1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 Welcome to the realm of my people, a land flowing with tech news. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:10,560 Used to flow with milk and honey, but we found out pretty quickly why that wasn't sustainable. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:18,240 Long the smell! The M2 MacBook Air can be upgraded to pretty much match the performance of an M2 MacBook 4 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:24,200 Pro just by including some tiny coolers called AirJets inside the chassis, according to a 5 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,240 number of outlets who all posted about it this morning as if they're in a club I haven't 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:34,720 been invited to. The AirJets are solid state active cooling chips made by a company called ... Fror… 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,300 Froray? I tried my best. What it's worth. 8 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:43,440 Who installed them in a MacBook Air and invited the Verge, PC World, and a small man who also 9 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:51,680 works in our building to check it out. And sure enough, the AirJet equipped M2 MacBook Air performed as well as the M2 MacBook Pro 10 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:57,700 in a longer Cinebench test, where thermal throttling held back the vanilla fanless MacBook 11 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:01,500 Air. was left to slowly cook its own insides 12 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,700 while continuing to try and run the benchmark. I mean, it's inhumane. 13 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:09,300 So, Fror is pleading with Apple and other laptop makers 14 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:12,780 to please buy our air jets and integrate them into laptops 15 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:15,780 so that no MacBook Air or the human thighs 16 00:01:15,780 --> 00:01:18,780 upon which it may rest has to suffer like this. 17 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:22,580 Come on, students aren't allowed to have hot plates in their dorms. It's against regulation. 18 00:01:22,580 --> 00:01:26,540 The inshidification of the web was exemplified this week 19 00:01:26,580 --> 00:01:32,900 when tech bro Jake Ward's Twitter post about pulling off an SEO heist went viral. 20 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:36,860 While many initially thought said heist was a way to stick it to Google's 21 00:01:36,860 --> 00:01:40,780 search engine optimization paradigm, which has been blamed for many of the web's 22 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:43,940 structural problems, Jake was actually sticking it 23 00:01:43,940 --> 00:01:47,660 to his company's competitor and humanity at large. 24 00:01:47,660 --> 00:01:50,860 The heist involved indexing all the URLs 25 00:01:50,860 --> 00:01:56,260 in the sitemap for this competitor company, feeding those into Jake's byword service 26 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,500 to generate article titles and outlines with AI, 27 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:02,580 and then having AI actually write all those articles 28 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:06,500 to be published online. In other words, this guy tweeted instructions 29 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:10,100 on how to actively try to make the internet suck. 30 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:15,660 Just taking a big dump into the well of knowledge. As I said, this process of figuratively kicking 31 00:02:15,660 --> 00:02:20,820 the worldwide web's shins for money is called inshidification as coined by journalist 32 00:02:20,820 --> 00:02:24,180 and possible inventor from the future, Corey Doctorow. 33 00:02:24,180 --> 00:02:28,620 But Google actually has been trying to fix some of the web's SEO problems. 34 00:02:28,620 --> 00:02:33,140 This morning, they released more tools that can help content appear higher in search results 35 00:02:33,140 --> 00:02:36,660 if they're from social media sites or discussion forums, 36 00:02:36,660 --> 00:02:40,460 where the posts are 100% human-generated. 37 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:45,620 The bots are gone, Elon did it. Meanwhile, non-human-generated videos 38 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:50,900 are getting a lot more impressive thanks to new releases this week from Stability AI and Runway. 39 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,180 Stable video diffusion is a new AI video generator 40 00:02:54,180 --> 00:03:00,600 that can create two to four second-long video clips from a single image and do it locally on an NVIDIA GPU. 41 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,340 While similar tools have been available for a while, Stability has released the code and waits for their model, 42 00:03:05,340 --> 00:03:08,420 which is exclusively for research. 43 00:03:08,420 --> 00:03:14,660 If you're more into losing money to make money, AI video company Runway released its motion brush tool, 44 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:19,500 which lets you paint on areas of an image that you would like the AI to wiggle a bit for you. 45 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:23,660 Just by right here, just kind of like blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's art. 46 00:03:23,660 --> 00:03:28,060 Seriously though, the results are pretty impressive, even if AI video is still limited 47 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:32,460 to generating only a few seconds at a time. But if that annoys you, you're in luck. 48 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:38,420 Runway also announced Runway.tv, a 24-7 stream of content 49 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:41,740 made using Runway's generative AI tools. 