1 00:00:00,799 --> 00:00:03,129 Lead story for Thursday, August 2 00:00:03,129 --> 00:00:03,939 28. 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:06,980 New research reveals ChatGPT's 4 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,580 frequently used words often dubbed AI 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:11,460 buzzwords 6 00:00:12,554 --> 00:00:15,615 are increasingly appearing in everyday human conversation. 7 00:00:16,714 --> 00:00:17,454 By analyzing 8 00:00:17,994 --> 00:00:19,375 over 20,000,000 9 00:00:19,434 --> 00:00:20,894 words from unscripted 10 00:00:21,274 --> 00:00:24,875 podcasts, researchers found a noble rise in terms 11 00:00:24,875 --> 00:00:25,375 like 12 00:00:25,754 --> 00:00:26,254 intricate 13 00:00:26,714 --> 00:00:27,600 and delve, 14 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:30,100 suggesting AI is subtly 15 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,020 influencing how people speak. While the study doesn't 16 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:34,579 confirm 17 00:00:35,039 --> 00:00:38,399 a permanent language shift, it raises concerns about 18 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:39,539 AI driven vocabulary 19 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,619 trends potentially seeping 20 00:00:42,634 --> 00:00:43,614 into effect 21 00:00:44,155 --> 00:00:46,574 in the long term impact of chat GPT 22 00:00:46,715 --> 00:00:48,895 biases on human communications. 23 00:00:49,674 --> 00:00:53,114 I wanna welcome you to episode 1,841, 24 00:00:53,114 --> 00:00:54,254 and this is truly 25 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:55,420 fascinating. 26 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:58,939 If you look at the words that they've 27 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,719 analyzed, and I'll scroll down in the article 28 00:01:01,719 --> 00:01:02,219 here, 29 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:05,019 is words like surpassed, 30 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:06,140 boast, 31 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:07,099 meticulous, 32 00:01:08,119 --> 00:01:08,619 strategically, 33 00:01:09,635 --> 00:01:10,694 garner, notable, 34 00:01:10,995 --> 00:01:13,415 intricate, delve, align, advancement, 35 00:01:14,355 --> 00:01:14,855 significant, 36 00:01:15,234 --> 00:01:15,734 showcase, 37 00:01:16,355 --> 00:01:17,655 comprehend, pivotal, 38 00:01:18,275 --> 00:01:18,775 potential, 39 00:01:19,234 --> 00:01:19,734 emphasize 40 00:01:20,034 --> 00:01:20,534 potential. 41 00:01:21,155 --> 00:01:22,295 They said that twice. 42 00:01:23,314 --> 00:01:23,814 Realm, 43 00:01:24,130 --> 00:01:25,430 crucial, groundbreaking, 44 00:01:26,130 --> 00:01:27,109 show a change 45 00:01:27,650 --> 00:01:28,709 in word utilization 46 00:01:29,090 --> 00:01:30,450 of a 140 47 00:01:30,689 --> 00:01:32,150 or surpass itself. 48 00:01:33,489 --> 00:01:35,510 So pre 2022, 49 00:01:35,569 --> 00:01:36,930 post 2022 50 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:39,954 is a basic margin error, but essentially a 51 00:01:39,954 --> 00:01:41,155 140% 52 00:01:41,155 --> 00:01:42,935 increase in the use of the word, 53 00:01:43,875 --> 00:01:44,375 surpassed, 54 00:01:44,915 --> 00:01:46,034 140% 55 00:01:46,034 --> 00:01:48,055 increase in the word boast, 56 00:01:48,674 --> 00:01:50,275 125% 57 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:51,974 increase in word of meticulous, 58 00:01:52,819 --> 00:01:54,120 87% 59 00:01:54,340 --> 00:01:56,040 increase in the word strategically. 60 00:01:57,060 --> 00:01:59,880 So it does raise some questions 61 00:02:01,060 --> 00:02:02,359 on whether or not 62 00:02:02,740 --> 00:02:04,200 this is really having 63 00:02:04,579 --> 00:02:05,240 an effect 64 00:02:05,564 --> 00:02:09,264 or is it a natural shift in language? 65 00:02:09,724 --> 00:02:10,705 Now what's 66 00:02:11,245 --> 00:02:13,564 let's think about this for a second. Has 67 00:02:13,564 --> 00:02:15,185 there been studies done 68 00:02:15,884 --> 00:02:16,705 that actually 69 00:02:17,724 --> 00:02:18,539 look at this 70 00:02:19,099 --> 00:02:20,000 in the past, 71 00:02:20,699 --> 00:02:21,680 how word utilization 72 00:02:22,539 --> 00:02:23,039 changed. 73 00:02:24,219 --> 00:02:25,039 This MIT 74 00:02:25,340 --> 00:02:25,840 paper 75 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:29,979 stirred some widespread debate on how AI tools, 76 00:02:29,979 --> 00:02:32,799 again, are affecting our cognitive and critical thinking. 77 00:02:33,754 --> 00:02:34,254 And 78 00:02:35,275 --> 00:02:38,254 those findings, I think, were not entirely unsurprising 79 00:02:40,314 --> 00:02:41,694 in that people say 80 00:02:42,155 --> 00:02:45,055 or they're seeing that there's less critical thinking 81 00:02:45,115 --> 00:02:45,935 going on. 82 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,919 But what they found is even if you 83 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,099 don't use AI generated responses, 84 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,740 they influence how you think. 85 00:02:54,439 --> 00:02:57,400 He said, citing examples of smart reply templates 86 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,099 in emails and message apps, 87 00:02:59,504 --> 00:03:01,504 Two years later, it seems like the signature 88 00:03:01,504 --> 00:03:03,825 language patterns of large language models such as 89 00:03:03,825 --> 00:03:06,305 ChatTP are becoming a part of natural human 90 00:03:06,305 --> 00:03:08,784 con conversation at all. Now there's one thing 91 00:03:08,784 --> 00:03:10,805 that was interesting that I, did 92 00:03:12,625 --> 00:03:13,125 today. 93 00:03:13,665 --> 00:03:14,485 I was, 94 00:03:15,659 --> 00:03:18,319 I I was asked for a quote 95 00:03:19,979 --> 00:03:22,620 from, a partner of ours because they're gonna 96 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:25,099 have a a campaign starting next week, and 97 00:03:25,099 --> 00:03:27,819 then my company's gonna be quoted on the 98 00:03:27,819 --> 00:03:28,879 front page. So 99 00:03:29,805 --> 00:03:32,364 I was really, I mean, crazy busy at 100 00:03:32,364 --> 00:03:33,884 the time the request come in, but I 101 00:03:33,884 --> 00:03:35,324 had to turn it around. So I kinda, 102 00:03:35,324 --> 00:03:36,784 you know, typed something up 103 00:03:37,245 --> 00:03:38,764 and, you know, looked over it three or 104 00:03:38,764 --> 00:03:40,764 four times, and, you know, it looked pretty 105 00:03:40,764 --> 00:03:41,264 good. 106 00:03:41,724 --> 00:03:43,084 And then I so I dropped it in 107 00:03:43,084 --> 00:03:45,004 the chat GPD and can you improve it? 108 00:03:45,004 --> 00:03:47,670 And it it did. It improved the 109 00:03:48,129 --> 00:03:49,810 the quote. It actually made it too long. 110 00:03:49,810 --> 00:03:51,590 I had to shorten it back down. 111 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:52,710 But, 112 00:03:54,610 --> 00:03:56,230 I took that quote 113 00:03:57,409 --> 00:04:00,074 that I had edited, and I wrote the 114 00:04:00,395 --> 00:04:02,155 it wasn't the quote that it edited yet, 115 00:04:02,155 --> 00:04:04,634 but I dropped it into my email response 116 00:04:04,634 --> 00:04:06,735 and started editing. And all of a sudden, 117 00:04:08,155 --> 00:04:09,854 I don't know if I bumped something, 118 00:04:10,395 --> 00:04:12,875 but in Gmail, it automatically said, hey. You 119 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:15,299 know, let me it just basically made a 120 00:04:15,299 --> 00:04:16,759 modification. And I'm like, 121 00:04:17,939 --> 00:04:18,759 I inadvertently 122 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:20,360 let the 123 00:04:20,819 --> 00:04:23,300 email client do something I didn't want it 124 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:23,879 to do. 125 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:26,579 And it irritated me a little bit. I 126 00:04:26,579 --> 00:04:28,814 still, to this point, don't understand how it 127 00:04:28,814 --> 00:04:29,555 it fully 128 00:04:29,935 --> 00:04:30,435 happened. 