WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.920 Hey, what up? It's ya boy, LM Jesus. 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:07.480 I put on one of my finest collared shirts to bring you the tech news. 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:10.640 Be grateful. Who's LM Satan? Linus. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:14.080 Windows 11 decided to break your SSDs again 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:17.680 after the most recent moment to update. We're having a bit of a moment. 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:21.760 A little bit. Two. Multiple users took to the Windows 11 subreddit 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, 00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:31.120 and the speeds were restored after rolling back the update. 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.360 Reddit user and person whose birth year we may never know, 00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:37.800 MrBigDog99, was one of those who shared their experience 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:41.800 in the comments of the update post. But they also came with receipts, 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:45.760 as MrBigDog99 included screenshots from Crystal Disk Info 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:49.880 that purportedly show massive write speed drops after installing the update. 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.960 Spill the tea. That's fine, tea. What if it's like a nice oolong? 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.520 Not on the receipts. Man, of all the problems Windows 11 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.000 has had over a short lifetime? This is certainly one of them. 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 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:09.240 on their NVMe SSDs two months after the OS launched. 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:12.880 There are very few moments in the last few years that I wanna re-experience, 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. 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:22.200 Microsoft Photos has a memory for you. And it's sadness. 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. 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 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.800 as the original photo, the original isn't erased beforehand. 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, 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:47.000 a conceivably large portion of the original's data still exists. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.400 Simon Arons was the first to identify and report this vulnerability, 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.880 which he dubbed Acropolis, I approve, and using a proof-of-concept by David Buchanan, 00:01:55.880 --> 00:02:01.120 showed how someone could conceivably uncover sensitive data from one of these cropped images. 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. 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:10.440 The bad news is that Pixel 6 series phones have yet to receive that update. 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:13.720 LLL upgrade, dude. What, you have last generation's phone? 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 00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:21.800 might be more like a regular old natural disaster, like a landslide or something, 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.400 since I'm assuming they're large Fleetwood Mac fans, because everyone is. 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:30.000 Since many social platforms, like Twitter, reprocess uploaded images, 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:35.360 that renders the old data unrecoverable. Unfortunately, Discord only started doing this 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:40.400 in mid-January of this year, so anything posted to Discord before then is vulnerable. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.040 Good thing no one spent six years posting cropped pixel photos to Discord, right? 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:48.640 Oh no, I'm in the cropped pixel photos Discord server. Right? 00:02:48.640 --> 00:02:54.240 Right? My crops! A YouTuber spent over $22,000 buying every game 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.480 on the Wii U and 3DS eShops before Nintendo shuts them down next week. 00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:02.800 Gerard Khalil, aka the completionist, is appropriately known for completing 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.920 all the achievements and trophies NVIDIA games. He faced his strongest challenge yet 00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:10.160 by 100%ing an achievement he set himself. 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:15.160 Buying 866 Wii U games and 1,357 3DS games, 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:19.320 requiring close to a terabyte and a half of storage. Talk about it, backlog. 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. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:28.320 The eShops aren't like Steam, where you can put piles of shovelware in a cart 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:33.200 and bankrupt yourself in one convenient purchase. Each game had to be bought individually, 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:36.960 and after 328 days, Gerard and the completionist team 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:41.540 accomplished their goal and plan to donate these games to the Video Game History Foundation, 00:03:41.540 --> 00:03:46.200 a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of video games. 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:49.560 Mom, comments and all. Your mom loved this game. 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 00:03:54.880 --> 00:03:58.600 are the last Nintendo platforms to support the virtual console service, 00:03:58.600 --> 00:04:02.880 which means come the 27th of March, Nintendo will only provide retro games 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:06.360 through the Switch Online expansion pack, which costs $50 a year. 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. 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:15.040 And you can't even plug it into an N64 controller. Oh, the expansion pack. 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:18.440 Wait, the expansion pack goes in the N64. Riley, you're mistaken. 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, 00:04:23.880 --> 00:04:27.360 for the very first time, these five quick pits. 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.440 Oh, wow. 00:04:30.440 --> 00:04:33.600 Tech layoffs suck. And Google just made them worse. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.680 The company has decided not to pay out the remainder of maternity and medical leave 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.880 for laid off employees. Some people found out days after Matt leave approval, 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:46.920 and at least one woman was holding her literally newly born newborn when she was sacked. 00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:50.160 Even worse, since Google had on-site medical facilities 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. 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. 00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:03.760 They make you feel good. In other news, Amazon is laying off 9,000 more people. 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:08.200 Silver lining, 9,000 potential nannies for those ex-Googlers. 00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:12.880 Now, if only they could pay them. AI Startup Runway has announced their Gen 2 text 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:16.240 to video generator will be available to users within weeks. 00:05:16.280 --> 00:05:19.840 After previously helping develop text to image generator stable diffusion, 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:24.360 Runway put out their Gen 1 model that could take existing footage and modify the visuals. 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.760 Gen 2 appears to create videos entirely from text, 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:31.960 but all they've released are short demo clips. If the portfolio I put together 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 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.360 were not cherry picked at all and they saved their best work for later 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. 00:05:46.520 --> 00:05:49.800 A fake Samsung 980 Pro SSD has been spotted 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.840 by a user on a Chinese forum with packaging, labels, 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:56.080 and even firmware, all suggesting that the drive is legit. 00:05:56.080 --> 00:05:59.200 But unfortunately, it was proven false when it worked correctly. 00:06:01.640 --> 00:06:04.840 And to be fair to the drive, it is indeed a two terabyte SSD, 00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:09.160 but after buying it for a big discount over MSRP on Taobao, 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 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? 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.320 Macaroni hamburgers, what's going on? Fake hard drives, micro SD cards, 00:06:23.320 --> 00:06:28.760 and now SSDs have become more common. So be careful, or you might find yourself opening 00:06:28.760 --> 00:06:34.120 what looks like an SSD box to find, oh my God, it's a boa constrictor? 00:06:36.320 --> 00:06:40.800 How do they even fit it in there? Oh no! The Internet Archives Open Library 00:06:40.840 --> 00:06:44.280 was in New York federal court today to defend itself against a lawsuit 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:47.480 from three of the Big Five print publishers. 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. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:57.080 More specifically, the publishers really don't like controlled digital lending. 00:06:57.080 --> 00:07:00.600 The system that allows a library to lend out as many digital copies of a book 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.760 as it has physical copies in storage. That doesn't make any sense. 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 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. 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:19.280 The Internet Archives faces massive fines and CDL being potentially ruled illegal if they lose, 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:23.000 and for what? Trying to help people read and learn 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 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.980 that was unprecedented but predictable. 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. 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:39.040 The Acer, Ebi, Ebi? 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.320 Ebi? Ebi! Will feature onboard AI for predictive transmission control 00:07:44.320 --> 00:07:48.160 and collision detection. And because why not, the Ebi's removable battery 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 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. 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. 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. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.720 Don't do that. Unless you want to, maybe, like me. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:12.560 Derby Trolls.