WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.520 Between Avatar 1 and 2, the humans went from harvesting unobtainium to slurping up alien 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:09.440 whale brain juice. It's a cautionary tale about how they should have been harvesting 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:14.720 tech news from the get-go. And also something about colonialism. Did you see Avatar 2? 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:22.720 In 3D. Now that's technology. Discord has confirmed a data breach in which hackers were able to access 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:28.400 government IDs. Discord says that the hackers hit one of their third-party customer service providers 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:33.440 and gained access to some personal information shared by users with that provider, including 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:39.200 users' names, emails and other contact details, IP addresses, messages with support agents, 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.440 and a small number of images of government IDs. Again, which is crazy because I thought the UK 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:50.640 government rolled out age checks only after they made all the hackers promise to leave the IDs alone. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:55.520 Hopefully all the other hackers stick to the agreement and we won't see any more IDs get 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.840 compromised from the hundreds of other popular platforms that have also collected them. 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.880 Microsoft is assuring gamers that their Xbox hardware isn't going anywhere. 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:11.920 Console elves won't steal it away in the middle of the night. When Microsoft announced they'd be raising the price on multiple tiers of their Game Pass 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.040 subscription service, rumors began to spread that this focus on profiting from software 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:22.480 and membership fees marked the end for Xbox hardware. However, Microsoft has now stated 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.920 that they are still investing in upcoming first-party consoles and devices made by Xbox. 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:32.640 It makes sense that Microsoft isn't totally giving up on Xbox hardware because apparently 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.960 they're still figuring out exactly how to make those gaming services profitable. 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:40.960 According to The Verge, Microsoft is considering launching a free, 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:45.760 ad-supported Xbox cloud gaming service while a Bloomberg report came out saying 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:51.600 Microsoft lost almost $300 million in sales by putting Call of Duty 6 on Game Pass. 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:57.200 So yeah, maybe it's not time to jump ship on building hardware quite just yet. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.000 That said, it doesn't look like Xbox is doing a good job of releasing hardware either 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.040 because apparently a first-party Xbox handheld was cancelled when Microsoft wouldn't commit 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:11.200 to filling AMD's minimum order requirements for the chips inside the hardware. 00:02:11.600 --> 00:02:14.800 Well, we really just don't know if we're going to sell that many, so I was like, 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:22.080 can we just do like, Baker's Dozen? The Xbox brand is 23 years old now, and like many others, 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:26.320 it's age. It's clearly going through a bit of an existential crisis, something that routinely 00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:32.800 happens at age 23 these days. It's true though. Hey, I hope you figure out who you want to be, 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.400 Xbox. I may be time to go backpacking to find yourself. You know who seems to be really figuring 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:44.320 themselves out recently? Xbox's first-party hardware partner AMD, who has entered into 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:49.840 another lucrative partnership, this time with OpenAI. The new partnership was announced today, 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:57.600 and we'll see OpenAI deploy what they describe as six gigawatts worth of AMD's Instinct AI GPUs, 00:02:57.600 --> 00:03:03.360 which I guess translates to potentially millions of GPUs over the next several years, 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:11.200 beginning with one gigawatt of the upcoming Instinct MI450 GPU in the first half of 2026. 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:17.040 Great, Scott! What a missed opportunity for these nerds to have referenced the 1.21 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:20.960 gigawatts used to time travel and back to the future, but whatever. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:30.720 The deal is worth tens of billions of dollars a year for AMD and gives OpenAI the ability to 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:37.760 acquire up to 10% of that company for a penny per share. Not only is this deal seemingly great for 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:43.200 AMD's wallet, but it also highlights growing confidence in their AI GPUs, which could help 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:48.640 them become more competitive with NVIDIA, who obviously dominates that field. Yet, 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:54.000 the production demands of making all of these enterprise AI GPUs has PC gamers concerned that 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:02.640 AMD's head is in the cloud instead of the desktop market, which is already dealing with a storage 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:08.960 and memory-related pricing apocalypse. I don't think Dr. Lisa Sue will forget about us. She took 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.440 an oath to protect the vulnerable, heal the sick, and all that stuff, you know? Right? 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:20.880 Now, in the way of water, the second Avatar movie, sure, those Metcaina clan kids can swim fast, 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:25.840 but there's no way they're beating the Quickbits. Quickbits don't even have to hold their breath. 