1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,240 Tech news, I love tech news. I mean, you start talking about connector tables, 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,880 CPUs, software updates, it's getting hot in here, do you mind? 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,140 I might need the room. Intel's next-gen GPUs codenamed Battle Mage 4 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:15,220 will launch this fall, according to industry sources who spoke to German tech outlet Computerbase 5 00:00:15,220 --> 00:00:19,880 at Embedded World 2024. These mysterious beings reportedly indicated 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,100 that Intel wants Battle Mage graphic cards to arrive before Black Friday, 7 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:27,280 aka November 29th, aka the OG Prime Day. 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:32,360 If this is true, it means Battle Mage should go head-to-head with NVIDIA's Blackwell gaming GPUs, 9 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:37,220 which are set for a launch in Q4, according to equally mysterious board partners. 10 00:00:37,220 --> 00:00:42,800 Although the RTX 5090 is rumored to launch first, and if Intel follows their Alchemist launch playbook, 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,800 they'll lead with an upper to mid-tier card. So it might be more like going head to sternum, 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,400 which I have seen work well. Line is to be Luke. 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,200 Right now though, Intel is taking on NVIDIA in the AI chip space. 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,840 Team Blue just announced their Gaudi 3 accelerator, 15 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,880 which they say can beat NVIDIA's H100 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,360 every sometimes running certain models. But hey, at least that's better than the new 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,400 ARM-based Axion data center chip that Google just announced that thing 18 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,620 won't run AI language models at all, because it's a CPU, not an AI accelerator. 19 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:18,880 Well, that's all for me. John, after years of inaction, 20 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,880 a bipartisan pair of legislators has released a discussion draft 21 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,000 for new federal data privacy legislation 22 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,320 titled the American Privacy Rights Act. How appropriate. 23 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:34,800 Oh, never again, guys. The act would create a national standard 24 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,560 for data privacy that preempts the current state-by-state patchwork of privacy legislation. 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,320 It would also limit what kinds of information companies can collect and create a set of consumer data rights 26 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:49,520 similar to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. 27 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,960 Many businesses actually like the idea of a national privacy standard, 28 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,200 primarily because that would reduce the difficulty and cost of compliance. 29 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,580 However, this also means that the bill is likely to receive opposition from both states 30 00:02:01,580 --> 00:02:06,680 that currently have much higher and states that have much lower consumer protections, 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,280 which is what scuttled Congress last attempt at fixing this mess. 32 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,560 Look, you can't just stick California and Texas in the same room and expect them to get along. 33 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,120 They're like cobras and mongooses, mortal enemies. 34 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,560 But there's a lot of reasons to think that regulations like this can help. 35 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,600 The EU's GDPR has forced companies to make significant changes to how they handle data 36 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,360 and their new antitrust rules, making it easier to switch browsers on most devices, 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,980 seem to have resulted in small browsers making significant gains in terms of market share 38 00:02:34,980 --> 00:02:39,320 in the region. What competition? Without new legislation though, 39 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:45,440 most of the pushback against American companies that mistreat their customers is coming extremely gradually 40 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:51,200 through regulatory bodies. Today, the FCC rolled out its new broadband consumer labels, 41 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,320 which are standardized across different ISPs and must clearly list every single fee, cap, 42 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:01,800 and charge associated with the plan and must be clearly displayed for all customers at signup. 43 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,080 The labels are also explicitly based on nutrition labels, 44 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,360 like you'd find on the back of a box of corn flakes, which makes me wonder how many calories 45 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,640 are in a wireless router? Are they having protein or carbs? 46 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:17,360 And what is the latency of my next bowel movement? Several major AI image generators 47 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:22,640 are struggling to depict interracial relationships, especially Asian men in relationships with white women. 48 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:27,640 Mia Sato of The Verge first reported this issue a few weeks ago with Instagram's AI, 49 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,080 which would consistently produce pictures of two people of the same race 50 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,480 when asked to create mixed-raced couples. Strangely, while it was basically impossible 51 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,960 to coax it into creating an image of an Asian man and a white woman, it was far easier 52 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,080 to get it to create images of a white man with an Asian woman or a black man with a white woman. 53 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,720 Even then, it struggled with prompts like black man and white girlfriend, 54 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,640 but not with white woman and black boyfriend. Several other news outlets jumped on the idea 55 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,520 that Asian men replicated these results. Shortly after, meta seems to have blocked prompts 56 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,080 with keywords like Asian man, though this was mysteriously reversed 57 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,520 after Mia Sato asked them about it. But it also turns out that this isn't an issue 58 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,880 exclusive to meta. OpenAI's Dolly 3 almost managed to create 59 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,880 a mixed Asian white couple by somehow creating 60 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,000 the most Asian-looking white women known to men, or men. 61 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 When prompted with Asian man with white wife mid-journey, 62 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,280 also produced a lot of oddly caucasian Asian women, as well as inexplicably a black man and a white woman 63 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:30,760 in what appears to be traditional Chinese clothing. Verge writers were eventually able to get mid-journey 64 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:36,460 to create an image of an Asian man and a white woman, but this only worked when the prompt was clearly platonic 65 00:04:36,460 --> 00:04:39,600 and mentioned academia. This is amazing. 