WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.760 Hey, the the tech news is coming up soon and I and I thought you know if you're 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:13.440 not going to get it from anyone else maybe I could present it to you I I'm 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:21.560 sorry I'm being so stupid I just have you but you wouldn't unless Microsoft 00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:26.440 suffered a global outage yesterday affecting access to many Microsoft 365 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.520 services according to the BBC even access to Minecraft was affected and 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:35.280 Xbox live actually unfortunately Microsoft stated during the outage that 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:41.680 teams was not affected so close meaning that app continues to barely function by 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:46.640 design the company also determined that the outage was due to a DDoS attack on 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:51.000 its Azure cloud platform the attack then activated DDoS protection 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.680 mechanisms which due to an error in implementation made the attack worse 00:00:55.880 --> 00:01:00.280 great job Microsoft what is going on over there this incident comes less than 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.800 two weeks after global infrastructure was knocked out by a faulty software 00:01:04.800 --> 00:01:08.960 update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike many businesses are still 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:13.360 dealing with the fallout from that outage the CEO of US based Delta 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:17.880 Airlines may be seeking damages of 500 million dollars from CrowdStrike and 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:22.480 Microsoft after being forced to ground thousands of flights and reimburse 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:26.560 affected passengers for food and overnight hotel stays that's a lot of 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:31.720 money that Microsoft could be using to continue paying the best engineers for 00:01:31.720 --> 00:01:35.960 their worst work there's been a lot of developments around deepfakes recently 00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:39.840 Google announced it is updating their search algorithm to better handle 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:44.200 explicit AI deepfakes the changes will make it easier to remove deepfakes at 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.800 scale and will penalize sites that hosts such content by demoting them in 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:52.680 search rankings because the easiest way to hide non-consensual imagery is to 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.960 place it on Google searches second page on top of that the US Senate has 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:02.000 introduced a bill for the no fakes act which is meant to protect artists from 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.760 AI deepfakes while some like artists like the bill others are worried the bill 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:12.320 is overly broad and could allow for misuse meanwhile last week the Senate 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:16.920 unanimously passed the defiance act which allows victims of non-consensual 00:02:16.920 --> 00:02:21.240 explicit deepfakes to sue individuals who knowingly produce distribute or 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:25.240 receive those images but that's not enough the US government needs to crack 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.120 down on AI deepfakes that are used for fraud and manipulation says Microsoft the 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.800 company that arguably had a major role in making AI deepfake fraud so accessible 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:41.880 guys you need to solve this problem I caught AI search company perplexity has announced they will be sharing revenue 00:02:41.880 --> 00:02:46.680 with publishers whose content shows up in perplexities AI generated answers this 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:51.040 comes a month after perplexity got in trouble for plagiarizing content for 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:55.000 multiple publishers so while this revenue share may sound like a step in the 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:58.880 right direction I'm not sure perplexity will be able to pay its sources when 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:02.640 it's been failing to disclose where its answers even come from we just handed out 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:06.280 some money to people I don't know who they were aside from dodging plagiarism 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.320 accusations there may be another reason perplexity decided to offer a revenue 00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:15.400 sharing deal opening eyes launch of their own AI powered search tool search GPT 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:19.560 last week on top of that reddit is now blocking every search engine but 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:23.480 Google's after making a deal with the search giant according to reddit CEO 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:27.720 Steve Huffman search GPT will be able to show results from the site thanks to a 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:32.560 similar deal but Huffman called out perplexity for refusing to pay to access 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:36.760 Reddit's data unfortunately that means perplexity users will have to miss out on 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:41.880 treasures like a factually accurate 1000 word comment about 18th century wheat 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:47.400 agriculture written by someone called Ned the nip hunter and that's not a real 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:54.280 example but it could be we made it up quick bits are like shooting stars 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:01.880 except instead of making you go whoa they make you go AMD has launched its new 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:09.880 Ryzen 5000 desktop processors the Ryzen 9 5900 XT and Ryzen 7 5800 XT now 00:04:09.880 --> 00:04:14.720 available at retailers unfortunately for AMD some US retailers also listed the 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:20.920 not yet launched Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs leaking the prices fortunately for 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.000 consumers it looks like the new chips will cost up to $100 less at launch 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:30.360 than the current Ryzen 7000 series did there's so many series going on right 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.560 now what are you doing AMD meanwhile Intel who apparently spent two chip 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.560 generations selling broken CPUs has announced their lunar lake laptop CPUs 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.560 will launch on September 3rd at this point I'll consider lunar lake of 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:47.960 success if the chips don't burst into flame let's just go for that Amazon has 00:04:47.960 --> 00:04:53.520 been forced to recall over 400,000 products the US Consumer Product Safety 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:57.760 Commission determined that Amazon is legally responsible for the defective 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:02.200 products of third-party sellers and that the platform failed to alert hundreds 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:06.200 of thousands of customers to these serious risks those unsafe products 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.920 include hair dryers without electrocution protection faulty carbon 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:14.560 monoxide detectors and children's pajamas that violate federal flammability 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:19.560 standards turns out Amazon's delivery network is so vast they offer same-day 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.040 shipping to the afterlife 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:28.160 meta has agreed to settle a privacy lawsuit with the state of Texas for a 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:34.160 massive 1.4 billion dollars the lawsuit was filed two years ago and alleged 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.360 meta was using Facebook users biometric data without permission to power the 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.960 tag suggestions feature the platform introduced way back in 2011 you think 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:47.680 meta would learn to stay on the right side of the law since then but an 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.720 investigative report by the Wall Street Journal claims hundreds of ads for 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:56.120 illegal drug marketplaces have appeared on Instagram and Facebook ads like this 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.760 are dangerous to the impressionable users of Instagram and perhaps 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:04.040 insulting to the bots that still use Facebook they can't even do drugs 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.840 Google is taking heat for a recent Olympics tie-in ad where a father gets 00:06:08.840 --> 00:06:14.000 the Gemini AI assistant to generate a draft of a letter from his daughter to 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.480 an athlete she admires now there's nothing wrong with taking a pre-written 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:21.880 draft and personalizing it to fit your needs but there is something ever so 00:06:21.880 --> 00:06:26.240 slightly icky about putting something as innocent and authentic as a child's 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:31.640 letter to their celebrity hero through the same process what would the AI say 00:06:31.640 --> 00:06:36.160 let's find out I say for my daughter maybe this fictional little girl will 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.720 one day be a skilled athlete herself but it'd be great if she also had some 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.480 baseline literacy so that she doesn't have to sign documents with an axe like 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.160 a medieval peasant and are you an awkward loner with a hundred bucks just 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.960 lying around well good news there's a new high-tech wearable just for you it's 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:59.020 an AI conversation bot called friend it takes the form of a large extremely 00:06:59.020 --> 00:07:02.800 noticeable necklace that listens and comments on everything happening around 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.080 you which is guaranteed to make other humans deeply uncomfortable I just kind 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:13.600 of like to come up here to be by myself I've never brought anybody else I mean 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:21.320 besides her she goes everywhere with you right friend the company behind friend 00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:25.580 reportedly raised two and a half million dollars from investors the company 00:07:25.580 --> 00:07:29.480 then apparently used 1.8 million of those dollars just to acquire the domain 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.840 name friend.com which sounds like a great way to lose a bunch of friends but 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:38.920 for just $99 you can get them back but you won't lose a single friend by coming 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.280 back on Friday for more tech news hey if you watch it with someone else you 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:46.000 might even gain one