WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 Tech news, I love tech news. I mean, you start talking about connector tables, 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.880 CPUs, software updates, it's getting hot in here, do you mind? 00:00:06.880 --> 00:00:10.140 I might need the room. Intel's next-gen GPUs codenamed Battle Mage 00:00:10.140 --> 00:00:15.220 will launch this fall, according to industry sources who spoke to German tech outlet Computerbase 00:00:15.220 --> 00:00:19.880 at Embedded World 2024. These mysterious beings reportedly indicated 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:24.100 that Intel wants Battle Mage graphic cards to arrive before Black Friday, 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:27.280 aka November 29th, aka the OG Prime Day. 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, 00:00:32.360 --> 00:00:37.220 which are set for a launch in Q4, according to equally mysterious board partners. 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, 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, 00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:51.400 which I have seen work well. Line is to be Luke. 00:00:51.400 --> 00:00:55.200 Right now though, Intel is taking on NVIDIA in the AI chip space. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.840 Team Blue just announced their Gaudi 3 accelerator, 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.880 which they say can beat NVIDIA's H100 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:06.360 every sometimes running certain models. But hey, at least that's better than the new 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.400 ARM-based Axion data center chip that Google just announced that thing 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. 00:01:15.620 --> 00:01:18.880 Well, that's all for me. John, after years of inaction, 00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:22.880 a bipartisan pair of legislators has released a discussion draft 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:26.000 for new federal data privacy legislation 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.320 titled the American Privacy Rights Act. How appropriate. 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:34.800 Oh, never again, guys. The act would create a national standard 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:39.560 for data privacy that preempts the current state-by-state patchwork of privacy legislation. 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 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:49.520 similar to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. 00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:52.960 Many businesses actually like the idea of a national privacy standard, 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:57.200 primarily because that would reduce the difficulty and cost of compliance. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.580 However, this also means that the bill is likely to receive opposition from both states 00:02:01.580 --> 00:02:06.680 that currently have much higher and states that have much lower consumer protections, 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.280 which is what scuttled Congress last attempt at fixing this mess. 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. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.120 They're like cobras and mongooses, mortal enemies. 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.560 But there's a lot of reasons to think that regulations like this can help. 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:26.600 The EU's GDPR has forced companies to make significant changes to how they handle data 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:30.360 and their new antitrust rules, making it easier to switch browsers on most devices, 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.980 seem to have resulted in small browsers making significant gains in terms of market share 00:02:34.980 --> 00:02:39.320 in the region. What competition? Without new legislation though, 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:45.440 most of the pushback against American companies that mistreat their customers is coming extremely gradually 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:51.200 through regulatory bodies. Today, the FCC rolled out its new broadband consumer labels, 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:56.320 which are standardized across different ISPs and must clearly list every single fee, cap, 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:01.800 and charge associated with the plan and must be clearly displayed for all customers at signup. 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.080 The labels are also explicitly based on nutrition labels, 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 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.640 are in a wireless router? Are they having protein or carbs? 00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:17.360 And what is the latency of my next bowel movement? Several major AI image generators 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:22.640 are struggling to depict interracial relationships, especially Asian men in relationships with white women. 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, 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:31.080 which would consistently produce pictures of two people of the same race 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.480 when asked to create mixed-raced couples. Strangely, while it was basically impossible 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 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. 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:49.720 Even then, it struggled with prompts like black man and white girlfriend, 00:03:49.720 --> 00:03:54.640 but not with white woman and black boyfriend. Several other news outlets jumped on the idea 00:03:54.640 --> 00:03:58.520 that Asian men replicated these results. Shortly after, meta seems to have blocked prompts 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.080 with keywords like Asian man, though this was mysteriously reversed 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 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.880 exclusive to meta. OpenAI's Dolly 3 almost managed to create 00:04:09.880 --> 00:04:12.880 a mixed Asian white couple by somehow creating 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:17.000 the most Asian-looking white women known to men, or men. 