If you've never seen this show before, I don't know what to tell you. Just so
I'll just start doing the tech news. The Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for only
one day, and an exploit has already been discovered that allows a knowledgeable
user to display custom graphics on the screen. And sure, the uh custom graphics
demoed here by Blue Sky user David Buchanan is like a tiny line floating in
front of some grayscale pixels, but the important thing is Nintendo's probably
pissed about this. Those are not official pixels. As far as console
exploits go, this one's pretty shallow. And the consensus among Switch hackers
right now amounts to everyone, please sit down. This is going to take a while.
particularly as Nintendo is not effing
around this time, reserving the right to brick tampered consoles. The good news
is you don't need to hack the Switch 2 to use almost anything as a webcam,
including smartphones. The bad news is iFixit did a Switch 2 tearown and they
think the new joysticks look like they might still be vulnerable to stick
drift. Why didn't they use Hall effect sensors? I don't know. They also found
the new Switch harder to repair than the original, giving it a repairability
score of three out of 10. They were so
mad about it. iFixit went back and downgraded their score of the original
Switch from an 8 out of 10 to a four. Yeah, that'll piss Nintendo off, which
again is the goal. If you want a Switch 2, while online stock goes real fast, it
seems like retailers are getting regular restocks in store. I mean, look at this.
scalper selling a Switch 2 for very close to MSRP. Nature is healing. Just
be aware that your game chats are probably being recorded. But at least
it's recording and transcribing even the bad words, too. So, you can say Mario
has a poopy butt and glmbbas. And Nintendo has to put that on the screen.
They'll be so embarrassed. YouTube has informed users with a premium light
subscription that in addition to seeing ads on music content, they're going to
see ads on shorts now, too. Because while these users have been paying eight
bucks a month, advertisers pay a lot more than
eight bucks a month. And that makes it hard to not show your cute face more
ads, you know. Uh, the change was first spotted in an email received by a member
of the Twit forum, corroborated by
German site Desk Moder, and ads on shorts are now mentioned on the official
YouTube premium plans page and in a Google support article. So, it seems
like premium light subscribers who watch YouTube shorts are just going to have to
deal with ads while they swipe through Family Guy clips. Parts of the tech
industry are reeling from the collapse of Elon Musk's bromance with Donald
Trump. In a June 3rd tweet, Elon called
the Congressional Spending Bill known as the big beautiful bill an abomination
because of how pork fililled it was. And I didn't expect him to follow kosher
rules for multiple reasons. Also, I thought that was just like its nickname.
Uh but no, it's literally called the one big beautiful bill act. And how could
you not vote for that? Uh Trump responded on his own social platform to
say, "Hey, we want to save money. let's terminate Elon's government contracts.
And then Elon was like, fine, I'll decommission the SpaceX Dragon crew
module, which would leave US astronauts asking for rides up to the ISS from
Russia, or even worse, from Boeing. But
don't worry, space fans. A random reply guy told Elon to cool it, and that was
enough to make him walk it back. Twitter truly is the town square. Of course, all
of this kurfuffle made Tesla investors panic, a not uncommon effect of Elon
opening his mouth in 2025. But Tesla's stock also took a dive because the BBB
will also make things worse for EV companies and owners in a number of
ways, including removing government incentives for EV and solar. Musk
actually supported removing those in 2021 along with incentives for oil and
gas companies, but the tripleB keeps
those while screwing over EV and solar.
And to make matters worse, a cargo ship full of EVs just got fire.
Coincidence? I'm not. It's a stupid joke. I don't think they're even Teslas.
But hey, there's one silver lining. In desperation, Tesla is offering 0%
financing on Cyber Trucks if you also buy the full self-driving
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for the newbies, before we start the quick bits, I gotta warn
you the they're about to start. OpenAI
has filed to appeal a ruling in its ongoing court battle with the New York
Times that forces the AI company to retain all of the chat GPT output data
of its users, which they don't want to see, especially after seeing a lot of
what people say to chat bots. It's gross. Sam Alman tweeted that talking to
Chat GBT should be like talking to a lawyer or a doctor because those are the
people you ask about weird red bumps in your armpit, not Sam Alman. In other AI
news, Reddit sued Anthropic for not licensing the platform's data when
Google and OpenAI and everybody else already has. Why don't you like me,
Dario? Too much. Sorry, one more AI story. Owners of Samsung phones will
soon have the option to display lock screen ads featuring AI generated
versions of themselves wearing the advertised products. It's a
collaboration with Glance, a service that has offered lock screen ads for
some time, and it will be optin, but it seems kind of weird to me, if only
because the idea of someone else dressing me in some random outfit, it's
not right. That's my wife's job. Another private lander has made it to the moon
only to fail to stick the landing. But it's a lander. It had one job. Can we
get some cats designing the next one? All
right. Anyway, Japanese company iSpace
said after their resilience lander had one of its laser sensors malfunction, it
crashed itself into the moon in shame. After Apple's latest motion for a stay
on the US App Store ruling was denied, the company is trying to argue with the
EU about the use of a comma in article
5.4 of the digital markets act. There's a line that says gatekeeper companies,
Apple in this instance, shall allow business users free of charge to
communicate and promote offers, including under different conditions.
And then it goes on for a while, and to conclude contracts with those endusers.
Apple thinks the and to conclude contracts with end users bit at the end
isn't part of the things that are supposed to be free of charge list. The
EU, who wrote the legislation, thinks it
is part of the list. I don't know. Tough one to call. And if
you've seen foodies commenting meatball and other names of food under cooking
related social posts, they're trying to get the recipe of the dish in the pick.
It's part of a system that allows social accounts to avoid writing link in bio.
Instead, users reply to the post with meatball and get a DM with the recipe.
Some users still find it confusing, though. Uh, Alyssa Lunch tried writing,
"This recipe is really important to me." Okay, then why aren't you commenting
meatball? I've said meatball enough times now that it's starting to sound
like a sport. I would actually like to play, depending on the meat. And let's
make a deal. Meatball me back here on Monday, and I'll send you the recipe for
more tech news. It's only got one step.
Uh, and it just says, "Click the video." All right. Who's down to toss the old
meatball around? Uh-huh.