WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.440 Who likes tech news? We wear short shorts. 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:07.480 You know what I mean. Chrome and Chromium-based browsers like Edge 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:13.200 are allowing Google's domains access to full system information, including your CPU, GPU, 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:16.520 and memory usage through a built-in Chrome extension. 00:00:16.520 --> 00:00:20.680 You'd think the worst part is that you can't see or disable this extension, but personally, I 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:24.480 like that it's been a part of the code for the past decade. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.720 Big thanks to developer Luca Casanato for letting everyone know on Twitter. 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:32.160 We can all give thanks to the great Google machine's monopolistic practices. 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:37.240 Google says this is all just to help improve the user experience so they can optimize audio and video 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.360 configurations based on system capabilities and to provide data on crashes or performance issues. 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:47.840 But if that's the case, then surely they'd be open to sharing this data with their competitors, right? 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.960 I mean, they'd never do anything to get a leg up over the little guy, like harvesting data 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.320 to improve their own digital meeting software without telling Zoom or other services not 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:01.600 owned by anyone at abc.xyz. That's Alphabet's real URL, BTW. 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:05.920 But hold on to your initialisms, because AT&T has finally 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.240 told the public that there was a massive data breach from May 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:13.360 to October of 2022. Also, there was a smaller breach in January 2020, 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:17.880 but don't worry about that one. It's a small one, small potatoes. The hack exposed the tech and call records 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:21.560 of just about every cellular and landline customer in that time frame. 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:26.960 Thankfully, it doesn't include timestamps, durations, or any of the contents of the texts or calls. 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:30.320 Oh, good. I was worried for a minute that everyone 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:34.560 would be able to see how desperate my texts look at 1 AM on Friday night. Taco Bell didn't even reply. 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.760 Now AT&T found out about the breach back in April. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:43.760 But after disclosing it to the Justice Department, the company was told to delay this information not once, 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.080 but twice. The data was stored on servers owned by cloud data company 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:51.360 Snowflake, whose incredible cybersecurity prowess 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:55.760 is also responsible for the Ticketmaster hack. Good job, guys. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.600 But Snowflake isn't really the bad guy, according to Snowflake. 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:03.960 They say the blame is on its customers for not using multi-factor authentication 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:08.080 to secure their accounts. But don't worry, AT&T says the data 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:12.080 isn't publicly available yet. It's just in the hands of some hackers 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.360 who are allegedly financially motivated. 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:20.360 Nothing to worry about there. Easy breezy. Just like how NVIDIA is financially motivated 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.680 to make the RTX 5090 as expensive as possible. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:29.760 The rumor mill is talking about 28 gigabytes of GDR7 memory, a ton of CUDA cores, 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:33.160 and a whopping 2.9 gigahertz base clock. 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:37.040 All of this while getting smaller, allegedly housing this horsepower 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:42.160 on a two-slot dual fan card. Most people can fit that in their machines. 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:46.280 What a concept. What ways to make money will they think of next? 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:50.560 Selling A6000s to power the Las Vegas sphere? 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:55.440 Oh, wait. That's exactly what they did. With 150 of the cards being used to pump out 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:00.720 three layers of 16K resolution content at 60 frames per second at a real thing 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:04.240 that real people spent real money on. It's Vegas, baby. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:10.680 What do you think's reason comes into the equation? They specialize in five-second weddings. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.520 For the record, that's nearly $700,000 worth of GPUs 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.920 with 1.6 million CUDA cores and 7,200 gigabytes of total VRAM. 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:23.320 From AI to gaming rigs to giant video spheres. 00:03:23.320 --> 00:03:27.680 Is there anything Team Green can't do? Quick bits. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.360 Quick bits. Get over here. Where'd you get off to? 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.080 Go on back. Many old-school Apple fans have fond memories 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:39.880 of the unofficial Apple wed block, which was shuttered by AOL nearly a decade ago 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:44.160 in a grotesque development. It seems that the old domain has been acquired 00:03:44.160 --> 00:03:49.520 and revived through unholy necromancy and the site is now pumping out AI plagiarized news articles 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.200 and stolen graphics under the bylines of its former staff. 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:59.640 Ooh. It's alive and it's copying literally everyone else. 00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:02.640 Bizarrely, the website's new owner didn't buy any of the old content 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:06.320 but claims its staff has meticulously rewritten 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:10.160 the site's archived content, despite its writing staff apparently consisting 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:13.680 of a bunch of stolen names and AI-generated profile pictures. 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.400 Sounds like my girlfriend. She lives in another country, never met her once in my life, 00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:21.160 but she asked me beautiful questions, like what's your social insurance number? 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.000 What's your mother's maiden name? If you've ever dreamed of hopping in your sky car 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.800 and flying off to work, the future might be closer than you think. 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.000 A few companies like Archer, Joby, and Volocopter 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.040 are all vying to be the first to offer EV tolls 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:40.120 or electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts as short-range air taxis for some major airlines 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:44.520 as an alternative to driving those pesky medium distance trips. 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:49.960 We could see them faring about the wealthy as early as the Paris Olympics later this month. 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:54.640 I can't wait to take a rich guy's tossed soda cup to the dome from a few hundred feet in the air, 00:04:54.640 --> 00:05:00.880 at least it'll be smaller, because it's France. They don't let you have the jumbo sizes. US sales of the Apple Vision Pro are basically dead. 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:05.400 Market analysis firm IDC says the headset hasn't sold 100,000 units in a quarter 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:09.920 since its February launch and it faces a 75% drop in domestic sales 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:14.040 at this current quarter. The IDC also reports a 67.4 drop 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:18.520 in VR slash AR headsets across the board, which mostly affects VR. 00:05:18.520 --> 00:05:22.840 The firm actually predicts bigger acceptance for mixed reality headsets moving forward, 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:26.440 which makes it a great time for the Vision Pro to launch in Canada, 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:29.960 starting at just 5,000 Canadian dollars. 00:05:31.960 --> 00:05:35.840 An FTC study into the use of manipulative design techniques 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:41.320 used to trick consumers has determined that a majority of the over 600 websites studied 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.640 used one or more of these so-called dark patterns. But the release of this kind of report 00:05:45.640 --> 00:05:51.040 likely means the FTC is actually planning to do something about the fact that Jeff Bezos personally signed your grandma 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.240 for 12 separate auto renewing subscriptions for flea medication for a cat she doesn't have. 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.840 Whiskers, whiskers. 00:05:58.840 --> 00:06:03.520 That's your grandma calling for a cat she doesn't have. And scientists have built a spacesuit 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:07.800 to recycle astronaut pee, inspired by the still suits from Dune. 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.840 This is why science is the best. You don't see an art student doing this. 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:14.960 While the International Space Station already has a recycling system, 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:19.120 that solution misses out on all the liquid gold expended during spacewalks, 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:23.000 which lasts six hours on average. That's a lot of pee-pee time. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.760 And spacewalk times will only get longer during NASA's upcoming Artemis II and III missions. 00:06:27.760 --> 00:06:32.600 The new system is, worn as a backpack, filters the urine into 99% pure water 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:38.360 and then adds electrolytes via a flavored powder and pumps it into an in-suit drink bag for easy sipping. 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:42.360 Maybe pissing a Gatorade? Hell yeah, they did. Ha ha ha! 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:45.720 My son's an astronaut. He makes his own Gatorade. 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.440 But it's still not as easy as getting your next taste of tech news. 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:53.000 Just come back here on Monday. And don't pee yourself. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.320 Maybe use a toilet.