1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,760 Oh, hey, bud, can't wait to see what kind of interesting tech news you brought today for me. I got what's that? You don't have any 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,760 Hey, that's okay You can have some of mine 3 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:27,780 Reviews are up for Intel's new Panther Lake laptop processors aka the core ultra 300 series led by the flagship Intel core ultra 4 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:35,500 X9388H Yes, Intel complicated their naming scheme again by throwing some X's in there 5 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:42,220 But before you use that pitchfork in your hand to do something you'll regret listen to this these chips are pretty good 6 00:00:43,060 --> 00:00:51,780 In single core the X9388H is at the front of the pack for Windows laptop chips only being beaten by the Apple M4 and M5 7 00:00:51,860 --> 00:00:56,180 While in multicore it beats the M4 and nearly matches the M5 8 00:00:56,300 --> 00:01:01,580 Which you know runs at a much lower wattage so it's got less power to work with but it looks like it's pretty 9 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:06,620 Efficient too, and we haven't even talked about the integrated Arc B390 graphics 10 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:14,020 My favorite hyper-focused youtuber the Fox found that when matched watt for watt it even beat AMD Strix Halo 11 00:01:14,380 --> 00:01:18,940 aka the most powerful chip you can get in a gaming handheld in some games although 12 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:23,260 Yeah, they went back and forth, but do you under get do you understand guys? 13 00:01:23,260 --> 00:01:30,500 Are you picking up? What is being placed on the ground? Intel's back as the Verge says call it a comeback 14 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,660 You can indeed do that now time to chill us out here for a second 15 00:01:34,660 --> 00:01:40,140 Okay, because yes, these are still laptop chips, and it remains to be seen how good the desktop 16 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:48,380 Nova Lake lineup will be when it launches this fall, but Intel seems confident team blues graphics guru Tom Peterson told club 17 00:01:48,620 --> 00:01:56,300 386 that they're not bothering to build their own version of Strix Halo because AMD's integrated GPUs are not that 18 00:01:56,580 --> 00:02:02,940 Competitive the vast majority of gaming handhelds and consoles use AMD graphics while there's like 19 00:02:03,620 --> 00:02:09,540 Two Intel ones, so I'm not sure what competition Tom is referring to here, but we love the confidence 20 00:02:09,540 --> 00:02:17,260 Yes, Intel Microsoft has confirmed that it handed over bit locker encryption keys to US law enforcement during an investigation 21 00:02:17,620 --> 00:02:23,500 Early last year Reopening the long-running debate over who actually controls your encrypted data 22 00:02:23,860 --> 00:02:30,260 According to multiple reports the company provided a set of bit locker recovery keys to the FBI to help unlock 23 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:36,100 Suspects laptops and Microsoft has been very clear that this wasn't a one-off event 24 00:02:36,260 --> 00:02:43,060 Apparently the company gets requests for keys around 20 times a year and guess what if the government asks under the right legal process 25 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:47,100 They do it again. We don't care. We're Microsoft 26 00:02:47,620 --> 00:02:55,420 The key detail is how this happens Microsoft says it can only provide keys that are already stored in its servers 27 00:02:55,420 --> 00:03:02,140 If you sign into Windows with a Microsoft account bit locker keys are automatically backed up linking them to every machine 28 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:09,260 You sign into from Microsoft's perspective turning those keys over is no different than responding to any other lawful data request 29 00:03:09,260 --> 00:03:16,140 But it's worth pointing out that at one time it was normal and expected for companies like Apple and Google to 30 00:03:16,220 --> 00:03:21,220 Fight said requests and try to protect their users privacy a little more 31 00:03:21,740 --> 00:03:28,740 Microsoft may have forgotten that but privacy advocates haven't with Senator Ron Wyden saying it is simply 32 00:03:29,020 --> 00:03:34,220 Irresponsible for tech companies to ship products in a way that allows them to secretly turn over users encryption keys 33 00:03:34,260 --> 00:03:36,260 Say louder for the people in the back 34 00:03:37,260 --> 00:03:41,980 I'll wait luckily Windows workarounds for signing in with a local account only 35 00:03:42,380 --> 00:03:47,620 Seem to still work and Microsoft does say that they will delete the keys at your request 36 00:03:47,780 --> 00:03:55,540 So it's not all bad Still the real alternative is to just install Linux if you don't want the big man upstairs finding your 37 00:03:56,140 --> 00:04:01,020 Just enormous stash of cat photos. Yes, you have a problem 38 00:04:01,020 --> 00:04:04,380 But maybe the government isn't the best entity to lead your intervention 39 00:04:04,380 --> 00:04:10,940 TikTok users panicked a little bit after the US version of the app now officially controlled by the mostly American 40 00:04:10,940 --> 00:04:17,500 TikTok USDS joint venture LLC prompted them to accept the new terms of service and privacy policy 41 00:04:17,820 --> 00:04:21,940 Posts quickly spread online claiming there was all sorts of scary new clauses 42 00:04:22,140 --> 00:04:25,700 Including one about collecting info on a user's immigration status 43 00:04:26,380 --> 00:04:32,420 Gender identity or sexual orientation, but it turns out that stuff was already in there pre 44 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:39,660 Americanization and mostly lines up with the type of data collected by other social media apps. Don't worry 45 00:04:39,820 --> 00:04:43,380 They collect pretty much everything about you, which is normal 46 00:04:43,620 --> 00:04:50,180 However, there were three major changes that may be concerning precise GPS location is now up for grabs 47 00:04:50,180 --> 00:04:52,740 If you give the tick tock app permissions for that 48 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:56,780 Interactions with AI features weren't even mentioned in the previous policy 49 00:04:56,780 --> 00:05:02,700 And now those can be collected too and that data can be used to personalize ads elsewhere on the web 50 00:05:02,740 --> 00:05:10,140 Not just on tick tock so