WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.920 Do you suffer from intense cravings for knowledge of tech-related events? Do you 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.680 frequently wake up screaming, "THE LATEST DRIVER BORKS THE BIOS?" Ask your 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:16.240 doctor if tech news is right for you, or just keep watching and ask him later. 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:22.440 Reviews for Intel's Arrow Lake refresh CPUs are out, and they make me want to 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.840 yell, "Intel's so back!" EVEN IF XEO Pat 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:28.760 Gelsinger's not, because [laughter] the Sorry. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:33.240 Because the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Ultra 5 250K Plus could politely be 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:38.080 called flagship killers, beating their own predecessors and performing nearly 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:42.280 as well as AMD's top chips in gaming, but at a much lower price, $300 and $200 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:48.040 US respectively and respectively. And they do even better in multi-core 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:52.320 productivity-focused stuff. This is like Intel's MacBook Neo moment, almost. What 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:56.200 would get them over the line is allowing desktop sockets to support multiple CPU 00:00:54.480 --> 00:01:00.440 generations, something Vice President Robert Hallock said he could see Intel 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:05.160 doing in the future, but that's not now. So, you're telling me there's a chance? 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:08.440 >> Yeah. Intel got another small win today. Brand new jack-of-all-trades, 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:13.160 master-of-none video game Crimson Desert, will support Arc GPUs after 00:01:11.080 --> 00:01:16.960 blocking Arc GPU owners from even getting past the title screen of the 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:21.280 game. Today's update lets users finally run the game, but poorly, since the devs 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:25.000 ignored Intel's many offers to help with optimization. But they say they're 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:29.840 working on it now, which is a big improvement over telling Arc owners to 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:34.520 just get a refund. You Deal with it. Scrub. Who buys Arc? Microsoft has 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:38.240 released an emergency patch to fix issues stemming from their March Patch 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:41.680 Tuesday update. Have we been living in the same week for the last few months? 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:45.760 The original update broke Microsoft account sign-ins in a bunch of Microsoft 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:49.800 apps. When trying to log in, users were met with a "You'll need the internet for 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:53.640 this, chief" notification even when their devices were clearly online. 00:01:51.960 --> 00:01:57.520 >> Or were they? They're so online, it's like unhealthy. 00:01:55.400 --> 00:02:01.960 Microsoft's initial suggestion is to try restarting your PC as dictated by the 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:04.760 tech scriptures. Just make sure you stay connected while you do it, because 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:09.960 restarting without the internet could make things worse. Best go download the 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:13.480 KB5085516 patch officially if you have been 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:17.840 affected, and hope that Microsoft is getting as annoyed by all of this 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:22.200 instability as you are. VP Scott Hanselman publicly said he hates 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:26.360 mandatory Microsoft account requirements during Windows 11 setup and might do 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:30.480 something about it. Keyword, might. >> telling me there's a chance? Windows 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:33.880 chief Pavan Davuluri announced in a blog post that they're rolling back Copilot 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:39.040 integrations from Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets, and Notepad, promising to only 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:42.560 put AI where it's genuinely useful. >> Up your butt. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:47.160 Davuluri shared the sentiment of not wanting to be slop. And that's great, 00:02:45.160 --> 00:02:51.200 because we are in a time that requires awarding points for doing the bare 00:02:49.320 --> 00:02:55.160 minimum. Between fixing what they broke, unforcing accounts nobody wanted, and 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:59.520 removing AI absolutely no one, not a soul, asked for, is Microsoft listening? 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:03.360 Someone check in on them. Ensure they haven't been hacked. The White House 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:07.120 just released a national AI legislative framework covering everything from child 00:03:05.320 --> 00:03:10.200 protections to intellectual property, not property of intellectual children. 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:14.720 They're mine. Central to the plan is preempting state AI laws, arguing that a 00:03:12.600 --> 00:03:18.160 patchwork of conflicting state laws could undermine American innovation. 