June 20, 2025 • 58 mins
Welcome to this episode of The JMOR Tech Talk Show with me, John C. Morley, Serial Entrepreneur and Podcast Coach.Each week, I break down the biggest tech stories and trends that are shaping our world—from groundbreaking AI breakthroughs to epic industry rivalries. This episode delivers 14 must-know updates, combining cutting-edge innovation with real-world impact, so you stay informed and inspired. Whether you’re a tech pro or just curious, I’m here to make it simple, relevant, and exciting. Let’s dive in!1️⃣ 🤖 Nvidia’s AI Cloud Revolution Starts in GermanyNvidia is leading a bold new wave in AI by launching its first industrial AI cloud in Germany, aiming to transform automotive, pharmaceutical, and robotics industries. This massive initiative includes 20 AI factories and a tenfold increase in Europe’s computing power. Nvidia’s partnership with AI startup Mistral pushes the envelope with multilingual models and quantum computing research, marking a pivotal moment for European tech sovereignty and global AI leadership.2️⃣ 🎮 Nintendo Switch 2 Sets Record: 3.5M Sold in 4 DaysNintendo has crushed expectations with the Switch 2 selling over 3.5 million units in just four days—making it the fastest-selling console in company history. Featuring a larger screen, stunning graphics, and new games like Mario Kart World, the Switch 2 is redefining gaming both at home and on the go. Nintendo projects 15 million sales by year-end, building on the original Switch’s monumental legacy.3️⃣ 🏛️ Supreme Court Lets Elon’s DOGE Tap U.S. Social DataIn a controversial ruling, the Supreme Court cleared Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access sensitive Social Security Administration data, overruling privacy objections from unions and civil rights advocates. This decision ignites critical debates on government transparency, individual privacy, and the limits of data use—all while temporarily shielding DOGE from freedom of information requests.4️⃣ 🎬 Disney & Universal Go to War with AI Art GeneratorHollywood’s biggest studios have launched a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, accusing the AI art platform of copyright infringement for creating unauthorized images of iconic characters. This battle highlights the growing tension between creative industries and AI-generated content, raising urgent questions about intellectual property, artistic rights, and the future of AI in entertainment.5️⃣ 💘 Would You Date Based on Your Browser History?A new experimental dating site uses AI to match singles based on their browser histories rather than curated profiles or photos. By analyzing recent search data, it creates “browsing personality profiles” aiming for rawer, more authentic connections. This fresh approach challenges traditional dating norms but also raises significant privacy concerns and debates about digital identity.6️⃣ 🎮 Blind Gamer Ross Minor Is Changing the IndustryRoss Minor lost his sight as a child but has become a pioneering gamer, content creator, and industry consultant. His work not only inspires but also drives important conversations on accessibility and inclusion in gaming, showing that disability doesn’t limit passion or expertise—and encouraging developers to build games everyone can enjoy.7️⃣ 🏠 Google Quietly Drops 9 Smart Home Features—Here’s What’s NewWithout much fanfare, Google released nine new features in its Home app, enhancing smart home control. Highlights include picture-in-picture support for Nest cameras on Google TV, AI-powered automations via the Gemini app, and more intuitive device management. These updates make connected living smoother and smarter, appealing to tech-savvy homeowners ready for the next level of automation.8️⃣ 🍏 Apple’s Liquid Glass Look Is Stunning, But Where’s the AI Fire?Apple unveiled a sleek ‘Liquid Glass’ design alongside AI updates at WWDC, but critics say the AI tools fall short of truly revolutionary. While the aesthetics dazzle, tech enthusiasts and investors ali
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Tech Talk Show with me, John C.
Morley, serial entrepreneur, podcast coach and host, video
producer, many other things.
And each week, I break down the biggest
tech stories and trends that are shaping our
world from groundbreaking AI breakthroughs to epic industry
rivalries.
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This episode delivers 14 must-know updates combining
cutting-edge innovation with real-world impact so
you can stay informed and inspired, whether you're
a tech pro or just curious.
I'm here to make it simple, relevant and
exciting.
So you're ready, guys?
Let's dive in.
Well, NVIDIA's AI cloud revolution starts in Germany,
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if you didn't know.
NVIDIA is leading a bold new wave in
AI by launching its first industrial AI cloud
in Germany, aiming to transform the automotive, pharmaceutical
and robotics industries.
Wow, that's a tongue twister.
Say that a few times fast.
This massive initiative includes 20 AI factories and
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a tenfold increase in Europe's computing power.
Now, NVIDIA's partnership with the AI startup Mistral
pushes the envelope with multilingual models and quantum
computing research, basically marking a pivotal moment for
European tech sovereignty and global AI leadership.
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And I think that's a really, really big
thing for anyone, no matter where you are
in the world.
And so at the Vivatech conference in Paris,
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's first
industrial AI cloud platform in Germany, aimed at
transforming the industries like, as I said, the
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automotive, pharmaceuticals and others by integrating AI with
robotics.
Now, as part of an aggressive European expansion,
NVIDIA will build quite a few AI factories
to boost its computational capacity in Europe, tenfold
within two years, and collaborate with AI leader
Mistral.
The initiative includes support for multilingual AI model
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development and drug discovery.
Huang emphasized the urgency of sovereign AI and
hinted at quantum computing breakthroughs ahead.
So that's just one thing, guys.
And I think it's amazing how all this
stuff is starting to transform our world and
where it's going.
I think that's a real amazing thing.
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And I hope that you will appreciate where
it's going.
And ladies and gentlemen, the Nintendo Switch 2
sets a record.
3.5 million.
Now, that's not dollars.
That's 3.5 million units were sold in
just four days.
Nintendo really crushed the expectations with the Switch
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2, selling with the 3.5 million units
in just the four days, making it the
fastest selling console in company history.
Wow.
Featuring a large screen, stunning graphics, and new
games like Mario Kart World, the Switch 2
is redefining gaming both at home and on
the go.
Nintendo projects right now that they'll have 15
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million sales by year end, building in addition
to their original Switch's monumental legacy.
And that's pretty cool.
So when Nintendo had announced that its newly
launched Switch 2 had become the company's fastest
selling console ever, people didn't believe it.
The upgrade device features, as I said, a
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larger screen and many other things.
But with Nintendo forecasting 15 million Switch 2
units being sold by the end of the
fiscal year, that's pretty amazing.
And on the legacy of the original Switch,
which had only sold 152 million units globally
since 2017, Nintendo Switch 2 smashes the record
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as the company's fastest selling console.
And I think it really had people crazed
because they had to wait in line and
they couldn't get it right away.
So I think this was definitely a really,
really big, big, big, big thing.
And ladies and gentlemen, the Supreme Court lets
Elon's Dodge, I should say, it's really a
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Dodge, tap the U.S. social data.
In a controversial ruling, the Supreme Court cleared
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, Dodge, to
access sensitive Social Security Administration data.
Overruling privacy objections from unions and civil rights
advocates, this decision ignites critical debates on government
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transparency, individual privacy, and the limits of data
use, all while temporarily shielding Dodge from freedom
of information request.
I think this is absolutely like bonkers.
It's crazy that they're allowing this to happen.
I don't think this should be allowed.
I know many companies are saying, well, you
know, everyone has access to data, so we
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might as well just allow it.
Well, that doesn't mean it's right.
If one person's jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge,
does that mean everyone should jump off?
No, it does not mean that at all.
But I think sometimes people get stuck in
doing things for the wrong reason.
And the Supreme Court, like I said, cleared
Dodge for Social Security data.
And the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
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favor of the Trump administration's Department of Government
Efficiency.
That's what Dodge is.
It allows it to access sensitive Social Security
Administration data, despite objections from unions and privacy
advocates.
The conservative majority court lifted a lower court
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injunction, enabling Dodge, founded by Elon Musk, to
pursue its goal of modernizing government systems and
combating waste and fraud.
Now, the decision faced strong dissent from liberal
justices, as you would imagine, who warned it
risks Americans' privacy rights.
The ruling also temporarily shields Dodge from freedom
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of information requests as ongoing litigation continues, highlighting
the escalating legal and political tensions surrounding data
access and government transparency.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, here's what's going to
happen.
This is what I predict, okay?
They're going to let Dodge go through and
do everything that they think is great.
And then once a major lawsuit hits, guess
what?
Then everybody's going to back up and be
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like, well, wait a minute.
Like, I didn't know.
Like, we didn't know.
And then it's going to change the rules,
right?
That's always how things happen, just like what's
happening with Google, right?
That's no surprise.
And number four for this week, hot on
the burners, is Disney.
Yes, Hollywood, Disney, and Universal go to war
with the AI art generator.
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Hollywood's biggest studios have launched a landmark lawsuit
against who?
Mid Journey.
Accusing the AI art platform of copyright infringement
for creating unauthorized images of iconic characters.
This is big.
This battle highlights the growing tension between creative
industries and AI-generated content, raising urgent questions
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about intellectual property, artistic rights, and the future
of AI in entertainment.
Definitely going to change what's happening in our
world.
So Disney and Universal have sued, started the
case of the AI image generator lawsuit of
Mid Journey for copyright infringement.
