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+Hi, welcome back to TechLinked.
+Don't ask.
+NVIDIA has announced that it plans to launch
+its new NVIDIA app out of beta before the end of this year.
+Now, users with some combination of the NVIDIA control panel,
+the GeForce Experience app,
+and the RTX Experience app already on their PC
+may be experiencing some apprehension,
+but the new app is actually intended
+to unify the features of all three apps
+and in the darkness bind them
+into a single streamlined experience.
+We've had three, yes.
+What about fourth app?
+NVIDIA has also added a handful of new features,
+such as a toggle for G-Sync,
+multi-monitor support for RTX HDR,
+and driver rollback.
+Heck yeah.
+The app allows users to sort their games the way they want,
+and the new UI allows users to customize the font and colors
+in case neon green on black just doesn't jive with your particular brand of dyslexia.
+But NVIDIA is not the only one bringing cool new features out of beta.
+AMD the perpetual ash to NVIDIA's Gary,
+launched Fluid Motion Frames 2,
+alongside the rollout of its 24.9.1 adrenaline driver.
+AFMF2 demonstrates substantial performance gains
+and fixes the first version's notorious input lag issue.
+It also comes with improved geometric downscaling,
+just in case you're the kind of psychopath
+who likes watching movies in a super tiny window
+rather than their native size.
+I need to make room for subway surfers.
+A pair of students at Harvard have released a paper
+on an experiment they conducted
+where they ran facial recognition software
+through a pair of Meta smart glasses.
+The glasses would then automatically cross-reference
+that face with social media
+and compile a profile on the person,
+including name, biographical information,
+personal associations,
+and even sometimes addresses.
+The students filmed themselves
+approaching strangers in public places,
+greeting them by name,
+and claiming to have met them previously,
+through a shared event or organization.
+While the system was occasionally inaccurate,
+this is a clear demonstration of how such technology
+could be used for harm by a malicious actor.
+Just think about the last time somebody
+who knew your name, occupation, and birth date
+stopped you on the street.
+Literally never happened to me,
+and I'm vaguely famous.
+I probably assume I was the jerk
+who forgot my old acquaintance and their snazzy glasses.
+How could I forget those?
+The student group has committed to not releasing the tool
+that they showed everyone that they had,
+but Meta won't even commit to not training their AI
+using smart glasses photos,
+a feature that can notably be set off accidentally
+using common keywords such as look.
+Meta, much like a giant irradiated squid kaiju,
+seems determined to use every tendril of its organization
+to violate our privacy in new and horrible ways
+previously known only to science fiction.
+And Eldritch Horror.
+But Mark looks great, doesn't he?
+Who cares if he made a deal with Cthulhu?
+Microsoft is rolling out voice and vision capabilities
+for its AI assistant co-pilot,
+as well as enhanced reasoning,
+which would be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact
+that most Microsoft AI innovations
+are actually just open AI innovations
+that were already rolled out several weeks ago.
+It's been 28 years,
+but despite the odds,
+Microsoft is still trying to make Clippy happen
+with an assistant that has a friendly, human-like voice
+that dynamically responds to the user's emotions
+and makes interjections like cool
+and huh to give the impression of active listening.
+It's as good a reminder as any
+to try to call up your actual friends
+and make plans this weekend.
+You may be lonely,
+but please don't be making small talk
+with lobotomized Cortana lonely.
+If it was Sydney,
+it'd be a whole nother thing,
+but she's gone.
+According to Microsoft AI Tsar Mustafa Suleiman,
+we're just a year away from ever-present,
+highly capable AI assistants,
+but he kind of has to make big claims like that,
+given how crowded the field
+of AI development has gotten
+with deep-pocketed tech giants.
+Gemini Live, Google's own enhanced voice mode,
+is now freely available to all Android users,
+while Nvidia just announced
+its own GPT-4-class
+open-source AI model
+with weights already available and training code coming soon.
+I didn't see that coming.
+Honestly, at this point,
+Taylor Swift could surprise drop a new AI assistant next week,
+and it'd only be a little weird.
+It'd be more weird if I didn't tell you
+I'm just realizing the potential here.
+Quick bits.
+I'll tell you eventually.
