1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,320 Hi everybody! 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,840 Are you ready for tech news? 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:11,000 Great! Ha ha ha! 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,880 Steam was the subject of a spat between the world's biggest Valve critic slash epic game 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:21,880 CEO, Tim Sweeney, and gamers at large, over games that use generative AI. 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:28,080 Currently, developers of such games must disclose how they used AI on their game's Steam page, 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:34,600 but in a reply to a tweet from Game Dev turned AI lobbyist Matt Workman, Sweeney agreed that 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:40,840 this is dumb, because AI is the future of games anyway, and if we label the games now, 9 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,240 the clankers will be upset later. Oh no! 10 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:49,840 I said it. Sweeney's remarks came after another reply to the same tweet from an artist at Valve, 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,960 Ayi Sanchez, who pointed out that transparency on the use of AI or anything else really shouldn't 12 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:03,800 be considered a bad thing in this context. Now Workman is concerned that labeling games hurt their sales. 13 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,880 Meanwhile, Arc Raiders has such a label, and it's hotter than a jet turbine strapped to 14 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,160 the side of a data center. Got him! 15 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:18,000 Sanchez theorizes that the only devs afraid of an AI label, quote, are the ones that know 16 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,240 their product is low effort. 17 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,000 That's where- that's where- there, there. 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,240 But oop, here comes Tim Sweeney again to ask why we would stop at labels for AI. 19 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,080 Might as well force devs to disclose what shampoo brand the developer uses. 20 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:40,360 And to be fair, if a developer did find some way to develop a game using shampoo, I would 21 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,440 want to know that. Maybe they're born with it, maybe it's programmed. 22 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:52,640 Maybe it's head and shoulders. The memory crisis has gotten so bad that NVIDIA has reportedly stopped including VRAM on the 23 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:57,520 GPU modules it sells to some of its board partners, according to reasonably reliable 24 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:05,120 rumor monger, Golden Pig Upgrade. Now not including VRAM is apparently standard procedure for NVIDIA's sales to the biggest 25 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,840 GPU vendors, but that's not the case for smaller board partners with fewer memory industry 26 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:17,000 connections who will now have to wait outside a 7-Eleven panhandling for spare RAM. 27 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,200 But if they can't score any memory chips that way, if they're kept at a 7-Eleven in 28 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,280 Korea, they could buy memory-themed chips. 29 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:31,400 Because the convenience store chain collabed with memory company SK Hynex to launch a snack 30 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:39,240 called HBM Chips, which simultaneously stands for High Bandwidth Memory and Honey Banana 31 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:47,640 Mat, Mat being the Korean word for flavor. Now this is extremely confusing to me, possibly because I'm not Korean enough, but 7-Eleven 32 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:54,280 apparently wants to do stuff like this, to create unexpected, fun purchasing experiences 33 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,960 for younger consumers, who are just bouncing off the walls with hype over the next hot 34 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:09,640 new snack from their favorite semiconductor manufacturer. 35 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:14,160 The European Union has agreed on new rules that would hold tech companies liable for 36 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:21,040 scams hosted on their platforms. Once the EU Parliament and Council adopt the new rules, payment service providers like 37 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,520 PayPal and Stripe, but also social media companies like Meta and TikTok, will be punished if 38 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,960 they fail to remove scams that have been reported. 39 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,000 So I guess the EU is still doing stuff to keep big tech in check. 40 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,960 As long as it's not AI related. The Blocks Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act and its still developing AI Act 41 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,360 have all been put in jeopardy by pressure from the US government who would like Europe 42 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,720 to stop telling American companies what they can or can't do in Europe. 43 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:57,680 That's communism! Correct me if I'm wrong. One particular European who doesn't like the American approach is French President 44 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:03,760 Emmanuel Macron, who accused Brussels of being too afraid to push back. 45 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:09,280 One of our writers points out that there has to be a joke here about macaroni and Brussels 46 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:16,880 sprouts, and I would argue that no, there doesn't. 47 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,880 Have you seen where those pesky quick bits went? 48 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,920 We might need the help of a friend to figure it out. 49 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:33,080 Backpack? Backpack? Apple is reportedly in talks to have Intel manufacture the lower end of an upcoming M-Chip 50 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,240 series in the US by mid-2027. 