1 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:12,239 Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Be there 2 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 3 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio. And how the tech 4 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: are you. It's time for the tech News for September 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, and I am still in 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: Las Vegas, still recording from a hotel room. Interesting thing 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: for a Thursday's episode, it'll be a different hotel, so 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: a different hotel room. We'll see how how that sounds. 9 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: But never mind that, let's get to the tech news. 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: And first up here in the United States, we've got 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: this agency called the Federal Communications Commission aka the FCC. 12 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: The FCC consists of five commissioners when it's a full commission, 13 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: So for more than two and a half years, the 14 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: FCC has only had four commissioners, two who fall on 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,639 Speaker 1: the Democrat ideological side and to who fall on the 16 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: Republican ideological side, which meant getting consensus on anything was 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: we'll call it a challenge. But earlier this month, the 18 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: US Senate approved candidate and A Gomez to the position 19 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: of commissioner, which means she will hold that position for 20 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: five years. Gomez also falls on the Democrat side of ideology. 21 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: This week, the FCC will once again tackle the issue 22 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: of net neutrality. Now, for those of y'all who are 23 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: unfamiliar with that particular term, net neutrality means a few things, 24 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: but essentially it gets down to the fact that Internet 25 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: service providers or ISPs, should treat all traffic on the 26 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: Internet equally, and further that it should mean that anyone 27 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: could access all Internet content with any Internet capable device, 28 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: no matter what ISP they connect to. Much of the 29 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: concern about net neutrality is on how imps have a 30 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: lot of power, and they could potentially allow some Internet 31 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: traffic to travel on a so called fast lane while 32 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: throttling traffic coming from other places. And since some ISPs 33 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: like Comcast are actually part of a multi billion dollar 34 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: conglomerate that also includes companies that actually, you know, make content, 35 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: there's this concern that they could show favoritism. Right, So, 36 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: a firm net neutrality policy would keep Comcast from, say, 37 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: throttling content that came from competitors while giving its own 38 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: content preferential treatment to its Internet customers. Now, there's a 39 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: whole lot more to the issue other than what I've 40 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: just covered, but that's kind of a high level look 41 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: at it. Well, back when Barack Obama was US president, 42 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: the FCC created a whole bunch of new rules to 43 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: try and ensure net neutrality, But then under the administration 44 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, the FCC essentially stripped away those rules 45 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: and them aside. Ajitpi, who was then the head of 46 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: the FCC, claimed that net neutrality was trying to fix 47 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: a problem that didn't really exist, and that keeping net 48 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: neutrality away would mean that ISPs would feel free to 49 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 1: invest heavily in innovation. We also found out that when 50 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: the FCC opened up its proposed policy for public comment, 51 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: which is part of FCC's process, the ISPs spend a 52 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: whole lot of money to have more than eight million 53 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: fake comments come out against net neutrality to the FCC's website. 54 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: So they were stuffing the ballot boxes effectively with fake comments, 55 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: trying to protect their own self interest. Now, I will 56 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: say two things here. One, a lot of the fears 57 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: about what will happen if you don't ensure net neutrality 58 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: have not yet come to pass. We do not see 59 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: an Internet that has this vast difference in data speeds 60 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: depending upon which ISP you're connected to and what content 61 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: you're trying to act access. That hasn't really happened, So 62 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: the fearful worst case scenario hasn't happened. However, we also 63 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: have not seen ISPs spend a whole lot of money 64 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: in innovation because they have no incentive to do so. 65 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: In most places in the United States, you have very 66 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: little competition, if any, for Internet service providers. Well, without competition, 67 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: there's not really any need to invest in innovation. You 68 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: could just use that money to return toward shareholder value. 69 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: So why would you spend that money innovating if there's 70 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: no alternative to your service? I mean, no one's going 71 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: to go anywhere else. But yeah, as to the whole 72 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: stuffing the ballot box thing, that was a serious problem. 73 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: In fact, according to an investigation, around eighteen million out 74 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: of the twenty two million comments that were posted to 75 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: the FCC were fake. Yikes. So anyway, I guess you 76 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: could say they were innovative in the way they gained 77 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: the system. But now it looks like we're going back 78 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: to establishing net neutrality rules again. The process is a 79 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: methought one, and after seeing the previous round of changes 80 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: that happened when one administration replaced another. I imagine a 81 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: lot of folks are wondering just how permanent any changes 82 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: would be, Like, are we just going to see this 83 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: flip flop depending upon which party has majority in the 84 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: FCC at any given time, because that just gets frustrating. 