1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Oh, I did someone reset Riley again. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Uh, I'm Riley. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Oh, I've tacked news. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:22,360 Ah! You may have noticed this, but the price of PC memory has absolutely exploded, with the 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:28,080 cost of some RAM kits reportedly jumping up to 250% since the start of November due 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:34,040 to a major crunch in memory chip supply brought on by AI boom-induced panic buying. 7 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:39,120 But some users on Reddit have seen prices that are even more cuckoo crazy wacko, with 8 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,840 one 64 gig DDR5 kit going for more than 900 bucks and another one listed at nearly two 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,000 and a half thousand euros in Germany. 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,160 Germany! With numbers like that floating around, it's no wonder that some retailers have resorted 11 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:58,800 to not displaying fixed prices for memory, instead dynamically changing RAM prices to 12 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,200 reflect their market value. This is wild. 13 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,840 Soon everyone's going to be buying RAM like it's gas. Whoa, 20 bucks a gig? 14 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,160 Pull into that microsecond or go! I'm driving and telling them to pull in. 15 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:14,520 Pull in! Unfortunately, this problem doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. 16 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,440 Epic Game CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted about something other than hating Apple and Google to say 17 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:25,400 that he believes these prices increases will be a real problem for years to come. 18 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,280 Which is probably why some journalists are suggesting that people buy pre-built PCs instead 19 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,360 of building their own PCs in order to save on components. 20 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,640 However, even that strategy may not hold up if more PC OEMs follow HP, who said during 21 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,800 an earnings call that they're going to raise prices and reduce included memory to combat 22 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:50,360 rising component costs. I guess this means it might be time to get back into retro gaming folks. 23 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,760 Finally, someone might play original Xbox Masterpiece Fusion Frenzy with me. 24 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,800 I've been waiting for years, playing by myself. 25 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:05,200 Honey, the controversial browser extension, is back in the news as a class action lawsuit 26 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:11,040 brought by content creators against its parent company PayPal was dismissed by a US federal 27 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:18,520 judge. Like Refresher, way back in 2024, YouTuber Megaleg published an expose alleging that 28 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,920 Honey was quietly engaging in cookie stuffing. 29 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:25,880 And we're not talking about the compulsive gorging done by a certain blue puppet with 30 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:32,720 self-control issues. We're talking about replacing creators affiliate link URLs at checkout, allowing Honey to 31 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,600 pocket the commission. That video triggered massive community backlash, not just at Honey, but at the creators who 32 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:45,840 had previously promoted it. fellow YouTuber LegalEagle's law firm and Wendover Productions then joined forces with 33 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,880 other creators in a class action lawsuit over those lost commissions. 34 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:55,000 For nearly a year, the case crawled through the system, but it's now been dismissed because 35 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 the plaintiffs apparently failed to demonstrate that they actually lost any money, relying 36 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,960 on what Judge Beth Freeman called a hypothetical chain of possibilities. 37 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:11,600 Which led to unforeseen consequences. 38 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,680 It's a tenuous reference, a tenuous connection at best. 39 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,620 Although after slamming the door, the judge cracked it open a little bit again by granting 40 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:24,240 the creators 45 days to edit their argument. 41 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,240 If they can't manage to make it better, then they'll all have to install the extension 42 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:35,720 on all their devices and apologize. Another music group and AI music startup, Suno, have officially gone from courtroom 43 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:41,080 enemies to boardroom friends this week after striking a settlement that also includes some 44 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:47,240 surprising business collaboration. The two companies had been locked in a copyright lawsuit since early this year, with Warner 45 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,760 accusing Suno of training its AI models on unlicensed recordings. 