WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.359 Okay, right from the jump here, I want to remind you that you chose to click 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.760 this video. Okay, so whatever happens 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:13.840 after this point is at least 50% your fault. Microsoft has released yet 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:18.080 another update that fixes one thing and breaks something else. After last week's 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:22.480 patch for Windows Defender suffered installation issues that the tech giant 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:27.119 eventually fixed, another issue causing certain storage drives to fail during 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:32.079 heavy writes was discovered by some kind of Japanese Twitter cat person with an 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:38.079 apparent drinking problem. Despite this, Necoroo Cat was able to conduct further 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.480 testing along with Japanese site Niche 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:45.360 PC Gamer, identifying these drives from various brands that exhibit issues or 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:50.239 straight up fail when attempting file transfers larger than 50 GB. This issue 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 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:58.399 have larger collections of cat photos to 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:03.199 deal with. Huh. On the plus side, an upcoming Windows build will reportedly 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:08.560 finally allow file operation dialogues to support dark mode, so you won't 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:12.880 suddenly be blinded just trying to copy and paste something. Microsoft hasn't 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:17.280 added this until now because Windows is just a really long, complicated prank 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:22.080 for them. One has to assume that we're all on camera being displayed on live 00:01:19.759 --> 00:01:26.640 feeds in Microsoft HQ like we're unknowingly part of a wacky Japanese 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:30.880 game show with the staff there almost certainly making bets on when we'll all 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:36.400 switch to Linux. This was part of the report. Guitar YouTuber Rhett Scholes 00:01:33.759 --> 00:01:41.840 latest video goes over a concerning new phenomenon, at least to me. YouTube 00:01:39.119 --> 00:01:48.640 appears to be automatically applying AI upscaling to shorts, making real videos 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:52.880 look kind of AI generated. This is super noticeable when you compare identical 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:58.079 videos uploaded both as a YouTube short and as an Instagram reel. And this seems 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:02.000 to be happening on all shorts uploads, although we obviously didn't check 00:01:59.759 --> 00:02:05.840 everyone. Don't worry, I'll do that tonight instead of sleeping. Seems like 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:11.680 the first post about this was made on the YouTube subreddit in mid June by 00:02:08.399 --> 00:02:13.680 Redditor Ulins Cesis, who said they had 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:18.879 noticed the change kick in around that time. Now, why YouTube is making every 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:23.520 short look even more gross than they already tend to is anyone's guess, but 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 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:34.000 ready for the AI content flood once YouTube fully adds the V3 AI video 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:37.440 generator into its shorts tools. But, I don't know. I feel like it's equally 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:42.080 likely that the people at YouTube making these decisions simply wouldn't know 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 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:52.000 issue here is that viewers may think a creator is using AI when they're not. 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 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:01.280 on his brain waves and tattered fragments of his mustache, we don't fake 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:06.480 these episodes. We film them for real on location 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:10.560 somewhere. NVIDIA held a live stream to make a bunch of announcements about 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:14.560 GeForce Now and the NVIDIA app after someone apparently reminded them that 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:20.800 gamers exist. NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can now run on RTX 5080 equipped 00:03:17.519 --> 00:03:24.800 servers with DLSS4 enabling up to 120 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:27.360 FPS at 5K on PC and Mac and up to 90 FPS 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:32.239 on the Steam Deck GeForce Now app. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA app can now 00:03:29.519 --> 00:03:36.640 automatically enable the DLSS of your choice across all your games. And it 00:03:34.720 --> 00:03:41.040 adds some more settings from the NVIDIA control panel, like NVIDIA surround 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:45.040 setup, so it can inch closer to being the control panel replacement I thought 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:48.480 it was supposed to be already. But back to GeForce Now, Andrew is going to tell 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:52.000 us about more features, >> including one that expands the GFN 00:03:50.239 --> 00:03:56.480 library instantly. Right, Andrew? >> That's right. >> It is right, Andrew. And it's called 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:01.599 Install to Play. Basically, you can install games on your cloud PC if the 00:03:58.959 --> 00:04:06.080 game dev enabled SteamCloud streaming. But what if you don't want to install to 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:10.560 play and also want to play inside the Discord app? 