85 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: It means that you never really meet a parody or 86 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: an equilibrium. It's just constantly flopping to favor one side 87 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: versus the other. So we'll have to see. Imagine a 88 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: lot of folks are just kind of fed up with 89 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: the whole thing. It is progressively harder to argue, at 90 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: least with any authority, that the Internet is not a 91 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: necessary component in telecommunications, at least in my opinion. I mean, 92 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: the pandemic really brought that to light that if you 93 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: did not have access to the Internet, you were at 94 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: a incredible social disadvantage. In fact, in some ways, you 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: could not participate at all in modern systems. There are 96 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: schools that use Internet or related stuff in the curriculum, 97 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: and without access to that, students cannot participate in the 98 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: education system. So I think it is high time that 99 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: we define Internet access as a necessity, whether that's by 100 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: defining it as utility or not. I don't know, but 101 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: we'll have to see. In an earlier tech News episode, 102 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: I talked about how a bill in California would require 103 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: trucking companies that wanted to use autonomous trucks to have 104 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: a human operator behind the wheel at all times while 105 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: driving in California. Now that bill had wide support in 106 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: the state legislation, only a few of California state legislators 107 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: actually voted against it. Almost all of them voted for it. 108 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: So it then went to the governor's desk, and the 109 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, did what everyone expected him 110 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: to do, and he vetoed the bill. He said that 111 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: current regulations are already fine when it comes to providing 112 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: oversight to heavy duty autonomous vehicles, that the DMV will 113 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: make these determinations, so there's no new legislation that is necessary, 114 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: and there's a ton of debate on this issue. Honestly, 115 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: I feel like I would need to dive in much 116 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: more deeply to get a handle on all of it. 117 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: Only a little of the debate actually deals with the 118 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: tech itself, and I think it is safe for us 119 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: to say that autonomous vehicle technology still has a long 120 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: way to go before it reaches a level of reliability 121 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: and safety that we could say is dependable. But the 122 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: actual debate rests on tons of other factors like politics 123 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: and money and jobs, and those are what are really 124 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: causing some figurative roadblocks. A ransomware hacker group says that 125 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: it has infiltrated quote unquote all Sony systems. Now, from 126 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: what I've seen, there's a lot of doubt out there 127 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: as to how far into Sony's systems the hackers were 128 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: actually able to get. Most of the reporting I've seen 129 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: has suggested that it wasn't really that far. It certainly 130 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: wasn't everything, at least from what we can tell so far, 131 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: but there is a general agreement that hacker did infiltrate 132 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: some Sony systems and gained some level of access. The 133 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: group says it will sell the data that they stole 134 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: from Sony on the dark web. They have indicated that 135 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: Sony leadership refused to hand over a ransom to the group, 136 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: so this is the second method for them to get 137 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: money from their wicked deeds. That group, by the way, 138 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: is called Ransomed dot VC. According to the cybersecurity company 139 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: cyber Security Connect, the security company also said that the 140 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: evidence presented suggests that the intrusion was somewhat limited, but 141 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: it's possible that some of the files that were listed 142 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: could contain really sensitive information, like it could have business 143 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: info or customer data. It's hard to say. Ransom dot 144 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: VC presents itself as some sort of gray hat hacker group. 145 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: They claim to conduct penetration testing, and that's a real thing. 146 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: The way penetration and testing usually works is that you 147 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: have a company and you've got a computer system and 148 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: you want to see, you know, if your computer system's 149 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: security is robust or not, so you hire some hackers. 150 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: Usually it's some sort of consulting group, and the hackers 151 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: are meant to probe your systems and look for vulnerabilities. 