WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.680 Tell me in a comment below why you clicked on this video and whether me baking fresh cookies a few minutes ago 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:09.920 had anything to do with it. Everybody loves the smell of fresh cookies. 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:15.040 I just thought. Anyway, tech news time. Google has admitted in a court filing posted on Friday 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:18.600 that the open web is already in rapid decline. 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.720 Finally, someone said it. As spot, Google of all people, 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:24.720 as spotted by Jason Kint on Twitter. 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:27.880 Google submitted the filing after crashing into a courthouse 00:00:27.880 --> 00:00:32.040 dressed in a hot dog costume and assuring everyone that, like them, 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:36.760 Google is just trying to find the guy who caused this rapid decline, okay? 00:00:36.760 --> 00:00:42.200 Google's statement here reeks of just trying to get an even weaker punishment in its antitrust case 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:46.680 because the statement conflicts with everything else they've publicly said recently 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:50.960 about how AI search isn't destroying the web by leading to less click-throughs 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:56.720 to publisher websites at all. And in fact, the web is thriving according to Nick Fox, 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:03.440 Google's senior VP of knowledge and information. Pretty sure you have to be pretty smart to get that job. 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:06.260 Probably won Jeopardy at least a couple of times. 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:11.480 Move over, Ken Jennings. 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.680 I forgot, I would not win Jeopardy. So it's trying to hear Google say something 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:21.480 that seems to agree with recent research saying that AI tools are negatively affecting traffic 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.880 to publisher sites, decreasing the ad revenue they can collect, and imperiling 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:29.000 the already fragile economic model of the web. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.600 Now, obviously Google doesn't want people to get the wrong idea here, as explained on Twitter 00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:37.880 by Google VP of Global Ads, Dan Taylor. 00:01:37.880 --> 00:01:45.200 What Google meant to imply in the filing is that open web display advertising is in decline. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.360 Not the open web as a whole. The open web isn't going anywhere. 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:52.760 It's just that the only people who will make any money on it is Google. 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:57.280 Aren't they in charge of the display advertising too? I hope this helps. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:02.640 One and a half billion dollars. That's the amount that Anthropic just agreed to cough up 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:07.560 in a first of its kind copyright settlement with authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graber, 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.640 and Kirk Wallace Johnson, because writing a book is so hard 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:15.400 and they just deserve it. It was like a tip, but also because they initiated 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.800 a class action against the company, claiming it used tons of pirated books 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.120 to train its Claude chatbot. So many tokens. 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:30.200 The settlement is particularly interesting because back in June, a US district judge ruled 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:34.320 that using legally obtained books to train AI software 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:37.640 is not actually a violation of US copyright law, 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:40.800 which implied that you could just buy one copy of a book 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:45.760 and train your AI on it and it's fine. But in the settlement filing, the plaintiff state 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:51.280 that if approved, this landmark settlement will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:55.480 in history, setting a precedent for the future of training large language models 00:02:55.480 --> 00:02:58.480 using just about anything they can find online, 00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:02.920 as long as they pay for it. Because the big takeaway here is that training AI 00:03:02.920 --> 00:03:07.320 on copyrighted stuff you actually bought might still be fair use, but pirated books, 00:03:07.320 --> 00:03:12.800 well that's gonna be a billion and a half dollar oopsie. Damage to subsea cables in the Red Sea 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:17.140 is wreaking havoc on internet performance across Asia and the Middle East. 00:03:17.140 --> 00:03:23.560 On Saturday, multiple critical undersea fiber links decided to cosplay as spaghetti, just on their own, 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.080 near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, triggering widespread latency 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.600 spikes in India, Pakistan, and the UAE. 00:03:30.600 --> 00:03:36.600 Microsoft confirmed that its Azure cloud services were also affected, though traffic wasn't halted, 00:03:36.600 --> 00:03:41.480 many users experienced noticeable delays as Microsoft rerouted network traffic 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:45.240 via longer alternative paths. It's actually worse, I think. 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:49.520 Going the long way around. Status updates later indicated that Azure services 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:55.160 in the Middle East have been restored, though ongoing high latency lingers for some users. 00:03:55.160 --> 00:03:59.960 Cable operators and monitoring group Netblocks reported that telecom networks across the UAE 00:03:59.960 --> 00:04:03.420 also felt the pinch, with disruptions continuing 00:04:03.420 --> 00:04:07.780 as repair efforts ramp up. The worst part of all of this is that repair timelines 00:04:07.780 --> 00:04:11.000 are still up in the air, partly because the Red Sea 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.760 isn't exactly the friendliest neighborhood for weekend cable fixing parties right now. 