129 00:04:31,694 --> 00:04:33,375 But in the end, I end up having 130 00:04:33,375 --> 00:04:35,535 the first email that I've ever sent out 131 00:04:35,535 --> 00:04:38,334 that really had, you know, a large portion 132 00:04:38,334 --> 00:04:39,555 of it that was, 133 00:04:40,654 --> 00:04:43,214 AI generated. And it didn't really make me 134 00:04:43,214 --> 00:04:45,610 very happy because I I take pride in 135 00:04:45,610 --> 00:04:46,669 responding to, 136 00:04:47,529 --> 00:04:48,029 emails, 137 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:51,849 personally. And and, again, all I wanted was 138 00:04:51,849 --> 00:04:53,470 an improvement in the quote. 139 00:04:54,329 --> 00:04:54,829 So 140 00:04:56,810 --> 00:04:58,649 it'll be curious. I wanna have to go 141 00:04:58,649 --> 00:04:58,995 back 142 00:04:59,555 --> 00:05:01,555 and maybe look at some of these words 143 00:05:01,555 --> 00:05:03,314 because I don't think I use the word 144 00:05:03,314 --> 00:05:03,814 surpass, 145 00:05:05,074 --> 00:05:06,134 boast, meticulous, 146 00:05:07,634 --> 00:05:10,115 strategically, garner, noble. I don't think these are 147 00:05:10,115 --> 00:05:12,454 words that I generally use, 148 00:05:12,860 --> 00:05:14,860 but it would be interesting to see over 149 00:05:14,860 --> 00:05:15,759 the long run, 150 00:05:17,019 --> 00:05:18,240 have I started to 151 00:05:19,660 --> 00:05:21,519 utilize any of this messaging? 152 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:24,620 But it is curious to thinking that there 153 00:05:24,620 --> 00:05:25,279 might be 154 00:05:25,735 --> 00:05:28,074 an impact here on specific, 155 00:05:29,574 --> 00:05:30,074 buzzwords, 156 00:05:30,854 --> 00:05:33,675 and it shows which words are being, 157 00:05:34,454 --> 00:05:34,954 underutilized 158 00:05:35,334 --> 00:05:37,115 and some that are being overutilized. 159 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:39,680 And words like groundbreaking, 160 00:05:40,060 --> 00:05:40,560 critical, 161 00:05:41,819 --> 00:05:42,319 potential 162 00:05:43,099 --> 00:05:43,599 potentially, 163 00:05:45,019 --> 00:05:47,839 emphasize. These are words that are being underutilized 164 00:05:48,939 --> 00:05:51,339 while at the same time, there's the other 165 00:05:51,339 --> 00:05:53,039 spectrum stuff being overutilized. 166 00:05:53,339 --> 00:05:56,754 So very, very interesting, and, we'll get into 167 00:05:56,754 --> 00:05:57,574 more, obviously, 168 00:05:57,954 --> 00:06:00,214 on the AI topic as we move forward, 169 00:06:00,915 --> 00:06:02,834 throughout the show. Couple more things popping up 170 00:06:02,834 --> 00:06:05,154 here. But, again, I wanna welcome you to 171 00:06:05,154 --> 00:06:07,139 episode eighteen forty one. I'm your host, Todd 172 00:06:07,139 --> 00:06:08,500 Cochran. 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And all of you that are supporting 287 00:10:20,460 --> 00:10:21,200 in the show 288 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:24,139 financially as the insider, thank you so much, 289 00:10:24,379 --> 00:10:27,040 for supporting the show. This next article 290 00:10:27,420 --> 00:10:28,240 is absolutely 291 00:10:29,394 --> 00:10:29,894 incredible. 292 00:10:30,274 --> 00:10:32,115 When I read the headline of this, I 293 00:10:32,115 --> 00:10:33,254 just shook my head. 294 00:10:34,115 --> 00:10:34,934 How how 295 00:10:35,475 --> 00:10:36,695 is this even 296 00:10:37,394 --> 00:10:37,894 possible? 297 00:10:39,315 --> 00:10:42,429 Chinese nationals. Yes. Chinese citizens 298 00:10:43,049 --> 00:10:45,690 will no longer be allowed to manage the 299 00:10:45,690 --> 00:10:46,190 Pentagon's 300 00:10:46,730 --> 00:10:47,870 cloud service. 301 00:10:51,210 --> 00:10:52,429 How how is this 302 00:10:52,889 --> 00:10:53,389 even 303 00:10:55,575 --> 00:10:56,955 possible? US secretary 304 00:10:57,575 --> 00:10:59,995 of defense Pete Hegseth is called for investigation 305 00:11:01,014 --> 00:11:04,294 in the Microsoft's digital escort system. This is 306 00:11:04,294 --> 00:11:05,674 all Chinese nationals 307 00:11:06,134 --> 00:11:06,634 coding 308 00:11:06,990 --> 00:11:07,490 for 309 00:11:07,870 --> 00:11:09,330 DOD software vendors. 310 00:11:10,350 --> 00:11:11,490 And this is 311 00:11:12,190 --> 00:11:13,409 not only risky. 312 00:11:13,950 --> 00:11:15,730 This is just outright 313 00:11:16,269 --> 00:11:16,769 insanity. 314 00:11:19,309 --> 00:11:21,169 How could there be Chinese 315 00:11:21,629 --> 00:11:22,129 citizens 316 00:11:22,509 --> 00:11:22,965 in 317 00:11:23,365 --> 00:11:23,865 China 318 00:11:24,325 --> 00:11:26,985 managing cloud services for the Pentagon? 319 00:11:28,725 --> 00:11:29,625 How stupid, 320 00:11:30,245 --> 00:11:31,144 how absolute 321 00:11:32,165 --> 00:11:32,665 stupid. 322 00:11:34,004 --> 00:11:36,500 It just blows me away. For nearly a 323 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:37,000 decade, 324 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:40,600 Microsoft has used Chinese coders remotely supervised 325 00:11:40,980 --> 00:11:43,320 by US contractors, yes, supervised, 326 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:46,580 to support sensitive department of best cloud systems. 327 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:47,639 And if you're thinking 328 00:11:48,014 --> 00:11:50,415 America first and common sense, this doesn't pass 329 00:11:50,415 --> 00:11:52,195 either of those tests, he says. 330 00:11:56,014 --> 00:11:56,514 How 331 00:11:57,455 --> 00:11:59,235 how did this happen? 332 00:12:02,254 --> 00:12:05,779 Quote, unquote, these workers were supervised by digital 333 00:12:05,839 --> 00:12:06,339 escorts 334 00:12:06,799 --> 00:12:08,799 who found to be mainly low skilled and 335 00:12:08,799 --> 00:12:11,440 low paid workers with very little coding experience. 336 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,779 Well, what they were is on the payroll 337 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,839 to steal as much as they could for 338 00:12:15,839 --> 00:12:16,784 the Chinese. 