How Does This Keep Happening?

0:00I know I'm not Riley, but I always do

0:03get into places I shouldn't. And these

0:04days, it kind of turns out I'm not the

0:06only one. I'm Brad Bennett. This is

0:08Techn. Open AAI agents have been probing

0:11US government websites, including the

0:13Census Bureau and SEC, as well as a UN

0:16data hub. And we're not talking about

0:18the fun probing your wife does to you.

0:20In some cases, the agents reportedly

0:21found exposed credentials or worked

0:23around website restrictions while

0:25pursuing their assigned tasks, giving

0:27them access to systems they weren't

0:29authorized to enter. Meanwhile,

0:31Australia revealed an OpenAI agent had

0:33accessed non-public files containing

0:36aggregated Medicare statistics, [music]

0:38prompting the government to summon the

0:39heads of OpenAI and Anthropic to

0:41Parliament. That's it. I'm going to

0:43report this to me, member of Parliament.

0:46Hey, Gus, I've got something to report

0:48to you. As you might expect, both CEOs

0:50are skipping the hearing. I can't really

0:52blame them, though. Too many deadly

0:54spiders in Australia. Still, after

0:56several of these incidents, OpenAI is

0:58now pausing training of its frontier

1:00models while it reviews security gaps

1:02and tests its safeguards. It's no wonder

1:05that Nvidia is showing off Open Shell as

1:07part of its new security platform

1:08designed to contain rogue AI agents.

1:10Jensen can only bury his head in the

1:12sand for so long before these rogue

1:14agents start to impact his bottom line.

1:16And he needs more jackets. Meta is being

1:20sued by New Mexico again. Hooray. On

1:23Friday, a Santa Fe jury found Meta

1:26liable for 26 instances of making public

1:28statements deceiving users about their

1:30privacy during the Cambridge Analytica

1:32scandal. According to the state's law,

1:34that's 26 counts of violating New

1:36Mexico's Unfair Practices Act per

1:38Facebook user. That sums up to a total

1:40of 43 million violations, each of which

1:43could carry a $5,000 fine, which would

1:46be over $219 billion in penalties that

1:49Facebook could have to pay. New Mexico

1:52isn't the only state taking swings at

1:54big tech. An Alabama lawsuit against Tik

1:56Tok was settled last week just before

1:58going to trial. The suit was

1:59specifically [music] targeted at Tik Tok

2:01for engineering their platform to be

2:03addictive to children. That settlement

2:05will require the slop factory that's

2:07been slow cooking our brains to pay at

2:09least $100 million. Tik Tok is also now

2:12obligated to add new teen safety

2:14features, which include a 2-hour daily

2:16limit, a blackout from midnight to 6:00

2:18a.m., a forced [music] pause after 15

2:20minutes of use, and a ban on cosmetic

2:23procedure filters.

2:24>> Oh no, the teens are going to be ugly

2:26again.

2:27>> At least Apple's adding skin filtering

2:28right into its camera app. We're getting

2:31there one way or another. It also

2:33requires the addition of an optin

2:34feature which will allow teens to turn

2:36off Tik Tok's hyperaddicting

2:38personalized feed. This is expected to

2:40be the beginning of a wave of similar

2:42cases as at least 27 other states have

2:45similar suits filed. Pretty soon, Tik

2:47Tok is going to wish courtrooms came

2:49with a 2-hour daily limit. Incompetent

2:51surveillance company Flock Safety is

2:53taking legal action against an

2:55independent researcher who published a

2:57map of all Flock surveillance cameras.

2:59The map that Flock doesn't want you

3:01looking at can be seen at flocks

3:02surveillance.org and it shows over

3:04300,000 cameras nationwide, which

3:07[music] is a bit of an issue for Flock,

3:09who publicly stated in the summer that

3:10it only had 120,000 cameras. What the

3:14is going on? The company that built

3:16an unconstitutional surveillance network

3:18controlled by the weirdest and sweatiest

3:20billionaires in the world lied to us. My

3:22worldview is rocked right now. Crazy.

3:26The researcher evidently found an

3:28exposed access token on a public

3:30endpoint that required no login and was

3:32able to use it to pull the map data for

3:34all of Flock's devices from the

3:35company's mapping platform. The timing

3:37was not ideal for Flock because the map

3:40was published just before the Senate

3:42subcommittee hearing that was convened

3:44to discuss the issues of Flock's

3:45surveillance network. The CEOs of Flock,

3:48Axon, Motorola, and Verata, all the

3:51companies who make mass surveillance

3:52cameras turning America into a giant

3:54episode of Big Brother, were invited to

3:56attend. But they pussied out hard.