And it's accusing it of creating unauthorized copies
of their iconic character, like Darth Vader and
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the Boss Baby.
The studios argue that Mid Journey's AI outputs
are not sufficiently transformative and constitute blatant plagiarism,
ignoring demands to prevent use of their intellectual
property.
This is the first major lawsuit, guys, and
there's going to be more, by Hollywood giants
against an AI company, highlighting growing tensions over
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AI use of copyrighted works scraped from the
internet without licenses.
The case could significantly impact the future of
AI in the entertainment industry and copyright law.
I mean, that whole concept, right?
I think the fact that AI has its
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good points and it has its bad points,
but unfortunately there are going to be bad
actors out there that are going to use
AI to exploit the world.
I mean, we know this.
We've seen them trying to do this with
passwords and so many other things.
So I will keep you in the loop
of what's going on with Disney and definitely
this whole thing and Universal.
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But I think it's going to bring this
to a head.
And I think Mid Journey is going to
get into a lot of trouble, and I
think it's going to set a precedence going
forward for other conditions.
Number five, would you date based on your
browser history?
What the heck is this about?
A new experimental dating site uses AI to
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match singles based on their browser histories rather
than curated profiles or photos.
By analyzing recent search data, it creates browsing
personality profiles aiming for what we'll say a
little more raw, more authentic connection.
But I don't know if this is a
good idea.
This fresh approach challenges traditional dating norms but
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also raises significant privacy concerns and debates about
digital identity.
Yeah, I think this is going to be
a problem.
So this experimental new dating site matches singles
based on just the browser histories.
And it is experimental.
And basically using AI to create a browsing
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personality profile from users' most recent 5,000
searches.
So not all your searches, but just 5
,000 of them.
It was developed by artist Dreis Deporter.
The site aims to offer a more honest
and unfiltered way to connect by revealing private
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online interests and behaviors instead of polished photos
or bios.
Users upload their browsing data via a browser
extension and receive matches based on shared online
curiosities.
So they do have to admit to upload.
It doesn't just do it automatically.
Showing some fun facts rather than their actual
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search details.
While still small and facing privacy concerns, the
site challenges traditional dating norms by exploring if
the quirks in people usually hide should be
a little more to the surface or will
bring them closer together.
So I think this is one of these
fads.
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Is this going to catch on?
I don't know.
I can tell you right now, guys, I
don't think this is a great idea.
I think it's going to raise some concerns.
I think it's going to raise a lot
of concerns.
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I think it's going to be something that's
going to, I don't want to say scare
people.
I think it's going to make people think
twice.
Twice because they don't know if this is
a good idea or if this is a
bad idea.
And everybody tries different things, right?
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But I just don't know if this is
going to be great.
I mean, a browser to do dating history
on profiles.
I mean, I don't know.
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That could be an issue, right?
And my question, ladies and gentlemen, is this
information going to be secured properly or is
this going to be more of, let's say,
a privacy issue?
So it's a new website that will let
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you find your dating person by your browser
history.
They say it's experimental.
A lot of people are saying it's scary.
But I don't know if people are really
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ready for this.
It's changing the world of online dating, okay?
And I just feel that this could be
a very, very big problem, right?
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And the reason I say this is that
I don't know if they're doing things ethically.
You don't know that either.
I mean, would you use a site like
that?
So when you go to the website, first
of all, and I have all these security
blocks, it says right on my system that
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it's in a category called security risk spam
URL because it's very new and it seems
like it could be a problem.
There are lots of sites.
So the question is, does this work?
Well, don't know.
It's too new.
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It's too new.
And again, the fact that it can match
you based on your last 5,000 most
recent searches, I don't know.
I feel that this could get exploited in
a lot of ways.
The website's not on an ethical site, so
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that's a problem.
You can't just get there very easily.
I don't know.
In case you're wondering what the site was,
I think it was just browser.dating or
something like that.
And I have a big concern because
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I don't know if they're doing everything they
should be doing.
When I look up the site, I see
that it's currently registered under Cloudflare, which is
not a big deal.
And then I look at some of the
other information, it is privacy protected, which of
course it is, and it's protected under Cloudflare.
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So they're obviously not showing any of their
information.
So that's interesting.
If you have to complain, you got to
complain to ICANN with the form here that
they have.
I don't know.
I think the fact that they're not being
transparent right out of the gate already has
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me concerned and that they might be a
bad thing.
But that's just speculation.
It raises privacy concerns, things about digital identity,
and how are they coming up with your
digital footprint?
I mean, yes, you are giving permission to
upload your browser history, but what are they
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going to do with that browser history?
So I think there's going to be more
coming on with this.
So I will keep you in the loop
about that.
Number six, guys, a blind gamer, Ross Miner,
is changing the industry as we speak.
Ross Miner unfortunately lost his sight as a
child, but has become a pioneering gamer, content
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creator, and industry consultant.
His work not only inspires, but also drives
important conversations on accessibility and inclusion in the
gaming world, showing that disability doesn't limit passion
or expertise, and it encourages developers to build
games everyone can enjoy.
I mean, this sounds like something very interesting,
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right?
So I said Ross Miner has lost his
sight at age eight, but has become a
dedicated gamer running popular YouTube and Twitch channels
and consulting for major game studios.
His story isn't just about inspiration, guys.
It's about passion and expertise reshaping how gamers
with disabilities engage in the gaming world.
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You know, there's so many things in our
world where we say, you know, you can't
do this.
I'm going to give you a perfect example.
I'm not going to give you the name
of the company for security and privacy reasons.
So I was working on a scouting project.
Many of you guys know that I became
an Eagle Scout in May 1983, and I
threw a holiday party for a local company.
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And so this local company was an organization,
a not-for-profit, that provided jobs to
disabled people, handicapped people that could not hold
a regular job.
And they would go out to different companies,
whether it was pharmaceutical, whether it was any
kind of manufacturing company, and they'd bring these
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jobs inside their mini production facility.
They would have machines that would work on
air or electric, and they would be very
safe.
You'd have to hit, you know, two hands
to get it to start.
And so they would be doing this, and
they had a very strict regimen, the fact
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that strict for them, but not strict for
other people.
They would allow them their breaks, but they
were also making sure that they did work.
Now, their typical work day would only be,
like, four or five hours.
It wouldn't be very long.
But they were very strict.
If you missed work or something like that,
it was very, very strict.
So I remember that I wanted to do
something nice, but something that was going to
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be remembered for years to come, instead of
just painting, you know, the numbers of your
address on a curb or, you know, building
a park bench.
Even though that's a nice thing, I wanted
to do something that would live in people's
memories forever and ever and ever and ever.
So I made friends with this one gentleman.
I could tell you his name.
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His first name's okay to say.
His first name was Gene.
And I would come, and I would talk
to him for a while.
I would learn about what he's doing, and
I became friends with him.
And so after I did this, I realized
that I would like to do something for
them.
So I decided to do a party.
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He was really excited.
And so I did a holiday party at
his workplace there, social workplace.
They did social workplace the same place.
And so I got a Santa Claus, obviously,
and I got different things.
We had to get balloons, like, you know,
the helium for the balloons.
So one of the companies that provided the
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gases, the helium, I called them up.
I told them what I was doing, and
they said, oh, they said, we would love
to help you.
I said, that's great.
They said, we're very supportive of what you're
doing, especially because our owner has a real
heart for this.
And I said, well, that's great.
Yes, I don't know if you've been to
our facility, but our owner has a son
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that's disabled and working from a wheelchair.
And anything we can do to help disabled
people, he's, like, right in line to do
that right away.
Wow.
So I went there, and his son was
working in a wheelchair.
And they didn't charge me one penny for
the helium gas.
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I was so grateful.
And so I got the couple tanks of
helium.
And the neat thing about this was, you
know, I just had to bring them back.
I didn't have to pay them anything.
I just had to get the balloons from,
like, I think at that time, Party City
was still in business.
Now they're not anymore.
And I also went to many of the
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pharmaceutical places to get gifts for the ladies
and the gentlemen.
But my point is what appeared to be
a disability to some people actually became a
great strength to others.
So, yes, he worked from a chair.
But he was amazing, his son, how he
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ran that company, how he did all the
stuff from a chair.
And so what I want to say is
this.
When we talk about diversity, inclusion, and no
discrimination for race, religion, orientation, creed, color, or
disability, because disability is something people can be
discriminated against as well.
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And when I saw the smile on people's
faces with that party, with the food and
the cake and Santa, it was amazing.
It was really, really amazing.
So just because somebody may not have two
arms or two legs whereas there's still a
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lot that can contribute to the world or
even two eyes, right?
All right, number seven, Google quietly, and I
say this very apropos, Google quietly drops nine
smart home features.
Here's what's new.
Without much fanfare, Google released nine new features
in its home app, enhancing smart home control.
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Highlights include picture-in-picture support for Nest
cameras on Google TV.
AI-powered automations via the Gemini app and
more intuitive device management features.
Now these updates make connected living smoother and
smarter, appealing to tech-savvy homeowners ready for
the next level of automation.
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And I think that's an important thing to
realize.
So I say the reason Google's doing this
is they're getting hit every way in the
yin-yang, right?
Because the court is just trying to do
everything they can to them.
