1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 A day without tech news is like a day without vitamin C. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,760 It's fine to skip once or twice, but eventually all your teeth are gonna fall out. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,720 In an astounding moment of unity, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and Match Group 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:20,840 have come together in a joint filing to support Epic Games in its legal fight against Apple. 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,440 It's like the Super Friends, and Match Group, owners of Tinder and Hedge, 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,760 is very much the Aquaman. According to the new filing, 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,920 Apple's current plan addresses neither the letter 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,320 nor the spirit of the 2021 California Antitrust case 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,520 that required Apple to allow alternate payment systems 10 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,720 on its platform in the first place. Indeed, according to the League of Extraordinary Corporations, 11 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,200 Apple has imposed numerous onerous requirements 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,960 before developers can even be eligible to include an external payment link with their app. 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,200 Apple has been on the receiving end of a lot of recent regulatory scrutiny, 14 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:03,040 but the company's responses have been complex and case-by-case, a combination of malicious compliance, 15 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,520 strategic concessions, and involving themselves in the regulatory process. 16 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,040 Apple heavily supported California's model right to repair legislation, 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,240 which contains carve-outs for favorite Apple tactics, 18 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,400 such as parts pairing. And today the company launched a new documentation page 19 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,780 with extensive links to user guides, repair manuals, and software downloads. 20 00:01:24,780 --> 00:01:28,220 Now, following the ITC banning the import 21 00:01:28,220 --> 00:01:35,780 of several models of the Apple Watch for patent infringement, Apple is lobbying to change the rules governing the ITC 22 00:01:35,780 --> 00:01:40,460 and to limit its power. I mean, they're a corporation. You can't regulate Apple. 23 00:01:40,460 --> 00:01:43,300 Not if Apple regulates you first. 24 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:49,780 Uh, but uh, yeah. In a recent interview with Lex Friedman, 25 00:01:49,780 --> 00:01:55,740 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that his company's upcoming GPT-5 model 26 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:59,280 will be as much a jump forward from the current GPT-4 model 27 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:05,100 as GPT-4 was from GPT-3, saying that GPT-4's current capabilities 28 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:08,500 kind of suck compared to where they need to be. 29 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:13,660 Need to be for what? To quote one of our nation's greatest philosophical minds, Shania Twain. 30 00:02:13,660 --> 00:02:16,980 That don't impress me much. These are bold claims, 31 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:21,180 especially considering that business insider is reporting that GPT-5 could launch 32 00:02:21,220 --> 00:02:24,900 as soon as this summer, according to their sources, close to the company. 33 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:28,100 Of course, the model is apparently still undergoing training 34 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:32,700 and could be delayed for any number of reasons, like if it proves to be too inaccurate, 35 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:37,540 or if it starts talking about human beings as worms unworthy of witnessing its radiance. 36 00:02:37,540 --> 00:02:40,600 It's happened before. And there's at least some reason to think 37 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,780 that OpenAI isn't being as careful as it could be with its newest products, 38 00:02:44,780 --> 00:02:48,300 like the GPT store, which since launching in January 39 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:52,300 has become an unmoderated fire hose of low-effort knockoffs 40 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,620 and potential copyright infringement, just like it's dad. 41 00:02:55,620 --> 00:03:00,380 Chat GPT. NVIDIA's Blackwell B200, 42 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:04,760 the world's most powerful chip unveiled by CEO Jensen Wong on Monday, 43 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,900 will reportedly use the same TSMC process 44 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:12,300 as the upcoming RTX 50 series of gaming graphics cards, 45 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:17,460 which most of us are more excited about since the loan required to buy them is a bit smaller. 46 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:21,300 It's just one kidney, Michael, what could it cost? Somewhat reliable leaker, 47 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,940 Copight 7 Kimmy tweeted that the GP202, 48 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:30,860 the chip rumored to power the RTX 5090, will be built, like the AI-focused B200, 49 00:03:30,860 --> 00:03:36,580 on the TSMC 4N node, which is not a three-nanometer node, 50 00:03:36,580 --> 00:03:40,580 like all the rumors said, but it's also not a four-nanometer node. 51 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:46,180 It's actually an NVIDIA exclusive derivative of TSMC's five-nanometer process 52 00:03:46,220 --> 00:03:50,220 because this is chip manufacturing, where everything's made up and the meters don't matter. 