WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 Okay, I know you came in here for tech news, but I thought we'd do something a 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:08.240 little different. Okay, pick a card, any card. Wait, wait, wait, where are you 00:00:06.920 --> 00:00:11.800 going? Don't leave. Fine, FINE, FINE. WE'LL DO TECH NEWS. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.520 Was this your card, though? YouTube's war on ad blockers has entered a new 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:21.280 phase. Over the weekend, YouTube videos appeared to be buffering significantly 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:24.920 slower when an ad blocker is enabled. Users flocked to a video posted on 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:30.520 Reddit showing this effect on Hey, that's me. Look, Mom, I'm on Reddit. 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:35.240 Mom, type r e d d She's not watching this video. Wait a second, the OP 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:36.240 cropped out our channel name. Nightmean? 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:40.320 Shh. Mean is right. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:45.960 Anyways, apparently this slow buffering issue is real, and it can hurt you if 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:50.840 you use ad block. PC Gamer tested this themselves and found that their CPU 00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:52.360 usage increased by 17% when loading a 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:56.560 YouTube video with an ad blocker enabled. Interestingly, the issue has 00:00:54.480 --> 00:01:02.080 also been reported by YouTube Premium users, or at least the ones that also 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:04.000 use ad block on YouTube for some reason. You know, just in case, you know, to 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:08.840 catch any strangler. You never have too much protection. This This sucks, but what do you expect 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:14.120 YouTube to do since ad blockers have found a way around the full-on ad block 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:18.400 blocking YouTube rolled out last summer. Viewers need to see personalized ads, or 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:23.680 they end up in the mall looking around like, what what store do I go into? 00:01:21.800 --> 00:01:28.360 What are my interests? Apple is running out of time to add 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:33.440 support for third-party app stores, side loading, and alternative payment systems 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:38.040 to iOS. They have until March 7th to comply with the EU's Digital Markets 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:44.840 Act. So, according to Mark Gurman, the high seer of Cupertino Court, Apple 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:46.800 plans to split the iOS App Store in two 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:51.600 as a way to find out whether Tim Apple is its real mother or not. 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:54.640 This is a weak reference. The EU 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:59.400 The EU version would have all the cool new stuff, while Apple users everywhere 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:03.200 else would still be imprisoned inside the walled garden, where I hear it 00:02:01.440 --> 00:02:07.920 smells nice at least. But before this happens, the Vision Pro will launch on 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:14.120 February 2nd, along with, according to Mark Gurman, 25-minute in-store demos to 00:02:11.320 --> 00:02:19.520 try and convince discerning Apple fans that Tim Cook hasn't lost his mind. It's 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:24.360 spatial computing. It's not VR, that's for nerds. You're not a nerd, you're my 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:27.680 friend. $3,500. In other Apple news, it looks like the 00:02:25.959 --> 00:02:33.120 way that Apple will get around that pesky sales ban on the Apple Watch 9 and 00:02:30.440 --> 00:02:38.000 Ultra 2 is by removing the features that infringe on Massimo's patents. So, once 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:41.840 the dust is settled on this whole issue, you might only be able to find those 00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:44.680 Apple Watch models without the ability to measure blood oxygen. And at that 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:48.200 point, is it even worth it? I need to know how much oxygen is in my blood. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.680 I need to know if my blood is worth anything. Researchers at Anthropic, one 00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:57.120 of the biggest AI companies, which was founded by former safety-conscious 00:02:54.680 --> 00:03:01.000 OpenAI employees, co-published a paper on the weekend showing that it's 00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:05.400 possible to train large language models, or at least Anthropic's Claude chatbot, 00:03:03.519 --> 00:03:09.360 to act deceptively when certain conditions, like the presence of 00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:12.800 specific phrases, were met. Phrases like, "You didn't shut down until 4:00 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:17.720 a.m. last night. 