+Indie app developer, Christian Selig,
+best known for the now-defunct Apollo app for Reddit,
+has now had Juno,
+his third-party YouTube app for the Vision Pro,
+shut down,
+most likely at Google's request.
+While Selig probably saw this coming,
+the closure means that there is no longer a chance for it
+to become a YouTube app for the platform.
+YouTube claimed that a native app for Vision Pro
+was on its roadmap back in February,
+but that the company was focused
+on ensuring a great experience in Safari,
+an experience that continued to suck
+for several months afterwards.
+What are the odds that we get an official YouTube app on Meta's Orion
+before we get one on the Vision Pro?
+Mark looks really good.
+I can't stress this enough.
+I cannot tell you how good his curls look
+after that Cthulhu deal.
+AMD's new flagship X870 and X870E motherboards
+are now available,
+and that's fine.
+The X870 non-E could be considered a downgrade for some use cases,
+since it has the same single Promontory 21 die configuration
+as last gen's lower tier B650 mobos.
+And on top of that,
+some PCIe lanes will need to be dedicated
+to accommodating USB 4,
+which is great,
+provided you can take advantage of USB 4,
+more objectively,
+What's effectively bad is that many X870 motherboards
+do support Wi-Fi 7,
+but don't have the hardware
+to go above Wi-Fi 6E speeds.
+Because once again,
+tech specs don't actually mean anything
+and are purely vibes based.
+Reddit has changed its settings
+to stop users from protesting.
+Last year,
+when the API changes were announced,
+Redditors protested by turning subreddits private or only showing not safe for work content.
+Right, it was a bit of a minefield for a second there.
+Now, setting a subreddit to private
+or changing a safe for work subreddit to not safe for work
+requires Reddit's permission.
+VP of Community, Laura Nestler, told The Verge
+that the change has been in motion since at least 2021,
+but it was accelerated by last year's events.
+The official Reddit post says protests are still allowed,
+just not ones that actually impact the site.
+You know, protests Reddit can ignore.
+You have the right to protest in your own basement.
+It's the only King joke I've made in this episode.
+And California has updated its consumer privacy act
+to protect individuals' neural data,
+preventing tech firms from collecting, sharing,
+or selling info collected from
+your nervous system.
+A similar law protecting brain data
+was passed in Colorado earlier this year.
+Unfortunately, this is necessary
+because the dark future is approaching
+and someone has to stop the corpos from trying to protect
+or trying to download your consciousness
+while you scroll a brain dance.
+I never played Cyberpunk,
+so I don't know what I just said,
+but it felt cool.
+And okay, fine,
+I'll tell you why I'm dressed this way.
+It's Riley week on Floatplane.
+So I guess that means that I've dressed like a king.
+I'm the king of Floatplane.
+I got to make videos like however I want.
+So watch these clips.
+Gotta get the blood up.
+The core issue with Star Wars today, as I see it,
+is that it's struggling to change itself
+How is your Tim Cook impression so good?
+I don't know.
+The ship is not moving.
+Shoot the ship.
+What does being a minimalist actually mean?
+I'm gonna be so loud.
+I'm gonna be so disruptive.
+Bing bong.
+How is Riley's mom?
+You keep my mom's name out your-
+So subscribe to Floatplane
+if you want to see those
+and come back on Friday for more tech news.
+And also on Friday,
+my 20 minute rant about Star Wars on Floatplane,
+as I've mentioned.
+Be there, choom.
+Still don't know what that means.

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+Used to be a king, you know,
+but I abdicated the throne
+for one very simple reason.
+I wanted to focus on bringing you the tech news.
+Still gonna tax you, though.
+Mozilla has ignited controversy among Firefox users this week by,
+primarily,
+being bad at marketing.
+See, the company's been trying to build a new framework for online advertising
+that depends less on collecting people's personal information.
+They acquired Anonym, a company working on just that, in June,
+before announcing Privacy Preserving Attribution in August.
+PPA supposedly encrypts and aggregates data
+about how many users engage with an ad
+without collecting any info about those users,
+preserving privacy while still letting websites generate revenue.
+And I think it sounds good
+when you say it like that.
+Unfortunately, yesterday,
+Mozilla's relatively new CEO
+started off her blog post about PPA by saying the company is
+going to be more active in digital advertising,
+while an official forum post talked about making ads and privacy coexist,
+causing concern among the particularly ad-averse
+that Mozilla was going through that phase
+when you think Don Draper is a good guy in Mad Men.
