WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.720 Hey, you know what nobody has ever said? I want less Zilla. 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:10.720 There's too much Zilla around here. The Mozilla Foundation, ha ha. 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:16.440 The parent organization of the Mozilla Company, purveyors of the world's fifth most popular web browser, 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.820 is eliminating its global programs and advocacy divisions. 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:24.720 That advocacy was centered on fighting for a free and open internet, 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:28.560 something that hasn't really gotten less important recently. 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:32.760 While the Foundation says that this is a fight that remains core to their mission, 00:00:32.760 --> 00:00:36.140 they are revisiting how they pursue that work. 00:00:36.140 --> 00:00:42.880 This restructuring comes with layoffs for 30% of Mozilla's roughly 120 employees, 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:48.640 that's a lot, which is actually the second round of layoffs this year, following 60 job losses 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.080 on the company side in February. All in all, it's a significant loss in capacity, 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:58.880 and there isn't an obvious successor to take up the advocacy slack. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.240 Chrome's too busy waging a war against ad block extensions, 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:06.320 and Edge acknowledges neither the law of God nor man. 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:10.480 Edge's just gonna edge, ha ha. Not all hope is lost, however, 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.120 as the internet archive is once again archiving webpages 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.400 following a month-long hiatus due to a cyberattack. 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:21.720 Users will once again be able to capture important, but ephemeral webpages 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:27.040 using the archives save page now feature. The internet archive also says that the backlog 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.080 of pages requested by users while the archive was down 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:33.960 are now being processed. It's not entirely clear why the internet archive 00:01:33.960 --> 00:01:38.600 has become such a target for hackers, given that it's not affiliated with any government, 00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:44.520 and it doesn't have a lot of spare cash. This is like getting mad at the global world order, 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:48.320 so you set fire to a community center. Lawn bully kinda coming. 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:52.800 Reviews are in for AMD's Ryzen 7 9800 X3D, 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:57.840 and so far, it sounds like Dr. Lisa Sue has a chart-topping new single on her hands. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:03.120 Rasin' up. The 9800 X3D blows Intel's new top-of-the-line chips 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:08.040 out of the water, and by new top-of-the-line chips, I mean the one from last gen. 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:12.600 Ba-doom. All right. Pretty much every review is singing this chip's praises, 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:17.320 but Hardware Unboxed saw it get up to 26.5% better 00:02:17.320 --> 00:02:24.680 than the Core i9-14900K, and 33% better than the Core Ultra 9 285K. 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:28.640 See how that works? It's not just gaming though, there are also some pretty significant 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:32.900 productivity improvements. You're gonna be able to run so many instances 00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:37.560 of Banzai Buddy. Of course, the big change that has allowed for this show-stopping performance 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:43.280 is the addition of that 3D V-Cache, even more so than AMD's first gen 3D V-Cache, 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.680 which was placed on top of the die, causing potential cooling issues. 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:51.540 Now, the cache is under the processor, meaning you can even overclock this thing, 00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:54.980 which they already said. If that's not enough, you might be interested to know 00:02:54.980 --> 00:02:58.900 that Zhang Zhang Hao, a reliable source of hardware leaks, 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:02.100 says that their supply chain contacts confirm 00:03:02.100 --> 00:03:06.980 that AMD is working on an X3D version of a Zen 5 threadripper. 00:03:06.980 --> 00:03:10.500 Further, the next generation Strix Halo APUs 00:03:10.500 --> 00:03:13.580 will likely see 3D V-Cache upgrade as well 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:16.620 on the more high-end AMD laptops. 00:03:16.660 --> 00:03:21.100 Honestly, this would be a completely happy story if it wasn't for Pat Gelsinger 00:03:21.100 --> 00:03:25.060 standing at the back of this room, manfully refusing to cry. 00:03:25.060 --> 00:03:28.580 And womanfully and childrenfully. And even fully want. 00:03:28.580 --> 00:03:32.940 Jarvis, Google's rumored AI agent that can use your computer for you, 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:36.980 has been officially confirmed thanks to reliable leaker, Google, 00:03:36.980 --> 00:03:41.980 who accidentally published an internal preview on the Chrome web browser extension store. 00:03:41.980 --> 00:03:45.020 It's been taken down, but you didn't miss out on much. 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:50.900 The current build doesn't have the right access permissions yet, so users who downloaded it weren't able to get it to work. 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:54.380 Google planned to publicly reveal Jarvis in December 00:03:54.380 --> 00:03:57.980 alongside its next big LLM release, but you know how it is. 00:03:57.980 --> 00:04:01.740 It's only the first week of November, but you're already hearing Mariah Carey. 