WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.060 Welcome aboard Technic Flight 330 with non-stop service 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:06.820 from the chip shortage to whatever insane new robot is doing martial arts. 00:00:06.820 --> 00:00:12.580 Fasten your seatbelts, stow your hot takes, and prepare for a rapid descent into tech news. 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:15.940 Love you. Microsoft has confirmed major improvements 00:00:15.940 --> 00:00:21.340 are coming to Windows 11's search after years of complaints and anguish, 00:00:21.340 --> 00:00:25.100 gnashing of teeth. Search wasn't explicitly part of Microsoft's 00:00:25.100 --> 00:00:30.220 recent Windows 11 overhaul announcement, but after users took to Twitter to point out 00:00:30.220 --> 00:00:34.980 how broken and cluttered it still is, referencing the meme of how searching terminal 00:00:34.980 --> 00:00:42.300 is a crapshoot between finding the actual terminal and the critically reviled 2018 neo-noir thriller terminal, 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:47.620 which you have on your PC for some reason, or you don't and Edge thinks that's what you want. 00:00:47.620 --> 00:00:53.920 Windows shell product head, Tali Roth, confirmed that search fixes are also in the works. 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:59.580 She said, a lot of improvements are coming with the goal of making search simpler and less distracting, 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:02.780 including making installed apps appear instantly. 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:06.620 Can you keep in core system tools always discoverable 00:01:06.620 --> 00:01:10.060 and ranking local files higher than web suggestions? 00:01:10.060 --> 00:01:15.060 Truly revolutionary. Microsoft also says that they're going to plague 00:01:15.060 --> 00:01:18.860 their own OS with progressive web apps less 00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:23.740 and move more towards building more 100% native Windows 11 apps. 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:29.260 Rudy Hoyn, a partner architect at Microsoft, announced he's hiring for the team that's going to do this 00:01:29.260 --> 00:01:32.860 and confirmed the apps will be 100% native 00:01:32.860 --> 00:01:37.140 since even flagship tools like Clipchamp are currently web apps. 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:40.300 Don't even get me started on teams. This all sounds great, 00:01:40.300 --> 00:01:44.480 but Microsoft might wanna figure out how to ship a working update first 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:49.460 because their last update yet again had to be pulled after it somehow shipped 00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:53.820 without all of its files. Real dog ate my homework energy 00:01:53.820 --> 00:01:57.860 happening over there at Windows. It was right here. 00:01:57.860 --> 00:02:00.900 The White House launched an app last Friday, 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:04.020 sparking a massive viral panic over the weekend. 00:02:04.020 --> 00:02:07.540 The controversy was triggered when a researcher decompiled the code 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:12.300 and put out a blog post reporting that there was a third-party GPS tracking pipeline 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:16.700 baked into the app, configured to pull your location every four and a half minutes, 00:02:16.700 --> 00:02:21.300 which wouldn't seem that weird for an app that asks location permission, 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:26.380 but why does the White House app need that? Initial reports took the findings at face value 00:02:26.380 --> 00:02:30.300 with headlines claiming the app was actively tracking users exact locations 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:33.700 and sinking them to a third-party server, but follow-up analysis 00:02:33.700 --> 00:02:37.860 by multiple independent developers confirmed the GPS code is dormant 00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:41.280 and was never actually invoked, summoned, if you will. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:44.420 The app was positioned in a White House blog post 00:02:44.420 --> 00:02:48.780 as a direct line to the administration, delivering unparalleled access 00:02:48.780 --> 00:02:55.100 to Trump administration live streams, press releases, his private discord, I don't know. 00:02:55.100 --> 00:02:59.700 It's mostly just kind of an unnecessary portal that opens external websites. 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:04.180 Android Authority described the social tab as buggy with constant stuttering, 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:07.600 and it includes a button to text President Trump 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:11.620 that auto-populates the chat with greatest president ever 00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:16.380 before trying to sign you up for a marketing blast, in case you weren't sure what was going on here. 00:03:16.380 --> 00:03:20.780 White House communications director Steven Chung encouraged users to download it, 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:24.820 saying users would find some little Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the app. 00:03:24.820 --> 00:03:29.500 If you find them all, you'll get to pre-order a framed picture of the Trump phone, 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:33.760 because that's all it's gonna be is a picture. Swift, Apple's coding language, 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:36.980 can now officially be used to build Android apps, 00:03:36.980 --> 00:03:43.600 which is actually kind of a bigger deal than you might think. The Swift 6.3 update includes the first stable version 00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:48.200 of a toolkit that lets developers write Android apps using the same language they've been using 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:52.860 to make iPhone apps for over a decade. This update was actually part of a community effort. 