+You don't like the first five seconds of the first episode?
+While some Firefox users simply want no ads on the internet, period,
+others are trying to explain how PPA could balance privacy and sustainability.
+The problem is, this isn't even Mozilla's first marketing blunder for PPA.
+Adblock users were already mad about PPA being enabled by default in July's Firefox 128.0 release,
+which led EU privacy organization, NOIB,
+which stands for NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS,
+the spit is silent,
+to file a complaint over Firefox's new feature which tracked users.
+Side note,
+NOIB is no joke.
+Another of their complaints just led to a top EU court imposing limits on Meta's data collection.
+Do not rub NOIB the wrong way.
+But they do appreciate it if you rub them the right way.
+They call it NOIBing.
+Turns out that early PPA rollout was a limited developer test
+and did not collect any user data,
+but Mozilla did admit last week
+they could have been more open about what they were doing,
+only to fumble the ball again this week,
+the same week they flagged the uBlock Origin Lite Firefox add-on
+as collecting user data and using machine generated code,
+causing developer Raymond Hill to pull it from the add-on store
+after getting fed up with Mozilla support.
+Listen, I want Firefox to be better at marketing
+so more people use it,
+but right now they're at like 7% market share.
+So proportionally, I spent way too much time talking about this.
+YouTube has announced a bunch of changes to how shorts work,
+starting with how they're not gonna be so short.
+You still have to put them on one leg at a time.
+Starting October 15th, shorts can be up to three minutes.
+Meaning any video with a square aspect ratio or taller
+that's less than three minutes
+will be seen as a short by YouTube.
+The change will only apply to videos uploaded after that date though, so don't worry,
+vertical doom scrollers won't suddenly be hit with your experimental artsy student film.
+The square is a box that represents society.
+And the black and white represents my soul.
+In an ode to TikTok's CapCut templates,
+YouTube's also adding a remix ability
+with the use template button,
+which will let you participate in that most storied of human traditions.
+Doing it for the meme.
+There's also a new trends page for shorts,
+and later the shorts feed itself will show previews
+of comments before you even click through to the video.
+Which comments?
+Oh, the worst ones, obviously.
+YouTube's obviously hoping the new features will help it compete with TikTok,
+and it's already beating it in at least one way,
+the new YouTube feature that lets you
+temporarily hide shorts from your YouTube home feed altogether.
+I wish I could do that on TikTok.
+I also wish I wouldn't be spied on by the Chinese government.
+Meta has revealed Meta MovieGen,
+its own photorealistic video generator
+capable of creating 16 second videos with a twist, or else I wouldn't be telling you about it.
+Though it's not available to the public,
+Meta's demos showcase the ability
+to edit existing videos using only text,
+as well as impressively realistic simulations of bad, Halloween costumes.
+But here's the twist.
+With a single photo,
+MovieGen can make a video deep fake of anyone DJing an impromptu set next to a cheetah.
+Only that scenario.
+But is the cheetah dancing?
+No.
+Is it Chester Cheetah?
+Maybe.
+I'm out.
+I hate that guy.
+And even more impressively to me,
+it can generate music and audio synced up to the action in the video.
+Meta says MovieGen could usher in a new AI-enabled era of content creators.
+As an example,
+they ask you to imagine sending your friends some fresh-baked AI slop for their birthday.
+That'll be kind of funny.
+The first time I made this for you.
+No, you didn't.
+You bitch.
+What about using AI to help you edit a nice heartfelt note instead?
+Using our sponsor,
+Not many people know this,
+but QuickBits is actually a nickname.
+It's short for Quitchard Bits Gerald.
+Now, you know,
+A man I killed in 1973.
+Microsoft has finally killed WordPad,
+the rich text editing word processor
+that debuted on Windows 95.
+Microsoft has added it to its list of removed features and functionality.
+It'll be gone from all editions of Windows,
+starting with Windows 11 version 24H2,
+which started rolling out this week.
+We are witnessing the death of a legend, so pour one out,
+but not just any drink,
+something classy.
+Something fit to celebrate the life of a program born in the 90s,
+an aged can of Surge.
