WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 TechLynx saves you time by updating you on the tech news, but you could also save time on other 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:09.520 stuff with the help of Magical who sponsored this video. What kind of stuff we'll tell you later, 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:15.840 okay? Don't worry about saving time. Google's AI overviews and search appear to have broadly 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:20.640 rolled out to the American public and the internet has exploded with examples of the world's most 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:26.720 popular search engine telling users to thicken pizza sauce with glue, non-toxic of course, 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:32.320 and eat at least one small rock per day. So refreshing to see more health advice from 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:38.640 alternative sources like geologists. And not even real ones, that was quoted from an onion article. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:44.000 But Google isn't just citing the wrong experts, the glue pizza recommendation was pulled from an 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:50.720 11-year-old comment left by the Reddit user f***smith. Don't ask what he makes. He's got a very 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:54.640 specific specialization. We managed to reach him by phone, but all we heard was 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:02.880 Yes, it appears that Google now treats forum posts claiming you can hover if you jump and simply 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:09.440 don't look down as gospel truth and is also pulling a meta AI and claiming it has children. 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:14.880 Their favorite breakfast is Smoothies Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie, which actually makes that 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:18.480 more believable. That's what they would like. What do you put in your smoothie Johnny? 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:25.760 Yep, Google is now so broken it told one user that doctors recommend smoking two to three 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:32.720 cigarettes per day during pregnancy. So it's a good thing that there's a way to disable the AI 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:37.440 feature. If you don't want to mouse over and enable the new web filter for every search, 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:43.840 you can add UDM equals sign 14 to the end of the earth search URL and automate that process in 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:49.520 your browser settings. Of course, if you prefer Google to help you reimagine Nintendo's Wario as 00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:59.600 a sassy, messy, polyamorous bottom in Mario Drag, then yeah, it's a free country. I mean, you could 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:04.720 wall you like. iFixit says it's dropping its partnership with Samsung over the company's 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:10.080 unwillingness to make it easier to repair their devices. Two years ago, the companies agreed 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.960 that iFixit would be Samsung's designated third party parts and tools distributor, 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:20.880 with Samsung making replacement parts available to anyone. The idea was that Samsung was setting 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:26.720 off hand in wrench with iFixit on a journey to make their devices more repairable. Instead, 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:33.840 Samsung kept part prices high and components glued together, proving that there ain't no fiction 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:45.600 what got broke. It's an option. To make matters worse, a leaked contract seen by 404 media 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:51.200 indicated Samsung required independent repair shops to give up the personal information and 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:57.680 repair details of customers, as well as immediately disassemble Samsung devices repaired with third 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:02.080 party parts. Terms like these will be illegal once right to repair laws passed in New York, 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:07.440 Minnesota and California come into effect later this year, and iFixit says they'll still provide 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:14.000 parts and repair fixed kits for Samsung devices. So all is not lost for Galaxy lovers. But you 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:20.480 might want to think about seeing other phone manufacturers. No, I can fix him. Oh, oh honey. 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:28.960 A new report has thrown a wrench into the conflict between dystopia generator, open AI, 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.240 and Scarlett Johansson, the star of multiple movies that depict said dystopia. Here's a quick 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:40.000 refresher of the issue. Open AI demoed its new real-time voice mode for Chad GPT last week, 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.720 using a voice that many, including apparently Sam Altman himself, compared to the AI voice 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:50.560 assistant played by Scar Joe in the 2013 movie, Her. Scar Joe eventually released a statement 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:57.280 claiming that Open AI asked Her to voice their assistant in September 2023. She declined, 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:03.760 months later they reached out again two days before the GPT-40 event. Now in the ensuing backlash, 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:10.640 Open AI paused the use of the alleged Scar Joe copying voice called Sky as legal experts chimed 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:15.680 in on the actress's right to sue the company. Her case was looking pretty solid. But two days ago, 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.720 a Washington Post investigation found that the actress behind the Sky voice, who wished to 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:28.160 remain anonymous, was hired in June 2023, months before Johansson says she refused Open AI's 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:33.440 request. Furthermore, according to Open AI's casting call and her agent, the Sky actress was 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:39.440 never directed to imitate Scar Joe, or her character in Her. Now don't get me wrong, 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:46.080 Open AI has been acting pretty sketchy lately, but to me, the two voices sound completely different, 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:51.120 other than the fact that they're both women from either LA or Manhattan speaking in a friendly 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:56.480 tone. It's like saying Christian Bale and Jason Statham are copying each other's gritty, 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.760 cockney style of speaking. It's two different blokes, isn't it? 