WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 Hi, welcome back to TechLinked. Don't ask. 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:07.040 NVIDIA has announced that it plans to launch its new NVIDIA 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:10.200 app out of beta before the end of this year. 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:13.640 Now, users with some combination of the NVIDIA Control Panel, 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:17.080 the GeForce Experience app, and the RTX Experience app 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:20.720 already on their PC may be experiencing some apprehension. 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:26.160 But the new app is actually intended to unify the features of all three apps 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.520 and in the darkness, bind them into a single 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:33.400 streamlined experience. We've had three, yes. What about fourth app? 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:40.520 NVIDIA has also added a handful of new features, such as a toggle for G-Sync, multi-monitor support 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.640 for RTX HDR, and driver rollback. 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.200 Heck yeah. The app allows users to sort their games the way they want, 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.320 and the new UI allows users to customize the font and colors. 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.440 In case Neon Green on black just doesn't jive 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:59.040 with your particular brand of dyslexia. But NVIDIA's not the only one bringing cool new features 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:03.600 out of beta, AMD, the perpetual ash to NVIDIA's Gary, 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:09.760 launched Fluid Motion Frames 2, alongside the rollout of its 24.9.1 adrenaline driver. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:13.120 AFMF 2 demonstrates substantial performance gains 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.680 and fixes the first version's notorious input lag issue. 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.400 It also comes with improved geometric downscaling, just in case you're the kind of psychopath 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.160 who likes watching movies in a super tiny window rather than their native size. 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:30.680 I need to make room for subway surfers. A pair of students at Harvard have released a paper 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.760 on an experiment they conducted where they ran facial recognition software 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.760 through a pair of Meta smart glasses. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.000 The glasses would then automatically cross-reference that face with social media, 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.960 and compile a profile on the person, including name, biographical information, 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:50.080 personal associations, and even sometimes addresses. 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:55.680 The students filmed themselves approaching strangers in public places greeting them by name 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:00.320 and claiming to have met them previously through a shared event or organization. 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:06.240 While the system was occasionally inaccurate, this is a clear demonstration of how such technology 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:11.280 could be used for harm by a malicious actor. Just think about the last time somebody who knew your name, 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:16.640 occupation, and birth date stopped you on the street. Literally never happened to me and I'm vaguely famous. 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:21.840 I'd probably assume I was the jerk who forgot my old acquaintance and their snazzy glasses. 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.880 How could I forget those? The student group has committed to not releasing 00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:31.800 the tool that they showed everyone that they had, but Meta won't even commit to not training their AI 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:36.440 using smart glasses photos. A feature that can notably be set off accidentally 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:42.240 using common keywords such as look, Meta, much like a giant irradiated squid kaiju, 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:48.360 seems determined to use every tendril of its organization to violate our privacy in new and horrible ways 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:53.160 previously known only to science fiction. And eldritch horror. But Mark looks great, doesn't he? 00:02:53.160 --> 00:02:59.200 Who cares if he made a deal with Cthulhu? Microsoft is rolling out voice and vision capabilities 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:03.080 for its AI assistant co-pilot as well as enhanced reasoning, 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:07.600 which would be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that most Microsoft AI innovations 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:11.240 are actually just open AI innovations that were already rolled out several weeks ago. 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.360 It's been 28 years, but despite the odds, 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:20.080 Microsoft is still trying to make Clippy happen. With an assistant that has a friendly, human-like voice 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.760 that dynamically responds to the user's emotions and makes interjections like, cool, 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:28.600 and huh, to give the impression of active listening. 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:33.400 It's as good a reminder as any to try to call up your actual friends and make plans this weekend. 