66 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,160 Google's Gemini wasn't able to produce interracial couples of any kind in any time, 67 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,560 Viking or whatever, of course, because Google shut down its ability to generate images 68 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,820 of people after the racially diverse Nazis incident back in February. 69 00:04:52,820 --> 00:04:57,260 The feature was supposed to return in March, so we can assume Google's still trying to get it 70 00:04:57,260 --> 00:05:01,620 to stop generating images of Schindler's list as cast by Lin-Manuel Miranda. 71 00:05:01,620 --> 00:05:05,740 I bet the rap solos are gonna be awesome in that. Schindler's hermanos. 72 00:05:05,740 --> 00:05:10,440 A quick bit is only really a quick bit if it comes from the quick region of France, 73 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:17,700 otherwise it's really technically sparkling techniques. On Monday, we talked about how version 24H2 of Windows 11 74 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:22,180 is blocking third-party modifying apps that alter the iOS's UI. 75 00:05:22,180 --> 00:05:25,900 But it turns out that these changes actually go much, much further. 76 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:28,940 A sizable list of apps, drivers, and hardware IDs 77 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:32,460 can trigger an update hold on Windows 11 version 24H2, 78 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:37,460 including two Intel drivers, a real-tech wireless USB 2.0 adapter driver, 79 00:05:37,460 --> 00:05:42,100 an AMD Radeon software executable, and an iCloud services executable. 80 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:46,740 While Microsoft often blocks older software, that is likely to cause instability, 81 00:05:46,740 --> 00:05:51,140 several of these newly blocked apps and executables were released relatively recently. 82 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:55,740 This is likely because Microsoft is making some pretty extensive changes in the new version, 83 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:59,580 mostly related to the AI features it wants to mix 84 00:05:59,580 --> 00:06:04,780 into the OS like mint through chocolate, in the sense that a lot of us do not want it there. 85 00:06:04,780 --> 00:06:08,500 And don't come at me, mint lovers. It's like the cilantro of OS. 86 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:11,860 Yes. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Cilantro is great. 87 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:18,460 It's great for you. I'm a mutant. TikTok is working on a new app called TikTok Notes, 88 00:06:18,580 --> 00:06:22,780 and you guessed it. It has nothing to do with notes or note taking. 89 00:06:22,780 --> 00:06:26,540 It's a photo posting app. This isn't the first we heard about this. 90 00:06:26,540 --> 00:06:31,980 Last month, the leaks suggested TikTok was working on an Instagram competitor called TikTok Photos, 91 00:06:31,980 --> 00:06:34,980 a name that apparently made too much sense to everybody. 92 00:06:34,980 --> 00:06:41,020 Even more offensive, no one at TikTok, not a single person named the photo app TikTok. 93 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:44,540 If they want to do so now, they have to pay Jacob Rush $7 million. 94 00:06:44,540 --> 00:06:48,980 And I get royalty rights for saying it first on camera. Automatic, the parent company of WordPress, 95 00:06:48,980 --> 00:06:52,860 has acquired Beeper, the message company that you remember these guys. 96 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:56,500 They spent the last several months getting their iMessage Bridging service repeatedly blocked 97 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:01,980 by Apple. That being said, Beeper will apparently operate as a mostly independent subsidiary. 98 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:07,820 Automatic does, however, plan to eventually merge Beeper with its other messaging service, text.com. 99 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:11,020 Beeper had only around 115,000 users prior to acquisition, 100 00:07:11,020 --> 00:07:14,700 but they've also got a wait list of over 450,000. 101 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:18,420 An entire Oakland's worth of people. Luckily for them, Beeper's new Android app 102 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:23,460 is also leaving beta, though there's no word on when or if iMessage Bridging will return. 103 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:27,820 For Timothy Cook of Apple, God's his blue bubbles most jealously. 104 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:34,540 Texas Education Department will be introducing an AI-powered grader called Auto Scoring Engine, or ASE, 105 00:07:34,540 --> 00:07:40,100 for written questions on standardized tests. The only subjects excluded from computer grading 106 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:44,940 appear to be Spanish assessments. So get ready to find out what a robot thinks of your essay 107 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:48,700 on George Orwell's 1984 essay. ASS-O? 108 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,180 While the ASE is intended to replace human graders, 109 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:56,180 which would save the state an estimated $15 to $20 million per year, 110 00:07:56,180 --> 00:08:01,860 around 25% of the tests will be sent for further human review as a measure of quality control. 111 00:08:01,860 --> 00:08:08,500 Texas has clarified that the AI-powering the ASE is not chat GBT, but an AI model purpose-built for grading. 112 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:12,260 Regardless, this move brings us one step closer to the future dystopia. 113 00:08:12,260 --> 00:08:16,220 We're all schooling, both homework and grading. It's completely AI generated. 114 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:19,940 Let the robots handle it, leave me out of it. And according to Cloudflare, 115 00:08:19,940 --> 00:08:24,940 Monday's solar eclipse managed to depress US internet traffic by 8%. 116 00:08:24,940 --> 00:08:29,260 Though that's less impressive when you consider that nearly 100% of what I see on the internet 117 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:33,780 depresses me on a daily basis. For example, I learned from the internet 118 00:08:33,780 --> 00:08:38,500 that Google searches for eyes hurt, spiked during the eclipse in both the United States 119 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:41,500 and Canada. Nothing makes me lose faith in humanity more 120 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:47,100 than people being confused as to why they have eyeball pain after they optically raw-dogged the sun. 121 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:51,500 The first thing you learn about the sun is don't look at it. But it won't be a pain for you to come back on Friday 122 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:55,980 for more tech news. The best part is you can stare at us for as long as you like, 123 00:08:55,980 --> 00:08:59,860 but maybe don't for too long. Don't make it weird. 124 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:02,940 We like the watch time, but there's a limit. 125 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:03,940 You will go blind.