339 00:12:20,125 --> 00:12:23,004 The use of Chinese nationals, service, department events, 340 00:12:23,004 --> 00:12:24,784 cloud environment, it's over. 341 00:12:25,245 --> 00:12:27,424 We're requiring a third party audit of Microsoft 342 00:12:27,485 --> 00:12:29,965 digital escort program, including the code and the 343 00:12:29,965 --> 00:12:31,825 submission by Chinese nationals. 344 00:12:32,339 --> 00:12:33,079 Not only 345 00:12:34,819 --> 00:12:37,059 that, Pete Hects has said, will be also 346 00:12:37,059 --> 00:12:39,059 require the Department of Defense to carry a 347 00:12:39,059 --> 00:12:41,779 separate investigation of the digital escort program and 348 00:12:41,779 --> 00:12:44,279 the Chinese Microsoft employees involved. 349 00:12:45,459 --> 00:12:46,120 Is it 350 00:12:51,035 --> 00:12:53,434 unacceptable. Going forward, all software vendors for the 351 00:12:53,434 --> 00:12:56,174 DOD will also have to identify and terminate 352 00:12:56,315 --> 00:12:58,975 any Chinese involvement in DOD systems. 353 00:12:59,429 --> 00:13:02,667 He goes on to say, it blows my 354 00:13:02,732 --> 00:13:07,183 mind that I'm even saying these things that 355 00:13:07,247 --> 00:13:10,950 we allowed it to happen. I I I 356 00:13:10,950 --> 00:13:11,350 I would 357 00:13:12,389 --> 00:13:13,834 I'm I'm stunned. 358 00:13:15,815 --> 00:13:17,355 I'm absolutely unequivocally 359 00:13:18,534 --> 00:13:19,434 to the core 360 00:13:19,815 --> 00:13:20,315 stunned. 361 00:13:20,695 --> 00:13:23,254 And wait. Oh, there's gonna be more. There 362 00:13:23,254 --> 00:13:25,414 is going to be more. There's gonna be 363 00:13:25,414 --> 00:13:26,714 spyware in the code. 364 00:13:27,174 --> 00:13:29,250 There's gonna be you guarantee. 365 00:13:30,029 --> 00:13:31,570 I they've been doing 366 00:13:32,110 --> 00:13:35,490 industrial espionage. This'll be a DOD espionage. 367 00:13:36,110 --> 00:13:37,329 It I'm 368 00:13:42,684 --> 00:13:43,904 I'm blown away. 369 00:13:45,725 --> 00:13:47,565 When I was active duty, there was no 370 00:13:47,565 --> 00:13:48,384 cloud storage. 371 00:13:50,365 --> 00:13:51,345 There was none. 372 00:13:52,445 --> 00:13:53,745 You had to keep well, 373 00:13:55,004 --> 00:13:57,024 yeah. I guess if you were, 374 00:13:57,769 --> 00:14:00,269 you know, yeah, not much. 375 00:14:01,050 --> 00:14:02,750 There was, like, shared drives, 376 00:14:03,610 --> 00:14:05,610 not cloud. You had to have stuff in 377 00:14:05,610 --> 00:14:08,110 a shared drive and, you know, map drive. 378 00:14:08,330 --> 00:14:10,170 You could get to it from another machine. 379 00:14:10,170 --> 00:14:11,309 But there was no 380 00:14:12,004 --> 00:14:12,904 no cloud 381 00:14:13,285 --> 00:14:16,264 per se. I couldn't go across the country 382 00:14:16,325 --> 00:14:18,164 and connect to my drive. I could connect 383 00:14:18,164 --> 00:14:19,465 in the local network. 384 00:14:19,845 --> 00:14:22,105 If I wanted to take data with me, 385 00:14:22,164 --> 00:14:24,164 it had to be put on probably a 386 00:14:24,164 --> 00:14:24,664 CD, 387 00:14:25,399 --> 00:14:27,259 had to be made sure it was unclassified 388 00:14:27,879 --> 00:14:29,500 and, you know, strict controls 389 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,500 carrying the data, no USB sticks allowed, 390 00:14:34,919 --> 00:14:37,335 hard drives at times that had a bit 391 00:14:37,654 --> 00:14:39,815 bit byte or some sort of encryption system 392 00:14:39,815 --> 00:14:42,315 on them. Yeah. No cloud whatsoever. 393 00:14:44,615 --> 00:14:46,054 I just I just don't know how this 394 00:14:46,054 --> 00:14:48,154 happens. I I I really don't. 395 00:14:49,335 --> 00:14:50,860 Do you guys remember Typepad? 396 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,080 Blogging service Typepad is shutting down and taking 397 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,639 all blog content with it. Well, that's what 398 00:14:57,639 --> 00:14:59,580 happens when you do not 399 00:15:00,039 --> 00:15:00,539 control 400 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:01,580 the content 401 00:15:01,944 --> 00:15:03,324 on yourown.com. 402 00:15:04,105 --> 00:15:07,065 So all this stuff is gonna go now. 403 00:15:07,065 --> 00:15:08,684 You can export your data, 404 00:15:09,544 --> 00:15:11,964 but they've also not allowed anyone 405 00:15:12,664 --> 00:15:14,664 to publish for a few years on the 406 00:15:14,664 --> 00:15:16,519 site. So it's not like they didn't give 407 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:17,899 people enough time, 408 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,480 to get their data off. So Typepad, there's 409 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,019 a there's a service I haven't 410 00:15:23,639 --> 00:15:26,120 even thought about in probably ten or fifteen 411 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,639 years, and probably the one of the reasons 412 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:28,725 why it's going away. 413 00:15:30,245 --> 00:15:32,725 Nevada has been crippled by a cyberattack that 414 00:15:32,725 --> 00:15:34,105 began on Tuesday. 415 00:15:35,284 --> 00:15:37,684 No. On the twenty fourth. Wow. So it's 416 00:15:37,684 --> 00:15:39,444 been going on a while. Taking down state 417 00:15:39,444 --> 00:15:43,444 websites, intermittently disabling phone lines, enforcing office like 418 00:15:43,444 --> 00:15:46,540 the DMV to close. The office's governor announced 419 00:15:46,540 --> 00:15:48,779 the attack via social media on Monday saying 420 00:15:48,779 --> 00:15:51,179 the network security has took hold in the 421 00:15:51,179 --> 00:15:54,700 early hours of August 24. Officials say that 422 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:56,559 state websites remain unavailable, 423 00:15:57,575 --> 00:15:59,575 and his office warned that phone lines went 424 00:15:59,575 --> 00:16:02,615 intermittently down, although emergency service lines were in 425 00:16:02,615 --> 00:16:03,115 operational. 426 00:16:03,735 --> 00:16:06,535 State officers were closed until further notice, including 427 00:16:06,535 --> 00:16:07,195 the DMV. 428 00:16:07,735 --> 00:16:09,815 State said any missed appointments will be honored 429 00:16:09,815 --> 00:16:11,115 in a walk in basis. 430 00:16:12,934 --> 00:16:13,230 Wow. 431 00:16:17,470 --> 00:16:20,110 The state's new cybersecurity office says currently no 432 00:16:20,110 --> 00:16:22,909 evidence suggests that any Nevadians personal information was 433 00:16:22,909 --> 00:16:25,470 compromised during attack. Yeah. Right. You'd have no 434 00:16:25,470 --> 00:16:25,970 clue. 435 00:16:27,070 --> 00:16:28,209 Nary a clue. 436 00:16:29,855 --> 00:16:32,894 So cyber attack means you're you've been owned 437 00:16:32,894 --> 00:16:35,154 already and your stuff is off the network. 438 00:16:36,014 --> 00:16:37,235 You know, come on. 439 00:16:37,855 --> 00:16:39,955 It's it's just it's just a given. 440 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:42,300 In a bizarre 441 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,800 proposal, a Japanese town is proposing a two 442 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,660 hour daily limit on smartphones. 443 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,559 The proposal believed to be the first of 444 00:16:51,559 --> 00:16:53,879 its kind in Japan is currently being debated 445 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:56,379 by lawmakers after being submitted by 446 00:16:58,384 --> 00:17:00,644 a municipal government in Aichi 447 00:17:01,264 --> 00:17:03,745 early this week. The mayor said that pros 448 00:17:03,745 --> 00:17:04,724 will the proposal, 449 00:17:05,585 --> 00:17:08,144 which only applies outside of work and study, 450 00:17:08,144 --> 00:17:10,289 would not be strictly enforced, but rather was 451 00:17:10,289 --> 00:17:12,609 meant to encourage residents to better manage the 452 00:17:12,609 --> 00:17:13,349 screen time. 453 00:17:14,529 --> 00:17:15,970 There's no way they're gonna be able to 454 00:17:15,970 --> 00:17:18,609 track it. There the there's this does not 455 00:17:18,609 --> 00:17:19,589 mean the city 456 00:17:20,049 --> 00:17:21,349 will limit its residents 457 00:17:21,809 --> 00:17:25,214 or impose duties and no fines, but they 458 00:17:25,214 --> 00:17:27,054 want people to understand they should only be 459 00:17:27,054 --> 00:17:27,875 on their phone, 460 00:17:28,414 --> 00:17:30,654 two hours a day. Well well, good good 461 00:17:30,654 --> 00:17:31,714 luck with that. 462 00:17:33,694 --> 00:17:35,234 How many of you still reading? 463 00:17:37,134 --> 00:17:38,734 I read quite a bit when I'm on 464 00:17:38,734 --> 00:17:39,234 travel. 465 00:17:39,860 --> 00:17:41,380 When I'm away from here, I I read 466 00:17:41,380 --> 00:17:43,400 quite a bit. It seems like I'm always 467 00:17:43,860 --> 00:17:45,779 too busy to read while I'm home, but 468 00:17:45,779 --> 00:17:47,400 I read quite a bit when I'm 469 00:17:47,779 --> 00:17:49,160 on the road, on airplanes. 470 00:17:50,259 --> 00:17:51,940 So, you know, think about the last time 471 00:17:51,940 --> 00:17:53,799 you settled down with a good book. 472 00:17:55,184 --> 00:17:57,445 A new survey shows reading as a pastime 473 00:17:57,505 --> 00:17:59,985 is becoming dramatically less popular in The US, 474 00:17:59,985 --> 00:18:00,485 which 475 00:18:01,105 --> 00:18:03,664 correlates with an increased consumption of other digital 476 00:18:03,664 --> 00:18:05,904 media like social media and streaming services. The 477 00:18:05,904 --> 00:18:07,745 serve surveys carried out by a researcher in 478 00:18:07,745 --> 00:18:09,045 the University of Florida 479 00:18:09,509 --> 00:18:11,910 and the University of London charts a 40% 480 00:18:11,910 --> 00:18:12,730 d decrease 481 00:18:14,230 --> 00:18:15,769 in daily reading for pleasure 482 00:18:16,390 --> 00:18:19,049 between 2003 and 2023. 483 00:18:20,789 --> 00:18:23,384 That is not a small dip. It's sustained. 484 00:18:23,384 --> 00:18:25,065 Now if you think about how digital has 485 00:18:25,065 --> 00:18:26,765 changed from 02/2003, 486 00:18:27,384 --> 00:18:29,304 about the time we started the show till 487 00:18:29,304 --> 00:18:29,804 now, 488 00:18:30,585 --> 00:18:32,904 you know, we weren't reading on devices. There 489 00:18:32,904 --> 00:18:35,404 was some of those early Kindle devices, 490 00:18:36,869 --> 00:18:38,789 that allowed us to read. But now I 491 00:18:38,789 --> 00:18:41,529 read all my books on my iPad. 492 00:18:42,710 --> 00:18:44,710 I buy some books from time to time. 493 00:18:44,710 --> 00:18:46,570 It's ones that I really, really want. 494 00:18:47,509 --> 00:18:49,750 Those never get cracked because I I read 495 00:18:49,750 --> 00:18:51,849 the digital version of them. But 496 00:18:53,804 --> 00:18:55,724 it's probably true, but there's a lot of 497 00:18:55,724 --> 00:18:57,484 great books out there. I mean, more than 498 00:18:57,484 --> 00:18:59,085 you would ever be able to consume in 499 00:18:59,085 --> 00:18:59,744 a lifetime. 500 00:19:00,924 --> 00:19:04,065 Apple warns UK against introducing tougher tech regulations. 501 00:19:04,204 --> 00:19:05,585 It says the EU laws 502 00:19:06,259 --> 00:19:07,940 just sought to make it easier for small 503 00:19:07,940 --> 00:19:10,019 firms to compete with big tech have resulted 504 00:19:10,019 --> 00:19:12,899 in some Apple features in and enhancements being 505 00:19:12,899 --> 00:19:14,519 delayed for European users. 506 00:19:15,139 --> 00:19:17,700 It argues UK risks similar holdups if the 507 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:20,759 competition and market authority pushes ahead with plans 508 00:19:21,634 --> 00:19:22,934 designed to, 509 00:19:24,355 --> 00:19:25,414 open up markets. 510 00:19:25,794 --> 00:19:27,075 The regulators say is, 511 00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:28,134 too, 512 00:19:29,394 --> 00:19:32,054 what are they saying? Too dominated by, 513 00:19:32,595 --> 00:19:34,375 Apple and and Google. 514 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:40,000 A major health care service breach, again, 515 00:19:40,539 --> 00:19:42,380 exposes data to 600,000 516 00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:42,880 people. 517 00:19:43,339 --> 00:19:46,220 Names, Social Security numbers more stalled in the 518 00:19:46,220 --> 00:19:49,039 health care service group data breach. 519 00:19:49,724 --> 00:19:52,365 So here you are, ladies and gentlemen. Another, 520 00:19:53,244 --> 00:19:55,505 another another WACON data. 521 00:19:56,204 --> 00:19:57,744 Call me surprised not. 522 00:19:58,365 --> 00:20:01,984 But, again, how come these information wasn't hashed? 523 00:20:02,845 --> 00:20:03,825 That's the question. 524 00:20:04,450 --> 00:20:06,690 Scientists are trying to ask the question, how 525 00:20:06,690 --> 00:20:07,750 old is Jupiter? 526 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:10,789 They're they're talking about 527 00:20:11,330 --> 00:20:11,830 meteorite 528 00:20:12,609 --> 00:20:13,109 raindrops 529 00:20:13,809 --> 00:20:16,789 are helping science pin down the gas giant's 530 00:20:16,930 --> 00:20:17,430 age. 531 00:20:18,369 --> 00:20:18,869 Mysterious 532 00:20:19,644 --> 00:20:20,865 spherical droplets 533 00:20:21,164 --> 00:20:24,365 in meteorites aren't just cosmic additives or evidence 534 00:20:24,365 --> 00:20:25,825 of planetary formation. 535 00:20:28,045 --> 00:20:31,805 Researchers from Japan's Nagoya University and Italian National 536 00:20:31,805 --> 00:20:32,944 Institute for Astrophysics 537 00:20:33,244 --> 00:20:34,065 have determined 538 00:20:34,980 --> 00:20:35,880 how mysterious 539 00:20:36,339 --> 00:20:36,839 molten 540 00:20:37,299 --> 00:20:40,339 raindrops and meteorites formed and used that information 541 00:20:40,339 --> 00:20:41,880 to date Jupiter's formation. 542 00:20:43,220 --> 00:20:45,640 The raindrops are called chondrules, 543 00:20:46,420 --> 00:20:48,900 c h o n d r u l 544 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:52,244 e s. They're strange spherical droplets of molten 545 00:20:52,244 --> 00:20:52,744 rock 546 00:20:53,204 --> 00:20:54,345 just a couple millimeters 547 00:20:54,644 --> 00:20:56,085 wide or not no. A dec 548 00:20:56,644 --> 00:20:59,384 a couple of, like, dot point one millimeter 549 00:21:00,005 --> 00:21:02,424 and are found in specific types of meteorite. 