And I'm not saying that they don't deserve
what's being handed to them.
Google's been a little bit on hand or
handed, and not to go into that again,
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but I've talked about that on other episodes.
So I always say karma's going to pay
back.
Whether you do good, whether you do bad,
karma pays back all the time.
It just might take karma a few days,
a few weeks, a few months, a few
years, even a decade to catch up.
Karma does catch up.
So Google, like I said, soft-launched this
nine set of new home app features.
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And the home app, which is now available
mostly in public preview, as I said, the
picture-in-picture support for Nest Cams, the
AI-powered smart home controls via Gemini.
And the other thing was easier navigation through
camera footage.
And the update also improves automation setup with
the presence sensing using phone location, Nest Soli
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sensors, integrating Nest Protect Smoke and seal alerts
directly into the home app, and expands smart
support for third-party matter-enabled smart locks.
Additionally, users can customize favorites with new tiles,
control devices via web browsers, and test the
new home summary widget on Pixel phones.
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But I think the issue here is that
Google's doing this because, let's face it, they're
getting hit really hard with the money they're
going to have to pay out.
And they might have to break up their
company.
So they're trying to figure out how they
can save their company because, let's face it,
guys, they've done some wrong things.
And they're going to need to pay the
piper.
And I don't mean $5 or $100.
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I'm talking a lot of money.
So this is something I hope many of
you will appreciate.
And I see eventually, and this is probably
something very interesting, people ask me, will the
Google search engine be replaced?
And that's a good question.
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And I think the answer to that, it's
very dominated.
But it's changing to AI advancements.
They say it's unlikely that the Google search
will be completely replaced in the near future.
Instead, the future of search is likely to
involve a combination of traditional search and AI
-driven results.
Unless the Supreme Court says, you know what,
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Google, you cannot be in the search world
anymore.
I think it would change things.
It would give businesses an edge because Google
just decides whatever they want.
And they don't really have a reason for
why they do things.
So I have a little bit of a
problem with the way they do things, just
to be quite honest with you there.
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And another interesting topic I want to share
with you is Apple's liquid glass look is
supposedly stunning, they say.
But where's the AI fire?
Apple unveiled a sleek liquid glass design alongside
the AI updates at the WWDC.
The WWDC was the convention.
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And you might be asking me, what is
that?
So that's the Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.
And that happened, by the way, on June
9th.
So that was pretty interesting.
But critics are saying that the AI tools
are falling short of what they would expect
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to be truly revolutionary.
While the aesthetics, the dazzle, the tech enthusiasts
and the investors alike are waiting for Apple
to push harder in AI innovation to catch
up with competitors in this fast-evolving field,
they haven't done it yet.
And I think that's what we're all waiting
for, right?
Is Apple going to go bold into this
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world, or are they just going to tiptoe?
So we're going to have to wait and
see.
Are they going to be innovative, or are
they going to just be a fad and
flop?
So the presentation comes at a critical moment
now.
And as Apple faces mounting pressure to establish
itself as a leader in the AI world,
the technology, having so far struggled to convincingly
showcase its advancements to both consumers and Wall
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Street, I think we're going to have to
wait and see what is, and that's the
question, what is Apple's AI glass?
And Apple's AI-powered glass is their term
for AI-powered smart glasses.
They're expected to be released toward the end
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of 2026.
These glasses are going to feature cameras, microphones,
and speakers, allowing them to analyze the environment
and interact with the user through Siri voice
assistant.
They're also expected to handle tasks like phone
calls, music playback, live translations, and turn-by
-turn directions.
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But is it really going to be the
best, or is it going to disappoint us?
I know I've got to tell you guys,
I have the Ray-Ban stories, and I
have to be quite honest with you.
I was really gung-ho with them.
I've done some stuff with them, but I
have not been overly in love with them.
A couple things.
One, I don't like the fact that they
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said it would work on all the apps,
but they lied.
It does not work on TikTok.
It only works on meta apps, which would
be Facebook and Instagram.
So that was a lie.
Even a person in the store told me
that it would work, and guess what?
It didn't.
I paid for the most expensive glasses, which
are the ones that actually go dark when
there's UV, and when you come inside, you
only have like a minute or so, they
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go back to clear.
You only get 10 minutes of video recording
time, and you only get 30 minutes of
streaming time.
So I don't know, guys.
I got to tell you, I was disappointed.
Yes, they're kind of cool, but it's going
to compete directly with meta smart glasses.
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Beyond basic functionality like phone calls and music
control, the glasses are rumored to offer, like
I said, the live translation and navigation assistance.
It's nice, but I can't see myself getting
too excited over them from what I'm being
told so far.
And number nine, guys, Mr. Elon Musk's X.
Well, yes, it goes down recently.
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Thousands were affected nationwide.
Many users experienced a major outage on Elon
Musk's social media platform, Twitter, or today we
call it X for the name of today,
disrupting posts and communication across the US.
The downtime sparked questions about platform stability amid
intense competition and major tech investments, shining a
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spotlight on the challenges faced by high profile
social networks.
But what does all this mean?
So with Elon Musk's network, the site reported,
that was thedowndetector.com, over 6,700 users
submitted complaints by 6 or 7 p.m.
the day it went down.
Although the actual number of impacted users may
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actually be higher, downdetector gathers data from various
sources to track such disruptions.
The issue drew attention amid other major global
business headlines, including Amazon's $13 billion investment in
Australia's data infrastructure and Boeing's revised 20-year
jet demand forecast.
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So the question is, you know, why, and
this is probably the big question everybody wants
to know, why, what caused X to go
down?
Do we know?
Well, according to Mr. Elon Musk, he said,
and I quote, it was a massive cyber
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attack that disrupted X, actually last week, Monday,
and pointed to IP addresses originating in the
Ukraine area as a source of the attack.
Security experts say that's not how it works.
So the network suffered intermittent outages on Monday,
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last week actually, and Musk said in an
initial X post that the attack was perpetrated
by either a large coordinated group and or
a country.
In a post on Telegram, a pro-Palestinian
group known as Dark Storm team took credit
for the attacks within a few hours.
Later on that Monday, though, Musk claimed in
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an interview on Fox Business Network that the
attacks had come from the Ukraine IP addresses.
Now, web traffic analysis experts who track the
incident very profusely on that Monday were quick
to emphasize the type of attacks X saw
and faced was a DDoS, distributed denial of
service attack, and they are launched by coordinated
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armies of computers or a botnet, basically pushing
a target of junk traffic in attempt to
overwhelm and take down its systems.
So botnets are typically dispersed around the world,
generating traffic with geographically diverse IP addresses, and
they can include mechanisms that make it harder
to determine where they are controlled from.
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It's important to recognize that IP attribution alone
is not conclusive.
Attackers frequently use compromised devices, VPNs, or proxy
networks to obfuscate their true origin.
And so this was an issue, and multiple
researchers told WIRED that they observed five distinct
attacks of varying length against X's infrastructure.
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So DDoS attacks are very common.
The botnet was directly attacking the IP and
a bunch more on the X subnet, and
it's a botnet of cameras and DVRs, and
a few hours after the final attack included
must-told Fox Business, Larry Kudlow, in an
interview, quote, quote, we're not sure exactly what
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happened, but there was a massive cyber attack
to try to bring down the X system
with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.
Musk has mocked the Ukraine and its president,
Volodymyr Zelensky, repeatedly since Russia invaded its neighbor
in February 2022, a major campaign donor to
President Donald Trump, and Musk now heads the
so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is
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DOGE, which has raised the US federal government
and its workforce in the weeks since Trump's
inauguration.
So we really don't have a truth.
It looks like it came from the UK,
but we're gonna have to just see what's
actually going on, right?
A very, very sneaky thing, and apparently Elon
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has a lot of people that do not
like him.
I'm sure that's not a surprise.
Well, it's all about the Trump versus the
Musk feud.
Yes, the Tesla feud escalates at the White
House recently.
In a surprising little twist, former president, well,
now President Trump, has expressed he was former
president and he was, let's say, annoyed back
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then with frustration.
He's got even more frustration with Elon Musk
over the EV tax credit changes and is
reportedly considering selling the Tesla he showcased on
the White House lawn.
This personal and political rivalry adds new drama
to the intersection of government policy and tech
industry influence.
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This is becoming more than just an issue.
It's becoming personal.
So again, this is gonna be interesting and
Trump is now reportedly considering selling the car.
This is according to CBS and BBC correspondent
Gary O'Donoghue visited the White House recently and
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seeing the parking lot to investigate the car's
current status, highlighting how the Trump-Musk feud
is unfolding, both politically and it's getting very,
very personal and it's getting hot very, very
fast.
Well, inside Europe's coolest supercomputer, literally a state
-of-the-art computer in Lugano, Switzerland, is
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pushing the boundaries of high-performance computing featuring
advanced liquid cooling to prevent overheating.
Now, this machine plays a critical role in
climate science, medicine, and AI research, highlighting how
infrastructure innovation supports breakthrough discoveries.
So I think that's a pretty cool thing,
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guys, what they're doing there and this cutting
-edge machine, it's part of the next generation
of high-performance computing, which is gonna hopefully
keep them cool because the more that we
use AI, the more that we have to
rely on a cooling technology.