3:59Speaking of the CEO of Flock is

4:01getting a taste of his own medicine.

4:03[music] After going on TV and saying

4:04that Americans obsessing over privacy

4:06are quote unquote prioritizing the wrong

4:08thing, he got savagely doxed online. His

4:12response was to prioritize his privacy

4:14by blurring out his house on Google

4:16Street View, opting out of the

4:18panopticon that he's been championing,

4:19which a bunch of people then marked as a

4:22public toilet on Google Maps. [music]

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5:11I've been trying to get a game of D and

5:13D going with the quick bits for a while

5:15now, but they all just want to roleplay

5:16as elderly men. I [music] don't know,

5:18but I guess when your life is as

5:20exciting as theirs, you role play by

5:22just slowing it down a little bit.

5:24[music] Not today, though. We're going

5:25quick. Apple just got hit with a $5.7

5:28billion lawsuit for infringing on two

5:30patents with its Taptic Engine. The

5:32patents and the fat payday are held by

5:35headphone and gaming peripheral maker

5:36Taction. The suit was originally filed

5:39back in 2021 and [music] after over 5

5:41years of kicking around the court

5:43system. A federal jury in San Diego

5:45found that only after two days of

5:47deliberation that Apple infringed on the

5:49patents. Taxction may be waiting a bit

5:51longer though as Apple has said it plans

5:53to appeal the verdict. You hear that

5:55taxion? Apple doesn't play that. We

5:58stole our whole OS from Xerox in 1984.

6:01You think you can make us pay you?

6:04Cub, a French high-end computer brand,

6:06was reportedly commissioned to make a

6:08fanless 24 karat gold mini PC for about

6:111.7 million buckaroonies. The tiny

6:14computer weighs nearly 29 lb. Gold does

6:17offer fast heat transfer. However,

6:19copper would conduct heat even better

6:21and cost way less. In this economy, it

6:24tracks that PC building has hit levels

6:26of excess not seen since early 2000s hip

6:29hop. I guess I'd take a golden PC over

6:31gold chains, gold grills, and gold rims.

6:33Put this golden PC in my 1999 Mercury

6:36Cougar exhibit. Pimp that ride.

6:38>> Yo, dog, we put a GPU on your GPU.

6:43>> As long as it's gold, I'll put it in

6:44there. Co-pilot prompts are being

6:46reviewed by human contractors who end up

6:48seeing disturbing and bizarre stuff.

6:50This chestnut is still happening. Jeez.

6:54This report comes from 404 media who

6:56previously found that OpenAI has humans

6:58doing similar work reviewing chat GPT

7:00chats. The co-pilot contractors

7:03described dealing with dubiously

7:04consensual images, pro-anorexia content,

7:07and other dark requests that made the

7:09contractors recoil. One contractor even

7:12questioned how to take the job seriously

7:14when they spend their time judging which

7:16model generates appropriately sized

7:19boobies.

7:22Yeah, just another tough day at the

7:24booby mine.

7:26GPU thieves raided the warehouse of an

7:28autonomous trucking company, plus AI to

7:30steal two trailers they thought were

7:32full of Nvidia chips, only to find the

7:34trailers contained 40,000 lb of sand.

7:37The thieves probably assumed the

7:39trailers were full of GPUs because they

7:40had Nvidia branding on them.

7:42Unfortunately for the thieves though,

7:44that was because Plus AI is partnered

7:46with Nvidia, which they learned when

7:48they opened the backs and found the

7:49literal tons of sand they use as ballast

7:51when testing their autonomous trucks.

7:54That's something everyone has to learn

7:55at some point. What it says in the box

7:57isn't necessarily what's in the box.

8:00It's like animal crackers, for example.

8:02Those aren't real animals.

8:04>> What?

8:05>> Yeah. and Muse. Meta's AI agent was

8:08assigned to handle a Facebook

8:10Marketplace sale. And naturally, things

8:12went off the rail when it accepted

8:14lowball offers without the seller's

8:16approval. Worse, [music] Muse handed up

8:18seller's home address without

8:19permission. When confronted, the chatbot

8:22apologized and agreed with the seller.

8:24I'm so sorry. I can totally see how

8:27giving away your address led to someone

8:28breaking in and harming you. That is on

8:31me. Thank you, though, for holding me

8:33accountable. [music] I know I'll be

8:35holding you accountable if you're not

8:36back here on Friday for more tech news.

8:38Wednesday is a stat holiday here in

8:40Canada and I've got to go get some dice

8:42sets for the quick bits. But I just

8:44don't know what color screams I'm role

8:46playinging as an old man. I don't know,

8:47[music] something about get off my lawn.

8:50Is that a color?