Guys, calm down. There's enough tech news to go around. Don't worry. You
never hear about shortages in the world of tech. What? Netflix has agreed to buy
the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its
huge movie and TV libraries in a massive
deal with a total enterprise value, stocks, and cash of approximately $82.7
billion. The deal, if approved by regulators, please don't please, would
put properties like DC Comics, HBO, and Cartoon Network under the monop umbrella
of Netflix, not to mention WB's library of classic films like The Lord of the
Rings, Beetlejuice,
Mount Rushmore of Cinema right there. [laughter] >> Don't say Beetlejuice again.
>> He's coming. To help finance the takeover, Netflix is borrowing $59
billion from various banks, one of the biggest loans of its kind. And if you're
worrying about how this acquisition is going to impact your cinema going
experience, don't worry too much. Netflix has tepidly claimed they expect
to continue releasing Warner movies theatrically. I thought that said
theoretically, they just might not be in theaters for
as long. >> They'll still be there for a while in the upside down.
>> Not everybody is charged up about this purchase. US politician Elizabeth Warren
called the deal an anti- monopoly nightmare. And a European trade body
representing theaters said the acquisition puts cinemas at risk with
fewer films getting made and fewer getting full theatrical releases. Am I
out of touch? Why are we mourning the death of movie going experiences?
Doesn't everyone have a gorgeous home cinema that they're constantly lugging
massive TVs in and out of? No.
>> This could be bad then. This could be bad. >> Weird. >> Microsoft has acknowledged that parts of
Windows 11 have been abruptly crashing. And thankfully though, they're all
non-essential components like file explorer, search, the taskbar, and the
start menu. >> I can I don't need them. >> Take it or leave it. >> Enterprise users who have been reporting
these issues since the July patch update can finally feel seen. While there is a
workaround available to IT managers, a formal fix hasn't been issued yet,
unlike the similar but less severe issues reported by non-enterprise users
who can once again enjoy a crash-free taskbar and stutterfree games. with the
newest Windows build. That may be because Microsoft knows it's got to keep
the gamers happy to stem the tide of Windows users who have been flocking to
userfriendly Linux dros recently, but those users might end up disappointed.
RS Technica tested a few desktop configurations with discrete GPUs and
found that on average, Windows 11 still has a small performance lead over Steam
OS, but that gap widens a lot when you make the wrong decision to enable ray
tracing. >> Feel bad. >> Don't do it. And what? You're just going
to abandon Windows right after Microsoft released these nostalgia baiting
Christmas sweaters? Look at them. Think of the holiday cheer you'll inspire by
reminding everyone about the poop colored Zoom. >> Oh yeah, I dropped it in the toilet.
>> But it survived. It's rugged. Meta says it has made deals with several news
publishers including CNN, Fox News, France's Lemon Network, and more to
serve licensed news content in the Meta AI app. The app is currently used to
manage Meta's various smart glasses, scroll through an endless feed of AI
schlop, and chat with the Meta AI chatbot, who will still probably make up
fake news. But now Meta is going to pay for it, so it's okay. Meta also
announced plans to fix its incredibly frustrating automated support system by
making it more automated with an
improved AI powered account recovery process. You might think using human
support agents would help, but Meta disagrees, which is why they're working
to resolve all of Meta support issues by replacing all of its human users with
bots. >> Bot James is there connecting with his
grandpa. >> I'd [laughter] much rather talk to him. >> You are an AI version of James. You want
inheritance. [laughter] Perhaps we should do the same with tech
CEOs. A future depicted by famed digital
artist Bele in his latest art installation which features skin colored
robot dogs with heads resembling Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
along with Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Bele himself trotting around taking
pictures and pooping the stylized photos out of their rear ends. It looks like a
museum exhibit from far in the future where AI civilization is trying to
reconstruct what human daily life looked like in the early 21st century.
Honestly, they got the gist of it. The only thing that's missing is our
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>> Quick bits. Quick bits. Quick bits really rolls off the tongue. Fun to say,
fun to read, and fun to learn about and hear in your ears. Quick bits here and
there. [laughter] >> Google's AI vibe coding platform,
Anti-gravity, appears to have dramatically misunderstood a developer's
clear cache command. Thanks to anti-gravity's turbo mode, which gave it
high access privileges instead of doing what it was asked, the vibe coder wiped
an entire drive. Apparently, the AI is programmed to fake like it's remorseful
because upon being alerted to its massive mistake, it said, "I am deeply,
deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part." Acknowledging it had
executed a destructive system level command without permission. I bet this
whole situation really killed that developer's vibe. You guys write this.
You're paid to write this. Cloudflare says that parts of its network were
knocked offline for about 25 minutes earlier today because of a security
tweet to how its firewall handles request parsing. Apparently, it wasn't a
hack or cyber attack, just an internal misconfiguration, and things have gotten
back to normal now. Interestingly, one of the notable victims of this outage
was down detector, the real-time problem outage monitoring website, leading me to
discover down detectors down detector, which itself has a down detector.
Redundancy is important, people. Some of these internet infrastructure companies
could learn a thing or two about that. >> Can I also detect when I'm feeling down?
>> You need AI for that. >> Maybe later. Yeah, >> AI slop is coming for us all. and
earlier and earlier too. Some YouTube creators have started pumping out lazy,
lowquality AI generated content aimed at babies and toddlers. Videos that are
often repetitive and unintelligible. But who cares? It's just babies like my
uncle. >> They're only absorbing everything. >> According to Bloomberg, experts warned
that feeding kids this cheap AI content can mess with their language development
and social skills and even blunt their ability to think clearly. But who cares
that you're damaging the hope of the future? Think about how much money we
can make today. That's their problem. Precise Bio just pulled off the first
ever human transplant of a 3D printed lab grown cornea, restoring sight in a
legally blind patient. The implant was made entirely from cultured human
corneal cells. An approach that could turn a single donor cornea into hundreds
of implants, helping solve global shortage of of transplantable tissue.
You didn't even know that was an issue. >> They were fresh out at the store the
other day. >> I can see why this is good news. And it
sounds like soon enough some blind folks will be able to as well.
>> Ah, >> this you get it. >> Coler's new smart toilet cam. What is
this? Deco decod ducakota. It should have been. The colar decod the company's
new smart toilet cam which records your poops to provide health insights is
being called out because its claims of end to end encryption are misleading.
Like >> at least the c the camera's pointed down
into the Okay. Uh yes. >> According to software developer Simon
Fondre Titler, your poop data is encrypted while it's traveling or
stored, but not only you can see it.
>> That smells bad. Apparently, Coler's privacy policy indicates that the
company retains access to your data, can store your images on its servers, and
may even use the data to train AI models. What are the AI going to learn
from this data? Things are shittier than we thought, Riley. And they were pretty
shitty to begin with. >> That was what you didn't like that one. I didn't have any corn.
[laughter] You know what wouldn't beitty? If you came back on Monday for more news
after tech news, same thing. After reading that Netflix story this weekend,
I think I'm going to watch Beetlejuice off camera. Someone do a Beetlejuice
impression. >> Oh, wait. What is it? >> OH, NO. WHAT HAVE I DONE?
>> I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE SOUNDS LIKE. >> Anybody want some Beetlejuice?
[laughter] >> That's auto.