People say to me, how much heat does
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an AI data center generate?
Well, that's a loaded question.
Servers and data centers generate lots of heat.
AI that are predicted to generate between, you
ready, guys, five to 10 times as much
heat as a regular server that does not
run AI.
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And story number 12.
Meta sues over, well, apps that are, let's
say, removing clothes of people in that and
the harmful ads that are still remaining.
So Meta is taking legal action against the
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creators of these apps that are doing this
and generating the fake non-clothed individuals without
consent.
But critics say thousands of exploitive ads still
circulate on their platforms.
And the controversy underscores ongoing challenges in regulating
AI abuse and protecting vulnerable users online.
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So that's a problem.
So Meta pressed now, with all this going
on, to tighten the crackdown on these apps
that supposedly remove people's clothes in them.
And as I said, Meta has sued the
company behind Crush AI, which runs AI-powered
clothing removal apps that generate fake clothing removal
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images without any consent, in a move to
stop it from advertising on its platforms despite
this legal action.
And Meta's new technology used to detect such
harmful ads.
Even without visible clothing removed, experts and watchdogs
say the crackdown is far from enough.
And researchers have found thousands of these type
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of apps still live on Meta's platforms, prompting
calls for stronger monitoring and government intervention.
Child safety advocates warn these tools are being
weaponized to exploit minors, causing severe emotional harm.
In response, Meta has started sharing banned URLs
with other tech firms and vowed continual legal
action.
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But critics argue more aggressive steps are urgently
needed to curb the abuse of generative AI
for creating these non-consensual images and illegal
content.
So, yes, they can all say these things,
but until somebody gets fined, until an example,
it's not nice to say, but until an
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example is made, this is gonna continue on
and on and on and on.
All right.
Really something interesting, guys.
All right.
I think sometimes people don't understand what this
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is about.
Okay.
And I feel that if you don't get
a handle of what's going on like with
these apps, you can say anything you want,
but if you don't have transparency and you
don't have a way to resolve things, it's
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like they just happen and people just ignore
them.
Until something legal, until somebody starts to sue,
we're gonna still see these problems.
Our 13th story is all about Harvard.
Yes, Harvard Gibbs, their first library card to
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AI, giving it access to 1 million books
so it can go digital.
Harvard University and other libraries are digitizing over
1 million public domain books to provide ethical,
diverse training data for AI development.
Now, this initiative aims to counter the legal
and of course the moral issues of scraping
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copyrighted content, fostering more responsible AI training grounded
in historical knowledge.
But I think there's a lot more that
has to take place than just this.
I mean, I think we need to figure
out like what's happening, why it's happening and
what are we gonna do about it?
Because the thing is, if we say that
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we're doing these ethical things, but who's gonna
check to make sure that these universities are
actually publishing only public domain information?
Who?
I see this as a problem and I
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know you're probably saying to me, John, we're
blowing this out of proportion.
No, we're not.
Because you see, if we don't blow this
out of proportion now, if we don't get
involved, if we don't take action now and
be proactive, we're gonna have to get reactive,
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that's more expensive.
And sometimes being reactive doesn't always solve the
problem, causes more damage, right?
Let's take a fire, for example.
When a fire happens and you're proactive and
you have a, let's say a fire extinguisher
and you're ready or you have smoke systems
and let's say suppression water, there's a good
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chance the fire is gonna go out and
you'll be okay.
If you don't have those and now you
gotta go get something, then there could be
more damage, right?
That could be a really, really serious problem.
So we will keep you in the loop
about that.
And number 14, guys.
Yes, retail cyber attacks explode.
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Empty shelves, stolen data, cyber attacks on major
retailers like Marks and Spencer, United Natural Foods
and Adidas have caused system shutdowns, product shortages
and exposed customer data.
Some more than once.
This wave of ransomware and breaches that is
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kind of permeating our world is signaling a
growing cybersecurity crisis, threatening a, well, kind of
technological pandemic on the global retail supply chains
and consumer trust.
I don't know about you guys, but I
think a lot of this stuff that's happening
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in our world today is happening because people
are not following.
People are just executing, but they're not following
ethics of coding.
Now you might say, John, how do we
make sure coders stay ethical?
That's a loaded question.
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How do we put a trustworthy person in
a military position that's ethical?
That's another billion dollar question.
So when we talk about these things today,
NVIDIA's AI cloud, we talked about that today
and talking about this whole concept of where
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we're going with these trends, like this chatbot
library thing with the retail card.
Retail cyber attacks, they said they're searching, right?
And it's leaving customers with blocked orders and
empty shelves and infinite amounts of frustration.
This wave of cyber attacks that's disrupting major
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retailers worldwide, as I say, it's like a
pandemic, is leaving store shelves empty.
And so experts are warning that ransomware and
data breaches are rising, particularly targeting well-known
consumer brands to maximize chaos and ransom leverage.
Beyond halting operations, these attacks expose personal data,
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prompting warnings about phishing and credential theft.
Companies like Victoria's Secrets are even joining the
teams.
Adidas and the North Face got hit recently.
Also reporting these breaches, highlighting the growing risk
and the need for stronger cybersecurity across retail.
I've always said, guys, it's not a question
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of if you're going to get attacked, but
when, if you're not properly protected.
And so you might say, well, I spent
all this money five years ago, I got
the best firewall.
I've got news for you guys, and I
know you're not going to like to hear
this.
How often should your cybersecurity get updated?
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I know that's a loaded question.
As soon as patches are released.
How about your cyber hardware?
A little bit different.
I generally recommend anywhere from four to five
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years.
Okay.
Three to five is good.
Four to five is the end, no more
than five.
Because the generation, the technology, the type of
processor, we know that as we change algorithms
and we're doing more to detect things with
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patterning and whatnot, it's taking more resources.
So it takes more resources.
Guess what we need to do?
We need to have more resources.
We need to have a more powerful processor.
We need to have more memory, right?
More storage.
We need to be able to handle more
bandwidth.
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We need to make sure that our solutions
are not going to be exploited.
But we all know that a lot of
this technology is based around open technology.
And you can't lock open technology down.
We can detect it, we can manage it
and all this stuff, but we have to
stay very aware and alert of what's going
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on.
Because if we stay aware and alert, then
we are going to be, my friends, we're
going to be proactive.
We're going to be proactive.
I know you're saying to me, John, like
I put the best technology that money can
buy in.
I'm sure you have.
Maybe you spent 50,000 or a million
dollars, but that doesn't mean that the technology
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tomorrow is going to be any good.
I'll give you a perfect example.
And I don't want to give you the
total example because it's a security example.
But there's one particular piece of hardware that's
used in data centers.
And it can get hacked about every three
years if it's not replaced.
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There is actually a national association that has
a certain hacking convention for this particular device.
I'm not going to tell you what it
is.
And so the technology, the brains behind this,
needs to get upgraded every single year.
I'm not talking about a firewall.
You might say, well, John, that's crazy.
No.
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You see, bad actors are always trying to
knock at your door, right?
If they don't get in, that's great.
But you know what they keep doing?
They're persistent.
They keep knocking on that door, hoping you're
eventually going to open it.
Maybe you open it by mistake.
Maybe you don't open it on purpose.
And so if we don't take a proactive
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plan to replace our technology, we're going to
be up a creek.
It's not a question, guys, of if you're
going to get hacked, but when, if you're
not properly protected.
That's a real crazy thing, OK?
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It's crazy because you have to understand what
this means.
And the fact that you're choosing to be
proactive, guess what that means?
That means that you're going to be aware
of these situations.
You're going to be aware of them.
And so if you're aware of these situations,
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then when they come and hit you, you're
not going to be so surprised, right?
We talked about protection for malware.
We talked about what sandboxing is, where you
can actually put something in the sandbox when
you don't think it's something you'll trust, see
how it behaves in a couple hours or
24 hours.
And if it doesn't behave well, well, then
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you quarantined it and you also notify other
systems in the network or that you're collaborating
with to let them know that this is
a bad pattern, this is something you should
be aware of.
Vulnerability scanning, right?
Vulnerability scanning is something that people do every
single day.
But my feeling is if you do not
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patch, OK, if you do not check things,
it's not a question of if you're going
to get attacked, but when if you are
not properly protected.
So there's something called active protection and passive
protection.
So passive protection is when we scan things
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that are on your computer and we take
that passive step.
Active is when we're monitoring things to see
what changes as we're doing things.
So with this example I used with this
technology, this technology is used in not just
data centers but places around the world.
And there is a national association that literally
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has a contest to hack this thing every
three years.
Now, the reason they do that is because
they want to know what's failing with it.
They want to figure out how they can
make it better.
And although I don't want to scare you
with saying technology is bad, I want to
just let you know that technology needs to
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be monitored, technology needs to be updated, right?
You could be talking about anything from a
light bulb, a microphone, your car, your iPhone,
right?
We're constantly updating our iPhone, aren't we?
But one of the things I don't do
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guys, you know what that is?
Is I do not install my updates right
away.
Like right now I'm at 18.5. I
will not install 18.6 immediately.
I will wait a little bit.
So just kind of reminiscing a little bit,
NVIDIA's AI cloud revolution in Germany, I think
that's going to kick our self in the
butt saying we better do something here in
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the United States.
