1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,920 Hey, what up? It's ya boy, LM Jesus. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,480 I put on one of my finest collared shirts to bring you the tech news. 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:10,640 Be grateful. Who's LM Satan? Linus. 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,080 Windows 11 decided to break your SSDs again 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,680 after the most recent moment to update. We're having a bit of a moment. 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,760 A little bit. Two. Multiple users took to the Windows 11 subreddit 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:27,920 to complain that the read and write speeds of their NVMe SSDs were vastly diminished after updating, 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,120 and the speeds were restored after rolling back the update. 9 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,360 Reddit user and person whose birth year we may never know, 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,800 MrBigDog99, was one of those who shared their experience 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,800 in the comments of the update post. But they also came with receipts, 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,760 as MrBigDog99 included screenshots from Crystal Disk Info 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,880 that purportedly show massive write speed drops after installing the update. 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,960 Spill the tea. That's fine, tea. What if it's like a nice oolong? 15 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,520 Not on the receipts. Man, of all the problems Windows 11 16 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,000 has had over a short lifetime? This is certainly one of them. 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,760 I mean, it's not even a unique problem. Windows 11 users were reporting drastically lower write speeds 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,240 on their NVMe SSDs two months after the OS launched. 19 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,880 There are very few moments in the last few years that I wanna re-experience, 20 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:18,800 so I don't need Microsoft trying to forcefully unrepress the end of 2021 by repeating the same bug. 21 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,200 Microsoft Photos has a memory for you. And it's sadness. 22 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:29,160 A vulnerability in the Google Pixel markup tool allows for some screenshots to be uncropped and unredacted. 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:34,200 The issue is due to how the edited photo is saved. While it is saved in the same file location 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,800 as the original photo, the original isn't erased beforehand. 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,960 This means that if the new file is smaller, like if, I don't know, it was a crop of the original, 26 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,000 a conceivably large portion of the original's data still exists. 27 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,400 Simon Arons was the first to identify and report this vulnerability, 28 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,880 which he dubbed Acropolis, I approve, and using a proof-of-concept by David Buchanan, 29 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,120 showed how someone could conceivably uncover sensitive data from one of these cropped images. 30 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,160 The good news is that this issue has already been patched on many pixels in the March security update. 31 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,440 The bad news is that Pixel 6 series phones have yet to receive that update. 32 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,720 LLL upgrade, dude. What, you have last generation's phone? 33 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:18,200 Just throw in the garbage, you're basic. But there's still some hope that the Acropolis 34 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,800 might be more like a regular old natural disaster, like a landslide or something, 35 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,400 since I'm assuming they're large Fleetwood Mac fans, because everyone is. 36 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,000 Since many social platforms, like Twitter, reprocess uploaded images, 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,360 that renders the old data unrecoverable. Unfortunately, Discord only started doing this 38 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:40,400 in mid-January of this year, so anything posted to Discord before then is vulnerable. 39 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,040 Good thing no one spent six years posting cropped pixel photos to Discord, right? 40 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,640 Oh no, I'm in the cropped pixel photos Discord server. Right? 41 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:54,240 Right? My crops! A YouTuber spent over $22,000 buying every game 42 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,480 on the Wii U and 3DS eShops before Nintendo shuts them down next week. 43 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,800 Gerard Khalil, aka the completionist, is appropriately known for completing 44 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,920 all the achievements and trophies NVIDIA games. He faced his strongest challenge yet 45 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:10,160 by 100%ing an achievement he set himself. 46 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:15,160 Buying 866 Wii U games and 1,357 3DS games, 47 00:03:15,180 --> 00:03:19,320 requiring close to a terabyte and a half of storage. Talk about it, backlog. 48 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:24,400 You're never gonna play all that. How is he gonna complete them? He already did by buying them, and it wasn't easy. 49 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,320 The eShops aren't like Steam, where you can put piles of shovelware in a cart 50 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,200 and bankrupt yourself in one convenient purchase. Each game had to be bought individually, 51 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,960 and after 328 days, Gerard and the completionist team 52 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,540 accomplished their goal and plan to donate these games to the Video Game History Foundation, 53 00:03:41,540 --> 00:03:46,200 a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of video games. 54 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,560 Mom, comments and all. Your mom loved this game. 55 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,880 100% of that game. I 100%ed your mom. And this is significant, since the 3DS and Wii U 56 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,600 are the last Nintendo platforms to support the virtual console service, 57 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,880 which means come the 27th of March, Nintendo will only provide retro games 58 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,360 through the Switch Online expansion pack, which costs $50 a year. 59 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,400 And I'm sure did not influence the decision to shut down the 3DS and Wii U eShops at all. 60 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,040 And you can't even plug it into an N64 controller. Oh, the expansion pack. 61 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,440 Wait, the expansion pack goes in the N64. Riley, you're mistaken. 