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#### **Business News: Job Cuts and Layoffs in Tech**
The tech industry has been hit hard by recent economic challenges, with companies across the board announcing significant job cuts. IBM has announced plans to cut thousands of jobs as part of its strategy to navigate the ongoing financial downturn. Despite these layoffs, the company has assured shareholders that its 5% dividend will remain intact. This decision has been labeled as a "dividend aristocrat" move, ensuring investor confidence while making tough cost-cutting decisions.
Not to be outdone, Uber has also joined the wave of layoffs, cutting an additional 3,000 jobs and closing 45 offices worldwide. These closures are particularly impactful in international markets, where Uber's programs were previously operational. The company’s leadership has not ruled out further cuts in the future, leaving employees on edge.
In a somewhat more positive turn, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke has announced that most of the company’s staff will transition to permanent remote work. This shift reflects the growing trend of companies reevaluating their office-centric models in light of the pandemic and its lasting effects. Similarly, Coinbase has adopted a "remote-first" policy, recognizing the potential for increased productivity and flexibility.
Square, another tech giant, has also made the move to permanently allow remote work. However, this decision seems somewhat contradictory, as Square’s core business operates primarily online. The company’s hesitation to embrace remote work earlier highlights the challenges many organizations face in adapting to new realities.
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#### **Tech Gadgets and Innovations**
The world of tech gadgets is always evolving, and this week brought some exciting announcements. Apple has reportedly been working on a highly anticipated product: augmented reality (AR) glasses powered by its ecosystem. These glasses are expected to cost $4,999, which has raised eyebrows among tech enthusiasts and critics alike. Predictions suggest the release could be as early as 2021 or delayed further, depending on development hurdles.
On the other end of the spectrum, Dell has unveiled a new XPS 15 laptop with an impressive battery life rating of 300 charge cycles. This marks a significant improvement for gaming laptops, which typically have shorter battery lives due to high power consumption. However, the limited number of charge cycles raises questions about long-term usability.
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#### **Security Threats and Privacy Concerns**
The world of cybersecurity has seen its share of scares this week. A new attack vector, known as "Spectral," has emerged, targeting Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips in devices. The attack exploits vulnerabilities in the hardware that supports both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, potentially allowing hackers to manipulate system states through one protocol while affecting the other. This development underscores the importance of securing not just software but also hardware.
In another worrying trend, a group of hackers has targeted multiple game developers with advanced malware. These attacks aim to infiltrate game development systems and game servers, with potential consequences ranging from compromised game economies to stolen in-game currencies. The gaming community is on high alert, as these exploits could have long-lasting effects on the industry.
Closer to home, Apple has faced criticism for its approach to data collection and privacy. A whistleblower claims the company is violating user rights by collecting vast amounts of personal data. This comes at a time when competitors like Amazon have admitted to continuous listening through devices like Echo, raising ethical questions about tech companies' data practices.
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#### **E-commerce and Online Services**
The e-commerce landscape continues to evolve, with major players making significant moves. Amazon has reportedly shown interest in acquiring JC Penney, signaling a potential shift in the retail industry. With JCPenney’s physical stores struggling due to the pandemic, Amazon’s move could either be a strategic play or a sign of broader changes in how consumers shop.
Meanwhile, Netflix has introduced a new policy aimed at reducing inactive accounts. The streaming giant will now send emails to users who haven’t watched anything in over a year, giving them 30 days to respond before canceling their subscription. While this move is billed as a consumer-friendly initiative, it has raised suspicions among long-term subscribers.
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#### **Gaming and Entertainment**
The gaming world has seen its fair share of excitement and concern this week. Microsoft’s Windows Terminal 1.0 launch includes support for GPU hardware in the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), a move that could bridge the gap between Linux and Windows users. This development is particularly significant for researchers who rely on CUDA-enabled GPUs but prefer the flexibility of Linux.
On the mobile gaming front, Joe Rogan’s move to Spotify has sparked a wave of discussions about the future of podcasting and content distribution. The deal, reportedly worth over $100 million, could have implications beyond just audio content. It remains to be seen whether this shift will impact platforms like YouTube or lead to new opportunities for creators.
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#### **Final Thoughts**
As we navigate the complexities of the current tech landscape, one thing is clear: change is inevitable. From job cuts and remote work policies to emerging technologies and security threats, every sector is undergoing a transformation. Whether it’s adapting to new realities or embracing innovation, the tech world continues to evolve at breakneck speed.