00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.320 That should be fine. Pretty sure the US has historically been totally chill 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:26.240 about states' rights. >> Not really an issue. >> The framework also codifies Trump's rape 00:03:24.200 --> 00:03:30.160 payer protection pledge, requiring tech firms to pay for the electricity their 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:34.880 data centers consume, so regular people aren't stuck with the bill, which sounds 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:39.200 good, but ProPublica released an investigation Friday that found DOJ 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:43.760 officials have been installed inside America's nuclear regulator, the NRC, to 00:03:41.880 --> 00:03:48.240 fast-track reactor approvals for AI companies, with one telling staff to 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:52.960 assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do. Also totally 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:56.400 fine, it's not like hastily constructed cooling and containment facilities for 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.120 nuclear plants have caused that many issues before. 00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:03.800 >> times, max. >> They're not irrevocable. Critics have called out the framework for being too 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:08.640 industry-friendly, with Bloomberg calling it a blueprint for AI companies 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:11.440 to carry on with business as usual, and they're owned by a billionaire. 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.920 Meanwhile, Australia just took the opposite approach, telling data center 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:18.840 operators to generate their own energy, pay for infrastructure, and invest in 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:23.360 local jobs, or their proposals won't even be considered, which is, of course, 00:04:21.239 --> 00:04:27.680 translated from the original Australian, "Oi, THAT WALL BE STOLEN BY VEGEMITE." 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It takes advantage of the same workaround that Google developed 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:39.720 back in November, which allowed iPhones and Pixel 10 series phones to send files 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:43.120 to each other via AirDrop and Quick Share, respectively, while Tim Cook 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:49.240 slammed his hands on the other side of the glass and screamed, >> You will burn! Android users will be 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:54.440 expected to enable it manually in settings and have a device with Play 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:56.080 Services 26.11 or higher. So, you still 00:05:54.440 --> 00:05:59.880 get a whiff of that Apple elitist experience. GrapheneOS, the 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.600 privacy-focused Android fork, announced on Friday that they will never require 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:07.840 the collection of personal information, age verification laws or no. In the 00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:11.960 tweet equivalent of that "Do you hear the people sing" song from Les Mis. This 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:17.240 comes not long after GrapheneOS announced a long-term partnership with 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:20.440 Motorola, who I'm guessing will want to 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:21.840 comply with laws. Big Daddy Motorola has 00:06:20.440 --> 00:06:28.200 yet to comment, but I expect they might go all a Jean Valjean ON GRAPHENE. JUST 00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:32.200 US! YEAH, OKAY. THEY'RE FRENCH, RIGHT? Hacking group Shiny Hunters have claimed 00:06:30.200 --> 00:06:36.360 responsibility for a data breach at Crunchyroll, Sony's anime streaming 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:41.160 platform. The hackers reportedly made off with 100 GB of user data, including 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:44.320 credit card details and email addresses. Wait, they had all that anime sitting 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:49.560 there, and all they took was boring credit card numbers? What a bunch of rubes. The hackers reportedly got in 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:53.280 through Telus Digital, Crunchyroll's outsourcing partner, which Shiny Hunters 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:59.520 breached earlier this month, stealing 700 TB of internal data. Come on, Shiny 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:02.720 Hunters. First Panera Bread, then Telus, 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:04.560 now anime? Is nothing sacred to you? And 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:08.000 Northwestern University researchers have developed AI-evolved legged 00:07:06.280 --> 00:07:11.440 meta-machines straight out of Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance. Rather than creating 00:07:09.760 --> 00:07:15.240 a specialized machine or manually configuring the best all-terrain design, 00:07:13.880 --> 00:07:19.480 the researchers decided to let the machine configure itself. These modular 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:24.080 robots snap together in various legged configurations and adapt their movements 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:27.640 to different terrain in real time. You can even chop one in half, and it'll 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:31.080 continue to drag itself by by its remaining limbs in a charming display of 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:35.240 resilience that a few years from now probably won't seem like an 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:38.880 ill-thought-out ability to give a robot. Researchers say these bots can hit the 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:42.600 ground running in unstructured outdoor environments, which is great, because 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:46.880 soon that's where we'll all be living. >> Hey, they can't find us among the trees. 00:07:45.400 --> 00:07:49.760 And stopping prescriptions suddenly can be dangerous, so make sure you come back 00:07:48.520 --> 00:07:54.040 here on Wednesday for your next scheduled dose of tech news. Side effects may include irrational fear of 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:58.560 Microsoft updates, spontaneous ranting about Apple, and recurring dreams in 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:01.960 which Peter Thiel breastfeeds you. >> Wait, what? I thought that was normal.