1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:07,759 Oh, I'm sorry. You wanted some happy golucky, positive tech news? Yeah, well, 2 00:00:05,279 --> 00:00:12,639 tech news ain't your friend. I'm your friend. I'm just trying to protect you. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:16,480 We know each other. 23 andMe, the DNA testing company, has filed for 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:20,800 bankruptcy nearly 20 years after pioneering the consumer genetic testing 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:25,279 industry while collecting a valuable horde of personal data that would make 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:28,960 Smog the Dragon blush. While the company says it will continue to operate during 7 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:34,160 the bankruptcy proceedings, during which it will seek to sell its assets, 8 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:36,719 co-founder and CEO Anne Wujiki announced 9 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:41,920 she's stepping down so she can be better positioned to bid on the company 10 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:44,480 herself. Now 23 andMe says customers 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:48,960 genetic data is anonymized, but no one's sure whether to believe that. And with 12 00:00:46,879 --> 00:00:55,320 the eventual fate of their genetic data uncertain, privacy experts are strongly 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:59,520 advising customers to delete their 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:02,960 DNA. How wouldn't that kill you? Oh, DNA 15 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:05,920 data. Oh, it looked like don't do the 16 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:10,560 first thing. Um, also 23 and me say that even if you delete your account, they'll 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,720 still retain a ton of data about you and your DNA, assuming you can still restore 18 00:01:13,119 --> 00:01:18,960 it from the recycle bin. Hey, who's ready for some new GPUs? These ones 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:24,479 could be affordable, kind of. I'm talking about the 60 tier cards. 20 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:27,040 NVIDIA's RTX 5060 and 5060Ti have had 21 00:01:24,479 --> 00:01:32,560 some specs leak courtesy of known Twitter hardware leaker Momo, who posted 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:39,920 a couple of HP's Omen desktops with an RTX 5060 Ti. Those models have 8 GB of 23 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:42,240 VRAM, but a 16 GB variant of the Ti was 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:46,640 spotted in a Best Buy listing. According to video cards with a z.com fun 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:52,640 spelling, NVIDIA is forcing their board partners to have at least one graphics 26 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:54,720 card model priced at MSRP and it has to 27 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:59,040 be available to purchase on the launch date. I mean, have you ever heard of 28 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:03,520 such a thing? Video Cards also purports to know some other specs of the cards 29 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:10,520 which are scheduled to launch on April 16th according to WX Nod on Twitter. But 30 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:16,959 there were also leaks mentioning AMD's RX960 XT, which looks like it's also 31 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:22,640 coming in 8 and 16 GB variants courtesy of yet another Twitter leaker, Haru Kaz 32 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:27,920 5719. Do you think they get together on holidays? Google has confirmed it may 33 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,800 have possibly accidentally uh deleted 34 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:35,120 some users data from timeline, the Google Maps feature, previously known as 35 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:39,440 location history. In an email to affected users, the company said the 36 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:43,840 deletion was caused by a technical issue, but did not elaborate further, 37 00:02:42,239 --> 00:02:47,760 forcing us to assume they were training a robot to deliver coffee in the server 38 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:52,560 room. You could have done that in the company ball pit, Google, come on. The 39 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:58,080 data snafu comes after some users already lost location history data after 40 00:02:55,519 --> 00:03:02,800 Google announced in December 2023 that it would be moved to ondevice storage by 41 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,959 default and they gave users instructions on how to back it up. There were lots of 42 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:11,120 articles spreading the word about this, but you can't reach everyone. And now 43 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:15,599 Google says that if your data was deleted and you don't have a backup, 44 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:20,080 you're hooped, bud. 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They're 66 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:56,800 features that were previously shown off under the name Project Astra, promising 67 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,720 a future where you can carry on a conversation with your AI assistant 68 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:08,759 while it looks through your phone camera as if you're on one of the worst kind of 69 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:11,720 video calls. And look, there's the sign. 70 00:05:08,759 --> 00:05:17,440 Uh oh. Wow. An Italian court has ruled that 71 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:21,600 Google must block pirate websites listed under the country's piracy shield 72 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:26,960 system, replacing their original web addresses with fake ones on Google's 73 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:32,080 public DNS service, a tactic known as DNS poisoning. An Italian regulators 74 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:38,479 post on LinkedIn celebrated the ruling as a win against piracy, which seems a 75 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:43,600 little ironic given that Italy invented the 76 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,600 mafia. NVIDIA's latest GPU drivers have 77 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:52,000 reportedly caused the black screen issues that affected some RTX 50 series 78 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:54,080 GPUs to spread to the RTX 40 series, 79 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:58,160 according to multiple Reddit posts from users suffering the same pain. 80 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:02,400 Apparently, rolling back to a previous driver sometimes fixes it, but then 81 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:06,960 you're prevented from playing new games with up-to-date drivers. I don't know, 82 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:11,440 maybe Jensen's just trying to teach us a lesson. You know, just cuz that screen 83 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:16,880 is dark doesn't mean your mind has to be. Imagine something in those inky 84 00:06:14,319 --> 00:06:21,039 depths. Oh god, it's coming this way. This was a mistake. The Philips Huegh 85 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:25,360 brand, which is now owned by Signify, is mostly made up of RGB enabled smart 86 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:30,960 lights. But a reference to a Philips Huegh smart doorbell was spotted in an 87 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:39,000 app update. Interestingly, it doesn't change colors, but it does ask visitors, 88 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,000 who are you? 89 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:54,680 What the was that? And Penn State researchers have developed technology 90 00:06:51,840 --> 00:07:00,880 that can create what they call audible enclaves, little pockets of physical 91 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,680 space inside which audio can be heard 92 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:09,520 and nowhere else. The scientists say they've achieved this using self-bending 93 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:14,080 ultrasound beams and nonlinear acoustics, which I'm not here to explain 94 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:18,720 to you. I could, but I'm only here to warn that if this gets widely adopted, 95 00:07:16,639 --> 00:07:21,599 walking around in a city could sound like you're flipping through radio 96 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:25,680 stations. And if people hear something they like, they could suddenly stop and 97 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:29,680 then you got a sidewalk pileup on your hands. We must destroy this technology 98 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,919 immediately. To hear about more tech abominations that shouldn't exist, come 99 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:39,319 back on Wednesday. What? Some of it will be 100 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:39,319 happy. Whatever.