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Hey, the the tech news is coming up soon and I and I thought you know if you're

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not going to get it from anyone else maybe I could present it to you I I'm

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sorry I'm being so stupid I just have you but you wouldn't unless Microsoft

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suffered a global outage yesterday affecting access to many Microsoft 365

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services according to the BBC even access to Minecraft was affected and

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Xbox live actually unfortunately Microsoft stated during the outage that

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teams was not affected so close meaning that app continues to barely function by

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design the company also determined that the outage was due to a DDoS attack on

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its Azure cloud platform the attack then activated DDoS protection

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mechanisms which due to an error in implementation made the attack worse

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great job Microsoft what is going on over there this incident comes less than

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two weeks after global infrastructure was knocked out by a faulty software

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update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike many businesses are still

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dealing with the fallout from that outage the CEO of US based Delta

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Airlines may be seeking damages of 500 million dollars from CrowdStrike and

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Microsoft after being forced to ground thousands of flights and reimburse

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affected passengers for food and overnight hotel stays that's a lot of

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money that Microsoft could be using to continue paying the best engineers for

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their worst work there's been a lot of developments around deepfakes recently

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Google announced it is updating their search algorithm to better handle

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explicit AI deepfakes the changes will make it easier to remove deepfakes at

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scale and will penalize sites that hosts such content by demoting them in

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search rankings because the easiest way to hide non-consensual imagery is to

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place it on Google searches second page on top of that the US Senate has

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introduced a bill for the no fakes act which is meant to protect artists from

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AI deepfakes while some like artists like the bill others are worried the bill

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is overly broad and could allow for misuse meanwhile last week the Senate

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unanimously passed the defiance act which allows victims of non-consensual

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explicit deepfakes to sue individuals who knowingly produce distribute or

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receive those images but that's not enough the US government needs to crack

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down on AI deepfakes that are used for fraud and manipulation says Microsoft the

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company that arguably had a major role in making AI deepfake fraud so accessible

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guys you need to solve this problem I caught AI search company perplexity has announced they will be sharing revenue

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with publishers whose content shows up in perplexities AI generated answers this

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comes a month after perplexity got in trouble for plagiarizing content for

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multiple publishers so while this revenue share may sound like a step in the

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right direction I'm not sure perplexity will be able to pay its sources when

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it's been failing to disclose where its answers even come from we just handed out

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some money to people I don't know who they were aside from dodging plagiarism

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accusations there may be another reason perplexity decided to offer a revenue

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sharing deal opening eyes launch of their own AI powered search tool search GPT

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last week on top of that reddit is now blocking every search engine but

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Google's after making a deal with the search giant according to reddit CEO

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Steve Huffman search GPT will be able to show results from the site thanks to a

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similar deal but Huffman called out perplexity for refusing to pay to access

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Reddit's data unfortunately that means perplexity users will have to miss out on

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treasures like a factually accurate 1000 word comment about 18th century wheat

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agriculture written by someone called Ned the nip hunter and that's not a real

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example but it could be we made it up quick bits are like shooting stars

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except instead of making you go whoa they make you go AMD has launched its new

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Ryzen 5000 desktop processors the Ryzen 9 5900 XT and Ryzen 7 5800 XT now

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available at retailers unfortunately for AMD some US retailers also listed the

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not yet launched Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs leaking the prices fortunately for

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consumers it looks like the new chips will cost up to $100 less at launch

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than the current Ryzen 7000 series did there's so many series going on right

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now what are you doing AMD meanwhile Intel who apparently spent two chip

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generations selling broken CPUs has announced their lunar lake laptop CPUs

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will launch on September 3rd at this point I'll consider lunar lake of

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success if the chips don't burst into flame let's just go for that Amazon has

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been forced to recall over 400,000 products the US Consumer Product Safety

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Commission determined that Amazon is legally responsible for the defective

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products of third-party sellers and that the platform failed to alert hundreds

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of thousands of customers to these serious risks those unsafe products

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include hair dryers without electrocution protection faulty carbon

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monoxide detectors and children's pajamas that violate federal flammability

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standards turns out Amazon's delivery network is so vast they offer same-day

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shipping to the afterlife

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meta has agreed to settle a privacy lawsuit with the state of Texas for a

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massive 1.4 billion dollars the lawsuit was filed two years ago and alleged

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meta was using Facebook users biometric data without permission to power the

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tag suggestions feature the platform introduced way back in 2011 you think

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meta would learn to stay on the right side of the law since then but an

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investigative report by the Wall Street Journal claims hundreds of ads for

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illegal drug marketplaces have appeared on Instagram and Facebook ads like this

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are dangerous to the impressionable users of Instagram and perhaps

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insulting to the bots that still use Facebook they can't even do drugs

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Google is taking heat for a recent Olympics tie-in ad where a father gets

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the Gemini AI assistant to generate a draft of a letter from his daughter to

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an athlete she admires now there's nothing wrong with taking a pre-written

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draft and personalizing it to fit your needs but there is something ever so

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slightly icky about putting something as innocent and authentic as a child's

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letter to their celebrity hero through the same process what would the AI say

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let's find out I say for my daughter maybe this fictional little girl will

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one day be a skilled athlete herself but it'd be great if she also had some

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baseline literacy so that she doesn't have to sign documents with an axe like

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a medieval peasant and are you an awkward loner with a hundred bucks just

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lying around well good news there's a new high-tech wearable just for you it's

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an AI conversation bot called friend it takes the form of a large extremely

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noticeable necklace that listens and comments on everything happening around

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you which is guaranteed to make other humans deeply uncomfortable I just kind

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of like to come up here to be by myself I've never brought anybody else I mean

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besides her she goes everywhere with you right friend the company behind friend

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reportedly raised two and a half million dollars from investors the company

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then apparently used 1.8 million of those dollars just to acquire the domain

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name friend.com which sounds like a great way to lose a bunch of friends but

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for just $99 you can get them back but you won't lose a single friend by coming

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back on Friday for more tech news hey if you watch it with someone else you

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might even gain one