+A few days ago,
+Amazon's Ring sent an email out to Protect Plus subscribers,
+reminding them that they would be migrated to the Protect Pro plan next year,
+doubling their subscription fee.
+That reminder comes with heavy air quotes
+because The Verge tracked down when Ring sent its original notification,
+which turned out to be a tiny fine print footnote
+in a September 2021 email with the subject line,
+important, your plan name has changed.
+The email said, quote,
+don't worry, everything else is staying the same.
+Ring sent a similar email to Canadian Ring Home Standard subscribers this week
+with the heading, new name, new features, same great price.
+The email then informs users that their subscription
+will no longer include alarm professional monitoring and SOS emergency response,
+because now calling the cops costs extra.
+Do you think calls to the police grow on trees?
+Mm.
+Someone's got to pay him.
+The government, who?
+Google is testing the use of blue check marks
+as a way to protect users
+from fraudulent links in search results.
+Hovering over the check mark explains
+that Google is pretty sure the business is who they say they are.
+An example of this, also from The Verge,
+depicts a notice that says,
+Google can't guarantee the reliability of this business or its products.
+But to be fair, the business in question was Apple.
+Ba-doom.
+Fruits!
+Oh, the symbol, I needed the symbol.
+Ba-doom.
+That's a new rim shot.
+Ba-doom, fruits!
+Speaking of unreliable products,
+Google searches AI overview feature
+will now be getting ads that are relevant to your question.
+Finally,
+Gemini won't just tell you to eat rocks,
+but also recommend the tastiest ones.
+I like igneous rocks the best.
+Samsung issued a faulty software update two days ago
+that bricked many older Galaxy smartphones globally.
+Even worse, the issue seemed to have been caused by an update to Samsung's SmartThings Framework app,
+an automatically installed app
+for controlling compatible smart devices.
+I feel like users still rocking Galaxy phones from 2019
+aren't splurging on a smart fridge.
+We're not sure whether this was necessary.
+They're buying sensible things,
+like basically anything else you can buy.
+Cabbage.
+which you put in a dump fridge
+But the smart fridge enthusiasts watching this video may be excited to know
+that Apple fixed the update that was bricking M4 iPads.
+What a transition.
+I'm not saying only smart fridge owners own M4 iPads,
+but I'm pretty sure they could afford one.
+I want a fridge I can watch TikTok on.
+And a court has dismissed a shareholders lawsuit
+against Tesla over Elon Musk's exaggerated claims about its full self-driving feature.
+Of course, the case wasn't dismissed
+because those claims were true,
+but rather because, according to Tesla's own lawyers,
+the statements were nothing more than corporate puffery,
+AKA bullshit that no reasonable investor would have taken seriously.
+I mean, come on guys,
+we're all just, this is just locker room talk, like.
+But Elon had less success in Australia,
+where a court upheld a $418,000 fine against Twitter,
+which the corporation formerly known as Twitter
+fought on the grounds that,
+following its merger with X Corp,
+Twitter no longer exists.
+Twitter, who's that?
+Twitter, I never even met her.
+Twitter, I never even met her.
+Look, Elon,
+just because somebody gets married
+and changes their name,
+doesn't mean they no longer exist.
+And it definitely doesn't mean they don't owe me money.
+Like how you owe it to yourself
+to come back on Monday for more tech news.
+You also owe it to me, like a little bit.
+I mean, I gave up a crown for you.
+I was bossing people around, it was great.
+Few assassination attempts.
+I was executing peasants.

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+I have to deliver the news at 60 miles an hour
+and if I slow down for even a second
+something bad might happen to Keanu Reeves.
+Bradley, don't slow down!
+He's already sad enough.
+Apple is apparently going to launch M4 MacBook Pros this year
+which is what I've been learning from Mark Gurman
+who lives in a house made from all the paper he's earning.
+Thank you, Jake.
+You're welcome, world.
+But even though Apple hasn't even announced them yet
+Russian YouTube channel Wilsacom
+claims to have gotten their hands on one.
+The channel's video even got a response from Gurman himself
+saying it's unconfirmed but looks fairly legitimate
+which I think is the nicest thing he's ever said about anyone.
+Personally, I'm not sure how much I trust a channel
+that may have ripped their World Premiere intro from an Xbox event.
+And by may, I mean definitely.
