn't wanna suck up all your data? 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:22.960 Has announced it's transitioning to a non-profit foundational structure. 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:28.880 This new Proton Foundation will own the pre-existing Proton AG Corporation. 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:33.800 They're not the first company to do this. I mean, the most famous example is probably OpenAI, 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.760 but Firefox developer Mozilla also has a for-profit subsidiary, 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:41.200 which recently expanded with the purchase of Anonym, 00:04:41.200 --> 00:04:46.400 a startup apparently specializing in privacy-preserving advertising, okay? 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:51.320 There aren't any plans to introduce Anonym's tech in Mozilla's web browser yet, 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:56.680 but you never know what the future might hold. It's like that old proverb, inside of you, 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.800 there are two firefoxes? 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:04.120 TikTok wants to sell ads using AI-generated avatars, 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:08.080 because of course they do. If that sentence was gonna be about anyone, 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:11.920 of course it's TikTok. The company's symphony digital avatars 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.440 come in two flavors, stock or custom. 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.600 While stock avatars are based on paid actors, 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:23.880 custom avatars can be used to represent a specific creator or brand spokesperson, 00:05:23.880 --> 00:05:27.120 or a version of them that suddenly lost the ability 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.240 to sound enthusiastic or move like an actual human being. 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.720 What if that happened? That's a sci-fi movie I wanna see. 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.800 The custom avatars can even speak multiple languages, 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.040 allowing advertisers to unsettle virtually anyone. 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.680 Speaking of TikTok, now that the TikTok ban law has been passed, 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:48.920 the US government has set its sights on another prominent Chinese company, DJI, 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.040 maker of 70% of the world's drones. 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:57.080 The House of Representatives passed the Countering CCP Drones Act on Friday. 00:05:57.080 --> 00:06:00.920 If also passed by the Senate, the bill would ban DJI drones 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.240 from using FCC allotted frequencies effectively, 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.580 making their sale and operation illegal, 00:06:07.580 --> 00:06:12.280 especially for filming aerial TikToks. That's not gonna fly. 00:06:12.280 --> 00:06:17.040 Now both companies are being targeted due to concerns they're spying on Americans for the CCP, 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.400 and wouldn't you rather use a quality American made drone 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:25.640 that'll spy on Americans for the White House? Hurrah! Researchers have created renewable energy 00:06:25.640 --> 00:06:29.600 using living organisms. That doesn't sound that crazy. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.800 Have you ever heard of a bike? What we're actually talking about here is electricity. 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:39.160 Scientists in Canada were able to create cells containing algae that could capture electrons 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:44.000 created during photosynthesis. Now since the tech pulls carbon dioxide out of the air, 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.240 it's not carbon neutral, it's actually better, it's carbon negative. 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.520 Now the maximum terminal voltage is only one volt right now, 00:06:50.520 --> 00:06:55.320 but the technology could be used to power ultra low power devices like IoT sensors. 00:06:55.320 --> 00:06:58.680 But it raises questions, like will humans eventually worry 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.760 about whether their batteries are vegan? 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:06.600 Fun fact, they already do. Big shout out to Gelatin for being in literally everything. 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.880 And researchers at the University of Texas are making progress on technology 00:07:10.880 --> 00:07:14.080 that would give smartphones X-ray vision. 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:18.560 At press time, it was unclear whether anyone had consulted mathematician Ian Malcolm. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:23.320 It's a real can versus should situation. Well, at least the tech isn't actually using 00:07:23.320 --> 00:07:26.800 biologically harmful X-rays, but rather wireless signals 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.000 in the 200 to 400 gigahertz range. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.560 And so far, the most solid thing researchers were able to see through is a cardboard sheet. 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.360 They had better luck looking through thick dust clouds and dense fog. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.480 And yeah, you may laugh, but Thomas Jane would have loved to have this tech 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.800 in the 2007 horror film, The Mist. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.320 Too bad he missed it. Just like how I'll miss you 00:07:51.320 --> 00:07:55.520 if you don't come back on Wednesday for more tech news. I get lonely, okay? 00:07:55.520 --> 00:07:56.760 I have needs.