DeepSeq,
the AI platform that's taken the world by
storm, is now under fire for a major
security lapse.
Researchers
at Wiz discovered that DeepSeq left a critical
database exposed potentially compromising over
a 1000000 records
including user data, API keys, and system logs.
While there's no evidence of malicious access, the
ease of discovery raises serious concerns.
This isn't the this isn't the first time
an AI security breach and experts warn that
as AI advances,
so do its vulnerabilities.
What does this mean of for the future
of the AI security?
Well, let's dive in. Welcome to episode 1,795
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Everyone, how are you doing? How you been?
I'm I'm be honest with you. I am,
this week has just been
gone
that
fast. It's been gone.
4 interviews this week,
meetings, planning,
execution.
It's just it's just been nonstop. Yesterday,
I, I basically at at 5:30, I just
kinda
almost semi collapsed.
And,
yeah, you know, it is what it is.
But, you know, I think hate to say
it right now, but the highlight of my
week
was ordering groceries tonight because I hit groceries
my my refill of food.
Oh my gosh. So, hey. You know,
live living the life and, but, you know,
the the weather, I'm just
I'm being a bit of a hermit, to
be honest with you.
I really, really am. Hey. Let's go ahead
and get into the stack.
I do wanna thank, one of our insiders
before we get into it, Michael Pay,
for a Ohana $5
per month,
donation. Thank you so much, Michael, for your
ongoing support of the show. It's it's greatly
appreciated.
But,
as we talk about deep seek, and I
talked about it enough last week not to
really,
I guess for a better word,
you know, you guys heard my opinion. I
I said you shouldn't be using it. And
here again, just this situation with it having
a fairly substantial security hole
and, leaving crucial databases exposed
just shows you they're not really
paying attention
and,
it just makes you just makes you wonder,
you know, what they're you know, that they're
just running on such a tight budget
that they don't have enough people taking care
of things. It's hard. Security is hard.
We get reports from time to time at
Blueberry on
security vulnerabilities.
And, to be frank,
we appreciate those that come in,
from security researchers. We we really do.
It helps it helps us a great deal
and,
so and we pay them pay them for
their bounties
but,
yeah, it's it's just an it's an ongoing
ongoing process for sure.
Amazon Prime Video has ads now.
There's a way to nix the ads, but
you're gonna have to pay.
You're gonna have to pay more,
and
paying more always sucks.
So if you wanna shut off the ads,
go to Amazon Prime Video website, click your
profile
icon in the top right corner of the
page,
click account settings, click go to free go
to the add free button,
and then start subscription.
And,
as you probably know, Prime Video is included
in Amazon Prime, which costs 14.99
a month or the $139 a year, but
it's gonna cost you an extra $3
now per month
to get ad free.
This is bullshit.
You know? This is what we paid
for Amazon Prime, to be quite frank with
you.
I get my value out of the shipping
for sure,
but
come on.
Come on.
Do we really need to do that, to
be honest with you? I'm getting an error
over here. What's going on?
Maybe it's bad weather out or something. The,
the bandwidth
YouTube is complaining about not receiving enough
uplink.
So,
sometimes this happens. That's the, you know, running
on Starlink or at the end of the
month close to end of the bandwidth allowance.
But, yeah, if you wanna shut that off,
it's gonna cost you an extra $3. I
don't watch enough stuff up at Amazon Prime
to even be worried about it. But one
thing has made really headline news today is
AI edited images and movies could
still be copyrighted. The US agency
advised and they put out some new guidance
here.
And it's it's not exactly what probably what
most everyone wants to hear,
but,
the report argues that copyright protects original expression
in a work created by human.
They reported the 2nd in a series from
the copyright office with this edition specifically focused
on what it's called
copyrightability
of AI generated and AI edited images. The
office first issued guidance around 2023,
followed by a series of online listening sessions
for the public to contribute their thoughts.
The arguments, recommendations, these reports aren't law, but
they give us some insight how the agency
is viewing.
One key thing that the copyright
highlights is the level of human
contribution.
So that's interesting.
