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news first. Maybe later. Be good. >> Microsoft has heard Windows users loudly
saying they don't want an agentic OS.
But that's clearly because you just don't get it. You're confused. It's
okay. Let them explain in their support article which describes how secure AI
agent workspaces will give agents access to shared folders and allow them to work
in the background for you completing tasks while you do other weird human
things. Gross. But despite Microsoft's helpful explanation, enthusiasts don't
seem to be swayed. No one wants to use an agentic Windows. And so one intrepid
writer from the verge took one for the team and spent a week trying to interact
with co-pilot the way Microsoft wants us to and found that co-pilot made his
computer feel incompetent projecting
>> it had a crisis of confidence >> but apparently it's competent enough to
install malware as Microsoft's own
article states these kinds of agents would still be vulnerable to malicious
prompts that may be embedded in emails documents or web pages for For some
reason, Microsoft seems hellbent on making Windows worse instead of better.
Like, why not do what this programmer did and turn the OpenGL 3D Maze screen
saver from Windows 95 into a playable game demo thing?
>> What the Wait, it's your James. It's your shirt. >> He already did that. But there are so
many more screen savers. Do the pipes one next. We have a shirt for that, too.
>> I didn't even know you were this
on purpose. Epic Games and Unity are joining forces to let Unity developers
publish their games directly inside Fortnite through its island discovery
system and in doing so tap into its creator economy payouts, giving small
dev teams instant access to one of the biggest audiences in gaming. The plan
goes along perfectly with Tim Sweeny's vision of Fortnite as an open metaverse
where people can not just play, but live their entire lives as Homer Simpson
Avatar who communicates entirely through K-pop inspired emotes.
>> Do one. >> I don't know. >> Yes. >> The agreement will also see Unity
support games made with Unreal Engine on their recently announced commerce
dashboard, which lets creators manage pricing, payments, promotions, and
digital cataloges on multiple platforms. We're talking about a fairly deep
collaboration between two of the most popular game engines here. Maybe Timothy
Sweetener is right. This already is his metaverse and we're just living in it.
>> Zuck right over there. >> Zucks in. >> Hi. >> That's meta meta.
>> Yeah, that's that's so meta. >> Pebble, the once discontinued fan
favorite smartwatch seemed like it was flying high after being revived. But now
it's hit some turbulence. The community finds itself torn between Core Devices,
which now builds new Pebble hardware under original founder Eric Migog Skin
Geek and Rebel. This is hilarious that
they're called Rebel, the nonprofit that has maintained the Pebble App Store and
cloud services since the original company shut down. Just weeks ago, both
sides announced a deal. Core would build a new App Store front end. Rebel would
continue running the back end. And together, they'd support all Peber
users, new and old, and dead. Probably such an old device. But talks broke down
over who ultimately controls the app store data, which consists of roughly
13,000 apps and watch faces that Rebel has maintained since the servers were
shut down in 2018. Rebel says Core demanded unrestricted access, which they
fear could allow Core to build a closed proprietary store and leave Rebel
behind. And they also accuse Core of scraping their publicly available data
in violation of the agreement. [music] Core counters that the data shouldn't
belong to anyone. What they want is an open public archive to keep Pebble
accessible and that the scraping Rebels referring to was just Eric using a
simple web tool to browse watch faces. >> Eric does that all the time. He doesn't
scrape. He's not a scraper. >> Both sides claim they're protecting
Pebble's future, which looks increasingly uncertain as long as mom
and dad keep fighting. Please stop. But hey, at least the watches still tell the
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trouble again. They just cannot sit still and listen.
Too much sugar. Cloudflare had a major outage yesterday that knocked out big
services like chatbt and X for thousands of users. The outage came after a change
in permissions caused too many entries to be added to a file connected to
Cloudflare's bot management system, causing it to buckle under the load and
crash out harder than a real housewife. Cloudflare says they fixed the issue and
stress that there is no sign of a cyber attack. However, this was the third
major internet outage in a month and people are starting to wonder what can
be done to prevent these crashes and what backups we have in place for when
they do happen. Like how I always keep an extra new toothbrush in the house
just in case the data center powering my normal one goes down.
AMD is officially launching its next AI powered upscaling tech FSR Redstone on
December 10th. In a tweet, AMD exec Jack Quinn declared that where darkness ends,
REDSTONE BEGINS
before showing off a pretty bland, seemingly Marvel Studios title card
inspired video. At the moment, not much is known about FSR Redstone, but words
like neural radiance caching and ray regeneration
[laughter] have been thrown around and those sound
hella fancy. I guess AMD is hoping it's fancy enough to justify the reported
desire to increase GPU prices. According to a post on China's board channels,
with memory prices increasing, a price hike on AMD's GPUs is imminent.
Obviously, I'll tell you AMD, Toby Magcguire,
Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland together on screen. This is not
>> disappointed. >> AGAIN, [laughter] DISAPPOINTED. GOOGLE JUST LAUNCHED
Gemini 3, which it's calling its smartest AI model yet, you would hope.
If Google's benchmarks are to be believed, Gemini 3 might actually be a
new era of intelligence, considering it's apparently significantly better at
understanding text, images, audio, and a lot of other stuff than some of its
competitors. >> Can even understand my wife. The new Gemini is built into both the Gemini app
and Google search from day one. But being that it's a Gemini, is it ever
really going to get away from the stereotypes that it's indecisive,
impulsive, unreliable, and nosy? Russia
is now cutting mobile internet for travelers re-entering the country for up
to 24 hours, claiming it stops Ukrainian drones from using SIM cards for
navigation. The system has caused chaos in border regions where roaming happens
accidentally. [music] This happens to me all the time. >> Oh man.
>> Phones that reconnect after being on foreign networks get automatically quarantined until users prove using
captas or by dialing a call center that they're a human, not a quadcopter.
>> Oh, it's every day. I keep telling people not a quadcopter.
>> Riley keeps buzzing in my ear. And Tik Tok is rolling out a new AI generated
content slider in its managed topic settings so you can choose to see more
or less slop in your for you feed. Tik Tok is also working on invisible
watermarking to make AI videos easier to spot, but they're invisible. The
watermarks that only Tik Tok can read will help them identify AI content even
if it's edited or re-uploaded. The platform announced that these features
will be rolling out in the [music] coming weeks. What do you think the person who slides their AI content
slider to only AI is like? I bet they're
a Gemini. And I bet you'll be back on Friday for more tech news. I've got to
go. I wanted to keep working on my funny intro a bit, but now I've got a parent
teacher conference about the quick bits to go to. They're not even my freaking