1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,440 Who likes tech news? We wear short shorts. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,480 You know what I mean. Chrome and Chromium-based browsers like Edge 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:13,200 are allowing Google's domains access to full system information, including your CPU, GPU, 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,520 and memory usage through a built-in Chrome extension. 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,680 You'd think the worst part is that you can't see or disable this extension, but personally, I 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,480 like that it's been a part of the code for the past decade. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,720 Big thanks to developer Luca Casanato for letting everyone know on Twitter. 8 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,160 We can all give thanks to the great Google machine's monopolistic practices. 9 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:37,240 Google says this is all just to help improve the user experience so they can optimize audio and video 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,360 configurations based on system capabilities and to provide data on crashes or performance issues. 11 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,840 But if that's the case, then surely they'd be open to sharing this data with their competitors, right? 12 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,960 I mean, they'd never do anything to get a leg up over the little guy, like harvesting data 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,320 to improve their own digital meeting software without telling Zoom or other services not 14 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,600 owned by anyone at abc.xyz. That's Alphabet's real URL, BTW. 15 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,920 But hold on to your initialisms, because AT&T has finally 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,240 told the public that there was a massive data breach from May 17 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,360 to October of 2022. Also, there was a smaller breach in January 2020, 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,880 but don't worry about that one. It's a small one, small potatoes. The hack exposed the tech and call records 19 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,560 of just about every cellular and landline customer in that time frame. 20 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,960 Thankfully, it doesn't include timestamps, durations, or any of the contents of the texts or calls. 21 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,320 Oh, good. I was worried for a minute that everyone 22 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:34,560 would be able to see how desperate my texts look at 1 AM on Friday night. Taco Bell didn't even reply. 23 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,760 Now AT&T found out about the breach back in April. 24 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:43,760 But after disclosing it to the Justice Department, the company was told to delay this information not once, 25 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,080 but twice. The data was stored on servers owned by cloud data company 26 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,360 Snowflake, whose incredible cybersecurity prowess 27 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,760 is also responsible for the Ticketmaster hack. Good job, guys. 28 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,600 But Snowflake isn't really the bad guy, according to Snowflake. 29 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,960 They say the blame is on its customers for not using multi-factor authentication 30 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,080 to secure their accounts. But don't worry, AT&T says the data 31 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,080 isn't publicly available yet. It's just in the hands of some hackers 32 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,360 who are allegedly financially motivated. 33 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,360 Nothing to worry about there. Easy breezy. Just like how NVIDIA is financially motivated 34 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,680 to make the RTX 5090 as expensive as possible. 35 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:29,760 The rumor mill is talking about 28 gigabytes of GDR7 memory, a ton of CUDA cores, 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,160 and a whopping 2.9 gigahertz base clock. 37 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,040 All of this while getting smaller, allegedly housing this horsepower 38 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:42,160 on a two-slot dual fan card. Most people can fit that in their machines. 39 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,280 What a concept. What ways to make money will they think of next? 40 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,560 Selling A6000s to power the Las Vegas sphere? 41 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:55,440 Oh, wait. That's exactly what they did. With 150 of the cards being used to pump out 42 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:00,720 three layers of 16K resolution content at 60 frames per second at a real thing 43 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,240 that real people spent real money on. It's Vegas, baby. 44 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:10,680 What do you think's reason comes into the equation? They specialize in five-second weddings. 45 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,520 For the record, that's nearly $700,000 worth of GPUs 46 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:19,920 with 1.6 million CUDA cores and 7,200 gigabytes of total VRAM. 47 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:23,320 From AI to gaming rigs to giant video spheres. 48 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,680 Is there anything Team Green can't do? Quick bits. 49 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,360 Quick bits. Get over here. Where'd you get off to? 50 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,080 Go on back. Many old-school Apple fans have fond memories 51 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,880 of the unofficial Apple wed block, which was shuttered by AOL nearly a decade ago 52 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:44,160 in a grotesque development. It seems that the old domain has been acquired 53 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:49,520 and revived through unholy necromancy and the site is now pumping out AI plagiarized news articles 54 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,200 and stolen graphics under the bylines of its former staff. 55 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:59,640 Ooh. It's alive and it's copying literally everyone else. 56 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,640 Bizarrely, the website's new owner didn't buy any of the old content 57 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,320 but claims its staff has meticulously rewritten 58 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,160 the site's archived content, despite its writing staff apparently consisting 59 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,680 of a bunch of stolen names and AI-generated profile pictures. 60 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,400 Sounds like my girlfriend. She lives in another country, never met her once in my life, 61 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,160 but she asked me beautiful questions, like what's your social insurance number? 62 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,000 What's your mother's maiden name? If you've ever dreamed of hopping in your sky car 63 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,800 and flying off to work, the future might be closer than you think. 64 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,000 A few companies like Archer, Joby, and Volocopter 65 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,040 are all vying to be the first to offer EV tolls 66 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:40,120 or electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts as short-range air taxis for some major airlines 67 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,520 as an alternative to driving those pesky medium distance trips. 68 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:49,960 We could see them faring about the wealthy as early as the Paris Olympics later this month. 69 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,640 I can't wait to take a rich guy's tossed soda cup to the dome from a few hundred feet in the air, 70 00:04:54,640 --> 00:05:00,880 at least it'll be smaller, because it's France. They don't let you have the jumbo sizes. US sales of the Apple Vision Pro are basically dead. 71 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,400 Market analysis firm IDC says the headset hasn't sold 100,000 units in a quarter 72 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,920 since its February launch and it faces a 75% drop in domestic sales 73 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,040 at this current quarter. The IDC also reports a 67.4 drop 74 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,520 in VR slash AR headsets across the board, which mostly affects VR. 75 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,840 The firm actually predicts bigger acceptance for mixed reality headsets moving forward, 76 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:26,440 which makes it a great time for the Vision Pro to launch in Canada, 77 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,960 starting at just 5,000 Canadian dollars. 78 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,840 An FTC study into the use of manipulative design techniques 79 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:41,320 used to trick consumers has determined that a majority of the over 600 websites studied 80 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,640 used one or more of these so-called dark patterns. But the release of this kind of report 81 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:51,040 likely means the FTC is actually planning to do something about the fact that Jeff Bezos personally signed your grandma 82 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,240 for 12 separate auto renewing subscriptions for flea medication for a cat she doesn't have. 83 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,840 Whiskers, whiskers. 84 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:03,520 That's your grandma calling for a cat she doesn't have. And scientists have built a spacesuit 85 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,800 to recycle astronaut pee, inspired by the still suits from Dune. 86 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,840 This is why science is the best. You don't see an art student doing this. 87 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:14,960 While the International Space Station already has a recycling system, 88 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,120 that solution misses out on all the liquid gold expended during spacewalks, 89 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,000 which lasts six hours on average. That's a lot of pee-pee time. 90 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,760 And spacewalk times will only get longer during NASA's upcoming Artemis II and III missions. 91 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,600 The new system is, worn as a backpack, filters the urine into 99% pure water 92 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:38,360 and then adds electrolytes via a flavored powder and pumps it into an in-suit drink bag for easy sipping. 93 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,360 Maybe pissing a Gatorade? Hell yeah, they did. Ha ha ha! 94 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,720 My son's an astronaut. He makes his own Gatorade. 95 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,440 But it's still not as easy as getting your next taste of tech news. 96 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,000 Just come back here on Monday. And don't pee yourself. 97 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,320 Maybe use a toilet.