WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.520 This episode's not like the other ones. It's a little bit quirky. 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. 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.760 All right, get it Riley. Microsoft's latest attempt to convince the world's regulators 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 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, 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:30.560 Sony. The Microsoft NVIDIA agreement will introduce 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:34.960 Microsoft games to the GeForce cloud service, including Call of Duty, 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.280 depending on the outcome of the Activision acquisition. This is great wordplay. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:44.240 A similar 10 year deal will make Call of Duty games available on Nintendo devices. 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.520 No word yet on whether Soap McTavish will be added to the Super Smash Bros roster. 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 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:57.360 when it was offered by Microsoft. And I can't imagine that seeing other industry players 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.920 gain access to Microsoft's cool clubhouse would feel very nice for any giant tech corporation. 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.760 To make matters worse though, for Sony, the communication workers of America, 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:10.560 a major video game labor union, has added their support to the deal 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.480 in return for a pledge of neutrality from Microsoft toward future unionization. 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:20.400 They promise, what Sony, you don't care about workers rights? 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.400 More like workstation, am I right? You said it. 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.640 Speaking of Activision, they recently confirmed that they suffered 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.600 a major data breach resulting in the theft of employee data 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:36.280 and their release schedule back in December. Law enforcement's prime suspect now 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.800 is a furry green man wearing red. What, the Grinch? 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 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.280 that gave the hacker privilege access to Activision's internal network. 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:53.720 Activision stresses no sense of employee data, game code or player data was accessed. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.080 Which doesn't explain why they didn't notify the public 00:01:57.080 --> 00:02:00.320 or their own employees. In fact, Activision only announced 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:03.600 that the breach occurred after a cybersecurity research group 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:06.680 posted screenshots of the stolen data to Twitter, 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.960 which apparently came as a shock to many within Activision. 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.000 The hacker was able to access spreadsheets, including the names, phone numbers, email address 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:19.040 and work addresses of employees, which doesn't meet the strict legal definition 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:22.240 of sensitive data in California. It's a bit like saying, 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:26.640 hey, I didn't post your nudes, just this picture of you in beige underwear 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:31.240 that happens to be skin tight. And we like the bulge. 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, 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. 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.840 The tool is called Harvey, presumably named after other prominent Harveys in the legal profession, 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.560 such as Specter, Birdman or Dent. 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:55.800 Harvey was trained on an extensive database of legal knowledge and the firm began 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.800 to a trial run with OpenAI back in September. 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 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:08.400 to get into the AI craze as well. Unlike previous attempts at an AI lawyer, 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 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:17.200 the efficiency of existing employees by answering simple legal questions 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:20.600 and drafting messages to clients as well as documents. 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:24.480 Areas of law, like contracts and license generation, tend to be highly predictable 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:28.200 and typically use standardized, though hard to read language, 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. 00:03:33.880 --> 00:03:36.960 Apparently, Harvey performs well at general legal tasks, 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:41.040 but struggles in more niche areas of knowledge and the firm is warning clients 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:47.480 about the possibility of AI hallucinations, otherwise known as making stuff up or Saul Goodman-ing. 00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:51.640 Goodman-ing? Saul Goodman. All right. 00:03:51.640 --> 00:03:55.440 Ever wonder why there's always exactly five quick bits? 00:03:55.440 --> 00:03:58.520 Well, me too. You don't tell me anything. 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:03.040 The heavily hyped game, Atomic Heart, has launched without support for ray tracing, 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:07.680 odd seeing as it was predominantly featured in several NVIDIA RTX showcases, 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:13.560 and Mundfish, Atomic Heart's developer, made no announcement that ray tracing would be removed. 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.880 Say with me, more like Atomic Fart. 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:20.960 This would seem to be at odds with accusations from the Ukrainian government 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:24.280 that the game was funded by oil giant, Gazprom. 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:28.680 If you're funded by Russian oligarchs, you 100% have ray tracing money. 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:32.120 Come on. Samsung has updated its voice assistant, Bixby, 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.760 which apparently still exists, to answer calls on behalf of users, 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, 00:04:41.320 --> 00:04:43.760 so if you're unable to take a quick call, 00:04:44.440 --> 00:04:49.080 you can just send a quick text instead, which Bixby will read out in your voice. 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 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. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:04.920 Apple has just ordered the entire stock of TSMC's first gen three nanometer chips 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:09.280 for its upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Max, 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:13.160 the most important of all the upcoming devices, according to Apple anyway. 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 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.640 using TSMC's three nanometer process for their GPUs. 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:26.320 But based on delays in Intel's orders from TSMC, 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:30.500 Aero Lake's launch will likely be delayed into the first quarter of 2025. 00:05:30.500 --> 00:05:34.680 But hey, we'll all be dead anyway. I used to be a chip manufacturer too, 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.760 but then I took an Aero Lake to the knee. Rovio, the game developer famous for 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 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:49.120 the original Angry Birds from mobile stores. Their stated rationale is the game's impact 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:54.440 on their wider games portfolio. Likely a reference to the fact that their other titles 00:05:54.440 --> 00:05:58.080 are free to play games meant to suck players dry through microtransactions. 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:01.920 While the original Angry Birds was a game you bought and owned for a dollar, 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.200 after which it would never again ask you for money. 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:08.400 Unlike most of your relatives. Speaking of, do you have like five bucks? 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 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.060 into an $8 status symbol? Well, Tumblr, a social media platform 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 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.560 important blue internet check marks for a single payment of $4. 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.640 A decision that has apparently increased Tumblr's iOS revenue 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:32.120 from in-app purchases by 125%, 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? 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 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:44.920 on the internet. Users can buy as many as they want 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:49.720 and even give them to other people. Warning, important blue internet check marks may, 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:53.440 on occasion, turn into crabs. In a process called carcinization. 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 00:06:57.080 --> 00:07:01.120 if you tell them to watch on Friday, possibly from a toilet seat. 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.280 We'll have laughs, but you can't play Angry Birds anymore on there. 00:07:04.280 --> 00:07:06.680 It's over, bye. Bye.