WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Oh my gosh, wow, oh my gosh, wow, the tech news today. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.960 It made me do that. When have you ever seen me do that? 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.960 So that's how you know. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:20.440 Microsoft's Windows 11 February update has led to reports of failed installations, 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:25.440 broken network connections and cryptic errors, proving that as a public holiday, 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:29.400 Patch Tuesday is less Easter and more lent. 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:33.440 You're supposed to refrain from eating while you atone for your computer's sins. 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:37.040 Microsoft, bless their hearts, says everything's fixed 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:42.000 and points to their known issues page. But Reddit and the Microsoft Answers forums 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.600 tell a different story. We're talking Wi-Fi connecting with no actual internet, 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.680 Bluetooth controllers straight up disappearing mid session 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:54.280 and at least one sysadmin on Reddit saying there was a three out of five chance 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.840 his task bar would just disappear. Can you find a way to get it back? 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:02.520 It's like a game. Sure, some of these problems could be lingering issues left over 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:05.600 from last month's file explorer breaking update, 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:09.320 but that doesn't exactly make Microsoft look better here. 00:01:09.320 --> 00:01:12.840 But I don't know, maybe the devs are just busy with actually important things, 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:17.200 like deleting official blog posts that recommended people train AI models 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.400 on pirated Harry Potter books. Blimey co-pilot, didn't you wonder 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:24.760 where your parents learned it all? Learned what? 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.240 You're a chatbot co-pilot. I'm a what? 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.760 A chatbot! And a thumpin' s**t when I'd wager? 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.440 Oh. Met a CEO and former Inzmouth resident, 00:01:35.440 --> 00:01:40.680 Mark Zuckerberg, took the stand on Wednesday in a landmark social media addiction trial 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:45.920 where a 20 year old plaintiff is alleging that Instagram's design worsened her depression 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.120 and thoughts of self-harm. Zuck, seen here exiting the courtroom 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:54.880 wearing his dad's suit, told the jury I care about the well-being of teens and kids 00:01:54.880 --> 00:01:59.920 who are using our services, pointing to an email he sent Tim Apple in 2018 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:03.000 to chat about child safety. Remember that, Tim? 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.720 Yeah, fish boy, what a great guy. 00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:12.000 Thank you, Tim. Zuckerberg also admitted that Metta may have once set goals 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.240 around increasing time spent by users, 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.620 but that's no longer how they operate. Probably because they already tuned the hell 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:24.580 out of the dopamine machine that is Instagram. That's things crank, it's working well. 00:02:24.580 --> 00:02:28.140 The trial's been generally rocky for the puppet-turned-billionaire 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:34.140 with the prosecution showing the jury an internal Facebook email from 2017 stating, 00:02:34.140 --> 00:02:38.060 Mark has decided the top priority for the company is teens. 00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:43.820 Bad phrasing. Phrasing! On top of that, the judge scolded him and his entourage 00:02:43.820 --> 00:02:47.020 for wearing camera-equipped Ray-Ban Metta glasses 00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:50.260 into the courtroom, threatening to hold them in contempt 00:02:50.260 --> 00:02:53.620 as you may be aware of this, recording courtroom proceedings 00:02:53.620 --> 00:02:59.620 is often illegal, which, to be fair, is not something big tech bros are often concerned about. 