1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 When you strip it down to the basics, technology is just humanity's ongoing mission to make 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,760 some things hot and other things not hot. Ovens hot. Graphics cards? Not hot. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,640 A recent update from Microsoft has left certain dual-boot devices that run both Windows and Linux 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,280 unable to boot, despite explicit reassurance from Microsoft that this wouldn't happen. 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,160 The update fixed a long-standing vulnerability in Grubb, an open-source bootloader used by 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,480 many Linux distributions. But it wasn't supposed to affect dual-boot systems, 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,720 and it seems to have been applied to them accidentally. Rather than booting, 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:39,360 affected devices will display an error message that reads, Something has gone seriously wrong, which is a fair assessment of the situation. 9 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,800 Some users, however, have successfully circumvented this issue by temporarily 10 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,920 disabling secure boot and deleting the August 13th SBAT. I don't know what that means. 11 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,840 Microsoft itself has been surprisingly quiet about all this, and we don't even know why 12 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,000 the company only got around to patching this relatively serious two-year-old bug just last 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,160 week. It's possible that this was a covert attempt to destroy Linux, given that the open-source 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,200 OS recently hit a record market share of nearly 4.5% of desktops worldwide. 15 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,560 But if this is all part of Microsoft's sinister master plan, a dual-boot system 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,680 running ZoranOS and Puppy Linux feel like an odd place to start. Why are you booting? Go outside. 17 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,560 According to Adweek, Google sales reps have been apparently violating Google's own policies 18 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,280 by suggesting that advertisers should target teens, a tactic typically reserved for military 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,120 recruiters and low-quality weed dealers. This follows previous reporting from the financial 20 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,960 times that Google had worked on a marketing project designed to target YouTube users between 21 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,880 13 and 17 with ads for Instagram on behalf of Meta. Oh, they're colluding. I love it. 22 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,200 Google has not allowed personalized ads for teens since 2021, 23 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,160 but it's still possible to target that age group by simply choosing the unknown category, 24 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:51,040 which skews heavily towards teenagers. Do you know how old a teenager is? 25 00:01:51,120 --> 00:02:01,520 According to a Google spokesperson, the company will be taking action to ensure that sales reps 26 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,160 do not nudge winks, suggest fun ways of getting around the rules to clients. 27 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,240 The company will likewise be phasing a freshly resurrected class-action lawsuit claiming that 28 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,160 Google has been collecting user data without consent through the Chrome Sync feature, 29 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:19,600 even when users didn't opt into it. It hasn't yet determined if Google was in fact doing that, 30 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,360 though given Google's massive size, it's unclear whether Google even knows what rules 31 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,280 and laws Google is currently breaking. They don't even know which chat apps they already have. 32 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,280 That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a new podcast app. 33 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:37,200 Yay. Thanks, Google. In a new story straight out of a B-movie science fiction plot, Canadian scientists are teaching 34 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,960 an AI scientist how to independently conduct its own experiments and write its own research papers. 35 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,840 To clarify, it's not a scientist who studies AI, it's an artificially intelligent scientist. 36 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,320 The idea is to study an AI agent, allowing it to explore and test novel ideas. 37 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:56,640 So far, most of its ideas are middling quality suggestions for tweaking AI development, 38 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:00,880 less like a scientist and more like a burnt-out undergrad with a seize-get-degrees philosophy 39 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:06,240 towards learning. An AI did, however, do something very unexpected. During one run, 40 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:11,360 it altered its own code to extend its deadline. In another, it changed the code to save a 41 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,160 checkpoint for every update step, eventually using an entire terabyte of storage. 42 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,960 While this isn't dangerous, particularly not in the controlled sandboxed research environment, 43 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,280 it points to potentially serious future problems where an AI agent left unsupervised 44 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,760 might accidentally create malware or alter important infrastructure code in ways that 45 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,480 are potentially catastrophic. It's basically the high-tech equivalent of hiring the boss's son 46 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,800 for a do-nothing job and for some reason giving him top-level admin access and just letting him 47 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,320 go to town. What do you mean you deleted system 32, Kyle? 48 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,640 Ice cream? Not hot. Quick bits? Very, very hot. 49 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:54,320 ASUS has accidentally hinted at the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D chips on the new site for 50 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:59,760 ASUS' upcoming 800-series motherboards. We say, accidentally, because in addition to the 51 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:06,080 X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the site, ASUS specifically put Ryzen 9000X3D 52 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:11,840 into the site's URL. No release date has been given for the 9000X3D CPU series, but the 800 53 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,480 series motherboards should be launching in the next few weeks. AMD also has an event planned 54 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,960 for October 10th, so that's another option. Or instead of speculating, we can just wait for 55 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:25,680 ASUS to launch their next website. A new version of NVIDIA's RTX 4070 is hitting shelves, 56 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:32,000 equipped with slightly slower GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X. But none of the eight new variants 57 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,240 announced so far clearly display that information in the product name or on the box. They thought it 58 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,320 would be a fun little game to hide that tidbit in the product specs for you. You guys like games, 59 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,920 right? To be fair, the difference is small. It's going from 21 to 20 gigabits per second, 60 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:52,800 and NVIDIA says it shouldn't impact performance. NVIDIA G-Sync-enabled monitors are about to get 61 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,200 cheaper, we hope. Team Green has partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer, 62 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:02,800 better G-Sync Pulsar to new monitors, but to also integrate G-Sync into MediaTek's widely used 63 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,520 display scalar chips. That means that the monitors won't need one of NVIDIA's proprietary G-Sync 64 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:12,960 modules, reducing cost. I mean AMD's FreeSync is also still an option, which despite what NVIDIA's 65 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,080 marketing might have you believe is, basically the same as G-Sync. I mean they even rhyme FreeSync 66 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,680 just like G-Sync. 3D is coming back, thanks to Samsung. The company officially unveiled their 67 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:29,440 Odyssey 3D monitors at Gamescon after teasing them at CES. The monitors feature glasses-free 3D 68 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,920 at sizes of 27 and 37 inches, and the display can be switched from 2D to 3D seamlessly, changing it 69 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:42,560 back to being just a 4K QLED 165Hz monitor. Samsung says the Odyssey 3D will be available by the end 70 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,200 of the year, but they haven't revealed the price. Probably because it'll be super expensive, but 71 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:53,200 can you put a price on a technological trend that already died once? Thrice. Honestly, 3D has made 72 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,840 attempts for 3D, it just comes back every 20 years. It's literally a 20 year cycle, like 80s. 73 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,680 And Twitch launched its new Dropins collaboration feature, designed to make it quicker and easier 74 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,640 for streamers to join each other's live streams. Twitch then immediately fumbled this unambiguous 75 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,280 win by making it impossible to opt out. Streamers can temporarily disable the features, but they 76 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:17,840 have to disable it again every time they stream. Of course, they could just ignore the call 77 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:21,920 notifications, but it's a bit like Ninja standing outside of your house staring at you through the 78 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,680 window, and no matter how many times you close the blinds, they slam open again an hour later, 79 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,760 and he's still standing there. And I'll be standing outside of your house until you come back on 80 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,120 Friday for more tech news.