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:33.280 Intel's imminent Panther Lake mobile CPUs are reportedly set to feature another kind of chip 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:39.360 branding. Yay! Every Panther Lake CPU will allegedly include integrated graphics, 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:46.560 but the models with the highest spec will be referred to as Core Ultra X. Elon has gotta be hyped on 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:55.840 this, and you can expect to see a Core Ultra X9 and X7 chip. Make it stop. Like Jason X, these Core 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:02.320 Ultra X CPUs are gonna be beefier than their compatriots. The CPUs will use 12 XE3 GPU cores, 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:07.840 a big jump from the 8 XE2 cores found on Lunar Lake processors, so Intel is clearly focused on 00:05:07.840 --> 00:05:14.240 making more powerful iGPUs to compete with AMD's APU. For a while there, we thought about combining 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:20.160 Techlinked with Jackass to create Techlinked X, but there were just too many casualties. 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:26.320 The Nintendo Switch 2 supports multiple versions of NVIDIA's DLSS as discovered by 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:30.960 Digital Foundry in one of their recent YouTube videos. One version is practically the same as 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.400 the one you'd find on NVIDIA's PC GPUs, but the second version is a sort of DLSS light that 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:41.840 prioritizes performance and appears built to upscale games beyond 1080p on the Switch 2. 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:47.360 This lighter version is far less resource-intensive, but becomes more apparent during camera motion, 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.920 revealing unfiltered pixels. According to some reporting by Digital Foundry, game developers 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:58.400 working on Switch 2 titles are able to choose which DLSS variant best suits their performance 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:05.440 targets. Do a Mario impression saying, It's a me! Super sampling! Open AI and Johnny Ive are 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:10.800 hitting some roadblocks on the way to creating their secretive AI device. According to a report 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:16.320 by the Financial Times, Open AI and Ive, the legendary Apple product designer, are working 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:22.240 to build a palm-sized piece of hardware that doesn't have a screen but uses audio and visual cues to 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:27.280 serve as your AI assistant. However, they are running up against the privacy concerns created 00:06:27.280 --> 00:06:32.080 by designing hardware that is always listening and or watching, along with concerns about how 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:37.520 much compute power is needed for a mass consumer product to run Open AI's suite of models. 00:06:37.520 --> 00:06:42.240 So far, this all sounds a bit like that AI friend product Linus tried on ShortCircuit, 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:49.920 named Riley. And he seemed to hate. But that's only because there can only be one AI Riley. 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:55.840 Wait, Activision's Ricochet anti-cheat appears to be doing what it's supposed to. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:01.200 Thank god. Cheating is the scourge of many competitive online games, in case you didn't know, 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:06.720 but with the launch of Call of Duty Black Ops 7's early access beta, Ricochet appears to be 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:13.760 catching cheaters hyper-efficiently. Uh-oh. They claim to be stopping 97% of cheaters within 30 00:07:13.760 --> 00:07:18.880 minutes of their first sign-in, and that fewer than 1% of cheating attempts are making it into 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:24.000 matches. This is great news. Hopefully, Ricochet's work sets an example for the rest of the gaming 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.160 industry. But the standard they've set for themselves also needs to be maintained, because 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:32.960 the game is only in early access and concurrent gameplay numbers have been lackluster for a Call 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:38.880 of Duty game. As the anti-cheating ramps up, people care less about the game. The Astros aren't in 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:44.800 the MLB playoffs, and they're clearing cheaters off of a COD game. Maybe there is hope for fair 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:50.560 play after all. I'm sure that joke makes sense. To someone, yeah, yeah. But I wouldn't know. 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:57.840 And in Japan, NTT East Group has teamed up with Chiba Prefecture to protect the poultry industry, 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:03.600 with drones equipped with lasers. This doesn't need to be said, but this is bad ass. 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:08.160 Chicken defending laser drones. Sadly, the more I tell you about these drones, 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:12.400 the more pedestrian and logical this plan all sounds. But I'm gonna do it anyway. 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:17.440 Lasers aren't gonna set fires or anything like that. They're actually being used to scare other 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:23.440 birds away from interacting with the chickens in order to avoid any spread of avian flu, 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:27.360 which will help to avoid having to call the chickens. We're living in the future, baby. 00:08:28.320 --> 00:08:33.200 I'm gonna start shooting a laser pointer at my nephew whenever he comes at me with a runny nose. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:40.400 Get away from me, Goopy. And that's why you're not a parent. And you should get away from me, too. 00:08:40.400 --> 00:08:46.720 But come back on Wednesday for more tech news. I've got to get my Nevi language lessons in. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.080 I'm trying to learn it before fire and ash. That's Avatar 3, so I don't have to use any 00:08:52.080 --> 00:09:02.560 subtitles. Hey, olove means until next time.