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[10.09] After a court ruled that [11.43]
[11.43] Google has abused its market dominance in internet search [14.76]
[14.76] the US Department of Justice says [16.4]
[16.4] that it's considering structural remedies [19.28]
[19.28] which is a boring antitrust term [21.06]
[21.06] that means forcing the company to sell off part of its business. [24.54]
[24.54] Breaking up Google is only one of a suite [27.15]
[27.15] of potential remedies that the DOJ will be recommending as options [30.63]
[30.63] to the judge in the case, Ahmed Mehta [33.05]
[33.05] who is almost definitely not just Mark Zuckerberg [35.89]
[35.89] in a black robe and rubber mask. [37.53]
[37.53] It's hard to believe [38.27]
[38.27] that Google might actually get chopped up and sold for spare parts [41.53]
[41.53] mostly because it's been over 40 years [44.05]
[44.05] since the last time U.S. antitrust [46.01]
[46.01] regulators actually broke up a company, [48.43]
[48.43] the 1982 breakup of the Bell system. [51.44]
[51.44] Microsoft nearly got the Solomon baby treatment 24 years ago [55.58]
[55.58] but that case was appealed [57.0]
[57.0] and then eventually settled out of court [59.14]
[59.14] with serious restrictions [60.22]
[60.22] for how Microsoft was allowed to do business going forward. [63.08]
[63.08] Google is clearly taking the possibility seriously, however [66.58]
[66.58] and has argued that the DOJ's proposals are radical [70.04]
[70.04] and sweeping and a potential risk [72.18]
[72.18] to consumers, businesses, and developers. [74.81]
[74.81] That's what I say whenever I got a brew in my hands. [77.01]
[77.01] I'm radical and sweeping. [78.49]
[80.0] Google plans to appeal the decision [81.91]
[81.91] but it won't have the opportunity until Meta, [84.69]
[84.69] the judge, not the company, [85.95]
[85.95] decides on an appropriate remedy, most likely by August 2025 [89.13]
[90.35] meaning that this case will most likely [92.09]
[92.09] drag on for at least a few more years. [94.54]
[94.54] In far lower stakes Google antitrust news [97.32]
[97.32] a judge has ordered Google to allow third-party app stores [101.14]
[101.14] to access the Play Store's app collection. [103.82]
[103.82] Google likewise plans to appeal this decision [106.45]
[106.45] though it might be cheaper [107.57]
[107.57] if Sundar Pichai just challenged Epic CEO Tim Sweeney [110.8]
[110.8] to a fistfight in the nearest Waffle House parking lot. [113.89]
[113.89] Just an idea. [115.09]
[115.09] Hackers connected to the Chinese government [117.59]
[117.59] have infiltrated several U.S. internet service providers, [121.15]
[121.15] including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen. [124.0]
[124.0] They were scared off by the customer service. [126.28]
[126.28] The hackers reportedly had access to these networks for several months [130.06]
[130.06] and they gained that access through a system of security backdoors [133.8]
[133.8] that are legally required by the U.S. government [136.94]
[136.94] for use in wiretapping. [139.26]
[139.26] Okay. [139.9]
[139.9] The extent of the attack [140.94]
[140.94] and what information the hackers had access to [143.28]
[143.28] is still being investigated [144.9]
[144.9] but if you're wondering how bad this is [146.84]
[146.84] the answer is very. [148.56]
[148.56] The Chinese government has denied being behind these attacks [151.32]
[151.32] and even pretended to be hurt by the accusation, [154.09]
[154.09] despite the fact that their government, [155.77]
[155.77] and basically every other government [157.53]
[157.53] is pulling stuff like this all the time. [159.71]
[159.71] But not us! [161.51]
[161.51] However, this kind of attack [162.73]
[162.73] highlights a deeper problem [164.09]
[164.09] with the U.S. government's approach to system security. [166.75]
[166.75] where it has long pressured tech companies to embed hardware [170.07]
[170.07] and software back doors in their products [172.79]
[172.79] for the sake of its own convenience, [174.82]
[174.82] despite the very real risk [176.54]
[176.54] that a malicious actor could exploit [178.48]
[178.48] the exact same route to cause serious harm [181.12]
[181.12] like what we're seeing right now. [183.61]
[183.61] This was Apple's argument [184.87]