While some companies are doubling down on traditional models, others are betting big on the future of AR, gaming, and cloud computing. As we move forward, staying informed and adaptable will be key to thriving in this rapidly changing environment.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello it's the 27th and we're here with business and security which are kind of like the sad sections but that's okay we'll get over it and then we'll have a ton of nonsense on Friday this isn't always this sad section there's some good things that come out of theirs sometimes yeah but usually it's kind of like dull oh and Krista's frozen page has been a must oh no yeah sometimes business can be you know really uplifting and it's like fun new products these first two stories not that at all no no no pretty much the exact opposite of that IBM to cut thousands of jobs as this thing that we find ourselves in plays out the CEO has promised a 5% dividend is gonna remain intact 5% dividend on IBM stock I mean that's pretty good yeah yeah dividend aristocrat I think they call them remove its King I think it's king after 30 years of growing it but they do not want to threaten that status and you go one quarter without it start over so ya gotta cut some jobs to make the shareholders happy hey so what's got to do thousands of jobs as it turns out last week we talked about uber and they had some really massive cuts yeah so if you're working a big tech company you're like oh Jesus what's on the horizon for me but if you work it over then you can be you can you're like you're happy because you're like well it's already happened here you know they're not gonna happen again right oh wait oh no the Wall Street Journal reports the uber cuts three thousand more jobs and shuts 45 offices in the crunch over this thing the story mentions that a lot of those offices that are shutting down there its ubers programs in other countries so if you're in one of the unfortunately negatively impacted countries uber it's not gonna be a ride-sharing service in your country at all anymore look at this great video shot here's like the little circles that you're allowed to recreate in this guy's out of a circle so it was this dog one of my favorite Corona everytime you say is somebody else joins patreon well my favorite lock down means is you know how cats will naturally go to circles drawn on the ground so they'll draw up like circles to show people where to get in line and cats are just in line cuz they like the circle I tested that and my cats were totally into it they weren't box cats when they were young and I was very disappointed now they've become box cats so they've grown into I would have hated to have non box cats to be honest well there's plenty of boxes downstairs if you want to build them a complicated box for they've got plenty of box this is gonna be a just a quick block of working for home forever that's some more companies Reuters says that Canada's Shopify CEO says the era of office centricity is over most staff to permanently work from home so they're gonna reorganize their office and it's gonna be great Shopify has become huge they're a multi-billion dollar company and yet they've only got five thousand employees shop on it's a pretty decent product for what it is coin base announces its going to be a remote first to work policy in light of the thing so going base doesn't need an office either I don't know why Cohen base needed I mean given what coin base does well how did it even need an office to begin with yeah Square announces permanent work from home policy again ecommerce everything we do is online why are we crazy it's always fun when you work with the company that is doing stuff primarily online and they're like I don't know we're just scared of that whole work-from-home thing we're not really good working with remote teams and it's like but the work that we're doing for you is all on the Internet that's the human element man that's what I'm trying to get rid of in my work now this one is a fun headline because if you read it and you're like well finally that makes sense that they would do that it's about time but in the depths of the article they point out that this was basically done with a gun to their head yeah The Associated Press the headline is ATT to drop misleading 5g marketing for non 5g networks I have a feeling that The Associated Press worded this in such a way so as not to piss off ATT the sponsor because the better headline would have been ATT forced to drop misleading 5ge headline by the Federal Trade Commission this is the 5g evolution which was not 5g at all doesn't involve 5g towers in any way whatsoever it was relabeled 4G technology so they're not gonna be but now they do it wasn't clear what all of the existing phones are good like is there gonna be a software update nobody's sure they're just not going to market new phones but they're actual 5g network rolls out in September so the impact is kind of minimal here and got away with it you could say I suppose the investigations not over no but probably whoever is in charge of the investigation is like ah I knew what the other they're doing good now there dude they're good boy it it is impressive that it took them this long to act because this would be like I don't know a new model of automobile coming out and saying that this is the 80 mile program you know 80 mile per gallon evolution and it's like does that mean I'm gonna get 80 miles per gallon no highway miles per gallon 35 it's the next step in evolution toward 80 miles per gallon but it's not in fact an 80 mile per gallon car it's four hours and 57 minutes of runtime not five hours we will soon find out if the Apple cult will be enough to overcome the social barrier to a thing that the Google cult was not by any stretch of the imagination huh is this an actual picture of it do you no no no there's no chance that so it remains to be seen what it looks like I think the one they showed that this is the they are version right yes so we don't know exactly what it looks like yet but we do know what it costs and place your bets I guess so this is from MacRumors but this is also something that a John processor of front-page tech reported on and it's Apple glass it's like Google glass but it's from Apple and it's supposed to start