 Di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-do-do-do-do-do. Hi, everybody. What is going on with your bad selves? Or your good selves? Whatever kind of self you want to be. I am going to do ye old read through of the rundown, looking for the spelling errors and what parts are missing something to do regularly during the office hours and you get to watch if you want. Okay. Larry Belly, Michelle Serju, Kirk Stephenson on this episode of DTNS. On this episode of DTNS. So advertisers can spy on you through your phone's mic? No, we'll explain. Plus a supercomputer that really does work like a human brain. And Harry McCracken from Fast Company is here to tell us why it was hard for Disney to put Hulu into Disney Plus. Harder than you'd think. Okay. Thursday we mentioned the new Intel Core chips in the Meteor Lake family going into the laptops and featuring Intel's neural processing unit, or MPU. Intel also announced new chips for companies running AI and data centers. The Gaudi-3, which it compares to Nvidia's H100, AMD's forthcoming M1300X. The Gaudi-3 launches next year. Intel also announced new Xeon processors for companies who operate cloud services. Google this week announced that it is changing the way it stores and accesses users opt-in location history in Google Maps, making it impossible for the company to access it and thus impossible for it to respond to Geofence warrants. Geofence warrants, also known as reverse location searches are a controversial legal tool that local and federal authorities use to force Google to hand over information about all users within a location. I should tell. During a specific timeframe, potentially implicating anyone who happens to be in the vicinity of a crime. Large language models are not creative, but they can iterate faster than we can easily. DeepMind used an LLM based on Google's Palm 2 model called FunSearch. It outputs solutions to problems with no regard to accuracy. DeepMind then filtered those outputs through an accuracy evaluator to discard the millions of incorrect solutions and feed promising ones back into FunSearch for reevaluation and improvement. Actually, that should be for improvement and reevaluation. The system was able to create a solution to a previously unsolvable math problem. If you know what the cap set problem is, it solves it for 512 points across eight dimensions. If you don't know that problem, just know that no human had been able to solve it. Philip Shane, what's up brother? Looking good. I mean, you also are looking good. Happy holidays. Google has released an on-device diagnostics tool for pixel phones. Pixel owners can dial pound, star, pound, seven, two, eight, seven pound, star, pound. Find out what's wrong. If anything, with their devices. Pixel users can run a full diagnostic test to detect issues across the entire device as well as individual tests. The Vivo X100 Pro launched in China November 13th. That's the phone with the 50 megapixel one inch type main camera and a big circular camera bump. If you were curious about the Cyclops looking phone but didn't live in China, good news. It's coming to Europe and the X100, not the Pro, but still circular is coming to Southeast Asia and India. A subsidiary of marketing giant Cox Media Group, marketing team at Cox Media Group, hey Andrew, has claimed what up until now was largely just a rumor and theory backed up by little no evidence that our devices are listening to us and using data they gather to target ads to us. CMG local solutions claims that its ads use voice data to target the exact people you're looking for and that active listening can identify potential good based on code. It does not mean clear the capability, CMG. Oh, thank you, Andrew. Good to see you. Neural networks and computing works similarly to how animal brains work by building connections and strengthening them to execute operations. That's how human brains work. Scientists at the International Center for Neuromorphic Systems at Western Sydney University announced that they have developed a supercomputer they call, they all, they call DeepSouth, capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second. It was purpose built to operate like a network of neurons. So it uses less power than a more generalized computer. Our brains use only 20 watts, won't be that power efficient, but it will take advantage of some of the same efficiencies we do. The aim is to model a human brain to understand how it works. May also point the way to more power efficient software and devices. DeepSouth will use off-the-shelf configurable parts in the science as hope to turn it on in April. Name is an homage. Tom's top five this week is about the top five tools you need to upgrade or build a PC. All right. Disney's recent move to integrate its Disney Plus and Hulu streaming services into a single user experience has drawn plenty of analysis over company streaming status. He added its Hulu catalog of around 70,000 shows into Disney Plus. That should be easy, right? You already have the shows. Just make them available in the other app. Turns out like most things, it's way easier for people not involved to say it's easy than it is to actually do. Get rid of these four considerations. How long is it says Philip Shane? Before kids these days start to think the chat GPT style of