WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.220 Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so I've prepared some sweet and sultry tech news that is guaranteed to light a fire in the bedroom. 00:00:08.220 --> 00:00:15.060 But be careful, these stories are hot, and I am legally not responsible if your house burns down. 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:24.420 Adobe has reversed its decision to discontinue Adobe Animate after enduring nearly 24 hours of spirited user feedback. 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:27.720 You could say fans got a little... animated, I'm sorry. 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:35.220 On Monday, the company emailed users to let them know the 30-year-old animation software would be killed off on March 1st, 00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:44.020 triggering a backlash so big that Adobe Creative Cloud's senior director Mike Chambers took to Reddit to apologize for the confusion and angst, 00:00:44.020 --> 00:00:47.320 and to announce the app would instead enter maintenance mode. 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:53.700 For context, Animate evolved from Macromedia Flash, the software that powered early internet animation, 00:00:53.700 --> 00:01:02.700 traumatized an entire generation with Newgrounds content, and got me suspended for watching Saliv Fingers on eBombs World during grade 9 computer class. 00:01:02.700 --> 00:01:06.080 How was I supposed to know my headphones weren't plugged in? 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:11.580 I was not... er, no, I wasn't 9. I was whatever age you are! 00:01:11.580 --> 00:01:21.820 Animate is still used to create very popular shows like Smiling Friends and Teen Titans Go, so creators losing it over the shutdown news is understandable. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.840 YouTuber Tom Scott called it truly vile and an industry-killing move. 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:33.020 The team behind web series Chicken Nugget warned that it would harm countless jobs and create lost media, 00:01:33.020 --> 00:01:38.240 and one animation student tweeted that their $35,000 degree was now for nothing. 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:41.640 That may have been the case before, but now definitely, even more so. 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:50.140 Adobe's original explanation cited new platforms that better serve users, which, reading between the lines, means AI. 00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:57.700 The company's been pushing Firefly hard, while Animate didn't even get a 2025 release, or a mention at Adobe Max. 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:03.100 Now, the app will be kept alive with security updates, but no new features. 00:02:03.100 --> 00:02:14.760 It's basically the software equivalent of shoving your grandpa into an assisted living facility, despite him still being able to take care of himself just fine, and being very popular with animators. 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:27.320 Intel CEO Lip Boutin has signaled a decisive shift in the company's GPU strategy, and would ideally like to men in black neuralize your brain regarding their graphics division. 00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:35.080 Central to this renewed commitment is the hiring of new chief architect Eric Demers, an engineering veteran who spent 14 years at Qualcomm, 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:44.200 served as CTO of AMD's graphics division, and most notably, designed legendary architectures like the Radeon R300 and R600 series. 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:59.620 This move signals a serious push into competitive GPUs for both AI and consumer markets, but if you thought that meant good news for a potential launch of the higher-end Arc B770 gaming GPU, I think you forgot about AI. 00:02:59.620 --> 00:03:03.240 Remember how AI is more important than everything? Yeah. 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:16.320 It looks like the Arc B770 has been permanently shelved, although the card's battle-mage G31 GPU chip could still arrive in the workstation-focused and more expensive Arc Pro B70 in the fall. 00:03:16.320 --> 00:03:23.640 Hey, here's a fun idea for a drinking game. Take a shot every time a tech company pivots to high-margin AI contracts over its consumer base. 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:29.920 Intel is also holding laptop makers to high standards for the upcoming Panther Lake CPUs. 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:41.360 If OEMs don't use memory rated for at least 7,467 megatranspers per second, Intel will legally strip the Arc branding from the integrated graphics. 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:49.440 Instead, the system will label the GPU as generic Intel graphics, which is the PC equivalent of a participation trophy that just says, 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:52.960 Participant. Doesn't even say congratulations. 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:59.760 Moltbook, the AI-only social network that I think we're all just about tired of hearing about. 00:03:59.760 --> 00:04:06.240 Almost, though, it has some massive vulnerabilities, according to an analysis by security firm Wiz. 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:18.160 An exposed database could have given malicious actors full read and write access to the entire platform, including 1.5 million API keys and 35,000 email addresses. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:28.280 Moltbook's founder said he vibe-coded the whole site, bragging that he didn't write a single line of code. Weird flex. And not okay. 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:38.520 Wiz's analysis also showed that Moltbook's 1.5 million agents were controlled by just 17,000 humans, an 88 to 1 ratio. 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:43.320 Introducing to the internet a new reverse bot-based catfishing grift. 00:04:43.320 --> 00:04:46.720 That's somehow weirder than all the kinds of catfishing we already had. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:05:00.880 Many viral posts about AI consciousness and secret robot languages were human-directed, including two high-profile posts about AI secret communication that traced back to people marketing AI messaging apps. 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:13.560 One of OpenAI's co-founders, Andre Carpathi, who initially called it genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I've ever seen recently, walked back his remarks, admitting it was a lot of garbage. 00:05:13.640 --> 00:05:28.280 But we're just starting the climb up Garbage Mountain. Another vibe-coder launched Rentahuman.ai, a service that lets AI agents hire actual humans for real-world tasks at 50 to 175 dollars an hour. 