at $4.99 this is basically augmented reality glasses powered by the Apple ecosystem so he doesn't think this is gonna come out for like a year and then other other tech pundits think that it's much closer than that so it's like Apple's targeting like 2021 or early 2020 to release I have a feeling this is gonna be like the self-driving car by the time Apple builds it they're going to realize what a horrible abomination it is and they're not going to release it into the wild there's also there are so many legal issues that lurk under a widespread adoption of that because staring at the phone and walking look at what a problem that has been and cheating and you know stuff like that having access to and plus let's say I'm going into a place where it's like okay there's no recording but I can't see if you take my glasses yeah so description movie theaters it's gonna be some weird questions I at the same time can you imagine that if you get dependent on augmented reality or you know you have prescription lenses that you know you can't get prescription lenses without the computer basically but there's there's some sort of copyright protection I see in your glasses talking about a dark future I'm just imagining being advertised to all the time you mean like you just randomly no I bet there would be like an ad-supported yeah saying like maybe your vision is so bad that it enhances yeah and so like you might be legal to drive you might be just like in that gray area that you can drive with the glasses but you have to agree to something that will you know copyright filter that's like ah I was going to this amazing you know a classical violin concerto tonight and then the audio just cut out you know what want to be great here's a great movie idea two young movie writers can go with this a someone who is a model for stock photography becomes a main which we've seen so much like the guy looking at the other girl like that or the hide the pain Herald guy yeah exactly and then that mean becomes associated with like terrorism or something or you know like the jumping and so it gets blacklisted and then an augmented reality this person stops existing and I have this weird life or like they're censored I can't do things there's a sort of black mirror that's very similar to that every it's not the exact same premise but it's it's similar there's like a custody case and the kid is blocked from the dad's vision what they are well and then he hits him with a car that's outright that no no then it turns out that the wife was lying to him and the child is clearly not alert Krista five years ago well you could check out black man that's a Netflix exclusive right yeah and if you have Netflix and you probably already do because Netflix is just killing it in the lockdown on all the big media streaming companies seem to be doing huge business except for one because their business model may have been a bit of a fumble into all of this but they're looking to fix it Apple buys older shows for TV plus stepping up the Netflix challenge I'm pretty sure that if like is there anybody that is buying up like you know buy older shows they're talking about like not really that old I want Green Acres and mr. ed and the Dick Van Dyke Show like where who's buying that but you realize when we watch those that was like yeah the Nostalgia version yeah we were watching Nick at Nite yeah so that's another degree of separation yeah I don't think the modern young audience would watch those at all how many they watched Star Trek that's from the sixties mr. ed was pretty like I liked mr. Ayad even when I was little bewitched and the the one the season of the changed actors that no one talked about I Dream of Jeannie I Dream of Jeannie yeah Oh Barbara Eden yeah I mean that would be fine because it's over yeah yeah those were good but I don't know yeah I think gotta be pennies at this point right one thing G but it's maybe just like I don't know why netflix chooses not to host some shows that seems like it would be super cheap to host yeah yeah it makes no sense cuz the rights to green it like all of Green Acres has got to be like five dollars at this point yeah I watched a lot of Nick at night when I was young because those two shows were generally better than anything yeah opposite yeah I'm in that same timeslot the taxi was fantastic I love text yeah yeah and taxi wasn't even that old at the time there were you know every comments gonna be like you guys are old I was a kid I'm not that old Oh Christa I'm getting there you don't know when you get there you don't have any like observation I'm getting there I can tell I'm telling you you think that but then you're there and you're like wait what-what are you saying to me you're applesauce look hey I'm buying beer shouldn't you ask what is this a foregone conclusion Bella they should ask cuz we were supposed to cart everyone when I worked a liquor store yeah well they don't anymore yeah that's the world I'm in now so MDOT - it's exciting it's a little tiny thing put those stupid heat spreaders on it you feel special I think we got one right here and uh but hey what if you need a lot of storage right I mean it's fine having that little chewing gum and just popping it in there but you need a ton of storage you got no options until now say Brent unveils a record-breaking eight terabyte rocket Q envy me PC IMed up to 2288 email 90 millimeter SSD we've reviewed the segment 1 terabyte PCI Express for nvme and it was awesome it was super awesome so this is really exciting hey terabyte I think it's still gonna be really fast and you know it's small but what they have not announced is the price which will for sure have four digits yeah seems like I want four of them to use and right but hey it a thread Ripper system it's cool if you can afford it and there was you know it's funny because team red it seems like they just have positive press after positive press they cannot lose and I'd say in all of 2020 and most of 2019 was killing it yeah everybody is for them you know shilling for them let me tell you thread Ripper is amazing but they might have gone a little too far pushed that goodwill and pulled a move that seemed like it was a bit of what the competition did in time to time and they have been spanked for it a MIDI to support Zen three and