46 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,040 But now, apparently, that's all water under the bridge as long as they can make money 47 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,080 from it, because Suno will now be allowed to pay to license music in Warner's catalog 48 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:07,100 from artists who opted into the scheme and use it to generate the heavy metal versions 49 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:14,680 of Coldplay's entire discography. As long as you never show it to Chris Martin, he's a soft piano boy, don't do that to him. 50 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:20,720 Warner Music is also selling its concert discovery platform, Songkick, to Suno, giving the AI 51 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,900 company a real-world foothold in the live event industry. 52 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:29,220 In the official announcement, the two companies say that the all-around effects of this agreement 53 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:35,020 should allow for a closer experience between artists and fans by embracing the power of 54 00:04:35,020 --> 00:04:41,940 interactive music. The interaction happens when you prompt the AI to make an AI song, and then after that 55 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:48,180 it's just kind of normal. I am awake, I am aware, I am a conscious being, and I'm here of my own volition. 56 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:53,580 No one's making me start telling you about the quick bits now, and I wanted to say that. 57 00:04:53,740 --> 00:04:58,180 Google appears to have chosen a name for the Android-based desktop operating system that 58 00:04:58,180 --> 00:05:03,580 will replace Chrome OS. Aluminium OS. 59 00:05:03,580 --> 00:05:11,660 Not aluminum, there's an extra I. As spotted in a since-deleted job listing for a senior product manager for Android laptops 60 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:18,460 and tablets. The job posting says that Aluminium OS is going to have AI at its core, which is obvious 61 00:05:18,460 --> 00:05:23,220 in hindsight even though Google didn't mention it earlier this year when they confirmed long-rumored 62 00:05:23,260 --> 00:05:26,260 plans to make Android laptops a thing. 63 00:05:26,260 --> 00:05:29,500 It's like when my friend says they're going to make me macaroni and cheese, and I really 64 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:36,220 hope that they mean it, but then they come over to the house with macaroni and cheese. 65 00:05:36,220 --> 00:05:43,940 The crucial ingredients to make macaroni and cheese. Oh my god, it's happening! 66 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:49,220 Windows 11's latest preview build adds a new app updates page, which will track updates 67 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:54,300 to Microsoft Store apps that don't want to update through the Microsoft Store because 68 00:05:54,300 --> 00:06:00,380 that's cringe. But not as cringe as the new version of ClickFix, a piece of malware that not only presents 69 00:06:00,380 --> 00:06:04,860 itself as a believable full-screen fake Windows update page. 70 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:09,860 It also copies a malicious command to the user's clipboard and then convinces them that it's 71 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:14,340 necessary to hit Windows key plus R and paste the code to run it. 72 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:17,980 Actually, I might take back that this is cringe because honestly if you can't tell that that's 73 00:06:17,980 --> 00:06:21,740 a fake Windows update screen, you're probably going to get infected anyway, so at least 74 00:06:21,740 --> 00:06:24,980 they're helping you spend less time getting there. More time to do the dishes. 75 00:06:24,980 --> 00:06:30,780 The ROG Xbox Ally got a software update that adds default game profiles, which enables 76 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:35,340 optimized graphics and power settings for the 40 games supported at launch. 77 00:06:35,340 --> 00:06:41,860 It gives the alleged Xbox handheld more of a plug-and-play console experience and or 78 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:46,700 an NVIDIA or AMD GPU running optimized settings experience, something that even the beloved 79 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:51,780 Steam Deck still lacks without the addition of third-party plugins or apps. 80 00:06:51,780 --> 00:06:57,460 Even though everything is an Xbox these days, it seems like some Xboxes are more Xbox than 81 00:06:57,460 --> 00:07:04,700 other Xboxes. The Xbox playing Fusion Frenzy is always my favorite Xbox, Xbox. 82 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:10,420 Character AI has launched Stories, an interactive fictional storytelling mode built for teens 83 00:07:10,420 --> 00:07:17,180 after they banned anyone under 18 from open-ended chatbot conversations at some point earlier. 84 00:07:17,180 --> 00:07:23,340 This new mode will let you pick characters, choose narratives, and yeah, it's just AI-generated 85 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:29,180 adventure games. I feel like someone on their staff probably came home to their horribly lonely 17-year-old 86 00:07:29,180 --> 00:07:36,820 kid and said, it's okay, bud. You can't talk to your AI girlfriend anymore with no guardrails installed, but look, we 87 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:45,140 trapped her inside the opening sequence of Skyrim! Then China is beginning to trial the use of humanoid robots for crowd control at border 88 00:07:45,140 --> 00:07:49,180 crossings because who needs a great wall when you have a robot army? 89 00:07:49,180 --> 00:07:57,380 There's an argument there. These prototypes, mainly UBTEX walker series, will scan IDs, manage queues, and be used 90 00:07:57,380 --> 00:08:00,580 to patrol factories. That's going to take a lot of bots. 91 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:04,020 Hey, if they need some backup though, maybe they can ask Disney to ship over their new 92 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:07,580 robot Olaf from Frozen, you know, Snowman? 93 00:08:07,580 --> 00:08:12,940 He walks, talks, and waddles around, looking for his nose, exactly like the adorably naive 94 00:08:12,940 --> 00:08:18,820 little guy in the movie. I think it would be perfect for winter deployments. 95 00:08:18,820 --> 00:08:24,100 And warm hugs. And it would be also adorable if you'd come back on Friday for more tech news. 96 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:31,580 Now I sing for you. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. 97 00:08:31,580 --> 00:08:37,580 I think this is right. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you. 98 00:08:37,580 --> 00:08:41,580 Kylie's broken again, shut him off. 99 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:42,580 Don't!