1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,359 Okay, right from the jump here, I want to remind you that you chose to click 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,760 this video. Okay, so whatever happens 3 00:00:07,359 --> 00:00:13,840 after this point is at least 50% your fault. Microsoft has released yet 4 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:18,080 another update that fixes one thing and breaks something else. After last week's 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:22,480 patch for Windows Defender suffered installation issues that the tech giant 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:27,119 eventually fixed, another issue causing certain storage drives to fail during 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:32,079 heavy writes was discovered by some kind of Japanese Twitter cat person with an 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:38,079 apparent drinking problem. Despite this, Necoroo Cat was able to conduct further 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:40,480 testing along with Japanese site Niche 10 00:00:38,079 --> 00:00:45,360 PC Gamer, identifying these drives from various brands that exhibit issues or 11 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:50,239 straight up fail when attempting file transfers larger than 50 GB. This issue 12 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:55,920 hasn't gotten a ton of coverage in the West. It may be that users in Japan just 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:58,399 have larger collections of cat photos to 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:03,199 deal with. Huh. On the plus side, an upcoming Windows build will reportedly 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:08,560 finally allow file operation dialogues to support dark mode, so you won't 16 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:12,880 suddenly be blinded just trying to copy and paste something. Microsoft hasn't 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:17,280 added this until now because Windows is just a really long, complicated prank 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:22,080 for them. One has to assume that we're all on camera being displayed on live 19 00:01:19,759 --> 00:01:26,640 feeds in Microsoft HQ like we're unknowingly part of a wacky Japanese 20 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:30,880 game show with the staff there almost certainly making bets on when we'll all 21 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:36,400 switch to Linux. This was part of the report. Guitar YouTuber Rhett Scholes 22 00:01:33,759 --> 00:01:41,840 latest video goes over a concerning new phenomenon, at least to me. YouTube 23 00:01:39,119 --> 00:01:48,640 appears to be automatically applying AI upscaling to shorts, making real videos 24 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:52,880 look kind of AI generated. This is super noticeable when you compare identical 25 00:01:50,399 --> 00:01:58,079 videos uploaded both as a YouTube short and as an Instagram reel. And this seems 26 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:02,000 to be happening on all shorts uploads, although we obviously didn't check 27 00:01:59,759 --> 00:02:05,840 everyone. Don't worry, I'll do that tonight instead of sleeping. Seems like 28 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:11,680 the first post about this was made on the YouTube subreddit in mid June by 29 00:02:08,399 --> 00:02:13,680 Redditor Ulins Cesis, who said they had 30 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:18,879 noticed the change kick in around that time. Now, why YouTube is making every 31 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:23,520 short look even more gross than they already tend to is anyone's guess, but 32 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:28,640 some are theorizing it's to get people used to AI looking videos so they'll be 33 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:34,000 ready for the AI content flood once YouTube fully adds the V3 AI video 34 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,440 generator into its shorts tools. But, I don't know. I feel like it's equally 35 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:42,080 likely that the people at YouTube making these decisions simply wouldn't know 36 00:02:39,519 --> 00:02:46,959 taste if it licked them in the face. As Schul points out in his video, one major 37 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:52,000 issue here is that viewers may think a creator is using AI when they're not. 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,000 And even though the real Riley perished some time ago and I'm just an AI trained 39 00:02:54,319 --> 00:03:01,280 on his brain waves and tattered fragments of his mustache, we don't fake 40 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:06,480 these episodes. We film them for real on location 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,560 somewhere. NVIDIA held a live stream to make a bunch of announcements about 42 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:14,560 GeForce Now and the NVIDIA app after someone apparently reminded them that 43 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:20,800 gamers exist. NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can now run on RTX 5080 equipped 44 00:03:17,519 --> 00:03:24,800 servers with DLSS4 enabling up to 120 45 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:27,360 FPS at 5K on PC and Mac and up to 90 FPS 46 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:32,239 on the Steam Deck GeForce Now app. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA app can now 47 00:03:29,519 --> 00:03:36,640 automatically enable the DLSS of your choice across all your games. And it 48 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:41,040 adds some more settings from the NVIDIA control panel, like NVIDIA surround 49 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:45,040 setup, so it can inch closer to being the control panel replacement I thought 50 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:48,480 it was supposed to be already. But back to GeForce Now, Andrew is going to tell 51 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:52,000 us about more features, >> including one that expands the GFN 52 00:03:50,239 --> 00:03:56,480 library instantly. Right, Andrew? >> That's right. >> It is right, Andrew. And it's called 53 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:01,599 Install to Play. Basically, you can install games on your cloud PC if the 54 00:03:58,959 --> 00:04:06,080 game dev enabled SteamCloud streaming. But what if you don't want to install to 55 00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:10,560 play and also want to play inside the Discord app? 56 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:15,519 I know you've been waiting for that. The new Discord instant play experience lets 57 00:04:13,519 --> 00:04:20,880 you click a link from a friend in that app to instantly load in to a game. 58 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:25,600 