Meaning, how hands on a human
really is during the creation process is important
because the report correctly calls out. A lot
of popular editing software have recently added AI
powered updates, seeing things like the aging
and film post production photo editing features to
get clean up unwanted objects, etcetera.
That kind of assistive AI is different than
a person writing complex prompt for an AI
image to render. And as such, the use
of that AI powered editing program shouldn't prevent
filmmakers
or photographers from retaining copy rates of their
work. There's an important distinction between using an
AI tool to assist in creation
of works as a stand in for human
creativity. Of course, as in the other side,
AI image prop prompts
that, like, I create for my episode are
are not copyrightable
nor would I want them to be.
The same prompt can produce endless and different
outputs, meaning AI has more involvement in the
act of the creation.
So,
bit of a hodgepodge here
at this point
for sure.
This is interesting. The Video Game History Foundation
Library has opened its archives for the first
time
and so today, the Video Gaming History Foundation
announced an early access launch of the digital
archive.
Wow. Including magazine catalogs, behind the scene content,
and it's completely free. The VGHF
has more than 1500 searchable video game magazines,
which are all, of course, out of print.
A particular point of interest among these files
is what VGHF calls the Mark Filtman papers.
Filtman is a retired game producer with a
career spanning multiple companies.
Fans of Myst will also find over a
100 hours of footage from the series production,
the series, including the FNB content, much was
planned for inclusion of upcoming the Myst documentary.
So,
unfortunately, you can't play the video games in
the archive.
US copyright law
makes sharing those files a murky area. Now
here's what's interesting
and something that I have been
working on. I have
literally
3 or 4 boxes
of,
not boxes, but storage containers
full of Hi8
Hi8 videos.
My Hi8
video
camera,
I've had a little it's been a little
funky. It's not working real good
and,
I wanna get these things
digitized.
So what I did is I ordered a
new digitizer
off Amazon.
It was about a $130.
You pick a stick a USB stick into
it. It has a little screen, little Chinese
knockoff thing.
And then I went on eBay.
I paid more than I wanted to for
a Hi8 player. Now what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna run all the tapes through
this Hi8 player then I'll put it back
on eBay and just resell it.
I think I paid $300
for it, but those things were crazy expensive
in the day. And I've got one of
2 that I could find on eBay that
was in good shape,
coming.
So I've got one coming to be able
to
to digitize. So my goal here is to
it'll probably take me
several months,
but I'll be able to digitize all these
Hi 8 tapes
that I have. And then my plan I've
gotta figure out a plan on where to
put them,
you know, digital archive somewhere online.
I I again, you know, there's I could
make a separate family YouTube channel, make them
all private, only give the family access to
them. I just don't know. I don't know
what the exact
I don't want something I have to pay
for
but I also want stuff that will last
the test of time. But the problem is
many of these videos have,
I'm sure gonna have music in them. So
that's not gonna work for YouTube.
Where are you now putting all your digital
media
videos and stuff
besides a hard drive?
You know, that's that's always
the first option. That's where everything's gonna go
initially
and will go into my raid.
But, you know, the way I look at
that,
that could be a ticking time bomb. It's
it's everything's fine
as long as I'm alive.
You know, the the backup I would keep
the raid running, and there would be no
issues. But what happens if, you know, something
happens to me?
I've got passwords shared with,
the pertinent family members that would need to
get be able to get into that stuff.
But,
you know, what do you do?
What do you do with all this this
digital media now? And we're we're we're just
creating tons of it. Right? You think about
everything that's on our mobile devices.
Just just I mean,
a a
gobsmacking
amount of media.
I'll probably have one hard drive
that I'll buy a big one.
And
probably, I don't know if I want SSD.
I'm not sure yet, but something that I
can put in a safety deposit box
somewhere. If the building burns down, it'll be
safe,
and be saved.
But I would like something in the cloud,
but the cloud always costs money. I don't
know.
You know, this is this is a a
issue for all of us. So what are
you doing these days? And maybe it's a
AWS cold storage. Maybe that's the key. But,
again, I'm gonna have to have someone in
the family that is
savvy enough to be able to if they
ever want to extract
that stuff from Amazon cold storage to be
able to do so.
