WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 Tech news isn't out there. It's not some abstract concept. 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:08.840 It's in here, in this building. There's way too much of it. 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:12.160 We're wading around in it all day. My legs are tired. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:17.160 NVIDIA will finally let the RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:21.240 see the light of day at CES in January 2025, 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:24.360 according to sources who spoke to WCCF tech, 00:00:24.360 --> 00:00:28.920 which I just learned stands for where consumers come first. 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:33.440 Well, I hope so. WCCF tech specs for the top two cards 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:37.720 match up with the specs posted by Prolific Leaker Copight 7 Kimmy. 00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:43.760 We're talking a whopping 600 watt power rating and 32 gigabytes of VRAM on the 5090. 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:47.640 Unfortunately, people are less jazzed about the 5080, 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:51.640 allegedly having less than half the 5090's GPU cores 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.520 and the 5070 only having 12 gigabytes of VRAM. 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.480 Some games already use more than that to push ultra settings at 4K. 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:03.280 And it's also the same amount of VRAM as the RTX 4080 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:08.400 that NVIDIA eventually unlaunched due to backlash that almost immediately dissipated 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.840 thanks to NVIDIA giving us a fun new word. Unlaunched? 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.320 Didn't know you could do that. If you are mad about the 12 Gigabyte thing, 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:22.840 well, PC Gamer points out that NVIDIA has said they're more into GPU cache than memory capacity right now. 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:27.100 Since if the cache is big and fast enough, you have to dip into the VRAM less. 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:32.080 So maybe consider being mad at NVIDIA for any of the many other good reasons. 00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:36.820 They're overpriced. Linux drivers suck. Jensen cornered the leather jacket market 00:01:36.820 --> 00:01:40.340 and now I can't find affordable options. All equally valid. 00:01:40.340 --> 00:01:43.740 He's paid off all the tanners. The Full House family? 00:01:44.940 --> 00:01:48.180 Yesterday, Intel officially unveiled Arrow Lake, 00:01:48.180 --> 00:01:52.300 AKA the Intel Core Ultra 200S series of desktop processors 00:01:52.300 --> 00:01:58.660 and true to the leaks from earlier this week, the chip's shining achievement is using about half the power 00:01:58.660 --> 00:02:03.620 of their Raptor Lake 14th gen predecessors to achieve similar performance. 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:08.660 Intel is being very upfront about their goal being to maintain gaming performance 00:02:08.660 --> 00:02:12.940 because what gamers want most of all is a steady hand to guide the ship. 00:02:12.940 --> 00:02:18.180 A massive jump in performance? Oh, no, no, I'm good where I'm at. 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:24.040 Thank you kindly. I'll do the same work for less. Now that we have those previously leaked slides in English, 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:29.760 we can see Intel's own graphs, ostensibly meant to convince people to buy these processors, 00:02:29.760 --> 00:02:33.280 showing the flagship Core i9 Ultra 285K 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:37.680 losing to not only an Intel Core i9 14900K, 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:42.680 but also a Ryzen 99950X and 7950X3D. 00:02:42.940 --> 00:02:46.240 On the plus side, obviously greater power efficiency 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:50.660 could lead to more powerful chips down the line. Arrow Lake seems to be a bit cheaper 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:55.160 than AMD's direct competitors right now. And at least Intel isn't lying through their teeth 00:02:55.160 --> 00:02:58.720 inflating their numbers like they used to. I'm hoping that's true. 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:05.120 And there totally won't be a microcode issue this time. After all, AMD's got their own eggs in the oven. 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.680 They just launched fifth gen Epic Turin data center chips, 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:14.320 which look pretty good, as well as the Instinct MI325X AI accelerator, 00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:17.800 which is not an NVIDIA chip and that's good. 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:22.280 Plus the Ryzen 99900X3D was just spotted in Cinebench, 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:28.040 meaning AMD is still aware that sometimes people play games on a computer. 00:03:28.040 --> 00:03:32.040 Well, you guys don't have PS5s? At Tesla's WeRobot event yesterday, 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:36.560 the company finally unveiled their long-hyped RoboTaxi prototype, 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:42.560 apparently using an online synonym generator to come up with the car's actual name, CyberCab. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:47.800 Why not CompuCar? TechnoRickshaw. 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:51.720 Anyways, it'll cost $30,000 and launch in the next two years, 00:03:51.720 --> 00:03:55.840 since it doesn't have a steering wheel or pedals and so will rely entirely 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:01.080 on Tesla's full self-driving technology, which science has proven is always two years away 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:05.000 at any point on the time-space continuum. Tesla showed the CyberCab 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.920 pulling into a specialized station to charge via inductive charging, 00:04:08.920 --> 00:04:14.640 which it uses exclusively, and have specialized robots clean its two seats. 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:19.400 Because yeah, despite being about the same size as other cabs with four or more seats, 00:04:19.400 --> 00:04:23.320 this thing seats two people. Three, if you squish. 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:26.560 Maybe you cut one and a half. Making it a great example of a company 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.960 challenging themselves to make their own product again, 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:33.720 but worse. Also, I'm sorry, Tesla themselves seem confused 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:39.200 about what this thing is called. They're still referring to the RoboTaxi and RoboVan, 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:44.000 because oh yeah, there's a RoboVan. Two, you get two seats or 20, there's no in between. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:48.200 Honestly, the more interesting part of the event for me were the Optimus Robots, 00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:51.400 which the Tesla website calls Tesla Bot. 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:54.680 Is it like a naming free for all at Tesla HQ? What's happening? 