WEBVTT 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 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.760 some things hot and other things not hot. Ovens hot. Graphics cards? Not hot. 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 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:19.280 unable to boot, despite explicit reassurance from Microsoft that this wouldn't happen. 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:24.160 The update fixed a long-standing vulnerability in Grubb, an open-source bootloader used by 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:28.480 many Linux distributions. But it wasn't supposed to affect dual-boot systems, 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.720 and it seems to have been applied to them accidentally. Rather than booting, 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. 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:42.800 Some users, however, have successfully circumvented this issue by temporarily 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:47.920 disabling secure boot and deleting the August 13th SBAT. I don't know what that means. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.840 Microsoft itself has been surprisingly quiet about all this, and we don't even know why 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:56.000 the company only got around to patching this relatively serious two-year-old bug just last 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 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:05.200 OS recently hit a record market share of nearly 4.5% of desktops worldwide. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.560 But if this is all part of Microsoft's sinister master plan, a dual-boot system 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. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:18.560 According to Adweek, Google sales reps have been apparently violating Google's own policies 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:23.280 by suggesting that advertisers should target teens, a tactic typically reserved for military 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.120 recruiters and low-quality weed dealers. This follows previous reporting from the financial 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.960 times that Google had worked on a marketing project designed to target YouTube users between 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. 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:41.200 Google has not allowed personalized ads for teens since 2021, 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:46.160 but it's still possible to target that age group by simply choosing the unknown category, 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:51.040 which skews heavily towards teenagers. Do you know how old a teenager is? 00:01:51.120 --> 00:02:01.520 According to a Google spokesperson, the company will be taking action to ensure that sales reps 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:06.160 do not nudge winks, suggest fun ways of getting around the rules to clients. 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:10.240 The company will likewise be phasing a freshly resurrected class-action lawsuit claiming that 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.160 Google has been collecting user data without consent through the Chrome Sync feature, 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, 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:23.360 though given Google's massive size, it's unclear whether Google even knows what rules 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. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:31.280 That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a new podcast app. 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 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:42.960 an AI scientist how to independently conduct its own experiments and write its own research papers. 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:47.840 To clarify, it's not a scientist who studies AI, it's an artificially intelligent scientist. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.320 The idea is to study an AI agent, allowing it to explore and test novel ideas. 00:02:52.320 --> 00:02:56.640 So far, most of its ideas are middling quality suggestions for tweaking AI development, 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 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:06.240 towards learning. An AI did, however, do something very unexpected. During one run, 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 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:16.160 checkpoint for every update step, eventually using an entire terabyte of storage. 00:03:16.160 --> 00:03:20.960 While this isn't dangerous, particularly not in the controlled sandboxed research environment, 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:25.280 it points to potentially serious future problems where an AI agent left unsupervised 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.760 might accidentally create malware or alter important infrastructure code in ways that 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:34.480 are potentially catastrophic. It's basically the high-tech equivalent of hiring the boss's son 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 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.320 go to town. What do you mean you deleted system 32, Kyle? 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:46.640 Ice cream? Not hot. Quick bits? Very, very hot. 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 00:03:54.320 --> 00:03:59.760 ASUS' upcoming 800-series motherboards. We say, accidentally, because in addition to the 00:03:59.760 --> 00:04:06.080 X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the site, ASUS specifically put Ryzen 9000X3D 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 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:16.480 series motherboards should be launching in the next few weeks. AMD also has an event planned 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 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, 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:32.000 equipped with slightly slower GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X. But none of the eight new variants 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 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, 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, 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 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.200 cheaper, we hope. Team Green has partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer, 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 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 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 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 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:23.680 just like G-Sync. 3D is coming back, thanks to Samsung. The company officially unveiled their 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:29.440 Odyssey 3D monitors at Gamescon after teasing them at CES. The monitors feature glasses-free 3D 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 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 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 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 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. 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:03.680 And Twitch launched its new Dropins collaboration feature, designed to make it quicker and easier 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:08.640 for streamers to join each other's live streams. Twitch then immediately fumbled this unambiguous 00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:13.280 win by making it impossible to opt out. Streamers can temporarily disable the features, but they 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 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 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, 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 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:31.120 Friday for more tech news.