The company that Jeff Bezos found has gone
to court to keep the newspaper he owns
from finding out too much about the inner
workings of its business. This is weird.
Amazon is suing Washington State to limit the
release of public grassroots to The Washington Post.
From a series of State Department of Labor
Industry Investigations, Amazon,
Project Cupier satellite facilities in the Seattle area
lawsuit filed this week in King County Superior
Court in Seattle says the newspaper
on November 26 requested copies of inspection records,
investigation notes, interview notes, complaints, and other documents
related to fort invigations at the Redmond, Washman
facility.
It's not an unusual move by the company
and it's in some ways, it's a legal
techno tech technicality.
Amazon says it's not seeking to block the
records released entirely, but seeking to protect
from public disclosure certain records that contain proprietary
information and trade secrets. There's a fly flying
around here. Good lord. Must be one of
those real ugly ones, you know. Those of
you who live where it's winter, you understand
those type of lies. The lawsuit cites a
prior situation
in which Amazon Department of Labor Industry similarly
worked through the court to respond to Seattle
Times Public.
So, basically,
Washington Post wants to know stuff about Amazon.
And even though Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post,
Amazon, the company, doesn't wanna give that data
to Washington Post.
Very, very, very interesting.
Hey. There are lots of stuff going on
with people and their JOBs.
Google is offering voluntary exit for employees working
on Pixel
Android. Oh,
what's going on here?
Well, it appears
the team responsible for Pixel hardware and Android
software merged into one division.
And Google today has a voluntary exit program
for employees working in the platforms and devices
group.
Sent a memo this morning at about the
voluntary exit.
The program applies to US employees working on
platform devices, which includes Android auto Android,
AutoTV,
Wear OS XR, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Photos,
Google One, Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest.
Google has many people around working in these
products, but today's announcement is just for those
in the United States.
Meanwhile, this is not a company wide offer
that applies to search for AI.
Separate software and hardware are already 2 very
large organizations with some overlap, so they're just
trying to get rid of
extra people here.
So,
we're gonna see a lot of this and
could see some of this going on in
the federal government next week.
UPS plans to slash. Boy, this is a
big, big, big, big news.
UPS plans to slash its shipping business with
Amazon by half.
Wow.
It's the latest of several move by carriers
to pull away from the online giant.
UPS is keen to withdraw from its business
relation with Amazon by the second half of
twenty twenty six.
UPS said it will cut its shipping volumes
for Amazon by more than 50% under the
company revised arrangement.
Amazon is our largest customer, but it's not
our most profitable customer.
Business with Amazon account for about 11% of
UPS revenue,
totaled 91,100,000,000.
Amazon was the largest share of UPS revenue
during the peak of COVID at 13%.
So although Amazon does rely on outside companies
for some shipping, those relations have sometimes turned
tenuous
and,
so
including
the USPS.
And I'm starting to see now stuff from
Amazon
where they say, hey. Would you like to
have a carbon friendly delivery a few days
later?
And some stuff I don't care so I
opt for the and they gave me, like,
72¢
or something like that in in credits.
Google search new ask me ask for me.
This is kind of wild.
Google's search
new ask for me calls local businesses for
a availability
and pricing. Now imagine,
your phone rings at your business
and Google's gonna use AI to call on
your behalf.
So when you search for something like oil
change near me or ask for me, a
card will appear, let you enter the details
about the service you're looking for. In the
case of mechanics, Google start by asking what
you're looking for. Factory schedule, maintenance, oil change,
high rotation balancing,
tire replacement, fill blah blah blah blah. You
then enter the deals about your car, year,
make, and model, when you need the service,
next week, soon as available,
and then
it calls.
For set a nail salon request,
picking manicure will let you drill down into
basic dip powder, French acrylic gel, shellac,
and that will call the with a natural
sounding voice of a local business
and generate summary price and availability that you
get via text or message after about 30
minutes.
What are you gonna do when Google calls
you?
That's that's a question.