62 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,880 If I've learned anything from you that the expansion pack goes in your mom. Ladies and gentlemen, now introducing, 63 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,360 for the very first time, these five quick pits. 64 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,440 Oh, wow. 65 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,600 Tech layoffs suck. And Google just made them worse. 66 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,680 The company has decided not to pay out the remainder of maternity and medical leave 67 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,880 for laid off employees. Some people found out days after Matt leave approval, 68 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:46,920 and at least one woman was holding her literally newly born newborn when she was sacked. 69 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,160 Even worse, since Google had on-site medical facilities 70 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,640 and laid off employees can't access Google property, some people have lost access to their primary care doctor. 71 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,400 But why would they need jobs or doctors when they have babies? That's what the babies are for. 72 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,760 They make you feel good. In other news, Amazon is laying off 9,000 more people. 73 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,200 Silver lining, 9,000 potential nannies for those ex-Googlers. 74 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,880 Now, if only they could pay them. AI Startup Runway has announced their Gen 2 text 75 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,240 to video generator will be available to users within weeks. 76 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:19,840 After previously helping develop text to image generator stable diffusion, 77 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:24,360 Runway put out their Gen 1 model that could take existing footage and modify the visuals. 78 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,760 Gen 2 appears to create videos entirely from text, 79 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,960 but all they've released are short demo clips. If the portfolio I put together 80 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:37,680 from my experience applying for this job is any indication, I'm sure that the examples they chose 81 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,360 were not cherry picked at all and they saved their best work for later 82 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,520 because they're very humble and not because it doesn't exist and they deserve the praise they're getting. 83 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,800 A fake Samsung 980 Pro SSD has been spotted 84 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,840 by a user on a Chinese forum with packaging, labels, 85 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:56,080 and even firmware, all suggesting that the drive is legit. 86 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,200 But unfortunately, it was proven false when it worked correctly. 87 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,840 And to be fair to the drive, it is indeed a two terabyte SSD, 88 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:09,160 but after buying it for a big discount over MSRP on Taobao, 89 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:14,440 the user found out it performed at just over half the read speed of an actual 980 Pro 90 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:19,160 and opened it up to find different components than the real thing. What was their macaroni in here? 91 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,320 Macaroni hamburgers, what's going on? Fake hard drives, micro SD cards, 92 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,760 and now SSDs have become more common. So be careful, or you might find yourself opening 93 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:34,120 what looks like an SSD box to find, oh my God, it's a boa constrictor? 94 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,800 How do they even fit it in there? Oh no! The Internet Archives Open Library 95 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:44,280 was in New York federal court today to defend itself against a lawsuit 96 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,480 from three of the Big Five print publishers. 97 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:53,120 At issue is the Open Library's heinous act of letting users check out digital scans of physical books. 98 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,080 More specifically, the publishers really don't like controlled digital lending. 99 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,600 The system that allows a library to lend out as many digital copies of a book 100 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,760 as it has physical copies in storage. That doesn't make any sense. 101 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,760 Matt, doesn't work out. You got three books, so you lend out three books? But the publishers were spurred to sue over 102 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:14,680 the Internet Archives National Emergency Library, which let unlimited users check out e-books for two weeks. 103 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,280 The Internet Archives faces massive fines and CDL being potentially ruled illegal if they lose, 104 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,000 and for what? Trying to help people read and learn 105 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,920 and not go stir crazy inside their homes locked away from everyone they loved during a pandemic 106 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,980 that was unprecedented but predictable. 107 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,280 I hope it was worth it. And computer maker Acer has decided to make an e-bike. 108 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,040 The Acer, Ebi, Ebi? 109 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,320 Ebi? Ebi! Will feature onboard AI for predictive transmission control 110 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,160 and collision detection. And because why not, the Ebi's removable battery 111 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,960 can be used to charge your phone or laptop. So what I'm hearing is Acer can figure out 112 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,240 how to increase their laptop's battery life so they over-engineered the world's most portable charger. 113 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,960 Good job, Acer. And I can't figure out why you wouldn't want to come back on Wednesday for more tech news. 114 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:07,360 It'll be fun! You'll make friends in the comments. Don't go in the comments, actually. 115 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,720 Don't do that. Unless you want to, maybe, like me. 116 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,560 Derby Trolls.