1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Oh crap, I didn't wear my Nouraghi today. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Oh, oh no. Now I have to deliver tech news in a shirt? 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Yeah. Oh my god, so embarrassing. That's the worst. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Nouraghi! Nouraghi! 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Ring, the Amazon subsidiary famous for sending its customer security camera recordings to police without asking, 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000 has decided that you need another reason to not buy their products. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Ring announced last week that several previously free features will be pay walled behind a subscription before the end of the month. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Starting March 29th, new users will not be able to use the Ring app to ARM or disarm their security, 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 receive alarm notifications, or customize automations between compatible products, 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,000 meaning things like setting your Ring cameras to record when your Ring alarm is triggered will no longer be possible, 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 without an active Ring Protect subscription. 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Those features used to come included with the camera purchase, 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 but can you really put a price on home security? 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 I tried, it's hard. Maybe you can't, but for Amazon it's no problem. 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 They can do it twice! This sucks for anyone considering buying Ring products, 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,000 but even existing Ring users will still have to pay up or lose access to the home and away modes for Ring cameras, 17 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,000 which means your advanced internet connected security camera will soon be a glorified webcam. 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Start your streaming career. Yeah, stream yourself, to the police. 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 It's like Netflix, but for cops! 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,000 To summarize, the company that gives police warrantless access to security camera video 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:30,000 will make it less intuitive to stop recording on your security cameras if you don't pay a monthly fee. 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Alexa, what's the definition of extortion? 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 What you just said. 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Thanks, Alexa. I'm Alexa. Thanks, Ry, Alexa. 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,000 It's me, Alexa. At least four EV manufacturers have issued recalls in the last month, 26 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 all for distinct, yet very good reasons. 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Rivian recalled 13,000 vehicles for a sensor issue that could stop an airbag from deploying, 28 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:00,000 while Electra Mechanica recalled 428 automobiles because of a defect that could cause the motor to shut down, 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:08,000 and Lordstown recalled 19 of their buggies because of a possible fault that caused drive power loss and could even break the car. 30 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000 That's a bad buggy. Bad to the bone. 31 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 The worst of all is Tesla. 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Almost 3,500 Model Ys need to be recalled because the bolts securing the rear seats and seat belts aren't tight enough. 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,000 I guess the bolt tightening guy, like his wrench ARM was injured that day, and he's just like, ah, good enough. 34 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 You don't want to over tighten. You don't want to bolt it too good. You don't want people to be safe in an accident. 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Then they get entitled. It'll start cutting into the wood. 36 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Sure would. It doesn't stop there for Tesla. 37 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Just last week, shareholders sued the company and Elon Musk for allegedly misrepresenting the efficacy of Tesla's full self-driving or FSD tech. 38 00:02:48,000 --> 00:03:04,000 It might have something to do with the mid-February recall of over 362,000 vehicles because their FSD beta software caused them to be too enthusiastic about going straight through intersections while in a turning lane and other incredibly dangerous behaviors. 39 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:13,000 In lighter news, the Model S and X received yet another price cut yesterday, almost like recent events have affected demand or something, maybe? 40 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 I don't know. Regardless, it's never been cheaper to blame your car for your own reckless driving. 41 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:25,000 The buyer's market. And another swath of upcoming Apple announcements have been teased by none other than the Germanator himself, Mark German. 42 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Allegedly, a new iMac, perhaps powered by an M3 chip, will be coming out around the second half of this year. 43 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Or at least, that's what we determined from German sermon. 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Testify! Amen! The current model was announced in April 2021, so the all-in-one is due for a refresh. 45 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:52,000 He also claimed there is a 15-inch MacBook Air due to come out with an M2 chip and a 13-inch M3-powered Air possibly coming later in the year. 46 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 But do any of you remember the Mac Pro? Apple seems to have forgotten about it since the last one released in 2019. 47 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Although, to be fair to Apple, 2019 is probably the last year I personally was able to track the passage of time. 48 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Mark German mentioned previously the new Pro will be powered by the M2 Ultra, but I'm pretty sure that was discontinued in 1973. 49 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I mean, how would you even give a computer LSD? I guess we'll find out in early spring or summer this year. 50 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 You've got to think really hard about it. People would torture Riley. 51 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 But then they got psychic powers. I mean, maybe in Stranger Things. 52 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Just an FYI, this isn't the Quickbits. 53 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 This is just the intro to them. They come next. 54 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Just know what the Quickbits are. Yeah, like, let's do that. 55 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I know, it's confusing. A bug in NVIDIA's latest G4's driver has reportedly been causing CPU usage to increase by about 10% after exiting games. 56 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 That is one needy roach. 57 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 What's a roach? It's a bug. It needs a lot of juice. 58 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:57,000 It's a thirsty boy. Fortunately, the bug is now known to the GPU makers, so it should be fixed soon. 59 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Although, hopefully they'll first address the bug that causes their newest GPUs to increase spending by 40%. 60 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaking of driver bugs, AMD's Radeon drivers have a rare bug that can brick a PC. 61 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Now, that's a mean roach. What we call that right there. 62 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 That's a really mean roach. That one hates you. 63 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:22,000 AMD has publicly acknowledged the issue and has helped at least one computer journalist through the complicated fix before they finish the permanent one. 64 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 And that's all well and good, but this bug has been around for at least a month? 65 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Yeah, it lives forever. AMD is a history of eventually fixing their cards with software updates, but maybe a bug that takes out a whole computer could be, like, bumped up the list. 66 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 A Rambo bug. It takes out everything. 67 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:49,000 They took first blood, not me. Scammers have started tricking people into sending them money by using AI to emulate the voices of colleagues and loved ones strained on just a few sentences. 68 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 One poor woman was almost scammed by someone posing as her grandson. 69 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Some have loftier ambitions and are tricking businesses by impersonating supervisors and directors. 70 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I can't imagine who would fall for it. 71 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 No, that's not important. No, Riley, it's Linus. He needs your mother's maiden name. 72 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Oh, it's- Twitter appears to have played itself after internal and external links stopped working due to an error. 73 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:23,000 After announcing the restriction of the platform's API, Twitter's links stopped working due to Code467, which hilariously states, 74 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint. 75 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:33,000 It's a 467. More like 469, because they screwed themselves. 76 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Even Twitter has to pay itself for access to the Twitter API. 77 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 I mean, how else are they going to make up for that $3 billion a year loss? 78 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Get some more transactions going. Yeah, get them going. 79 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Who cares about accounting fees? And researchers have used stable diffusion to translate brain waves into images. 80 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 The scientists showed participants images during fMRI scans. 81 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,000 The data from those scans was then decoded into text representations and input into the diffusion model. 82 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 And the results do seem to resemble the presented images. 83 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Now, this isn't exactly at the level of outputting memories from people's brains, 84 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,000 but imagine how much closer we'll be to that when AI is advanced enough to take all of our jobs. 85 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Darn it, we'll be able to look at our memories in a TV. 86 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Remember when we had jobs? Remember jobs? Ah, remember. 87 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 But it can never take away your tech news, so make sure you come back on Wednesday. 88 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 And if you're really good, well, maybe I'll dress up. 89 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Or I won't be hosting one of the two. Wear normal clothes. 90 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 These aren't normal. These are abnormal clothes. I prefer robes. 91 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 You look super weird, right?