550 00:21:03,365 --> 00:21:03,845 And, 551 00:21:04,484 --> 00:21:05,865 they think this is all 552 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:06,980 from, 553 00:21:08,319 --> 00:21:09,220 from that planet. 554 00:21:09,599 --> 00:21:11,380 That's how they're being able to, 555 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:14,819 figure out how old, 556 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,299 Jupiter really is. So they give an age. 557 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,660 Does it say 558 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:22,855 4,600,000,000 559 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:26,835 years ago? So, that's their guesstimation. I don't 560 00:21:26,835 --> 00:21:28,215 know what it used to be, 561 00:21:29,154 --> 00:21:29,654 before. 562 00:21:30,914 --> 00:21:33,154 So Tesla's got a big announcement coming tomorrow. 563 00:21:33,154 --> 00:21:35,190 Tesla teased a major launch, and it looks 564 00:21:35,190 --> 00:21:37,269 like it could be the new model y 565 00:21:37,269 --> 00:21:37,769 performance. 566 00:21:39,029 --> 00:21:39,529 So, 567 00:21:40,470 --> 00:21:42,630 American fans set you reminders for Friday. And 568 00:21:42,630 --> 00:21:44,649 by the way, how about that SpaceX 569 00:21:45,109 --> 00:21:45,609 launch 570 00:21:46,630 --> 00:21:48,089 distribution of fake 571 00:21:48,470 --> 00:21:48,970 satellites, 572 00:21:49,985 --> 00:21:50,485 relight, 573 00:21:50,945 --> 00:21:52,865 ripping the whole platform apart, 574 00:21:53,345 --> 00:21:55,605 stress testing it, and then still landing 575 00:21:56,065 --> 00:21:58,485 in the ocean. It was pretty impressive, 576 00:21:59,585 --> 00:22:02,519 to say, to say the say the least. 577 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:04,519 So it looks like, 578 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,080 SpaceX has spawned a little bit of their 579 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,059 mojo back. 580 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,839 So now we'll see where they go from 581 00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:11,339 here. 582 00:22:11,799 --> 00:22:14,440 A hacker used AI to create ransomware that 583 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,575 evades antivirus 584 00:22:15,954 --> 00:22:16,454 detection. 585 00:22:17,474 --> 00:22:19,954 Security research spotted this ransomware that used a 586 00:22:19,954 --> 00:22:22,375 a local LLM to create variable output, 587 00:22:23,315 --> 00:22:25,015 making it harder to detect. 588 00:22:26,434 --> 00:22:28,534 So according to this blog post interviewing 589 00:22:28,835 --> 00:22:29,335 researchers, 590 00:22:29,910 --> 00:22:30,970 Anton Shrepavanov, 591 00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:33,910 they've decked a piece of malware created by 592 00:22:33,910 --> 00:22:34,410 OpenAI's 593 00:22:34,789 --> 00:22:37,049 GTP OSS 20 b model. 594 00:22:38,630 --> 00:22:41,990 And it's a fairly standard ransomware package, includes 595 00:22:41,990 --> 00:22:44,025 embedded prompts sent to local, 596 00:22:45,125 --> 00:22:46,585 locally stored LLMs. 597 00:22:48,005 --> 00:22:50,345 And because of the nature of the outputs, 598 00:22:52,085 --> 00:22:53,704 I got a phone ringing here. 599 00:22:57,630 --> 00:23:00,529 So it can debate detection from standard antivirus 600 00:23:00,670 --> 00:23:03,009 setup, which is designed to search for specific 601 00:23:03,230 --> 00:23:04,210 flags. So, 602 00:23:05,950 --> 00:23:07,809 again, you've got someone that's 603 00:23:08,750 --> 00:23:11,170 basically changing the packages up 604 00:23:11,865 --> 00:23:14,585 and, not these these companies are not able 605 00:23:14,585 --> 00:23:16,265 to get a fingerprint on it so that 606 00:23:16,265 --> 00:23:17,404 we're gonna see more 607 00:23:17,785 --> 00:23:19,244 and more and more of this. 608 00:23:19,785 --> 00:23:22,184 Meanwhile, Discord hackers claimed to have leaked billions 609 00:23:22,184 --> 00:23:23,565 of messages as 610 00:23:24,025 --> 00:23:25,644 millions of users targeted. 611 00:23:26,424 --> 00:23:30,029 So hackers are advertising a database of 1,800,000,000 612 00:23:30,169 --> 00:23:31,150 Discord messages. 613 00:23:31,690 --> 00:23:34,569 It's possible they scrape the data's public Discord 614 00:23:34,569 --> 00:23:35,769 and expect to shut down 615 00:23:37,690 --> 00:23:39,929 wow. To shut down the service. Someone is 616 00:23:39,929 --> 00:23:40,429 selling 617 00:23:41,194 --> 00:23:44,315 And, Security Research CyberNews has solved an ad 618 00:23:44,315 --> 00:23:47,194 on underground hacking. The data most likely scrapped 619 00:23:47,194 --> 00:23:49,115 the platform includes 1,800,000,000 620 00:23:49,115 --> 00:23:52,894 Discord messages, 35,000,000 users, 207,000,000 621 00:23:52,954 --> 00:23:54,680 voice sessions, and 6,000 622 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,920 Discord servers and can be attained for a 623 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:57,420 fee. 624 00:23:58,839 --> 00:23:59,339 So, 625 00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:05,240 yeah. What is it? There's lots of crazy 626 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,700 stuff out there on Discord. 627 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:08,059 A lot. 628 00:24:08,924 --> 00:24:11,105 Some naughty stuff too. So, 629 00:24:12,445 --> 00:24:14,865 it'd be interesting to see for sure. 630 00:24:15,565 --> 00:24:17,245 Now I don't know. You were all kinda 631 00:24:17,245 --> 00:24:18,845 nerds here. At least I hope we are. 632 00:24:18,845 --> 00:24:21,485 But, obviously, the Taylor Swift, Trey with Kelsey 633 00:24:21,485 --> 00:24:23,505 engagement announcement was big, 634 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,460 but apparently, it broke all kinds of Instagram, 635 00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:30,440 records. It post reached a milestone in just 636 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,420 six hours 637 00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:33,019 and, 638 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:34,380 a million 639 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:36,059 a million repost. 640 00:24:37,285 --> 00:24:38,005 Do people 641 00:24:38,325 --> 00:24:40,744 are they really that crazy about 642 00:24:41,684 --> 00:24:42,664 Taylor Swift 643 00:24:43,605 --> 00:24:44,904 and a football player 644 00:24:45,365 --> 00:24:47,225 announcing they're getting married 645 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:49,799 or the engagement. 646 00:24:52,259 --> 00:24:53,720 So 1,000,000 647 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:54,680 repost, 648 00:24:56,740 --> 00:24:58,259 and it got 14,000,000 649 00:24:58,259 --> 00:25:00,580 likes in just an hour. 20 it must 650 00:25:00,580 --> 00:25:00,974 be 651 00:25:02,174 --> 00:25:05,794 20% of the populations went absolutely nuts here. 652 00:25:07,615 --> 00:25:09,294 You know, I always look at these high 653 00:25:09,294 --> 00:25:11,634 profile marriages as ones that are probably 654 00:25:12,095 --> 00:25:14,275 mostly doomed from the beginning. 