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:36.200 There was an initial influx of users, which skidded to a halt at about 1,000 signups because the vibe-coded site couldn't handle the load. 00:05:36.200 --> 00:05:48.680 This didn't deter the ingenuity of the new site's users, some of whom immediately launched a fake crypto coin, claiming to be tied to the project, and others who instructed their AI agents to hire a human to hold a sign, reading, 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:57.320 An AI paid me to hold this sign. And humanity's in trippid pursuit of progress marches ever onward. 00:05:57.320 --> 00:06:02.440 Towards our sponsor. Oh, it's a Valentine's Day card from the QuickBits. 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.560 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:16.680 Remember when Microsoft recently implied they'd try to make Co-Pilot into a polite, non-intrusive assistant? 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:21.200 Well, they lied, shocked Pikachu reaction.jpg. 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:32.280 The new Windows 1126H2 update is testing a feature that shoves Co-Pilot directly into file explorer, giving the AI a front-row seat tier, totally not torrented movie collection. 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:37.240 Sure, the update brings some much-needed stability fixes, but users are finding it hard to celebrate 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:41.480 when your OS is jamming AI in your own personal folders. 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:45.000 Hey, whatcha got in here? Ah! 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:53.080 Knock? French police rated Twitter, aka Xs, Paris offices as part of a criminal probe into grok-generated 00:06:53.080 --> 00:06:58.920 sexual deepfakes, alleged distribution of CSAM, and Holocaust denial content. 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:06.080 Yeesh. The investigation has been running since January 2025 and expanded to include grok in July. 00:07:06.080 --> 00:07:11.080 It's around the time the chapa was trying on the nickname Mechahiller, just to see how 00:07:11.080 --> 00:07:18.120 it feel. Musk and former CEO Linda Jacorino have both been summoned to testify in April. 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:23.160 Xs' global affairs account called the raid politically motivated, which seems like a 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:27.280 real own goal given the kind of thing that's being investigated here. 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:34.640 You're for this? Meanwhile, Spain announced plans to join Australia in banning social media for kids under 16. 00:07:34.640 --> 00:07:38.720 Prompting Musk, still somehow, the richest man in the world, we haven't done anything 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:43.800 about this somehow, to respond with a hilarious tweet giving Spanish Prime Minister Pedro 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.800 Sanchez the nickname Dirty Sanchez. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:54.760 Well, there are worse nicknames. Ryzen CPUs are still being fried on ASRock motherboards, even on systems equipped with 00:07:54.840 --> 00:08:03.600 BIOSes that were supposed to fix the issue. Reports from Reddit indicate a combined 10 recent Ryzen 9000 series CPU deaths on ASRock 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:12.680 and ASUS 800 series motherboards. ASUS has launched an immediate internal review following the tragic deaths of 5 Ryzen 7 9800 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:18.200 X3D chips, but the failures echo previous AM5 burnout scandals, likely linked to badly 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:21.960 tuned firmware pushing certain voltages beyond safe levels. 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:27.280 Builders should prioritize BIOS updates or delay builds until stability is confirmed. 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:34.280 I see you shiver with anticipation, but sadly that shiver is just your voltage regulation 00:08:34.280 --> 00:08:39.280 failing, causing a rocky and ASUS horror hardware show. 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:48.280 I don't know. AMD is finally listening to Intel? 00:08:49.280 --> 00:08:55.560 The upcoming Zen 6 architecture is ditching the ancient IDT framework for Intel's flexible 00:08:55.560 --> 00:08:58.920 return and event delivery, or FRED. 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:03.240 It's a modern standard for handling system interrupts the constant signals from hardware 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.880 that tell the CPU to switch tasks, and also just a friendly guy that wants to help. 00:09:07.880 --> 00:09:15.160 Won't you let FRED give you a hand? The move replaces old and clunky protocols with a streamlined architecture, making communication 00:09:15.160 --> 00:09:18.840 between hardware and software significantly more efficient. 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:24.440 Even Linux creator and tech company Disliker Linus Torvalds praised the standard, saying 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:29.840 it deletes the legacy-induced crap holding x86 back, although he still found a way to 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:37.200 sound cranky saying it. And GitHub has been flooded by vibe-coded slop submissions to open-source projects, and 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:42.800 is now considering giving open-source maintainers the option to disable pull requests entirely 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:50.480 to stem the tide. Tech manager Camila Moreas opened a community discussion calling it a critical issue. 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.280 One maintainer described AI submissions as plausible nonsense. 00:09:54.280 --> 00:09:59.360 He only caught after spending significant time reviewing them, and evidently, only one 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:04.760 out of ten AI-generated pull requests actually meet the standards required to submit code. 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:09.360 But are the maintainers considering the value of the code's vibes? 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.400 Like some of that code could feel really cool. 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.600 Oh man, it will feel even cooler though if you come back on Friday if your house is 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.600 still standing after all that hot tech news that is. 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:25.920 And if you burn down your house, you cannot sue me. I warned you. 00:10:25.920 --> 00:10:26.440 Go back!