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Oh, you here for tech news too? Yeah. Okay. Oh, I'm, it's supposed to be, oh, oh, oh,

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I'm the guy. Okay. Apple has been sent a secret order by the UK demanding access to the encrypted

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data of Apple's users worldwide. According to people familiar with the matter who spoke

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with the Washington Post, the order was reportedly issued under the UK's Investigatory Powers Act

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of 2016 known by critics as the Snoopers Charter, which sounds less like an existential threat

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to data privacy and more like a British children's novel. I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good.

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You'll be a fine snooper, Billy. It's Billy Snooper and the Charter of Snoops.

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Apple has neither confirmed nor denied that such a request has been received,

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probably because doing so is actually a criminal offense under the Snoopers Charter.

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And while Apple can appeal the order, that wouldn't mean they can delay executing on it.

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It's unclear where things go from here, but if I were the UK, I'd be careful with Apple's data.

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The company just made its former employee publicly apologize for leaking info,

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calling it a profound and expensive mistake, also known as buying many Apple products.

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Speaking of outrageous pricing, RTX 50 series graphics cards from MSI and ASUS have had their

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prices increased by hundreds of dollars as tech spotted by tech spot. I'm sorry.

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The USA's new China tariffs may be partially to blame for this, but I don't think they factor in

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to ASUS decision to make its ROG Astral 5090 even more expensive by making its cooler out of

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literal gold. The ROG Astral Dahab OC edition has an MSRP of $2,800, but retailers will probably

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charge even more than that, given that the regular Astrals already listed for more than 3,000.

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Hey, want to pay even more for GPUs that are still being plagued with black screen problems?

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At least NVIDIA is investigating that now, according to PC Gamer, as reports of similar

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issues have emerged from RTX 40 series owners pointing to a problem with NVIDIA's latest driver.

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But complaining is kind of pointless. There's still no stock anywhere, so this all feels a bit

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like ordering lunch at the Hoppin New Delhi that just opened in your niece's playroom.

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Here's your sandwich. This plate is empty. Where's my sandwich? I don't know how to be an uncle.

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So you may not know this, but AI is getting pretty good now. Researchers at ByteDance just

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showed off OmniHumanOne, which can turn an image and audio into generated video with

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lip syncing and gestures virtually indistinguishable from the real original video it was based on.

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It's not publicly available yet, still locked to ByteDance's servers, where it's probably

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partying with all of the unencrypted data being sent there from the iOS DeepSeq app,

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which apparently has so many security holes, it would make people with trypophobia have aneurysms

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if they weren't so busy downloading every Chinese app that asked how their day's going.

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Yes, running DeepSeq models locally solves that issue, and others are starting to recreate

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DeepSeq's success. Stanford and University of Washington researchers used the distillation

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technique that OpenAI accused DeepSeq of using to train a reasoning model that performs similarly

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to OpenAI's 01 preview using just $50 worth of credits for Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking API.

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I mean heck, tech companies might not even have to pirate 80 terabytes worth of books to train

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their models anymore, like Meta almost certainly did, according to recently unsealed emails.

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Guys, they're just books. Not truly copyright protected material, like the output of a chatbot

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trained on books. You have to transform. It's transformative.

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Oh, what about the quick bits? We're not doing this again.

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The Trump administration has paused its removal of the de minimis exemption,

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meaning low-cost packages from China will not be subject to tariffs, at least until the

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Commerce Department confirms that adequate systems are in place to collect that revenue.

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Trump's tariffs have also moved as rock to shift its manufacturing out of China.

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To the US? No. To other countries that aren't subject to the same tariffs, like Vietnam and

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Taiwan. I know what will stop this, killing the national EV charging program. What will Elon

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think of that? Maybe nothing. He's kind of busy right now, storming more government agencies that

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America absolutely doesn't need, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

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and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose demise Musk is apparently already celebrating.

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You need the government to protect your finances for you? Ever heard of swords?

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The Department of Justice did temporarily block Musk's doge group from accessing US treasury data,

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allowing only two of Elon's acolytes to have read-only access. Although it seems like they

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already had right access and are using all that juicy classified data to train a government

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chat botch, which doesn't sound super secure, but on the plus side, if it's anything like

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XAI's grok, it'll be hilarious, edgy, and based. Apple has published research that makes it really

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look like they're building a real-life robot version of the Pixar lamp, with lifelike expressive

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movements and the ability to respond to human gestures like, hey, look over there, and back up,

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back, back, back the f**k up. To prevent the iRobot from joining the AI uprising, they've bolted it

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to the table. We can only hope it stays there, so the i from the Pixar logo has a chance at revenge.

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It's been crushed so many times. And it's time to see Doom running on perhaps the least expected

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thing. An Apple Lightning to HDMI adapter dongle. Someone possibly named John, who goes by Nyan

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Satan online, adapted the well-known Checkmate Bootrom exploit to get id Software's classic

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running on the dongle's Samsung S5-L8 747 processor. It's nice to know that if the whole GPU

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situation doesn't get better, you've probably got a ton of little gaming PCs in your box of dongle,

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see? You kept them for a reason. And I think you watched this whole video for a reason,

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so I could tell you to come back for more tech news on Monday. And now, I have. So,

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was it worth it?