152 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: Then they share their findings, you can improve your security 153 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: wherever you need to, and the cycle goes on. That way, 154 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: you'd do this over and over again. But what ransom 155 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: dot VC does is it probes company systems without being 156 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: invited to do it. Then if they gain access, they 157 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: quote unquote seek compensation for our professional services, which really 158 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: is just saying we broke into your house and now 159 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: we demand you pay us for all the stuff we 160 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: took because we taught you that your home security is 161 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 1: not very good. It's not a very sincere or convincing argument, 162 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: if you ask me. An Amazon executive who is leaving 163 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: the company told Bloomberg that he expects the high costs 164 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: of running AI operations mean that Amazon will one day 165 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: charge customers to use the Alexa voice activated assystem now. 166 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: He clarified that he thinks the tool as it exists 167 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: right now will remain free, that there will be a 168 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: basic free level of service, but that Amazon will one 169 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: day release a more advanced version with better features and 170 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: one that you would have to pay for. He also 171 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: said this is likely not that far off, and that 172 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: the payment would be framed, probably as a subscription service. 173 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: I think that approach actually makes the most sense. If 174 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: Amazon were to suddenly tell its customers that the tool 175 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: they've been using for free for several years now is 176 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: going to switch to becoming a subscription service, that would 177 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: not go over super well. But introducing a new premiere 178 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: version might not be such a hard sell, and there 179 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: is no getting around it. Powering AI is expensive. It 180 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: requires a lot of compute power or requires a lot 181 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: of electricity, so there are some real costs to running 182 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: AI services. So I get what he's saying. I don't 183 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: think it's that shocking. I think the headline of Amazon 184 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: exec says Amazon will one day charge for Alexa. I 185 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: think that's just a big attention grabber. Okay, I've got 186 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: some more news items to cover in just a moment, 187 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: but first let's take a quick break. We're back. So 188 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: the US Securities Exchange Commission or SEC, is continuing its 189 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: probe into personal communications among various employees and executives at 190 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: major investment companies. So here's the deal. Here in the 191 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: United States, we've got a lot of obfuscation when it 192 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: comes to how money rolls around in the investment world. 193 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many ways that investments can be 194 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: hidden away, but even that has its limits. Like as 195 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: dark as it can get, there are limitations, and there 196 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: are rules that you're supposed to follow, and one of 197 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: those is that business communications within and between investment companies 198 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: are supposed to be documented. That is a rule. But 199 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: over the last several years, some folks at these companies 200 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: have taken to using certain personal communication tools like Signal 201 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: and WhatsApp that are by design not transparent. Now, for 202 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: the purposes of protected communication. That's actually great. You want 203 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: these tools to be reliable. You do not want them 204 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: to be transparent. You want people to be able to 205 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: communicate privately with each other without worry about surveillance. All 206 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: of that is cool, But when it comes to official 207 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: business among these giant investment companies, it's a big no no. 208 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: Several big companies have already had to fork over substantial 209 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: cash in fines. Back in August, the sec find eleven 210 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: companies collectively the princely sum of two hundred and eighty 211 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: nine million dollars. Now that was divided up among the 212 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: eleven wells. Fargo had to pay the most out of 213 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: those eleven companies. Its share of that fear was one 214 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five million dollars. Yikes. And actually that's 215 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: an improvement over last year. SEC find ten companies about 216 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: one point one billion dollars last year. So this is 217 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: an ongoing issue, and again it just shows how tech 218 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: can play a role in intrinsic systems that are not 219 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: specifically tech related, but because of tech's involvement, it has 220 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: a huge impact. The Ford Motor Company says it is 221 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: pausing construction on a planned electric vehicle battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. 222 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: Now this is happening the same time that there's a 223 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: union auto workers strike going on, which critics say is 224 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: not a coincidence. They argue that Ford is essentially threatening 225 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,359 Speaker 1: twenty five hundred jobs. That's the estimated number of positions 226 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: that would be employed at this future battery plant, and 227 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: they're doing it before they ever hire a single one 228 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: of them. Now, there's a lot going on with this story, 229 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: ranging from local resis csidents in Michigan opposing the plant 230 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: for various reasons, including the fact that it would take 231 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: up land that otherwise might be used for agriculture. There 232 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: are also a lot of political debates. There's also a 233 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: lot of just posturing, with various leaders coming out either 234 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: in support of Ford's decision to delay the project or 235 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: condemning the company for playing fast and loose while taxpayers 236 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: are on the hook for paying these massive subsidies that 237 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: made the deal possible in the first place. And then 238 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: there's another political angle in the form of the battery components. 