WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:23.040 Google has caught a nasty case of whichever chronic condition afflicts Apple, with the 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:29.440 announcement of mandatory verification for Android app developers, beginning in 2026 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:34.680 For security reasons, most Android devices will be blocked from installing apps that 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:38.520 are not officially registered by verified developers. 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 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:49.480 platform controlled by Google, but next year, registration and verification will be required 00:00:49.480 --> 00:00:55.320 for all apps and developers, even apps sideloaded from the internet. 00:00:55.320 --> 00:01:01.160 A vast web of connected platforms also largely controlled by Google, I guess that's where 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. 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:10.840 They're just making sure they know who they're letting into their phone. 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 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 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.800 framework laptop 16, which originally launched with a Radeon RX 7700S option. 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, 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 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:48.000 upgrade option for people who don't live in a hole filled with half-assembled electronics. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.760 It's a man cave. It's a, it's a cave. 00:01:51.880 --> 00:01:57.680 Plus, it's nice to see a modular hardware startup actually follow through and launch 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 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 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.800 pre-ordering? I'm not invested in them. I'm not invested in anything. 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 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 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.720 actual laptop company. But they're not stopping there. 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:41.480 Framework is also working on some funky modules like the wide-boy haptic touchpad, an external 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:45.800 GPU, and even a track point finger nubbin for mouse control. 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.720 And I don't think we needed the demonstration, Framework CEO guy. 00:02:49.720 --> 00:02:53.880 I don't love seeing that, especially slowed down with sexy music under it. 00:02:53.880 --> 00:03:01.200 Bjorn, stop that! Anthropic, aka OpenAI with more anxious energy, has settled the copyright lawsuit brought 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:05.560 against it by three book authors for an undisclosed sum. 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:11.160 But it's probably less than the $1 trillion in damages potentially owed by the company 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 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 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:29.640 a large effect on the largely unanswered question of how to respect copyright while 00:03:29.640 --> 00:03:35.000 also letting an entire industry get away with infringing on the copyright of every copyrighted 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:39.480 thing ever. But the lack of clarity is probably okay with tech companies. 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:44.240 The Computer and Communications Industry Association warned that this lawsuit could financially 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. 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:57.120 The settlement also came just as Amazon was getting hit by another class action lawsuit 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 00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:04.440 it until they decide to stop letting you rent it? 00:04:04.440 --> 00:04:11.360 Question. Amazon successfully had a very similar lawsuit dismissed in 2021, I guess proving that at 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.320 this point in the digital age, you don't own anything. 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. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.000 I am deadly serious about the copyright for quick bits, though. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.320 I actually think there's like three YouTube channels that also use the term quick bits 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:32.920 for something, but I don't look at them because it makes me so mad. 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:37.960 OpenAI says it will add parental controls to ChatGPT following a lawsuit brought against 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 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 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 00:04:57.520 --> 00:05:02.080 says they'll soon introduce these parental controls so parents can let their children 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:07.920 have safe talks with the hallucinatory machine intelligence that nobody also knows how it 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 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.360 on mobile in select Latin American markets for users over 16, but it'll reportedly 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:25.440 soon be available in the US, Canada, Brazil, EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand too. 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:32.360 I suppose this makes some sense given that Spotify, like YouTube, is kind of a social 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:37.920 network, but YouTube got rid of its direct messaging feature in 2019. 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. 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 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 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.320 supposedly taken by the Phone 3's camera, but guess what? 00:05:59.320 --> 00:06:02.320 Guess what? Guess what? They weren't. 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:09.280 Co-founder and maybe JRPG character, Ackis Evangelidis, explained that the demo phones 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:14.960 had to be preloaded with images four months before launch, and while normally they preloaded 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:19.720 images taken on older Nothing Phones, there was like a shakeup with a team. 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 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:28.800 stock photos on there, which nothing did pay for, at least. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:33.560 But I mean, it was the wrong initiative to take. 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 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:46.480 of Communications, aka Ofcom, over the age verification requirements posed by the Online 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 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. 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 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 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:14.640 a backdoor into Apple's iCloud services. 00:07:14.640 --> 00:07:20.560 So, good luck, 4chan, I think? 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. 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:28.760 I'll probably have sorted out my feelings about all of this by that point. 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 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:35.880 then.