WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.520 3D models for Valve's new VR controller. I'm not reading that. You gotta read that. I'm not reading that. It's our thousandth episode 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:13.720 Did you even know? It's not. Do this for me. It is. Say it one time. To celebrate our 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:21.720 1,000th episode Riley asked me to say quick bits a thousand times. So here it is. Quick bits a thousand times. 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:32.440 I wanted to be here a while. 3D models for Valve's new VR controllers codenamed Roy have been found in driver files for Steam VR by who else? 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:39.080 Brad Lynch a developer and creator who's really shown what it looks like to make leaking Valve stuff your whole personality 00:00:39.720 --> 00:00:43.840 Brad and his community quickly generated high-quality renders of the controllers 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:50.280 Which look very similar to the MetaQuest 3 and 3s controllers with no tracking rings or valve index style 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:56.880 Knucklestraps. It's grip it or lose it, baby. Lynch also posted the designs in their discord so people could 3D print them 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:03.240 which they did and boy howdy Do those ever look like VR controllers made of extruded plastic? 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.240 The Roy controllers are likely to pair with Valve's 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:13.760 Deckard VR headset which has been described in prolific leaks by Lynch and is expected to forego the indexes tracking base stations in 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.680 favor of MetaQuest style inside outtracking. That is 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:26.680 Interesting, but perhaps not as exciting as the also leaked design for something codenamed Ibex aka the Steam Controller 2 00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:32.760 aka the Steam Duke. I knew Valve still had some innovation in them. Good job 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:41.520 Google is turning normal text on websites into links to its own search results within the Google app in an obvious cry for help 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:45.760 While being sued for favoring its own services in multiple jurisdictions 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:49.960 The feature spotted by Barry Schwartz of search engine roundtable is called 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:56.000 Page Annotations and was rolled up by Google about a week ago as a new way to get more info 00:01:56.600 --> 00:02:03.200 By modifying website owners pages for them and steering users away from the site. They're currently using 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.120 Google's own example shows an annotation 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:14.120 Turning the first two words of an article describing Osaka Castle into a link to a Google search for the very same thing 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.000 Which is a bit like dumping the water cooler on your coach 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:23.680 While he's swimming Labs Website owners can opt out of the feature by filling out a form 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:29.840 All you've got to do is enter the URLs that you represent in a comma-separated list including all variations of the domain and then wait 30 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:31.840 days for it to take effect 00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:41.760 A group of artists given early access to open AI Sora video generator for the purpose of testing 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:45.600 Leaked the tools API key on the model hosting platform hugging face 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:52.740 Briefly giving anyone the ability to summon hyper realistic videos of Shiba Inu's writing surfboards in space or 00:02:53.000 --> 00:03:00.160 Cats writing surfboards in space Those really are the two main ones see in a blog post the group going by PR puppets 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:06.120 Decried open AI using hundreds of artists to perform bug testing and experimental work with no compensation 00:03:06.600 --> 00:03:11.560 Beyond the chance to enter a competition to have their Sora created films screened 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:18.960 They now feel like they were lured into art washing making it seem like open AI cares about the arts as something other than 00:03:19.160 --> 00:03:25.480 Refined fuel that its advanced hallucinator can burn to make more AI slop in the statement open AI basically said 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:30.080 Well, nobody made you sign up to test it and the company will quote 00:03:30.600 --> 00:03:34.040 Continue to support artists through grants events and other programs 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:39.800 Just not this one anymore open AI obviously cut off access to Sora when they discovered the leak 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:46.200 But some managed to generate a few rather uninteresting videos of some dudes running down an alley and a cat yawning 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:50.520 Couldn't you have given it a pirate hat or something that would have been art little? 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:53.800 Little smaller parts of news cute toots 00:03:55.640 --> 00:03:59.880 TSMC has shown off its plans to upgrade its chip on wafer on substrate or 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:07.280 Cow-os Technology to support much bigger interposers and up to 12 stacks of HBM for memory by 00:04:07.640 --> 00:04:15.160 2027 this will allow chip designers to build processors the size of a human palm not mine like a real one like bigger 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:21.520 It's not quite the same as those wafer scale chips from cerebras, but it's about what you do with it, you know 00:04:22.200 --> 00:04:29.200 In other chip news Intel's chips act funding has finally been finalized at seven point eight six billion dollars 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:34.800 Pending the company achieving certain milestones It's a little less than the original eight and a half billion 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:40.200 But the government threw in an extra free bill if Intel gives them some extra secure processors 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:48.120 Here's a tip Intel make them better than the last gen ones. Just an idea. I mean a processor that doesn't work is pretty secure 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:55.960 Microsoft has clarified that it is not training AI on your documents after a bit of public confusion over a feature called 00:04:56.280 --> 00:05:03.840 Connected experiences in Microsoft 365, which is what they call office now and which shares the same logo as popilot for some reason 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:10.320 I really hope Microsoft figured it out at some point that branding is important bring back clippy and in other AI news 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:16.120 Microsoft is no doubt one of the massive corporations that owns too many game studios 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:22.120 According to a tweet from Elon Musk, therefore his solution is that X AI is gonna make 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:29.640 Games great again by starting an AI game studio with blackjack and hookers. No wait, sorry. No 00:05:30.200 --> 00:05:32.640 Wait, it really is just that isn't it awesome 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:39.120 Beyond any concerns I may have about the abundance of procedurally generated mobile zombie games that we already have I 00:05:39.640 --> 00:05:44.360 Think the thing that stands out most about this is I just don't get the logic behind X AI 00:05:44.440 --> 00:05:48.720 Which is owned by the world's richest man and is now worth like 50 billion dollars 00:05:49.320 --> 00:05:52.120 Not counting as a massive corporation 00:05:54.440 --> 00:06:01.600 Now that gaming handhelds are all the rage It's time the market got a little more wacky with the designs a patent filed by Samsung and spotted by 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:07.160 91 mobiles describes a handheld that takes a page from the company's Z phones book and then 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:11.720 Folds it in half so that the two ends with controller buttons meet 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:17.600 And then there's this 10 cent 3d one a concept device powered by lunar lake 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:23.680 Which basically looks like an ROG ally, but with a massive 11 inch screen between detachable controllers 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.420 Which looks perfect for getting in some reps while gaming 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:35.320 And researchers in Hong Kong have published a paper detailing a way to deliver different taste experiences through a prototype 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.800 electronic lollipop, huh, or as the researchers call it a 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.840 miniaturized portable Estation interface 00:06:43.840 --> 00:06:49.400 Microsoft is that you designed for mixed reality the device alters its own taste using 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:57.480 Ion tophoresis Sending ions to transport flavor chemicals through a biologically safe hydro gel 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:04.160 The flavors on offer include citrus cherry milk green tea passion fruit grapefruit and durian 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:14.320 As long as I only taste it and I don't have to smell it I'm okay, and you know what I would like to smell you coming back on Friday to get more tech news from me 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:19.480 That'll be the thousand and first episode, which is kind of special in its own way. I guess 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:23.280 It's also a number