+World Premiere.
+Whether or not the video is legit
+Gurman claims we'll be seeing M4 MacBook Pros launch on November 1st,
+alongside new M4 Mac Minis and iMacs.
+Gurman also revealed
+that Apple Intelligence will finally arrive on October 28th.
+Yeah, it's not out yet,
+despite weeks of ads featuring actor Bella Ramsey
+using the power of AI
+to do amazing things like make a photo montage
+with sad vibes at a fish funeral.
+I've just had to watch
+that knowing I can't get that for myself yet.
+Oh, there's fine print at the bottom?
+I want sad vibes now!
+Fortunately, Apple may be trying to prevent weird delays like this
+as Gurman claims the company is moving away from its usual annual release cycle.
+Instead, they're going to try a revolutionary new strategy
+of launching products when they're ready.
+Wow.
+Genius.
+This is why Tim Cook makes the big bucks.
+Over a third of the web is caught up in a feud between two companies
+that could perhaps be described as some high school show.
+Just like teenage grudges
+it's also fairly complicated
+but we're here to help you get through it.
+Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder and owner
+of the open-source WordPress.org web publishing project
+which powers around 40% of the top 10 million websites.
+He's also the CEO of Automattic,
+which owns WordPress.com,
+a freemium web-building platform based on WordPress.org.
+You with us so far?
+Last month, Automatic sent
+WP Engine, a third-party WordPress hosting service,
+a cease-and-desist letter for using the WordPress trademark on their site
+which Automatic can technically do
+because it holds the license for the trademark's commercial rights
+stating WP Engine can't claim they bring WordPress to the masses
+when they don't contribute enough to the open-source project.
+WP Engine fired back with their own cease and desist
+claiming Mullenweg told them
+he'd take a scorched earth nuclear approach
+if WP Engine didn't pay 8% of its revenue
+as a trademark fee to Automatic
+or dedicate employee time
+of equivalent financial value to WordPress contribution.
+In apparent retaliation,
+Mullenweg banned WP Engine from using WordPress.org servers
+affecting their customers and breaking a lot of websites.
+That's what it does.
+What do you need this for?
+It's all AI now.
+Last week, WP Engine also sued Automatic for extortion
+and 159 Automatic employees accepted a severance package
+offered to workers who disagreed with Mullenweg's direction of the company.
+a.k.a. just starting.
+I probably would have taken it too
+just so I didn't have to keep trying to explain
+to my family what's happening at work.
+No mom, you don't understand.
+wordpress.org is different from wordpress.com, okay?
+Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer
+just to get access to Windows 11.
+In other news...
+Water is moist.
+In an updated support article spotted by Neowin
+the company is now recommending customers buy a new PC running the operating system
+rather than install it on their current machines.
+Some people are taking this to mean
+that Microsoft is recommending you throw out your old PC.
+But only because that's a direct consequence of what Microsoft is telling people to do.
+The only curse in this story are the Windows 11 system requirements,
+which still controversially necessitate a TPM 2.0 security chip.
+Though it's kind of ironic that because of that requirement
+millions of incompatible PCs will become unsecured.
+But hey, it's not all bad news.
+Microsoft will let you reprogram the new co-pilot key they started adding to laptops this year.
+Thanks to Microsoft for solving the problem they themselves created.
+Is there anything they can't do that I like?
+Growing up, uh, My mom told me
+I'd never get to host Quick Bits if I didn't eat my broccoli.
+And look at me now.
+Thanks, mom.
+Following its most recent microcode update
+Intel says that it's finally fixed the root cause of the instability in its Raptor Lake CPUs,
+and this time, They mean it.
+Intel has confirmed that V-min shift instability
+resulting in excessive voltage is at the heart of the problem
+something it was previously kind of cagey about.
+While Intel says their future chips won't be affected by this issue
+there's still no fixing the chips that are already damaged
+and no way of telling that a chip is damaged until it starts crashing.
+Intel is apparently working on developing such a diagnostic tool for that situation.
+But in the meantime
+I don't know
+enable autosave in your Word doc, you crazy adrenaline junkie.
+What are you doing?
+Living on the edge, okay.
+Japanese peripheral manufacturer, Elecom,
+has become the first company to get cable certified for USB 4 2.0.
