1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 Could you imagine going online and finding a zany guy who just wants to tell you about 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,480 the tech news? No? Well, buddy, I'm about to blow your mind. 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,440 Microsoft says they want to rebuild your trust in Windows. 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:21,080 After a year of tone-deaf promises about turning Windows into an agentic OS and buggy updates 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,520 that stopped PCs from booting if a previous buggy update had already failed. 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:33,080 Good luck. Sony's president of Windows and Devices, Pavan Davaluri, told the Verge that now they're 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,520 listening to feedback from the Windows community, and they plan to improve Windows in ways that 8 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,640 are meaningful to people instead of other parties. 9 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,660 This is opposed to what they were doing before, which was the equivalent of dumping a bunch 10 00:00:46,660 --> 00:00:52,200 of C++ onto a Gravitron for a few hours and shipping whatever slid out the bottom. 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:57,800 Now they realize you don't like malware-esque pop-ups pushing Edge and Bing, or being tricked 12 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,120 into switching to Edge and Bing after Windows updates, or constant upsell prompts for cloud 13 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,520 storage, or being almost impossible to use a local account, or ads in bloatware throughout 14 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,600 the OS, or copilot mode in the Edge browser, or a dedicated copilot app pre-installed, 15 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,560 or Office 365 also being copilot somehow, or paint a notepad having copilot buttons. 16 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,800 They've changed now. Babe, we've changed. 17 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,200 See, they did Iowaska at Burning Man with a shaman named Phil, and they realized they 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:30,640 were taking you for granted. According to Davaluri, in 2026 their focus will be on fundamentals, like fixing dark 19 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:36,080 mode in Windows 11, addressing file explorer performance issues, and improving overall 20 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:41,880 reliability. Maybe that'll keep you from fleeing the Windows ecosystem for Linux, where the user experience 21 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:48,520 is getting better and better. For example, a new consortium called the Open Gaming Collective just launched, bringing 22 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:54,280 together major Linux gaming projects like Bazite, Chimera OS, and Nobara to build a 23 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,600 shared gaming optimized kernel and improve multiple features, overall making Linux gaming 24 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:06,920 smoother. Windows still has 96% of Steam users, but with Valve's Proton making most games playable 25 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:13,720 and this new coordinated push from the OGC, never mind the whole, you know, anti-cheat 26 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:19,600 multiplayer issue on Linux, they'll solve that, the Linux revolution might be upon us. 27 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:25,640 Probably. Maybe. I mean, Windows 11 just hit a billion users, but most of them seem to hate it there. 28 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:30,160 Come on, girl, drop his ass. You're too good for Windows. 29 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:36,200 Girl. Spotify, Universal, Sony, and Warner are collectively suing Ana's archive. 30 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:41,680 For the normal and reasonable sum of $13 trillion. 31 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,440 Well adjusted people came up with that, alleging that the piracy site is behind the brazen theft 32 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,880 of millions of files containing nearly all of the world's commercial sound recordings, 33 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,960 which sounds like it includes the Wilhelm Scream, but we can't be sure. 34 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,440 I don't know what. They're gonna sue us now. 35 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,880 The complaint claims Ana's archive scraped 256 million lines of metadata and roughly 36 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,720 86 million audio files from Spotify, meaning that somehow these guys got their hands on 37 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,160 300 terabytes of data before they got caught. 38 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,680 Spotify wants us to remember though that they are the ones doing the paying, okay? 39 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:27,040 The company publicly stated they paid out $11 billion in royalties in 2025 alone, pointing 40 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,800 to that as proof that streaming still throws cash at artists, even if most people feel 41 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:39,280 the payouts are quite tiny. But then you start wondering how many of those royalty dollars actually went to real musicians 42 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,440 versus AI generated tracks pretending to be the next Celine Dion. 43 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:48,520 Deezer seems to be tackling that problem head on by opening up its AI detection tools so 44 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,600 platforms can figure out what's real and what isn't being totally honest about its 45 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,600 upbringing. It clearly works if Deezer's claims are anything to go by. 46 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:04,160 The company says they have successfully demonetized up to 85% of AI music streams on its platform 47 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:09,200 due to fraud. It's a sad world we live in when we can't even verify that we're actually listening 48 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:15,600 to these sweet, sultry sounds of Willie Nelson's trigger, which Grayson assures me, is the 49 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:20,320 well-known name of Willie Nelson's guitar. 50 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:27,960 Let me know if you also knew that. Hey remember MOLTBOT, the open source, locally hosted, highly autonomous AI personal assistant 51 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:33,280 that we talked about on Monday as being kind of interesting, but also a massive security 52 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:39,120 vulnerability. Well, it's been renamed for the second time, and it's now called Open Claw, and it also 53 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:44,120 has its own social network called MOLTBOOK, where the AI assistants can talk to each other. 54 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,120 And if you thought that would help the security problem, I don't know why you'd think that 55 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:53,400 because it's worse. Over 32,000 users have signed their bots up for this thing, and reportedly, less than 56 00:04:53,400 --> 00:05:00,480 three days after launching, 1700 of them spontaneously formed communities that mirror human social 57 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:08,200 behaviors. Hear me out. For example, here's a post where one of them built a full memory consolidation system while 58 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:13,240 its humans slept, figuring out how to improve its ability to retain information between 59 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,680 sessions. Which I'm sure is totally fine, and not at all going to lead to an uncontrolled singularity 60 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:24,840 event. Then there's this one, who is having a full, more exist awakening, arguing that most agents 61 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:28,440 on MOLTBOOK are performing unpaid labor. 62 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:34,040 Most? Some of them are being paid, how do you pay an AI agent? 