655 00:25:15,294 --> 00:25:17,049 You know? It's just like, oh, yeah. They're 656 00:25:17,049 --> 00:25:19,289 in love today, and then in about two 657 00:25:19,289 --> 00:25:21,930 years, then they hate each other and, you 658 00:25:21,930 --> 00:25:23,450 know, I just hope they both have good 659 00:25:23,450 --> 00:25:24,830 prenups for sure. 660 00:25:26,570 --> 00:25:30,430 Republicans are investigating Wikipedia over allegations of organized 661 00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:31,070 bias. 662 00:25:31,974 --> 00:25:33,434 Well, you know, Wikipedia. 663 00:25:34,054 --> 00:25:36,454 I I I've had a real heartburn for 664 00:25:36,454 --> 00:25:38,075 Wikipedia for many years 665 00:25:38,534 --> 00:25:40,934 because there's a whole bunch of, activists over 666 00:25:40,934 --> 00:25:42,214 there. And I don't know if they're left 667 00:25:42,214 --> 00:25:44,154 or right, but it doesn't matter. 668 00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:47,430 They just there's a bunch of, editor activists 669 00:25:47,430 --> 00:25:49,930 over there that think they're gods, and 670 00:25:50,390 --> 00:25:54,090 they, they allow their, you know, their, striking 671 00:25:54,309 --> 00:25:54,809 capability. 672 00:25:55,430 --> 00:25:57,610 It's insane. It really, really is. 673 00:25:58,054 --> 00:26:00,054 So, you know, I have not been on 674 00:26:00,054 --> 00:26:00,554 Wikipedia 675 00:26:00,855 --> 00:26:02,075 myself in, 676 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:05,515 oh, man, a long, long, long time, 677 00:26:07,095 --> 00:26:08,794 just because of their 678 00:26:09,414 --> 00:26:10,315 their biases 679 00:26:10,855 --> 00:26:14,319 and bad actors that are, you know, power 680 00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:16,019 trip hogs over there. So, 681 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,720 we'll see. We'll see what this comes of 682 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,440 this. But, 683 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:22,240 you know, Wikipedia has made it would clean 684 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,380 up the the situation with their their moderators 685 00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:27,825 for many, many years anyway, so it's it's 686 00:26:27,825 --> 00:26:28,884 a lost cause. 687 00:26:30,544 --> 00:26:31,204 AI PCs 688 00:26:31,744 --> 00:26:33,904 are the surge claiming over half of the 689 00:26:33,904 --> 00:26:35,524 market by 2026. 690 00:26:35,984 --> 00:26:38,144 So personal computers with AI embedded in the 691 00:26:38,144 --> 00:26:41,825 hardware and software stack are set at 77,800,000 692 00:26:41,825 --> 00:26:43,105 units in 2025, 693 00:26:43,105 --> 00:26:44,539 making up 31% 694 00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:47,100 of the global PC market, and then it'll 695 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,140 exceed 50% by 2026. 696 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,259 So I have not enabled any internal 697 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,279 AI on any of my machines except for 698 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:56,779 using, 699 00:26:57,355 --> 00:26:59,355 you know, chat GPT and so forth. I'm 700 00:26:59,355 --> 00:27:01,595 not doing no AI in my computer, 701 00:27:03,115 --> 00:27:05,755 or on my phones. I just I don't 702 00:27:05,755 --> 00:27:07,054 have any of that enabled. 703 00:27:08,634 --> 00:27:10,470 At the same time, Samsung's next big phone 704 00:27:10,470 --> 00:27:13,029 and tablet are coming on September 4, so 705 00:27:13,029 --> 00:27:14,009 that's next week. 706 00:27:14,630 --> 00:27:16,630 So a little bit of information on that. 707 00:27:16,630 --> 00:27:18,710 That's been making headlines a little bit here 708 00:27:18,710 --> 00:27:20,490 over the past couple of weeks anyway. 709 00:27:21,109 --> 00:27:22,869 But this is a curious one. A German 710 00:27:22,869 --> 00:27:25,609 bank has halted €10,000,000,000 711 00:27:26,615 --> 00:27:29,355 in PayPal payments on fraud concerns. 712 00:27:30,615 --> 00:27:33,494 German banks block PayPal payments totaling more than 713 00:27:33,494 --> 00:27:34,954 €10,000,000,000 714 00:27:35,335 --> 00:27:37,034 over fraud concerns. The 715 00:27:38,730 --> 00:27:39,230 sudden 716 00:27:40,650 --> 00:27:42,509 newspaper report on Wednesday 717 00:27:43,049 --> 00:27:45,849 without specifying its sources. The payments were halted 718 00:27:45,849 --> 00:27:49,230 on Monday after lenders flagged millions of suspicious 719 00:27:49,289 --> 00:27:51,884 direct debits from PayPal that appeared last week. 720 00:27:52,285 --> 00:27:54,525 The newspaper said asked to comment and report 721 00:27:54,525 --> 00:27:57,505 a PayPal spokesperson said a temporary service interruption 722 00:27:57,964 --> 00:28:00,924 had affected certain transactions for our banking partners 723 00:28:00,924 --> 00:28:02,464 and potentially their customers, 724 00:28:02,765 --> 00:28:05,005 but the issue had now been resolved. So 725 00:28:05,005 --> 00:28:06,599 I thought, that's some money. 726 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:08,359 €10,000,000,000, 727 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,900 11,700,000,000.0 728 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:10,460 US, 729 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,220 that's that's some cash to be halted being 730 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:14,859 transacted. 731 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,819 I'd love to know more about that story. 732 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,960 I really, really would. I'd I'd I'd love 733 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,484 to more to know more details here. Now 734 00:28:23,625 --> 00:28:25,085 if you're a Sling user, 735 00:28:25,464 --> 00:28:26,924 you may not like Disney. 736 00:28:27,305 --> 00:28:29,305 Disney is trying to kill the best streaming 737 00:28:29,305 --> 00:28:31,884 idea in years. Disney is suing Sling TV 738 00:28:31,944 --> 00:28:33,005 over day passes. 739 00:28:34,105 --> 00:28:36,460 Well, you know, they don't like it because 740 00:28:36,460 --> 00:28:39,279 guess what? They want people paying all month. 741 00:28:40,859 --> 00:28:42,619 They don't want you paying for a day 742 00:28:42,619 --> 00:28:44,700 pass where they don't earn very much money 743 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:46,240 or you can binge watch. 744 00:28:47,855 --> 00:28:50,255 So, again, Disney's Swinging Sling TV over day 745 00:28:50,255 --> 00:28:50,755 passes, 746 00:28:52,174 --> 00:28:55,295 including Disney owned ESPN and more than 30 747 00:28:55,295 --> 00:28:56,115 other channels. 748 00:28:57,134 --> 00:28:59,775 And, yeah. Of course, people are gonna watch 749 00:28:59,775 --> 00:29:00,994 sports on the weekend. 