[184.87] when they were pressured by the FBI [186.45]
[186.45] to access devices belonging to alleged mass shooters [189.54]
[189.54] and the company has largely been vindicated. [192.08]
[192.08] Buy your mom an iPhone [194.16]
[194.16] because she's probably not a terrorist. [196.3]
[196.3] When would she launch the attack? [197.63]
[197.63] She spends all her time with me. [198.65]
[199.77] Barbara, are you doing something I don't like? [201.81]
[201.81] Barbara, you're in big trouble. [203.53]
[203.53] EV startup Fisker has run into [205.76]
[205.76] a potentially serious snag in its bankruptcy plan. [209.28]
[209.28] It has no way of migrating [211.3]
[211.3] its EV's cloud operations onto its new owner's servers. [216.05]
[216.05] For context, in June [217.43]
[217.43] Fisker reached an agreement [218.49]
[218.49] with New York-based rental company American Lease [221.65]
[221.65] to buy its remaining fleet of 3,300 vehicles for $46.3 million. [227.71]
[227.71] However, Fisker only informed American Lease [230.4]
[230.4] that they couldn't transfer the EV's server links last Friday [233.68]
[233.68] when they had already paid $42.5 million [236.82]
[236.82] and accepted 1,100 Ocean SUVs. [239.76]
[239.76] It is currently unclear how long [241.24]
[241.24] Fisker has known about this extremely relevant technical issue [245.14]
[245.14] American Lease has therefore filed [246.66]
[246.66] an emergency objection to Fisker's liquidation plan. [249.87]
[249.87] They wanted their liquidation plan to be more solid. [251.81]
[253.62] The Department of Justice has filed its own objection [256.0]
[256.0] in response to claims [257.06]
[257.06] that Fisker has been trying to make ocean owners [259.48]
[259.48] pay for their own recall repairs [261.88]
[261.88] which is very much illegal. [263.74]
[263.74] Fisker is likewise attracting ominous attention from the SEC [267.73]
[267.73] who are investigating the company, but haven't said exactly why. [271.63]
[271.63] That's just what happens [272.45]
[272.45] when you're a struggling company [273.57]
[273.57] failing to meet its contractual obligations. [275.47]
[275.47] you start seeing the silhouette of SEC Chairman Gary Gensler [279.09]
[279.09] every time you close your eyes. [280.8]
[280.8] Like the Grim Reaper. [282.22]
[282.22] Does that happen to people? [283.68]
[283.68] But when I close my eyes [285.14]
[285.14] I just see our sponsor. [287.16]
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[341.93] Believe it or not, in 1964 [344.33]
[344.33] this show won the Nobel Prize for quickest bit. [347.25]
[347.25] Now that's something to tell your grandkids. [349.05]
[349.05] YouTube has started hiding the skip button timer on its mobile app [353.33]
[353.33] just a week after some Reddit users [355.39]
[355.39] reported seeing a grayed-out skip button [357.86]
[357.86] timer on desktop. [359.57]
[359.57] Now it might not be the worst thing. [361.62]
[361.62] As seen in a screen recording from Android Police [364.0]
[364.0] the length of the unskippable portion is still shown in the seek bar [367.96]
[367.96] and the skip button appears after that portion is done. [371.16]
[371.16] And a YouTube spokesperson said [372.58]
[372.58] the change is meant to allow users to focus on the ads. [377.3]
[377.3] Yeah, that's why I don't watch YouTube ads. [379.62]
[379.62] The distracting skip button. [381.41]
[381.41] Just can't take my eyes off. [383.32]
[383.32] It's gorgeous. [384.54]
[384.54] Asus' new NitroPath RAM slot design [387.72]
[387.72] can apparently boost speeds [389.36]
[389.36] by up to 400 megatransfers per second in a peculiar way. [394.02]
[394.02] The tech has no direct improvements [395.76]
[395.76] for populated RAM slots, but for the unpopulated ones. [399.94]
[399.94] Turns out that the metal contacts in empty slots act like antennas [404.66]
[404.66] generating electrical noise that interferes with RAM at high speeds. [409.5]
[409.5] It's like how everyone's wisdom teeth [410.94]
[410.94] accidentally pick up secret CIA transmission. [413.47]
[413.47] That's everyone, right? [414.21]
[414.21] That happens to you, right? [416.19]
[416.19] NitroPath slots solve this by shortening the contacts. [419.81]
[419.81] Though the tech was announced back in August [421.86]
