One way you can know we always keep it real on this show is the fact that I forgot to write an intro for this one
I'm just going off the cuff here. Just telling you straight up. Isn't that endearing?
The YouTube viewpocalypse as some have called it may not be YouTube's fault
Despite some commentators basing entire jokes on that very assumption
I just in their blog post on Monday YouTube mentioned the possibility that updates to ad blockers may have caused some views to stop
being counted and YouTube's own liaison Rene Richie
Reiterated that YouTube didn't change anything and turns out he was right as
Explained on Twitter by youtuber and former expert troll Theo Joe
He's changed his ways on August 11th a URL filter was added to easy list
Specifically it's affiliated easy privacy list which is used by multiple ad blockers to let them know what to block
But this change Appears to have inadvertently blocked YouTube's method of counting views fellow youtuber and extra dad
In case you need one Jeff Gehrling also drew attention to this with a blog post with much additional discussion taking place in this
GitHub thread between him Theo Joe Yuki the volunteer who made the change on August 11th
And who we love and appreciate for their work even if they accidentally kicked all this off and scratchy who did a lot of
Investigating and made a guide for how users can override this change so creators can benefit from registering their views properly
While still protecting their privacy You dropped this King
Can you put a crown there? Yeah. Thank you. Hold on. Wait a second privacy
Yeah You see while any ad block user could go and manually remove the easy privacy filter from their ad blocker settings
They might not want to do that Even if it would mean allowing YouTube to count their views because the main reason many people use ad blockers is to protect their privacy because
Fun fact most ads are also trackers. Isn't that fun? Why not both?
So where does all this leave us? Well another update to easy list has apparently made it so that only third party hit counters will be filtered out
Which should mean YouTube's view tracking should work properly again
So at the end of the day it looks like YouTube wasn't the immediate cause of this change
But that doesn't mean they can't mess up the platform in other ways like announcing that today
They're integrating their vo3 ai video and audio generator directly into shorts because the internet doesn't have nearly enough slop yet
More slop immediately, please
Tell you what we need slop block is what we need. Okay, somebody get on that not me though
Google is launching something that's either terrifying or very useful depending on how much access to your computer
You like to give to third parties It's google's new app for Windows that helps you find what you need faster
Just install it hit alt space kind of like the shortcut on mac for spotlight
And let it sift and search through all of your local files as well as google drive your installed apps and the web
If you're intrigued by the idea of anything that could be even slightly better than Windows search
It's available now, but only in the us
Still somehow i managed to download it from google Labs and yeah, it searches your files
But if you're expecting something better than Windows search
That doesn't have web search involved. I mean
It very much is still involved sometimes it could find specific files when I search for the file name
But other times I just got web results. So I don't know. Maybe it'll get better over time
Windows search sure didn't And I don't know it's just like it's just sad because most people watching the show
They don't have any quick bits when the show starts. So then I'm like, I got it
We should give them we should give them quick bits, right? Because it's just oh it's recording. Oh, you just found a natural moment. Uh mark. Oh, what?
Okay, all right a couple huge vr events are happening this evening
One is the meta connect event, which I think is happening as we're filming this right now
Because of course they scheduled it for 5 p.m. Come back on friday for coverage of that
They probably released some new smart glasses Please ask mark to run the event earlier next time mark zuckerberg not this not mark
I'm sorry. Okay, then there's a bunch of prominent vr content creators who have been heading to seattle
Possibly to get a sneak peek of the new steam frame, but I wouldn't know for sure because Gabe didn't invite me. That's okay
Uh, maybe next time. Uh, sounds like we'll find out more soon. So stay tuned
That was you're like, what was the news there? It was there was no news. That's the problem
Tesla has settled another wrongful death lawsuit due to its autopilot technology
This one comes from 2019 when a 15 year old riding in a truck with his pops was hit by a model 3
Going over 60 miles per hour. That's almost 100 kilometers per hour for the europeans out there
Tesla has of course argued that it's the driver who's at fault here not their trusty autopilot
But they lost a similar case in florida last month. That's going to cost them 243 million dollars
They don't want to lose another 243 million dollars. So now they're settling out of court for an undisclosed amount
Can't win them all
But you could try to settle them. What's the no you can't but AMD just won another battle in the eternal CPU war against its blue rival Intel
See team blue likes to release two generations of cpus per motherboard socket over two or three years while AMD likes to release
At least three generations over nine years. How do they do it?
By releasing a clock down version of the Ryzen five 5600 and calling it the new 5600 f
Is it the best upgrade if you're still on am4? Not really, but people just like options, you know
But sometimes you pick the wrong one SK hynix and their ddr5 dims are in some hot water for remaining vulnerable
To a variant of the rohamer exploit called phoenix, or if you're cultured like me
cve 2025 6202 Okay researchers from eth Zurich and google found a blind spot in the refresh sampling logic
And used one of two patterns to flip bits on 15 different on die ecc memory modules made between 21 and 2024
Hey, that's the same year casios mofflin launched
And i'm telling you that now because it's finally coming to america
It's a fuzzy cuddly cute ai robot thing that is surprisingly
Maybe unsurprisingly selling out in japan. So the tyrell corporation. I mean
Casio decided it was time to spread the love pre-orders are already up for the gold or silver fuzzball and it costs
A lot for a smart companion designed to support reassure and grow with you through life's everyday movements
Who needs that and with two axes of movement operating temperatures of up to 35 degrees celsius and an included mofflin bed
It sounds like i'd be dumb not to buy one on october 1st
And i'd be dumb not to make more tech news for you to watch on friday. So
I guess i will hey see you then and um, thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe. Okay. Bye
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