WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.920 Okay, I know reviews are up for the Ryzen 7 9850X 3D today, including Linus Tech Tips 00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:15.040 one. But what do you want us to do? Say the same things Linus said in that video, but with less spittle? 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:20.800 That all braces. Google's new desktop interface for Android, meant to eventually replace Chrome OS, has 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:24.480 been spotted by 9 to 5 Google on a Chromium bug report page. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.080 It includes screen captures, features of an Android 16 build, codamed ALOS, and a bunch 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:35.200 of numbers, which stands for Aluminum OS. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:40.520 Google's project to have Android incubate inside of and burst out of Chrome OS' body 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:47.880 like an alien. It mostly looks like Android 16's existing desktop mode, but with a slightly modified 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:54.400 top bar and without, the buttons for back home and multitasking usually available at 00:00:54.400 --> 00:01:00.920 the bottom right. Only because this is running on an HP Elite, Dragonfly Chromebook, not an Android phone 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:06.520 or tablet. The other obvious thing here is the extensions button to the right of the URL bar in Chrome, 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:13.280 which is only there on desktop versions of the browser. I'd tell you to go see the bug report yourself, but it's been deactivated, probably to stay 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:19.920 consistent with what Google does to most of their products. This lines up with what Google executives have been saying openly since last year. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.360 Chrome OS and Android are being merged into a single platform. 00:01:24.360 --> 00:01:29.360 As Roddy pointed out in his ShortCircuit video on the Samsung Tab S11 Ultra, big Android 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:35.120 tablets already are laptops in a sense, but their desktop functionality is limited. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:40.240 So the obvious thing to do is to combine Android with another very limited OS, and together 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:46.960 they'll make one full desktop. 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:51.200 A landmark social media addiction lawsuit will soon head to trial. 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:55.080 Marking the first time social platforms have had to convince a jury they aren't liable 00:01:55.080 --> 00:01:59.560 for harming kids. A mere 20 years after those platforms probably started harming kids. 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:03.840 The lawsuit's 19-year-old plaintiff claims that platform features like infinite scroll 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:07.920 and autoplay triggered depression, anxiety, and self-harm. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:12.160 Unlike previous social media lawsuits, this one is not focused on the impact of the content 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:17.080 itself, which platforms are not liable for, but on how the platforms were engineered to 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:23.120 be addictive. In a show of confidence about their innocence, both Snapchat and TikTok settled with a plaintiff 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.720 out of court, with TikTok getting their settlement in yesterday, just a few hours before the 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:32.680 jury selection started. They would have gotten in sooner, but they saw a video of someone making a funnel cake 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:37.480 and got lost in the scroll for seven hours. That happens to the best of us. 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:41.320 Meta and YouTube, on the other hand, never afraid to slug it out with the little guy, 00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:46.520 are taking this to trial, despite Meta's prospects for the suit not looking so hot. 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.360 Unsealed internal documents have shown Meta employees messaging one another about the 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.920 addictive nature of Instagram, with one commenting that IG is a drug, and another saying we're 00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:01.920 basically pushers. Those people got bad attitudes and got canned. 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:06.120 Internal emails also show that Mark Zuckerberg made getting teens locked into Meta's apps 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:11.400 a top strategic priority right behind buying big chains, with an email from 2016 stating 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:16.960 that Mark has decided that the top priority for the company in 2017 is teens. 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:23.720 Very epstein of him. An open source AI assistant called Moltbot, formerly Claudebot, has crossed 80,000 GitHub 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.680 stars, making it one of the fastest growing AI projects of 2026. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:32.520 Already? It lets you run a personal AI assistant on your own hardware and control it through messaging 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.760 apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or Slack. 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:40.080 People are comparing it to Jarvis from Ironman, using it to manage their calendars, send emails, 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:45.920 and even write code. That's how dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's working out pretty good 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:50.960 so far. Except maybe it's not, as security experts have started sounding alarms about Moltbot's 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:56.760 security vulnerabilities. Heather Atkins, VP of security engineering at Google Cloud, posted a warning not to run 00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:01.800 Moltbot as it appears to be massively vulnerable to prompt injection attacks in which an attacker 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.440 can feed hidden instructions to the victim's AI assistant. 00:04:05.440 --> 00:04:08.480 Also it's not owned by Google, so use Gemini. 00:04:08.480 --> 00:04:13.120 Rachel Toback, CEO of Social Proof Security, explained that if your autonomous AI agent 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.880 is reading all your messages and has admin access to your computer, then someone can 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:23.480 hijack your computer with a simple DM. But it gets worse, Moltbot is connected to the internet in many different ways, allowing 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:31.480 security researcher Jameson O'Reilly to find hundreds of exposed Moltbot instances on the 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.920 web, with some allowing unauthenticated access to private messages, credentials, and API 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:42.000 keys. O'Reilly also demonstrated a supply chain attack through Claude Hub, Moltbot's skills 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:47.520 library. He uploaded a proof of concept malicious skill, artificially inflated, the download count 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:52.880 to over 4,000 to look more legit, and watched as developers from seven countries downloaded 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:59.800 it. The skill was benign, but O'Reilly said he could have exfiltrated SSH keys, AWS credentials, 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:05.520 and entire code bases. Moltbot's own documentation acknowledges the risk, stating running an AI agent with shell 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:08.520 access on your machine is...spicy. Really? 