[421.86] it's finally arriving on select high-end ASUS motherboards [425.32]
[425.32] and should come to other OEMs sometime next year [428.34]
[428.34] according to YouTuber Der Bauer and my teeth. [431.64]
[431.64] Leaked slides allegedly from Intel's imminent unveiling [434.81]
[434.81] of its Core Ultra 200 series desktop CPUs, [437.77]
[437.77] aka Arrow Lake, show the upcoming flagship Core Ultra 9 285K [443.7]
[443.7] providing lower FPS on average [446.26]
[446.26] than its predecessor, the Core i9-14900K. [448.1]
[449.99] Unless we're gonna get a Ultra 9 290K at some point [452.63]
[452.63] we don't know. [453.59]
[453.59] Although the Arrow Lake chip is using [455.01]
[455.01] 80 watts less than the older model [457.31]
[457.31] and it has eight fewer threads [458.92]
[458.92] thanks to Intel removing hyper-threading [461.3]
[461.3] it's a bit weird [462.08]
[462.08] that Intel is advertising their new product [464.8]
[464.8] with a promise of more modest performance. [468.16]
[468.16] I don't know [469.2]
[469.2] maybe that's their marketing angle. [470.7]
[470.7] This CPU isn't big and flashy [472.94]
[472.94] it's very demure [474.48]
[474.48] very mindful of how much power it's using. [477.3]
[477.3] This guy uses TikTok. [478.74]
[478.74] Meta has now confirmed that [480.67]
[480.67] they will be training its AI [482.29]
[482.29] on pictures and videos taken using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses [486.11]
[486.11] after previously refusing to publicly discuss [489.15]
[489.15] whether or not they do so. [490.67]
[490.67] Oh, I guess, why would that be? [492.42]
[492.42] It's not, guys, this isn't [493.78]
[493.78] why are we even worrying about this? [495.16]
[495.16] You can technically opt out of the training [497.78]
[497.78] by not using the multimodal AI capabilities [500.88]
[500.88] of your multimodal AI-powered smart glasses [503.99]
[503.99] Meta will also use your voice convos with the AI for training [508.13]
[508.13] though you can actually opt out of that [510.46]
[510.46] the first time you log in to the Ray-Ban Meta app. [513.4]
[513.4] But please don't if you're in Australia or the UK [516.98]
[516.98] both countries that just got access to the AI. [519.62]
[519.62] Zuck needs that voice data [521.36]
[521.36] so he can learn how to tell what the hell you're saying. [523.9]
[523.9] You have no idea that New Zealand even exists. [526.45]
[526.45] Don't tell him that. [527.59]
[527.59] Why do you say words like that? [529.18]
[529.18] And speaking of, AI won big at this year's Nobel Prizes. [533.96]
[533.96] The prize for chemistry was awarded [536.24]
[536.24] to American biochemist David Baker, [538.78]
[538.78] as well as Demi Hassabi [540.98]
[540.98] and John Jumper of Google DeepMind [543.38]
[543.38] for their involvement in the development [544.92]
[544.92] of protein structure prediction AI AlphaFold. [547.94]
[547.94] They're doing chemistry, I guess. [549.68]
[549.68] The prize for physics went to [551.6]
[551.6] professors John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton [554.57]
[554.57] whose work laid the foundation for modern neural networks. [558.35]
[558.35] This is confusing. [559.55]
[559.55] All science is just AI now. [561.03]
[561.03] You know, AI, physics. [562.92]
[562.92] And the Nobel Prize for Biology is going to go to Boston Dynamics. [567.25]
[567.25] Hinton, often called one of the godfathers of AI [570.54]
[570.54] has expressed regrets about his life's work, [573.08]
[573.08] and was reportedly flabbergasted to receive the prize. [576.08]
[576.08] You and me both. [577.12]
[577.12] Many in the scientific community were equally flabbergasted [580.38]
[580.38] with German physicist Sabine Hassenfelder, and also a youtuber now, noting [585.25]
[585.25] that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics [588.31]
[588.31] wasn't even being awarded to an achievement in physics. [591.19]
[591.19] But she seems just kind of grumpy all the time. [593.11]
[593.11] So I can see that. [594.09]
[594.09] But your award for sitting through an entire episode [596.82]
[596.82] is an invitation to come back on Friday for more tech news. [600.68]
[600.68] We're going to do the same thing. [601.8]
[601.8] But different. [604.21]
[604.21] But different. [604.73]