What are you gonna do when Google calls
you? Isn't there there's a song. Right?
Something to call you. I can't remember.
You guys are gonna help me.
Interesting. Yeah?
Maybe. This is a little bit of an
answer to some of the things I've been
concerned about.
So
the Musk, Trump, or bromance,
according to Yahoo Finance, has turned x debt
from burden to an asset for Morgan Stanley.
A lot of banks underwrote
their debt that they had with x,
but
helped by my singular relationship with president Trump
and the tech mogul's newfound proximity to the
White House, Morgan Stanley discovering
that investors are drawn to the debt of
the company as it leads in marketing
a 3,000,000,000 offering. Potential buyers already got a
p x Financial seeing sides of a rebound.
And as an added bonus, investors will gain
exposure to the company's stake in Marks
Mus artificial intelligence project x AI.
The pitch includes results that show an adjusted
version of x 20 24 profits or earnings.
So
interesting.
Interesting that they've got a bump here. Now
we all know there's craziness going on in
DC and and, by the way,
condolences
to everyone
that was in that horrible airplane crash,
yesterday.
Very, very sad. That type of thing should
not happen anymore.
It it really, really, really should not.
It's just just crazy. But,
obviously, JFK is in been in,
you know, senate confirmation or whatever it is,
and it's, you know, it's all over social
media. That's just fireworks and all kinds of
craziness.
And,
one thing that I would find interesting,
I don't know a lot about him and
what he wants to do and, you know,
I know he's got this thing about making
America healthier and, you know, having right ingredients
and, you know, like, I heard something about
French fries in UK as 3 ingredients,
the potatoes, salt, and oil. And in America,
there's 13 or 14. I I anyway,
I I haven't been following it too close.
But
what if he comes in
and bans
all
television advertising of
pharmaceutical?
Many of you that live outside the United
States, you guys don't get hammered by pharmaceutical
ads.
Here,
YouTube, Facebook,
everywhere, it's just this onslaught
of pharmaceutical ads. It'd be nice if he
banned all that.
But the problem is
in where the well, not where the problem
is.
I don't think
mainstream media and regular television will survive without
that advertising.
It it's 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of
dollars. What happened with my TV? Oh, just
come back on.
So it's it's an it's an interesting thing
that could happen here.
A house bill is aimed to better protect
financial institutions from ransomware attacks. This legislation would
direct the treasury sector to deliver report on
public private coordination
to combat attack down the financial sector.
I'm surprised they're getting anything done, but this
bipartisan pair are seeking to improve private public
coordination.
So this is called the private
public and private sector ransomware response coordination act.
The legislation,
both from members of the House Financial Service
Committee, comes as global ransomware attacks jump 67%
2023
to
how much percent? 67 oh, from 2023 to
2024.
And 65%
of finance institutions globally report experienced ransomware in
2024.
Wow.
So bad actors are out there. Under the
bill, the treasurer's secretary report would require detail
the current level of public private coordination.
You know,
they need to just fix their security.
Banks
holding our money need to fix their security.
Absolutely
need to fix their security.
Why you need the government to do that?
I don't understand.
The FAA, you know, is is without a
leader right now,
and,
Michael Whitaker stepped down as the FAA administrator
in January 20th.
And after clashing probably with both president Trump
and Elon Musk.
So
the new transportation secretary, I guess,
was asked about it today. So is the
FAA administrator how's that appointment work? Who I
don't know who hires him.
Oh, I'm looking right here in the article.
His resignation clears the way for president to
name his own replacement.
He said this morning okay. So he's tapping
Chris Rocholay,
a top executive from an Aviation Business Association
acting FAA administrator,
but provided notice about a permanent replacement.
So I wonder if
this person has to be confirmed. I have
no idea.
So,
gonna have somebody acting at least,
while this aviation incident is going on. I
don't know how fast they're gonna get in
place, but this transition in government when things
are delayed, when congress takes so long to
get people in place,
this this is what happens.
Now not the accident necessarily wasn't caused by
that, but there are rumors that there wasn't
enough,
air traffic controllers there, but time will tell
on any of that.
