WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.440
Our first story today is really an attempt by me to correct a series of weird articles that

00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:10.320
are circulating right now. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me in the comments.

00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:13.520
It'll be like a fun game where everyone's feelings get hurt.

00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:20.160
Last week, Microsoft called the TPM 2.0 hardware requirement for Windows 11 non-negotiable.

00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:26.240
But this week, a bunch of Reddit posts and articles went up claiming Microsoft had flip-flopped

00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:32.560
and we're now allowing the installation of Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the official

00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:36.880
requirements. Now, I've seen some chatter on this topic in the last little bit, so my

00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:42.160
newsy sense went off. It was very unpleasant. It seems like the source of this idea is this

00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:47.920
PC World article published on Monday, which claims Microsoft is issuing instructions for

00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:54.560
installing Windows 11 on incompatible PCs. PC World says this article is translated from the

00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.480
original version that appeared on their German-language sister site,

00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:05.920
PC Welt, titled Microsoft erlaubt Installation von Windows 11 auf incompatiblen PCs.

00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:16.080
They didn't have to yell. I'm not sure why they're so angry. But both articles link to this Microsoft support article, which says nothing about

00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:21.920
allowing such installation and definitely doesn't give instructions for installing Windows 11.

00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:28.160
It actually only warns about compatibility issues and the lack of security updates you'll get

00:01:28.160 --> 00:01:33.040
if you do install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs, which you have been able to do using various

00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.920
workarounds since Windows 11 launched. This support article has been up for quite some time.

00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:43.280
I referenced it in our episode from a week ago, so I guess you could say this whole thing is

00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:50.080
my fault. Who put that in there? Day four and five of what turned out to be the 12 week days

00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:57.040
of OpenAI have come to pass, with day four's announcement being ChatGPT's Canvas notebook-like

00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.800
feature now being made available to all users, even those on the free tier. For day five,

00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:09.280
OpenAI's big announcement was the previously announced ChatGPT integration with Apple Intelligence,

00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:15.520
which was also announced by Apple today in what can only be described as the big tech equivalent

00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:20.480
to re-gifting. But it's worse, it's like Apple gave someone a gift and then OpenAI

00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:25.840
took it and wrapped it up again and gave it back. Here, I got you something.

00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.960
OpenAI did give out an Easter egg during the live stream, showing a calendar event for

00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:37.600
super secret AGI on their iPhone. You know, just a little tongue in cheek way to tease the thing

00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:43.680
Sam Altman says will usher in a post job society. It's just fun. As for Apple, that ChatGPT

00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:49.920
integration is part of software updates rolling out to iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS with support for

00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:54.560
Apple's image playground. So you can make little cartoon pictures and send them to your friends.

00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:02.640
Stunning! Is it Serkan? It's fine. iPhone users can also make GenMoji now to rectify the fact that

00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:08.320
no one thought to make a DJ octopus emoji. Among the arguably more useful changes,

00:03:08.320 --> 00:03:13.280
Apple Mail is finally getting categorization, and there are some tweaks to the reimagined

00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:19.360
Photos app that will hopefully save its designers from being lynched. Apple Intelligence also now

00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:25.360
supports localized English dialects in more countries, including the UK and Canada. So I'll

00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.480
now be telling Siri to order me a pop and a double double from Timmy's or she can take off like a

00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.520
as soon as I get an iPhone. Not to be left out, Google announced their first Gemini 2.0

00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:45.360
model Flash, which they say outperforms Gemini 1.5 Pro at twice the speed, etc, etc. Wake me up

00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:50.880
when they're self-aware. While we're not there yet, all of Google's main demos today involved

00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:56.480
agents, ones that can find out what the meta is for the game you're playing, an agent that will go

00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:02.320
browse the web for you to say find the contact email for a list of companies. But for now,

00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:07.440
only in your active browser tab, so it can keep checking if you're watching like a six-year-old.

