WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.759 Guys, calm down. There's enough tech news to go around. Don't worry. You 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:12.000 never hear about shortages in the world of tech. What? Netflix has agreed to buy 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:17.600 the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its 00:00:14.559 --> 00:00:19.600 huge movie and TV libraries in a massive 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:25.840 deal with a total enterprise value, stocks, and cash of approximately $82.7 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:30.080 billion. The deal, if approved by regulators, please don't please, would 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:35.840 put properties like DC Comics, HBO, and Cartoon Network under the monop umbrella 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:41.120 of Netflix, not to mention WB's library of classic films like The Lord of the 00:00:37.680 --> 00:00:43.230 Rings, Beetlejuice, 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:47.360 Mount Rushmore of Cinema right there. [laughter] >> Don't say Beetlejuice again. 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:52.320 >> He's coming. To help finance the takeover, Netflix is borrowing $59 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:55.680 billion from various banks, one of the biggest loans of its kind. And if you're 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.960 worrying about how this acquisition is going to impact your cinema going 00:00:57.199 --> 00:01:03.680 experience, don't worry too much. Netflix has tepidly claimed they expect 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:07.200 to continue releasing Warner movies theatrically. I thought that said 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:09.520 theoretically, they just might not be in theaters for 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:14.479 as long. >> They'll still be there for a while in the upside down. 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:18.640 >> Not everybody is charged up about this purchase. US politician Elizabeth Warren 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:21.840 called the deal an anti- monopoly nightmare. And a European trade body 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:25.680 representing theaters said the acquisition puts cinemas at risk with 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.680 fewer films getting made and fewer getting full theatrical releases. Am I 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:33.119 out of touch? Why are we mourning the death of movie going experiences? 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:38.000 Doesn't everyone have a gorgeous home cinema that they're constantly lugging 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:39.280 massive TVs in and out of? No. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:44.880 >> This could be bad then. This could be bad. >> Weird. >> Microsoft has acknowledged that parts of 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:48.479 Windows 11 have been abruptly crashing. And thankfully though, they're all 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:52.000 non-essential components like file explorer, search, the taskbar, and the 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:58.079 start menu. >> I can I don't need them. >> Take it or leave it. >> Enterprise users who have been reporting 00:01:55.759 --> 00:02:02.960 these issues since the July patch update can finally feel seen. While there is a 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:06.799 workaround available to IT managers, a formal fix hasn't been issued yet, 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:11.200 unlike the similar but less severe issues reported by non-enterprise users 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:15.680 who can once again enjoy a crash-free taskbar and stutterfree games. with the 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:19.599 newest Windows build. That may be because Microsoft knows it's got to keep 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:23.840 the gamers happy to stem the tide of Windows users who have been flocking to 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:27.920 userfriendly Linux dros recently, but those users might end up disappointed. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:32.319 RS Technica tested a few desktop configurations with discrete GPUs and 00:02:30.239 --> 00:02:37.360 found that on average, Windows 11 still has a small performance lead over Steam 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:39.920 OS, but that gap widens a lot when you make the wrong decision to enable ray 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:45.519 tracing. >> Feel bad. >> Don't do it. And what? You're just going 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:49.280 to abandon Windows right after Microsoft released these nostalgia baiting 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:52.800 Christmas sweaters? Look at them. Think of the holiday cheer you'll inspire by 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:58.879 reminding everyone about the poop colored Zoom. >> Oh yeah, I dropped it in the toilet. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:03.040 >> But it survived. It's rugged. Meta says it has made deals with several news 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:08.319 publishers including CNN, Fox News, France's Lemon Network, and more to 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:12.560 serve licensed news content in the Meta AI app. The app is currently used to 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:16.480 manage Meta's various smart glasses, scroll through an endless feed of AI 00:03:14.239 --> 00:03:20.640 schlop, and chat with the Meta AI chatbot, who will still probably make up 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:24.319 fake news. But now Meta is going to pay for it, so it's okay. Meta also 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:29.680 announced plans to fix its incredibly frustrating automated support system by 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.840 making it more automated with an 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:36.000 improved AI powered account recovery process. You might think using human 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:40.959 support agents would help, but Meta disagrees, which is why they're working 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:44.959 to resolve all of Meta support issues by replacing all of its human users with 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.840 bots. >> Bot James is there connecting with his 00:03:46.799 --> 00:03:53.280 grandpa. >> I'd [laughter] much rather talk to him. >> You are an AI version of James. You want 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:58.400 inheritance. [laughter] Perhaps we should do the same with tech 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:00.319 CEOs. A future depicted by famed digital 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:04.000 artist Bele in his latest art installation which features skin colored 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:07.680 robot dogs with heads resembling Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:12.720 along with Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Bele himself trotting around taking 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:16.639 pictures and pooping the stylized photos out of their rear ends. It looks like a 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:20.639 museum exhibit from far in the future where AI civilization is trying to 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:24.960 reconstruct what human daily life looked like in the early 21st century. 