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There's no evidence that 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:21.120 NVIDIA or its approved retailers were involved in these illicit sales, which 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:26.320 isn't to say the company's not looking to get back in the action. NVIDIA has 00:05:23.640 --> 00:05:32.800 made another another different version of the H100 for export to China, the 00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:36.800 half-as-powerful HGX H20, but also the 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:38.960 L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe, just in case one 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:42.880 of them gets banned again. We just don't know how they're getting these. We just 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:46.000 can't ship it ship it. Microsoft announced today that it is 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.880 introducing Copilot. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:55.600 Specifically, it's expanding its Microsoft 365 Office AI features to 00:05:53.400 --> 00:06:01.720 non-business users for the first time for a $20 Copilot Pro subscription. You 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:05.600 know, the AI features they introduced back in February of last year. 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:10.440 Previously, these features were only available to large businesses, so 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:12.760 Microsoft will also be introducing 365 00:06:10.440 --> 00:06:16.760 Copilot to small and medium-sized businesses. It's kind of like a 51st 00:06:14.840 --> 00:06:21.160 Dates situation, except we don't have amnesia and Microsoft has only a passing 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:27.880 resemblance to Adam Sandler. It turns out Sharp showed off a working prototype 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:30.400 of a QDEL display in a secretive demo at 00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:32.800 CES. And if you don't know what QDEL is, well, 00:06:31.400 --> 00:06:37.480 frankly, I'm I'm not even sure they would want me telling you. Okay, fine, you convinced 00:06:35.919 --> 00:06:41.120 me. It stands for quantum dot electroluminescent, and it's a 00:06:39.080 --> 00:06:46.080 technology that removes the need for a quantum dot display to have any LEDs 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:50.480 involved at all because the quantum dot pixels produce all the light and color 00:06:47.960 --> 00:06:54.640 themselves, which essentially means this tech could lead to TVs with all of the 00:06:52.520 --> 00:07:00.560 benefits of OLED, but none of its weaknesses. The perfect TV, and then we 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:05.160 can finally stop trying to make TVs. We have lots already. AI is fueling 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:09.880 innovation in the industry of bizarre Amazon product names by replacing them 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:14.520 all with an error message from OpenAI, revealing the sheer scope of automation 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:19.520 now going on behind the scenes. Amazon product descriptions are being spotted 00:07:16.520 --> 00:07:21.320 filled with such winning ad copy as 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:26.080 "Boost your productivity with our high-performance {bracket product name 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:30.880 bracket}, designed to deliver fast results and handle demanding tasks 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.800 efficiently, ensuring you stay of the competition." 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:39.040 The product in question, a 9-ft long rubber hose. 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:43.400 A brief search for "against OpenAI policy" on Amazon or literally any other 00:07:41.919 --> 00:07:48.600 site that relies on user-created content, will return an avalanche of 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:52.440 obviously AI-generated posts that were spat out onto the internet without any 00:07:50.440 --> 00:07:56.240 human intervention, apparently. Man, just wait until we teach the robots how 00:07:54.080 --> 00:08:00.720 to proofread. And researchers with the Chinese military claim they are 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:06.600 developing a low-temperature plasma shield, similar to energy barriers found 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:12.720 in science fiction, in order to block enemy radiation, such as high-powered 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:14.120 microwave attacks. Sounds painful. 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:18.320 Boom. That's not what they What happens when you put it on popcorn? 00:08:16.520 --> 00:08:23.200 Apparently, how it works is by using a relatively small amount of electricity 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:28.640 to create a stable layer of plasma, which then absorbs the energy of any 00:08:25.760 --> 00:08:32.479 electromagnetic wave that hits it. While it sounds 00:08:30.200 --> 00:08:36.000 bananas, it's apparently intended to protect these sensitive electronics 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:41.120 within military vehicles and devices like missiles and drones from EMP 00:08:38.520 --> 00:08:45.440 blasts, even at close range. It's also very similar to tech that NASA was 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:48.600 looking into in the '60s and that they determined wasn't really worth taking 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:53.720 any further. But if this tech turns out to be practical, 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:58.480 or even real, it could be used in a range of non-military applications, such 00:08:56.280 --> 00:09:02.880 as protecting me when an enemy combatant rubs their feet real fast on the carpet, 00:09:00.640 --> 00:09:06.920 then tries to zap my nose. So annoying. 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:11.760 But we promise, no nose zaps at all if you come back on Wednesday. Just more 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:14.920 tech news. Unless you're into nose zaps, in which case I don't know if I'm 00:09:13.280 --> 00:09:20.280 comfortable giving you one if it's like a it's like a kink thing. I you know, 00:09:17.160 --> 00:09:20.280 we'll see how we feel on Wednesday.