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:03.940 Former Metta VP Brian Boland, though, seems like maybe one of the good ones, 00:03:03.940 --> 00:03:07.080 he took the stand after spending 11 years 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.080 helping build Metta's ad machine. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.100 So, okay, maybe, I don't know, jury's out on him. 00:03:13.100 --> 00:03:16.260 He told the jury that Zuckerberg fostered a culture 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:19.340 that prioritized growth over user safety 00:03:19.340 --> 00:03:25.000 and that when concerns about harm came up, the primary response was to manage the press cycle 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:30.100 rather than actually investigate the problem. Boland left the company in 2020 walking away 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:33.540 from over $10 million in unvested stock. 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:36.560 Imagine how unlikable Zuckerberg must be 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.100 for someone to walk away from $10 million. 00:03:40.100 --> 00:03:43.580 I feel like that wins the court case right there. We've seen enough. 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:49.260 You may have seen a bunch of headlines and circulation about how headphones are poisonous now or something, 00:03:49.260 --> 00:03:55.300 but don't worry, we looked into it. So an EU-funded coalition of Central European consumer groups 00:03:55.300 --> 00:04:01.060 tested 81 pairs of headphones and found harmful chemicals in every single one. 00:04:01.060 --> 00:04:05.280 They tested products from well-known brands like Bose, Samsung, and Sennheiser, 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:11.140 but also stuff like off-brand children's headphones from Timu, which was apparently one of the worst offenders. 00:04:11.140 --> 00:04:15.500 So that's nice. BPA, the bad chemical that every water bottle now 00:04:15.500 --> 00:04:20.300 has to assure you it does not contain, showed up in 98% of samples, 00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:25.580 along with other bad boys like phthalates, chlorinated paraffins, and flame retardants, 00:04:25.580 --> 00:04:29.260 some of which can migrate through your skin, 00:04:29.260 --> 00:04:33.460 especially when you sweat. Now, while that does sound concerning, 00:04:33.460 --> 00:04:36.900 some have pointed out a couple methodologically weird things 00:04:36.900 --> 00:04:42.000 with the study and just because headphones contain a chemical doesn't mean that it's going to get into your body 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:45.260 and poison you. Nevertheless, certain media outlets 00:04:45.260 --> 00:04:50.780 have been sensationalizing the issue. PC Gamer went with, all headphones are toxic. 00:04:50.780 --> 00:04:54.660 Tom's guide said you should ditch your headphones for speakers and the Guardian summarized 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:59.780 the study's concerns as being partially about the risk of the feminization of males. 00:04:59.780 --> 00:05:04.740 Oh no! Which predictably sent Reddit into a spiral. 00:05:04.740 --> 00:05:08.920 Now, if you take the time to read it, the report is pretty reasonable. 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:13.340 They're pointing out the companies are cramming in as much of these regulated chemicals as they can 00:05:13.340 --> 00:05:17.980 without getting in trouble and then shifting to equally bad but unregulated substitutes 00:05:17.980 --> 00:05:21.340 when they get caught. Talks Free wants greater regulation 00:05:21.340 --> 00:05:24.860 to close loopholes like this. And we feel that it's important to point out 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:28.620 that while some outlets may be overblowing the danger to society, 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:34.500 the study itself brings some important issues to light and maybe should be taken seriously, 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:38.500 perhaps even more seriously than our sponsor. 00:05:38.500 --> 00:05:43.220 Wow. I just saw what the quick bits are today and... 00:05:46.380 --> 00:05:49.420 I'm still pretty crazy. We're going, ah! 00:05:49.420 --> 00:05:55.020 Intel has announced that it's moving certain customer support functions to an AI chatbot. 00:05:55.020 --> 00:05:58.460 And while AI customer assistants are relatively common now, 00:05:58.460 --> 00:06:03.260 Intel's assistant seems to be taking a little too much initiative with troubleshooting hardware issues. 00:06:03.260 --> 00:06:07.900 When a PC world writer tested the behavior of the bot with a crashing CPU, 00:06:07.900 --> 00:06:11.740 it helpfully told them to try updating their graphics driver 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:15.860 before kind of just going through up some boilerplate troubleshooting steps. 