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.000 When prompted with Asian man with white wife mid-journey, 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 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 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 00:04:36.460 --> 00:04:39.600 and mentioned academia. This is amazing. 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.160 Google's Gemini wasn't able to produce interracial couples of any kind in any time, 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:48.560 Viking or whatever, of course, because Google shut down its ability to generate images 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:52.820 of people after the racially diverse Nazis incident back in February. 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 00:04:57.260 --> 00:05:01.620 to stop generating images of Schindler's list as cast by Lin-Manuel Miranda. 00:05:01.620 --> 00:05:05.740 I bet the rap solos are gonna be awesome in that. Schindler's hermanos. 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, 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 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:22.180 is blocking third-party modifying apps that alter the iOS's UI. 00:05:22.180 --> 00:05:25.900 But it turns out that these changes actually go much, much further. 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:28.940 A sizable list of apps, drivers, and hardware IDs 00:05:28.940 --> 00:05:32.460 can trigger an update hold on Windows 11 version 24H2, 00:05:32.460 --> 00:05:37.460 including two Intel drivers, a real-tech wireless USB 2.0 adapter driver, 00:05:37.460 --> 00:05:42.100 an AMD Radeon software executable, and an iCloud services executable. 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:46.740 While Microsoft often blocks older software, that is likely to cause instability, 00:05:46.740 --> 00:05:51.140 several of these newly blocked apps and executables were released relatively recently. 00:05:51.140 --> 00:05:55.740 This is likely because Microsoft is making some pretty extensive changes in the new version, 00:05:55.740 --> 00:05:59.580 mostly related to the AI features it wants to mix 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. 00:06:04.780 --> 00:06:08.500 And don't come at me, mint lovers. It's like the cilantro of OS. 00:06:08.500 --> 00:06:11.860 Yes. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Cilantro is great. 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, 00:06:18.580 --> 00:06:22.780 and you guessed it. It has nothing to do with notes or note taking. 00:06:22.780 --> 00:06:26.540 It's a photo posting app. This isn't the first we heard about this. 00:06:26.540 --> 00:06:31.980 Last month, the leaks suggested TikTok was working on an Instagram competitor called TikTok Photos, 00:06:31.980 --> 00:06:34.980 a name that apparently made too much sense to everybody. 00:06:34.980 --> 00:06:41.020 Even more offensive, no one at TikTok, not a single person named the photo app TikTok. 00:06:41.020 --> 00:06:44.540 If they want to do so now, they have to pay Jacob Rush $7 million. 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, 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:52.860 has acquired Beeper, the message company that you remember these guys. 00:06:52.860 --> 00:06:56.500 They spent the last several months getting their iMessage Bridging service repeatedly blocked 00:06:56.500 --> 00:07:01.980 by Apple. That being said, Beeper will apparently operate as a mostly independent subsidiary. 00:07:01.980 --> 00:07:07.820 Automatic does, however, plan to eventually merge Beeper with its other messaging service, text.com. 00:07:07.820 --> 00:07:11.020 Beeper had only around 115,000 users prior to acquisition, 00:07:11.020 --> 00:07:14.700 but they've also got a wait list of over 450,000. 00:07:14.700 --> 00:07:18.420 An entire Oakland's worth of people. Luckily for them, Beeper's new Android app 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. 00:07:23.460 --> 00:07:27.820 For Timothy Cook of Apple, God's his blue bubbles most jealously. 00:07:27.820 --> 00:07:34.540 Texas Education Department will be introducing an AI-powered grader called Auto Scoring Engine, or ASE, 00:07:34.540 --> 00:07:40.100 for written questions on standardized tests. The only subjects excluded from computer grading 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 00:07:44.940 --> 00:07:48.700 on George Orwell's 1984 essay. ASS-O? 00:07:48.700 --> 00:07:52.180 While the ASE is intended to replace human graders, 00:07:52.180 --> 00:07:56.180 which would save the state an estimated $15 to $20 million per year, 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. 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. 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:12.260 Regardless, this move brings us one step closer to the future dystopia. 00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:16.220 We're all schooling, both homework and grading. It's completely AI generated. 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:19.940 Let the robots handle it, leave me out of it. And according to Cloudflare, 00:08:19.940 --> 00:08:24.940 Monday's solar eclipse managed to depress US internet traffic by 8%. 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 00:08:29.260 --> 00:08:33.780 depresses me on a daily basis. For example, I learned from the internet 00:08:33.780 --> 00:08:38.500 that Google searches for eyes hurt, spiked during the eclipse in both the United States 00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:41.500 and Canada. Nothing makes me lose faith in humanity more 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. 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 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, 00:08:55.980 --> 00:08:59.860 but maybe don't for too long. Don't make it weird. 00:08:59.860 --> 00:09:02.940 We like the watch time, but there's a limit. 00:09:02.940 --> 00:09:03.940 You will go blind.