(soft rhythmic music)
- And you may ask ourselves, where is my tech news?
It's here. It's here.
It's starting now, go get, calm down.
It's starting.
- [Man, off camera] This is not my beautiful wife.
- So demanding!
USB standards have become increasingly confusing,
to the point where one can't be sure
whether the fastest version
is currently called USB 3.1 gen 2 or USB 3.2 gen 2 X 2.
Very easily differentiatable
and I guess the HDMI forum thinks that's a good thing.
- [Man, off camera] Challenge accepted.
- Because as TFT central recently reported
the latest update to the video standard
rolls all the specs for HDMI 2.0
into HDMI 2.1,
meaning monitors could be advertised with HDMI 2.1 support,
while not supporting the full HDMI 2.1 feature set,
such as, - - [Man off camera] So useful,
thank you.
- [Riley] 4K 120 Hertz or variable refresh rate.
- [Man, off camera] I wanted this.
- The HDMI forum told TFT central,
it will be up to manufacturers
to state which HDMI 2.1 features the device supports,
which honestly sounds so much simpler,
'cause HDMI 2.0 is just like, a word, man.
And words are all made up,
which is why I usually communicate
primarily through facial expressions and grunts.
(Riley grunting and belching)
Could you believe I just said that?
A critical vulnerability discovered last week
in an extremely common open source logging utility
called LOG4J...
- [Man, off camera] It sounds like...
- Log for Jesus (cross talk)
The vulnerability continues to threaten
huge swathes of the internet,
including services by Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare,
Steam, Tesla, Twitter and even Baidu.
I know you were gonna say it's China that did this,
but they wouldn't hack themselves.
- [Man, off camera] They've been cracking down on big tech.
- The LOG4J flaw was originally spotted
being actively exploited on Minecraft servers last week
and can potentially allow hackers full control
over effected systems.
While patches are being rolled out,
the utility is so pervasive that it could still be exploited
as evidenced by researchers,
demonstrating vulnerabilities in iPhones and Tesla cars,
that can be triggered with a simple name change.
Massive HR provider Kronos
has also just been hit with a ransomware attack,
but we don't even know if that was a LOG4J thing.
We don't know anything.
It's time to panic.
No,
calm down.
- [Man, off camera] I have all the toilet paper I need.
(Riley chuckling)
There are steps you can take to protect yourself.
Just kidding, you basically have to wait for these companies
to patch their systems.
Thankfully, the past two years have done a great job
preparing me mentally for constant invisible threats.
So I'm fine.
And Toyota has pulled a fast one on its customers
who have been enjoying the ability
to remote start their cars with their key fob, since 2018.
Some Toyota owners have discovered
they were only able to use this feature,
thanks to a free three-year trial
of the company's remote connect subscription
that was in the fine print.
- [Man, off camera] Read the fine print, baby.
- And to continue using this feature,
they need to pay $8 per month or $80 a year.
Confusingly, cars built before November 12th, 2018
can continue using remote start, without a subscription,
because that's when Toyota stopped billing
3G networking tech into their vehicles.
So,
hurray for them.
So confused as to why I would have to pay Toyota
to use a remote that communicates directly with my car,
especially when I've spent a lot of time with her
and probably know her way better than Toyota does
at this point.
I love her.
(man off camera speaking indistinctly)
- Back off.
Get your own car, Toyota.
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You're more important than any quick bit could ever be.
But the quick bit's already booked this part of the episode,
so we have to...
you have to leave.
- [Man, off camera] You understand?
- Apple has done yet another kind of un-apple thing
and released an Android app called Tracker Detect,
which will let users detect nearby air tags,
that may be being used, to stalk them.
- [Man, off camera] Oh, they did it.
- [Riley] Were you excited?
- [Man, off camera] I didn't think they'd do it.
- I've so many stalkers.
If the app detects a nearby air tag has been following you
for 10 minutes,
you can use it to force the tracker to play a sound
so you can find it.
What you then do with it is up to you.
I would make a fish swallow it
and release it into the river.
- [Man, off camera] And then kiss the fish
and it becomes a prince.
- Ooh.
Hey Tesla!
Did you hear Mercedes-Benz just got certified
as the world's first car maker
to get regulatory approval
for a level three self-driving system,
which more or less allows drivers
to actually not pay attention to the road,
unlike the level two systems in other cars.
Tesla, did you hear about that?
Pretty cool, huh?
You should probably get Elon to uninstall Twitter.
Turns out Sony did have a reason to hound Dbrand
over its PS5 replacement plates.
As the console maker just announced
official PS5 console covers
along with DualSense controller covers
in a handful of colors.
- [Man, off camera] Are they plastic?
- These ones don't have the extra ventilation holes
of Dbrand's dark plates,
but they do have names like galactic purple
and cosmic red and they're official.
So they probably look so good on Kratos' PS5,
especially when he kicks Atreus' off,
so he can play.
(Riley imitating Kratos)
You damned play the game.
The Halo franchise is well-known
for enabling silly sandbox gameplay
and Infinite is no exception.
Allowing players to do wacky things
like grapple a warthog you just rocketed,
so you can basically fly.
Well, 343 has no intention of patching out
anything that allows you to do that,
even if it lets players do very, very silly things.
Meaning that Halo Infinite
may very well take over Breath of the Wild's reputation,
for enabling some insane stuff out there in the open fields.
Hyrule's being invaded by the covenant.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just got to see,
if I can gravity hammer this ghost into space, one second.
Ah, boom.
Dennis is not gonna edit anything in there.
- [Man, off camera] Killtacular.
- And batteries made out of wood.
It's not a joke.
They're being developed by a Swedish company called Ligna,
(Man off camera laughing)
- [Man, off camera] Ligna balls.
(Riley laughing)
- But why are they doing this?
Because quote...
- World is boiling.
- And,
and so,
wood batteries.
And we're going to boil if we stand here all day,
so come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
It will not be boiled.
It's probably gonna do something
a little more interesting with it.
- [Man, off camera] Simmering.
- Saute, a little bit of a...
- [Man, Off Camera] Deglaze. - Flambe.