WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.960 Tech News can help you understand and adapt to important technological, 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:13.960 economic, and socioultural shifts that affect all of us. But why keep up with 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:17.039 it at all? It's a good 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:19.119 question. Hell if I know. Nintendo has 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:23.840 updated their user agreements to let gamers know they might brick your Switch 00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:26.640 if you screw around with it. Because as much as they love to sue people, it's 00:00:25.279 --> 00:00:30.800 like their favorite thing other than releasing the same game a million times, 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:36.360 it's just faster to remotely disable people's consoles. And along with it, 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:39.440 their ability to legally play Nintendo's 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:42.399 games. Hold on. As first spotted by 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:47.039 Steven Totio at Gamefile, the old Nintendo account agreement for US 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:51.520 accounts forbade a long list of jailbreaky actions like copying, 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:56.239 modifying, and decompiling Nintendo services. But the new agreement goes 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:00.879 into more detail and notes that failing to comply with these restrictions may 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:05.920 cause Nintendo to render your account and or Nintendo device permanently 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:10.080 unusable in whole or in part. I don't know what that last part is like. They 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:14.560 might break only your Joy-Con sticks, make them worse than they already are. 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:20.080 Uh the UK version of the agreement is a bit softer, saying non-compliance may 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:23.520 result in the console becoming unusable. 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:25.759 might happen, might not stop. Nintendo 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:31.200 also updated their privacy policy in the US and UK to say they might monitor and 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:35.759 record your video and audio interactions with other users. So, just make sure you 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:40.159 get all the swearing out of your system before you sit down to play online. 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:46.079 Okay. NVIDIA is reportedly once again refusing to give tech reviewers official 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:49.439 drivers for the RTX 5060 until the card 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:51.200 launches on May 19th. Igor's Lab first 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:56.000 made this claim, but it was corroborated by Hardware Unboxed and Andrea Schilling 00:01:54.079 --> 00:02:01.600 of Hardware Lux, who pointed out NVIDIA's plan sucks extra hard because 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:05.360 May 19th is the first day of Computex and everybody's going to be in Taiwan 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:09.599 possibly enjoying delicious soup dumplings and bubble tea, which is not 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:14.239 important right now. What's important is we're looking at another launch day 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:18.560 filled potentially with videos of short sandled people complaining about not 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:24.319 being able to publish a review. Thanks NVIDIA. Honestly, the Radeon RX960 XT 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:30.080 listings of which leaked recently revealing both 8 gig and 16 gig variants 00:02:26.959 --> 00:02:32.080 can't come soon enough. Please let Linus 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.800 review something. Anything. Apple has filed a motion to stay that ruling from 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:42.239 last week, forcing the tech giant to allow external payment options on iOS, 00:02:39.519 --> 00:02:47.599 even though Judge Ivon Gonzalez Rogers explicitly said she would not grant a 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:51.360 stay and that she is generally sick of Apple 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:55.599 shenanigans. That's my paraphrasing. But you see, Apple had no choice but to try 00:02:53.840 --> 00:03:00.080 something. Because if they don't collect all the commissions they can, even on 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:04.560 purchases made outside of the app store, they could lose hundreds of millions, 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:09.200 even billions of dollars, which I believe was the whole idea, but I could 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:14.080 be wrong. Obviously, Epic Games thinks Apple's motion is BS. The company just 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:19.440 submitted the Fortnite iOS app to Apple for review once again. And again, I feel 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:24.239 like it won't be approved, but you know, I appreciate Tim Sweeny's spirit. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:28.640 Meanwhile, Apple SVP Eddie Q made a spirited argument in the Google Search 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:33.360 antirust remedies trial, asserting that Google should still be allowed to pay 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:38.239 Apple 20 billion a year to be Safari's default search engine because search 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.000 won't even be relevant soon anyway. I mean, people are using it less because 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.159 they're using AI to search for stuff instead. Now, Google didn't love the 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:50.720 sound of that, so they posted a short statement to say, "Ah, well, hey, just 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.879 uh hold on now." You know, they're we're still seeing overall query growth in 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:59.360 search. So, I mean, you know, Google's still a big deal. And then Apple's like, 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:05.120 "No, it's not." And then Google's like, "Yes, it is." Anyway, Eddie even went so 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:11.519 far as to say you may not even need an iPhone by 2035 because AI is changing 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:16.079 how people use the web so much. In fact, the changes are so big, according to 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:20.160 Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, they're killing the internet's entire business 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:23.600 model. I mean, the tides are changing. You know, winds are shifting, your 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:26.400 honor. There are probably a lot of things we should be worrying about 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.600 instead of Google paying Apple $20 billion. So, probably just keep letting 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:33.919 them do that. Okay? Right? I mean, why not, you know? 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Uh the video 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:48.080 was produced by the victim's sister and features the man saying he believes in 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:53.120 forgiveness despite his family asking the judge to deliver the maximum 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:58.120 sentence. After hearing the uh testimony, the judge said he didn't hear 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:02.720 the victim asking for the maximum sentence, probably because that wasn't 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:06.639 actually the victim. It was a fake person. Does everyone realize that? And 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:10.720 then the judge handed out the max sentence anyway. Okay. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:15.360 Not sure what we learned from any of this. Huawei showed off its first 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:19.120 laptops running a desktop version of its Harmony OS operating system. The Chinese 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.880 tech giant first started developing Harmony OS as an Android-based 00:06:21.039 --> 00:06:27.840 alternative to reduce their reliance on Google. And now they're trying to reduce 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:31.840 dependence on Microsoft too because of the, you know, the US China trade war 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:35.680 and also probably because they're sick of the constant nagging to upgrade to 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:41.600 Windows 11. Relatable. In case you missed it, there's a new pope in town. 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:45.039 And yeah, he's a gamer. Kind of. Uh, 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:47.120 Robert Pvost, aka Pope Leo I 14th, is 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:51.759 the first American pope and the first one confirmed to play video games, 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:56.400 specifically Wordle and Words with Friends. According to his biological 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.160 gamer bros, he's also the first pope that can be properly stalked on social 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:03.919 media. Evidence has already been discovered of him arguing with his 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:09.039 relatives on Facebook. He's just like us. and a viral Tik Tok trend called the 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:13.280 Chromebook Challenge, in which kids stick objects into the USB ports of 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:17.919 their schoolisssued Chromebooks to elicit a bit of magic smoke, has 00:07:15.599 --> 00:07:22.479 unsurprisingly led to fires and evacuations at schools in multiple 00:07:19.919 --> 00:07:26.960 states. As one Tik Tok video points out, blowing up your Chromebook may lead to a 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:32.160 situation where it ain't even a Chromebook anymore. Important lessons 00:07:29.599 --> 00:07:36.880 learned. Searching Chromebook challenge on Tik Tok now leads to a Tik Tok page 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:41.199 warning against participating in such challenges which they needed to do 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:45.360 because the fire challenge was already a thing and that involved kids pouring 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:50.880 flammable liquid on themselves and then lighting that liquid on fire. What is 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:55.039 the challenge there? To survive. Thankfully, kids have already pivoted to 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:59.599 finding new and creative ways to screw with their Chromebook settings, making 00:07:56.960 --> 00:08:04.560 the laptop hard to use the old-fashioned way. You know, maybe the kids are all 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:07.919 right. Maybe the kids are all right. But I won't be all right unless you come 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:11.840 back on Monday for more tech news. I'll just be sitting here worried sick that 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:17.199 you're doing something less useful, like touching grass or other things that are 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:17.199 outside. Your hands might get dirty.