Nintendo has always been very strong.
But the fact that this Switch 2 is
redefining gaming, that's pretty hot.
And what's going on with the Supreme Court?
I am very disgusted with that.
Several people on social media that saw the,
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you know, we do the reels starting with
Monday.
And then so they'll just say, no, we
do this.
We put reels out every single day.
We put two reels out every day.
So we do 14 a week.
So this whole show ends today on Friday,
but we still have one more reel tonight.
And then we have two more reels on
Saturday, two more reels on Sunday, which I've
already covered here.
But every day I give you like a
little bird's eye view of like what that,
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you know, what we're going to be talking
about.
Then the show, of course, I can cover
it more.
A lot of you are saying, well, John,
you know, people already have the information.
So if you already think people have it
and you don't want to protect it, well,
that's a bad attitude.
And I got to say kudos to Disney
and also to Universal for going after Mid
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-Journey.
Now you might want to know something.
And I think this is a very important
thing to know.
Who owns Mid-Journey?
So it's an independent research lab with David
Holtz as its founder.
And so Mid-Journey is founded by what
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they call Leap Motion.
It's generative intelligence.
So you might be wondering, so where, and
where are they located?
So Mid-Journey, it's independent research lab.
They call it Mid-Journey Inc.
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It was founded by David Holtz.
It's located in San Francisco, California.
They're currently on the Gateway Boulevard in South
San Francisco.
And so my problem is Mid-Journey and
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data privacy.
And so do they use your data?
Yep, they all retain and use your personal
data to the extent necessary to comply with
only legal obligations.
Now that's what they say.
I'm not crazy with how their software is
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working.
That's just my thing.
And the fact that they have done stuff
like this and the fact that they're trying
to say that they're not really responsible, well,
that makes me not want to work with
them.
And this whole concept of this new date
-based browser history thing, I think that's ludicrous.
I think that's really getting into people's private
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life.
And that's something no one belongs into without
permission.
Even though if you upload the stuff, who's
to say that it's only going to be
on this site?
Who's to say that they don't sell it
to a third-party company?
Don't be surprised.
The thing with Ross Miner and his gaming
excellence and consulting is amazing.
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What Google is doing, they're just trying to
stay afloat because they're just trying to see,
they know they're going to get pounded.
They just don't know how much.
So they're trying to survive.
And Elon Musk is having some issues.
Trump and Musk and their feud.
My question is, and this is a very
good question, is, and this is something I
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want to know from you guys, is the
feud between Trump and Musk real or fake?
Good question, right?
Trump says Musk will face serious consequences.
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But is Trump going to change his way?
I don't know.
I first thought this might've just been a
staging, right?
I'm not sure.
And Europe is doing some great things with
keeping things cool.
I've got to hand it to them there.
And Meta, I've got to tell you, for
you going after these people, creating these apps,
what you say sounds great.
My question is, are you really doing what
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you say or are you just trying to
do this to get like some good PR
for yourself?
And Harvard, kudos to you and other libraries,
but how are you tracking to make sure
this data doesn't get exploited?
And how are you making sure that the
data being uploaded is actually ethical?
Is it being done by certain people?
Is it being done by grad students?
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Is it being done by students?
And how are you holding them accountable, right?
So we talked about a lot today, from
the AI battles to game-changing tech.
We gave you a very big dosage of
innovation and impact.
And we gave you some interesting tech bites
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here.
We shared some cybersecurity knowledge.
I gave you some direction of where Apple's
going in their rival little bit of trying
to compete with Meta's glasses.
So it's going to be very interesting, you
know, what's happening.
But at the end of the day, I
think it comes down to what products, what
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services and how are these developers protecting our
own wellbeing?
I mean, how are they doing it?
Are they saying they're doing it, but they're
really not?
I mean, I think that's a very, very
big issue.
So again, we laugh about the fact that
AI gets a library card, but are we
really monitoring that?
I hope you guys have a fantastic evening.
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Tech Talk Show with me, John C.
Morley, serial entrepreneur, podcast coach and host, video
producer, many other things.
And each week, I break down the biggest
tech stories and trends that are shaping our
world from groundbreaking AI breakthroughs to epic industry
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This episode delivers 14 must-know updates combining
cutting-edge innovation with real-world impact so
you can stay informed and inspired, whether you're
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I'm here to make it simple, relevant and
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So you're ready, guys?
Let's dive in.
Well, NVIDIA's AI cloud revolution starts in Germany,
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if you didn't know.
NVIDIA is leading a bold new wave in
AI by launching its first industrial AI cloud
in Germany, aiming to transform the automotive, pharmaceutical
and robotics industries.
Wow, that's a tongue twister.
Say that a few times fast.
This massive initiative includes 20 AI factories and
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a tenfold increase in Europe's computing power.
Now, NVIDIA's partnership with the AI startup Mistral
pushes the envelope with multilingual models and quantum
computing research, basically marking a pivotal moment for
European tech sovereignty and global AI leadership.
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And I think that's a really, really big
thing for anyone, no matter where you are
in the world.
And so at the Vivatech conference in Paris,
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's first
industrial AI cloud platform in Germany, aimed at
transforming the industries like, as I said, the
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automotive, pharmaceuticals and others by integrating AI with
robotics.
Now, as part of an aggressive European expansion,
NVIDIA will build quite a few AI factories
to boost its computational capacity in Europe, tenfold
within two years, and collaborate with AI leader
Mistral.
The initiative includes support for multilingual AI model
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development and drug discovery.
Huang emphasized the urgency of sovereign AI and
hinted at quantum computing breakthroughs ahead.
So that's just one thing, guys.
And I think it's amazing how all this
stuff is starting to transform our world and
where it's going.
I think that's a real amazing thing.
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And I hope that you will appreciate where
it's going.
And ladies and gentlemen, the Nintendo Switch 2
sets a record.
3.5 million.
Now, that's not dollars.
That's 3.5 million units were sold in
just four days.
Nintendo really crushed the expectations with the Switch
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2, selling with the 3.5 million units
in just the four days, making it the
fastest selling console in company history.
Wow.
Featuring a large screen, stunning graphics, and new
games like Mario Kart World, the Switch 2
is redefining gaming both at home and on
the go.
Nintendo projects right now that they'll have 15
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million sales by year end, building in addition
to their original Switch's monumental legacy.
And that's pretty cool.
So when Nintendo had announced that its newly
launched Switch 2 had become the company's fastest
selling console ever, people didn't believe it.
The upgrade device features, as I said, a
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larger screen and many other things.
But with Nintendo forecasting 15 million Switch 2
units being sold by the end of the
fiscal year, that's pretty amazing.
And on the legacy of the original Switch,
which had only sold 152 million units globally
since 2017, Nintendo Switch 2 smashes the record
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as the company's fastest selling console.
And I think it really had people crazed
because they had to wait in line and
they couldn't get it right away.
So I think this was definitely a really,
really big, big, big, big thing.
And ladies and gentlemen, the Supreme Court lets
Elon's Dodge, I should say, it's really a
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Dodge, tap the U.S. social data.
In a controversial ruling, the Supreme Court cleared
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, Dodge, to
access sensitive Social Security Administration data.
Overruling privacy objections from unions and civil rights
advocates, this decision ignites critical debates on government
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transparency, individual privacy, and the limits of data
use, all while temporarily shielding Dodge from freedom
of information request.
I think this is absolutely like bonkers.
It's crazy that they're allowing this to happen.
I don't think this should be allowed.
I know many companies are saying, well, you
know, everyone has access to data, so we
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might as well just allow it.
Well, that doesn't mean it's right.
If one person's jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge,
does that mean everyone should jump off?
No, it does not mean that at all.
But I think sometimes people get stuck in
doing things for the wrong reason.
And the Supreme Court, like I said, cleared
Dodge for Social Security data.
And the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
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favor of the Trump administration's Department of Government
Efficiency.
That's what Dodge is.
It allows it to access sensitive Social Security
Administration data, despite objections from unions and privacy
advocates.
The conservative majority court lifted a lower court
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injunction, enabling Dodge, founded by Elon Musk, to
pursue its goal of modernizing government systems and
combating waste and fraud.
Now, the decision faced strong dissent from liberal
justices, as you would imagine, who warned it
risks Americans' privacy rights.
The ruling also temporarily shields Dodge from freedom
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of information requests as ongoing litigation continues, highlighting
the escalating legal and political tensions surrounding data
access and government transparency.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, here's what's going to
happen.
This is what I predict, okay?
They're going to let Dodge go through and
do everything that they think is great.
And then once a major lawsuit hits, guess
what?
Then everybody's going to back up and be
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like, well, wait a minute.
Like, I didn't know.
Like, we didn't know.
And then it's going to change the rules,
right?
That's always how things happen, just like what's
happening with Google, right?
That's no surprise.
And number four for this week, hot on
the burners, is Disney.
Yes, Hollywood, Disney, and Universal go to war
with the AI art generator.
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Hollywood's biggest studios have launched a landmark lawsuit
against who?
Mid Journey.
Accusing the AI art platform of copyright infringement
for creating unauthorized images of iconic characters.
This is big.
