1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,520 This episode's not like the other ones. It's a little bit quirky. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:09,120 Let's just say it never quite fit in. It's just, it's doing its own thing. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,760 All right, get it Riley. Microsoft's latest attempt to convince the world's regulators 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:21,360 that its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard would be totally fine is by forming a fellow alliance 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:27,160 with Nintendo and NVIDIA to battle the forces of anti-trust and frankly embarrass its console nemesis, 6 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,560 Sony. The Microsoft NVIDIA agreement will introduce 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,960 Microsoft games to the GeForce cloud service, including Call of Duty, 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,280 depending on the outcome of the Activision acquisition. This is great wordplay. 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,240 A similar 10 year deal will make Call of Duty games available on Nintendo devices. 10 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,520 No word yet on whether Soap McTavish will be added to the Super Smash Bros roster. 11 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,480 Or if it'll be able to run on Switch. Here's hoping though. Sony rejected basically the same deal 12 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:57,360 when it was offered by Microsoft. And I can't imagine that seeing other industry players 13 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:02,920 gain access to Microsoft's cool clubhouse would feel very nice for any giant tech corporation. 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,760 To make matters worse though, for Sony, the communication workers of America, 15 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,560 a major video game labor union, has added their support to the deal 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,480 in return for a pledge of neutrality from Microsoft toward future unionization. 17 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:20,400 They promise, what Sony, you don't care about workers rights? 18 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,400 More like workstation, am I right? You said it. 19 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaking of Activision, they recently confirmed that they suffered 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,600 a major data breach resulting in the theft of employee data 21 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,280 and their release schedule back in December. Law enforcement's prime suspect now 22 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,800 is a furry green man wearing red. What, the Grinch? 23 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,480 It's a company with a dog. The breach was apparently caused by a successful SMS phishing scam 24 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,280 that gave the hacker privilege access to Activision's internal network. 25 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,720 Activision stresses no sense of employee data, game code or player data was accessed. 26 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,080 Which doesn't explain why they didn't notify the public 27 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,320 or their own employees. In fact, Activision only announced 28 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,600 that the breach occurred after a cybersecurity research group 29 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,680 posted screenshots of the stolen data to Twitter, 30 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,960 which apparently came as a shock to many within Activision. 31 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,000 The hacker was able to access spreadsheets, including the names, phone numbers, email address 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,040 and work addresses of employees, which doesn't meet the strict legal definition 33 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,240 of sensitive data in California. It's a bit like saying, 34 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,640 hey, I didn't post your nudes, just this picture of you in beige underwear 35 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:31,240 that happens to be skin tight. And we like the bulge. 36 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,720 It's my favorite battle. We love it a bulge. A large international law firm, Allen and Ovary, 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:42,840 that's real, has partnered with OpenAI to test an AI model specifically designed for legal work. 38 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,840 The tool is called Harvey, presumably named after other prominent Harveys in the legal profession, 39 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,560 such as Specter, Birdman or Dent. 40 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,800 Harvey was trained on an extensive database of legal knowledge and the firm began 41 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,800 to a trial run with OpenAI back in September. 42 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,280 Now though, they're expanding their use of Harvey at a time when many other firms are looking 43 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,400 to get into the AI craze as well. Unlike previous attempts at an AI lawyer, 44 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,080 Harvey is not giving advice to clients. Rather, it's being used as a tool to increase 45 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,200 the efficiency of existing employees by answering simple legal questions 46 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,600 and drafting messages to clients as well as documents. 47 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,480 Areas of law, like contracts and license generation, tend to be highly predictable 48 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,200 and typically use standardized, though hard to read language, 49 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,880 meaning they're an obvious use case for AI generated text, so long as it's thoroughly checked by a professional. 50 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,960 Apparently, Harvey performs well at general legal tasks, 51 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,040 but struggles in more niche areas of knowledge and the firm is warning clients 52 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:47,480 about the possibility of AI hallucinations, otherwise known as making stuff up or Saul Goodman-ing. 53 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,640 Goodman-ing? Saul Goodman. All right. 54 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,440 Ever wonder why there's always exactly five quick bits? 55 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,520 Well, me too. You don't tell me anything. 56 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,040 The heavily hyped game, Atomic Heart, has launched without support for ray tracing, 57 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,680 odd seeing as it was predominantly featured in several NVIDIA RTX showcases, 58 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:13,560 and Mundfish, Atomic Heart's developer, made no announcement that ray tracing would be removed. 59 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,880 Say with me, more like Atomic Fart. 60 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,960 This would seem to be at odds with accusations from the Ukrainian government 61 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,280 that the game was funded by oil giant, Gazprom. 62 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:28,680 If you're funded by Russian oligarchs, you 100% have ray tracing money. 63 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,120 Come on. Samsung has updated its voice assistant, Bixby, 64 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,760 which apparently still exists, to answer calls on behalf of users, 65 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:41,320 possibly in their own voice. Bixby can clone a user's voice from just a few samples, 66 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,760 so if you're unable to take a quick call, 67 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,080 you can just send a quick text instead, which Bixby will read out in your voice. 68 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,960 Word of warning though, your mom might just decide she likes this new robot you that always answers her calls 69 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,360 better than the flesh and blood version. And this one thing I know, it's your mom. 70 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,920 Apple has just ordered the entire stock of TSMC's first gen three nanometer chips 71 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,280 for its upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Max, 72 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:13,160 the most important of all the upcoming devices, according to Apple anyway. 73 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:18,800 Intel's 15th gen Aero Lake processors were supposed to launch in the third quarter of next year 74 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,640 using TSMC's three nanometer process for their GPUs. 75 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,320 But based on delays in Intel's orders from TSMC, 76 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,500 Aero Lake's launch will likely be delayed into the first quarter of 2025. 77 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:34,680 But hey, we'll all be dead anyway. I used to be a chip manufacturer too, 78 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,760 but then I took an Aero Lake to the knee. Rovio, the game developer famous for 79 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:44,120 the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds, I love that one, has announced they will be pulling 80 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,120 the original Angry Birds from mobile stores. Their stated rationale is the game's impact 81 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:54,440 on their wider games portfolio. Likely a reference to the fact that their other titles 82 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,080 are free to play games meant to suck players dry through microtransactions. 83 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,920 While the original Angry Birds was a game you bought and owned for a dollar, 84 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,200 after which it would never again ask you for money. 85 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,400 Unlike most of your relatives. Speaking of, do you have like five bucks? 86 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:14,120 I wish I had a tuning to flick at you. Hey, you know how Twitter tried to turn the blue check mark 87 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,060 into an $8 status symbol? Well, Tumblr, a social media platform 88 00:06:18,060 --> 00:06:21,920 that does still exist, I'm assured, decided it would be funny to sell what they called 89 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,560 important blue internet check marks for a single payment of $4. 90 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,640 A decision that has apparently increased Tumblr's iOS revenue 91 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,120 from in-app purchases by 125%, 92 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,360 which I've been to these probably a pretty low bar. Totally makes up for the porn loss, right? 93 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,280 Officially, the check marks do nothing and are simply to show that you are an important person 94 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,920 on the internet. Users can buy as many as they want 95 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:49,720 and even give them to other people. Warning, important blue internet check marks may, 96 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,440 on occasion, turn into crabs. In a process called carcinization. 97 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,080 You can get it from a toilet seat. And you can give other people the gift of tech news 98 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,120 if you tell them to watch on Friday, possibly from a toilet seat. 99 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,280 We'll have laughs, but you can't play Angry Birds anymore on there. 100 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:06,680 It's over, bye. Bye.