WEBVTT - Tech News: Google Bard Hits a Wrong Note 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.800 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.840 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.480 Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.560 And how the tech are you. It's time for the 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:28.280 tech news for Thursday, February nine, and I almost said Tuesday, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.120 because I don't know what day it is anymore. And 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.839 it's time to get those AI chat bought news items 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.839 out of the way. First thing, these have been obviously 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.680 the big news throughout the beginning of this year. Now, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.760 as I mentioned earlier this week, both Microsoft and Google 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.360 have launched kind of an invitation only test of their 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.120 respective AI chat bought tools. Microsoft is taking advantage of 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.200 chat GPT, that's the chat bought everyone has heard about. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.880 But there are some inferences with the Microsoft version. Standard 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:07.760 chat GPT cannot give up to date responses. You wouldn't 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.720 be able to get information about, say the recent earthquake 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:16.399 in Turkey, for example. The information that chat GPT the 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.080 Vanilla brand draws from is a couple of years old. However, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:25.360 the Microsoft version is able to reference current events, so 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.199 you could ask about stuff that's happening in the news. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.520 Now that's potentially good being able to get us accinct 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.039 summary of what's going on could be a really valuable tool, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.319 but it can also spell trouble for news organizations. You know, 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.040 if they're not getting traffic because people are just getting 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.760 the news from an AI chat butt, that could mean 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.520 that they start seeing less and less revenue and then 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.560 ultimately they could go out of business. Ironically, these are 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.960 the institutions that are creating the data that the chat 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.000 bots able to pull from in the first place. However, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.960 it could also mean that summary could end up being 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.640 very biased depending upon which news sources the chat bought 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.519 is pulling from when it's formulating a response. If it's 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.639 a far left or far right leaning news source, then 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:17.400 you're probably not going to get an objective account of 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.399 what's going on in the news, and so that could 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.200 be a really big problem down the line. Now I'm 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.960 on waitlist for access to the Microsoft version, which, by 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.200 the way, you can only access if you're using Microsoft's 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.799 browser Edge, which is you know, obviously an attempt for 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.120 Microsoft to try and get some some market share away 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.440 from Google and to claim some of that for their 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:49.000 own by keeping this being search result AI chat bot 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:54.120 integration contained to the Edge browser. But anyway, I'm on 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.960 the wait list. I have not received access to it, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.400 so I don't have any firsthand experience. But you know, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.400 I did test out some of the example questions and 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.880 being so you, as a normal user, you can go 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.040 to Being through Edge and have some access to this, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.800 but only by submitting sample questions that have already been written. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.480 So I did that and what I saw was that 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.360 the results came back where you have search results in 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.040 the main part of the screen on the left hand side, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.160 and then the right hand column you have the AI 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.320 generated response, so they're side by side. I think that's 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.800 a wise decision. It means that the search results are 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.040 not outright eliminated. But whether or not folks will go 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.120 beyond AI generated responses and start clicking on links remains 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.560 to be seen. Anyway, Microsoft impressed a lot of folks 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.000 with this announcement and the early access. Now let's contrast 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.640 that with Google, which has had a much rougher week now. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.440 As I mentioned earlier, Google had sort of rushed its 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.840 own AI chat bot, which is now called Barred, into 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.960 an invitation only beta test earlier this week, in anticipation 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:10.560 of Microsoft's announcement of chat GPT. Then yesterday Google promoted 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.600 the barred chat butt, but in that outing, the AI 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.600 made a boo boo. So when it was asked to 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.960 list things that the James Webb Space Telescope had managed 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:26.240 to do so far, the barred AI chat butt included 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.919 a bullet point saying that the James Webb Space Telescope 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.640 took the very first picture of an exo planet, so 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.680 a planet that's outside of our own solar system. The 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:40.000 problem is that's wrong. The very first image of an 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.320 exo planet pre dates the James Webb Space Telescope. It 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.360 happened almost twenty years ago. But Bard presented the bullet 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.920 item as if it were a fact, something that chat 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.440 GPT critics have said is a huge problem with chat 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.840 GPT as well. In fact, for all these AI applications, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.920 that's the problem is that they present information in such 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.960 way that it seems authoritative and definitive, when in fact 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.400 it may be incorrect. Well, Google stock went tumbling, had 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.800 dropped from around a hundred six dollars per share down 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.920 to ninety eight dollars per share, and you might