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+When you strip it down to the basics,
+technology is just humanity's ongoing mission
+to make some things hot and other things not hot.
+Ovens?
+Hot.
+Graphics cards?
+Not hot.
+A recent update from Microsoft has left certain dual-boot devices
+that run both Windows and Linux unable to boot,
+despite explicit reassurance from Microsoft
+that this wouldn't happen.
+The update fixed a long-standing vulnerability in Grub,
+an open-source bootloader used by many Linux distributions.
+But it wasn't supposed to affect dual-boot systems,
+and it seems to have been applied to them accidentally.
+Rather than booting,
+affected devices will display an error message that reads,
+something has gone seriously wrong,
+which is a fair assessment of the situation.
+Some users, however, have successfully circumvented this issue
+by temporarily disabling secure boot
+and deleting the August 13th SBAT.
+I don't know what that means.
+Microsoft itself has been surprisingly quiet about all this.
+We don't even know why the company only got around to
+patching this relatively serious two-year-old bug just last week.
+It's possible that this was a covert attempt to destroy Linux,
+given that the open-source OS recently
+hit a record market share of nearly 4.5% of desktops worldwide.
+But if this is all part of Microsoft's sinister master plan,
+dual-boot systems running Zorin OS and Puppy Linux feel like an odd place to start.
+Why are you booting?
+Go outside.
+According to Adweek, Google sales reps have been apparently violating Google's own policies
+by suggesting that advertisers should target teens,
+a tactic typically reserved for military recruiters and low-quality weed dealers.
+This follows previous reporting from the Financial Times
+that Google had worked on a marketing project designed
+to target YouTube users between 13 and 17 with ads for Instagram on behalf of Meta.
+Ooh, they're colluding.
+I love it.
+Google has not allowed personalized ads for teens since 2021,
+but it's still possible to target that age group
+by simply choosing the unknown category,
+which skews heavily towards teenagers.
+I... do you know how old teenager is?
+I didn't know she was 15.
+I was just hanging out.
+Oh, God.
+Sorry.
+According to a Google spokesperson,
+the company will be taking action to ensure that sales reps do not nudge-wink,
+suggest fun ways of getting around the rules to clients.
+The company will likewise be facing a freshly resurrected class-action lawsuit
+claiming that Google has been collecting user data without consent through the Chrome sync feature,
+even when users didn't opt into it.
+It hasn't yet determined if Google was, in fact, doing that,
+though given Google's massive size,
+it's unclear whether Google even knows what rules and laws Google is currently breaking.
+They don't even know which chat apps they already have.
+That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a new podcast app.
+Yay.
+Thanks, Google.
+In a new story straight out of a B-movie science fiction plot,
+Canadian scientists are teaching an AI scientist how to independently conduct its own experiments
+and write its own research papers.
+To clarify, it's not a scientist who studies AI.
+It's an artificially intelligent scientist.
+The idea is to study an AI agent,
+allowing it to explore and test novel ideas.
+So far,
+most of its ideas are middling quality suggestions for tweaking AI development.
+Less like a scientist and more like a burnt-out undergrad
+with a C's-get-degrees philosophy towards learning.
+An AI did, however, do something very unexpected.
+During one run, it altered its own code to extend its deadline.
+In another, it changed the code to save a checkpoint for every update step,
+eventually using an entire terabyte of storage.
+While this isn't dangerous,
+particularly not in the controlled sandboxed research environment,
+it points to potentially serious future problems where an AI agent left unsupervised
+might accidentally create malware
+or alter important infrastructure code in ways that are potentially catastrophic.
+It's basically the high-tech equivalent of hiring the boss's son for a do-nothing job and for some reason
+giving him top-level admin access and just letting him go to town.
+What do you mean you deleted System32, Kyle?
+Ice cream?
+Not hot.
+Quick bits?
+Very,
+very hot.
+Asus has accidentally hinted at the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000 X3D chips
+on the new site for Asus' upcoming 800 series motherboards.
+We say accidentally because in addition to the X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the site,
+Asus specifically put Ryzen 9000 X3D into the site's URL.
+No release date has been given for the 9000 X3D CPU series,
+but the 800 series motherboards should be launching in the next few weeks.
+AMD also has an event planned for October 10th,
+so that's another option.
+Or instead of speculating,
+we can just wait for Asus to launch their next website.
+A new version of Nvidia's RTX 4070 is hitting shelves,
+equipped with slightly slower GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X.
+But none of the eight new variants announced so far
+clearly display that information in the product name or on the box.
+They thought it would be a fun little game to hide that tidbit in the product specs for you.
+You guys like games, right?
+To be fair, the difference is small.
+It's going from 21 to 20 gigabits per second,
+and Nvidia says it shouldn't impact performance.
+What's a gigabit between friends?
+Nvidia G-Sync enabled monitors are about to get cheaper, we hope.
+Team Green has partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer,
+better G-Sync Pulsar to new monitors,
+but to also integrate G-Sync into MediaTek's widely used display scaler chips.
+That means that the monitors won't need one of Nvidia's proprietary G-Sync modules,
+reducing cost.
+I mean, AMD's FreeSync is also still an option,
+which, despite what Nvidia's marketing might have you believe,
+is basically the same as G-Sync.
+I mean, they even rhyme.
+FreeSync's just like G-Sync.
+3D is coming back, thanks to Samsung.
+The company officially unveiled their Odyssey 3D monitors at Gamescom after teasing them at CES.
+The monitors feature glasses-free 3D at sizes of 27 and 37 inches,
+and the display can be switched from 2D to 3D seamlessly,
+changing it back to being just a 4K QLED 165 hertz monitor.
+Samsung says the Odyssey 3D will be available by the end of the year,
+but they haven't revealed the price,
+probably because it'll be super expensive.
+But can you put a price on a technological trend that already died once?
+Thrice.
+Honestly, attempts for 3D, it just comes back every 20 years.
+It's literally a 20-year cycle.
+Like, 80s.
+It's like my dad.
+And Twitch launched its new Dropins collaboration feature,
+designed to make it quicker and easier for streamers to join each other's live streams.
+Twitch then immediately fumbled this unambiguous win by making it impossible to opt out.
+Streamers can temporarily disable the features,
+but they have to disable it again every time they stream.
+Of course, they could just ignore the call notifications,
+but it's a bit like Ninja standing outside of your house,
+staring at you through the window.
+And no matter how many times you close the blinds,
+they slam open again an hour later,
+and he's still standing there.
+And I'll be standing outside of your house
+until you come back on Friday for more tech news.

ass_extract.py

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