writing is good and all of the writing sounds bad. I think there's something to that. I think there's something to the style, but I also think it needs to get good first. If that makes sense. All right. Oh, I need to pick a mail bag. What do we got in the old mail bag over here? Let's just see. AT&S. VM. Oh, UTM is free. Responding to a question from a viewer on the editor's desk show that patrons get Jeremy wrote Zeditor's desk. Okay. Thanks to Len Baralta. Harry McCracken. And then I will read the credits. Okay. Well, there we go. Zed's dead, baby. You know, Andrew, there was an interesting story from some Stanford folks who have been studying the incidents of cheating in college locations. So maybe it's different in high school. And they saw no rise in the amount of cheating. They saw a shift in the kinds of cheating to using things like chat GPT, but no rise in the actual amount, the incidents of it. So I thought that was interesting. It's not, you're not wrong. They are people are trying to cheat using chat GPT, but it hasn't increased the number of people attempting to cheat, which I found fascinating. I like this. Another professor would insert a span with text font of zero with BS questions. So when they copy and paste it into chat GPT, it gives clearly a wrong answer. That's funny. Yeah, chat GPT is cannibalizing the fake term paper. Once again, putting people out of work. AI. It's gotten true. Technology, man. Tell you what, I'm excited to have Harry McCracken on the show. We haven't had him in years. And he is a fun guy to talk to. He's been covering this business longer than I have. And he's got a great perspective on it. So it's very, very cool to see him along. And we've got Rob Dunwood, cause Sarah's moving today. Sarah's moving back down here to LA. So we will not have Sarah today, but Rob Dunwood was not on the show yesterday for different reasons. He was gonna be on both, but he had a thing with his family yesterday. So he will be on the show today. Whatever happened to Darren Kitchen? I see Darren from time to time. He's a busy, busy man. I think he's getting back into the swing of things. We've even talked about having him back on DTNS and said, yeah, let's do it. You know how that goes. It's like when you're like, yeah, let's have lunch. Sometimes it just, it takes the right circumstances to make it happen. And then once it happens, you get in the habit of it. But yeah, he's still doing hack five stuff. In fact, I've seen him on the hacks five stuff more often lately. So you go look up HAK5, you'll find him. He's doing his thing. Too good effect too. He's been very successful at the hardware side of that business for sure. Yeah, he did step back from the day to day, from the public facing stuff in hack five for a while. He did. I am excited. And you Twitch folks, if you haven't checked out youtube.com slash daily tech news show, you might want to do that because I'm not sure if we're going to do this on Twitch. But this weekend, Eileen and I are planning on doing a show. It's tentatively titled What We're Streaming. So keep an eye out for that. We'll do it live on Sunday. We haven't picked a time yet. But it's going to be us just talking about the things we watch or listen to, you know, what we're streaming. So music, TV shows, movies, et cetera, and saying we don't know what time. We haven't even talked about what time. I think we're just going to sit down and do it. It won't normally be on the weekends. I don't think. I think we're just doing it on the weekend because we can fit it in and I don't think we'll do it again before the end of the year because we've got family coming in and stuff. But it's a it's a chance for us to pilot it and see what y'all think. So keep your YouTube notifications open. And if you don't catch it live, it'll be we'll make it available on demand. So it's not it's not like you have to be there at the beginning. We understand that not telling you when makes it harder, harder to catch it live. But you might want to, you know, by the end of the day Sunday, check out youtube.com slash daily tech news show and see that. And then we're going to have Sarah down here in L.A. So all kinds of all kinds of fun stuff. It will sang it will be this pilot anyway will be to camera. So me sitting here and Eileen probably sitting in her own office rather than in the same room because she'll be more comfortable with her setup in there. And then, yeah, we'll probably just do it on stream yard like this with two people, probably do a two shot. Oh, I can't really do it. Show you a two shot when there's no when there's not two people. Can I? What if I do? No, that just gets rid of it. Interesting. But yeah. I'm looking forward to it. See what happens. We have been refining an idea for us to do a show together for years. So it's going to be it's going to be fun to see it finally take shape and hit the ground running. What else do I need to do today? There's a couple of things I have to do off stream to get my laundry out. Got to do that off stream. I don't think it's done yet, though. I got to prep the cord killers line up. I don't know if I have time to do that now. How much cord killer stuff built up? Oh, I should look at the. Ooh, that's a lot. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see about that. We'll just see about that. I should probably look at the feeds anyway. Let's see. What else? I promoted sordid laser already. I can get rid of that. I have to write the newsletter. I'll do that later today. All right. So it really is just cord killers and laundry. I feel like there's something else. Oh, yeah. And then I've got to do some bookkeeping stuff and finance stuff. I'm not going to do that on the stream either. All right. Cool. Yeah. Let's let's do the feedly check. It would be nice to be in the same room, so your conversation would not have to deal with video latency. I don't think it will. I don't think that'll be a problem, because it's just two people. And we're on the same network. And then maybe I'll do a hat tour. Oh, I don't have my, I don't have my Wi-Fi on. This is going to disturb things. I'm going to go away and come back, maybe. We'll see. I turn my Wi-Fi on. Am I gone? Did I leave? Did I come back? Am I here? Is this real life? OK, I turned my Wi-Fi on and did not seem to disrupt it on my end, but you tell me. All right. Let's see. Only 45 news stories. Ten day high for gold. Yes, you are here, Zoe. Don't listen to them. The wackiest stories of 2023. How about face? OK. I bricked my Christmas lights. DocuSign surges on report the company is exploring a sale. Stop using default passwords. Wow. But that even has to be a story. It's so sad. Delta Dental of California Data Breach. Insert company here, Data Breach. TikTok requires users to forever wave. This is ours, Technico, so it's not probably clickbait. According to the New York Times, changes that TikTok made to its terms suggest that the popular app has spent the back after 23 preparing for a wave of legal battles, requiring private arbitration. Oh, it's not that. It's kind of a clickbaity headline. A lot of companies do that. They just changed to doing what other companies do than they weren't doing it before. Google gives Stadia controllers more time to switch to Bluetooth. Oh, that's nice. If you haven't enabled Bluetooth on your Stadia controller yet, you don't need to rush. Google has extended the deadline. I might put that in. Yeah, let's do that. With Bluetooth Stadia controllers, people to enable Bluetooth on Stadia controllers until December 31st, 2024. That was nice of them. Now the rest of the quick hits. Oh, I need to open this entire. I'm gonna just do that as a real quick thing. Previously gave you till December 20. Good for you, Google. Good for you. Paying people, all right. Prompt Engineering. Prompt Engineering just seems normal now. And earlier this year, it was like, you know, there's this thing where you can be good at prompts, which might even be a job. Totally a job. All right, how are gas prices in California? I don't know. I don't drive much. Okay, let's see if I can do a quick partial hat to her. Partial hat to her. Okay, I'm gonna be echoey. Zoe, would you like to start at the bottom or the top? Started from the bottom, now we here. Ooh, heat wave, that is 60 degrees. It is 72 here. It's supposed to be a high of 77. These are the, you know what? I'm gonna pull them out. I'll show you me pulling them out. These are the worst hats. These are the hats I never wanna use. Oh, I should, I should take the spreadsheet out. Hold on, sorry about that. Okay, let's see. That is a Cincinnati's Reds hat that I got in the 80s. Ooh, it's got lots of dust on it. Yeah, I definitely got this as a kid. So there you go. This is a hat I got. These are all dusty because they were on the bottom shelf. That's probably good that I took these out. This is a hat that I got as a free giveaway at an A's game the year that A's brand was their marketing logo. They always had a different slogan, most teams do. Kansas City Royals hat, circa the 80s. This is something I picked up as a kid back in probably 85 when the Royals were in the World Series. I tended to gravitate to wanting to have the hats of teams that were in the World Series, especially if they were playing the Cardinals, which they wore that year. This is an actual Cardinals hat I owned back in the late 80s. I can tell because it's got the elastic band. The one I wore most of my life had a snapback, but this I got later. I bought this when I went in college to cover the University of Illinois football team playing the University of Iowa football team. So I was like, well, I'll buy a Hawkeyes hat while I'm here as a little souvenir. This is early 80s, not the Toronto Blue Jays. This is the Greenville Junior High Blue Jays hat. These kinds of things are common these days. It was not that common back then to have gear for your junior high team or even your high school team, frankly. So I snapped that up, I was very excited. And this, I probably had this in high school, but I might not have got it till I went there, but this is, of course, the University of Illinois. So there you go, that is the bottom of the hat. Let's see, I got five minutes before I have to go, so I should probably switch this back and get out of here. I don't know if I have time. So we did one hat level. I think that's good. So is that cool? And then we'll do another hat level later. Just help me keep track of which level we're at. More hat tours to come. Thanks, everybody. I'm gonna go prep for DTNS in the Discord with the staff and then I'll see y'all in just about an hour, all right? Bye.