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:03.200 Especially since Jason Statham can only be heard within a one-foot radius. 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:15.120 I'm f***ing Batman, innit? Are you ready to save even more time? Oh boy, I am! AMD is allegedly rebranding their upcoming 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:22.800 stupidly named Ryzen AI 100 APUs. No, they're not making the name less stupid, you silly goose. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.560 They're making the number bigger, because Intel made them feel inadequate. 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:33.200 According to a leaker, Team Blue's upcoming Core Ultra 200 series made AMD feel like their 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:39.280 chip number was too small, so they're rebranding it as the Ryzen AI 300 series. We've reached out 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:44.800 to psychologists to try and determine exactly what level of small penis compensation this is. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:52.400 None of them have returned our calls. Microsoft suffered a massive services outage this morning that left users completely unable to 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:59.680 access Bing, Co-Pilot, ChatGPT Internet Search, and DuckDuckGo, which wouldn't have been sad at all 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.600 if Google wasn't treating search like a creative writing class right now. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:07.680 Thankfully, Microsoft seemed to get on top of the issue pretty quickly and fixed it about 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:13.600 nine hours later, without specifying exactly what caused it. The incident is a lovely reminder 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:19.200 that other than the Russia-based Yandex, we have exactly two companies providing the backbone 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:23.920 of Internet Search, and they're both a little off their rocker right now, so that's cool. 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:29.760 The US government has announced that it intends to resume a 25% tariff on graphics cards, 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:35.600 motherboards, and PC cases assembled in China. This follows another recent decision to double the 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:41.920 tariff on Chinese semiconductors from 25 to 50%. The tariffs were paused over the past year, 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:47.600 in part to take industry feedback. Several companies, including NVIDIA and HP, argued 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:52.080 that they don't have the manufacturing capacity to take on all of the components currently made 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:57.280 in China. US consumers should therefore expect to see the cost of electronics rise sharply, 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:03.520 because we're passing the taxes on to you. Spotify says they have discontinued car thing. 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:07.680 Car thing, didn't it? You make my car thing. 00:07:08.640 --> 00:07:15.280 That's their $90 hardware experiment that brought Spotify and voice controls to cars 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:20.480 without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Now, this doesn't mean they're no longer making the device, 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:26.400 they already stopped doing that two years ago. Now, they're going to remotely brick every car 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:31.600 thing in existence before the end of the year. There's nobody fund, no trade-in option, it just 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.400 becomes e-waste. Oh, and Spotify recommends you contact your local Waste Disposable Department 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:41.760 on how to dispose of the device. Spotify doesn't want you mishandling the garbage they made. 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:46.400 That's expensive, it's $90 garbage. I think doesn't even work. What do you want me to do with it? 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:52.800 And whale scientists think they figured out why orcas have been ramming and sometimes sinking 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:58.000 boats off the coast of Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco. This behavior has been going on 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:04.880 for five years. 673 boats have been attacked since 2020. What could inspire such aggression? 00:08:04.880 --> 00:08:10.320 Grief? Revenge? Nope, it turned out it was bored teens. 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:18.000 Juvenile killer whales just apparently enjoy messing with the rudders of ships, 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.960 it was a fad and it just kind of caught on. Everyone was doing it. 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:26.880 Mom! Now, this isn't to say that these orca teens aren't dangerous. 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:32.880 Official guidance is that if you see one, do not enter the water or they will tear you apart 00:08:32.880 --> 00:08:38.000 with pointed insults about your outfit and general vibe, your self-esteem may never recover. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:42.880 And I may never recover if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news. I mean like, 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:48.880 it's gonna happen, the show and someone needs to watch, I can't. I'll probably be doing the tech 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:54.720 news, you know, like someone please. The world is so confusing.