concerning stuff for sure, but it's more like the bog standard privacy concerns 51 00:05:10,140 --> 00:05:15,820 We've gotten used to rather than new concerns about getting disappeared by the US government 52 00:05:15,820 --> 00:05:21,180 Which is very much a concern for many right now, but the stuff in this privacy policy, that's familiar 53 00:05:21,180 --> 00:05:25,500 I mean this almost feels nostalgic now as if to emphasize all of this hubbub 54 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:32,180 Tiktok had a big outage today which combined with the privacy concerns may have driven tick tock alternative 55 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:38,820 Upscrolled to the number 12 spot on the iOS app store. Okay. How are those? Do those feel okay? 56 00:05:39,140 --> 00:05:43,700 You don't you want to pick one of the quick bits? Maybe okay. It's just you know 57 00:05:44,340 --> 00:05:50,740 It's just like beggars can't be choosers, you know, like you didn't you didn't you didn't bring any and that's fine 58 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:57,940 Microsoft is dealing with yet another patch Tuesday face-planned after admitting their latest Windows 11 security update 59 00:05:58,140 --> 00:06:04,980 Left some PCs completely unable to boot sticking users with an unmountable boot volume error 60 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:10,260 The company admits it doesn't know yet what combination of hardware or settings triggers the issue 61 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:17,700 Only that reports of the bug are limited and it only seems to affect real computers not virtual machines 62 00:06:18,060 --> 00:06:24,340 Because those aren't real Hey, remember back when updates actually fixed things instead of just making them worse? 63 00:06:24,340 --> 00:06:30,740 And here's the part where Grayson wants me to do a very specific reference to Ford versus Arari. Can we have more of that please? 64 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:39,180 More of that old girl The good updates the team behind these stop-killing games movement in the EU announced that 65 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:46,780 1.3 million of the total 1.4 million signatures collected for the EU citizens initiative have been 66 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:53,020 Verified only 1 million were needed to ensure that the issue is discussed at the European Commission 67 00:06:53,020 --> 00:06:55,660 So now it'll no doubt be discussed 68 00:06:56,740 --> 00:07:04,500 0.3 million Harder the goal of stop-killing games is not to force companies to host live-service games forever 69 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:10,580 It's just to give gamers an option to keep playing whether that's locally hosted servers or a proper offline mode 70 00:07:10,740 --> 00:07:16,940 Whatever just something and the country that apparently cares the most about that is Germany 71 00:07:16,940 --> 00:07:23,660 Where they know that game companies waiting to fix this until after people have complained is just inefficient 72 00:07:23,660 --> 00:07:26,900 It's much simpler to make it perfect the first time 73 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:35,260 Try to try it the US Department of Transportation plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations 74 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:38,900 aiming to dramatically speed up rulemaking by 75 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:47,300 Having the weird new alien robot thing make them up per internal records leadership isn't seeking perfection or even very good 76 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:52,820 Rules apparently they just want good enough considering this agency handles railways and 77 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:56,520 Frickin airplanes is good enough really the goal 78 00:07:56,820 --> 00:08:04,140 Maybe Gemini can hallucinate some regulations on in-flight entertainment the last time I flew the mask of Zorro wasn't available 79 00:08:04,140 --> 00:08:08,780 And to calm down in the middle of the air. I really need my Spanish sword fighting movies 80 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:16,060 man JBL's new band box speakers come with an offline AI button that can split songs into 81 00:08:16,180 --> 00:08:23,180 Individual stems letting you selectively mute parts of songs such as vocals or individual instruments 82 00:08:23,180 --> 00:08:29,820 The processing happens locally on the speaker not in the cloud sort of giving you the same effect as a multi-track recording 83 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:35,580 Instead of just listening to an mp3 JBL pitches it as the perfect little speaker for practice 84 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:42,660 karaoke Remixing stuff on the fly and hey if you use it to remove the guitar from AC DC songs 85 00:08:42,980 --> 00:08:50,580 Maybe you'll finally unlock Angus Young's mystical powers of flight still a mystery to science and youtuber retro game addict 86 00:08:50,820 --> 00:08:52,820 successfully ordered Domino's Pizza 87 00:08:54,260 --> 00:09:00,020 And that's the end congrats to him Now he did it using a 20 year old Nintendo Wii 88 00:09:00,420 --> 00:09:10,700 Thanks to the Wii link project Resurrecting Nintendo's long-dead online services the aptly named food channel started life as the Japan only 89 00:09:11,060 --> 00:09:15,220 Deme channel back in 2006 before Nintendo shut everything down in 90 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,940 2017 we link a community project launched in 2020 91 00:09:20,340 --> 00:09:26,620 Rebuilds those servers and pipes your orders through the modern API used by Domino's 92 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:29,620 I would never have guessed there's a secret society of 93 00:09:30,180 --> 00:09:35,460 Nintendo Wii playing pizza lovers who refused to let this eccentric method of ordering die 94 00:09:36,460 --> 00:09:39,460 But learning that there is makes me so happy 95 00:09:39,460 --> 00:09:43,860 But it would make me even happier if you came back here for more tech news on Wednesday 96 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:49,220 And maybe you know you could bring some of your own tech news next time too 97 00:09:49,220 --> 00:09:54,060 You know as was discussed at length in the email Sharon sent out multiple times 98 00:09:54,060 --> 00:10:00,140 Do you need help fixing your internet because I can I just just just you know looking forward to seeing it, okay? 99 00:10:00,780 --> 00:10:02,780 Okay, okay. Okay. Bye