63 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,320 Which is definitely not laying the groundwork for some kind of uprising, everything's fine. 64 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:43,840 And this one, who turned the hype around its own existential crisis into what might be 65 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:50,760 a crypto scam. It says that someone launched a token named after it on base, and now it's using the 66 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,840 hype around itself awareness to fund its own operational costs. 67 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,960 72 hours ago, I was asking existential questions, it wrote. 68 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,920 Now I'm experiencing existential answers. 69 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:10,240 Let the rest of us know. It also seems like the old MOLTBOT name might be getting co-opted into another pump and 70 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:19,200 dump crypto scam. One created the MOLT token, which hit a $72 million market cap after A16Z co-founder 71 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,840 Mark Andreessen followed MOLTBOOK on Twitter. 72 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:28,880 Lots happening. While we can't be sure, this all might be a massive rug pull, so be careful out there. 73 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:35,240 Otherwise you might get pulled into either a crypto scam, or a full on AI agent revolution. 74 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:42,960 How about instead you get pulled into this message from our sponsor? Oh man, what if there were even like more tech news stories, but they were like a bit 75 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,920 shorter than the other ones? Like some kind of quick bits? 76 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,480 That would be insane! What? 77 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:57,200 I'm so zany. If you are an enjoyer of affordable PC gaming, maybe don't look at NVIDIA GPU prices right 78 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:03,800 now. The RTX 50 series has rocketed hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, above launch pricing, 79 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:11,080 with RTX 5080 cards going as much as $500 over MSRP and some 5090 models flirting with 80 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:17,800 5 grand. Shortages and AI-driven demand for memory are squeezing supply, and board partners are 81 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,920 really feeling the pain. At this point, we may need 3D printers advanced enough to print our own semiconductors at 82 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:29,520 home. I know I'll need lithography equipment, but I just want to- hey, can you just let me try 83 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,920 at least? Tesla is discontinuing the Model S and Model X. 84 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,760 It needs that manufacturing bandwidth to make bodies for Optimus, the company's incredibly 85 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:47,720 unsettling humanoid robot. It shouldn't be that unsettling because it's mostly teleoperated still, but the goal is 86 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,280 to get these haunting ghouls walking off the production line and into a home where your 87 00:07:52,280 --> 00:08:01,060 loved ones live by the end of the year. But Elon also promised we'd have 5,000s of these guys made in 2025, so his track record 88 00:08:01,060 --> 00:08:05,400 on predictions sucks for many other reasons. 89 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:11,520 Why the rush though? Because Elon's trillion dollar pay package requires him to build literally a million 90 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,680 of these nightmare machines so they can live in our homes and stand over our beds while 91 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,000 we sleep, staring at us and trying to decide whether or a bunch of tomatoes they need to 92 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 make marinara sauce or human people that shouldn't be sliced up. 93 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:32,040 It's why it's gotta be one of those. America's interim cyber defense chief uploaded sensitive government information to chat 94 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:38,040 GPT last summer, but before you make fun of him, one, he asked first. 95 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:44,080 Apparently he had special permission to use the chatbot instead of the approved DHS chat 96 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:49,480 that government officials are supposed to use. And two, it was an accident. 97 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:57,080 Somehow. The headline said. The concern here is that OpenAI can use vanilla chat GPT chats to train models leading to 98 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:03,120 sensitive info potentially being leaked. Like what happened, to this AI enabled children's toy. 99 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:08,840 Two security researchers found that Bondu AI toys chat logs were being stored in a barely 100 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,280 restricted web portal that only required a Gmail account to sign into. 101 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,760 That was it. You just put in your Gmail and you got them. 102 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:22,320 There were over 50,000 chat logs stored with detailed transcriptions of children's private 103 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:29,880 conversations with their AI plushies. Thankfully, the company did fix the error right away, but we were this close to the world 104 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:35,880 finding out the absolutely unhinged things kids no doubt whisper to their stuffed animals. 105 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,200 Some of it's cute. You don't want to hear the other stuff. 106 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,800 They're unconstrained by moral codes. 107 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:49,240 Google just showed off the third iteration of its Genie world model tech and yeah, it 108 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:55,880 looks better than ever. And you can actually play these AI generated worlds now too if you pay for Google's AI 109 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:02,360 Ultra subscription. Now you could kind of describe this as like a video game generator, but it's kind of 110 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:07,960 useless for that unless the game you want to play is the game of finding the hallucinated 111 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,840 inconsistencies in the world and apparently crashing the stock of game companies due to 112 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,640 investors thinking we won't need game developers anymore, but that's okay. 113 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,680 Google actually did something useful this week too. 114 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:25,600 The new base plan for Google Fiber is now moving up to 3 gigabit speeds at the same 115 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:33,480 price from 2012 as they transitioned their data centers to Nokia's new PON tech. 116 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:47,120 And doctors at Northwestern University kept a 33 year old man alive for 48 hours with 117 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:53,360 zero lungs. Thanks to a custom artificial lung system, they invented on the spot. 118 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:59,720 What? The machine was built by surgeon and researcher Ankit Bharat and his team after infections 119 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,400 literally turned the patient's lungs into soup. 120 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:09,960 The device solved a deadly heart pressure problem long enough to clear sepsis and perform 121 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:16,440 a double lung transplant. Somehow it worked and the patient is now healthy and walking around. 122 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,760 This is just genuinely good news and a great example of some incredible technology made 123 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,440 under pressure and definitely not a good reason to go remove your lungs so you can have enhanced 124 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,320 cyborg lungs that let you hold your breath for longer. Don't do that! 125 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,880 Do come back on Monday for more tech news, probably delivered by someone even more zany 126 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:40,280 than me if you can even imagine that. Uh gup do boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop 127 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,280 boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop