WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 Hey, TechLinked, Riley here. How often does tech news ooze out of the ground 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.920 so it can be harvested and processed for transport? 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:14.360 Three times a week. I do not have a full beard. 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:18.160 Apple has sued leaker and YouTuber John Prosser, 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:22.360 who shared details and unofficial renders of iOS 26, 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:28.280 which was presumed at the time to be called iOS 19, understandable, on his Genius Bar podcast 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:32.440 and his front-page tech YouTube channel. The leaks got enough attention 00:00:32.440 --> 00:00:36.120 that they were called not representative of the real thing 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:41.120 by the prime leaker, the GERM smacker, Mark of the GERMs. 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:47.840 But people leak Apple stuff all the time. So why is Apple suddenly choosing John for prosecution? 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.120 I'm sorry. Well, in their lawsuit, Apple says they got 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:56.080 an anonymous email naming Prosser, his associate Michael Ramachiotti 00:00:56.080 --> 00:01:00.540 and Ramachiotti's friend ex-Apple employee, Ethan Lipnick. 00:01:00.540 --> 00:01:07.000 The suit also cites an audio message sent to Lipnick from Ramachiotti claiming that Prosser wanted him 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.720 to somehow get access to Lipnick's development iPhone 00:01:11.720 --> 00:01:15.420 and the tasty trade secrets contained therein. 00:01:15.420 --> 00:01:20.920 Now, who knows what the truth is because while Prosser obviously did receive trade secrets 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.560 somehow, he denies these specific allegations, 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:28.800 tweeting that he didn't plot to access anyone's phone 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:33.480 and he says he's got receipts. He then posted a screenshot where he asked someone, 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:38.840 presumably Ramallamachiotti, how the hell did you get this LOL? 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.760 Which, fair enough, is usually not something you say 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:48.240 to someone with whom you schemed and planned ways to get the this in question. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:52.120 US President Donald Trump has signed the Genius Act, 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:57.560 the first federal law to put rules in place for stable coins, which is cryptocurrency 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.900 that ties its value to, say, the US dollar or gold 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:07.320 or something else that is less likely to be worth absolutely nothing after a Paul brother tweets out 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:12.160 the digital equivalent of a wet fart. Trump has been pushing hard for regulation 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:16.280 that would legitimize cryptocurrencies in the eyes of more investors, 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.800 only because he thinks crypto is really good and not because it would be beneficial 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:25.880 to the crypto ventures he's launched in the past year, no. But regardless of the president's motivations, 00:02:25.880 --> 00:02:31.600 the Genius Act represents the beginning of the end of the Wild West era of crypto 00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:34.880 and it'll hopefully do something to prevent more people 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:39.040 from dumping their life savings into meme coins that are immediately rug pulled. 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:42.740 It was literally called scam coin, Richard. 00:02:42.740 --> 00:02:47.560 Two other crypto bills are still working their way through Congress, but Trump doesn't need those 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:51.120 to reap the benefits of the USD-1 stable coin 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.160 launched by his, I'm sorry, his son's crypto business, 00:02:55.160 --> 00:03:00.040 World Liberty Financial, this is all normal. Lots of AI news to talk about. 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:03.040 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Agent, 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:07.400 a new tool that lets ChatGPT use its very own computer 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.760 because ChatGPT, you've been so good lately. 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:14.400 You only make up random bulls*** when you're really upset. 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.680 Agent is even more capable than the operator tool, 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:23.640 which launched in January and let ChatGPT control a web browser and that went okay. 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:26.880 So they're letting ChatGPT go deeper into the machine 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:30.080 and probably just gonna keep doing that until something breaks. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.600 Meanwhile, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarando said 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:36.680 in the company's latest earnings call that one of their originals, 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:40.440 the Argentinian sci-fi film, The Eternot, 00:03:40.440 --> 00:03:43.880 used special effects generated by AI. 00:03:43.880 --> 00:03:47.640 Sarando said that sequence, showing a building collapsing, 00:03:47.640 --> 00:03:50.640 is the very first gen AI final footage 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:54.120 to appear on screen in a Netflix original. 