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:01.680 Elon paraded the bots out during the event, describing them as R2-D2 or C3PO, but better. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:08.080 Better at what? R2-D2 can fly. Elon goes on to say Optimus will do anything you want. 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:11.120 It can be a teacher, babysit your kids. 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.440 And of course babysitting was the second thing that Elon thought of. 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:19.000 He's trying to spread his genes over the planet like a virus. And yet avoid all his kids at times. 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:24.960 And I think this will be the biggest product ever 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:28.520 of any kind. Very big, very good. 00:05:28.520 --> 00:05:34.720 What he didn't actually say was whether these robots were operating autonomously or being controlled remotely, 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.720 as in many of the company's previous demos. 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:43.080 Hear me out, strings. Tech evangelist Robert Scoble asked one of the robots, 00:05:43.080 --> 00:05:46.480 how much of you is AI? Some or none? 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.040 To which the obviously human voice replied, it might be some. 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:56.760 Okay, but, but the robots themselves were pretty impressive 00:05:56.760 --> 00:06:02.600 at translating the human operator's motion. So the bodies themselves do look kind of impressive. 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:07.240 Not enough to impress investors though, since Tesla shares tumbled nearly 8% after the show. 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:12.000 Just wait two years. Now quick bits, those are out there somewhere. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.840 That's why we have to wait for them to arrive. Oh God. 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:19.520 I feel them coming. Internet archives The Way Back Machine 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:23.960 suffered a data breach this week, affecting 31 million users. 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:27.840 Visitors to the site were cleverly able to piece this information together, 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:34.280 thanks to a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, directing 31 million people to have I Been Pwned, 00:06:34.280 --> 00:06:38.320 a site specifically designed for checking if your email address was in a data breach. 00:06:38.320 --> 00:06:41.920 Are they detectives? While this is terrible news for the internet archive, 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:46.600 and also millions of people, it's pretty great news for fidelity investments. 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.960 It reported a much smaller data breach the same day the internet archive one broke. 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:56.120 The best way to hide corporate incompetence is comparison. Instagram and Threads moderation 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.960 has started driving away users due to multiple baffling decisions, 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:05.600 deleting or restricting accounts for linking to articles with controversial topics, 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.960 locking accounts for joking about wanting to die, 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:12.200 and instantly removing posts mentioning saltines 00:07:12.200 --> 00:07:17.120 or crackerjacks. Instagram and Threads boss Adam Massari 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:21.400 has addressed the issues, claiming that human moderators were responsible 00:07:21.400 --> 00:07:25.480 for the takedowns, not AI. Are they though? 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.280 It's multiple people's Instagram accounts were deleted for being under 13, 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:32.720 even when those people uploaded IDs proving otherwise. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:38.320 And that sounds like some robot shit to me. A software engineer learned he was being dumped 00:07:38.320 --> 00:07:43.560 from an AI tech summary. Nick Spreen was using the Apple intelligence beta 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:48.840 on his iPhone 15 Pro, when it summarized a breakup text from his now ex 00:07:48.840 --> 00:07:53.280 as no longer in relationship, wants belongings from the apartment. 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:57.920 It was also his birthday, but that's not really the AI's fault, just sucks. 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:03.320 Spreen told Ars Technica that he didn't hate the level of distance the summary created. 00:08:03.320 --> 00:08:07.320 And think of the time savings too, instead of agonizing over every word 00:08:07.320 --> 00:08:12.760 written by the person he thought he was building a life with, he could go straight to crying in the bathtub. 00:08:12.760 --> 00:08:18.920 Much more efficient. Sounds like a software engineer. Scientists think they can fix serious medical issues 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.000 by injecting little discs in your brain. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.600 It's science. Deep brain stimulation is an established treatment 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:30.120 for conditions like Parkinson's, epilepsy, and even obsessive compulsive disorder. 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:34.280 Unfortunately, DBS requires invasive and risky surgeries. 00:08:34.280 --> 00:08:39.920 Researchers believe these new nano discs can be injected into precise regions of the brain 00:08:39.920 --> 00:08:44.280 and activated with an external electromagnet. Extra special bonus, 00:08:44.280 --> 00:08:47.160 now your cranial microplastics will have a friend. 00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:51.740 Let's hope they don't team up. And startup Vast has released mockups 00:08:51.740 --> 00:08:57.760 for the world's first commercial space station that it plans to potentially launch next year. 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:01.360 And honestly, it looks good. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.840 The design features soft and padded interior walls 00:09:04.880 --> 00:09:09.840 that are occasionally broken up by wooden paneling. Basically, it looks like someone asked Ikea 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.240 to design an extraterrestrial insane asylum. Though I will say this, 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:17.800 the sleeping arrangements look comfy. I'd sleep on that wall for sure, 00:09:17.800 --> 00:09:21.240 which I don't get to say that often. When a shape-shifting alien breaks in, 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:24.800 they are gonna have the best time. I swear, I'm the real captain. 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:28.320 This is nice. You shouldn't sleep on more tech news though. 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:32.080 So come back on Wednesday for more. Don't come here on Monday. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:38.120 It's a holiday due to Canadian Thanksgiving, which is like American Thanksgiving, but earlier. 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.760 Also, there's Tim Hortons. But we did it first, so we win.