239 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: A lot of those are coming out of China, so 240 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: that's become a big thing about, oh, you're enabling the 241 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: Communist Party in China by using these Chinese parts. The 242 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: entire industry uses those parts. There isn't an American equivalent, 243 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: or you know, an equivalent that's anywhere close to the 244 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: same price range is what you get out of China. 245 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: It'd be great if there were, and maybe there should 246 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: be a lot more money and time spent building that up. 247 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: That just doesn't exist right now. So a lot of 248 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: this strikes me again more as posturing than anything else, 249 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: which is infuriating, as so much hangs in the balance. 250 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye out to see how temporary this 251 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: pause actually ends up being. Reddit has announced a sort 252 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: of contributor program to encourage a contributor economy on the platform. 253 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: It's not that different from what we've seen implemented over 254 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: at x formerly known as Twitter. So Reddit always had 255 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: this sort of virtual currency, couple of them really, in 256 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: the form of gold and karma. These weren't actually useful, 257 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: but they did become something of a status symbol for 258 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: some redditors. And now Reddit announced a program in which 259 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: people can trade in their virtual currencies, their virtual points, 260 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: for actual cash. At least here in the United States. 261 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: They're rolling that out now. There are some parameters. First, 262 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: anything post in not safe for work subreddits is off limits. 263 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: So you can't just count on racking up tons of 264 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: karma by posting photos of your booty and all the 265 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: booty related subreddits. That's just not going to work. Karma 266 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: will determine your status. Specifically, post karma will determine your status. 267 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: Post karma is the karma you earn when people vote 268 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: a new post to Reddit, but comment karma, where you're 269 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: commenting on someone's post, that won't count. So if you 270 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: leave a great comment on someone else's post and you 271 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: get tons of up votes, that doesn't actually contribute to 272 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: this particular program. It's only the things that you post 273 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: to Reddit that's actually made people worry. That there's going 274 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: to be a whole lot of reposting going on as 275 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: a result of this. But that karma determines how much 276 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: each of your Reddit gold will be worth in real money, 277 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: and that gets paid out on a monthly basis. So 278 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: if you have between one hundred and four nine and 279 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: ninety nine karma, you get ninety cents for every gold 280 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: that you've accumulated that month. If your karma is five 281 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: thousand or higher, you get a whole dollar for each gold, 282 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: So I suspect this is one of Reddit's strategies to 283 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: try and get the Reddit community at large to kind 284 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: of forget about how angry they've been about changes to 285 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: reddits API. If you recall that effectively shut down several 286 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: third party Reddit apps not too long ago. The question 287 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: is will this work? Will it mollify Reddit users? I 288 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: don't know. I do know that a lot of Reddit 289 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: users already think what's going to do is make Reddit 290 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: even worse, because they do worry that it's going to 291 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: mean we're going to have a huge influx of repost 292 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: bots that just take posts that were made in certain 293 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: subredds and then post them in other subreddits. And so 294 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: you just get this flood of the same material over 295 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: and over again in an effort to game the system, 296 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: and it won't do anything meaningfully good for the actual 297 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: users on the platform. We'll have to see if that's 298 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: how it rolls out. Apple is pushing out an update 299 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: to an old phone in order to fix an issue 300 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: in France. So this has to do with how much 301 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: radio frequency radiation the iPhone twelve emits. Now, to be clear, 302 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,719 Speaker 1: there is no scientific evidence showing that radio frequency radiation 303 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: is actually dangerous. It is different from nuclear radiation. Our 304 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: f radiation isn't ionizing. It's not stripping electrons away from 305 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: atoms or anything like that. It's not doing the damage 306 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: that something like you know, nuclear radiation does. It can 307 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: mean that your RF device, like your smartphone, can get 308 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: a bit warmer if it does emit more RF radiation 309 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: than say another device would, And that's about it anyway, 310 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: just to be on the safe side. Lots of governments 311 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 1: have rules as to how much RF radiation a consumer 312 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: device can legally emit, and they're not supposed to go 313 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: beyond that. Originally, the iPhone twelve fell within those parameters 314 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: in France when it was an initially tested in France. 