WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Look, whatever the media tells you, Europe is not a country. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.000 They pretend to be one online, but trust me, I've been there. 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:11.000 Baron Wasteland. Dinosaur bones. Just littering the plants. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Covered in sand. The European Union hasn't laid any official charges on Apple 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:21.000 for not complying with the Blocks Digital Markets Act, but they are going around and talking smack. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.500 EU competition chief Margareta Vestiger told CNBC this week 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:29.500 that the ongoing probe into Apple's policies will have its full conclusions revealed soon, 00:00:29.500 --> 00:00:34.000 and that it's found a number of Apple issues that she finds very serious. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Yeah, well, right back at you, because Apple also has issues with Europe's policies 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.000 around interoperability. Take that. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.500 You don't like that? The tech giant says, launching its recently announced 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:50.000 Apple Intelligence, iPhone mirroring, and SharePlay screen sharing features in the EU 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.500 could force them to compromise the integrity of their products. 00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:56.500 And you know, normally we'd mock Apple here, 00:00:56.500 --> 00:00:59.500 but the EU has recently given us reason 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:02.500 to be concerned for the integrity of consumers' devices. 00:01:02.500 --> 00:01:06.500 The European Commission has been proposing legislation that would require messaging platforms 00:01:06.500 --> 00:01:09.500 to scan users' private messages and photos 00:01:09.500 --> 00:01:12.500 for illegal content, even if they're encrypted. 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:15.500 It's known as upload moderation, 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:19.000 or client-side scanning by advocates. That doesn't sound bad. 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.500 It's called nice name, but critics have dubbed the practice chat control, 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:27.500 including Meredith Whitaker, CEO of encrypted chat app Signal, 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:31.500 who published a blog post ahead of a vote on the proposal scheduled for this week. 00:01:31.500 --> 00:01:36.000 Thankfully, the vote was postponed, but this felt like a bit of a close call. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.000 Watching the EU regulate something feels a little bit like watching your friend win a race, 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.000 but then they just keep running, and now you've got to stop them 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.000 before this gets all Viva Vendetta. Ideas are bulletproof. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:51.000 Throws knives. Reviews of Snapdragon Axelit laptops 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:55.500 that aren't an ASUS VivoBook S15 with the lowest tier elite variant 00:01:55.500 --> 00:02:00.000 are trickling onto the web, which is fine if you're into variety, I guess. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.000 Various outlets like Tom's Guide and XDA Developers 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.500 posted benchmarks of the HP Omnibook X, the Microsoft Service Pro 11, 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:13.500 and the Surface Laptop 7, the latter two of which feature the middle tier X1E8100. 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:18.000 Even with more juice, though, the story sounds pretty similar to early reviews, 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:24.000 or best Intel and AMD's current competitors while losing out overall to Apple's M3. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.500 The gaming picture looks a bit more promising, though. Most of the 25 games that Forbes tested 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:33.000 were somewhat playable, and Microsoft is promoting its partnership 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.500 with ARM-focused company, Linaro, on a game's compatibility website 00:02:36.500 --> 00:02:41.000 called Works on Widows on ARM, which everyone is calling wowowa for short. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.000 No one's calling it that. I am. Everyone loves calling it that. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 Regardless, these co-pilot plus PCs 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.000 are here to stay. A leak points to more unannounced chip variants on the whale, 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:56.000 though they're on the lower end of the range. Sure, you might not use your thin and light ARM notebook for gaming, 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.000 but having a Windows laptop that actually goes to sleep 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.000 and wakes up without setting your bag on fire is kind of an automatic win anyway. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.000 Especially in the bag not on fire championships. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 That's my entire survival kit. I was planning on my backpack 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.500 to keep me warm for at least three days. Now I'm gonna die in a nuclear winter. 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:15.000 And I can't even play any games. Perplexity, the AI search engine 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:20.000 being accused of plagiarism by Forbes and other journalists also appears to be ignoring 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.000 an even more basic rule of Internet decency. 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:28.000 The robot exclusion protocol is actually not the name of a rule that keeps robots from booking tables at restaurants 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:33.000 because they don't even eat. They're wasting everyone's time. But it is the name for the widely accepted standard 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.000 wherein web crawlers can be blocked from crawling a given website 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.000 by checking its robots.txt file. Developer Rob Knight discovered 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.000 that Perplexity's web crawler blatantly ignores the robot's file, 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.000 which was confirmed by Wired, who also just accused the AI company 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:52.000 of plagiarizing its article calling Perplexity a bullshit machine. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.000 They were in a bad mood, but valid. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.000 Robots can't even deprecate themselves anymore? I'm depressed as f***, 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.000 and I could say all terrible s*** about me. But guys, once again, 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.000 the plagiarism and hallucination are just growing pains for generative AI. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.000 It's only gonna get better. Perplexity now has access to 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.000 Anthropics' brand new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.000 which outperforms its previous flagship, Claude 3 Opus, 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.000 as well as OpenAI's GPT-40, 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.000 at least according to Anthropics' own benchmarks. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.000 It's gonna be fine, and we're all gonna have a good laugh about this 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.000 when we're sitting outside watching the robots eat. Look, we did that. 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.000 Awesome. Enjoy the foie gras. I got bad news. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.000 Turns out, no countries are real. But if that's true, 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.000 why aren't you just falling through space right now? Anyway, here's quick bits. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:42.000 New York's governor has passed two social media laws aimed at protecting children 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:45.000 from addictive feeds and data collection. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.000 But hey, maybe if we can't control social media, 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.000 the U.S. government should reconsider TikTok's kill switch offer. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:55.000 In 2022, the video platform offered the federal government the ability 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.000 to immediately suspend the app in the United States 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.000 if it didn't follow certain rules. And instead of doing that, 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.000 they decided to just try and make TikTok sell itself. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 We could have had a big red button that existed just to make Zoomers panic. 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.000 It would have been hilarious. Bam! 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.000 Bye, Charlie D'Amelio. The group of hackers that caused massive disruptions 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.000 to several London hospitals apparently also absconded 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:22.000 with large amounts of patient data. The group demanded a ransom of 40 million pounds, 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:27.000 or about 50 million dollars, from NHS provider Sinovus to keep the data private. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.000 It seems the group didn't get the ransom since they published about 380 gigabytes 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.000 worth of stolen data, which seems to all be blood tests. 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:38.000 Really? That's the data you stole? 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.000 You could have found every Londoner who had a shampoo bottle removed from their anal canal. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.000 You're worse than criminals. You're boring. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.000 Anal canal is medical. Okay? That's true. 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.000 I'm teaching the kids something. Children, the word of the day is anal canal. 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.000 Spotify has yet again updated its pricing options, 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.000 this time adding a discount for non-audiobook enthusiasts. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.000 If you just want to stream music and don't care about 15 hours 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:08.000 of audiobook listening time per month, you can get the basic plan for 10.99 a month 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.000 instead of paying 11.99 for premium. A whole dollar! 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.000 Wow! Can I go to the store, mom? 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.000 Give myself a single candy? At the same time, though, 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Spotify is also offering an audiobooks access subscription 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.000 that gives you just the 15 hours of audiobook listening 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:29.000 for 9.99. Wait, what? Yeah. 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 You'd think since Spotify offers many audiobooks 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:37.000 about mathematics, they'd know that $1 and $10 are very different values. 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.000 Well, I mean, who can say? 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.000 Mathematicians. And me. Mathematicians and me. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.000 U.S. supermarkets are rolling out more electronic price labels 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.000 for items. The labels can change prices six times a minute 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:55.000 and may allow for dynamic pricing, like Uber, but more dystopian. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.000 The tech can be used to lower prices on soon-to-expire items 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.000 and also increase the price of water and ice cream 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.000 when it gets hot outside. They could already do that, but now it goes to the speed of capitalism. 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:09.000 I have questions. If an item's price changes in the time between 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.000 when I grab it off the shelf and when I get to the till, 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:16.000 which do I pay? Will I have to write down what time I grabbed it? 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.000 I'm panic-buying store-brand donuts for a potluck. Do I look like I can keep track of time? 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:23.000 And a former SNAP engineer is launching Butterflies, 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.000 a social network for humans and AIs to interact. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.000 User-generated AI personas called Butterflies 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.000 will automatically generate posts that humans 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.000 and other AIs can interact with. What's the point? 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.000 AI meet AI. You guys just talk. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.000 I imagine it's something like this viral video of a reverse touring test, 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.000 five historical figures in a train car, four of which are AI, 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.000 and they're trying to figure out who is human by asking questions. 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.000 The AI all gave long, thoughtful responses. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:57.000 The human, meanwhile... Thank you for your question, Cleopatra. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.000 What a leader should do is to crush his enemies, 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.000 see them driven before him, and hear the limitations of their women. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:10.000 Maybe AI should take over the world. And maybe you should come back on Monday for more tech news. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:13.000 I won't be here, but I'll know if you're gone. Don't test him. 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.000 I can see you, and frankly, I'm uncomfortable.