Layoffs hit SiriusXM again. 200 and a 100
employees were laid off,
this week,
and they're looking for another 200
and
$200,000,000 extra cost savings. They're still bleeding money
like crazy, so,
the layoffs are not over.
At the same time, Elon says Tesla will
launch a robo taxi service in Austin this
June. Tesla owners will be able to add
their own vehicles to the fleet next year.
So this ride hailing service, I guess, is
a test.
Hy Motel,
that I have it in here somewhere. I
guess their earnings call wasn't so good either.
Tesla's earning call was, pretty disappointing, pretty dismal.
Considering the way the economy is, I can't
imagine anyone's earning calls are that
good.
And you look at the winter cost.
Oh my god.
Winter energy bills.
And I'm I'm sure they're straining, folks. It
says 62% of the United States adults are
are getting killed.
More than 1 in 10 years adults are
already behind in the energy bill.
And,
you know,
the colder it gets, though, the worst it
is for everyone.
Winter temperatures dropped across the country, and extreme
cold has been pushing up monthly energy bills
in December. The monthly inflation increase was attributed
to rise to overall energy costs.
An exclusive seen that survey found that most
house expect to pay 688
on energy bills over the course of the
winter months. Mine's about a 1,000.
My gas bill
for the winter season is a $1,1100.
That's a natural gas bill.
So
and I consider myself having a relatively small
place to heat.
So
how about you? What what is your energy
bill? And those of you who live in
the South
that just got whacked, you know, what was
what was your impact?
Not surprising at all, CNN has announced major
layoffs to modernize business, quote, unquote.
They're laying off 6% of its staff or
approximately
200 employees in effort to modernize its business.
So,
they're getting rid of folks because their numbers
suck.
They're not doing well,
and they're doing a bunch of digital restructuring.
And, of course, some one of their
one of their,
big talents just quit because they're putting him
in a late hour.
And more happy news on the tech side,
Comcast just gave 6 cities an early look
at lag free Internet.
I've never heard about this. This is called
L4s.
L4s is an open standard that aims to
significantly reduce latency online,
and Comcast is among the first to allow
customers to use it. So what is L
4 s?
Short for low latency, low loss scalable throughput.
L4 s wants to make this Internet feel
faster,
not by upping bandwidth, but making data transfer
more efficient.
Right now, your ISP sends data to you
in the form of packets. These are small
chunks of information, and the worst case scenario,
have to queue up to make their way
to you. L four s as an indicator
to the packets are currently stuck in a
queue, allowing the network to address congestion, perhaps
outright end it.
Essentially, the idea is clear the roads for
Internet traffic so it doesn't take as long
to get to you
or your home.
This should be make video chats feel a
lot more like sitting across from a coffee
table.
How to use L4S?
L4S is open source, so Comcast doesn't have
any special rights,
but, actually, using still involves getting a bunch
of big companies degree, hence, the slow rollout.
It requires app developers to support alongside Internet
service providers. That means that Comcast version starting
with just a few use cases,
Elforcer will work with FaceTime, NVIDIA Geoforce Now,
and supported apps on both Made in Quest
headsets
and Steam.
The later two companies haven't exactly published a
list of which apps are gonna work with
the L4s.
For instance, if you're on a FaceTime call
with grandma and grandma lives in rural Indiana
and uses DSL,
is people still using DSL?
No amount of technical wizardry on your end
is gonna make your connection better. So we're
playing a game alongside teammate who doesn't have
for us might end up having to carry
a little bit
or if the game server hosted by clients,
in other words, it's it's gonna be early
days. It has to be enabled on both
ends per se.
So
we'll see about l four s.
Researchers
this is cool. Researcher developed a drone with
teeth to help solve global
issue plaguing our ocean.
And these this is,
one of many that have come out
of different types of devices
that's gonna capture microplastics
from water.
And it's gonna capture,
from 1
is it 1 millimeter?
From 1 mill 1 micrometer
to 4 millimeters
which is no bigger than a sesame seed.