This battle highlights the growing tension between creative
industries and AI-generated content, raising urgent questions
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about intellectual property, artistic rights, and the future
of AI in entertainment.
Definitely going to change what's happening in our
world.
So Disney and Universal have sued, started the
case of the AI image generator lawsuit of
Mid Journey for copyright infringement.
And it's accusing it of creating unauthorized copies
of their iconic character, like Darth Vader and
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the Boss Baby.
The studios argue that Mid Journey's AI outputs
are not sufficiently transformative and constitute blatant plagiarism,
ignoring demands to prevent use of their intellectual
property.
This is the first major lawsuit, guys, and
there's going to be more, by Hollywood giants
against an AI company, highlighting growing tensions over
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AI use of copyrighted works scraped from the
internet without licenses.
The case could significantly impact the future of
AI in the entertainment industry and copyright law.
I mean, that whole concept, right?
I think the fact that AI has its
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good points and it has its bad points,
but unfortunately there are going to be bad
actors out there that are going to use
AI to exploit the world.
I mean, we know this.
We've seen them trying to do this with
passwords and so many other things.
So I will keep you in the loop
of what's going on with Disney and definitely
this whole thing and Universal.
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But I think it's going to bring this
to a head.
And I think Mid Journey is going to
get into a lot of trouble, and I
think it's going to set a precedence going
forward for other conditions.
Number five, would you date based on your
browser history?
What the heck is this about?
A new experimental dating site uses AI to
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match singles based on their browser histories rather
than curated profiles or photos.
By analyzing recent search data, it creates browsing
personality profiles aiming for what we'll say a
little more raw, more authentic connection.
But I don't know if this is a
good idea.
This fresh approach challenges traditional dating norms but
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also raises significant privacy concerns and debates about
digital identity.
Yeah, I think this is going to be
a problem.
So this experimental new dating site matches singles
based on just the browser histories.
And it is experimental.
And basically using AI to create a browsing
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personality profile from users' most recent 5,000
searches.
So not all your searches, but just 5
,000 of them.
It was developed by artist Dreis Deporter.
The site aims to offer a more honest
and unfiltered way to connect by revealing private
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online interests and behaviors instead of polished photos
or bios.
Users upload their browsing data via a browser
extension and receive matches based on shared online
curiosities.
So they do have to admit to upload.
It doesn't just do it automatically.
Showing some fun facts rather than their actual
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search details.
While still small and facing privacy concerns, the
site challenges traditional dating norms by exploring if
the quirks in people usually hide should be
a little more to the surface or will
bring them closer together.
So I think this is one of these
fads.
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Is this going to catch on?
I don't know.
I can tell you right now, guys, I
don't think this is a great idea.
I think it's going to raise some concerns.
I think it's going to raise a lot
of concerns.
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I think it's going to be something that's
going to, I don't want to say scare
people.
I think it's going to make people think
twice.
Twice because they don't know if this is
a good idea or if this is a
bad idea.
And everybody tries different things, right?
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But I just don't know if this is
going to be great.
I mean, a browser to do dating history
on profiles.
I mean, I don't know.
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That could be an issue, right?
And my question, ladies and gentlemen, is this
information going to be secured properly or is
this going to be more of, let's say,
a privacy issue?
So it's a new website that will let
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you find your dating person by your browser
history.
They say it's experimental.
A lot of people are saying it's scary.
But I don't know if people are really
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ready for this.
It's changing the world of online dating, okay?
And I just feel that this could be
a very, very big problem, right?
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And the reason I say this is that
I don't know if they're doing things ethically.
You don't know that either.
I mean, would you use a site like
that?
So when you go to the website, first
of all, and I have all these security
blocks, it says right on my system that
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it's in a category called security risk spam
URL because it's very new and it seems
like it could be a problem.
There are lots of sites.
So the question is, does this work?
Well, don't know.
It's too new.
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It's too new.
And again, the fact that it can match
you based on your last 5,000 most
recent searches, I don't know.
I feel that this could get exploited in
a lot of ways.
The website's not on an ethical site, so
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that's a problem.
You can't just get there very easily.
I don't know.
In case you're wondering what the site was,
I think it was just browser.dating or
something like that.
And I have a big concern because
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I don't know if they're doing everything they
should be doing.
When I look up the site, I see
that it's currently registered under Cloudflare, which is
not a big deal.
And then I look at some of the
other information, it is privacy protected, which of
course it is, and it's protected under Cloudflare.
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So they're obviously not showing any of their
information.
So that's interesting.
If you have to complain, you got to
complain to ICANN with the form here that
they have.
I don't know.
I think the fact that they're not being
transparent right out of the gate already has
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me concerned and that they might be a
bad thing.
But that's just speculation.
It raises privacy concerns, things about digital identity,
and how are they coming up with your
digital footprint?
I mean, yes, you are giving permission to
upload your browser history, but what are they
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going to do with that browser history?
So I think there's going to be more
coming on with this.
So I will keep you in the loop
about that.
Number six, guys, a blind gamer, Ross Miner,
is changing the industry as we speak.
Ross Miner unfortunately lost his sight as a
child, but has become a pioneering gamer, content
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creator, and industry consultant.
His work not only inspires, but also drives
important conversations on accessibility and inclusion in the
gaming world, showing that disability doesn't limit passion
or expertise, and it encourages developers to build
games everyone can enjoy.
I mean, this sounds like something very interesting,
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right?
So I said Ross Miner has lost his
sight at age eight, but has become a
dedicated gamer running popular YouTube and Twitch channels
and consulting for major game studios.
His story isn't just about inspiration, guys.
It's about passion and expertise reshaping how gamers
with disabilities engage in the gaming world.
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You know, there's so many things in our
world where we say, you know, you can't
do this.
I'm going to give you a perfect example.
I'm not going to give you the name
of the company for security and privacy reasons.
So I was working on a scouting project.
Many of you guys know that I became
an Eagle Scout in May 1983, and I
threw a holiday party for a local company.
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And so this local company was an organization,
a not-for-profit, that provided jobs to
disabled people, handicapped people that could not hold
a regular job.
And they would go out to different companies,
whether it was pharmaceutical, whether it was any
kind of manufacturing company, and they'd bring these
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jobs inside their mini production facility.
They would have machines that would work on
air or electric, and they would be very
safe.
You'd have to hit, you know, two hands
to get it to start.
And so they would be doing this, and
they had a very strict regimen, the fact
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that strict for them, but not strict for
other people.
They would allow them their breaks, but they
were also making sure that they did work.
Now, their typical work day would only be,
like, four or five hours.
It wouldn't be very long.
But they were very strict.
If you missed work or something like that,
it was very, very strict.
So I remember that I wanted to do
something nice, but something that was going to
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be remembered for years to come, instead of
just painting, you know, the numbers of your
address on a curb or, you know, building
a park bench.
Even though that's a nice thing, I wanted
to do something that would live in people's
memories forever and ever and ever and ever.
So I made friends with this one gentleman.
I could tell you his name.
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His first name's okay to say.
His first name was Gene.
And I would come, and I would talk
to him for a while.
I would learn about what he's doing, and
I became friends with him.
And so after I did this, I realized
that I would like to do something for
them.
So I decided to do a party.
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He was really excited.
And so I did a holiday party at
his workplace there, social workplace.
They did social workplace the same place.
And so I got a Santa Claus, obviously,
and I got different things.
We had to get balloons, like, you know,
the helium for the balloons.
So one of the companies that provided the
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gases, the helium, I called them up.
I told them what I was doing, and
they said, oh, they said, we would love
to help you.
I said, that's great.
They said, we're very supportive of what you're
doing, especially because our owner has a real
heart for this.
And I said, well, that's great.
Yes, I don't know if you've been to
our facility, but our owner has a son
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that's disabled and working from a wheelchair.
And anything we can do to help disabled
people, he's, like, right in line to do
that right away.
Wow.
So I went there, and his son was
working in a wheelchair.
And they didn't charge me one penny for
the helium gas.
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I was so grateful.
And so I got the couple tanks of
helium.
And the neat thing about this was, you
know, I just had to bring them back.
I didn't have to pay them anything.
I just had to get the balloons from,
like, I think at that time, Party City
was still in business.
Now they're not anymore.
And I also went to many of the
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pharmaceutical places to get gifts for the ladies
and the gentlemen.
But my point is what appeared to be
a disability to some people actually became a
great strength to others.
So, yes, he worked from a chair.
But he was amazing, his son, how he
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ran that company, how he did all the
stuff from a chair.
And so what I want to say is
this.
When we talk about diversity, inclusion, and no
discrimination for race, religion, orientation, creed, color, or
disability, because disability is something people can be
discriminated against as well.
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And when I saw the smile on people's
faces with that party, with the food and
the cake and Santa, it was amazing.
It was really, really amazing.
So just because somebody may not have two
arms or two legs whereas there's still a
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lot that can contribute to the world or
even two eyes, right?
All right, number seven, Google quietly, and I
say this very apropos, Google quietly drops nine
smart home features.
Here's what's new.
Without much fanfare, Google released nine new features
in its home app, enhancing smart home control.
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Highlights include picture-in-picture support for Nest
cameras on Google TV.