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:57.520 Well, except for the pretty obvious AI images 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.680 almost certainly used in last year's Netflix documentary, 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.380 What Jennifer Did, but the creators still deny that. 00:04:04.380 --> 00:04:07.400 So, at least they're telling us now. 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:12.360 Meta, meanwhile, is telling the EU it won't be signing the European Commission's 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.440 code of practice for general purpose AI, 00:04:15.440 --> 00:04:20.240 which would have meant committing to things like providing documentation about Meta's AI tools 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.400 and not training AI on pirated content. 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:27.380 It's simply untenable. Well, today, the Commission published guidelines 00:04:27.380 --> 00:04:33.240 to help AI companies prepare for the rollout of its AI Act regulation on August 2nd, 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.400 which it previously indicated was gonna happen 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:41.920 whether Meta's on board or not. So, I don't know if your thing is getting steamrolled. 00:04:42.820 --> 00:04:46.120 I'm sure Grock can generate a steamy fanfic for ya. 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.600 Now, can we do the QuickBits Mark? 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:55.480 Come on, QuickBits time! This week, the news non-profit ProPublica 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.280 published a deep dive on a Microsoft US government contract 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:03.000 that involved using software engineers based in China 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.280 to maintain defense department systems. 00:05:06.280 --> 00:05:11.120 Now, that's a bit sketchy, so the solution was apparently to pair the engineers 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.440 with digital escorts, which were not 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:20.440 Grock's not-safe-for-work 3D avatars, but rather US citizens with the proper security clearances, 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:23.760 but not very much technical expertise. 00:05:23.760 --> 00:05:27.240 Current and former escorts told ProPublica stuff like, 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:32.040 we're trusting that what they're doing isn't malicious, but we really can't tell. 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.840 After Senator Tom Cotton sent this report to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:41.280 he miraculously managed to engage all four of his brain cells to tweet 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:46.960 that this shouldn't happen anymore. Then today, Microsoft Chief Communications Officer Frank Shaw 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:51.720 said, okay, they'll stop. Hopefully, China also didn't notice 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:57.280 this was happening until now. Delta Airlines says it's been testing an AI-powered system 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:01.160 for individualized pricing that analyzes a customer's profile 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:06.200 and charges the maximum amount it thinks you and only you are willing to pay. 00:06:06.200 --> 00:06:10.280 Delta was only testing this system on 3% of its total fares, 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:13.560 but it wants to bring that up to 20% by the end of the year. 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:18.800 Unless it can be proven that Delta is offering people different rates based on certain characteristics, 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.160 like sex or ethnicity, this system isn't technically illegal, 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:28.040 but it doesn't need to be to fundamentally undermine the idea of a fair market, 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:32.280 which is technically bullshit. Microsoft, one more time, 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:35.480 has closed down its movies and TV storefronts 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:40.800 on Xbox consoles and Windows. Users will no longer be able to purchase content 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.520 through the app, but the company says they will still be able to watch 00:06:44.520 --> 00:06:48.720 anything they've already paid for. For how long? 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:53.440 Intel Microsoft feels like not making that the case. 00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:57.600 There was never a buy and a rent option. They're both rent. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:03.120 It's rent all the way down, and thousands of very cheap VV bikes sold at Walmart 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.400 and Amazon have been recalled after multiple reports 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:09.760 of the bike batteries overheating and catching fire. 00:07:09.760 --> 00:07:15.360 I can only hope those batteries are different than the ones shown in this video by Chinese company Ubtech, 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:21.080 in which its Walker S2 Humanoid robot is shown replacing its own battery. 00:07:21.080 --> 00:07:25.200 Those batteries catching on fire would make this an even more appropriate entry 00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:29.840 in my favorite video series, existential anxiety inducers. 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:34.040 You wanna reduce my anxiety? Come back on Monday for more tech news. 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:37.640 I won't know if you're going to come back until you do though, 00:07:37.640 --> 00:07:40.760 so I'll just have to keep it together somehow over the weekend. 00:07:40.760 --> 00:07:44.360 But how will I feel on Monday? My fate is in your hands. Bye bye.