1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Hi, it's me, Jake Tyvee, and I love technology, computers, and hard drives so much that if 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,520 someone else says they're not really into that stuff, my face gets hot and I have to 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:16,720 find an object and strike it. Anyways, here's the news. Apple appears to be joining the AI arms race, according to a Financial Times report claiming 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:21,200 that Apple has been steadily investing in hardware, AI startups, and key staff with 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,800 the aim of getting generative AI to run locally on Apple products. 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,080 Cupertino has been criticized for being slow to incorporate AI, but if these reports are 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,000 accurate, the company is actually targeting something far more ambitious than what any 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:39,400 other OEM has been able to accomplish. Extremely lightweight LLMs along the lines of Meta's Llama have been demoed running 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,680 on a small device like a phone or a raspy, but they don't run well, less Usain Bolt 10 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,020 and more asthmatic kid with concrete sneakers. 11 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:53,280 Which explains why the Rabbit R1, the ultra-hyped pocket AI assistant device, apparently took 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,880 20 seconds to answer a prompt in a recent TikTok. 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:03,880 But if anyone can smooth out that experience, it's Apple. An analyst project that a new AI-powered Siri will launch with iOS 18. 14 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,240 In the meantime, the most recent iOS update includes opt-in stolen device protection that 15 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:13,860 requires additional steps like Face ID and Touch ID to access sensitive data on the iPhone. 16 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:17,880 To change their Apple ID password or remove biometric security scans, users will have 17 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,120 to first pass those scans and then endure a one-hour security delay. 18 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,880 Of course, these steps won't apply if the user is in a familiar location, but I guess 19 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,440 if the burglar is currently standing in your home, you've got bigger problems than just 20 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,940 your phone password. What are you going to feed him? Gun bullets. 21 00:01:32,940 --> 00:01:37,160 Relying on biometric scans clearly isn't the perfect security solution though, because 22 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,560 Apple required Face ID in order to pre-order a Vision Pro, and the scalpers just used bots 23 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:47,160 with that data hard-coded in. How much are resellers expecting in return for this asinine bit of ingenuity? 24 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,960 $10,000 on eBay. Well, you want them to do it for free? No. 25 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,960 They've got to get paid for their hard work. It's a market. It's a free market. 26 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,480 AMD is now shipping its new Instinct MI300X AI Accelerator GPUs to enterprise customers, 27 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,680 according to one of their customers, Lemini AI. Lemini. 28 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:08,760 Hopefully I said that right. Previously, MI300 series chips were reserved for supercomputer clients, but AMD is already 29 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:15,760 projecting that these chips will be its fastest product to $1 billion in sales since its founding. 30 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,920 According to AMD's benchmarks, the MI300X outdoes NVIDIA's 80GB H100, though we've 31 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,360 yet to see how it will fare against the upcoming H200. 32 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,400 Beyond AMD's underdog journey to fight NVIDIA for control over the AI chip money pit, let's 33 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:37,680 talk about chips that normal people can actually buy. Leaked benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 8700G and the Ryzen 5 8600G APUs seem to show that the 34 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:43,080 new processors are 50% to 67% faster than their direct predecessors, with particularly 35 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:50,320 strong numbers shown on multi-threaded tests. This would place them only just below AMD's 7000 series CPUs in terms of performance, although 36 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,040 one caveat to these numbers is that this lineup hasn't been updated in two and a half years. 37 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,480 It's still impressive, but it's like your grandma seeing you for the first time in months 38 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,400 and congratulating you on getting so tall. I'm the same height, grandma! 39 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,680 I've been six foot for like ten years, I swear. I'll have another grandma better. 40 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,920 It's only Wednesday and it's already been a big weekend's space. Not that space isn't already pretty massive. 41 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:15,080 Sierra Space demonstrated the strength and resilience of their new inflatable space station 42 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,280 habitat the way that any eight-year-old boy would, by inflating it until it exploded. 43 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,360 The soft habitat is designed to be light and compact enough to send into space, but it'll 44 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,760 expand once it gets there, allowing astronauts to live far more comfortably aboard the ISS. 45 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,040 I thought they didn't have air in space. Even aboard the ISS? 46 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,040 Yeah. But if you want people to feel safe living in what is effectively a space-age bouncy castle, 47 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:44,600 you've gotta show that it's safe. Which they did by inflating it to 77 psi, 500% of its normal operating pressure, before 48 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,160 it bursts like a tomato hitting a windshield. Does that happen to you? 49 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:54,000 Let me know in the comments. In other news, NASA has managed to establish contact with its helicopter on Mars. 50 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,640 But less happily, a second moon mission has failed this week, this time without even reaching 51 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:04,640 the lunar surface. Astrobiotic's unmanned peregrine moon lander experienced a post-launch propulsion malfunction 52 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,600 that resulted in it falling back to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere, alongside 53 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,000 a few of NASA's little science fair projects, leading the entire team to get an F and call 54 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,800 home to their parents. Hi, I'm still Jake Tyvey, and you know what? 55 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,840 I'm kind of over this technology stuff. Just kidding. 