Seems like it's just Fortnite for now. kind of like Google's original vision of 59 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:30,960 clicking right into a Stadia game from a Google search except inside a Discord 60 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:33,919 window. Uh so as NVIDIA says, no more 61 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:38,960 waiting, no more FOMO uh until the 30-minute trial runs out. Then you'll 62 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:43,919 have to buy the the free-to-play game. But don't worry, Xbox may be prepping a 63 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:48,880 cheaper cloudonly Game Pass subscription along with a bunch of other stuff as 64 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,199 discussed on the Xbox podcast. Xbox exec 65 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:55,600 said it's the hardest they've ever seen the team working because apparently 66 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,639 there's just so much going on. Or maybe the team is desperately trying not to be 67 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:02,880 in the next group of a thousand Microsoft employees to get canned. I 68 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:08,800 don't know. Also, it's the sponsor spot now. The MSI Crosshair 18HX AI is one of 69 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:13,120 the most powerful RTX 5070 gaming laptops that provide a smooth gaming 70 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:19,120 experience in unique chassis designs at an affordable price. 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Valve made some bold claims about its Steam 81 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:07,759 performance overlay more accurately reporting GPU utilization than Windows 82 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,919 own task manager in the patch notes for their latest Steam client beta. But they 83 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:15,759 may have gotten it too big for their britches because after a couple days, 84 00:06:13,919 --> 00:06:20,080 Valve updated the patch notes to say their new GPU monitoring method needs 85 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:24,560 more testing. Valve, it's okay. Actually, you know 86 00:06:22,319 --> 00:06:28,960 what? Take your time. Microsoft is sabotaging our SSDs at this point. PC 87 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:33,199 gamers have nothing to lose. Seagate was so fed up over the counterfeit Seagate 88 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:37,600 hard drives flooding the market earlier this year, they sent their security 89 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:42,720 teams to team up with Malaysian authorities and conduct a raid on a 90 00:06:39,919 --> 00:06:47,600 warehouse just outside Koala Lumpur that was apparently churning out the doctor 91 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:52,560 drives as reported by German site Heisen. Seagate provided some photos of 92 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:57,919 the raid but sadly didn't say whether they used striping, mirroring, or some 93 00:06:55,039 --> 00:07:01,440 combination of the two. Also, did they watch the movie beforehand to amp 94 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:06,080 themselves up? We need the answers to these. I've never heard of a company 95 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:09,520 called Global Wafers. I'm not afraid to admit that. But now, I'm aware that 96 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,520 they've announced a planned manufacturing facility in Texas, which 97 00:07:11,599 --> 00:07:19,680 will make them the first company to produce silicon wafers on US soil, which 98 00:07:16,479 --> 00:07:22,479 foundaries like TSMC and Samsung need to 99 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:26,639 make their chips. The wafers, uh, not the soil, although maybe that's why 100 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:32,080 Aerrol Lake was so bad. The idea that AI is in a bubble has been floated for 101 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:33,680 years, even by Sam Alman now, who said 102 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,840 as much to a group of journalists recently over dinner. He does this just 103 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:42,000 so he can tell them in person that 3/4ers of them will be made obsolete in 104 00:07:39,919 --> 00:07:46,240 5 minutes. Altman thinks the bubble thing is fine, though, because OpenAI 105 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:50,639 will probably survive the bubble and create a slew of wonderful AI products 106 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:54,240 that transform society for the better. In fact, they have a bunch of products 107 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,639 just like that right now, but they can't launch them. Uh, sorry, because each one 108 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:04,319 needs like the full power of a star to operate. What they can do is make GPT5 109 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:10,479 warmer and friendlier. That's what you get for now. And Dutch researchers gave 110 00:08:07,039 --> 00:08:12,800 500 AI chatbots specific personas and 111 00:08:10,479 --> 00:08:18,479 stuck them in a simulated social network with no ads or algorithmic feeds just 112 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:23,599 like an original Facebook style platform and found that in five different rounds 113 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:28,720 consisting of 10,000 actions each. The bots organized themselves into bubbles 114 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:32,560 based on political beliefs such that they primarily interacted with other 115 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:36,800 bots that they agreed with. The researchers concluded that although 116 00:08:34,479 --> 00:08:40,320 toxic algorithms are often blamed as the cause of social media's problems, their 117 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:43,919 findings suggest those problems may be rooted in the structure of emotionally 118 00:08:42,479 --> 00:08:48,480 reactive social media platforms themselves. We only thought social media 119 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:52,720 wasn't as toxic before algorithmic feeds were introduced because they hadn't 120 00:08:49,839 --> 00:08:57,040 melted our brains that much by that point. And now it's time to go outside 121 00:08:55,279 --> 00:09:00,720 until Wednesday when we'll have more tech news to talk about. Don't stay out 122 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:04,320 there for too long, though. There are things squirming around all over the 123 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:10,200 place. And heck, one of those might get in your brain. And that would be way 124 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:10,200 worse than doom scrolling.