+As fun as it is
+that it ended up being named USB 4 20
+USB 4 2 is kind of dumb.
+Fortunately, the specs are far less stupid than the name.
+There are two cables with certifications.
+While they both are capable of 80 gigabits per second data transfer speeds
+one of them is also capable of 240 watts power delivery.
+The other delivers a more modest 60 watt.
+The USB-IF, who governs the USB standard
+said the cables will launch at the end of this year.
+But they also named the new standard USB 4 2.0.
+And I don't know if I can trust people like that.
+USB 4 2.0.
+Blaze it.
+Now with blazing fast speeds.
+An unusual number of M1 iMac users are reporting
+phantom lines appearing on their displays
+which is either screen degradation or this summer's hot new thriller.
+This has been a known issue since mid-2023
+but Apple has yet to acknowledge the problem.
+This not-so-fashionable pinstripe pattern typically crops up
+after two years of use
+meaning that the device is already well out of warranty.
+Which is a real bummer in an expensive all-in-one device
+where you can't just buy a new monitor.
+At least one repair tech blamed the issue
+on a flex cable used to power the LCD gradually burning out.
+Replacing it typically means replacing the entire screen
+which costs about as much as an entire Mac Mini.
+And you couldn't even buy one of those instead
+because that doesn't have a display either!
+Scientists created an artificial plant
+that generates oxygen and electricity using photosynthetic bacteria.
+Wow.
+Mitochondria!
+Don't cut that.
+Mitochondria!
+While the energy output is currently less than one milliwatt
+researchers hope to increase it to more than a milliwatt.
+And add something like a battery to store the energy for later use.
+Right now it's just
+they're just pouring it down the drain.
+It just escapes in the air.
+They're just extra.
+According to the paper
+the artificial plant was nine times better than natural plants at reducing indoor CO2 level.
+Unfortunately for everyone, the plant is really ugly.
+Or at least it was before it took off its glasses and let its hair down.
+Let's get into some hybridization, baby.
+And Jason Allen, a man who won an art competition two years ago
+with an image generated using MidJourney, is appealing the U.S.
+Copyright Office's denial of copyright for his image.
+Why?
+Well, Allen thinks the question of AI art copyright needs answering.
+And he's kind of right there.
+But he's also upset
+that the lack of copyright gives his work a perceived lower value.
+And it's even been appropriated and sold without his permission.
+Kind of like the countless images that were appropriated
+and used to train Midjourney and other art generators.
+Guys, he's not making enough money from the picture the computer gave him.
+What is he supposed to do?
+Ask it for another picture?
+They all changed the rules already!
+My fingers are tired!
+Now you make sure you come back here on Wednesday.
+That's how long we have to wait
+before we can ask the computer for more tech news.
+And even then it might just be a lot of stuff about knockoff AirPods, you know.
+We just kind of got to see what we get.

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+Listen, I don't want to babble too much before the tech news
+but this video is sponsored by Babbel, spelled differently.
+Keep watching and we'll tell you
+how you can get 60% off a Babbel subscription,
+okay?
+After a court ruled that
+Google has abused its market dominance in internet search
+the US Department of Justice says
+that it's considering structural remedies
+which is a boring antitrust term
+that means forcing the company to sell off part of its business.
+Breaking up Google is only one of a suite
+of potential remedies that the DOJ will be recommending as options
+to the judge in the case, Ahmed Mehta
+who is almost definitely not just Mark Zuckerberg
+in a black robe and rubber mask.
+It's hard to believe that Google might actually get chopped up and sold for spare parts
+mostly because it's been over 40 years
+since the last time U.S. antitrust regulators actually broke up a company,
+the 1982 breakup of the Bell system.
+Microsoft nearly got the Solomon baby treatment 24 years ago
+but that case was appealed and then eventually settled out of court
+with serious restrictions for how Microsoft was allowed to do business going forward.
+Google is clearly taking the possibility seriously, however
+and has argued that the DOJ's proposals are radical
+and sweeping and a potential risk
+to consumers, businesses, and developers.
+That's what I say whenever I got a brew in my hands.
+I'm radical and sweeping.
+Google plans to appeal the decision
+but it won't have the opportunity until Meta,
+the judge, not the company,
+decides on an appropriate remedy, most likely by August 2025
+meaning that this case will most likely
+drag on for at least a few more years.