think, wow, okay, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.080 ten dollars, that's big, but it's not. You know, how 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.040 much could that be collectively? Well, collectively, if you measure 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.719 it across all the shares of Google that are out there, 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.480 it means that the company effectively lost a hundred billion 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:33.040 dollars in value Yawza, Microsoft Scores and early victory in 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.760 the Chat Bought search wars. Though I would caution anyone 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.359 in Redwood from celebrating just yet, as chat gpt is 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.080 very much capable of giving wrong answers with conviction, just 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.200 as Barred has done. It is better to continue to 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.000 stress that these tools are in development, they are not 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.719 trustworthy by a long shot. On a related note, I 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.919 also saw that Kun'lan Tech, the parent company behind the 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.599 web browser Opera, plans to incorporate chat gpt into Opera 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.159 itself in the future. There are scarce details as to 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.640 the extent to which chat gpt will play a role 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.080 in Opera, and I also don't have really any information 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.160 on a timeline for when this could be rolled out, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.240 but it is interesting that Opera, which is a niche 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:25.039 web browser, is waiting into this competitive field. Currently, Opera 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.720 ranks as the sixth most popular browser in the world 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.320 and has a market share of two point four percent. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:37.000 Compare that to Google Chrome. This is the dominant web 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.599 browser in the world and has a sixty five point 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.039 four percent market share, so more than half of all 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.479 web browsers being used our Google Chrome. Now Microsoft is 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.480 hoping to take a serious chunk out of Google because 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.839 again it's chat GPT bing search tool is only available 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.560 if you're using the Edge browser. So we'll have to 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.080 see if this changes things, or if in fact chat 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.760 gpt just doesn't have the legs. Vice has a really 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.280 interesting article about a very odd quirk chat gpt appears 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.720 to have. The article has the title quote chat gpt 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.840 can be broken by entering these strange words and nobody 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.960 is sure why end quote, And yeah, that kind of 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.000 summarizes the story. But the strange words in particular appear 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.360 to be user names from places like Reddit and Twitch 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.040 and that sort of stuff, and they include stuff like 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:38.800 solid gold, magic harp, and streamer bought. Researchers discovered a 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.960 bank of around one hundred odd words or user names 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.400 while they were probing chat gpt. They were trying to 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:52.040 determine what sort of prompts create the most reliable results, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.760 and in the process they kind of uncovered this treasure 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.120 trove of bizarre words that chat GPT just doesn't seem 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.400 to understand what to do with. Now, chat GPT can 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.280 compose text that will include words that are similar to 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.160 the one hundred or so odd ones that the researchers found, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.160 but they discovered if they put those actual names into 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.520 a prompt, it would create an odd response from chat GPT. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.320 For example, they said that when they submitted streamer bought 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:29.160 to chat GPT, it replied, you're a jerk. Now, that's 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.360 very funny, but obviously it's also puzzling. What would prompt 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.520 chat GPT to call you a jerk just for saying 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.520 streamer bought to it? Other words would either create no 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.880 response at all, or chat GPT would totally misinterpret whatever 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.959 it was. It would not be able to repeat these 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.280 words if you told it to repeat them. Uh. In 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:57.000 one case, it converted a user name into a number. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.400 It treated the user name as if it were a number, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.800 and if you asked questions about the user name, it 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.640 would answer as if it were a number. Now, the 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.080 researchers admit they are not sure what's going on here, 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.200 As the title of the piece suggests, they suspect that 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.280 this could be from open AI using sites like Reddit 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.640 as a data source to crawl through and gather information. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.280 According to one of these researchers, several of the user 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.480 handles were actually found to be participants in a Reddit 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:32.199 thread where people in the thread are counting to infinity 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:37.600 reply by reply, like each reply increases the number by one. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.280 Maybe that's why when the researchers asked about the Nitrome 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.760 Fan they discovered the chat GPT interpreted that as the 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.679 number two, like the Nitrome Fan meant two, So I 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.280 guess you would have blink the Nitrome Fan as a 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.920 band that I don't really like very much. And sure, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.920 this might all sound trivial, but the researchers have pointed 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.959 out that they want to understand why a chat bought 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:08.199 might pick certain information over other while creating a response, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.080 what kind of information would cause a chat about to break, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.120 because that's important to understand and also for us to 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.640 get a better grip on how accurate, reliable, and trustworthy 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.920 the AI is at any given time, as well as 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.280 get insight into the types of sources that the AI 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.360 relies upon important questions to answer. Okay, we're gonna take 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.760 a quick break. When we come back, we're gonna segue 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.440 away from all this AI stuff and talk about Twitter 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:48.120 for a little bit. Okay, we're back. If you were 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.679 on Twitter yesterday, you might have encountered some weirdness going on. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.520 Some users ended up seeing a message that said you 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.079 are over the daily limit for sending tweets, even though 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.200 they hadn't posted anything up to that point. Twitter does 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.000 in fact have a daily limit on tweets, but it 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.400 is a very high limit. I'm talking two thousand, four 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.079 hundred messages. There's also a limit on direct messages per 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.360 day that's five hundred, and you're also limited to how 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.360 many people you can follow in a day that's four hundred. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.280 These policies are largely an effort to stave off particularly 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.480 active spam bots. Your average person is not likely to 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.400 send that many messages. I mean, a hundred messages per 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.160 hour on average is asking a bit much, even for me. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.800 So it was certainly strange when users started to get 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.800 message saying they had hit these limits, and it prompted 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.520 speculation that perhaps Twitter was going to impose strict limits 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.680 and then you would have to subscribe to a paid 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:54.240 Twitter account in order to increase those limits. But honestly, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.800 it just ended up being a glitch. And I know 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.880 that Twitter has made a lot of decisions that would 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.480 lead you to think, oh, they're gonna charge you if 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.839 you want to post more than ten times a day, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.600 but that does not appear to be the case as 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.480 far as anyone outside of Twitter is where there is 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.040 no plan to do that. So Elon Musk also sent 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.719 out a message to Twitter employees that urged them to 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.280 kind of put projects on hold for the moment and 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:22.800 instead prioritize making sure that Twitter is stable and that 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.600 it's performing properly. He also cited the fact that the 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.200 Big Game, you know, the American football big game that 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.240 has a trademark name that I have been told I 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.040 cannot use, is happening this weekend and people are bound 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.240 to be on Twitter talking about all the commercials and 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.960 also the game, because you know, I understand there are 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.440 people who really take those games very seriously. This is 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.840 me not really joking about sports fans. I'm more joking 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.960 about how I'm just a person who never got into sports. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.959 I think sports fans who are passionate about the sports 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.559 they love, that's awesome. Um, I just I just am 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.199 not one of them. But it's a big shocking revelation. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.000 I knew you weren't expecting it anyway. I'm sure that 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.360 Twitter staff are going to have their hands full keeping 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.200 the ship afloat during one of the busiest days for 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:15.000 social networks, and that's got to be hard considering the 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.040 reduced workforce that still remains at Twitter. The UK and 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.040 the US have imposed sanctions against leaders in the Russian 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.800 hacker group called trick Mott, which hasn't been as active recently, 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.720 but in the past has been responsible for some massive 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:35.080 ransomware attacks on vulnerable targets, most notably healthcare facilities. Hackers 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:39.000 will frequently concentrate on healthcare companies because their services are 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.280 literally matters of life and death, so there's a strong 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.840 incentive for these targets to concede to ransom demands because 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:51.600 the consequences could be deadly. UK and US officials have 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.480 also alleged that this hacker group has official ties with 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.120 Russian intelligence, which would mean they are a state sponsored 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.520 hacker group. And you might wonder what good sanctions in 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.560 the UK and the US are going to do against 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.560 these hackers who are based out of Russia, which is 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.560 a country that already has heavy sanctions against it for 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.439 numerous reasons, and according to the officials, the goal is 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.000 really to make it harder for the hackers to launder 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.120 money from their ransomware attacks, which would potentially make them 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.920 easier to catch and harder for Russian officials to ignore. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.480 A couple of electric vehicle startup companies called Rivian and 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.000 pole Star recently commissioned a climate study from the consulting 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.160 firm Kearney, and the results of that study prompted the 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.800 startups to announce that the automotive industry needs some serious 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:42.120 changes beyond the electrification of the vehicles they offer in 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.800 order to make a real DNT in carbon emissions. And 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.200 we've been seeing a lot of companies commit to producing 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.840 more electric vehicles recently, particularly as states and countries are 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.960 passing laws that are going to require all new vehicles 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.120 sold within their borders to be something other than traditional 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.520 internal combustion engine vehicles. But the startups argue that to 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.160 really make meaningful change, the industry as a whole has 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:09.080 to address the entire supply chains contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.600 That includes things like the mining of the minerals you 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.880 need in order to make batteries and further that even 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.280 with the electrification of vehicles, we're moving far too slowly 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.000 to meet important goals outlined by the Paris Agreement. The 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.280 report is actually pretty grim. Uh. It sounds like it's 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.600 impossible to meet the Paris goals without a much more 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.800 drastic change than what countries like the United States have 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.520 already committed to, and it's not likely that these countries 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.640 are going to uh increase that commitment. The implications for 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.920 that are really sobering because it means that we will 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.000 fail to limit global warming to a further one point 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.200 five degrees celsius and the impact of climate change will 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.920 be greater because of that. And as the startups are stressing, 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.640 every year that passes with us not doing what is 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.040 necessary means that what is necessary will become even harder 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.680 to do. It will grow and become more imperative for 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.240 us to do something about it. We're really just making 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.280 it harder for ourselves and more importantly, on future generations. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.760 According to this report, The Wall Street Journal reports that 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.760 users in certain Facebook groups in India have been using 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.120 the platform to offer guns for sale. The groups in 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.920 question are related to an extremist Hindu organization that the 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.600 c i A alleges is connected with violent attacks against 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.520 Muslims in India. Now, private gun sales between citizens is 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.040 a big no no in Facebook's terms of service, and yet, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.920 when an Indian activist brought these posts to Meta's attention, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.440 he received a response that said the posts actually didn't 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.320 violate any of Facebook's policies. However, when the Wall Street 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.240 Journal started to ask Meta questions about how that could 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.840 possibly be the case, the posts offering guns for sale 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.880 were suddenly removed. Meta essentially said, these posts violated Facebook policies, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.400 and we take that kind of stuff down when we 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.440 find out about it. Except they had already found out 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.359 about it because the activists had reported it. I guess 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.479 you just need to insert cricket chirping sound here. Various 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.760 activist groups have long pointed out that Meta's content moderation 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.840 practices have a lot to be desired in many regions 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.159 around the globe, particularly in places where English is not 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.920 the dominant language. And to make matters even stickier for Meta, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.160 India is home to more than a billion people, and 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.080 a whole lot of them use Meta products like Facebook 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.639 and WhatsApp. So the picture of the Wall Street Journal 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:41.399 paints is that despite this large user base, Meta really 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.800 is failing to enforce its policies in India. Finally, some 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.520 light news. This week, Nintendo held one of its Nintendo 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.879 Direct events and showed off some upcoming titles, including the 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.240 highly anticipated and delayed sequel to the legend of Zelda 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.640 game Breath of the Wild. The sequel is called Tears 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.760 of the King, and Nintendo released a trailer to give 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.040 players a hint of what to expect, and it looks real, 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.679 moody and epic. Y'all. You get a real Lord of 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.760 the Rings s ron kind of vibe going with the 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.280 the villain and uh saying that the entire kingdom of 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.000 High Rule is going to get wiped out. And we 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:23.040 get some shots of Link in action doing cool stuff 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.520 like writing a quad copter like device and fighting various monsters, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.560 as well as some cut scene clips. And we also 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.160 got the release date of May twelve of this year, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.560 and it looks pretty cool now. I say that as 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.439 someone who hasn't played a Zelda game since Okarina of 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.720 Time that was my last one because I'm old. Nintendo 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:47.280 also announced a remaster of Metroid Prime that's available on 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.840 the Shop, the digital store for the Nintendo Switch right now. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.760 Nintendo also announced that Switch Online players will be able 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.040 to access a library of games that were originally designed 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.960 for the game Boy and the game Boy Advance. That 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.800 really takes me back. You could finally play Tetris the 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.199 way it was meant to be played a k a. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.840 The way I played it. Nintendo announced several other titles 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.199 and releases, and you should definitely pop online when you 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.160 can and find the full presentation. If you're a big 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.399 Nintendo fan, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. That's it for 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.560 the news for Thursday, February nine. I hope you are 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.520 all well. Make sure you reach out to me with 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.520 anything you would like to hear in future episodes of 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.160 tech Stuff. You do that on Twitter if it's up. 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.480 The handel for tech Stuff is tech Stuff hs W. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:43.439 I'll talk to you again really soon. Tex Stuff is 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.639 an I Heart Radio production. For more podcasts from I 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.320 Heart Radio, visit the i Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.439 or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.