WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 I can only assume Apple unveiled a number of new Macs 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:06.760 powered by their new M3 processor today, but I can't know for sure 00:00:06.760 --> 00:00:10.720 because they scheduled their event to start like an hour after we finished filming this video. 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.400 It's like I've been working on my Tim Cook impression for nothing. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:20.080 Some fresh leaks have sprung regarding NVIDIA's RTX 40 Super series of GPUs, 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:25.760 specifically the RTX 4080 Super. The card's PCI-ID was found by someone, 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.320 potentially with access to a beta driver, and added to the PCI-ID repository, 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.240 a place where PCI-Ds are reposited. 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:40.240 Except the GPU listed in the PCI-ID is the AD-103, 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:44.480 the same chip that powers the non-super RTX 4080 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:51.040 with pretty much its full strength. NVIDIA could enable its 512 disabled shaders, 00:00:51.040 --> 00:00:55.160 but that sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to the GPU's already enabled 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.680 9,728 shaders. 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:02.000 And sure, every little bit of extra performance is nice, 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.080 unless in order to get it, you have to buy a new GPU for the same MSRP 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:11.040 that the original RTX 4080 launched at, which is 1,200 bucks. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.120 That's what NVIDIA did with the RTX 2080 Super, 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.560 which launched in 2019 for 800 bucks, pfft. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:23.600 How many dough? Same amount of dough. But hey, if the 4080 Super isn't doing it for you, 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.080 there's also this RTX 4060 Ti from ASUS 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:31.160 with a built-in M.2 SSD slot. If you want to remember a time 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:36.640 when news about new graphics cards made you feel something other than that sour acid taste 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.880 in the back of your throat for missing something, now I just feel dread. 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:45.600 Qualcomm made some big claims about their Snapdragon X Elite laptop SOCs 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:49.480 at the Snapdragon Summit last week, but like all such events, 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:55.520 Qualcomm only backed up those claims with slides looking like barely modified PowerPoint templates. 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:59.760 Woke up the night before in a mad panic and just slapped some photos on there. 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:03.360 Should this line be blue? I don't know, it doesn't matter. 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:08.760 But some outlets, including Windows Central, were able to take a closer look at detailed test results, 00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:12.560 and it seems like Qualcomm wasn't just blowing hot air. 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.200 Both the 23 watt and 80 watt variant of the X Elite 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:19.400 blew away Windows laptops with top-end chips 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:24.640 from Intel and AMD in PCMark 10. And while the lower end variant didn't destroy 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:27.720 like the higher end one did in Cinebench 2024, 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:31.480 its single core performance still came out ahead. Now, as we've said before, 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:37.240 whether these chips will actually be worth using with Windows depends on whether Microsoft can change 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:41.280 the fact that Windows 11 on ARM is kind of but to use 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:44.320 before they come out next year. But hey, you know what? 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:47.680 I'm a simple man. I see big bars on a performance graph 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.560 and it just makes me happy. I like big bars and I cannot lie. 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:56.200 Of course, Qualcomm's comparison of the Snapdragon X Elite to Apple's M2 00:02:56.200 --> 00:02:59.440 rings pretty hollow coming the week before Apple launches 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:03.600 the M3, which is probably much better because that's what they did today, right? 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:06.680 I don't know if they did that or not. I hate this. 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.800 Meta has launched a paid ad-free subscription 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:17.760 for Facebook and Instagram in the European Union for 10 euros a month via desktop or 13 euros via Android or iOS. 00:03:18.440 --> 00:03:22.880 For all must pay Google and Apple their 30% tithe. 00:03:22.880 --> 00:03:27.440 They're passing around the basket. You can't ignore it. Church only takes 10%. 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:32.200 Tim sees all. Ah, ah, ah, put it in. 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:36.280 The subscription isn't available elsewhere, primarily because it's intended to appease 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.360 EU regulators skeptical of Meta's ad targeting 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.320 and data collection practices. The subscription is only available to users 18 and up 00:03:44.320 --> 00:03:47.560 while teenage users will temporarily stop seeing ads 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:53.520 entirely until Meta comes up with some other way of profiting off damage to their underdeveloped psyches. 