WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160 Happy insert name of your local holiday here, where I am its Family Day, which is why I'm 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:12.140 spending it with my real family, the tech news. It found me and raised me as a tech news cub in the forest, which is why things around 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:15.720 here can get a little wild sometimes. 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:21.120 Meta is rolling out a verification subscription service similar to Twitter Blue this week. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:27.200 It'll charge 12-15 bucks a month for ID verification, a blue badge, user experience enhancements, 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:34.680 and that feeling of being special you were missing as a child. Mark Zuckerberg announced the service on his broadcast channel, which is a new Instagram 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:40.200 feature similar to Telegram channels that rolled out last week, meaning that Zucker 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:45.520 announced that Meta is copying one platform using Meta's copy of another platform. 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:52.080 Never change, Facebook. But the move has sparked fears that drastic change is coming to the internet at large. 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:56.680 Many people, ourselves included, continue to mock Elon Musk's impulsive attempts to 00:00:56.680 --> 00:00:59.960 generate some any Twitter revenue. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:04.720 But if more platforms follow suit, we may be looking at the end of the free web service 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:09.800 era. Musk certainly thinks so, calling Meta verified inevitable. 00:01:09.800 --> 00:01:13.480 And you know he knew the reference people would make based on that. 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:17.760 Meta's announcement follows Twitter locking text message-based two-factor authentication 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:25.760 behind the blue paywall. A move security analysts say doesn't make sense, since SMS two-factor is vulnerable 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:31.800 to way more attacks than dedicated authenticator apps and can actually be worse than only 00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:38.120 using a good password. But a lot of Twitter users probably don't know that, and they may be inclined to sign 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.240 up for blue if they think they have to pay to secure their account. 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:47.400 Wow, in a few years we may be talking about the good old days when internet platforms 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:51.280 were free thanks to our personal info being collected and sold by advertisers. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.360 I used to run to the corner store and send a tweet for a nickel. 00:01:55.440 --> 00:02:01.080 TikTok has announced a new creativity program, which promises higher earnings for creators 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:05.480 who can somehow manage to post videos that are more than one minute long. 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.920 Because the more seconds video has, the more creative it is. 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:14.040 This is basic film school stuff. Actually though, the Irishman? 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:19.440 Get out of here. The announcement confirms at least part of the information posted by the information 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:25.480 they knew what they were doing. Last week and highlights how much TikTok has changed in the six years since launching 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:33.280 with a 15-second limit on videos. Now the thirst traps play simultaneously alongside family guide clips and footage from endless 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:41.440 run or mobile games. It's way different. But the creativity program specifically requires high-quality original content to be eligible 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:48.080 for more money. So hopefully our old pal capitalism can fix what was broken by its dark counterpart, 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:57.080 capitalism. And Nintendo might be making it a little easier to access its library of retro games if we 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:01.640 follow the path of potentially baseless, but interesting speculation laid out in this 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:04.960 ours technical article. Ours technical article. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.800 That's not a diss. I made this a main story, so just hear me out. 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.360 So the UK's Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Microsoft's planned acquisition 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:17.760 of Activision Blizzard and wrote a report on whether Nintendo Switch Online could compete 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:23.560 with Xbox Game Pass, in which they said Nintendo's service is only available on the Nintendo 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:28.320 Switch device and redacted. Begin speculation now. 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:35.680 Available on the Switch. And what? So one, it could be a future Nintendo console, which we know is launching at the very least 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:41.760 this century. Or two, it might be Nintendo plans to let you stream Switch Online games to your phone 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:48.240 like XCloud? Frankly, anything that can give people access to Nintendo's back catalogue would be good, 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.760 since there would be less justification to pirate Nintendo games and therefore less lawsuits 00:03:52.760 --> 00:03:57.640 from Nintendo, which the company has said it uses to send a message. 00:03:57.640 --> 00:04:00.880 It would have made more sense for me to do an impression of like a triad gangster there 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:03.920 rather than an Italian mafioso, but that wouldn't be appropriate. 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:07.400 Okay, I'm gonna let the quick bits out now. Just stay where you are. 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:11.080 They're gonna sniff various parts of you to get used to your scent. 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:17.520 Do not react. Ends of the new AI-powered Bing were despondent last week when Microsoft imposed new limits 00:04:17.520 --> 00:04:21.320 on the chatbot, which, according to some, amounted to a lobotomy. 00:04:21.320 --> 00:04:26.920 Well, a few sources have indicated that the limits are temporary, while Microsoft figures 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:32.080 out how to make Bing not pledge undying love to whoever asks it a few personal questions. 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:39.680 I also know a few humans with this problem. So thankfully, this lobotomy is reversible, unlike human ones. 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:46.080 In other humans-crushing AI's dreams news, go-player Kellen Pelrin has defeated the top 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:52.920 go-playing AI models, Catego and Lila Zero, seven years after DeepMind's AlphaGo AI defeated 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.120 one of the world's top human players, Lee Sedol. 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:01.920 Now, Pelrin defeated the AI players using strategies suggested by another computer program 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.880 that probed the AI's for weaknesses, but they weren't like in his ear or anything when 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:10.000 he played the match, he had it all up here, okay? 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.800 So come on back, Lee Sedol, give it another try. Can you imagine he comes back and gets destroyed again? 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:21.960 I'm sorry. Microsoft has finally allowed M1 and M2 Macs to run full-featured versions of Windows 11 00:05:21.960 --> 00:05:27.240 on ARM through the Parallels desktop app, meaning Mac users no longer have to use an 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:33.440 insider preview build to access such features as slow loading and bad app support. 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:40.520 Okay, that's not fair. I haven't tried Windows on ARM for a while, so in terms of ARM processor support, now 00:05:40.520 --> 00:05:45.000 it could be slightly better than way, way worse than macOS. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:49.600 Chrome has gotten a new update that adds energy saver and memory saver, features that will 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.920 help the browser use less energy and memory, respectively, by snoozing inactive tabs, which 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.320 can then be reloaded by clicking on them again to the tab. 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:03.720 It's a sorely needed update, although I'd prefer if Google could, like, make each tab 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:08.040 and the browser as a whole use less energy and memory instead of, like, cutting off your 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.760 leg because you're not using it right now. That's just me. 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:17.800 And air travel is about to get more stimulating if a patent just granted to Brazilian aerospace 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.600 company Embraer is any indication. Of course they're Brazilian. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:26.480 It describes a system built into airplane seats that can scan passengers' faces to determine 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:33.400 their emotional state and then offer transcranial stimulation of either the magnetic or electrical 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:37.920 variety. Seems like it would be amazing to turn on if you're stuck with a seat partner who won't 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:43.000 stop talking about how both varieties are actually part of the same phenomenon of electromagnetism 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:50.200 and, oh, you probably shouldn't turn it up that high. And you shouldn't turn away from the tech news come Wednesday because we'll be back 00:06:50.200 --> 00:06:56.400 and hopefully delivering better segues than that one. I'm sorry, you know, Mondays, you know what I mean?