00:06:15.860 --> 00:06:20.660 Hopefully the graphics thing works out though. This is a little embarrassing for Intel 00:06:20.660 --> 00:06:25.860 as they've helped fast food chains experiment with putting AI chatbots in drive-thrus for years, 00:06:25.860 --> 00:06:30.340 including KFC. But a CPU malfunction is a little more complicated 00:06:30.340 --> 00:06:36.220 than, you know, a bucket of chicken. No matter how many herbs and spices there are, 00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:39.340 and whether they're secret or not, how many are there? 00:06:39.340 --> 00:06:42.500 I got a lot of them. Okay. 00:06:42.500 --> 00:06:48.180 Amazon's Ring is not only sticking with it's enabled by default search party feature 00:06:48.180 --> 00:06:51.460 that lets ring camera owners search each other's footage 00:06:51.460 --> 00:06:56.340 for lost dogs, despite backlash over its eerily dystopian Super Bowl ad, 00:06:56.340 --> 00:07:00.860 they are doubling down. Leaked internal emails showed CEO, Jamie Siminoff, 00:07:00.860 --> 00:07:06.580 suggesting that he's pretty excited to see the results of our public agencies using this tool 00:07:06.580 --> 00:07:09.180 and the impact it will have on our communities. 00:07:10.140 --> 00:07:13.920 Woof. And that eventually ring cameras could help 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:19.780 zero out crime in neighborhoods, at least a certain kind of crime. 00:07:19.780 --> 00:07:24.620 Dog crime. I don't think a drag net of ring cameras 00:07:24.620 --> 00:07:27.740 is going to be able to zero out investment fraud. 00:07:27.740 --> 00:07:33.180 And I don't think that's really their goal anyway. Shiny Hunters, the internet's favorite hacking group 00:07:33.180 --> 00:07:36.460 is back at it again this week after launching cyber attacks 00:07:36.460 --> 00:07:40.420 against both win resorts and car gurus. 00:07:40.420 --> 00:07:46.100 The craziest part, they're apparently using the same vishing methods seen in previous breaches. 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:49.700 That's fishing, but like voice version of it. Stay, keep up. 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:53.140 The stolen data includes 800,000 employee records 00:07:53.140 --> 00:07:56.580 from win resorts and around 1.7 million corporate files 00:07:56.580 --> 00:08:00.540 from car gurus. Gurus. Gurus. 00:08:00.540 --> 00:08:05.340 A spokesperson for the Hunters told the register that stolen data includes full names, 00:08:05.340 --> 00:08:09.780 emails, phone numbers, positions, salaries, start dates, and even birthdays. 00:08:09.780 --> 00:08:14.500 Honestly, what's Shiny Hunters deal? And what are these shinies? 00:08:14.500 --> 00:08:18.900 They're hunting. If we give them a few Charizard's Gardevoirs and a Mew, 00:08:18.900 --> 00:08:23.620 will they leave us alone? The FBI has issued new guidance to store owners 00:08:23.620 --> 00:08:28.620 after hackers jackpot it more than 700 ATMs in 2025, 00:08:28.660 --> 00:08:31.660 stealing roughly $20 million. 00:08:31.700 --> 00:08:37.580 Using malware called Plotus? Criminals infect a machine's internals 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:40.780 and force cash withdrawals without using a card, 00:08:40.780 --> 00:08:44.300 tricking the machine itself instead of using a fake bank account. 00:08:44.300 --> 00:08:49.500 I'm actually surprised they explained how it works. You would think they'd wanna keep this information 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:52.740 from the crazy people who are currently using forklifts 00:08:52.740 --> 00:08:57.660 to rip ATMs out of the ground. We can't let them know there's an easier option. 00:08:57.660 --> 00:09:01.220 And Substack just announced an expansion of their existing partnership 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:06.260 with gambling platform Polymarket, allowing Substack authors to embed prediction market 00:09:06.260 --> 00:09:10.020 betting data directly into newsletters and articles. 00:09:10.020 --> 00:09:14.780 Polymarket celebrated the new partnership by tweeting that journalism is better 00:09:14.780 --> 00:09:17.900 when it's backed by live markets. 00:09:17.900 --> 00:09:21.500 Sure. And I'm sure this isn't an elaborate narrative 00:09:21.500 --> 00:09:27.340 to avoid being regulated as a gambling platform. In unrelated news, I'm launching a statistics course 00:09:27.340 --> 00:09:32.860 where you try and guess where a ball will land in a spinning wheel using statistics 00:09:32.860 --> 00:09:38.460 because learning is always better when backed by the ability to lose your life savings. 00:09:38.460 --> 00:09:44.380 But you won't lose anything if you come back on Monday for more tech news, except maybe time. 00:09:44.380 --> 00:09:48.020 And we all have an unlimited amount of that. So it doesn't matter. 00:09:48.020 --> 00:09:50.140 Woo, I'm never gonna die.