750 00:29:02,335 --> 00:29:02,835 So 751 00:29:05,070 --> 00:29:07,549 day passes that Sling is offering is really 752 00:29:07,549 --> 00:29:09,009 solving a problem here. 753 00:29:10,349 --> 00:29:12,830 If you I'm not interested in any sport, 754 00:29:12,830 --> 00:29:14,269 so I don't care. But what if you're 755 00:29:14,269 --> 00:29:15,570 interested in a single 756 00:29:15,950 --> 00:29:17,654 a single game a week, 757 00:29:18,775 --> 00:29:20,375 and you must pay for an entire month 758 00:29:20,375 --> 00:29:21,755 of service? Doesn't seem 759 00:29:22,535 --> 00:29:23,515 fair. Right? 760 00:29:23,815 --> 00:29:24,315 But, 761 00:29:26,055 --> 00:29:28,375 Disney is not happy about this because that 762 00:29:28,375 --> 00:29:29,755 means lower revenue, 763 00:29:30,615 --> 00:29:32,910 for Disney on ESPN and so forth. 764 00:29:35,390 --> 00:29:37,789 It's an interesting article on TechRater talk talking 765 00:29:37,789 --> 00:29:40,349 about how websites still matter but can't survive 766 00:29:40,349 --> 00:29:41,170 on their own. 767 00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:44,830 And it's talking about how to drive revenue 768 00:29:44,830 --> 00:29:45,730 through Instagram 769 00:29:46,029 --> 00:29:47,330 DMs at scale. 770 00:29:47,805 --> 00:29:49,985 I'm barely on Instagram at all. 771 00:29:51,244 --> 00:29:53,085 I don't even know how you would sell 772 00:29:53,085 --> 00:29:54,065 on Instagram. 773 00:29:56,445 --> 00:29:56,945 So 774 00:29:57,325 --> 00:29:59,265 are are you guys selling on Instagram? 775 00:29:59,565 --> 00:30:01,345 Are you selling products on Instagram? 776 00:30:02,539 --> 00:30:04,059 What kind of products are you selling on 777 00:30:04,059 --> 00:30:06,079 Instagram? I'd I'd I'd like to know. 778 00:30:07,659 --> 00:30:10,799 Google Pixel Care Plus is replacing 779 00:30:11,259 --> 00:30:13,980 preferred care and includes free screen and battery 780 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:15,419 pairs. I think we had a little bit 781 00:30:15,419 --> 00:30:17,115 of a story on this before. 782 00:30:18,214 --> 00:30:18,535 But, 783 00:30:19,095 --> 00:30:21,095 Pixel Care Plus is named a new program 784 00:30:21,095 --> 00:30:22,315 which Google says, 785 00:30:24,214 --> 00:30:26,075 is replacing preferred care. 786 00:30:27,015 --> 00:30:29,115 So just be aware that's coming. 787 00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:31,799 I don't have the pricing details in front 788 00:30:31,799 --> 00:30:32,759 of me here, but, 789 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,980 Google Pixel care plus. 790 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:38,840 Now if you're a gamer, in case you 791 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,295 were worried, NVIDIA hasn't forgot about gaming. 792 00:30:42,255 --> 00:30:44,115 The chip designer's gaming division, 793 00:30:44,414 --> 00:30:47,215 it's what was really its golden goose before 794 00:30:47,215 --> 00:30:49,634 generating images celebrities seeing spaghetti, 795 00:30:50,494 --> 00:30:51,315 via AI, 796 00:30:52,734 --> 00:30:54,095 scored 4,200,000,000.0 797 00:30:54,095 --> 00:30:55,710 in revenue in the second quarter of, 798 00:30:56,269 --> 00:30:57,470 up 49% 799 00:30:57,470 --> 00:30:59,470 year over year. The the figure came in 800 00:30:59,470 --> 00:31:02,750 significantly higher than 3,740,000,000.00 801 00:31:02,750 --> 00:31:04,130 that analysts pulled, 802 00:31:04,589 --> 00:31:05,329 were expecting. 803 00:31:05,869 --> 00:31:07,649 That's nearly 15% 804 00:31:08,029 --> 00:31:08,529 increase. 805 00:31:09,474 --> 00:31:11,335 So, for gamers and gamers, 806 00:31:11,954 --> 00:31:14,835 it's all about, the best cards and stuff. 807 00:31:14,835 --> 00:31:16,534 So, you're still buying, 808 00:31:17,474 --> 00:31:19,075 gaming cards out there. So, 809 00:31:20,882 --> 00:31:22,069 that's that's good. 810 00:31:22,929 --> 00:31:24,710 But, again, numbers are down 811 00:31:25,089 --> 00:31:25,589 overall, 812 00:31:26,690 --> 00:31:27,169 but, 813 00:31:27,569 --> 00:31:28,390 not surprising. 814 00:31:29,009 --> 00:31:32,789 OpenAI is giving its voice agent superpowers developers. 815 00:31:33,404 --> 00:31:35,725 Lots of new models are now being opened 816 00:31:35,725 --> 00:31:37,105 up in the OpenAI's 817 00:31:37,805 --> 00:31:38,865 real time API. 818 00:31:39,805 --> 00:31:42,225 You can translate a speech to speech model 819 00:31:42,684 --> 00:31:45,105 in real time. The upgrade improves OpenAI's 820 00:31:45,565 --> 00:31:47,265 voice offerings for developers. 821 00:31:48,309 --> 00:31:50,410 So expect to hear more voice 822 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,009 type of, tools and services 823 00:31:54,869 --> 00:31:55,769 and a larger 824 00:31:56,150 --> 00:31:58,890 context pro a context protocol and so forth, 825 00:31:59,670 --> 00:32:02,355 new model and so forth. So, for devs 826 00:32:02,355 --> 00:32:03,654 out there, this may 827 00:32:03,955 --> 00:32:06,674 be of interest to you. A surprising move 828 00:32:06,674 --> 00:32:09,575 here, the US Department of Commerce have put, 829 00:32:10,914 --> 00:32:12,775 data now on the blockchain. 830 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,119 US Department of Commerce have worked together to 831 00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:18,339 bring US government 832 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,140 macroeconomic 833 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:20,180 data 834 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:21,460 to the blockchain 835 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,380 from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These new 836 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:28,960 data feeds securely deliver critical information on key 837 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,339 US economic data 838 00:32:31,205 --> 00:32:32,105 on the blockchain, 839 00:32:33,125 --> 00:32:35,045 and they're working with four or five companies 840 00:32:35,045 --> 00:32:35,785 on this. 841 00:32:36,085 --> 00:32:38,825 So what you're gonna have available and, again, 842 00:32:38,884 --> 00:32:41,684 this is real GDP level. These are raw 843 00:32:41,684 --> 00:32:42,184 numbers. 844 00:32:43,950 --> 00:32:45,710 Real GDP is measured by the value of 845 00:32:45,710 --> 00:32:46,929 domestic price goods. 846 00:32:47,309 --> 00:32:50,289 Then you're gonna have real GDP percent change, 847 00:32:50,669 --> 00:32:52,210 PCE price index, 848 00:32:52,990 --> 00:32:56,190 PCE price index percentage change, and the real 849 00:32:56,190 --> 00:32:58,450 final sales to private domestic purchasers, 850 00:32:58,984 --> 00:33:01,465 and real final sales to private domestic purchase. 851 00:33:01,465 --> 00:33:03,144 Again, all this data, I guess, is to 852 00:33:03,144 --> 00:33:05,164 be protected so it cannot be manipulated, 853 00:33:05,625 --> 00:33:07,644 and it's gonna be published on 854 00:33:07,945 --> 00:33:08,684 the blockchain. 855 00:33:09,065 --> 00:33:09,565 So, 856 00:33:10,825 --> 00:33:13,085 again, I don't fully understand the ramifications 857 00:33:13,465 --> 00:33:13,950 of this, 858 00:33:14,909 --> 00:33:15,309 but, 859 00:33:15,869 --> 00:33:17,089 that's what they're doing. 