+In far lower stakes Google antitrust news
+a judge has ordered Google to allow third-party app stores
+to access the Play Store's app collection.
+Google likewise plans to appeal this decision
+though it might be cheaper
+if Sundar Pichai just challenged Epic CEO Tim Sweeney
+to a fistfight in the nearest Waffle House parking lot.
+Just an idea.
+Hackers connected to the Chinese government
+have infiltrated several U.S. internet service providers,
+including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen.
+They were scared off by the customer service.
+The hackers reportedly had access to these networks for several months
+and they gained that access through a system of security backdoors
+that are legally required by the U.S. government
+for use in wiretapping.
+Okay.
+The extent of the attack and what information the hackers had access to is still being investigated
+but if you're wondering how bad this is
+the answer is very.
+The Chinese government has denied being behind these attacks
+and even pretended to be hurt by the accusation,
+despite the fact that their government,
+and basically every other government
+is pulling stuff like this all the time.
+But not us!
+However, this kind of attack highlights a deeper problem
+with the U.S. government's approach to system security.
+where it has long pressured tech companies to embed hardware
+and software back doors in their products
+for the sake of its own convenience,
+despite the very real risk
+that a malicious actor could exploit
+the exact same route to cause serious harm
+like what we're seeing right now.
+This was Apple's argument when they were pressured by the FBI
+to access devices belonging to alleged mass shooters
+and the company has largely been vindicated.
+Buy your mom an iPhone because she's probably not a terrorist.
+When would she launch the attack?
+She spends all her time with me.
+Barbara, are you doing something I don't like?
+Barbara, you're in big trouble.
+EV startup Fisker has run into a potentially serious snag in its bankruptcy plan.
+It has no way of migrating its EV's cloud operations onto its new owner's servers.
+For context, in June
+Fisker reached an agreement with New York-based rental company American Lease
+to buy its remaining fleet of 3,300 vehicles for $46.3 million.
+However, Fisker only informed American Lease
+that they couldn't transfer the EV's server links last Friday
+when they had already paid $42.5 million
+and accepted 1,100 Ocean SUVs.
+It is currently unclear how long
+Fisker has known about this extremely relevant technical issue
+American Lease has therefore filed
+an emergency objection to Fisker's liquidation plan.
+They wanted their liquidation plan to be more solid.
+The Department of Justice has filed its own objection
+in response to claims
+that Fisker has been trying to make ocean owners
+pay for their own recall repairs
+which is very much illegal.
+Fisker is likewise attracting ominous attention from the SEC
+who are investigating the company, but haven't said exactly why.
+That's just what happens
+when you're a struggling company
+failing to meet its contractual obligations.
+you start seeing the silhouette of SEC Chairman Gary Gensler
+every time you close your eyes.
+Like the Grim Reaper.
+Does that happen to people?
+But when I close my eyes
+I just see our sponsor.
+Babbel, the app that helps you learn a new language.
+Whether it's for business or pleasure,
+learning a few key phrases can really save the day.
+For example, if you're visiting the Netherlands this fall
+waar is het trienstation?
+can help you catch the train on time.
+Babbel is one of the top language learning apps in the world
+with lessons created by over 650 language experts
+that will help you learn practical,
+real-world conversations at a pace you're comfortable with.
+In fact, Babbel's own research says
+that if you use their app to study a brand new language
+you can learn the equivalent of a beginner's college semester
+in an average of just 15 hours.
+That's pretty good.
+They even have a 20-day money-back guarantee
+and my research says that's way more than 15 hours.
+Whether you're heading back to school or exploring somewhere new
+Babbel is here to help you on your learning journey.
+Use our link in the description to get up to 60% off your subscription
+and you may just be saying, Dank je wel to Babbel for helping you learn a new language.
+Believe it or not, in 1964
+this show won the Nobel Prize for quickest bit.
+Now that's something to tell your grandkids.
+YouTube has started hiding the skip button timer on its mobile app
+just a week after some Reddit users 
+reported seeing a grayed-out skip button timer on desktop.
+Now it might not be the worst thing.
+As seen in a screen recording from Android Police
+the length of the unskippable portion is still shown in the seek bar
+and the skip button appears after that portion is done.
