1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:08,640 All rise, the honorable court of tech news is now in session. Today's docket 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:13,480 is full and the defendant is the entire tech industry. May God have mercy on 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:19,640 your bleeps and bloops, you computer goblins. OpenAI is killing Sora, its 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:25,120 slop video generating TikTok clone, less than 6 months after launch. Users will 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:30,280 lose access to video generation via the mobile app, website, the API, and even 6 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:35,040 in ChatGPT itself. According to the Wall Street Journal, it's part of a strategic 7 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:41,880 pivot to productivity tools with OpenAI merging ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas 8 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:44,720 browser into one desktop super app, 9 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:50,320 which is likely corpo speak for C Dads 2.0 is eating our lunch and Sammy boy 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:54,440 doesn't want to look like a dingus. Hey, you're actually a dingus either 11 00:00:52,160 --> 00:01:00,600 way. Sora's downloads had already plunged from 3.3 million in November to 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:03,960 just 1.1 million by February, generating 13 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,720 a grand total of 2.14 million dollars in 14 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:10,080 revenue. The announcement apparently prompted Disney to pull out of its 15 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:14,200 planned 1 billion dollar OpenAI investment, which was part of a deal 16 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:20,160 which would have seen over 200 Disney characters licensed for use in the Sora 17 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:22,480 app, which has, again, departed for the 18 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:26,280 great slop bucket in the sky. Disney, who was reportedly blindsided by the 19 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:31,480 announcement, released a statement with all of the energy of a recent divorcee, 20 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,320 saying that they respect OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation 21 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:39,840 business and to shift its priorities elsewhere. A confidential source told 22 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:43,440 Reuters that it was a big rug pull, saying Disney wasn't informed of the 23 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:47,760 move beforehand despite the fact that they had been in a meeting with the 24 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,960 OpenAI team just 30 minutes before. Oof. 25 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:54,600 Disney has said they plan on pursuing similar deals with other AI companies. 26 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:59,080 That's right, girl. You were too good for him anyways. Uh, play Brit- play 27 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:03,479 Britney Spears' Toxic, quick. I remember that. We can't we can't. A 28 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:07,600 pair of landmark social media rulings were handed down this week that could 29 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:12,920 set legal precedents. The first one dropped yesterday when a New Mexico jury 30 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:17,480 ordered Meta to pay 375 million US dollars after finding the company misled 31 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,920 parents about the safety of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The second one 32 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:25,680 dropped just this morning when an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent 33 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:30,760 for harming kids through addictive platform design, awarding the plaintiff 34 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:34,920 3 million dollars in damages. During the New Mexico trial, Zuckerberg, seen in 35 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:39,080 these courtroom drawings looking like an elderly boy, and in this footage of him 36 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:43,040 exiting the courtroom looking like a haunted puppet. This is important 37 00:02:40,959 --> 00:02:47,080 details. Attempted to refute the evidence by stating that harms to 38 00:02:44,959 --> 00:02:52,480 children were inevitable on his platforms due to their massive user 39 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:55,200 bases. Yikes, dude. I guess his PR team 40 00:02:52,480 --> 00:03:01,239 forgot to explicitly tell him that real humans don't love it when you refer to 41 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:06,920 harming children as an inevitability. Meta has already stated their plans to 42 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:09,280 appeal both cases saying they work hard 43 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:15,280 to keep people safe on our platforms. Aw, boo-hoo. I'm so sorry your 17 strike 44 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:19,600 safety policy didn't cut it. These rulings are seen as so significant 45 00:03:17,239 --> 00:03:23,720 because they reject the common Section 230 defense, which has historically 46 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:28,280 shielded tech companies from liability over user-generated content. As it 47 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:33,000 stands, neither of the cases is totally over with the LA jury deliberating on 48 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:37,200 punitive damages and the New Mexico case moving to a second trial in May where a 49 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,880 judge will rule on public nuisance claims, equating social platforms with 50 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:46,680 the weird guy who hangs out in the public square. These two cases are 51 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:51,440 bellwethers for a glut of similar cases waiting in the wings. So, the bleeding 52 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:56,040 isn't over for old Zuckercorn. It's my new favorite nickname for him. But I 53 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:00,120 guess with such a massive user base, you can say it was kind of 54 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:04,720 inevitable. So how does that feel? ARM, the company 55 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:08,760 that spent 35 years licensing chip designs to basically everyone, just 56 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,680 announced that it's making its own physical chip for the first time. That's 57 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:19,400 right, it's our turn now. The Switzerland of chips declared war, and 58 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:25,720 to the front lines they brought the ARM Neoverse V1 CPU. It's a 3-nanometer data 59 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:30,840 center chip with 136 cores and a 300-watt TDP. Low enough to be 60 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:35,880 air-cooled. Huh? We're air-cooling in here. It packs 12 channels of DDR5, 61 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:40,200 which is great for ARM and painful for me, since I still can't find RAM for my 62 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:44,760 second channel. But happy for you though. Meta actually co-developed the 63 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:48,960 chip with ARM, and they're its lead customer, and will be pairing the chip 64 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:53,240 with their own custom accelerators to melt kids' brains faster than ever 65 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:57,680 before. ARM claims