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:19.760 That was dashedly hoot these. You know, at a certain point in life, 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:23.320 everyone has that moment where they stop and think to themselves, hmm, 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:27.560 I wonder where those quick bits went. Where are they? Well, guess what? 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.920 I found them. I found them. 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:34.560 Back in March, Neuralink tried trademarking telepathy 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.080 and telekinesis, promising a future where you could move stuff with your mind 00:04:39.080 --> 00:04:43.440 or whisper secrets without opening your mouth. Elon should try thinking. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.880 But last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office denied those applications. 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:55.400 Turns out they were snagged way back in May 2023 and August 2024 by Wesley Perry, 00:04:55.400 --> 00:04:59.120 founder of a lucid dreaming startup called Prophetic, 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:03.800 which is building a matrix style headset you wear while sleeping to trigger lucid dreams. 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:08.640 Sex dreams you can control. Or any other kind of dreams, Riley. 00:05:09.760 --> 00:05:15.240 Still, Neuralink's own filings make it clear they want telepathy on the market, 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.400 a brain-computer interface for thought-based communication and device control. 00:05:19.400 --> 00:05:25.240 But if you ask me, maybe Elon should try trademarking empathy instead, you know, people have feelings. 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.520 And that one's also taken. Amazon's Starlink competitor, Project Kuiper, 00:05:30.520 --> 00:05:35.360 is finally showing off what it can do, hitting speeds of up to 1.28 gigabits per second 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:40.040 in tests last week. That's faster than a lot of ground-based ISPs. 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.600 But, you know, they have to go through the ground. It's a little harder than- Space, Riley. 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:47.480 It's space. And now it's not just a lab demo either. 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.040 JetBlue has signed on as the first airline partner. 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.760 Starting in 2027, about a quarter of their fleet will get Kuiper-powered Wi-Fi, 00:05:55.760 --> 00:05:58.760 which JetBlue says will be free for passengers, 00:05:58.760 --> 00:06:03.040 only two years. Yes, finally, streaming Netflix at 35,000 feet 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:07.040 without watching the buffer wheel do laps, although that can be entertaining 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:10.280 when there's nothing else going on. Just use it to focus when there's a baby crying. 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:14.160 Microsoft has open-sourced Bill Gates and Rick Weilands, 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:19.160 Whalen's 1976 version of 6502Basic, 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:24.360 the code that once powered icons like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Vic-20. 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:29.280 With nearly 7,000 lines of hand-tuned assembly now free on GitHub, 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:33.600 free lines of assembly, researchers can dig into the DNA 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:37.000 of early personal computing, seeing how software was optimized 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:41.800 when every byte mattered. They have souls. For historians, it's a rare glimpse 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.080 into Microsoft's scrappy garage-era roots. 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:49.680 For editors, it's a great way to see Bill Gates' sense of humor in the assembly comments. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:55.520 He's such a little, you know? He's a little sassy guy, very rich. 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:01.400 And globally, Hollow Knight's silk song is basking in very positive Steam reviews, 00:07:01.400 --> 00:07:06.400 but in China, not so much. Over 14,000 negative reviews 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:11.720 have dragged the simplified Chinese version of the game's rating down to mixed. 00:07:11.760 --> 00:07:15.120 Why? Players say the translation makes it read less like a game 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.640 and more like your buddy's D&D campaign notes after three Red Bulls 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:24.120 if they were tossed into an anime girl dating simulator. Sounds fun, but one localization expert 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.240 even compared it to a high school drama club's 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.680 Elizabethan improv. Imagine trying to fight bosses 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:35.440 while everyone's talking like Shakespeare. Again, it's not, doesn't sound horrible. 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:40.520 Team Cherry quickly apologized, promising to fix the translation in the coming weeks. 00:07:40.520 --> 00:07:45.640 But thanks to Valve's updated review policy, the fallout is mostly quarantined to China. 00:07:45.640 --> 00:07:51.640 Global players still see very positive. So the angry reviews are less world-ending bomb 00:07:51.640 --> 00:07:55.400 and more localized explosion. Speaking of free things, 00:07:55.400 --> 00:07:58.920 which is a segue left over from when there was a different story there, 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.280 come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Completely free. 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:05.760 Of bomb. As long as the economic model of the web 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:10.600 is still intact by then. Hopefully there's, hopefully a bomb didn't. 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.720 We were saying, we're gonna get demonetized. We're giving you a Houthi free guarantee. 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:15.800 Jeez, Louise.