AI-powered automations via the Gemini app and
more intuitive device management features.
Now these updates make connected living smoother and
smarter, appealing to tech-savvy homeowners ready for
the next level of automation.
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And I think that's an important thing to
realize.
So I say the reason Google's doing this
is they're getting hit every way in the
yin-yang, right?
Because the court is just trying to do
everything they can to them.
And I'm not saying that they don't deserve
what's being handed to them.
Google's been a little bit on hand or
handed, and not to go into that again,
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but I've talked about that on other episodes.
So I always say karma's going to pay
back.
Whether you do good, whether you do bad,
karma pays back all the time.
It just might take karma a few days,
a few weeks, a few months, a few
years, even a decade to catch up.
Karma does catch up.
So Google, like I said, soft-launched this
nine set of new home app features.
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And the home app, which is now available
mostly in public preview, as I said, the
picture-in-picture support for Nest Cams, the
AI-powered smart home controls via Gemini.
And the other thing was easier navigation through
camera footage.
And the update also improves automation setup with
the presence sensing using phone location, Nest Soli
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sensors, integrating Nest Protect Smoke and seal alerts
directly into the home app, and expands smart
support for third-party matter-enabled smart locks.
Additionally, users can customize favorites with new tiles,
control devices via web browsers, and test the
new home summary widget on Pixel phones.
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But I think the issue here is that
Google's doing this because, let's face it, they're
getting hit really hard with the money they're
going to have to pay out.
And they might have to break up their
company.
So they're trying to figure out how they
can save their company because, let's face it,
guys, they've done some wrong things.
And they're going to need to pay the
piper.
And I don't mean $5 or $100.
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I'm talking a lot of money.
So this is something I hope many of
you will appreciate.
And I see eventually, and this is probably
something very interesting, people ask me, will the
Google search engine be replaced?
And that's a good question.
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And I think the answer to that, it's
very dominated.
But it's changing to AI advancements.
They say it's unlikely that the Google search
will be completely replaced in the near future.
Instead, the future of search is likely to
involve a combination of traditional search and AI
-driven results.
Unless the Supreme Court says, you know what,
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Google, you cannot be in the search world
anymore.
I think it would change things.
It would give businesses an edge because Google
just decides whatever they want.
And they don't really have a reason for
why they do things.
So I have a little bit of a
problem with the way they do things, just
to be quite honest with you there.
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And another interesting topic I want to share
with you is Apple's liquid glass look is
supposedly stunning, they say.
But where's the AI fire?
Apple unveiled a sleek liquid glass design alongside
the AI updates at the WWDC.
The WWDC was the convention.
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And you might be asking me, what is
that?
So that's the Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.
And that happened, by the way, on June
9th.
So that was pretty interesting.
But critics are saying that the AI tools
are falling short of what they would expect
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to be truly revolutionary.
While the aesthetics, the dazzle, the tech enthusiasts
and the investors alike are waiting for Apple
to push harder in AI innovation to catch
up with competitors in this fast-evolving field,
they haven't done it yet.
And I think that's what we're all waiting
for, right?
Is Apple going to go bold into this
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world, or are they just going to tiptoe?
So we're going to have to wait and
see.
Are they going to be innovative, or are
they going to just be a fad and
flop?
So the presentation comes at a critical moment
now.
And as Apple faces mounting pressure to establish
itself as a leader in the AI world,
the technology, having so far struggled to convincingly
showcase its advancements to both consumers and Wall
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Street, I think we're going to have to
wait and see what is, and that's the
question, what is Apple's AI glass?
And Apple's AI-powered glass is their term
for AI-powered smart glasses.
They're expected to be released toward the end
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of 2026.
These glasses are going to feature cameras, microphones,
and speakers, allowing them to analyze the environment
and interact with the user through Siri voice
assistant.
They're also expected to handle tasks like phone
calls, music playback, live translations, and turn-by
-turn directions.
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But is it really going to be the
best, or is it going to disappoint us?
I know I've got to tell you guys,
I have the Ray-Ban stories, and I
have to be quite honest with you.
I was really gung-ho with them.
I've done some stuff with them, but I
have not been overly in love with them.
A couple things.
One, I don't like the fact that they
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said it would work on all the apps,
but they lied.
It does not work on TikTok.
It only works on meta apps, which would
be Facebook and Instagram.
So that was a lie.
Even a person in the store told me
that it would work, and guess what?
It didn't.
I paid for the most expensive glasses, which
are the ones that actually go dark when
there's UV, and when you come inside, you
only have like a minute or so, they
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go back to clear.
You only get 10 minutes of video recording
time, and you only get 30 minutes of
streaming time.
So I don't know, guys.
I got to tell you, I was disappointed.
Yes, they're kind of cool, but it's going
to compete directly with meta smart glasses.
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Beyond basic functionality like phone calls and music
control, the glasses are rumored to offer, like
I said, the live translation and navigation assistance.
It's nice, but I can't see myself getting
too excited over them from what I'm being
told so far.
And number nine, guys, Mr. Elon Musk's X.
Well, yes, it goes down recently.
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Thousands were affected nationwide.
Many users experienced a major outage on Elon
Musk's social media platform, Twitter, or today we
call it X for the name of today,
disrupting posts and communication across the US.
The downtime sparked questions about platform stability amid
intense competition and major tech investments, shining a
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spotlight on the challenges faced by high profile
social networks.
But what does all this mean?
So with Elon Musk's network, the site reported,
that was thedowndetector.com, over 6,700 users
submitted complaints by 6 or 7 p.m.
the day it went down.
Although the actual number of impacted users may
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actually be higher, downdetector gathers data from various
sources to track such disruptions.
The issue drew attention amid other major global
business headlines, including Amazon's $13 billion investment in
Australia's data infrastructure and Boeing's revised 20-year
jet demand forecast.
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So the question is, you know, why, and
this is probably the big question everybody wants
to know, why, what caused X to go
down?
Do we know?
Well, according to Mr. Elon Musk, he said,
and I quote, it was a massive cyber
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attack that disrupted X, actually last week, Monday,
and pointed to IP addresses originating in the
Ukraine area as a source of the attack.
Security experts say that's not how it works.
So the network suffered intermittent outages on Monday,
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last week actually, and Musk said in an
initial X post that the attack was perpetrated
by either a large coordinated group and or
a country.
In a post on Telegram, a pro-Palestinian
group known as Dark Storm team took credit
for the attacks within a few hours.
Later on that Monday, though, Musk claimed in
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an interview on Fox Business Network that the
attacks had come from the Ukraine IP addresses.
Now, web traffic analysis experts who track the
incident very profusely on that Monday were quick
to emphasize the type of attacks X saw
and faced was a DDoS, distributed denial of
service attack, and they are launched by coordinated
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armies of computers or a botnet, basically pushing
a target of junk traffic in attempt to
overwhelm and take down its systems.
So botnets are typically dispersed around the world,
generating traffic with geographically diverse IP addresses, and
they can include mechanisms that make it harder
to determine where they are controlled from.
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It's important to recognize that IP attribution alone
is not conclusive.
Attackers frequently use compromised devices, VPNs, or proxy
networks to obfuscate their true origin.
And so this was an issue, and multiple
researchers told WIRED that they observed five distinct
attacks of varying length against X's infrastructure.
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So DDoS attacks are very common.
The botnet was directly attacking the IP and
a bunch more on the X subnet, and
it's a botnet of cameras and DVRs, and
a few hours after the final attack included
must-told Fox Business, Larry Kudlow, in an
interview, quote, quote, we're not sure exactly what
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happened, but there was a massive cyber attack
to try to bring down the X system
with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.
Musk has mocked the Ukraine and its president,
Volodymyr Zelensky, repeatedly since Russia invaded its neighbor
in February 2022, a major campaign donor to
President Donald Trump, and Musk now heads the
so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is
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DOGE, which has raised the US federal government
and its workforce in the weeks since Trump's
inauguration.
So we really don't have a truth.
It looks like it came from the UK,
but we're gonna have to just see what's
actually going on, right?
A very, very sneaky thing, and apparently Elon
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has a lot of people that do not
like him.
I'm sure that's not a surprise.
Well, it's all about the Trump versus the
Musk feud.
Yes, the Tesla feud escalates at the White
House recently.
In a surprising little twist, former president, well,
now President Trump, has expressed he was former
president and he was, let's say, annoyed back
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then with frustration.
He's got even more frustration with Elon Musk
over the EV tax credit changes and is
reportedly considering selling the Tesla he showcased on
the White House lawn.
This personal and political rivalry adds new drama
to the intersection of government policy and tech
industry influence.
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This is becoming more than just an issue.
It's becoming personal.
So again, this is gonna be interesting and
Trump is now reportedly considering selling the car.
This is according to CBS and BBC correspondent
Gary O'Donoghue visited the White House recently and
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seeing the parking lot to investigate the car's
current status, highlighting how the Trump-Musk feud
is unfolding, both politically and it's getting very,
very personal and it's getting hot very, very
fast.
Well, inside Europe's coolest supercomputer, literally a state
-of-the-art computer in Lugano, Switzerland, is
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pushing the boundaries of high-performance computing featuring
advanced liquid cooling to prevent overheating.
