WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 Okay, stand back. Stand back! We've got a dangerous amount of tech news 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:08.480 coming through with it. You trying to get your face burned off? Get the back up! 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:12.200 When tech news gets too close, it burns your face off. Ah! 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:15.360 Andy, no. iPhone 16 will come with a pretty hefty upgrade 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:19.040 according to a new report from Taiwanese site Economic Daily News. 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:22.320 Their sources indicate Apple's next gen A18 chips 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:27.720 for mobile and M4 chips for Macs will likely feature an upgraded neural engine 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:33.160 with significantly more AI cores, which makes sense given that Tim Cook promised 00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:36.480 to give us huge AI announcements if we were good this year. 00:00:37.680 --> 00:00:42.160 Other recent reports have indicated Apple will be launching a suite of generative features 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:47.080 as part of iOS 18, most likely at WWDC in June. 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:54.040 Notably, Apple Silicon's standard neural engine has had 16 cores since the iPhone 12 back in 2020. 00:00:54.040 --> 00:00:59.240 What is your grandma's neural processor? However, certain configurations of the Mac Studio 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.480 and the Mac Pro have had neural engines with up to 32 cores, 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:07.680 which my AI assistant tells me is twice as many. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:12.560 And you'll definitely want to get one of these new phones because Apple is currently rolling out 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.080 quantum proof encryption protection in what the company is calling 00:01:17.080 --> 00:01:20.320 the most significant cryptographic security upgrade 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:24.680 in iMessage history, including all the other ones you remember. 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:30.600 It's a preventative measure to help keep you safe from getting hacked by computers that don't even exist yet. 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:36.720 Well, I'll be safe today when you can be safe tomorrow. We released a patch for a bug that wasn't even... 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.960 What won't protect your phone, however, is rice, 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:44.200 especially from hackers, according to new guidance published by Apple Support, 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:49.320 who recommend leaving your phone to dry somewhere with decent airflow rather than shoving it 00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:54.080 in a sack full of edible grain, which might get into the device and damage it. 00:01:54.080 --> 00:02:00.200 I, however, would like additional clarification. What about oatmeal, barley, quinoa? 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.880 You're just showing off about how many grains you know. Grits! 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:07.080 What'd you say, rits? Grits! What? 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:10.920 What if I put a fan in with the rice? Is that enough airflow? Psh! 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:13.960 The European Commission has announced a formal investigation 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:18.320 into whether TikTok is out of compliance with the Digital Services Act, 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:23.800 specifically when it comes to the protection of miners and potentially addictive design features. 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.360 TikTok will be the second platform investigated under the DSA following Twitter, 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:32.280 which drew the commission's ire in part because they have a moderation team 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.400 that's barely even big enough to staff and control a large waffle house. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:40.160 But they try. Both TikTok and Twitter are potentially in trouble 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:43.400 with the EU over failure to meet the DSA's standards 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.040 for advertiser transparency and access to research data. 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:52.760 But TikTok has received far more attention for the harm it might pose to children and adolescents 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:57.520 because Twitter is for old people, I feel attacked. Guys, we have to make more TikToks. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:01.160 We don't make any right. According to an EC Press officer speaking to ours, 00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:06.240 Technica, the commission suspects TikTok of failing to ensure its default settings 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.480 will appropriately protect the safety and privacy of miners, 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:16.440 as well as neglecting to properly assess the risk of 13 to 17 year olds pretending to be adults on the app, 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:19.600 which is less of a risk and more of a certainty. 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:23.560 But TikTok is far from the only company in Europe's bad books, 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:29.000 as the EU will reportedly be finding Apple around 500 million euros next month, 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:34.600 following an antitrust probe into a formal complaint from Spotify that Apple was using its platform 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:39.200 to preference its own music streaming service. This is so sad. 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:43.920 Siri, play Despacito. Google suddenly dropped a couple 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:49.000 of lightweight open source AI models inspired by the same tech 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:54.080 used in their flagship model, Gemini. So naturally they called it Gemma, 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.600 the sound you'd make if you gave up saying the word Gemini halfway through. 00:03:57.600 --> 00:04:01.880 Why use chatGPT when you can use the Gemma? Actually it's pronounced Gemma. 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:08.600 Is it? No. Okay. Google says Gemma 2B and 7B can be run locally, 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:11.600 do better than larger models on key benchmarks, 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:16.160 although we've heard that before, and are part of what DeepMind CEO, 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.240 Demis Hasabis calls the company's long history 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:22.360 of supporting responsible open source and science, 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.080 which apparently did nothing to stop open AI from snagging the AI crowd. 