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:55.920 A dedicated Android work group spent about a year 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:00.880 getting it from an early preview to an official release. Now, this doesn't mean Android is suddenly 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:04.420 running on Apple code or anything. Android apps are still mostly built 00:04:04.420 --> 00:04:07.760 in Google's preferred languages, Kotlin and Java. 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:10.840 But Swift now includes built-in translator tools 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:14.440 that let devs drop chunks of their existing iPhone app code 00:04:14.460 --> 00:04:17.980 into an Android project without rewriting everything from scratch. 00:04:17.980 --> 00:04:21.580 Gandalf voice. Welcome, iPhone developers. 00:04:21.580 --> 00:04:27.420 Let me tell you of a language that was in use before you even learned to touch type. 00:04:27.420 --> 00:04:32.100 The toolkit is mostly useful for sharing the backend logic between platforms. 00:04:32.100 --> 00:04:36.540 So if you're a developer who already built something for iPhone and wants it on Android 2, 00:04:36.540 --> 00:04:41.300 this update just saved you a lot of busy work. I'm pretty sure the Quickbits have climbed out 00:04:41.300 --> 00:04:46.600 under the wing and are ripping pieces off the plank and someone please tell the pilot we're gonna go down. 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.920 Ah! GitHub co-pilot got caught sneaking ads 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:55.360 into developers' code submissions because apparently they thought that was helpful. 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.680 Writing code? Hmm, do you need a vacuum? 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:03.400 Microsoft's favorite slop child was quietly inserting promotional tips, 00:05:03.400 --> 00:05:07.000 including plugs for a third-party app called Raycast 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:13.120 into pull request descriptions and over 11,000 were found with the exact same ad copy. 00:05:13.140 --> 00:05:19.180 GitHub's VP of DevRelations confirmed the behavior and said they've disabled it, calling it, quote, icky. 00:05:19.180 --> 00:05:22.340 You know, things are bad when your own platform gives you the ick. 00:05:22.340 --> 00:05:25.740 Sony, the company that literally invented the memory stick, 00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:29.660 just stopped accepting orders for the majority of its lineup of SD 00:05:29.660 --> 00:05:34.500 and CF Express memory cards in Japan, making them the global memory shortages 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:37.660 most ironic victim. They get a trophy, I think. 00:05:37.660 --> 00:05:42.900 The suspension covers everything from high-end, tough branded cards down to basic models 00:05:42.900 --> 00:05:47.120 with no timeline for when they'll come back. Data centers are eating up so much memory 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:51.520 that even the little cards photographers sticking their cameras are getting squeezed out. 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:55.280 Sony's only comment was, we'll monitor the situation, 00:05:55.280 --> 00:05:58.320 which is Corpo speak for. We have no idea what's going on. 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:00.480 Please help. What are we supposed to do? 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:07.920 Break into their office and be like, hey, it's okay. It'll be fine. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:12.240 Anime Play, one of the biggest, less than legal anime streaming apps 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:15.900 in the Asia Pacific region just got completely dismantled 00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:20.460 by the Anti-Piracy Coalition, otherwise known as ACE. 00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:24.860 The app had over five million users and was being run by a single guy 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:29.920 out of Indonesia since 2020. When ACE tracked him down, he surrendered everything. 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.220 Source code, servers, databases, basically his entire operation. 00:06:33.220 --> 00:06:36.340 ACE also seized 15 associated domains. 00:06:36.340 --> 00:06:42.240 So this is really more of a full scorched earth, take no prisoners, take down against the service. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:47.560 And in one fell swoop, the pirate weebs quest for the one piece 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:52.640 suffered a major setback. I've never seen the show. Tell me if that's a valid reference. 00:06:52.640 --> 00:06:56.640 And researchers in South Korea have developed a wireless communication system 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:00.040 that works 100 meters underground 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.280 using magnetic fields instead of radio waves 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:06.640 to punch through solid rock. Okay. 00:07:06.640 --> 00:07:11.100 We tested it in a limestone mine environment that's known for completely blocking 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:15.620 traditional wireless signals and it worked well enough for voice communication. 00:07:15.620 --> 00:07:20.380 The goal of the project is to improve the technology for rescue operations and mine safety, 00:07:20.380 --> 00:07:24.660 but they're already reportedly looking at shrinking it down for smartphones. 00:07:24.660 --> 00:07:28.100 Finally, we'll have better internet for the mole people. 00:07:29.140 --> 00:07:31.260 They've been asking us, hey, 00:07:32.620 --> 00:07:37.840 Wi-Fi sucks. Sorry. And those same mole people will use their better internet 00:07:37.840 --> 00:07:42.280 to track you, oh, if you don't come back on Wednesday for more tech news, 00:07:42.280 --> 00:07:47.160 somehow that's related. Well, oh, we've reached our destination. 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.440 Please collect your opinions from the overhead bin and exit in an orderly fashion. 00:07:51.440 --> 00:07:54.040 What, we don't want them to comment the opinions?