WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Oh, I did someone reset Riley again. 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:12.000 Uh, I'm Riley. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Oh, I've tacked news. 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 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:28.080 cost of some RAM kits reportedly jumping up to 250% since the start of November due 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:34.040 to a major crunch in memory chip supply brought on by AI boom-induced panic buying. 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:39.120 But some users on Reddit have seen prices that are even more cuckoo crazy wacko, with 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 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.000 and a half thousand euros in Germany. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:53.160 Germany! With numbers like that floating around, it's no wonder that some retailers have resorted 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:58.800 to not displaying fixed prices for memory, instead dynamically changing RAM prices to 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:02.200 reflect their market value. This is wild. 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? 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.160 Pull into that microsecond or go! I'm driving and telling them to pull in. 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:14.520 Pull in! Unfortunately, this problem doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:19.440 Epic Game CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted about something other than hating Apple and Google to say 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:25.400 that he believes these prices increases will be a real problem for years to come. 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:30.280 Which is probably why some journalists are suggesting that people buy pre-built PCs instead 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.360 of building their own PCs in order to save on components. 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 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:44.800 an earnings call that they're going to raise prices and reduce included memory to combat 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. 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:55.760 Finally, someone might play original Xbox Masterpiece Fusion Frenzy with me. 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.800 I've been waiting for years, playing by myself. 00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:05.200 Honey, the controversial browser extension, is back in the news as a class action lawsuit 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:11.040 brought by content creators against its parent company PayPal was dismissed by a US federal 00:02:11.040 --> 00:02:18.520 judge. Like Refresher, way back in 2024, YouTuber Megaleg published an expose alleging that 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:21.920 Honey was quietly engaging in cookie stuffing. 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:25.880 And we're not talking about the compulsive gorging done by a certain blue puppet with 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 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 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 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.880 other creators in a class action lawsuit over those lost commissions. 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 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.000 the plaintiffs apparently failed to demonstrate that they actually lost any money, relying 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.960 on what Judge Beth Freeman called a hypothetical chain of possibilities. 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:11.600 Which led to unforeseen consequences. 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:15.680 It's a tenuous reference, a tenuous connection at best. 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.620 Although after slamming the door, the judge cracked it open a little bit again by granting 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:24.240 the creators 45 days to edit their argument. 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 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 00:03:35.720 --> 00:03:41.080 enemies to boardroom friends this week after striking a settlement that also includes some 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 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:51.760 accusing Suno of training its AI models on unlicensed recordings. 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 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 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:07.100 from artists who opted into the scheme and use it to generate the heavy metal versions 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. 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:20.720 Warner Music is also selling its concert discovery platform, Songkick, to Suno, giving the AI 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.900 company a real-world foothold in the live event industry. 00:04:24.900 --> 00:04:29.220 In the official announcement, the two companies say that the all-around effects of this agreement 00:04:29.220 --> 00:04:35.020 should allow for a closer experience between artists and fans by embracing the power of 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 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. 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. 00:04:53.740 --> 00:04:58.180 Google appears to have chosen a name for the Android-based desktop operating system that 00:04:58.180 --> 00:05:03.580 will replace Chrome OS. Aluminium OS. 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 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 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 00:05:23.260 --> 00:05:26.260 plans to make Android laptops a thing. 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 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. 00:05:36.220 --> 00:05:43.940 The crucial ingredients to make macaroni and cheese. Oh my god, it's happening! 00:05:43.940 --> 00:05:49.220 Windows 11's latest preview build adds a new app updates page, which will track updates 00:05:49.220 --> 00:05:54.300 to Microsoft Store apps that don't want to update through the Microsoft Store because 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 00:06:00.380 --> 00:06:04.860 itself as a believable full-screen fake Windows update page. 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 00:06:09.860 --> 00:06:14.340 necessary to hit Windows key plus R and paste the code to run it. 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 00:06:17.980 --> 00:06:21.740 a fake Windows update screen, you're probably going to get infected anyway, so at least 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:24.980 they're helping you spend less time getting there. More time to do the dishes. 00:06:24.980 --> 00:06:30.780 The ROG Xbox Ally got a software update that adds default game profiles, which enables 00:06:30.780 --> 00:06:35.340 optimized graphics and power settings for the 40 games supported at launch. 00:06:35.340 --> 00:06:41.860 It gives the alleged Xbox handheld more of a plug-and-play console experience and or 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:46.700 an NVIDIA or AMD GPU running optimized settings experience, something that even the beloved 00:06:46.700 --> 00:06:51.780 Steam Deck still lacks without the addition of third-party plugins or apps. 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 00:06:57.460 --> 00:07:04.700 other Xboxes. The Xbox playing Fusion Frenzy is always my favorite Xbox, Xbox. 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:10.420 Character AI has launched Stories, an interactive fictional storytelling mode built for teens 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:17.180 after they banned anyone under 18 from open-ended chatbot conversations at some point earlier. 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 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 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 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 00:07:45.140 --> 00:07:49.180 crossings because who needs a great wall when you have a robot army? 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 00:07:57.380 --> 00:08:00.580 to patrol factories. That's going to take a lot of bots. 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 00:08:04.020 --> 00:08:07.580 robot Olaf from Frozen, you know, Snowman? 00:08:07.580 --> 00:08:12.940 He walks, talks, and waddles around, looking for his nose, exactly like the adorably naive 00:08:12.940 --> 00:08:18.820 little guy in the movie. I think it would be perfect for winter deployments. 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. 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:31.580 Now I sing for you. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. 00:08:31.580 --> 00:08:37.580 I think this is right. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you. 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:41.580 Kylie's broken again, shut him off. 00:08:41.580 --> 00:08:42.580 Don't!