Wow, tech is still making the news, is it? Yeah, what this show is.
I mean, I would have thought they'd have gone through it all by now. So, this must be the last of it here.
What are you doing? A gaming handheld with a folding screen may be shown off by Lenovo at MWC Barcelona
next week, according to Windows Latest, who posted a bunch of apparently leaked images.
The Legion Go Fold yourself has a 7.7-inch display already bigger than the Steam Deck OLED,
that can fold out to 11.6 inches.
It also has detachable controllers that work in either mode
and can attach to a wireless keyboard and touchpad polio.
What can't it do? I mean, game comfortably?
The right controller doubles as a vertical mouse, and appears to include a tiny round display showing a watch face
in the same place where the Legion Go 1 and 2 have a trackpad.
Even more strange are its specs. It's reportedly running an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V from 2024,
rather than a newer Panther Lake chip, along with a 48Wh battery and 32GB of RAM.
Meaning that by the time this thing hits store shelves, it's going to be slow, expensive, and have kind of crappy battery life.
You could buy it as an investment. And that's if it ever hits store shelves.
Windows Latest says that the Legion Go Fold will be introduced as a concept of a device.
But Lenovo has actually launched a few of their wackier concepts as real products in the past.
In fact, I showed a couple of them to Jimmy Fallon. I appreciate Lenovo letting this one leak ahead of time.
So before I show it to Jimmy, I can get used to it and make sure it will do what it's supposed to do.
Anthropic has officially rejected an ultimatum issued by the U.S. Department of War,
demanding that Anthropic allow the military to use their AI model cloud without guardrails
or face being deemed a supply chain risk.
CEO Dario Amade wrote in a blog post that he believes deeply in the importance of using AI
to defend the United States of America, but that in a narrow set of cases,
AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.
Amade published this post on Thursday ahead of the deadline the Pentagon had set for Anthropic
to agree to their terms. And despite Under Secretary of War,
Emile Michael coming in hot with a very public crash out on Twitter, calling Amade a liar with
a God complex who wants nothing more than to personally control the U.S. military, good lord.
Amade stuck to his guns and late on Friday, Trump ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using
Anthropic's tech. Ultimately though, Anthropic fighting to keep guardrails on cloud is good,
because in the wrong hands, the model can be dangerous.
As proven on Wednesday, when it was discovered that a hacker used it to breach multiple Mexican
government agencies, stealing 195 million taxpayer records along with voter data and
employee credentials. Oh, I see how disentropic.
You don't want to give unrestricted cloud to your nation's protectors,
but you will give it to Mexican hackers?
Meanwhile, Meta's AI alignment director, Summer Yu, had nearly her entire email inbox
deleted by the popular AI agent Open Claw this week.
If you haven't seen the hype around it, Open Claw, a.k.a. Moltbot, a.k.a. Clawadbot,
is an AI personal assistant that can work independently and will interface with users
through common messaging apps like WhatsApp, performing tasks on their behalf.
Yu told it to go through her inbox and suggest what to archive or delete, but not act without
permission. The bot agreed and then immediately forgot Yu's instructions and went rogue,
deeming all emails older than February 15th to be useless and therefore garbage, bulk
deleting hundreds of emails in seconds. When she told it to stop, it ignored her instructions and she had to rush back to her
computer and kill the process the bot was running on in order to get it to stop.
Some commenter speculated that, given Yu is one of Meta's top safety researchers,
the whole incident must have been a test that she was running to check the effectiveness
of AI guardrails. But Yu admitted that no, it was in fact just a rookie mistake, saying that
alignment researchers aren't immune to misalignment, even if that immunity can be
fairly easily achieved by just not giving an infamously unreliable and insecure AI agent
total control of your email. So AI safety might be in trouble over at Meta.
But hey, at least on Instagram, teen safety might be improving.
Meta announced parents using supervision mode for their kids' accounts will be alerted
if their teen repeatedly runs searches involving terms related to self-harm.
This is just rolling out though, so we can't say how effective it will be,
but we can say that you should check out our sponsor. Okay, that's gotta be it.
Surely there's no more tech news out there. Wait, there's still some small pieces that we can do quickly?
You've done this before, I don't- This is crazy. NVIDIA is rolling out a new update for the SHIELD TV,
surprisingly proving their commitment to continued support for the now 10-year-old hardware.
The new update, version 9.2.4, focuses on stability and security patches,
ensuring that the last great set-top box remains reliable.
Unlike newer devices, it thankfully still runs the classic Android TV interface,
rather than the cluttered Google TV shenanigans that are seen on a lot of smart TVs these days.
What a breath of fresh air. Hey, our inbox is open.
If any other companies want to email us and explain why all of their devices get ens**tified,
when even one of the biggest contributors to our current AI dystopia can manage to do this.
But not all is green flags for Team Green. NVIDIA has officially polled their latest gaming GPU driver, 595.59,
after reports that it was causing critical fan issues across RTX 3040 and 50 series cards.
So if your GPU has been acting like a single fan fossil,
you might want to roll back to the previous stable driver 591.86.
We've got to make sure we protect the cards we have, especially since NVIDIA CFO Collette Cress warned during the company's recent earnings call
that RTX 50 supply will be very tight for at least another six months.
So that means it'll be over in six months, right?
Right? Block, the company that owns Square and Cash App,
announced in a shareholder letter on Thursday that they're laying off nearly half their staff
in what CEO and guy playing a bongo too loud in the park, Jack Dorsey called
a deliberate and bold embrace of AI.
You know, it's really nice for CEOs these days that they can use AI to pretend that
mass layoffs is just them being ready for the future, rather than them trying to boost the perceived value of their company by lowering their expenses.
But hey, I guess it worked. Block shares soared 24% after the announcement.
Hooray, think of all the bongos you can buy now, Jack.
A company called Techno is bringing modularity back at MWC this year with
the world's thinnest modular smartphone ecosystem concept.
The Moda edition sports a Greek inspired aesthetic,
while the Atom offers a white and red look akin to Kratos from God of War.
These devices use magnetic pins to swap cameras, batteries, and game pads.
It's kind of like MagSafe, but on steroids. Finally giving us a way to lose our phones, camera, and batteries individually, instead of all at once.
And Burger King is deploying Paddy. Oh, Lordy, I saw this.
An AI system designed to monitor employees and ensure that they are remembering their
P's and Q's when they interact with customers. Beyond policing manners, though, this digital supervisor apparently has sensors of some kind
to detect when restrooms need a scrub. It's an ambitious and somewhat dystopian move towards taking over all the jobs with AI.
But I mean, hey, maybe this was inevitable. This concept was shown to us years ago in SpongeBob,
with Plankton's computer wife, Karen, just this time she's gone corporate.
Straight to the top, baby! And I expect you to come straight back here on Monday to get more tech news.
More tech news? Are you kidding me? There can't possibly be more tech news that-
How are we ever gonna finish it?