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:28.560 Honestly, they got the gist of it. The only thing that's missing is our 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:33.440 sponsor, Charge, who packed a power bank, retractable USB cable, and wall 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:37.440 charger into one sleek, intelligent device with an appropriate name, the 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:41.199 retractable 3in-1 power bank. That's exactly what it is, and it's exactly 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.960 what you need if you live in a chaotic tangle of cables, which I know you do. 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:49.520 We've known each other for years, so I know that having 30 watt fast charging 00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:53.759 with power delivery, a 10,000 mAh capacity, and the ability to charge two 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:58.080 devices at once via that built-in cable, and its USBC port is going to change 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:03.040 things for you in a big way. This thing not only has advanced safety features 00:04:59.919 --> 00:05:05.040 for worry-free charging, it's beautiful. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:09.440 Look at it. It's inspired by the Braraw Audio 300, the iconic all-in-one 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:13.199 turntable, receiver, and amplifier. They didn't need to do that. That's just for 00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:18.000 fun. So have some fun and check out Sharge today at the link below. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:21.440 >> Quick bits. Quick bits. Quick bits really rolls off the tongue. Fun to say, 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:25.840 fun to read, and fun to learn about and hear in your ears. Quick bits here and 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:30.000 there. [laughter] >> Google's AI vibe coding platform, 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:34.160 Anti-gravity, appears to have dramatically misunderstood a developer's 00:05:32.320 --> 00:05:38.400 clear cache command. Thanks to anti-gravity's turbo mode, which gave it 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:43.680 high access privileges instead of doing what it was asked, the vibe coder wiped 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:48.000 an entire drive. Apparently, the AI is programmed to fake like it's remorseful 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:52.639 because upon being alerted to its massive mistake, it said, "I am deeply, 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:56.160 deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part." Acknowledging it had 00:05:54.479 --> 00:05:59.039 executed a destructive system level command without permission. I bet this 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:04.240 whole situation really killed that developer's vibe. You guys write this. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.160 You're paid to write this. Cloudflare says that parts of its network were 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:12.639 knocked offline for about 25 minutes earlier today because of a security 00:06:10.400 --> 00:06:17.120 tweet to how its firewall handles request parsing. Apparently, it wasn't a 00:06:15.039 --> 00:06:21.360 hack or cyber attack, just an internal misconfiguration, and things have gotten 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:25.840 back to normal now. Interestingly, one of the notable victims of this outage 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:30.400 was down detector, the real-time problem outage monitoring website, leading me to 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:34.639 discover down detectors down detector, which itself has a down detector. 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:37.360 Redundancy is important, people. Some of these internet infrastructure companies 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:40.880 could learn a thing or two about that. >> Can I also detect when I'm feeling down? 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:45.759 >> You need AI for that. >> Maybe later. Yeah, >> AI slop is coming for us all. and 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:50.560 earlier and earlier too. Some YouTube creators have started pumping out lazy, 00:06:48.080 --> 00:06:54.960 lowquality AI generated content aimed at babies and toddlers. Videos that are 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.759 often repetitive and unintelligible. But who cares? It's just babies like my 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:04.160 uncle. >> They're only absorbing everything. >> According to Bloomberg, experts warned 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:08.080 that feeding kids this cheap AI content can mess with their language development 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:11.680 and social skills and even blunt their ability to think clearly. But who cares 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:16.319 that you're damaging the hope of the future? Think about how much money we 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:20.080 can make today. That's their problem. Precise Bio just pulled off the first 00:07:17.919 --> 00:07:24.560 ever human transplant of a 3D printed lab grown cornea, restoring sight in a 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.400 legally blind patient. The implant was made entirely from cultured human 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:32.319 corneal cells. An approach that could turn a single donor cornea into hundreds 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:36.240 of implants, helping solve global shortage of of transplantable tissue. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.560 You didn't even know that was an issue. >> They were fresh out at the store the 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.880 other day. >> I can see why this is good news. And it 00:07:41.039 --> 00:07:45.199 sounds like soon enough some blind folks will be able to as well. 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:51.520 >> Ah, >> this you get it. >> Coler's new smart toilet cam. What is 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:56.879 this? Deco decod ducakota. It should have been. The colar decod the company's 00:07:54.160 --> 00:08:01.919 new smart toilet cam which records your poops to provide health insights is 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:05.759 being called out because its claims of end to end encryption are misleading. 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:10.960 Like >> at least the c the camera's pointed down 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:14.639 into the Okay. Uh yes. >> According to software developer Simon 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:20.800 Fondre Titler, your poop data is encrypted while it's traveling or 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:22.960 stored, but not only you can see it. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:26.479 >> That smells bad. Apparently, Coler's privacy policy indicates that the 00:08:24.479 --> 00:08:30.479 company retains access to your data, can store your images on its servers, and 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.919 may even use the data to train AI models. What are the AI going to learn 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:36.880 from this data? Things are shittier than we thought, Riley. And they were pretty 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:42.000 shitty to begin with. >> That was what you didn't like that one. I didn't have any corn. 00:08:40.730 --> 00:08:48.000 [laughter] You know what wouldn't beitty? If you came back on Monday for more news 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:51.600 after tech news, same thing. After reading that Netflix story this weekend, 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:54.000 I think I'm going to watch Beetlejuice off camera. Someone do a Beetlejuice 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:59.839 impression. >> Oh, wait. What is it? >> OH, NO. WHAT HAVE I DONE? 00:08:57.040 --> 00:09:03.519 >> I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE SOUNDS LIKE. >> Anybody want some Beetlejuice? 00:09:02.346 --> 00:09:06.839 [laughter] >> That's auto.