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:15.519 I know you've been waiting for that. The new Discord instant play experience lets 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. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:25.600 Seems like it's just Fortnite for now. kind of like Google's original vision of 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:30.960 clicking right into a Stadia game from a Google search except inside a Discord 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:33.919 window. Uh so as NVIDIA says, no more 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:38.960 waiting, no more FOMO uh until the 30-minute trial runs out. Then you'll 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 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:48.880 cheaper cloudonly Game Pass subscription along with a bunch of other stuff as 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:51.199 discussed on the Xbox podcast. Xbox exec 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:55.600 said it's the hardest they've ever seen the team working because apparently 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 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:02.880 in the next group of a thousand Microsoft employees to get canned. I 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 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:13.120 the most powerful RTX 5070 gaming laptops that provide a smooth gaming 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 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:07.759 performance overlay more accurately reporting GPU utilization than Windows 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:11.919 own task manager in the patch notes for their latest Steam client beta. But they 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.759 may have gotten it too big for their britches because after a couple days, 00:06:13.919 --> 00:06:20.080 Valve updated the patch notes to say their new GPU monitoring method needs 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:24.560 more testing. Valve, it's okay. Actually, you know 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:28.960 what? Take your time. Microsoft is sabotaging our SSDs at this point. PC 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:33.199 gamers have nothing to lose. Seagate was so fed up over the counterfeit Seagate 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:37.600 hard drives flooding the market earlier this year, they sent their security 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:42.720 teams to team up with Malaysian authorities and conduct a raid on a 00:06:39.919 --> 00:06:47.600 warehouse just outside Koala Lumpur that was apparently churning out the doctor 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:52.560 drives as reported by German site Heisen. Seagate provided some photos of 00:06:50.080 --> 00:06:57.919 the raid but sadly didn't say whether they used striping, mirroring, or some 00:06:55.039 --> 00:07:01.440 combination of the two. Also, did they watch the movie beforehand to amp 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:06.080 themselves up? We need the answers to these. I've never heard of a company 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:09.520 called Global Wafers. I'm not afraid to admit that. But now, I'm aware that 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:13.520 they've announced a planned manufacturing facility in Texas, which 00:07:11.599 --> 00:07:19.680 will make them the first company to produce silicon wafers on US soil, which 00:07:16.479 --> 00:07:22.479 foundaries like TSMC and Samsung need to 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:26.639 make their chips. The wafers, uh, not the soil, although maybe that's why 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 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:33.680 years, even by Sam Alman now, who said 00:07:32.080 --> 00:07:37.840 as much to a group of journalists recently over dinner. He does this just 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 00:07:39.919 --> 00:07:46.240 5 minutes. Altman thinks the bubble thing is fine, though, because OpenAI 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:50.639 will probably survive the bubble and create a slew of wonderful AI products 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.240 that transform society for the better. In fact, they have a bunch of products 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:58.639 just like that right now, but they can't launch them. Uh, sorry, because each one 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 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:10.479 warmer and friendlier. That's what you get for now. And Dutch researchers gave 00:08:07.039 --> 00:08:12.800 500 AI chatbots specific personas and 00:08:10.479 --> 00:08:18.479 stuck them in a simulated social network with no ads or algorithmic feeds just 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:23.599 like an original Facebook style platform and found that in five different rounds 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:28.720 consisting of 10,000 actions each. The bots organized themselves into bubbles 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:32.560 based on political beliefs such that they primarily interacted with other 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:36.800 bots that they agreed with. The researchers concluded that although 00:08:34.479 --> 00:08:40.320 toxic algorithms are often blamed as the cause of social media's problems, their 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:43.919 findings suggest those problems may be rooted in the structure of emotionally 00:08:42.479 --> 00:08:48.480 reactive social media platforms themselves. We only thought social media 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:52.720 wasn't as toxic before algorithmic feeds were introduced because they hadn't 00:08:49.839 --> 00:08:57.040 melted our brains that much by that point. And now it's time to go outside 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:00.720 until Wednesday when we'll have more tech news to talk about. Don't stay out 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:04.320 there for too long, though. There are things squirming around all over the 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:10.200 place. And heck, one of those might get in your brain. And that would be way 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:10.200 worse than doom scrolling.