WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.680 Oh, you here for tech news too? Yeah. Okay. Oh, I'm, it's supposed to be, oh, oh, oh, 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:22.480 I'm the guy. Okay. Apple has been sent a secret order by the UK demanding access to the encrypted 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:28.320 data of Apple's users worldwide. According to people familiar with the matter who spoke 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.320 with the Washington Post, the order was reportedly issued under the UK's Investigatory Powers Act 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:41.120 of 2016 known by critics as the Snoopers Charter, which sounds less like an existential threat 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:46.960 to data privacy and more like a British children's novel. I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good. 00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:54.000 You'll be a fine snooper, Billy. It's Billy Snooper and the Charter of Snoops. 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.520 Apple has neither confirmed nor denied that such a request has been received, 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:04.720 probably because doing so is actually a criminal offense under the Snoopers Charter. 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:10.400 And while Apple can appeal the order, that wouldn't mean they can delay executing on it. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:16.000 It's unclear where things go from here, but if I were the UK, I'd be careful with Apple's data. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.960 The company just made its former employee publicly apologize for leaking info, 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:26.640 calling it a profound and expensive mistake, also known as buying many Apple products. 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:32.880 Speaking of outrageous pricing, RTX 50 series graphics cards from MSI and ASUS have had their 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:40.400 prices increased by hundreds of dollars as tech spotted by tech spot. I'm sorry. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:46.000 The USA's new China tariffs may be partially to blame for this, but I don't think they factor in 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:53.760 to ASUS decision to make its ROG Astral 5090 even more expensive by making its cooler out of 00:01:53.760 --> 00:02:02.960 literal gold. The ROG Astral Dahab OC edition has an MSRP of $2,800, but retailers will probably 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:08.720 charge even more than that, given that the regular Astrals already listed for more than 3,000. 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.560 Hey, want to pay even more for GPUs that are still being plagued with black screen problems? 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.120 At least NVIDIA is investigating that now, according to PC Gamer, as reports of similar 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:25.600 issues have emerged from RTX 40 series owners pointing to a problem with NVIDIA's latest driver. 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:30.720 But complaining is kind of pointless. There's still no stock anywhere, so this all feels a bit 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:35.840 like ordering lunch at the Hoppin New Delhi that just opened in your niece's playroom. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:42.080 Here's your sandwich. This plate is empty. Where's my sandwich? I don't know how to be an uncle. 00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:49.360 So you may not know this, but AI is getting pretty good now. Researchers at ByteDance just 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.200 showed off OmniHumanOne, which can turn an image and audio into generated video with 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:01.280 lip syncing and gestures virtually indistinguishable from the real original video it was based on. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:06.400 It's not publicly available yet, still locked to ByteDance's servers, where it's probably 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:12.240 partying with all of the unencrypted data being sent there from the iOS DeepSeq app, 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:17.200 which apparently has so many security holes, it would make people with trypophobia have aneurysms 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:21.280 if they weren't so busy downloading every Chinese app that asked how their day's going. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:26.720 Yes, running DeepSeq models locally solves that issue, and others are starting to recreate 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:32.080 DeepSeq's success. Stanford and University of Washington researchers used the distillation 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:38.160 technique that OpenAI accused DeepSeq of using to train a reasoning model that performs similarly 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:46.320 to OpenAI's 01 preview using just $50 worth of credits for Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking API. 00:03:46.320 --> 00:03:51.840 I mean heck, tech companies might not even have to pirate 80 terabytes worth of books to train 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.280 their models anymore, like Meta almost certainly did, according to recently unsealed emails. 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:04.560 Guys, they're just books. Not truly copyright protected material, like the output of a chatbot 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.000 trained on books. You have to transform. It's transformative. 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:12.880 Oh, what about the quick bits? We're not doing this again. 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:17.920 The Trump administration has paused its removal of the de minimis exemption, 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:23.440 meaning low-cost packages from China will not be subject to tariffs, at least until the 00:04:23.440 --> 00:04:28.320 Commerce Department confirms that adequate systems are in place to collect that revenue. 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:34.080 Trump's tariffs have also moved as rock to shift its manufacturing out of China. 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:40.240 To the US? No. To other countries that aren't subject to the same tariffs, like Vietnam and 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:46.560 Taiwan. I know what will stop this, killing the national EV charging program. What will Elon 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:51.520 think of that? Maybe nothing. He's kind of busy right now, storming more government agencies that 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.880 America absolutely doesn't need, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:02.400 and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose demise Musk is apparently already celebrating. 00:05:03.200 --> 00:05:08.960 You need the government to protect your finances for you? Ever heard of swords? 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:16.800 The Department of Justice did temporarily block Musk's doge group from accessing US treasury data, 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:23.040 allowing only two of Elon's acolytes to have read-only access. Although it seems like they 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:29.200 already had right access and are using all that juicy classified data to train a government 00:05:29.200 --> 00:05:35.120 chat botch, which doesn't sound super secure, but on the plus side, if it's anything like 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:41.920 XAI's grok, it'll be hilarious, edgy, and based. Apple has published research that makes it really 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:48.080 look like they're building a real-life robot version of the Pixar lamp, with lifelike expressive 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:54.080 movements and the ability to respond to human gestures like, hey, look over there, and back up, 00:05:54.080 --> 00:06:00.640 back, back, back the f**k up. To prevent the iRobot from joining the AI uprising, they've bolted it 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:06.640 to the table. We can only hope it stays there, so the i from the Pixar logo has a chance at revenge. 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:12.480 It's been crushed so many times. And it's time to see Doom running on perhaps the least expected 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:20.960 thing. An Apple Lightning to HDMI adapter dongle. Someone possibly named John, who goes by Nyan 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:27.920 Satan online, adapted the well-known Checkmate Bootrom exploit to get id Software's classic 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:34.720 running on the dongle's Samsung S5-L8 747 processor. It's nice to know that if the whole GPU 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:39.760 situation doesn't get better, you've probably got a ton of little gaming PCs in your box of dongle, 00:06:39.760 --> 00:06:45.440 see? You kept them for a reason. And I think you watched this whole video for a reason, 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:52.000 so I could tell you to come back for more tech news on Monday. And now, I have. So, 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:56.480 was it worth it?