This approach limit is clogging while achieving over
the 8 over 80 recovery efficiency for plastic
life expanded poly
styrene, polypylene,
and polyethylene,
those found in styrofoam takeout containers and plastic
grocery bags.
So they're gonna put a bunch of these
drones in the ocean and let them
troll for microplastics?
Sounds like a good idea.
If you're watching the sky in, Michigan or
in Illinois
this few days ago,
a Starlink satellite broke up in the atmosphere.
So, apparently,
how many did they bring down?
They were decommissioning.
Online tracking showed Starlink satellite 5693 entered over
Wisconsin before traveling over Illinois on its descending
pass as it was breaking up in the
atmosphere.
So
we'll probably be seeing more of these as
SpaceX
deorbits either bad satellites
or
older ones.
Well, probably, this will become more of a
thing,
over time.
It's a very I saw a tweet where
the president asked
Elon Musk to bring the 2 astronauts that
are at the Internet space station has been
stuck up their home.
But commander Sonny Williams and Butch Whitmore
both basically did a spacewalk today,
and, they they removed a broken antenna and
wiped the station exterior for evidence of any
microbes
that might be still alive after launching from
Earth escaping through vents.
So
but they've been told to bring them home.
So I thought that was already scheduled this
sometime in February
or maybe early March. I do I can't
remember the date. So I don't know if
they're coming home any earlier, but,
you know, they prepared to bring them home,
with the rest of the crew that went
up there.
Telesis 20 yeah. We talked about it a
little bit.
I'll have the link to Telesis financial report
in the in the show notes.
But how many of you went and tried
to get an NVIDIA RTX 5090 today? Apparently,
the lottery for these
video cards drove people crazy. Japan,
everywhere.
There was no fights, but people
went nuts. And some of them are now
available on eBay for much as $6,000.
They cost about 2 grand,
normally.
List price of RTX 5090 is 2,050,
81,000,
early listings for 5080 showed multiple models listed
at 1300 directly from Best Buy.
So
these prices are not gonna drop soon because
these things are gonna be in heavy,
heavy demand for a long time. People want
to run
their own AI models, and this card is
gonna help with that. NordVPN is a new
protocol designed to evade VPN restrictions.
They announced a new protocol called Nord Whisper.
I think we've heard about this coming.
It's specifically
designed
to,
make browsing more accessible by getting around network
restrictions. I've never run into a
a Nord issue. And matter of fact, when
I was in the Philippines, I was connecting
United States anytime I was connecting to my
local bank,
because my local bank was blocking
traffic from the Philippines. It was smart. They
never gave my VPN any issues.
I did have a couple authentication issues with
other financial stuff, even using a VPN.
And what I found
was if I, like, connected to one in
Seattle
and I was having issues, if I connected
to one to Chicago that's closer to my
home, I had more success. So,
this is something I see, you know, specifically
financial stuff as you would expect.
Criminals are abusing top level government domains across
multiple countries.
This should not be
a surprise at all. A
significant number of dotgov domains are news and
open redirect tracks. Brazil is a leader in
dotgovdomainabuse.
In the United States, that gov domains are
among the most frequently exploited. How are they
even allowed to buy them?
That's the question I have.
Shouldn't they be limited to a proven government
agency?
Makes you go, doesn't
it? Did I just close a browser?
Let me see. Did I close one? Yes.
I did.
SpaceX launches from Florida and retired a first
stage booster because of extra power needed.
Basically, they,
launched a Spanish communication satellite
to geosynchronous
orbit,
so the Falcon 9
single booster was sacrificed.
This particular booster,
marked its 21st and final launch
and,
but again, they took off all the reentry
fins and the
titanium legs
and
I assume
it burned up and dumped in the ocean
somewhere, but,
they they needed all the fuel they could
get and couldn't get back to, to land.
This happens once in a while.
Mexico has asked Google Maps not to rename
the Gulf of Mexico, but Google has said
that,
as soon as the United States,
map people update the name,
they will
update it.
Now
goo a Gulf of America is only gonna
show up
for those of us here in the United
States. For if you live in Mexico, Cuba,
anywhere else, it will still be called the
Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico
argues the US cannot legally change the golf
name. You know, this is really about getting
around drilling.