51 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:42,680 A huge shake-up considering Apple's M-Series chips are currently built overseas by TSMC. 52 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,960 According to Apple's supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, if this happens, Intel will 53 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:53,680 use the 18AP advanced node to help MacBooks and iPads get made in USA Silicon while Apple 54 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,040 keeps its top-end chips being produced at TSMC. 55 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,260 Apple began transitioning away from Intel processors in 2020, but with everybody scrounging 56 00:05:01,260 --> 00:05:05,080 to get chips manufactured these days, it looks like the two tech giants have been brought 57 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,840 back together by a force that has rekindled many a relationship. 58 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:13,840 Desperation. Let's have a baby. That'll save our marriage. 59 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:21,320 MIT researchers say their iceberg index simulation of the US labor market shows that 11.7% of 60 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,920 US jobs could already be handled by current AI. 61 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,880 No problem. Importantly, the tool is meant to flag vulnerable roles, not to predict layoffs. 62 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:36,360 At least jobs appear safe from AI at NVIDIA, where CEO Jensen Huang told an all-hands meeting 63 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,880 that AI will not replace them, and asked managers who have been telling their employees 64 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,160 to use less AI. Are you insane? 65 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:49,240 Meanwhile, NVIDIA tried to calm financial analysts, worried about the company's books 66 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:56,240 by insisting in a leaked memo that they are not Enron. 67 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,600 The poster child for accounting fraud. I'm not sure if that's going to calm anyone down. 68 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,840 A business bringing up Enron feels a bit like saying Macbeth in the theater. 69 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:12,320 Of course, if you do that, then Dbrand steals your soul. 70 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:18,640 404 media reporter Joseph Cox has reported that his iDevices bizarrely began suddenly 71 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:23,680 opening random podcasts all on their own, some with silent audio, which is even more 72 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,920 creepy, and others linking to pages that could be considered malicious. 73 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:32,800 Security researcher Patrick Wardle was able to replicate the phenomenon, but qualified 74 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:39,440 that it isn't a full-blown hack yet. However, it would be a great delivery system if a real flaw exists. 75 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:44,600 A few outlets reached out to Apple for clarification, and in true Apple fashion, they haven't 76 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,840 commented yet, and probably won't because f**k you. 77 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:53,400 Taiwanese authorities have raided the home of former TSMC senior VP Lo Wei Zhen, who is 78 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:59,120 accused of leaking trade secrets to his new employer, Intel, who insists Lo didn't hand 79 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,200 over anything sensitive, just the normal stuff. 80 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:07,720 But investigators still searched his Taipei and Sinchu residences and froze assets as 81 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,480 part of a national security probe tied to TSMC's cutting-edge chip tech, which Taiwan views 82 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,680 as incredibly important to their security and sovereignty. 83 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:23,760 Intel thinks the whole thing is overblown, though. And if they had gotten secrets, you'd definitely see their chips running a little bit faster 84 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,960 by now. And scientists at Tulane University have made a major breakthrough this week in finding 85 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:39,200 a literal pain switch in the brain, an enzyme called VLK that neurons launch outside the 86 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,560 cell to crank up pain signals after injury. 87 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:48,360 Mice, without VLK, barely felt post-surgery pain and still moved normally, suggesting 88 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,320 that future meds could target this switch without the messy side effects of current 89 00:07:52,320 --> 00:08:00,040 pain relief medications. If this study holds up and the same is found to be true in humans, then who we, pain relief, 90 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,160 may have just gotten a whole lot less painful. 91 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:08,360 Pain switch in the brain, pain switch in the brain! 92 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:14,200 Backpack! Hey, thanks for exploring the wild and wacky world of tech news with me today. 93 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,840 What was your favorite part? 94 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,240 Fantastico! Remember, come back on Monday for another Riley adventure. 95 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,360 And if TSMC raids your home, remember to repeat after me. 96 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,080 Swipe or no swiping! Hasta luego, amigos!