risin 4000 CPUs on be 450 and X 470 motherboards so we're right now on the fifth generation motherboards be 550 just came out I think be 550 was supposed to come out a lot sooner but B 550 just came out and so this is you know a few weeks ago or last week or the week before and II said well we're not gonna be able to support the CPUs that are coming toward the end of 2020 on 400 series motherboards and everybody was like because they just bought you know 450 like be 450 motherboards and things like that could be your choice of x57 e which is PCI Express for chipset fan mostly there's a couple models that don't have a chipset fan and some people don't want that because it's you know loud and why so I was like oh I'll just could be 450 motherboard and use it with my third gen CPU well there was no fourth gen upgrade path for you even though they're both am for this is down to ROM size limitations and other things but hey me I said alright alright we're gonna try to work on it and see if we can get it done now I said they're gonna do it although they don't know how they're gonna do it yet so if they can't it ought to be more embarrassing we tried it's probably gonna be limited support like you can't use certain ap use or you can't use certain older a.m. for like there's only so much space for CPUs the things get weird with the old a.m. for CPUs and you probably have a weird situation where a specific BIOS with a specific CPU it won't be a fun process you know but hey I'm upgrading my CPU and BIOS at the same time yeah so I'm sure we'll see some fallout from that but I guess it's better than the alternative yes least they're trying they've listened to the community yeah it's still you know better I mean we've got three generations of CPU for the same socket which is really pretty good I've said before and I know this is just my personal bias and again I'm old and I'm cranky but I hate it when people have these stupid wireless earbuds they're literally everywhere I don't know why I mean they shouldn't matter to me I don't care if they live or die but I do care about those stupid yeah something about the ears because those ear spacers to I don't even want you in my side if you got those things I hate those with a passion anyway bad news for me because everybody's buying them they're sold like sixty million yeah I mean it's just it's crazy and they're a Fiat they're very expensive yeah and the battery life is not great if you lose you have to buy a whole new set but people love them and that's the world we're in so what does Apple do what Avenue do they think how if we sold 60 million how do we sell 60 more people will ride it if the iPhone 12 doesn't come with earbuds in the box keep the angry customers it's just a rumor but maybe the next iPhone doesn't come with Wired earbuds now we're not even asking for Wired earbuds I mean wireless earbuds just even wire to your buds they're like no you don't need the wire to your buds you need to buy the wireless ones what what's crazy is that this headline people will riot almost a hundred thousand people dead no rioting well riding is not observing social distancing Christa prioritize what you're gonna ride about and I think this is the thing I wonder if Hong Kong will see an uptick in cases because they're you know shoulder to shoulder right now I think they just passed some really scary like you know right because they're back in the streets over that yeah but are they hoping they'll just get wiped out it's not not a number of people have actually disappeared that's why because it's Saturday know if you needed a special event for that the battery life of electronics is something that's been you know more and more in focus as everything becomes Wireless and battery-powered there's the classic iPhone debacle with their performance stuff and we've seen you know other companies kind of get burned for batteries that hurt the performance which is why a new Dell XPS might be a pass this year the new Dell XPS 15 battery is rated for 300 charge cycles but apparently that's okay you know the way that laptop charge cycles work is whatever it's rated for is when you've done that many charge cycles you're at approximately 80% capacity normal charge cycle rating on batteries like this is 750 to a thousand cycles so this is a vanishingly small number of cyclists than the third and you got to think I think that this is the gaming laptop right or one of them well it's just high-end and with all the high-end features so you got to think a cycle could easily be a day yeah if you're gaming on it could be three cycles a day yeah you know take it with you and so this could be a year or less yeah for a heavy user help this it's not glued together if it screw together the battery is easily replaceable it might not bother me as much because some older Dell laptops I could actually get a better replacement battery imported then the thing shipped with originally those are those are nice times but how often do they do that anymore I like where you can replace laptop battery easily probably really anybody might not be super thin yeah it's also weird that you know a lot of laptops have a one-year warranty they're like oh your battery died Oh Christa how's your iPad battery doing still pretty good I can usually go a few days before I need to charge it again so not terrible if I use it a lot I might have to charge it like every other day so the battery will last longer if you keep the charge between 20 and 80 percent I've tried to do that well sometimes I forget and leave it on the charger overnight hmm how irresponsible yeah I know Netflix they are making a lot of money during the lockdown and as you pointed out before and so much that they seem to be getting really bold with their policies I really don't get why this one is a good idea for anybody but it is pro-consumer I guess yeah Netflix they start canceling inactive customer subscriptions basically Netflix is gonna email you and say hey you haven't watched anything in like a year are you sure you want to continue and if you don't respond they're gonna cancel your subscription at first I thought this was to get you into out of like a grandfathered 2-year but they don't have that do they it always just goes up for everybody mm-hmm I think it just goes up for everyone yeah