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.480 They're working on it. In the meantime, Meta is apparently working on an API 00:03:57.480 --> 00:04:03.080 for its third social platform, Threads. But seeing as Threads, a business transcription service 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:08.200 that trademarked the name in 2012, has already served Threads with a 30 day warning 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:12.600 to change the name, Threads is gonna have to hurry. It was only slightly confusing. 00:04:12.600 --> 00:04:15.840 The quick bits aren't actually that quick, okay? 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.440 Yeah, we know, we just want them to feel nice about themselves, okay? 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:24.560 They deserve that, yeah, you're quick. ChatGPT now has an advanced data analysis feature 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.760 that allows users to upload documents like a PDF 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:31.520 and chat with it, like a spell that imbues 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:35.640 an inanimate object with a living soul, but then wears off, bringing up horrible questions, 00:04:35.640 --> 00:04:40.120 like was that actually alive for like three minutes? Are you a monster? 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:44.920 Similar functionality has already been offered by various services like ChatWithPDF, 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:48.960 whose developer doesn't seem worried about losing its 400,000 users, 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:52.320 probably because the users already paid the subscription fee. 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:57.320 But are the PDFs alive? It's the spirit of Tim Cook, he's smiling on me. 00:04:57.320 --> 00:05:01.320 Shooting this video so late that the sun is setting. 00:05:01.320 --> 00:05:05.680 I Fix It has announced a partnership with Microsoft to provide official replacement parts 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:10.560 for various Microsoft Surface devices, as well as step-by-step guides and disassembly videos 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:15.880 via their dedicated Microsoft Repair Hub. Parts provided include batteries, SSDs, 00:05:15.880 --> 00:05:20.440 displays, keyboards, and even screws. Unprovided, however, is the answer 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:24.680 to the philosophical question. If you replace every piece of your laptop one by one 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:28.120 until no original piece is left, is it still the same laptop? 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.280 And does it still belong to Theseus? The White House has issued an executive order 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:35.760 on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence, 00:05:35.760 --> 00:05:41.160 which pushes for greater transparency of AI models and labeling of AI-created content. 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:46.160 The order will require developers of AI systems with the potential to seriously disrupt public safety, 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:52.480 civil rights, the economy, or national security to share critical testing information with the government. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:59.000 This would apply primarily to future models beyond a certain power level, let's say over 9,000. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.280 What? And would not involve restricting any AI tools 00:06:02.280 --> 00:06:05.800 that are currently available. It's probably the best we can hope for, 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.160 at least when the average senator is a quarter century older than the internet itself. 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:13.760 Take what you get. Google is promising a rescue patch for an Android bug 00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:16.800 that causes some users with multiple Android user accounts 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.040 on their device to get locked out of the device's storage 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:24.040 from the primary account upon upgrading to Android 14. 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:29.160 Despite being a relatively serious bug, Google seemed to ignore the problem for 10 days, 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:34.320 leaving hundreds of users in the lurch. In some ways, the bug is a lot like ransomware, 00:06:34.320 --> 00:06:39.840 except instead of a guy named Sergei holding my nudes hostage for money, it's Google, completely by accident. 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:42.920 So it's okay. That makes it better. I'm less mad. 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:49.080 Meanwhile, Google has spent time figuring out how to turn any old pair of active noise-canceling earbuds 00:06:49.080 --> 00:06:56.400 into heart rate monitors through a process the research team calls APG or audio plethysmography. 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:00.480 Catching. I just wanted you to know that. It works by sending out an ultrasound signal 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.880 with the earbuds speakers and picking it up with the microphones, which sounds like it lets humans 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:10.560 become more like bats or dolphins. And I'm not sure that's a place we want science to go. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.560 Rrrrrrr. Okay. Yeah, depending on your priorities. 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:16.920 I mean. Speak for yourself. Rrrrrrr. That's okay. 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.640 The dolphin sound that people use on TV is actually sped up cocoa burrow. Really? 00:07:20.640 --> 00:07:24.240 Yeah, it's not a dolphin. And the eagle sound is actually a red-tailed hawk. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:28.800 Wow, I don't care at all about not knowing about the Apple stuff now. I learned, learned that. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.280 But I know where I want you to go. Back to your screen of choice this time on Wednesday 00:07:34.280 --> 00:07:38.040 for more tech news. When we will definitely know what has happened 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:42.520 at Apple's event today. Time, you know. 00:07:42.520 --> 00:07:43.520 That's crazy.