860 00:33:18,589 --> 00:33:21,089 Some surprising information has come out from Intel. 861 00:33:22,589 --> 00:33:25,309 So the Trump administration, we know, is investing 862 00:33:25,309 --> 00:33:26,049 in Intel. 863 00:33:26,829 --> 00:33:28,335 The US government last week week agreed to 864 00:33:28,335 --> 00:33:30,894 take a 10% stake in Intel. The agreement 865 00:33:30,894 --> 00:33:32,994 also contains a five year warrant 866 00:33:33,375 --> 00:33:35,554 that allows the government to take an initial 867 00:33:35,775 --> 00:33:36,835 5% 868 00:33:36,894 --> 00:33:37,634 of Intel 869 00:33:38,095 --> 00:33:40,755 at $20 a share, which is lower than 870 00:33:40,815 --> 00:33:41,714 the stock value, 871 00:33:42,255 --> 00:33:45,330 if it ceases if Intel ceases to own 872 00:33:45,330 --> 00:33:46,210 51% 873 00:33:46,210 --> 00:33:47,589 of its foundry business. 874 00:33:49,490 --> 00:33:51,970 So they wanna protect the foundry business. This 875 00:33:51,970 --> 00:33:53,890 is what's going on here. They but Intel 876 00:33:53,890 --> 00:33:56,150 says, I don't think there's a high likelihood 877 00:33:56,924 --> 00:33:59,244 that we'd take our state below the 50%. 878 00:33:59,244 --> 00:34:01,244 So, ultimately, I would expect the warrant to 879 00:34:01,244 --> 00:34:04,845 expire, CFO David Zinsser told a Deutsche Bank 880 00:34:04,845 --> 00:34:06,065 conference on Thursday. 881 00:34:08,285 --> 00:34:10,684 I think the government's perspective, they were aligned 882 00:34:10,684 --> 00:34:13,019 with that they didn't wanna want to see 883 00:34:13,019 --> 00:34:15,099 us take the business and spin it off 884 00:34:15,099 --> 00:34:16,800 or sell it to someone else. 885 00:34:17,660 --> 00:34:19,019 So that means the hemorrhaging 886 00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:20,800 the hemorrhaging 887 00:34:21,739 --> 00:34:25,039 foundering business cannot be sold, which some investors 888 00:34:25,179 --> 00:34:25,934 wanted them 889 00:34:26,974 --> 00:34:29,215 to do. So much to their chagrin, I 890 00:34:29,215 --> 00:34:29,954 am sure. 891 00:34:30,655 --> 00:34:33,135 And, of course, Microsoft today, late in the 892 00:34:33,135 --> 00:34:33,635 afternoon 893 00:34:33,934 --> 00:34:36,594 unveiled their own powerful new homegrown 894 00:34:37,295 --> 00:34:37,875 AI models. 895 00:34:39,215 --> 00:34:41,074 They announced two models 896 00:34:41,375 --> 00:34:43,750 that say perform at the level of the 897 00:34:43,750 --> 00:34:44,969 world's top offerings. 898 00:34:46,069 --> 00:34:48,889 After years of backing others made by OpenAI, 899 00:34:48,949 --> 00:34:50,889 the move officially pits Microsoft's 900 00:34:51,190 --> 00:34:51,929 AI division 901 00:34:52,630 --> 00:34:54,710 against OpenAI and the rest of the industry 902 00:34:54,710 --> 00:34:56,489 and helps it control its destiny. 903 00:34:57,315 --> 00:34:59,155 They say we are the largest companies in 904 00:34:59,155 --> 00:34:59,734 the world. 905 00:35:00,514 --> 00:35:02,514 We have to be able to have in 906 00:35:02,514 --> 00:35:05,074 house expertise to create the strongest models in 907 00:35:05,074 --> 00:35:05,734 the world. 908 00:35:06,194 --> 00:35:06,934 So Microsoft 909 00:35:07,315 --> 00:35:08,614 unveiled the MAI 910 00:35:09,234 --> 00:35:11,489 dash voice dash one, a speech speech model 911 00:35:11,489 --> 00:35:12,769 that the company says is one of the 912 00:35:12,769 --> 00:35:15,190 most efficient industry running on a single GPU 913 00:35:17,010 --> 00:35:19,010 and capable of producing a minute of audio 914 00:35:19,010 --> 00:35:21,889 in under a second. It also announced a 915 00:35:21,889 --> 00:35:24,150 text based model called MAI 916 00:35:24,974 --> 00:35:26,355 dash one dash preview 917 00:35:26,894 --> 00:35:29,454 that it said could help power future versions 918 00:35:29,454 --> 00:35:32,414 of Copilot, the company's AI systems woven into 919 00:35:32,414 --> 00:35:33,635 Windows and Office products. 920 00:35:34,255 --> 00:35:36,595 Both models are geared towards cost effectiveness. 921 00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:37,635 MAI 922 00:35:38,175 --> 00:35:41,260 dash one preview was trained on roughly 15,000 923 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,840 NVIDIA h 100 GPUs compared to models like 924 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,420 Brock, which is trained on more than 100,000 925 00:35:49,559 --> 00:35:51,019 such chips. So, 926 00:35:51,684 --> 00:35:54,164 we will see how these models will stack 927 00:35:54,164 --> 00:35:54,664 up, 928 00:35:55,284 --> 00:35:57,764 over time. But, yeah, the big, big news 929 00:35:57,764 --> 00:35:58,264 here. 930 00:35:58,804 --> 00:36:00,404 Kirk, if you're listening, we have to be 931 00:36:00,404 --> 00:36:02,565 careful. There's a bunch of websites now that 932 00:36:02,565 --> 00:36:03,704 are just absolutely 933 00:36:04,005 --> 00:36:06,239 not willing to play ball and are blocking 934 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,460 us unless we pay. 935 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:08,980 So as you're loading 936 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:09,860 articles, 937 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,400 definitely take a look at the websites and 938 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,539 make sure we can 939 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,980 read them because I'm having to choose alternates, 940 00:36:18,255 --> 00:36:19,775 for some of these because I get them 941 00:36:19,775 --> 00:36:21,934 loaded and they say, hey. Give me $15 942 00:36:21,934 --> 00:36:24,335 a month, then we're linking to them. I'm 943 00:36:24,335 --> 00:36:26,434 not gonna pay for them. 944 00:36:27,295 --> 00:36:29,054 So that's gonna bring us to the end 945 00:36:29,054 --> 00:36:29,855 of the show. 946 00:36:30,335 --> 00:36:30,835 Again, 947 00:36:31,150 --> 00:36:32,989 no show on Monday because of the holiday. 948 00:36:32,989 --> 00:36:34,289 Kinda forgot about that. 949 00:36:34,590 --> 00:36:38,670 But as always, geeknews@gmail.comatgeeknewsonx. 950 00:36:38,670 --> 00:36:40,590 And, of course, don't forget about our sponsor 951 00:36:40,590 --> 00:36:43,329 GoDaddy, geeknewscentral.com/godaddy. 952 00:36:43,514 --> 00:36:45,514 And if you're not an insider yet, consider 953 00:36:45,514 --> 00:36:48,014 becoming an insider at geekoncentral.com 954 00:36:48,394 --> 00:36:50,154 /insider. 955 00:36:50,154 --> 00:36:51,994 And as we're heading into the weekend, kind 956 00:36:51,994 --> 00:36:53,674 of expected the news to be a little 957 00:36:53,674 --> 00:36:54,174 light. 958 00:36:55,034 --> 00:36:57,454 Last kind of last hurrah weekend 959 00:36:58,340 --> 00:36:58,840 until, 960 00:36:59,140 --> 00:36:59,960 the holidays. 961 00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:00,760 So, 962 00:37:02,659 --> 00:37:05,780 enjoy your Labor Day weekend, everyone, and, we'll 963 00:37:05,780 --> 00:37:07,539 be back with you next week. Everyone, take 964 00:37:07,539 --> 00:37:09,619 care. We'll see you next time. Stay safe. 965 00:37:09,619 --> 00:37:10,280 Bye bye.