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:15.240 They actually wrote that? That's verbatim? And who can argue with that? 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.920 Handing rude access to an hallucinating robot prone to being compromised by simple text 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:25.040 messages is my fourth favorite spice, right after Perry Perry, Montreal Steak, and our 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.480 sponsor. And you know what else? How about a quick bit before the quick bit? 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:33.080 Samsung revealed their Galaxy Z tri-fold phone is going to cost 2900 US dollars. 00:05:33.080 --> 00:05:38.280 Do you want me to sit here and cry about it? Or do you want some real quick bits? 00:05:38.280 --> 00:05:44.680 You want them. Intel just switched on XES S3 multi-frame generation in new drivers, letting ARC GPUs 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:50.840 and Core Ultra IGPUs generate 2X, 3X, or 4X the frames across any game that already 00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:53.960 supports XES S2. The best part? 00:05:53.960 --> 00:05:58.560 If a game already supports the second generation tech, developers, developers, developers 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.720 don't need to release updates for the new one to work. 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.920 You just got to turn it on in the Intel control panel. I know what you're thinking. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.960 XES S spelled backwards is SSEX, and now you can do it three times with your IGPU. 00:06:11.960 --> 00:06:20.840 It's time to boogie down boys. Did you know Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, you know, SEXY, Elon did it first. 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:28.240 NVIDIA finally did it, folks. China has reportedly approved initial purchases of NVIDIA's HU under AI chips by ByteDance, 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.560 Alibaba, and Tencent, covering more than 400,000 chips. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:36.240 After a year of Uncle Sam saying, no, China saying, please? 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:42.840 And Uncle Sam saying, well, okay, since he asked nicely. And then China saying, no, once they actually got permission, apparently all it took was 00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:45.840 a visit from the great one Jensen Huang himself. 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:52.600 Sorry, Gretzky. Maybe he gave Xi Jinping the skinny on where to get those sick leather jackets. 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:58.080 I guess we'll find out at the next press conference. Xi Jinping's press conference comes out of her liturgy. 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:02.040 Actually, leather-assless chaps. Sparks fly. 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:05.520 Stone cold Steve Austin beer. This is how you get social credit. 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:10.080 Iran is planning to permanently cut itself off from the global internet, sending a virtual 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:16.680 fist bump to North Korea. After 20 days of near total blackout during widespread protests and by all accounts a 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.840 hideously violent response by authorities, the government is now implementing what Digital 00:07:20.840 --> 00:07:25.440 Rights Group FilterWatch calls absolute digital isolation. 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:29.680 Instead of lifting the shutdown, they're building a whitelisting system where 90 million Iranians 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:35.360 can only access approved domestic sites while security vetted elites get access to the outside 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:39.040 world. Our porn, our awesome sunglasses. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.040 Even worse, VPNs won't help because new deep packet inspection updates are specifically 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.200 designed to fingerprint VPN and Starlink traffic. 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:51.320 A government spokesperson, who's probably evil, confirmed international access will 00:07:51.320 --> 00:07:55.800 never return to its previous form, except of course in the offices of Supreme Leader 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:00.440 Ali Khamenei. Reports say when he's not hurrying to the little Ayatollah's room, he's compulsively 00:08:00.440 --> 00:08:06.560 doom-scolling. There's trap posts on Tumblr. 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:12.360 Amazon accidentally tipped its hand on planned layoffs after an internal AWS email went out 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:18.600 way too early. The message, sent by Senior VP Colleen Aubrey, scheduled a Wednesday meeting titled Project 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:26.240 Dawn, which then promptly got cancelled. The email claimed impacted colleagues in the US candidate Costa Rica had already been notified 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:32.800 and referenced a follow-up note from HR Chief Beth Galetti that, awkwardly, never appeared. 00:08:32.800 --> 00:08:36.120 Aubrey wrote, changes like this are hard on everyone. 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.760 Still, considering Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says that the real risk of losing a job comes 00:08:40.760 --> 00:08:45.440 from someone who's very good at using AI, maybe this was AI's way of proving that it 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:49.760 can do stuff on its own. Just get it over with. Fire them already! 00:08:49.760 --> 00:08:55.720 And figure, just drop new footage of its Helix 2 humanoid robot calmly putting away dishes 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:59.440 and somehow that is way more unsettling than it should be. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:03.840 The video shows some serious fine motor control, hip-bumping a drawer closed and using its 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:08.280 foot to close the dishwasher, showing it's got the dexterity to complete chores with 00:09:08.280 --> 00:09:11.360 style and to murder you. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.840 I mean, at least it's actually useful, unlike those other robots who can't stop doing Karate 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:21.720 and Air Flips. Meanwhile, Fauna Robotics went the opposite direction with Sprout, a small, wildly little 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.600 guy who's actually designed to be cute and emotionally disarming. 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:34.760 Why can't we give that one the knife? That one seems like a much safer option, or at least I could be like, you too, Brutus! 00:09:34.760 --> 00:09:39.280 But the best option would obviously be for you guys to come back tomorrow for more get- 00:09:39.280 --> 00:09:44.080 I mean, back on Friday for more tech news. I think that's right.