WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Welcome to the realm of my people, a land flowing with tech news. 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. 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 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:24.200 Pro just by including some tiny coolers called AirJets inside the chassis, according to a 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 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… 00:00:34.720 --> 00:00:38.300 Froray? I tried my best. What it's worth. 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 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 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:57.700 in a longer Cinebench test, where thermal throttling held back the vanilla fanless MacBook 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:01.500 Air. was left to slowly cook its own insides 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:05.700 while continuing to try and run the benchmark. I mean, it's inhumane. 00:01:05.700 --> 00:01:09.300 So, Fror is pleading with Apple and other laptop makers 00:01:09.300 --> 00:01:12.780 to please buy our air jets and integrate them into laptops 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:15.780 so that no MacBook Air or the human thighs 00:01:15.780 --> 00:01:18.780 upon which it may rest has to suffer like this. 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. 00:01:22.580 --> 00:01:26.540 The inshidification of the web was exemplified this week 00:01:26.580 --> 00:01:32.900 when tech bro Jake Ward's Twitter post about pulling off an SEO heist went viral. 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:36.860 While many initially thought said heist was a way to stick it to Google's 00:01:36.860 --> 00:01:40.780 search engine optimization paradigm, which has been blamed for many of the web's 00:01:40.780 --> 00:01:43.940 structural problems, Jake was actually sticking it 00:01:43.940 --> 00:01:47.660 to his company's competitor and humanity at large. 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:50.860 The heist involved indexing all the URLs 00:01:50.860 --> 00:01:56.260 in the sitemap for this competitor company, feeding those into Jake's byword service 00:01:56.300 --> 00:01:59.500 to generate article titles and outlines with AI, 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:02.580 and then having AI actually write all those articles 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:06.500 to be published online. In other words, this guy tweeted instructions 00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:10.100 on how to actively try to make the internet suck. 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 00:02:15.660 --> 00:02:20.820 the worldwide web's shins for money is called inshidification as coined by journalist 00:02:20.820 --> 00:02:24.180 and possible inventor from the future, Corey Doctorow. 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:28.620 But Google actually has been trying to fix some of the web's SEO problems. 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:33.140 This morning, they released more tools that can help content appear higher in search results 00:02:33.140 --> 00:02:36.660 if they're from social media sites or discussion forums, 00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:40.460 where the posts are 100% human-generated. 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:45.620 The bots are gone, Elon did it. Meanwhile, non-human-generated videos 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. 00:02:50.900 --> 00:02:54.180 Stable video diffusion is a new AI video generator 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. 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, 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:08.420 which is exclusively for research. 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, 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. 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:23.660 Just by right here, just kind of like blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's art. 00:03:23.660 --> 00:03:28.060 Seriously though, the results are pretty impressive, even if AI video is still limited 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. 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:38.420 Runway also announced Runway.tv, a 24-7 stream of content 00:03:38.420 --> 00:03:41.740 made using Runway's generative AI tools. 00:03:41.740 --> 00:03:45.180 I dipped in there for about a minute before I was overwhelmed by the mix 00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:52.140 of perverse fascination and existential dread, but I can say it is definitely content. 00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:57.260 Something's happening on that webpage. Quick bits at a time like this? 00:03:57.260 --> 00:04:00.780 The perfect time for quick bits? Yes, let's! 00:04:00.780 --> 00:04:05.460 At Microsoft's request, cybersecurity firm Blackwing Intelligence, 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:09.580 sounds intimidating, tested the biometric authentication in three laptops 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:14.380 from Dell, Lenovo, and Microsoft, and found that the embedded fingerprint sensors 00:04:14.380 --> 00:04:19.940 could all be bypassed with relative ease. Somewhat ironically, Microsoft's was the easiest, 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:25.420 which is probably not what Microsoft wanted to hear. This is a dastardly smear campaign, 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:29.940 by Microsoft, against Microsoft. Only the Lenovo device offered 00:04:29.940 --> 00:04:34.420 encrypted host-to-sensor communication, and while all three technically supported 00:04:34.420 --> 00:04:40.180 Microsoft's secure device connection protocol, only the Dell device came with it enabled by default. 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 00:04:45.460 --> 00:04:49.020 if you're just not gonna wear it, okay? Just, just put, just wear the helmet! 00:04:49.020 --> 00:04:53.020 I'm worried sick! Multiple users have taken to Google support forums 00:04:53.020 --> 00:04:56.380 to complain about their files disappearing from Google Drive. 00:04:56.380 --> 00:05:00.620 Many even complained that their folder structure had reverted back to an earlier state, 00:05:00.620 --> 00:05:04.380 like a Digimon that had been energy blasted a few too many times. 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. 00:05:07.420 --> 00:05:10.780 A Google employee on the forum said they're investigating the issue, 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 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:19.900 if they use desktop syncing. Hopefully they find out what happened soon, 00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:23.300 and what happened is that Bard snatched that data up. He's always doing that. 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:27.060 He thinks it's a prank. Bard, come on, give it back! 00:05:27.060 --> 00:05:33.740 That's not, oh, scamp. Police are warning parents about the dangers of name dropping. 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 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:43.940 to impress strangers. The police are talking about the new on by default iOS feature 00:05:43.940 --> 00:05:47.960 that allows users to easily share contact info with other iPhone users, 00:05:47.960 --> 00:05:51.120 framing this as a threat to children's safety. 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, 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:58.840 and it only shares what you put on your contact card, 00:05:58.840 --> 00:06:01.840 and it will only share if you tap the actual share button 00:06:01.840 --> 00:06:05.220 while you're doing it. So, you know, maybe the police should worry more 00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:09.060 about the shirtless guy with no grasp of personal space claiming he knows Drake. 00:06:09.060 --> 00:06:12.520 That just seems, he's in the fountain. 00:06:12.520 --> 00:06:17.640 Can we do something? And a new study is claiming that Zoom fatigue is real 00:06:17.640 --> 00:06:20.720 and leads to increased stress, decreased productivity, 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:26.080 and a pervasive sense of disconnection. Scientists measured the brain and heart activity 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. 00:06:31.960 --> 00:06:35.480 Naturally, to accurately measure stress levels, they recruited subjects 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:39.760 from the calmest population on earth, university students. 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 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:47.680 to simply ask literally anyone who's ever used Zoom 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.000 if they actually enjoyed it? Well, the reason we didn't do that 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.440 is because we know the answer. But regardless, please remotely come back 00:06:54.440 --> 00:06:58.480 for more tech news here on Wednesday. And for science's sake, 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.960 please write your heart rate in the comments below.