56 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:22,960 I will never ever stop loving tech ever. 57 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,440 I'm scared. Quick move. Disney park Imagineers appeared to have solved one of the holy grails of VR by inventing 58 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,720 an omnidirectional treadmill that looks like it's made out of breath mints. 59 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,880 The hollow tile floor is modular, expandable, and can be used by multiple people at this 60 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,560 same time, and can even be used to move objects around using motion controls. 61 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,960 Disney's research fellow and Imagineer Lanny Smoot, who has been inducted into the National 62 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,280 Inventors Hall of Fame, said you can dance on it without actually moving, which has been 63 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:54,560 a dream of nerds for centuries. Following a non-fatal accident that saw a fuselage panel blow off of an Alaska Airlines 64 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,520 plane mid-flight, the airline's fleet of Boeing 737s was thoroughly inspected, revealing 65 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,400 a shocking number of loose bolts, which, given that these are airplanes that could kill you, 66 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,720 is literally any amount of loose bolts. 67 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,560 In response, the Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all 737 Max 9s with mid-cabin 68 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:20,480 door plugs. For Boeing, an industry insider says that the panel was removed from repair, then improperly 69 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,680 reinstalled by Boeing's own mechanics. Even worse for Boeing? 70 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,560 Yesterday in Atlanta, a 757 lost nosewheel while preparing for takeoff. 71 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,080 You know what? Maybe I'll just walk to Seattle. 72 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,900 Only a week after open AI banned using chatGPT to impersonate political candidates, the company 73 00:05:38,900 --> 00:05:43,360 has suspended the account of the developer behind a bot used to impersonate US presidential 74 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:48,920 hopeful Dean Phillips. Notably, the bot was created by supporters, but it comes with a disclaimer that says, 75 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,520 while it was designed to sound like Phillips, it's possible that it could say things that 76 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,880 are wrong, incorrect, or shouldn't be said. So perhaps this was for their own good. 77 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,420 This election season has already seen far more malicious uses of AI, such as robocalls 78 00:06:01,420 --> 00:06:05,520 using the artificial voice of Joe Biden, used to tell citizens to not vote in the New Hampshire 79 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:10,360 primary. That doesn't sound anything like Joe Biden. Where's the part where he rambles for 10 minutes about Amtrak? 80 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,960 You're a gristle. There's some great trains. That's not my president. 81 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,880 We live in Canada. France has fined Amazon the equivalent of around 35 million US dollars. 82 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,360 I'm saying that with emphasis, but that's really not a lot of money for Amazon. 83 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:29,000 For excessively intrusive worker surveillance. France's data protection agency said Amazon's French ARM was tracking worker activity so 84 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,480 precisely that employees potentially had to justify every break they took. 85 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,720 To give you an idea of how precisely they were being tracked, Amazon could tell if workers 86 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,320 spent 1.25 seconds quality checking an item or not. 87 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,520 In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson wrote that the government's conclusions were factually 88 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,200 incorrect. Unfortunately, the spokesperson was fired soon after because they took an extra millisecond 89 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:58,080 to finish typing. 1.26 A young British man is in Spanish court on charges of public disorder for what Spanish 90 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,920 authorities are calling a bomb hoax, and what the young man in question described as a 91 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:08,760 private joke between friends. While boarding a flight in 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma messaged his buddies over Snapchat, 92 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,680 On my way to blow up the plane, I'm a member of the Taliban. 93 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,240 It's unclear how British intelligence intercepted the message, but they alerted the Spanish 94 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,640 military, who now wants Verma to cover the over $100,000 cost of sending a fighter jet 95 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:27,160 to respond to the incident. And this is why we need to warn our children about the dangers of Snapchat. 96 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,200 An unencrypted Wi-Fi, that's the real message here. 97 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:35,720 But there's no danger in coming back on Friday for more tech news. It'll be right here, the way you remember it. 98 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,760 But a little different, because it's the news. And they'll be hard drives.