[0.13] Sometimes it's hard to tell what's tech news and what's not. [3.03]
[3.03] Like if I put robot arms and legs on a banana, is that tech news? [7.18]
[7.79] What about a mango? [9.0]
[9.83] Microsoft SAYS it wants everyone to upgrade to Windows 11 this year [14.18]
[14.18] before Windows 10 loses official support in October. [17.29]
[17.29] But at the same time, they're making it more difficult to do so on unsupported hardware. [21.71]
[21.71] The tech giant quietly deleted guidance about how to bypass Windows 11's TPM requirement [27.21]
[27.21] from its own support page. [28.84]
[28.84] Although you can still see the registry tweak instructions on the Internet Archive, [33.87]
[33.87] which is, as always, based. [36.61]
[36.61] But Microsoft has also blocked and labeled Flyby 11, [40.53]
[40.53] a popular third-party utility that lets users skip the hardware requirements check in Windows 11, as malware, [47.24]
[47.53] according to the tool's developer. [49.45]
[49.45] Similar tools like Rufus still exist, but I'm guessing Microsoft isn't jazzed about those either. [55.95]
[55.95] What do you want, Microsoft? [57.53]
[57.53] It's like you invited everyone at school to your party [60.02]
[60.02] and then only let in the ones who brought the invite with them. [63.49]
[63.49] Like, okay, you have fun in there. [66.55]
[66.55] We're gonna be playing Twister on the lawn. [68.59]
[68.59] It's the hot spot. [70.12]
[70.63] Chinese AI company DeepSeek got really popular recently, [74.39]
[74.39] so of course a US senator has proposed a potential law that would criminalize importing it, [81.37]
[81.37] along with any tech developed in China, on the threat of million-dollar fines and prison time. [87.85]
[87.85] The bill is kind of like your mom saying we have AI at home, [91.63]
[91.63] including Google's new Gemini 2.0 models being rolled out for consumers and developers. [96.73]
[96.73] Google says they're pretty good. [98.45]
[98.45] Maybe they'll be good enough to power weapons systems, [101.25]
[101.25] since Google just erased the section of their AI principles webpage [105.26]
[105.26] that said the tech giant wouldn't let their AI be deployed for weapons systems. [109.25]
[109.25] But it's preserved once more by the Internet Archive, you do you da best. [113.8]
[114.01] Why? I don't know why. [115.89]
[115.89] But despite AI being added to guns, and literally everything else, [119.87]
[119.87] Anthropic is telling job applicants not to use it to help write their applications, [125.03]
[125.03] because they want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. [129.8]
[129.8] It's almost like there's some kind of value to forming thoughts using your own words. [137.77]
[138.91] I'll have to ask ChatGPT about that later. [141.11]
[141.11] Richest man in the world, Elon Musk, appears to be on a mission to access [144.78]
[144.78] as much previously protected US government data as he can, [149.19]
[149.19] leading squads of his fellow special government employees, which are also employees of private companies, [156.33]
[156.33] and even executives like new treasury staff member, Tom Krause, [160.5]
[160.5] who is also currently the CEO of Citrix's parent company, Cloud Software Group. [166.39]
[166.39] Thomas Shedd, a Tesla engineer, [168.04]
[168.04] who is now the head of an IT group in the General Services Administration, [172.01]
[172.01] and who suggested they make illegal changes to a government login system, [176.51]
[176.51] is yet another example [177.66]
[177.66] of Elon's penchant for funneling Tesla resources to his other private companies, [182.27]
[182.27] for which he's currently already being sued. [185.25]
[185.25] What's another one? [186.23]
[186.23] Big whoop. [186.99]
[186.99] Musk having access to these kinds of government resources [189.54]
[189.54] that could be used to benefit the multiple federal contracts he holds through SpaceX [194.84]
[194.84] is a BIT of a conflict of interest. [198.22]
[198.43] So Congressman Mark Pocan is working on a bill that would ban this practice, [203.63]
[203.63] called the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy, [210.09]
[210.09] or the ELON MUSK Act. [212.75]
[212.75] What? No, don't name it after him. [215.59]
[215.59] He'll like that. [216.94]
[217.53] Although he'd probably prefer you put an X in there somewhere to cherry on top. [221.43]
[221.43] [CUT] [276.85]
[276.99] You put robot limbs on a raspberry? [278.85]
[278.85] That's not full tech news. [281.25]
[281.25] But it could be a quick bit. [283.11]
[283.11] Trump's new tariffs on Chinese goods are coming into effect [286.63]
[286.63] and caused the US Postal Service to briefly suspend all inbound parcels from China this morning, [292.67]
[292.67] while they figured out what extra fees need to be tacked on. [296.26]
[296.26] The EU is also looking to tax Chinese goods [299.34]
[299.34] that were previously cheap enough to skirt customs duties, [302.45]
[302.45] so prepare for your Temu, Shein, and gaming handhelds even to be less wallet friendly. [308.9]
[309.27] China is apparently responding by opening antitrust investigations into Google and Apple, [315.57]
[315.57] which may end up hurting those companies, [318.39]
[318.39] but it's also something that America's own FTC was trying to do under previous chair, Lina Khan. [324.77]
[324.77] But the government likes big tech now, [327.25]
[327.25] so I'm sure the president is real torn up over what's happening to his friends. [331.37]
[331.67] OpenAI has dropped the sign-in requirement to use ChatGPT Search on the web. [337.25]
[337.25] You can access it through ChatGPT.com, but OpenAI.com has also gotten a facelift. [343.76]
[343.76] Along with the new logo, the homepage features a big old prompt slash search bar, just like Google. [350.79]
[351.33] I'm probably gonna keep using Google [352.82]
[352.82] just because asking an AI  to search for me, [355.61]
[355.61] is only a little better than asking a fellow human what they know about a topic. [359.88]
[359.88] And half the time these days, they just pull out their phone and ask ChatGPT. [362.97]
[362.97] We could just skip the middleman. [364.33]
[364.33] Sonos has had a rough year, but now it thinks it has just the ticket. [368.83]
[368.83] The Verge is reporting that part of the company's comeback plan [371.96]
[371.96] is the launch of an Android-based streaming box [375.35]
[375.35] to help consumers forget about how the company's redesigned app [378.7]
[378.7] borked people's expensive speaker setups last year. [381.98]
[382.25] The box could launch in April for $200 to $400, [386.43]
[386.43] signaling that Sonos has totally fixed all of their glitches. [390.72]
[390.72] Otherwise, why would they price it that high? [392.62]
[392.85] Think about it. [393.58]
[393.58] And researchers from Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon University have published a framework [398.32]
[398.32] allowing robots to copy the complex movements of top athletes [402.41]
[402.41] like Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James. [406.75]
[406.75] Why'd you say it like that? [407.75]
[407.75] That's how you say it. [408.53]
[408.53] Or, at least, TRY to copy their movements. [411.74]
[411.74] They're doing their best, [413.07]
[413.07] but sadly, they're still not quite stable enough to use as a platform [416.85]
[416.85] for this actual working plasma cannon with a 35 foot range [421.2]
[421.2] developed by slightly insane engineer, Greg Lee. [424.81]
[424.81] Maybe next time though. [426.53]
[426.53] And maybe this Friday, [427.6]
[427.6] you'll come back for more tech news. [429.43]
[429.43] I should have a better grasp of what fruits and vegetables [432.85]
[432.85] do and don't qualify for tech news by then. [435.91]
[435.91] Figure it out. [436.91]
[436.91] What are you talking about? [438.71]
[438.71] You just got- [439.28]
[439.28] I came in late. [439.97]
[439.97] You're missing the context. [441.04]