WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.080 When I say it's time for tech news, I'm not screwing around. It's time. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:09.920 Right after I finish this little thing that I'm...uh, what? What is this? 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:17.280 Valve might be working on something like a SteamOS-powered set-top box to compete with the 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:24.080 NVIDIA Shield, according to a Reddit post from the user CoolBeho3k, featuring an impressive 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:28.720 level of research and reasonable speculation. He's a CoolBeho in my book. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:34.000 But this mysterious device is also tied to ChromeOS in some way. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.440 See, CoolBeho3k spotted a change to the Steam Deck kernel made by a Valve employee 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:44.240 working on a device that includes the ChromeOS-embedded controller, 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.080 a chip that handles some background tasks in a ChromeOS device. 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:54.320 That's making some people think that instead of a SteamBox running SteamOS, 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.120 it could be a ChromeBox with special Steam integration, 00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:03.040 after all Chromebooks already have official support for some Steam games. 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:09.120 The device is associated with a platform codenamed AMD Lilac, which Geekbench listings 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:16.080 indicate means some kind of Ryzen 5 8540U configuration, so whatever this thing is, 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:22.560 it'll have some gaming chops, leading some to speculate that maybe this device isn't a box at 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.880 It's the rumored SteamVR headset codenamed Deckard. 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:34.160 Just want to point out that would still be kind of a box, you strapped your face, a lot of different boxes in the world, it's fine. 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:37.440 For the third day of OpenAI, the company gave to me, 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:44.800 Sora. Yep, OpenAI has officially released a public version of the mind-blowingly 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:48.400 realistic video generator they first showed off in February. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.400 Although they didn't give it to me, because I don't have a chat GPT+, 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:55.920 or pro subscription, if you do, then they gave it to you. 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:01.040 But only after they gave it to professional ultimate Frisbee player, 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:07.280 Marques Brownlee, who used it to fake himself making an amazing catch, this guy. 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.160 You know, he's really gone downhill. You know, when it comes to the Frisbees. 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:16.800 Anyway, OpenAI says they are releasing the turbo version of Sora, 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.960 complete with a new interface with a variety of controls and features like 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.680 remix, which will let you tweak specific parts of an existing generated video, 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.440 and combine, which can bleed two clips into each other. 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:36.400 There are a boatload of Sora clips out there now, so we can see that it's still really good at aerial landscape shots, 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:43.440 and surprisingly good at slow motion, because the janky AI movements seem less alien in that medium. 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:47.200 But of course, Sora will also make videos with a bunch of errors, 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:54.960 especially when there's lots going on, and will definitely pop a second phone into the hand of Marques's AI clone, 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.120 only to vanish it a second later. 00:02:58.160 --> 00:03:04.160 Unless you're going to tell me he's a pro magician too, which is frankly too many things to be a pro at. 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:09.920 Although I guess he made up for it with the app thing. It's better now, they fixed a bunch of it, stop. 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:13.040 Reddit, the so-called front page of the internet, 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:17.120 is tired of living in the shadow of the Googles and the open AIs of the world, 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:24.080 so they're announcing Reddit Answers, a new AI-powered search interface that will bring up curated summaries of 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.760 relevant conversations and details from across Reddit, 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:32.320 presenting it in sort of a perplexity AI style generated report. 00:03:32.320 --> 00:03:36.480 Now you might say, okay well I can just search Google and add Reddit to the end. 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:37.760 That's exactly the problem! 00:03:40.320 --> 00:03:47.200 That was Reddit, that was being right. In press interviews Reddit representatives spoke about how a major way that people use the internet now 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:56.160 is just searching for Reddit posts. Their massive repository of posts by real humans looking for information from other real humans 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:00.080 has become increasingly important as large swaths of the internet 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:07.280 slide downward in quality, like loosened chunks of earth sliding off a cliff into an ocean of AI slop. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:12.000 Of course Reddit is not immune from this, announcing a number of unpopular changes in recent years, 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.760 but Reddit's point is that maybe if you want to search Reddit, 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:20.640 you could search on Reddit, and now it's time for quick bits. 00:04:20.640 --> 00:04:24.080 But first I have to tell you that it's time, but do I have to? 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:28.400 Google has apparently achieved two significant breakthroughs in quantum computing, 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:33.920 which the tech giant shared while unveiling their new quantum processor Willow this morning. 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.160 The first breakthrough is that Willow broke the quantum error connection threshold. 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.920 Google was able to exponentially decrease the system's error rate 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:48.400 by increasing the number of qubits involved, holding quantum information stable for an average of an hour. 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:54.400 We can only manage like 10 minutes max. The second breakthrough is taking five minutes to run a benchmark 00:04:54.400 --> 00:04:58.800 that Google says would take one of the fastest supercomputers in the world 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.080 10 septillion years to complete. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:05.120 And by that point, I think you'd be ready for an upgrade. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:09.680 NVIDIA is now being investigated for anti-competitive behavior by China 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:16.160 in a move that some analysts are characterizing as retaliation for the US government imposing restrictions 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:22.880 on the export of NVIDIA chips to the country. And while the US has ramped up such restrictions recently, 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:26.400 they're also investigating NVIDIA for antitrust. 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:32.560 Now both sides are going to have to put their sunglasses on puff up their chests and say, this is my investigation. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.600 Well, I have a warrant. This is not going to be pretty. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:40.960 Freakin' Pat Gelsinger is tweeting through the pain of being ousted as Intel CEO, 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:44.560 congratulating new Intel board members once they get appointed, 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.640 and helping fellow Pat, an industry analyst, Patrick Morehead, 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:54.320 to correct misinformation about Intel's yields on the 18a process node being horrible. 00:05:54.320 --> 00:05:57.360 Pat's together strong. You know what they say. 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:02.080 Post-firing, Gelsinger's tweeted that he's very proud of the Foundry team 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:05.840 and is even publicly praying for them to stay strong. 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:13.840 I don't know how likely this is, but science says there's a slim chance Pat could actually tweet himself back into the CEO's office. 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:20.080 I mean, Sam Altman did it. TikTok has filed for a temporary pause on the law that would see the company banned 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:23.120 if its owner ByteDance doesn't sell it to someone else, 00:06:23.200 --> 00:06:26.800 since, with just over a month left to go until the deadline 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:34.080 and a new presidential administration coming in, we should just pause everything and, you know, until we figure out what the hell is going on. 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:39.440 TikTok seems to think President Trump might save them, as he implied he will do, 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:45.760 but in a Sunday interview with Meet the Press, Trump implied he might still want ByteDance to sell TikTok, 00:06:45.760 --> 00:06:50.720 saying the government has the right to ban it, quote, if you can prove that the Chinese companies own it. 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:56.880 Which they do. I think it's more about the Chinese government controlling things. 00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:05.520 You can't have Chinese companies. Okay. And Ubisoft has released patches for Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:10.160 which fix the crashing issues caused by Windows 11's 24H2 update. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:15.840 Players might still run into some performance issues, but at least they can play, while Assassin's Creed Origins, 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:19.600 Odyssey, and Valhalla are still properly borked. 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.960 While Microsoft is partially to blame for the Ubi issues, 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:28.160 ask yourself why the original AC games with Desmond weren't affected. 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:32.880 Why did they drop that storyline? May have helped this whole situation, we can't know. 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:37.680 But I can know what would help me, you coming back here on Wednesday for more tech news. 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:42.240 That is the next time at which tech news happens. I don't know why it skips days. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:46.640 I only know that the Desmond Modern Day storyline gave me a greater context 00:07:46.640 --> 00:07:49.440 that made those games more interesting. That's all I know.