WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.680 Sorry, no stupid intro, not that kind of day. Nintendo has been issued a challenge 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:10.520 by Brazil's official consumer protection agency over the company's recently changed user agreement, 00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:15.240 which now gives Nintendo the right to remotely brick your console if you muck around with it 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.400 in a way Nintendo doesn't like. The Brazilian watchdog wants Nintendo 00:00:19.400 --> 00:00:24.960 to remove the relevant clause from their agreement, citing legal reasons, like not violating 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:29.200 consumers' rights to access services they've paid for. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:34.520 But I just hope they know who they're dealing with here. As far as I know, every Nintendo employee 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:38.920 has been to law school. But this whole Nintendo-bricking-consoles thing 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:43.640 took on a new dimension this week when a redditor going by bimmy-tongue 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.200 said they bought an open box Switch 2 from Walmart 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:52.240 only to discover it was apparently pre-owned by a hooligan who got the console 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.960 struck by Nintendo's online services ban, probably because they were trying to use it 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.040 to hack an orphanage or something. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:04.000 Suddenly, it's hitting a lot of people, presumably, or maybe just me, 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.400 that the second-hand Switch market is about to become a bit of a minefield. 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.880 I mean, sure, people and retailers can learn to verify that the console isn't banned 00:01:13.880 --> 00:01:18.400 before buying or selling, but now that's a thing we have to do 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.480 because Nintendo decided that there wasn't enough e-waste in the world. 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:27.800 Meanwhile, over in Japan, there are numerous reports of Switch 2 consoles overheating, 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:33.200 usually while playing Cyberpunk in docked mode, even with the dock fans going full blast. 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.040 Although there have also been English-language Reddit posts about the Switch 2 getting hot while running, 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.440 so Nintendo fans might just be learning about how consoles get hot sometimes 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:47.080 once they can render big-boy games. Microsoft has announced another round of layoffs 00:01:47.080 --> 00:01:52.360 with around 9,000 employees, or about 4% of the company's entire workforce, 00:01:52.360 --> 00:01:56.800 getting chopped. A couple hundred of those cut jobs are coming from Xbox, 00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:02.960 despite gaming chief Phil Spencer saying the Xbox platform hardware and game roadmap 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:07.560 have never looked stronger. Xbox is the mediest it's ever been, 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.720 so it's a perfect time to slice a nice big sirloin off 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:15.440 right out of there and gobble it up raw. As part of the layoff, 00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:20.680 some Xbox projects are being canceled, including the Perfect Dark reboot, 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:25.240 developed by The Initiative, which is also being closed down, the studio, 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.280 and Everwild, the game announced in 2019 from Rare 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.520 that looked like it was just about chilling and doing magic with mystical beasts. 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.520 Well, if they didn't want to get canceled, they should have made the game about lines 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:43.560 and making them go up, lesson learned. OpenAI is still trying to fight a court order 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:47.120 in the New York Times lawsuit, forcing them to retain and provide 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:50.160 the chat GPT logs of all users, 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:55.440 something the company says they don't want to do because they care so, so much about user privacy. 00:02:55.440 --> 00:02:59.960 You guys don't even know how much we care about user privacy. It's a big deal. 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:03.680 To be clear, privacy obviously is an issue with the order, 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:08.480 but though OpenAI doesn't say it, the logs could also reveal more evidence 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:11.600 of copyright infringement or hallucinated nonsense 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:15.360 improperly attributed to a source that didn't even say that. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:20.720 But also the logs could provide ammunition to potential plaintiffs looking to take the advice 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:24.960 of the judge who recently ruled that meta and anthropic training their AI 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.320 on copyrighted materials was fair use, 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:32.640 but only because the plaintiffs in that case made the wrong arguments. 