315 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: But something has happened since the iPhone twelve came out 316 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: three years ago. Now the RF emissions, according to French regulators, 317 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: are above the restricted level. So Apple has scrambled to 318 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: issue a software update that the company says, we'll fix 319 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: this problem. So according to Apple, the devices have not 320 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,959 Speaker 1: mysteriously started to emit more RAF radiation. They're saying, actually, 321 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: our phones haven't really changed, it's just the methodology that 322 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: French regulators are using to measure it is at fault, 323 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: but the software patch should fix things anyway. Apple certainly 324 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,719 Speaker 1: hopes that's the case at any rate, because the company 325 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: otherwise would face a country wide recall situation for iPhone 326 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: twelve owners and that would be expensive. Okay, I got 327 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: a few more news items that I got to cover 328 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: before we get to that. Let's take another quick break. 329 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: So before the break has talked about the iPhone, let's 330 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 1: talk about Android. Ours Technica reports that the upcoming Pixel 331 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 1: eight smartphone from Google will actually receive seven years of 332 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: OS support as well as security support. So that means 333 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: if you purchase a Pixel eight, Google is guaranteeing that 334 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: your phone will remain relevant and up to date for 335 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: seven years. They're not going to abandon the device, you know, 336 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 1: four or five years down the track. It may not 337 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: be able to do everything that a Pixel seven years 338 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: from now can do, like a brand new one, but 339 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: that won't be due to lack of support. Instead would 340 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: be due to limitations on the hardware itself. Right, Like, 341 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: maybe the Pixel fifteen has a special three D camera 342 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: that the Pixel eight doesn't have. Well, obviously, the Pixel 343 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: eight can't just magically sprout a new camera, but it 344 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: would get other OS updates to make it still work 345 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: with you know apps of the time. This would put 346 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: Google ahead of Apple when it comes to supporting hardware 347 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: with OS updates. Earlier, the Pixel enjoyed just three years 348 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: of OS support and five years of security patch support. 349 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: Apple in the past few generations of iPhones has supported 350 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 1: five to six years of OS updates. They don't have 351 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: a defined, or at least not a publicly communicated support policy, 352 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: so yeah, seven years is pretty significant, although I'm still 353 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: having to wait to find out if the Pixel eight 354 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: is going to have features that I think are interesting 355 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: enough to merit an upgrade for myself. I'm still sporting 356 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: a Pixel five myself. The game company, Blizzard has been 357 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 1: hard at work adding in quality of life improvements to 358 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: the game. Overwatch two, the team based competitive shooter, has 359 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 1: had a pretty rough go of it. Blizzard changed course 360 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: before releasing the game, and I had a lot of 361 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: players that were left feeling that the game they got 362 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: was a long way away from what they had been promised. 363 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: But Blizzard has kept adding improvements into the game to 364 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: create a better user experience, at least better if you're 365 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: not a troll or a cheater. For example, the company 366 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: has incorporated AI which will analyze voice chat between players. 367 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: So if someone starts using abusive language or otherwise is 368 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: using voice chat to disrupt the game, and AI system 369 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: verifies that the behavior is in fact disruptive and then 370 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: will issue a warning to that player in question. Blizzard 371 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: says that for the vast majority of players, this results 372 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: in an immediate correction of the behavior, that when they 373 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: realize someone in charge is listening, they knock that crap off. 374 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: Oh and Blizzard also says it has banned about a 375 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: quarter of a million players for cheating Yauza, and the 376 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: company is also targeting accounts that appear to team with 377 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: known cheaters, and a lot of those folks are getting 378 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: banned too. So even if you don't cheat, but you 379 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: tend to play with cheaters a lot by association, you 380 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: can get banned. I'm not sure that these moves have 381 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: actually turned the harshest critics around, but the chatter I 382 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: see among reviewers is that the game itself is pretty good. 383 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: It just suffers from the fact that the company had 384 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: made some promises it later chose to walk back. One 385 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 1: thing that happened over the weekend is that the Earth 386 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: got a delivery from space. The deliver was not door 387 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: Dash or anything like that. It was a spacecraft called 388 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: Osiris Rex, which we originally launched into space back in 389 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. The spacecraft traveled to an asteroid named Binu, 390 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: which I swear sounds like it came from a Star 391 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: Wars movie. Anyway, Osiris Rex reached Bannu in twenty eighteen. 