Really has nothing to do about anything else.
Vodafone demonstrates
world's 1st smallest
first excuse me. Vodafone demonstrates world's 1st satellite
video call with a standard mobile phone.
It was used may it was used
it was made using Bluebird
Satellites
from Starlink rival,
AST
Space Mobile. Now I don't know anything about
Bluebird
at all.
So where did they do this?
The company is partner, AST SpaceMobile Bluebird Satellite,
specifically designed to transmit 4g, 5g, mobile broadband
signals from space.
In the demonstration, Vodafone Group chief executive
explained the Blue Bird satellites can connect directly
with a regular smartphone then transmit the signal
back to a Vodafone trust or network network
via satellite link.
She then took a call from an engineer
remote mountain region of Wales
with no cellular coverage.
So,
okay.
And we know that this is continuing to
happen here in the United States, just a
matter of
time.
Grubhub is bringing new delivery robots to college
campuses. So if you've got a student,
you got a
a a child attending college,
Grubhub is partnering with Avride, an autonomous robot
delivery company, to expand its offerings on college
campuses.
And they've got a 100 robots on OSU,
Ohio State University,
blah, the Buckeyes,
that have plans to expand
further.
So,
yeah, I wonder if they're gonna help them
save money on their food delivery.
Stock disasters everywhere. Microsoft stock slumped more than
6% on disappointing revenue outlook.
The software giant topped Wall Street's fiscal 2nd
quarter estimates pointing earnings of $3.23
per share or 69,630,000,000
in revenue.
The decline came after Microsoft Finance chief Amy
Hood, something the company expects revs of current
quarter to fall short
of analyst estimates.
So they're making money, but the stock still
gets hammered.
Nothing new in that regard.
This is a weird one.
Zuckerberg is
all giddy about the return of OG Facebook.
What is OG
Facebook?
He outlined this priority for this year's getting
back to OG Facebook. Does that mean you're
gonna stop spying on us
and all this other stuff?
So
Per made his official transcript. He said, I
think there's a lot of opportunity to make
it way more culturally
influential than it is today. I think that's
sort of a fun and interesting goal that
will take our product development some in in
interesting directions that we maybe haven't had a
focus on is met over the last several
years.
Yes. It's all been about suppressing.
So I don't know that I have anything
much more specific on this other than this
is kind of be one of those focus
areas.
It's my focus areas for this year. I
mean, I think it's an investment area and
something I'm going to spend
time on.
So
I, you know, I do miss
the original Facebook days when it was an
actual social network, when I could see my
friends,
when I could see
what they were talking about.
Instead of being a a a a news
feed of ads and fake click and all
kinds of
BS that I don't wanna see.
Is it too late to go back?
A lot of people have left the platform.
Young people have left. They don't care.
I don't know.
And is this because of the current administration?
Is this the reason they're going back?
Remember,
those of you watching, I'm hold I just
licked my finger and holding up my
finger in where the winds blow.
And even Bill Gates was talking about this
today about being, quote, unquote, oh, times have
changed
because everyone now is
the current president. So
this last one is weird.
All of us, every single one of us
have took a scoop of something,
soup, food, it came out, and it's too
hot. And what are we doing?
We're blowing on it. Right? Or if we
stick it in our mouth and it's too
hot and we're
right? We've all done that at least once.
Guarantee.
And many of us have burned our mouths
because we put something too hot in in
our mouth.
Well,
get this.
NASA's X-ray telescope, Chandra, discovers that black holes
blow on their food to cool it down.
Yes. I I said that.
Jets blasting from supermassive
black holes cause gas to cool and fall
towards the cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding
process.
This this is just too weird. The supermassive
black whole food cooling process was discovered by
astronomers using NASA's China X-ray Telescope.
The team found when jets launched from supermassive
black holes strike hot gas between galaxies and
galaxy clusters called intercluster medium, they key carve
out large cavities
and cause things to cool off.
Who would have known that a black hole
need its cosmic
food to be cooled off?
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