00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:14.320
User! User! Watch this! Wow, good job! There's an agent for controlling a robot and a new coding

00:04:14.320 --> 00:04:20.560
agent called Jules. You know she's got tattoos. But the most interesting demo to me was Deep

00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:25.920
Research, a tool kind of similar to Notebook LM, but instead of just summarizing sources you've

00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:32.480
uploaded, it will search the web, compile sources on a topic, and then write a report. But what does

00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:37.760
school even need students for anymore? Get them out of there! Google also published an updated

00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:44.240
demo of its Project Astra Assistant deciphering laundry machine controls, which is a heck of a

00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:51.360
thing to trust an AI with, but it's definitely not a pre-made demo this time. We stopped doing that.

00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.720
Now I'm using these prototype glasses to test Project Astra hands-free.

00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.080
Sorry, you're using what now? Why didn't you bring that up before?

00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:04.640
What would I be without the quick bits? A shell of a man. Like a kind of mollusk.

00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:10.000
Microsoft is rolling out a couple things. One is the Experimental Windows Mixed Reality link

00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.120
app for Quest headsets, letting you set up multiple virtual monitors in 3D space.

00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:22.400
The other is nearly 400 PC games being added to the Xbox app on Windows, along with a new

00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:27.760
home layout and the Jump Back In section from the Xbox console dashboard. I mean,

00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:34.400
if that doesn't entice PC gamers to use the Xbox app, then I don't know, but it won't.

00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:40.480
General Motors has cut off funding for Cruise, the self-driving taxi startup it acquired back in

00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:47.280
2016. It'll absorb Cruise's assets and employees into GM's own division working on autonomous

00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:52.880
driving features for its consumer vehicles. Cruise staff reportedly got the memo the day

00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:59.040
that this was announced by GM, leading Cruise co-founder and former CEO Kyle Vogt to call the

00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:05.760
automaker a bunch of dummies. The Autopian writes this is yet another example of automakers learning

00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:13.360
they're not tech companies. But cars are machines. That's technology. Nope. They're art.

00:06:14.320 --> 00:06:20.000
That's nice. Meta social platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp suffered a

00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.440
widespread outage today. At the time of writing, Meta hadn't given a specific reason for the outages

00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:30.960
beyond calling them a technical issue, which I guess is technically correct. As soon as reports

00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:35.920
started flooding in, Meta tweeted that they're working to get things back to normal because your

00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:43.360
dog needs to be using Meta AI or he won't know what the f**k is going on. Huh? Huh? This dog needs

00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:51.040
Meta AI. LG is exiting the Blu-ray player business and will no longer be making new players according

00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:57.520
to Flatpanel's HD and sure enough LG's site lists the last Blu-ray player the company announced,

00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:05.120
the UPK90, as discontinued. With Sony and Samsung also out of the market, Panasonic remains one of

00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.160
the few remaining companies who haven't quit yet. And while this is sad news for disc enthusiasts,

00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:18.160
I think we can all agree Blu-ray was a dumb name. CD, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray? We couldn't come up with a

00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.840
good acronym. Come on. And an AI company called Artisan has attracted criticism for advertising

00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:30.640
its services on San Francisco billboards with the slogan, Stop Hiring Humans. Telling companies to

00:07:30.640 --> 00:07:38.800
hire its AI sales rep agents, which it calls artisans, instead. When interviewed by SF Gate CEO

00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:46.400
Jaspar Carmichael Jack, which sounds like an AI-generated name, admitted the ads are somewhat

00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:54.880
dystopian. But so is AI, adding that you don't draw eyes with boring messaging. Fair point.

00:07:54.880 --> 00:08:01.040
And to be fair, you can't call this billboard boring. They even gave the AI laser eyes and

00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.840
included a spelling mistake as an example of human error. See, unlike humans,

00:08:05.840 --> 00:08:10.480
AIs won't make little mistakes like that. They may suggest that if you run out of gas,

00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:15.120
you could try filling your car up with melted cheese, but that could work. You won't even try it.

00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:19.600
Hey, why don't you try coming back here on Friday for more tech news? I mean,

00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:23.440
probably won't change your life for the better in unimaginable ways.

00:08:24.880 --> 00:08:27.360
Unless, uh...