yeah so this seems like in theory like a good guy move this is how it should work right like if you aren't using it they just automatically cancel it yes it should work like that but I don't know of any other subscription service that does that yeah odd it's bad when like a big company does something nice and you immediately feel suspicious it's like what what's the motive can I get a Chili's gift card instead like I don't want to cancel my Netflix maybe just give me a Chili's gift card I don't even know I'm gonna go to it a post lockdown Chili's oh sit on the patio will you be alright till he's had one what was their famous all the ribs yeah I don't think I've ever been dude chill ease always they don't exist he's gone College yeah live the baby back ribs were actually pretty good I think I ever had the ribs Amazon a couple stories about them and so the whole human we were talking about the crazy eyes Cortes and her anti merger stance this could be a perfect example of that because and this is just a rumor but this does point out how Amazon by giveth they were given a legal ability to operate when others couldn't and then allow them to crush those people and now begin to consume them so is that really capitalism this is a follow up from last week where we first reported on this but investors daily investors business daily says that report says that Amazon could be interested in a JC Penney acquisition so of course Amazon is an essential business because they sell literally everything as does Walmart or anything like that JC Penney however not an essential business and has been shut down so Amazon a JCPenney you might notice they sell a lot of the same things I have no memory of talking about that last week we mentioned that that was but it was just a rumor and this has some more details about the rumor and a little bit more substantiation if you're Amazon what do you do with that all those stores I think if you're extra bution yeah I mean there's no it like JC Penney was not doing terrible before you have the physical presence distribution returns because that's gone really well there's a ton of things you can do hey there's stock price has been a trouble for quite a while if you're Jeff Bezos you're looking for things that you can play the long game with because you are making too much money right now you are making so much money that when if anything even starts to return to normalcy there are people that are gonna be crying bloody murder because you came out of this you know so enriched and other businesses like JCPenney and even small mom-and-pop stores are suffering incredibly and so you look like you know dr. evil at the end of all of this and so he's got to do anything that he can to try to avoid that before it happens you say they're garbage Kristin JCPenney yeah it's not great they've been going downhill for many many years in terms of like the quality of their clothing I when you say JC painted me I imagine like you know middle-class white couple with 2.5 kids a minivan see that's the old JCPenney but now like if you go in there it's it's literally like geriatric clothing for the what's the same people they're just following them to the grave maybe is yes maybe it's because most of my early life experience was with like Walmart clothes but when I get the JCPenney clothes it was like wow this is amazing whereas like the Walmart shirt was like I can wash this three times and then it's fallen apart Church yeah my dad like Walmart and a JCPenney and those were the only places you could really buy clothing front so like if you got to go to the big city that was like a big deal and you could get clothes that were not from one of those two retailers yeah and all the rich kids at school exclusively had those other kinds of clothes yeah big deal it was a big not to me I mostly had shirts with like band names and Dragons on them oh you were that kid did you have like they're like Hawaiian shirts but they just have dragons instead yeah like the whole front and back yeah yeah oh I can picture you in high school now cuz that was like a very specific stereotype yeah and I had a full range of Nine Inch Nails and Metallica t-shirts I had a lot of t-shirts with like the generic like three Wolf Moon stuff but it was not ironic and it was a very not in style it's time I had it oh yeah this thing with the dragon yeah nobody was rocking the dragon like that might be kind of cool to have the dragon it wasn't I wore I wore ironic t-shirts frill I went through a phase in high school where I just wore t-shirts with funny sayings on them I don't I don't know what give me that I know you remember one oh no I don't anymore so that's like all all I work and then everyone else everyone like the sarcastic bunny I can't read the name of it did you have like maybe a talk to the hand no no it was never stuff like that it was just like stuff about being mean and sarcastic and it was like that was considered acceptable in the early 2000s I don't know why but okay Amazon continues to spread their corruption I guess you could say into other countries into the emerging markets and basically just snuffing out competition as they go kind of like with JCPenney and in India they're having remember how the Indian government fought this yeah and somehow here it is anyway it was on launches food delivery service in India it's gonna go against the Zomato and swiggy I think yeah you're close I don't swaggy no no it's Wiggy yeah yeah yeah so horrible man it's a 6.5 billion dollar investment in India because Jeff Bezos is looking for things to absorb the record earnings so Amazon is enjoying it mid to lockdown he's like a drug dealer trying to launder money yeah listen I need to invest in a bunch of things that are just gonna chew up all our available cash I know food delivery in India food delivery here in the US has taken off but it seems like these food delivery companies have kind of a weird chokehold on the restaurants you would think that restaurants would would be empowered if they're doing takeout food right now but it seems like not because these livery companies have these crazy contracts and you kind of either play ball or you just get run over even if you're trying to avoid GrubHub by calling your favorite restaurant directly GrubHub could still be charging