1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,280 Tech news won't keep you alive in a desert island situation, but it could give you more to think about. 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:10,480 Like, hmm, maybe Nintendo was right to DMCA everyone like that. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:19,040 And then you die. ChatGPT was all the rage, but get ready to hear more about projects based on auto-GPT, 4 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,800 a GitHub project posted two weeks ago that modifies large language models like OpenAI's GPT 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:32,960 to function as semi-autonomous agents. That means when you give it a goal instead of giving you a response and then waiting for a prompt 6 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:38,640 number two, like a fun chatbot, it will give itself feedback based on its own performance 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,080 and continue acting in pursuit of its goal until you shut it down. 8 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:48,240 Like a terminator from the movie Terminator. Every time you use it, you have to put it into a molten metal. 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,880 Auto-GPT spawned many similar projects, many of which are trending on GitHub, 10 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,080 including an official Microsoft project called Jarvis. 11 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:03,520 In case you didn't quite understand, these AIs act more like little humans than before, 12 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:08,320 which is why researchers just published a study where 25 of them were put in a video game. 13 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:11,840 And when one of them was given the idea to throw a Valentine's Day party, 14 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,080 the agents autonomously sent out invites, met new acquaintances, 15 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,000 asked each other on dates to the party, and then actually showed up. 16 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,880 Which is, frankly, much better than many humans could do. 17 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:31,200 So that's one thing. Another concerning AI thing is scammers, who are currently, right now, 18 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,720 tricking normal people into thinking their loved ones have been kidnapped 19 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,920 using voice cloning AI and caller IDs spoofing. 20 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,680 So it actually looks almost exactly like the scene from Taken, 21 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,880 except you don't have a certain set of skills. You're just Tammy. 22 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,160 Just Tammy! Now, we can look at things like the recently announced Dolly 2.0, 23 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,880 an open source LLM with promise as a chat GPT competitor for the people, 24 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,920 as a cool democratization of AI tech. 25 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,560 But given how this tech has gone from being future scary to scary right now, 26 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:08,640 it's we're scared about it now, we should be asking whether we need democratization 27 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:13,520 or regulation. Which is why the US government agency responsible for these things 28 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,200 is currently seeking public comments to help it put together laws 29 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,960 to protect us from the eldritch horrors literally every programmer 30 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,560 is cooking up on their laptops right now. 31 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,880 I need to calm down. In lighter news, this fun leaked video has given us a glimpse of a new Windows UI 32 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,200 custom made for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck or ROG Ally. 33 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:42,720 So that's, that's cool. Hey, this is cool. Now, given that the handheld Windows mode is being made for an internal hackathon project, 34 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,880 it's unclear whether Microsoft is for sure going to release something like this. 35 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,400 I mean, not doing so would lead more people on board the Linux gaming hype train, 36 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,120 but maybe Microsoft is fine with that, you know? We've got so many people using Windows, it's almost too many. 37 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,960 Stop using Windows, please. But one feature that Microsoft is officially working on is a present sensing mode, 38 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:11,840 which has shown up in a Windows 11 preview build. This uses various device sensors to tell whether you're present at your PC, 39 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:17,840 both physically and perhaps mentally. Frankly, I'd love my PC to sense when I'm getting distracted and do a little 40 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,360 Riley, are we present right now? 41 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,920 And Western Digital no sooner got their MyCloud service back up and running a week after being 42 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:34,080 hacked than those same hackers demanded the company pay to reclaim 10 terabytes of stolen data. 43 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,600 I mean, you don't send a ransom note right after you steal the thing. 44 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:43,200 That'd be rude. TechCrunch reporters spoke to one of the hackers and were able to confirm that at least 45 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:50,320 some of the stolen data was legitimate. The hackers claimed to have personal info like email addresses, phone numbers, and more 46 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:57,200 of both WD staff and customers. If the company isn't willing to pay the minimum eight figure ransom, 47 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,320 The hackers say they'll start posting the data on the website of 48 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,800 Hacking Group that these hackers are not a part of, but who they know to be professional. 49 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:14,800 You can't just post things on like 4chan. I mean, as an extortionist, there are just some things you don't do. 50 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,960 Oh, you thought that stuff was tech news? 51 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,840 Wait till you see the Crick bits, which are also in that category. 52 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:27,600 The FBI has arrested the 21-year-old suspected of leaking a trove of classified U.S. government 53 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,480 documents on a Discord server called Thugshaker Central. 54 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:38,960 According to the Washington Post, the suspect is a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard 55 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,840 who ended up posting screenshots of the documents after growing frustrated that the members of 56 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:49,920 his military-themed Discord group were ignoring the text-based posts that he had spent hours typing 57 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,800 up. It's working so hard. Markings and environmental clues in the photograph printouts 58 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,280 helped investigators determine the man's identity, but Discord has also said they are 59 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:09,520 cooperating with law enforcement. So remember gamers, don't make this guy's key mistake, 60 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:15,680 joining the Massachusetts Air National Guard. NVIDIA has released some helpful statistics claiming 61 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:22,880 that 83% of gamers with RTX 40 series cards, which is 0.68% of all Steam users, 62 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:30,080 according to Steam Survey, turn ray tracing on with 79% of the same group turning DLSS on. 63 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:35,840 Now there's two main questions this has brought up. One, if you flip on ray tracing one time, 64 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:40,560 decide you don't want it and then flip it off, does that count? The other question, 65 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:47,600 why are nearly 20% of these gamers buying an RTX 40 series card and not using the RTX features? 66 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,080 What? Did you put it in your mom's computer? Why did you do that? 67 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,720 Chonky 3-slot RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards have been showing up dead in greater numbers due to 68 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:03,600 sagging in their PCIe slots, which causes bending and uneven thermal stress, 69 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,720 according to a video from German computer repair technician Chris Fix. Specifically, 70 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:14,000 the solder points of memory chips nearest to the PCIe socket are the most likely failure point. 71 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,160 So you might want to check in on that if you've got a big card in your rig because look, 72 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,520 we all love a top of the line Chonky boy. But that chonk comes at a price. 73 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:28,320 Hashtag chonk awareness, hashtag save that chonk. Twitter has announced a new feature where Twitter 74 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:33,600 creators will be able to offer paid subscriptions where followers can access exclusive tweets and 75 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,960 long form video. And you might be thinking, hey, that just sounds like super follows. 76 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,520 But to that we say no, it isn't. It's called something different now. 77 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,960 The company hopes to include newsletters and other Twitter features as potential bonus content 78 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,720 later down the line. Of course, Twitter already had a newsletter tool, 79 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,680 but it was shut down three months ago in what is becoming just par for the course. 80 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:05,520 They had, they had that feature. And then, and today the European Space Agency launched an 81 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:11,520 unmanned spacecraft on a mission to determine whether the icy oceans of Jupiter's largest moon, 82 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:19,520 moons, multiple, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede? Oh, it's not Ganymede. 83 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,400 Whether they're able to support life, not intelligent life, 84 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,800 just the dumb kind. We're insulting them already. Some of you may know that Jupiter is the Roman 85 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,640 name for Zeus, while each of the moons is named after an ancient mythological hottie that Zeus 86 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:40,400 consorted with. Fittingly, the initial launch was delayed due to risk of flight. 87 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,720 The moons are busy. How do you put a sock on a moon? And we'll put a sock on the channel until 88 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:53,920 Monday because that's when you should come back for more fresh hot batch tech news. 89 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,080 That's the thing about news. It's different every time. We're going to figure out how to put a sock 90 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,680 on the channel. We haven't figured that out yet. Also, you can still watch the videos of the weekend.