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:30.640 But hey, sure, you know, you know, whatever. Although if chatGPT continues occasionally 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:33.760 losing its damn mind as it did early this morning, 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:37.560 Google may have a shot. Reports flooded in from chatGPT users 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:42.840 about getting responses that were everything from overly verbose to full on gibberish 00:04:42.840 --> 00:04:47.240 until open AI correctly diagnosed and fixed the bug in about 24 hours. 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:51.840 This follows open AI having to step in after widespread reports of its chatbot 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:56.040 slacking off around the holiday season. Okay, say it with me. 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.200 It thinks it's people. 00:04:59.200 --> 00:05:03.760 The following five quick bits have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:08.360 It would be weird if they were, you can't ingest news, or can you? 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:13.320 A federal appeals court has overturned a $1 billion penalty that was leveled 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.240 against Cable ISP Cox Communications in 2019. 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:22.080 According to the judge, Sony did not prove its case that Cox received direct financial benefit 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:26.280 from the piracy and copyright infringement committed by its users. 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:30.360 Cox may still face penalties due to the finding that it failed to combat piracy, 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.520 making it a willful contributor to the infringement, 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:37.800 but such a penalty will likely be far lighter than the damages originally awarded. 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:42.200 They didn't actually make money from you downloading all nine seasons of Seinfeld. 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:45.240 They just stood there and watched it happen. Great finale. 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.240 Elon Musk claims the first Neuralink patient 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:53.240 can already move a computer mouse with their mind, a sentence that would be way more impressive 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.240 if it didn't include the word computer. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:01.520 While Musk has stated patient A can move a mouse around the screen just by thinking, 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:06.080 that's really all anyone knows at this point. This has caused concern among some researchers 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:09.080 who believe the public deserves a bit more transparency 00:06:09.080 --> 00:06:12.120 because people care deeply about their brains. 00:06:13.080 --> 00:06:18.240 Using their brains. Yeah, I care deeply about how my soyboy brain 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.680 is completely incapable of telekinesis. Hurry it up, Elon. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.960 I wanna be a Jedi, colon survivor. 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:28.920 A coalition of AI experts, academics, and industry executives, 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:32.360 including deep learning pioneer, Yashua Benjio, 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:37.800 have published an open letter calling for more regulation and safeguards for deep fakes. 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.280 According to the letter, which currently has over 600 signatures, 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:45.840 the rapid advancement of deep fake technology means that they have become a common element 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:50.720 of fraud schemes, disinformation campaigns, and non-consensual sexual imagery. 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.520 Honestly, it's tragic to see people using AI to impersonate and deceive people 00:06:54.520 --> 00:06:59.960 when they could instead be like Will Smith, who commemorated last year's viral AI monstrosity 00:06:59.960 --> 00:07:05.600 by pretending to be a machine-generated version of himself eating spaghetti in the worst way possible. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:10.600 I call it a shallow, real deep fake. 00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:13.800 Y'all better watch yourself. Taylor Swift's gonna hunt you for sport. 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.720 Last week, 13,000 owners of Y's home security cameras 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.760 were able to see images, and in some cases, video, 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:24.520 from cameras that weren't theirs due to a bizarre glitch. 00:07:24.520 --> 00:07:27.840 Even worse, a similar issue occurred just five months ago. 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:32.400 In an email, Y's referred to this newest incident as a security issue that occurred 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:35.560 due to a third-party caching client library 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.200 the company had started using. Like they did five months ago, Y said, 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:44.640 they may changes to their system so that something like this never happens again, again. 00:07:44.640 --> 00:07:47.880 And a nearly three-decade-old European satellite 00:07:47.880 --> 00:07:52.120 made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere earlier today. 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:55.920 The ERS-2 satellite, which CBS described as wing, 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.080 about as much as an adult male rhinoceros, 00:07:59.080 --> 00:08:03.160 so we can all get a ballpark. That's about pretty heavy. 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:08.400 Was decommissioned and had the last of its fuel used up in 2011 in order to prevent 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:13.240 any potential catastrophic explosion, meaning its descent couldn't be controlled 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:17.760 as it spent the next 13 years slowly falling back to Earth 00:08:17.760 --> 00:08:21.760 while it thought about what it's done. In the future, space debris might be managed 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:26.280 by specialized junk removers like the Addras-J satellite 00:08:26.280 --> 00:08:32.080 that launched this past weekend. In the meantime, however, most of ERS-2's rhino-like mass 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:36.600 has burned up in the atmosphere, and its remaining chunks are raining down 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:39.920 across a 100-mile-wide patch of the Pacific Ocean 00:08:39.920 --> 00:08:43.240 in a decidedly un-rhino-like manner. 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.920 And also, unlike a rhino, you should come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:52.320 I mean, hey, no offense if you're a rhino. I just, I don't know if it'd be really your kind of thing. 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.000 I just don't, we don't have a rhino section in the demographics of, 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.320 rounders are cool, man.