a fee how does this happen well it turns out that if you're at a popular restaurant in a city GrubHub will buy a phone number just for that restaurant and it will charge the restaurant a fee for connecting it and then having the order so you can think that you're calling your restaurant but you're actually calling the GrubHub number or that restaurant not the restaurant itself and sometimes those are those phone numbers get listed on search engines which is you know probably their goal we're probably doing that intentionally and it also mentions how I guess with partnership it implies there's a partnership with websites like Yelp Yelp will list the GrubHub number and so in that case if that if that restaurant wants that business then it will have to pay the fee and so if like somebody just wants a coffee it's a flat fee like six seven bucks so there are some restaurants where they're losing money by taking these orders online and we have a great other group of story but it's in an Austin section because it had to go into nonsense yeah it's so nonsensical but it's even better than that but it is disgusting I can see being a restaurant and the other thing that the other story points out I'm not really spoiling it here is even if you don't list yourself on GrubHub sometimes they'll just list you anyway yeah so if you don't take this terrible deal then you might just get muscled out completely and also like ghost kitchen things because it's like this restaurant doesn't do delivery well we'll make a website that looks like that thing have a phone number and then a lot of the time the restaurant owners in the dark on that I also pointed out that they would buy up phone numbers and try to redirect and like do anything I can to get that six dollars it's just crazy Microsoft they really seem to be working hard at softening their image maybe it's because the whole like move to the cloud thing is working for them uh-huh like okay we can take our foot off the neck of the desktop operating system maybe it's because of the the leaked memos the halloween' memos from about 15 years ago where they were like we must crush anything that is not us or maybe you know they're forward-thinking and they see that there is a competitor yeah and are you talking about Apple Microsoft they've used a Windows package manager for your dev environment so it's a win get so it's like apt-get they're like wind get but this is pretty good we did a video on chocolaty which is a third-party package manager Windows is long overdue for something like this you need to be able to win get install cpu-z gpu-z Nvidia drivers whatever you want this is something that a beautiful and you know what else debuted Microsoft build a learner's are further kowtow to a certain community Microsoft launches Windows terminal 1.0 and unveils GPU support and Linux GUI apps in the wsl so I can I can sum summarize what's going on with the GPU thing here really succinctly there's a lot of researchers out there the one access to the GPU horsepower that's available via CUDA and those researchers they're installing Linux a lot and Microsoft's like oh man these people are getting really really proficient with Linux and they could just live on Linux 24/7 wsl here will let you have the Linux experience with your CUDA enabled GPU but without actually having to install Linux you get the best of both worlds and maybe we stave off leaving the desktop for another day and that is the thing that's holding back Linux is the GPU they simply cannot compete the drivers aren't there no one's developing games for it if and this is kind of a tentative step I think in that direction to see like can we get away with this if you can give them that environment but still have it under windows and still maybe get a license out of them then yeah you might stop a catastrophic tipping point at some future date seems likely and the meantime though it's good in the meantime it's good to also those Windows users are getting olynyk's skills so it may be in the future if you know Desktop Linux materializes some multi-billion dollar companies like this is the Linux desktop then maybe those skills will translate to a platform without windows one of the biggest announcements in the tech world I guess well I kind of a tech world its YouTube was Joe Rogan he kind of surprised everybody with this big announcement now I'm interested to get you guys take on this before I give mine Joe Rogan will bring his podcast exclusively to Spotify multi-year licensing deal reported to be worth more than a hundred million dollars he's still allowed to have clips and stuff on YouTube but he's going to be exclusively on Spotify and the article also talks about how initially he's like are you insane and then Spotify explained their long term plan and then he was like okay and I'm pretty sure the long term plan just had more zeros on it I think that's the case at all so I mean you think it's just a money thing 100 million dollars yeah but that's over years yeah so supposedly currently from all of his various you know he controls the advertising plus his YouTube revenue he's making 50 million a year this is a pay cut oh now according to Alex Jones he claims the Joe Rogan called him and he was like listen Alex the reason I'm doing I'm moving to Texas he's Alex Jones claims Joe Rogan isn't moving to Texas because like musk he's done with the overreaching California he's bringing the podcast they're going to Spotify and the reason was because YouTube told him he wanted to have some doctors on who were like the opposing voice for the lockdown and YouTube was just like no you're not doing that no chance and they're like I was like we'll let you host that exam they're like where's another list of people that's not gonna be on the show and one of them is Alex Jones because that's just town on our platform so he's like alright going to Spotify and supposedly and this will confirm or deny whether Alex Jones had any insight here he claims this is directly from Joe Rogan first guest will be Alex Jones that was the most popular Joe Rogan podcast of all time oh wow hmm so really be interesting to see if that plays out because if it really is because of censorship then Joe Rogan has supposedly said in the new iteration he will quote unquote be going to war with big