that a single air-cooled rack fits over 8,000 cores 66 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:03,000 with twice the performance per rack compared to x86. A potentially 10 67 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:06,960 billion dollars saved per gigawatt of data center. And that's all cool and 68 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,400 like, you know, we're all very happy for ARM, but why are they starting to 69 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,960 compete with their own customers? Considering Apple, Amazon, Google, 70 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:18,520 Microsoft, and NVIDIA already design their own ARM-based chips. Well, when 71 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:24,320 asked if NVIDIA might find this move concerning, CEO Rene Haas replied, "Does 72 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:30,880 it piss off NVIDIA? I'd imagine it will piss off Intel and AMD more." Piss 73 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,320 off everybody. Got it. Good strategy. Hey, he could be frustrated from trying 74 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:38,680 to make a website without our sponsor, Squarespace. In the year 2026, 75 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:43,880 cyberspace has become a vast and lawless frontier. Websites lie abandoned, their 76 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:45,520 CSS crumbling, their links broken. 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Aw. 95 00:07:06,919 --> 00:07:12,760 Well, but considering NVIDIA's RTX 4000 96 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:19,360 Pro with only 24 gigs of memory is priced around 1900 USD, nearly double 97 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,400 the B70, these cards are a good deal, I 98 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:25,800 mean, as far as RAM goes. I guess the only thing Intel is battling right now 99 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:29,880 is their refusal to let us play games on their best silicon. And they're battling 100 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:34,720 a few other things, but Wine 11 has rewritten how Linux runs Windows games 101 00:07:32,919 --> 00:07:40,200 at the kernel level with a new feature called NT Sync and the performance gains 102 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:44,640 are reportedly stupid good. According to Wine contributor and people who do a lot 103 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:53,280 of other things, too, CodeWeavers, we're talking 110 FPS to 860 in Dirt 3. 104 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:56,200 Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 to 77. 105 00:07:53,280 --> 00:08:00,840 And unlike the old Fsync/Esync workarounds, NTsync is baked into the 106 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:06,120 mainline Linux kernel starting at version 6.14, so any distro shipping 107 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:10,120 that kernel gets it automatically. Reddit users are already confirming the 108 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:14,320 gains are legit. I don't know. It might be time for Microsoft to adopt a new 109 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:19,240 marketing slogan. Windows 11, the best way to download the OS that runs our 110 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:24,320 games better. AyaNeo has suspended pre-orders for its AMD Strix 111 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:29,120 Halo-powered next two Windows gaming handheld claiming that production costs 112 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:32,919 now approach twice the selling price, which already started at 2,000 bucks. 113 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:37,640 AyaNeo had to make the call after storage and RAM suppliers quoted prices 114 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:42,080 several times higher than before, which was obviously caused by AI data centers 115 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:47,120 going all hungry, hungry hippos on the global memory supply. Those scamps. 116 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:52,000 AyaNeo says the suspension is temporary and they may consider resuming sales if 117 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:57,360 the prices come back down. But it turns out next two is the amount of decades 118 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:03,280 left until you can afford RAM, I guess. The FCC just banned all new models of 119 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:07,839 foreign-made consumer routers from US sales citing national security risks 120 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:12,520 related to the Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks. Small problem, 121 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:17,760 though. Virtually every consumer router sold in the US is made overseas. Even 122 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:23,280 American brands like Netgear are built in Vietnam and Taiwan. Existing models 123 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:27,839 can still be sold, but new models will need conditional approval from the DoD 124 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:32,240 or DHS. And all this makes a ton of sense because the Typhoon hacks were 125 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:36,320 largely carried out on American-made Cisco enterprise equipment, not consumer 126 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:40,360 routers. But that's the way they like it. Made in America, hacked in America. 127 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:45,240 At least they're keeping jobs domestic. And an undergrad at Centenary College of 128 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Louisiana has developed a nail polish that lets people with long fingernails 129 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:54,000 actually use touch screens. Despite giving themselves a leg down in that 130 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:59,880 area seemingly on purpose, the new clear coat uses a blend of taurine and a 131 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:02,320 stinky compound called ethanolamine 132 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:05,960 ethanolamine to give nails a small electric charge. I'm a little more 133 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:10,400 scared now than I was before, which could also help people with zombie 134 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:15,000 finger, a condition I just learned about that causes fingers to not register on 135 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:20,080 touch screens. It's in moments like this that I wonder, has science gone too far? 136 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:25,480 Are we like Icarus flying on wings of wax too close to the sun? For what? To 137 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:31,000 fulfill the hubris of our fathers, Daedaluses, seeking only to serve their 138 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:35,760 own egos? Is there no rest or respite? No moment where we say we have come far 139 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,800 enough and turn back from the precipice of innovation? 140 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:44,720 Or will we be forever pushed out beyond the edges of the map by those behind us 141 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:49,720 clamoring to see territory still unclaimed? 142 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:51,760 For here be monsters, my friends. And I 143 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:58,000 fear that those monsters are us. 144 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:03,480 And court is adjourned. The tech industry has been found guilty on all 145 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,320 counts and sentenced to being discussed 146 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:12,120 again on Friday. Uh the defendant showed no remorse. 147 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,120 Never does.