50 00:03:41,740 --> 00:03:45,180 I dipped in there for about a minute before I was overwhelmed by the mix 51 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:52,140 of perverse fascination and existential dread, but I can say it is definitely content. 52 00:03:52,140 --> 00:03:57,260 Something's happening on that webpage. Quick bits at a time like this? 53 00:03:57,260 --> 00:04:00,780 The perfect time for quick bits? Yes, let's! 54 00:04:00,780 --> 00:04:05,460 At Microsoft's request, cybersecurity firm Blackwing Intelligence, 55 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:09,580 sounds intimidating, tested the biometric authentication in three laptops 56 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:14,380 from Dell, Lenovo, and Microsoft, and found that the embedded fingerprint sensors 57 00:04:14,380 --> 00:04:19,940 could all be bypassed with relative ease. Somewhat ironically, Microsoft's was the easiest, 58 00:04:19,940 --> 00:04:25,420 which is probably not what Microsoft wanted to hear. This is a dastardly smear campaign, 59 00:04:25,420 --> 00:04:29,940 by Microsoft, against Microsoft. Only the Lenovo device offered 60 00:04:29,940 --> 00:04:34,420 encrypted host-to-sensor communication, and while all three technically supported 61 00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:40,180 Microsoft's secure device connection protocol, only the Dell device came with it enabled by default. 62 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:45,460 Look, Microsoft, I don't wanna sound like your mom here, but there's no point in you having a safety helmet 63 00:04:45,460 --> 00:04:49,020 if you're just not gonna wear it, okay? Just, just put, just wear the helmet! 64 00:04:49,020 --> 00:04:53,020 I'm worried sick! Multiple users have taken to Google support forums 65 00:04:53,020 --> 00:04:56,380 to complain about their files disappearing from Google Drive. 66 00:04:56,380 --> 00:05:00,620 Many even complained that their folder structure had reverted back to an earlier state, 67 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:04,380 like a Digimon that had been energy blasted a few too many times. 68 00:05:04,380 --> 00:05:07,420 It's been a long time since I've watched that. I don't know if it's accurate. 69 00:05:07,420 --> 00:05:10,780 A Google employee on the forum said they're investigating the issue, 70 00:05:10,780 --> 00:05:16,400 and warned affected users not to make changes to their Google Drive or the app data folder on their PC 71 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,900 if they use desktop syncing. Hopefully they find out what happened soon, 72 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:23,300 and what happened is that Bard snatched that data up. He's always doing that. 73 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:27,060 He thinks it's a prank. Bard, come on, give it back! 74 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:33,740 That's not, oh, scamp. Police are warning parents about the dangers of name dropping. 75 00:05:33,740 --> 00:05:38,900 This is not to be confused with the phenomenon of aged out frat boys claiming to know famous people 76 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:43,940 to impress strangers. The police are talking about the new on by default iOS feature 77 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:47,960 that allows users to easily share contact info with other iPhone users, 78 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,120 framing this as a threat to children's safety. 79 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,440 The thing is, the phones have to come within a few centimeters for the feature to work, 80 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,840 and it only shares what you put on your contact card, 81 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:01,840 and it will only share if you tap the actual share button 82 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:05,220 while you're doing it. So, you know, maybe the police should worry more 83 00:06:05,220 --> 00:06:09,060 about the shirtless guy with no grasp of personal space claiming he knows Drake. 84 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:12,520 That just seems, he's in the fountain. 85 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:17,640 Can we do something? And a new study is claiming that Zoom fatigue is real 86 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,720 and leads to increased stress, decreased productivity, 87 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,080 and a pervasive sense of disconnection. Scientists measured the brain and heart activity 88 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,960 of participants watching a 50 minute presentation with half watching in person and the other half remotely. 89 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,480 Naturally, to accurately measure stress levels, they recruited subjects 90 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,760 from the calmest population on earth, university students. 91 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,400 Sure, we can all agree torturing undergraduates for science is fun, but wouldn't it have been easier 92 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,680 to simply ask literally anyone who's ever used Zoom 93 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,000 if they actually enjoyed it? Well, the reason we didn't do that 94 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,440 is because we know the answer. But regardless, please remotely come back 95 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,480 for more tech news here on Wednesday. And for science's sake, 96 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:00,960 please write your heart rate in the comments below.