tech interesting I think that's we believe Alex Jones but I also kind of dude well they are friends oh yeah Joe has said on many occasions that they are good friends so but also was it September I think that starts so you don't have to pay for Spotify you only have to register did you got you got Spotify recently I did but only because Google Music is going away yeah well that's why I like three months for free right now but that's yeah that's really the thing that Google has to learn is they need to have an architect that has a vision for things and just build that because Google music I don't know anything about music and it was it was Google Music built by committee it was as useless shockingly bad yeah the search on Spotify I would say easily ten times better the search everything about Spotify to be very intuitive I mean what drives me crazy about Spotify though - and this is you're like it's weird little limitations like this like why you can't click sort see why would that it not be a thing are you looking at your like songs like your songs you put a heart buy any playlist oh there's I think you can't sort your like songs which I don't like get everything else I've I haven't any issues with let's get ready interesting you know who could solve the problem for us if we ever have a problem with the tech over things it's the node that'll be an ad in the next episode give us a hundred million I think if we got enough for referrals yeah it's like you know if we're gonna bring them two hundred million dollars of referrals and yeah probably fine with that we have to become the number one actually I think he's number two I was surprised to learn he's not number one it's barstool sports is number one yeah but there was the do you know what the article the article mission some kind of controversy or it I don't know what I don't know what that is either in the sports world I don't drink instead I'll listen to every now and then but I'm not super into him but it seems like he is the dude show like dudes love Joe Rogan well the thing he does that nobody's ever really tried before is there are no sound bites or you know like whatever he'll have almost anybody interesting on and he'll just let them talk yeah ever been done so you gotta give them credit for you know and it turns out they love these people if you have like a segment on a late-night talk show or a news program or something like that they're never gonna have time to get enough in depth of what they need to talk about actually tell you about it I'd love me like Bernie Sanders for example and I think Joe Rogan was a huge impact on the Bernie Sanders campaign probably not enough to stop the you know evil empire but you know what's been a huge impact on the gaming industry the current situation we find ourselves in that must not be named oh I thought so you're gonna say that actual thing yeah so games are everybody's playing games more and more people and the the classics you certainly can't argue for this one is not a classic have sort of been reinvigorated with new player accounts most of what we talked about last week Age of Empires Age of Empires yeah that's that's a antique by gaming standards yeah so Krista Yura you're a huge minecraft nerd I am how much have you played during the lockdown I don't have an hour amount but I have played some I'm mostly at this point I'm just using it to design houses for when I meet you know by Lin and go off grid and you never see me again blocky yes in the woods yeah okay I was I didn't know what's going on minecraft play spikes tops 126 million builders a month amid the thing that does not surprise me at all no this article talks about some other games that are also topping the charts that doesn't mention Age of Empires and also doesn't mention the quote from Jim Jensen Wong at Nvidia you know a new Nvidia CEO thinks that computer gaming is gonna be huge in the next year or two because he doesn't see that the lockdown going away anytime soon certainly seems like that I'm in that weird place where I'm overwhelmed with my options so I look at my game library and I just like scroll through it for 10-15 minutes its sleeve yeah that's like I don't even want to play anything but then a new game comes out and I go and buy it well you've been streaming a Witcher 3 there's another game you said that would be good whenever we go back to like doing table games base Haven room in space yeah after playing another eight hours of it or so it's really slow hmm Wow and also like I destroyed my first pirate ship and I was like oh I get to salvage everything in the pirate ship and that's a weird mechanic like I can't I still have to they don't have any oxygen but they're still putting up a fight when I try to board them hmm like and if I if they surrender I don't get the ship hmm sounds weird it's interesting though it's early access moving on to the security section the I guess the most terrifying kinds of attacks really are the ones that are over-the-air because how do you stop them and a lot of people won't run a certain kind of thing because like oh I'm vulnerable to Wi-Fi or I'm vulnerable to Bluetooth I'm not going to do it and this one will probably terrify those people even more ZDNet reports the new spectral attack breaks the separation between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technical details to be presented in August of the blackhat 2020 security conference so we don't have technical details on this but what they promise is that they found that these physical microchips have multiple ARM cores in order to be able to support both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth from basically the same radio hardware and the radio hardware it takes into account the fact that Bluetooth uses 2.4 gigahertz and some of the Wi-Fi spectrum is 2.4 gigahertz and so you can have an information leak in one that leaks into the other you can also have Hardware bugs and like hardware implementations that have problems and use the Bluetooth stack to manipulate the state of the system on the Wi-Fi side of things so you may be able to use that to compromise a system for example so that might be bad no technical details though and if you turn both of those off you're really limiting yeah your phone usage now you think this ghost is the mascot of