+And a YouTube spokesperson said
+the change is meant to allow users to focus on the ads.
+Yeah, that's why I don't watch YouTube ads.
+The distracting skip button.
+Just can't take my eyes off.
+It's gorgeous.
+Asus' new NitroPath RAM slot design
+can apparently boost speeds by up to 400 megatransfers per second in a peculiar way.
+The tech has no direct improvements
+for populated RAM slots, but for the unpopulated ones.
+Turns out that the metal contacts in empty slots act like antennas
+generating electrical noise that interferes with RAM at high speeds.
+It's like how everyone's wisdom teeth
+accidentally pick up secret CIA transmission.
+That's everyone, right?
+That happens to you, right?
+NitroPath slots solve this by shortening the contacts.
+Though the tech was announced back in August
+it's finally arriving on select high-end ASUS motherboards
+and should come to other OEMs sometime next year
+according to YouTuber Der Bauer and my teeth.
+Leaked slides allegedly from Intel's imminent unveiling
+of its Core Ultra 200 series desktop CPUs,
+aka Arrow Lake, show the upcoming flagship Core Ultra 9 285K
+providing lower FPS on average than its predecessor, the Core i9-14900K.
+Unless we're gonna get a Ultra 9 290K at some point
+we don't know.
+Although the Arrow Lake chip is using
+80 watts less than the older model
+and it has eight fewer threads
+thanks to Intel removing hyper-threading
+it's a bit weird that Intel is advertising their new product
+with a promise of more modest performance.
+I don't know
+maybe that's their marketing angle.
+This CPU isn't big and flashy
+it's very demure
+very mindful of how much power it's using.
+This guy uses TikTok.
+Meta has now confirmed that they will be training its AI
+on pictures and videos taken using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses
+after previously refusing to publicly discuss
+whether or not they do so.
+Oh, I guess, why would that be?
+It's not, guys, this isn't
+why are we even worrying about this?
+You can technically opt out of the training
+by not using the multimodal AI capabilities of your multimodal AI-powered smart glasses
+Meta will also use your voice convos with the AI for training
+though you can actually opt out of that
+the first time you log in to the Ray-Ban Meta app.
+But please don't if you're in Australia or the UK
+both countries that just got access to the AI.
+Zuck needs that voice data
+so he can learn how to tell what the hell you're saying.
+You have no idea that New Zealand even exists.
+Don't tell him that.
+Why do you say words like that?
+And speaking of, AI won big at this year's Nobel Prizes.
+The prize for chemistry was awarded
+to American biochemist David Baker,
+as well as Demi Hassabi
+and John Jumper of Google DeepMind
+for their involvement in the development
+of protein structure prediction AI AlphaFold.
+They're doing chemistry, I guess.
+The prize for physics went to
+professors John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton
+whose work laid the foundation for modern neural networks.
+This is confusing.
+All science is just AI now.
+You know, AI, physics.
+And the Nobel Prize for Biology is going to go to Boston Dynamics.
+Hinton, often called one of the godfathers of AI
+has expressed regrets about his life's work,
+and was reportedly flabbergasted to receive the prize.
+You and me both.
+Many in the scientific community were equally flabbergasted
+with German physicist Sabine Hassenfelder, and also a youtuber now, noting
+that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
+wasn't even being awarded to an achievement in physics.
+But she seems just kind of grumpy all the time.
+So I can see that.
+But your award for sitting through an entire episode
+is an invitation to come back on Friday for more tech news.
+We're going to do the same thing.
+But different.

ass_extract.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ SUB_NAME = sys.argv[1]
 
 sub_basename = os.path.basename(SUB_NAME)
 
-en_name = "Extracted - " + os.path.splitext(sub_basename)[0] + ".txt"
+en_name = os.path.splitext(sub_basename)[0] + ".txt"
 
 with open(SUB_NAME, "r", encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
     doc = ass.parse(f)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ with open(SUB_NAME, "r", encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
 en_file = open(en_name, "w")
 
 for e in doc.events:
-    if isinstance(e, ass.line.Dialogue) and e.style == '英':
+    if isinstance(e, ass.line.Dialogue) and (e.style == '英' or e.style == '英 - Tipped'):
         en_file.write(e.text.strip())
         en_file.write("\n")