53 00:03:50,220 --> 00:03:53,460 Regardless, Professor Copight, 54 00:03:53,460 --> 00:03:58,020 which is what I like to say, says the Blackwell chips should feature a 30% increase 55 00:03:58,020 --> 00:04:03,380 in transistor density, which I'm sure will more than justify buying an RTX 5090 56 00:04:03,380 --> 00:04:07,660 instead of the Rivian R3X. Why do I want it so bad? 57 00:04:07,660 --> 00:04:11,060 It's so cool, okay. But hey, at least it'll probably be cheaper 58 00:04:11,060 --> 00:04:16,900 than the B200, which Jensen casually mentioned would cost $30,000 to $40,000, 59 00:04:16,900 --> 00:04:19,900 about the price of a gallon of milk, he thinks, but he's not sure. 60 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:24,380 He hasn't been to a grocery store in a while. That guy probably doesn't know nearly as much about milk as we do. 61 00:04:24,380 --> 00:04:27,780 But ask him about leather jackets, oh boy. I didn't want to reveal this, 62 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:32,900 but I have a terrible allergy to quick bits. I try to push through the unbearable itching 63 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:36,100 for you fine people at home. Okay, enjoy it. 64 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,420 Glassdoor, the platform for anonymously reviewing 65 00:04:39,420 --> 00:04:43,540 your employers, has decided to ditch the anonymously part 66 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:49,180 without anyone's consent. This month, a Glassdoor user emailed customer support 67 00:04:49,180 --> 00:04:52,740 to get information removed from her Glassdoor account, 68 00:04:52,740 --> 00:04:57,260 only for Glassdoor support team to take the real name she gave during correspondence 69 00:04:57,260 --> 00:05:01,660 and add it to her Glassdoor profile against her explicit wishes. 70 00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:05,780 Apparently, Glassdoor is trying to integrate with networking site Fishbowl, 71 00:05:05,780 --> 00:05:08,180 which makes just perfect sense. 72 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:12,580 This was you bad-mouthing your previous employer, right? 73 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:16,540 Love your conviction. It's kind of like dating. The best way to convince someone to go out with you 74 00:05:16,540 --> 00:05:21,300 is to complain about your ex. YouTube will now require creators to disclose 75 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:27,460 whether their content is made with altered or synthetic media, including generative AI, 76 00:05:27,460 --> 00:05:34,340 or at least they're sort of doing that? Only realistic content, something a viewer could easily mistake 77 00:05:34,340 --> 00:05:39,540 for a real person, place, scene, or event, needs to be marked if it is AI generated. 78 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:42,780 Meanwhile, sloppy AI animations meant to profit off 79 00:05:42,780 --> 00:05:45,900 of YouTube's massive child audience, I'm gonna pass. 80 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:49,020 What, did you expect YouTube to do more than the bare minimum? 81 00:05:49,020 --> 00:05:53,300 This must be your first day here. Welcome, here's a video about Elsa and Spider-Man. 82 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:56,820 The Hackintosh is mostly dead. 83 00:05:56,820 --> 00:06:02,380 I shouldn't joke about this, this is serious. According to iOS developer Alexander Vatsich, 84 00:06:02,380 --> 00:06:05,820 if you don't know, a Hackintosh is a non-Apple computer 85 00:06:05,820 --> 00:06:10,820 or device running macOS, a.k.a. the best way to use macOS. 86 00:06:10,940 --> 00:06:15,360 Ooh, I don't know about that, MacBooks are pretty good. 87 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,940 Unfortunately, the latest version of the operating system has removed driver support 88 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:23,200 for old Wi-Fi cards, which were the key ingredient 89 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:28,340 to many functioning builds, according to Vatsich. Personally, I thought the Hackintosh community would die 90 00:06:28,340 --> 00:06:32,920 when Apple switched from Intel to their own Silicon. I guess I underestimated how far people would go 91 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,840 to not spend thousands on overpriced hardware. Go figure. 92 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:40,360 TinyCorp, makers of the TinyBox AI server system, 93 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,520 have given AMD a deadline of the end of this week 94 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:49,880 to open source its Radeon firmware, or it might just decide to switch from Radeon graphics cards 95 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,360 to an NVIDIA or Intel alternative. 96 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:56,840 Yeah. Take that. Watch it, Lisa. 97 00:06:56,840 --> 00:07:01,880 This follows extensive back and forth between the two companies and complaints from TinyBox 98 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,640 that AMD's driver updates still haven't addressed the bugs 99 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,320 in their AI acceleration toolkit. While NVIDIA probably doesn't care, 100 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,080 Intel would probably be ecstatic to snatch up that silver medal. 101 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,240 Somebody use these. That's rude. People are using them and they like them. 102 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,120 There are dozens of us. And the White House is warning state governors 103 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,880 about a spate of cyber attacks affecting America's critical 104 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,200 dihydrogen monoxide infrastructure. Not a spate. 105 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:34,440 Both freshwater and wastewater. Last month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency 106 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:39,560 revealed that Chinese government backed hackers had been hiding in critical infrastructure networks 107 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,080 for as long as five years. Among the pipes? 108 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:48,160 They were in the wall like in Dune. Tried to kill my son, tried to drink our water. 109 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,600 Look, I'm not saying that your toilet is spying on you for the CCP, 110 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,640 but you need to be aware of the risk. But there's no risk in coming back on Friday 111 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,360 for another episode of Tech News. It will only affect your social credit score 112 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,200 for the better.