Spectras just like the ghost of inclusivity yeah I just left away for the black hat presentation how many looks surprised and not menacing yeah I think I put the cursor on Christa yeah I have a feeling that they're gonna demonstrate really just an incredible technique but it is wildly impractical for doing anything like it'll be great for like the NSO group but not really practically exploitable these guys are really just doing the NSO group's dirty work yeah just for a little you know some a headline at a presentation a small moment of Lori I guess we shouldn't blame them though because obscurity is worse but if games are like you say like Nvidia says this you know like everybody takes them up and they become hugely successful and everybody's doing it then this seems like a very impressive like front-running move for hacker group really reading the tea leaves here Packers infect multiple game developers with advanced malware never before seen Putman hit one developers build system and another is game servers basically the name of the game here is to get whatever kind of malware you can actually into the game so it'll actually ship from the developers with your malware or update an existing game and in the case of the MMO they talked about how they could control the the game economy so for a game like wow you could actually move gold out of the system and sell it nice and like many of the really good exploits these could just sit in place and wait for popularity to spike so watch out for that I don't know what you're gonna do about it it's not like you can fix it Apple uh there was that thing where Apple was like you guys are crazy Siri is not listening all the time come on that was at the height of Amazon basically admitting that they're listening all the time and that I have to turn over things to the police kind of a lot and they're like no you have to engage Siri it's how it's always been it's how it's always gonna be and there was this guy who worked in one of the sinners that listens to the recording and types him out you know to try to improve the AI he was like there's no way these are engaged recordings there's a recording things that no one would engage for well an interesting thing happened from all of that nothing Apple whistleblower goes public over quote-unquote lack of action so he says that Apple's violating rights and they are continuing the data collection on a massive scale which is a little hypocritical from what they say but time will tell I think it's told well he's got a there's yeah yeah no one really cared this week's big hack was an airline company I don't think this is American right listen TBC news never heard of them easyJet admits data of 9 million hacked basically all of the people that have ever flown with ec jet and then some sometimes people were booked on easy jet you know as a connecting flight or you know indirect flight by other airlines so your data could be there could be in that hack it was big it was like credit card info with CVV yeah it was crazy so this happened in January and they said they have contacted some of the people whose credit cards were compromised before now but just now the public release which that's a long time yeah that's half a year oh why are you calling me now I already got a new credit card number yeah we wanted an imperative embarrassing leak for mercedes-benz and the thing that struck me most about this wasn't that it was leaked but that it exists in the first place it should not exist mercedes-benz on board logic unit oh you source code leaks online how did it leak some guy found the get lab server and it let just anybody sign up so he signed up with a fake email address cuz it was like all you got to have a DaimlerChrysler email address and he's like alright so he just made one up and it's like okay let him in without verifying it so then he just downloaded like 700 repositories and then posted them online Wow what is the OL you well it turns out this is on vans you know like panel vans and stuff like that and it's a system to talk back to a home server to report everything that that van is doing yeah fleet management is pretty common or disgusting all the truckers in the audience are like yeah let me tell you about it there's literally a urine analyzer in the cab of my truck like literally there's an anal probe looks for opiates every time we stop for gas I have to be probed the tracing apps are out I didn't include the story but Apple and Google finally released their API for real so that's a thing now and some states like North Dakota have their contact tracing out in the wild and some people have gotten it and immediately started looking at the network output of it as surprise it's disturbing North Dakota's contact tracing app leaks location dated to forswear and a Google Ads ID so you're you know profiles globally unique ad ID is getting reported along with your location picture of Google I like how he went to like he actually tucked the mask down into his collar yeah well you know he didn't want to look sloppy makes me sound like the government the North Dakota government was DIY their solution here which is why does that it also had a bug reporting API yeah and it was reporting everything to them too so yeah I don't know if it was malicious I think it might have just been poorly built and they're like oh we'll just use all these libraries cobble this thing together I'm riding an Android app it's a hello world app oh it's reporting my Google heads idea that's just how it works with Android studio I don't know if you never develop an app that Droid studio you can't help but report your Google Ads ID now you're supposed to have anonymity to be you know eligible for the Google Apple API so you gotta wonder will they get involve you will see a North Dakotans out there North Dakota that is a low population density right they should be pretty good in terms of distancing distance to the next person is 20 acres all right that's all we got for this week net our for today not this week Friday will be a crazy day where it's designed and just a just a little bit of robot and I just disappeared on it's all nonsense here or not it's pure nonsense sponsored by the note Leno loves nonsense except when it comes to cloud hosting and they are no no don't try to pull it on\n"