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.000 You may be lonely, but please don't be making small talk 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.120 with lobotomized Cortana lonely. If it was Sydney, it'd be a whole other thing, 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.520 but she's gone. According to Microsoft AI Tsar Mustafa Suleiman, 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:49.940 we're just a year away from ever-present, highly capable AI assistants, 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:55.540 but he kind of has to make big claims like that, given how crowded the field of AI development has gotten 00:03:55.540 --> 00:04:01.060 with deep-pocketed tech giants. Gemini Live, Google's own enhanced voice mode, 00:04:01.060 --> 00:04:07.020 is now freely available to all Android users, while NVIDIA just announced its own GPT-4 class 00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:10.660 open-source AI model with weights already available 00:04:10.660 --> 00:04:14.020 and training code coming soon. I didn't see that coming. 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:17.820 Honestly, at this point, Taylor Swift could surprise drop a new AI assistant next week, 00:04:17.820 --> 00:04:22.940 and it'd only be a little weird. I'm just realizing the potential here. 00:04:29.580 --> 00:04:34.300 Quick bits, I'll tell you eventually. In the app developer, Christian Selig, 00:04:34.300 --> 00:04:37.500 best known for the now-defunct Apollo app for Reddit, 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:40.620 has now had Juno, his third-party YouTube app 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:44.820 for the Vision Pro, shut down, most likely at Google's request. 00:04:44.820 --> 00:04:49.100 While Selig probably saw this coming, the closure means that there is no longer 00:04:49.100 --> 00:04:53.980 a YouTube app for the platform. YouTube claimed that a native app for Vision Pro 00:04:53.980 --> 00:04:57.860 was on its roadmap back in February, but that the company was focused 00:04:57.860 --> 00:05:00.900 on ensuring a great experience in Safari, 00:05:00.900 --> 00:05:04.340 an experience that continued to suck for several months afterwards. 00:05:04.340 --> 00:05:10.500 What are the odds that we get an official YouTube app on Meta's Orion before we get one on the Vision Pro? 00:05:12.260 --> 00:05:15.660 Mark looks really good. I can't stress this enough. 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:19.060 I cannot tell you how good his curls look after that Cthulhu deal. 00:05:20.060 --> 00:05:24.700 AMD's new flagship X870 and X870e motherboards 00:05:24.700 --> 00:05:28.340 are now available, and that's fine. 00:05:28.340 --> 00:05:31.660 The X870 non-E could be considered a downgrade 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:36.820 for some use cases, since it has the same single Promontory 21 die configuration 00:05:36.820 --> 00:05:40.060 as last-gen's lower-tier B650 mobos. 00:05:40.060 --> 00:05:45.180 And on top of that, some PCIe lanes will need to be dedicated to accommodating USB 4, 00:05:45.180 --> 00:05:49.260 which is great, provided you can take advantage of USB 4. 00:05:49.260 --> 00:05:52.580 More objectively bad is that many X870 motherboards 00:05:52.580 --> 00:05:56.560 do support Wi-Fi 7, but don't have the hardware 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:01.060 to go above Wi-Fi 6e speeds. Because once again, tech specs 00:06:01.060 --> 00:06:05.260 don't actually mean anything and are purely vibes-based. 00:06:05.260 --> 00:06:09.740 Reddit has changed its settings to stop users from protesting. 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:14.620 Last year, when the API changes were announced, Redditers protested by turning subreddits private 00:06:14.620 --> 00:06:19.180 or only showing not-safe-for-work content. It was a bit of a minefield for a second there. 00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:24.220 Now, setting a subreddit to private or changing a safe-for-work subreddit to not-safe-for-work 00:06:24.220 --> 00:06:30.160 requires Reddit's permission. VP of Community, Laura Nestler, told The Verge 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.700 that the change has been in motion since at least 2021, 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:40.740 but it was accelerated by last year's events. The official Reddit post says protests are still allowed, 00:06:40.740 --> 00:06:47.540 just not ones that actually impact the site. You know, protests Reddit can ignore. 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:51.020 You have the right to protest in your own basement. 00:06:51.020 --> 00:06:57.300 It's the only king joke I've made in this episode. And California has updated its Consumer Privacy Act 00:06:57.300 --> 00:07:02.820 to protect individuals' neural data, preventing tech firms from collecting, sharing, 00:07:02.820 --> 00:07:05.940 or selling info collected from your nervous system. 00:07:05.940 --> 00:07:09.900 A similar law protecting brain data was passed in Colorado earlier this year. 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:14.180 Unfortunately, this is necessary because the dark future is approaching. 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:17.860 And someone has to stop the corpos from trying to download your consciousness 00:07:17.860 --> 00:07:22.200 while you scroll a brain dance. I never played cyberpunk, so I don't know what I just said, 00:07:22.200 --> 00:07:23.620 but it felt cool. 00:07:25.340 --> 00:07:29.180 And okay, fine, I'll tell you why I'm dressed this way. It's Riley Week on Flow Plane, 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:33.460 so I guess that means that I've dressed like a king. I'm the king of Flow Plane. 00:07:33.460 --> 00:07:37.380 I got to make videos like however I want, so watch these clips. 00:07:39.880 --> 00:07:44.340 Gotta get the blood up. The core issue with Star Wars today, as I see it, 00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:49.140 is that it's struggling to change itself. How is your Tim Cook impression so good? 00:07:49.140 --> 00:07:52.500 I don't know. The ship is not moving. 00:07:52.500 --> 00:07:56.620 Shoot the ship. What does being a minimalist actually mean? 00:07:56.620 --> 00:07:58.740 I'm gonna be so loud. I'm gonna be so disruptive. 00:08:00.300 --> 00:08:08.220 Bing Bong, how is Riley's mom? You keep my mom's name out, you! 00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:15.060 So subscribe to Flow Plane if you want to see those, and come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:08:15.060 --> 00:08:19.900 And also on Friday, my 20 minute rant about Star Wars on Flow Plane, as I've mentioned. 00:08:19.900 --> 00:08:23.660 Be there, chum. Still don't know what that means.