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:34.840 They should have worked at Nintendo first 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:40.780 and gone to law school, that was dumb. The judge said other authors or news organizations 00:03:40.780 --> 00:03:44.040 could make a stronger case against meta or OpenAI 00:03:44.040 --> 00:03:47.200 by focusing on how the use of llama or chat GPT 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:50.840 has affected the market for books or news content. 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:56.480 Or if you don't wanna go the legal route, you could use Cloudflare's new pay per crawl feature, 00:03:56.480 --> 00:03:59.720 which will let content creators charge AI companies 00:03:59.720 --> 00:04:02.760 to set their web crawlers loose on the creators content. 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:05.880 After all, as NYT columnist Kevin Ruse said 00:04:05.880 --> 00:04:09.040 in response to Sam Altman lamenting the violation 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:13.300 of user privacy, it must be really hard when someone does something with your data 00:04:13.300 --> 00:04:16.440 you don't want them to. Okay, I had a whole introduction 00:04:16.440 --> 00:04:21.040 for the quick bits typed out, but my dog just ate it, I swear. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:26.900 AMD has dropped new GPU drivers that boost the RX 9070 XT's gaming performance 00:04:26.900 --> 00:04:30.840 by up to 27%, according to extensive testing 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:34.840 by hardware unboxed. The 9070 XT performed slightly worse 00:04:34.840 --> 00:04:41.160 than the RTX 5070 Ti when it launched, but now performs 3% better on average. 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.920 Meanwhile, people are just trying to find out if the RTX 5050 is even launched or not. 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:51.760 In a blog post published yesterday, NVIDIA said it was coming in the second half of July, 00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:56.760 but GPU partner, Inno3D, said their 5050s are on shelf now. 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.600 And if you're getting deja vu, it's because this is the third eight Gigabyte card 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.300 from NVIDIA this generation without any launch day reviews. 00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:08.520 I don't know, maybe they're just sparing reviewers from feeling dumb for staying up all night reviewing a card 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:12.480 no one's gonna buy. Speaking of no one, nothing has fully unveiled 00:05:12.520 --> 00:05:17.440 what it calls its first true flagship phone, the Phone 3, 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:22.080 which will actually properly launch in the US for 800 bucks on July 15th 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:27.800 with four 50 megapixel cameras and a fun little Glyph display on the back. 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:32.760 It's fun because it's like a normal display, but worse, that's rude. 00:05:32.760 --> 00:05:36.040 It's fun. Like nothing's first over ear headphones, 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.720 the headphone one, which has buttons. 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.080 And will also launch on July 15th for 300 bucks. 00:05:43.080 --> 00:05:49.800 But will you want the nothing some things or the Honor Magic V5, the thinnest foldable ever 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:55.880 with a noticeable crease in the display and also it's only available in China, hard choice. 00:05:55.880 --> 00:05:59.600 Theater chain AMC will now advise you ahead of time 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:05.440 that you'll have to sit through about 25 to 30 minutes of ads before your movie starts. 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:09.900 I mean, okay, some of those are trailers. That's not fair. The change comes after AMC announced, 00:06:09.900 --> 00:06:14.700 they'll be following their competitors in showing more ads before films start, 00:06:14.700 --> 00:06:18.180 but at least they're letting you know so you don't pay the same as a month of Netflix 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:21.260 to trek to the theater to sit through a TV show episodes 00:06:21.260 --> 00:06:24.420 worth of slot before you can see your movie. It's nice. 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:26.980 And musical artist Lord with an E, 00:06:28.700 --> 00:06:33.340 her new album Virgin was released last week with a number of physical variants, 00:06:33.340 --> 00:06:36.700 including a fully transparent CD, 00:06:36.700 --> 00:06:40.100 which many fans discovered is not actually playable 00:06:40.100 --> 00:06:43.020 in many CD players with the main problem being 00:06:43.900 --> 00:06:50.540 because of how CDs work. See, the CD is read by a laser, which is light, 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:53.680 which goes through transparent things. 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.780 Anyway, this Redditor got it to work in a CD player with a tray. 00:06:57.780 --> 00:07:03.180 So I don't know, look for one of those maybe. Lord posted some fun facts about the album on Twitter, 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:09.620 which I'm sure is great, but none of them say anything about whether the clear CD idea was tested beforehand. 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:14.140 Like this seems like designing a cup with a hole in the bottom and then never pouring something in there 00:07:14.140 --> 00:07:17.220 before you sell it to me. I mean, hey, maybe it's a prank. 00:07:17.220 --> 00:07:21.860 It's art. Look, don't prank me. Just come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:07:21.860 --> 00:07:25.620 Okay, let's keep this straightforward. No funny business.