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:05.980 Jarvis, whose name is almost certainly inspired by Tony Stark's AI Butler, 00:04:05.980 --> 00:04:11.020 is intended to be a helpful online assistant that can collect information, do your shopping, 00:04:11.020 --> 00:04:14.180 or book travel tickets. That being said, if you've ever had 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:19.540 an Instacart shop or replace your Krimini mushrooms with a big bag of jumbo marshmallows, 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:25.220 you can probably guess that these kinds of simple tasks can turn out to be quite a bit more complex in practice. 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:29.540 It's also notable that literally every big company with skin in the AI game 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:35.940 is doing the exact same thing right now. Anthropic AI agent, open AI, AI agent, Microsoft, 00:04:35.940 --> 00:04:39.500 first party spyware that takes picture every three seconds for your own good, 00:04:39.500 --> 00:04:43.380 but it's cool this time. You know what else is cool? Our sponsor. 00:04:43.380 --> 00:04:47.420 You know why they're called quick bits, right? It's because they contain baking soda 00:04:47.420 --> 00:04:52.940 as a leavening agent instead of yeast. This is a joke about quick breads like banana breads. 00:04:52.940 --> 00:04:56.980 I promise this is funny to people who cook. Thank you, Jessica. 00:04:56.980 --> 00:05:00.340 It helps me if I imagine a cooking person on the other end of the screen going, 00:05:00.340 --> 00:05:06.220 I'm, pfft, what? Upgrading your MacBook's SSD is possible once again 00:05:06.220 --> 00:05:09.900 thanks to repair YouTuber iBofRCC, 00:05:09.900 --> 00:05:14.540 who created a custom PCB add-on and swappable SSD modules 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:19.060 to replace soldered-on storage in MacBooks with M-Series processors. 00:05:19.060 --> 00:05:24.380 The module design isn't completely finalized yet, and once installed, you need a second Mac 00:05:24.380 --> 00:05:29.780 to run Apple Configurator to complete the setup, but that might not be a problem for Apple fans, 00:05:29.780 --> 00:05:32.940 especially any who might have just bought a second Mac Mini 00:05:32.940 --> 00:05:37.500 when they discovered doing that cost the same as upgrading the RAM and storage. 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:43.940 But come on, Apple's gotta pay their engineers to do their job worse than some random guy on YouTube. 00:05:43.940 --> 00:05:49.100 Meta says they have found a way to keep teens from lying about their age on Instagram. 00:05:49.100 --> 00:05:54.980 It's an AI-powered tool the company calls an adult classifier, which sounds less like a tool 00:05:54.980 --> 00:05:59.380 for finding teens and more like a BuzzFeed quiz. Which Stanley Cup represents you? 00:05:59.380 --> 00:06:04.380 Instagram introduced teen accounts in September, which have stronger default privacy settings. 00:06:04.380 --> 00:06:09.740 The adult classifier will apparently sort users into one of two groups, older or younger 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.940 than 18, based on those users' own account data 00:06:12.940 --> 00:06:18.380 like their profile and what content they interact with. Unfortunately, after being exposed to thousands 00:06:18.380 --> 00:06:22.900 of 30-year-old Transformers enthusiasts, the classifier exploded. 00:06:22.900 --> 00:06:26.580 You're welcome. Steam's game recording feature is now out of beta, 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:29.980 meaning it's available to all sigmas like me. 00:06:29.980 --> 00:06:33.700 The feature allows users to record gameplay without leaving the app. 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:38.380 Even non-Steam games can be recorded as long as they allow Steam overlay to run. 00:06:38.380 --> 00:06:44.020 In more good news, the Steam Deck will finally be available in Australia on November 19th. 00:06:44.020 --> 00:06:49.180 Finally, young impressionable Australians won't be participating in shady back alley deals 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:53.780 where they purchase smuggled Steam decks with their hard-earned dimmies and chicken salt. 00:06:53.780 --> 00:06:57.940 Now they can send their dimmies and chicken salt to me instead, please. 00:06:57.940 --> 00:07:01.260 Gotta send them some soy sauce. It's been ages since I had some dimmies. 00:07:01.260 --> 00:07:04.580 Got the rumblies. A YouTuber made an e-bike battery 00:07:04.580 --> 00:07:07.820 using 130 used disposable vapes 00:07:07.860 --> 00:07:12.420 to make a point about e-waste. Chris Dole took the individual batteries out of the vapes 00:07:12.420 --> 00:07:16.900 and converted them into a 48-volt 1500-watt battery 00:07:16.900 --> 00:07:21.220 that powered an e-bike for more than 20 miles with almost no pedaling. 00:07:21.220 --> 00:07:25.580 Of course, it wasn't that easy to get his hands on 130 discarded vapes. 00:07:25.580 --> 00:07:29.340 He had to collect them at places like a music festival. 00:07:30.540 --> 00:07:34.700 Just a single music festival had hundreds of littered batteries 00:07:34.700 --> 00:07:39.980 that could explode if damaged. Was getting rid of cigarettes a bad idea? 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:43.300 We're saving the kids' lungs, but at what cost? Are we? 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:45.600 And the FTC has sued Dave. 00:07:46.580 --> 00:07:51.140 Sorry, not the guy in your fantasy football league, although that son of a bitch has it coming. 00:07:51.140 --> 00:07:54.700 Dave the Banking app specializing in cash advances. 00:07:54.700 --> 00:07:58.660 The FTC says Dave misled customers, charged hidden fees, 00:07:58.660 --> 00:08:02.900 and made canceling memberships unreasonably difficult. In an official response, 00:08:02.900 --> 00:08:06.260 Dave said the lawsuit was regulatory overreach, 00:08:06.260 --> 00:08:10.980 possibly in between swigs of Pab's blue ribbon. If you let it get warm, it tastes like piss. 00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:14.140 This is stupid, man. Dave thinks the government should leave him 00:08:14.140 --> 00:08:18.300 and his friends alone, including banking apps with normal guy names, 00:08:18.300 --> 00:08:22.500 and these are real, Marcus, Frank, Finn, and Mr. Cooper. 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:27.820 You leave Cooper alone! You leave Cooper out of this! I'm picturing these as kids in like an 80s adventure movie, 00:08:27.820 --> 00:08:31.780 and Mr. Cooper is like the older role model for the little gaggle of young- 00:08:31.780 --> 00:08:35.340 Guys, we gotta get Cooper out of jail! So close. Now how about you be a role model 00:08:35.380 --> 00:08:38.700 for the rest of the audience and come back on Friday for more tech news? 00:08:38.700 --> 00:08:42.500 Sure, we're just using the tech news as an excuse to write silly things that make us giggle, 00:08:42.500 --> 00:08:46.420 but you can't argue the news isn't in there. This is a business.