1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,040 Google has caught a nasty case of whichever chronic condition afflicts Apple, with the 2 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:29,440 announcement of mandatory verification for Android app developers, beginning in 2026 3 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,680 For security reasons, most Android devices will be blocked from installing apps that 4 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,520 are not officially registered by verified developers. 5 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,960 This is already the case for apps on the Google Play Store, Android's default app distribution 6 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,480 platform controlled by Google, but next year, registration and verification will be required 7 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:55,320 for all apps and developers, even apps sideloaded from the internet. 8 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:01,160 A vast web of connected platforms also largely controlled by Google, I guess that's where 9 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:06,560 Google is coming from when they ask you to think of this like an ID check at the airport. 10 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,840 They're just making sure they know who they're letting into their phone. 11 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,400 The one in your hand, it's actually Google's, but you know, it's fine, it's fine, it's 12 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:23,920 fine, you can use it, they have like a billion other ones. Framework has announced an RTX 5070 laptop GPU module that can be used to upgrade the 13 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:30,800 framework laptop 16, which originally launched with a Radeon RX 7700S option. 14 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:37,760 While a handful of super high-end laptops have used MXM format GPUs, which can be swapped, 15 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,320 Framework's new module is the first one in more than a decade to offer an easy to install 16 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:48,000 upgrade option for people who don't live in a hole filled with half-assembled electronics. 17 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,760 It's a man cave. It's a, it's a cave. 18 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:57,680 Plus, it's nice to see a modular hardware startup actually follow through and launch 19 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:04,760 a modular hardware. Oh, but, uh, well, okay, they haven't actually launched it yet, so you can not pre-order 20 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:11,840 the standalone module for 700 bucks. What, did you think because Linus is invested in Framework, I was going to suddenly love 21 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:16,800 pre-ordering? I'm not invested in them. I'm not invested in anything. 22 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:24,960 I don't understand how that works. In addition to the new module, the laptop 16 is now available with Ryzen AI 300 series 23 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:31,840 CPUs, and it comes with a new 240 watt USB-C power adapter, the first one offered by an 24 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,720 actual laptop company. But they're not stopping there. 25 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:41,480 Framework is also working on some funky modules like the wide-boy haptic touchpad, an external 26 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,800 GPU, and even a track point finger nubbin for mouse control. 27 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,720 And I don't think we needed the demonstration, Framework CEO guy. 28 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,880 I don't love seeing that, especially slowed down with sexy music under it. 29 00:02:53,880 --> 00:03:01,200 Bjorn, stop that! Anthropic, aka OpenAI with more anxious energy, has settled the copyright lawsuit brought 30 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,560 against it by three book authors for an undisclosed sum. 31 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:11,160 But it's probably less than the $1 trillion in damages potentially owed by the company 32 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:18,240 if they had lost in court. While this lawsuit is fairly notable, being one of the 20 or so major AI lawsuits currently 33 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:23,400 being tracked by Wired, the fact that it's being settled means it probably won't have 34 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:29,640 a large effect on the largely unanswered question of how to respect copyright while 35 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:35,000 also letting an entire industry get away with infringing on the copyright of every copyrighted 36 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,480 thing ever. But the lack of clarity is probably okay with tech companies. 37 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:44,240 The Computer and Communications Industry Association warned that this lawsuit could financially 38 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:52,600 ruin the entire tech industry, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sounds like a you problem. 39 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,120 The settlement also came just as Amazon was getting hit by another class action lawsuit 40 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,440 over the whole, when you buy a movie digitally, do you own it, or are you just kind of renting 41 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,440 it until they decide to stop letting you rent it? 42 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:11,360 Question. Amazon successfully had a very similar lawsuit dismissed in 2021, I guess proving that at 43 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,320 this point in the digital age, you don't own anything. 44 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:21,600 Copyright isn't really a thing anymore. So yarr har fiddly dee, I suppose, and it's time for the quick bits. 45 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,000 I am deadly serious about the copyright for quick bits, though. 46 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,320 I actually think there's like three YouTube channels that also use the term quick bits 47 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,920 for something, but I don't look at them because it makes me so mad. 48 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:37,960 OpenAI says it will add parental controls to ChatGPT following a lawsuit brought against 49 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:44,640 it by the family of a teenager who ended his own life after ChatGPT actively helped him 50 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,840 explore methods to do so, and even tipped him off on ways to get around the chatbot's 51 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:57,520 safety restrictions. In a blog post, OpenAI goes over some methods they're taking to strengthen safeguards and 52 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,080 says they'll soon introduce these parental controls so parents can let their children 53 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:07,920 have safe talks with the hallucinatory machine intelligence that nobody also knows how it 54 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:14,160 works really. Suddenly, Spotify is adding messaging features, and for some reason, it's only rolling out 55 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:20,360 on mobile in select Latin American markets for users over 16, but it'll reportedly 56 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:25,440 soon be available in the US, Canada, Brazil, EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand too. 57 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:32,360 I suppose this makes some sense given that Spotify, like YouTube, is kind of a social 58 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:37,920 network, but YouTube got rid of its direct messaging feature in 2019. 59 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:44,080 And also, what am I going to say? Uh, oh, just let me check my Spotify messages. 60 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:49,760 That sounds dumb. Nothing, which I always have to specify is the smartphone company, great name, is caught 61 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:55,000 up in a little controversy after a retail demo of the Nothing Phone 3 showed off photos 62 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,320 supposedly taken by the Phone 3's camera, but guess what? 63 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,320 Guess what? Guess what? They weren't. 64 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:09,280 Co-founder and maybe JRPG character, Ackis Evangelidis, explained that the demo phones 65 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:14,960 had to be preloaded with images four months before launch, and while normally they preloaded 66 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,720 images taken on older Nothing Phones, there was like a shakeup with a team. 67 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:24,040 And the new people didn't get the memo, and they just took initiative and slapped some 68 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,800 stock photos on there, which nothing did pay for, at least. 69 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:33,560 But I mean, it was the wrong initiative to take. 70 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:40,600 Roll again. And two internet hives of villainy, 4chan and Kiwi Farms, are suing the UK's Office 71 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:46,480 of Communications, aka Ofcom, over the age verification requirements posed by the Online 72 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:52,360 Safety Act. The websites say they're completely based in the US, so why would they let a bunch of 73 00:06:52,360 --> 00:07:00,200 BRITs tell them what to do? They'd rather continue on not knowing their users' business, and frankly, I have to agree. 74 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:05,160 The legality of the situation is unclear, but maybe this is an attempt to get the attention 75 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:11,200 of the US government, who apparently recently got the UK to back down on its demand for 76 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,640 a backdoor into Apple's iCloud services. 77 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:20,560 So, good luck, 4chan, I think? 78 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,560 It's all very confusing, which is why you should come back on Friday for more tech news. 79 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,760 I'll probably have sorted out my feelings about all of this by that point. 80 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:35,360 I mean, that's in two days, I'll probably have figured out pretty much everything by 81 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:35,880 then.