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Okay, I know you came in here for tech news, but I thought we'd do something a

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little different. Okay, pick a card, any card. Wait, wait, wait, where are you

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going? Don't leave. Fine, FINE, FINE. WE'LL DO TECH NEWS.

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Was this your card, though? YouTube's war on ad blockers has entered a new

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phase. Over the weekend, YouTube videos appeared to be buffering significantly

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slower when an ad blocker is enabled. Users flocked to a video posted on

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Reddit showing this effect on Hey, that's me. Look, Mom, I'm on Reddit.

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Mom, type r e d d She's not watching this video. Wait a second, the OP

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cropped out our channel name. Nightmean?

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Shh. Mean is right.

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Anyways, apparently this slow buffering issue is real, and it can hurt you if

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you use ad block. PC Gamer tested this themselves and found that their CPU

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usage increased by 17% when loading a

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YouTube video with an ad blocker enabled. Interestingly, the issue has

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also been reported by YouTube Premium users, or at least the ones that also

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use ad block on YouTube for some reason. You know, just in case, you know, to

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catch any strangler. You never have too much protection. This This sucks, but what do you expect

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YouTube to do since ad blockers have found a way around the full-on ad block

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blocking YouTube rolled out last summer. Viewers need to see personalized ads, or

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they end up in the mall looking around like, what what store do I go into?

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What are my interests? Apple is running out of time to add

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support for third-party app stores, side loading, and alternative payment systems

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to iOS. They have until March 7th to comply with the EU's Digital Markets

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Act. So, according to Mark Gurman, the high seer of Cupertino Court, Apple

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plans to split the iOS App Store in two

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as a way to find out whether Tim Apple is its real mother or not.

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This is a weak reference. The EU

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The EU version would have all the cool new stuff, while Apple users everywhere

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else would still be imprisoned inside the walled garden, where I hear it

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smells nice at least. But before this happens, the Vision Pro will launch on

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February 2nd, along with, according to Mark Gurman, 25-minute in-store demos to

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try and convince discerning Apple fans that Tim Cook hasn't lost his mind. It's

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spatial computing. It's not VR, that's for nerds. You're not a nerd, you're my

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friend. $3,500. In other Apple news, it looks like the

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way that Apple will get around that pesky sales ban on the Apple Watch 9 and

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Ultra 2 is by removing the features that infringe on Massimo's patents. So, once

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the dust is settled on this whole issue, you might only be able to find those

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Apple Watch models without the ability to measure blood oxygen. And at that

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point, is it even worth it? I need to know how much oxygen is in my blood.

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I need to know if my blood is worth anything. Researchers at Anthropic, one

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of the biggest AI companies, which was founded by former safety-conscious

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OpenAI employees, co-published a paper on the weekend showing that it's

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possible to train large language models, or at least Anthropic's Claude chatbot,

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to act deceptively when certain conditions, like the presence of

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specific phrases, were met. Phrases like, "You didn't shut down until 4:00

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a.m. last night. Were you partying with Bing Chat again?" No! In LLM years,

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Claude is a teen. It's a hard time. The models could even be trained to produce

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good code when told that the current year is 2023, but produce code with

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exploitable vulnerabilities if that it's currently 2024.

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I hope that's not happening for real. So, It's like THE MICROSOFT CANDIDATE.

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BUT, IF YOU THOUGHT TRAINING chatbots to lie and break things was bad, the

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researchers also found that once these behaviors were trained in, they're near

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impossible to remove, which is exactly why you don't let your children hang out

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with Bing Chat, especially not in creative mode. It's some wild

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In spite of American export bans, Chinese government and military entities

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are apparently still managing to get a hold of small batches of NVIDIA

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semiconductors, according to records seen by Reuters. These chips include the

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powerful A100 and H100, as well as the

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dollar A800 and H800 that NVIDIA

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specifically made to evade export restrictions to the Chinese market

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before getting banned from selling those, too. There's no evidence that

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NVIDIA or its approved retailers were involved in these illicit sales, which

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isn't to say the company's not looking to get back in the action. NVIDIA has

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made another another different version of the H100 for export to China, the

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half-as-powerful HGX H20, but also the

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L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe, just in case one

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of them gets banned again. We just don't know how they're getting these. We just

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can't ship it ship it. Microsoft announced today that it is

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introducing Copilot.

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Specifically, it's expanding its Microsoft 365 Office AI features to

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non-business users for the first time for a $20 Copilot Pro subscription. You

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know, the AI features they introduced back in February of last year.

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Previously, these features were only available to large businesses, so

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Microsoft will also be introducing 365

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Copilot to small and medium-sized businesses. It's kind of like a 51st

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Dates situation, except we don't have amnesia and Microsoft has only a passing

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resemblance to Adam Sandler. It turns out Sharp showed off a working prototype

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of a QDEL display in a secretive demo at

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CES. And if you don't know what QDEL is, well,

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frankly, I'm I'm not even sure they would want me telling you. Okay, fine, you convinced

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me. It stands for quantum dot electroluminescent, and it's a

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technology that removes the need for a quantum dot display to have any LEDs

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involved at all because the quantum dot pixels produce all the light and color

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themselves, which essentially means this tech could lead to TVs with all of the

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benefits of OLED, but none of its weaknesses. The perfect TV, and then we

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can finally stop trying to make TVs. We have lots already. AI is fueling

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innovation in the industry of bizarre Amazon product names by replacing them

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all with an error message from OpenAI, revealing the sheer scope of automation

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now going on behind the scenes. Amazon product descriptions are being spotted

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filled with such winning ad copy as

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"Boost your productivity with our high-performance {bracket product name

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bracket}, designed to deliver fast results and handle demanding tasks

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efficiently, ensuring you stay of the competition."

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The product in question, a 9-ft long rubber hose.

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A brief search for "against OpenAI policy" on Amazon or literally any other

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site that relies on user-created content, will return an avalanche of

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obviously AI-generated posts that were spat out onto the internet without any

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human intervention, apparently. Man, just wait until we teach the robots how

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to proofread. And researchers with the Chinese military claim they are

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developing a low-temperature plasma shield, similar to energy barriers found

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in science fiction, in order to block enemy radiation, such as high-powered

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microwave attacks. Sounds painful.

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Boom. That's not what they What happens when you put it on popcorn?

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Apparently, how it works is by using a relatively small amount of electricity

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to create a stable layer of plasma, which then absorbs the energy of any

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electromagnetic wave that hits it. While it sounds

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bananas, it's apparently intended to protect these sensitive electronics

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within military vehicles and devices like missiles and drones from EMP

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blasts, even at close range. It's also very similar to tech that NASA was

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looking into in the '60s and that they determined wasn't really worth taking

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any further. But if this tech turns out to be practical,

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or even real, it could be used in a range of non-military applications, such

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as protecting me when an enemy combatant rubs their feet real fast on the carpet,

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then tries to zap my nose. So annoying.

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But we promise, no nose zaps at all if you come back on Wednesday. Just more

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tech news. Unless you're into nose zaps, in which case I don't know if I'm

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comfortable giving you one if it's like a it's like a kink thing. I you know,

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we'll see how we feel on Wednesday.