392 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: Then it spent a couple of years flying around the 393 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: asteroid just looking for the right spot to land and sample. 394 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, the spacecraft landed on Banu scooped up 395 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: a sample of material. It stored it inside a capsule 396 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: that the spacecraft was carrying. It then launched off Banu 397 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty twenty one and started its 398 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: journey back home. It flew by Earth and released the 399 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,479 Speaker 1: capsule and then continued on its merry way to go 400 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: to a different asteroid. So scientists retrieved the caps and 401 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: they plan to study the material inside in an effort 402 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: to learn more about the early Solar System and how 403 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 1: it was formed and how it evolved, maybe even learning 404 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,199 Speaker 1: where the organic compounds that form the basis of life 405 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: came from. Really cool stuff. I may need to do 406 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: a full episode about this to talk about the extreme 407 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: care NESSA has to take to avoid contaminating the sample 408 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: before scientists can study it and search for those organic compounds. 409 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: Now we're coming up on our last full story. It 410 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: is a somewhat goofy story. There's this company called I 411 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: don't know if it's supposed to be Dictator or Dictator Dictador. 412 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 1: It's an alcohol company in Poland. It's known for producing 413 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: and selling rum. And there's a new boss in town, 414 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: a robot boss named Mica. So the robot is humanoid, 415 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: as a mannequin like head. It's got a and eyeglasses. 416 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sure why a robot would need eyeglasses, unless 417 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: the thought is it just makes it look smart, which 418 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: makes it a very shallow robot. Anyway, according to the stories, 419 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: Mica has artificial intelligence and Mica will serve as the 420 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: quote unquote CEO of the company. However, this will involve 421 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: significantly less than what your typical CEO tends to handle. 422 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: Mica will mostly oversee the decentralized autonomous organization aka the 423 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 1: TAO of this company is called art House Spirits. This 424 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 1: will involve stuff like releasing NFTs and at this point 425 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: you might be like me and thinking, Wow, sounds like 426 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,959 Speaker 1: Mica has already really missed the boat on this one 427 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: because NFTs in particular and crypto related topics in general 428 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: are not held in particular favor right now. Mika is 429 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: also supposed to help the company's spot potential clients and 430 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: design rum bottles. Don't know how Mica does that, Like, 431 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: does the robot just wander around Poland and say, hey, 432 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: you look like you like rum, why don't you drink 433 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: ours away? When it comes to actual business decisions, it'll 434 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: be a group of human executives will be calling those shots. 435 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 1: So really, this comes to me it comes across as 436 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: kind of like a mix between the Terminator and the 437 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: Hudsucker proxy. If you don't get those references, you need 438 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: to go and watch the movies. Finally, I have an 439 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: article suggestion for y'all. It's from vox dot COM's A 440 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 1: w Olheiser and the title of the article is gen 441 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. 442 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: And as I'm sure you've gathered, the article makes the 443 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: case the gen Z users, you know, people who were 444 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: born and raised after the Internet and the Web had 445 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 1: become a thing are not particularly good at avoiding Internet 446 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: based pitfalls. So the article asks some interesting questions, such 447 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: as why is a digital native a generation that were 448 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: born during this era and presumably one that's much more 449 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: aware of cybersecurity practices, why are they really bad at 450 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: actually using those practices? Personally, I think it really comes 451 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: down to how much tech the younger generation uses, like 452 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: how many apps they use and how frequently they are 453 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: on their phones or other devices and are using these 454 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: apps because the more you're using, the more points of 455 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: vulnerability you could be opening up, right, So I don't 456 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: think it's necessarily true that they are worse at cybersecurity 457 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: than old folks like myself. So gen xer is like me, 458 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: we should not be smug about this at all. If 459 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: we old fogies use the same amount of tech as 460 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: the young'ins do, I think we would probably be in 461 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: a similar spot. So I don't think it's as simple 462 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: as saying one generation is just more inherently bad at 463 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: protecting themselves than others are. But that's my opinion, So 464 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: check out the article to read up on the various 465 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: hypotheses about the matter. I'm curious what y'all think and 466 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: That is it for the Tech News for Tuesday, September 467 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty twenty three. I hope you are all 468 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: well and I'll talk to you again really soon. 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