Now, this machine plays a critical role in
climate science, medicine, and AI research, highlighting how
infrastructure innovation supports breakthrough discoveries.
So I think that's a pretty cool thing,
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guys, what they're doing there and this cutting
-edge machine, it's part of the next generation
of high-performance computing, which is gonna hopefully
keep them cool because the more that we
use AI, the more that we have to
rely on a cooling technology.
People say to me, how much heat does
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an AI data center generate?
Well, that's a loaded question.
Servers and data centers generate lots of heat.
AI that are predicted to generate between, you
ready, guys, five to 10 times as much
heat as a regular server that does not
run AI.
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And story number 12.
Meta sues over, well, apps that are, let's
say, removing clothes of people in that and
the harmful ads that are still remaining.
So Meta is taking legal action against the
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creators of these apps that are doing this
and generating the fake non-clothed individuals without
consent.
But critics say thousands of exploitive ads still
circulate on their platforms.
And the controversy underscores ongoing challenges in regulating
AI abuse and protecting vulnerable users online.
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So that's a problem.
So Meta pressed now, with all this going
on, to tighten the crackdown on these apps
that supposedly remove people's clothes in them.
And as I said, Meta has sued the
company behind Crush AI, which runs AI-powered
clothing removal apps that generate fake clothing removal
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images without any consent, in a move to
stop it from advertising on its platforms despite
this legal action.
And Meta's new technology used to detect such
harmful ads.
Even without visible clothing removed, experts and watchdogs
say the crackdown is far from enough.
And researchers have found thousands of these type
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of apps still live on Meta's platforms, prompting
calls for stronger monitoring and government intervention.
Child safety advocates warn these tools are being
weaponized to exploit minors, causing severe emotional harm.
In response, Meta has started sharing banned URLs
with other tech firms and vowed continual legal
action.
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But critics argue more aggressive steps are urgently
needed to curb the abuse of generative AI
for creating these non-consensual images and illegal
content.
So, yes, they can all say these things,
but until somebody gets fined, until an example,
it's not nice to say, but until an
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example is made, this is gonna continue on
and on and on and on.
All right.
Really something interesting, guys.
All right.
I think sometimes people don't understand what this
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is about.
Okay.
And I feel that if you don't get
a handle of what's going on like with
these apps, you can say anything you want,
but if you don't have transparency and you
don't have a way to resolve things, it's
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like they just happen and people just ignore
them.
Until something legal, until somebody starts to sue,
we're gonna still see these problems.
Our 13th story is all about Harvard.
Yes, Harvard Gibbs, their first library card to
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AI, giving it access to 1 million books
so it can go digital.
Harvard University and other libraries are digitizing over
1 million public domain books to provide ethical,
diverse training data for AI development.
Now, this initiative aims to counter the legal
and of course the moral issues of scraping
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copyrighted content, fostering more responsible AI training grounded
in historical knowledge.
But I think there's a lot more that
has to take place than just this.
I mean, I think we need to figure
out like what's happening, why it's happening and
what are we gonna do about it?
Because the thing is, if we say that
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we're doing these ethical things, but who's gonna
check to make sure that these universities are
actually publishing only public domain information?
Who?
I see this as a problem and I
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know you're probably saying to me, John, we're
blowing this out of proportion.
No, we're not.
Because you see, if we don't blow this
out of proportion now, if we don't get
involved, if we don't take action now and
be proactive, we're gonna have to get reactive,
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that's more expensive.
And sometimes being reactive doesn't always solve the
problem, causes more damage, right?
Let's take a fire, for example.
When a fire happens and you're proactive and
you have a, let's say a fire extinguisher
and you're ready or you have smoke systems
and let's say suppression water, there's a good
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chance the fire is gonna go out and
you'll be okay.
If you don't have those and now you
gotta go get something, then there could be
more damage, right?
That could be a really, really serious problem.
So we will keep you in the loop
about that.
And number 14, guys.
Yes, retail cyber attacks explode.
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Empty shelves, stolen data, cyber attacks on major
retailers like Marks and Spencer, United Natural Foods
and Adidas have caused system shutdowns, product shortages
and exposed customer data.
Some more than once.
This wave of ransomware and breaches that is
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kind of permeating our world is signaling a
growing cybersecurity crisis, threatening a, well, kind of
technological pandemic on the global retail supply chains
and consumer trust.
I don't know about you guys, but I
think a lot of this stuff that's happening
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in our world today is happening because people
are not following.
People are just executing, but they're not following
ethics of coding.
Now you might say, John, how do we
make sure coders stay ethical?
That's a loaded question.
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How do we put a trustworthy person in
a military position that's ethical?
That's another billion dollar question.
So when we talk about these things today,
NVIDIA's AI cloud, we talked about that today
and talking about this whole concept of where
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we're going with these trends, like this chatbot
library thing with the retail card.
Retail cyber attacks, they said they're searching, right?
And it's leaving customers with blocked orders and
empty shelves and infinite amounts of frustration.
This wave of cyber attacks that's disrupting major
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retailers worldwide, as I say, it's like a
pandemic, is leaving store shelves empty.
And so experts are warning that ransomware and
data breaches are rising, particularly targeting well-known
consumer brands to maximize chaos and ransom leverage.
Beyond halting operations, these attacks expose personal data,
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prompting warnings about phishing and credential theft.
Companies like Victoria's Secrets are even joining the
teams.
Adidas and the North Face got hit recently.
Also reporting these breaches, highlighting the growing risk
and the need for stronger cybersecurity across retail.
I've always said, guys, it's not a question
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of if you're going to get attacked, but
when, if you're not properly protected.
And so you might say, well, I spent
all this money five years ago, I got
the best firewall.
I've got news for you guys, and I
know you're not going to like to hear
this.
How often should your cybersecurity get updated?
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I know that's a loaded question.
As soon as patches are released.
How about your cyber hardware?
A little bit different.
I generally recommend anywhere from four to five
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years.
Okay.
Three to five is good.
Four to five is the end, no more
than five.
Because the generation, the technology, the type of
processor, we know that as we change algorithms
and we're doing more to detect things with
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patterning and whatnot, it's taking more resources.
So it takes more resources.
Guess what we need to do?
We need to have more resources.
We need to have a more powerful processor.
We need to have more memory, right?
More storage.
We need to be able to handle more
bandwidth.
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We need to make sure that our solutions
are not going to be exploited.
But we all know that a lot of
this technology is based around open technology.
And you can't lock open technology down.
We can detect it, we can manage it
and all this stuff, but we have to
stay very aware and alert of what's going
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on.
Because if we stay aware and alert, then
we are going to be, my friends, we're
going to be proactive.
We're going to be proactive.
I know you're saying to me, John, like
I put the best technology that money can
buy in.
I'm sure you have.
Maybe you spent 50,000 or a million
dollars, but that doesn't mean that the technology
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tomorrow is going to be any good.
I'll give you a perfect example.
And I don't want to give you the
total example because it's a security example.
But there's one particular piece of hardware that's
used in data centers.
And it can get hacked about every three
years if it's not replaced.
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There is actually a national association that has
a certain hacking convention for this particular device.
I'm not going to tell you what it
is.
And so the technology, the brains behind this,
needs to get upgraded every single year.
I'm not talking about a firewall.
You might say, well, John, that's crazy.
No.
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You see, bad actors are always trying to
knock at your door, right?
If they don't get in, that's great.
But you know what they keep doing?
They're persistent.
They keep knocking on that door, hoping you're
eventually going to open it.
Maybe you open it by mistake.
Maybe you don't open it on purpose.
And so if we don't take a proactive
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plan to replace our technology, we're going to
be up a creek.
It's not a question, guys, of if you're
going to get hacked, but when, if you're
not properly protected.
That's a real crazy thing, OK?
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It's crazy because you have to understand what
this means.
And the fact that you're choosing to be
proactive, guess what that means?
That means that you're going to be aware
of these situations.
You're going to be aware of them.
And so if you're aware of these situations,
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then when they come and hit you, you're
not going to be so surprised, right?
We talked about protection for malware.
We talked about what sandboxing is, where you
can actually put something in the sandbox when
you don't think it's something you'll trust, see
how it behaves in a couple hours or
24 hours.
And if it doesn't behave well, well, then
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you quarantined it and you also notify other
systems in the network or that you're collaborating
with to let them know that this is
a bad pattern, this is something you should
be aware of.
Vulnerability scanning, right?
Vulnerability scanning is something that people do every
single day.
But my feeling is if you do not
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patch, OK, if you do not check things,
it's not a question of if you're going
to get attacked, but when if you are
not properly protected.
So there's something called active protection and passive
protection.
So passive protection is when we scan things
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that are on your computer and we take
that passive step.
Active is when we're monitoring things to see
what changes as we're doing things.
So with this example I used with this
technology, this technology is used in not just
data centers but places around the world.
And there is a national association that literally
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has a contest to hack this thing every
three years.
Now, the reason they do that is because
they want to know what's failing with it.
They want to figure out how they can
make it better.
And although I don't want to scare you
with saying technology is bad, I want to
just let you know that technology needs to
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be monitored, technology needs to be updated, right?
You could be talking about anything from a
light bulb, a microphone, your car, your iPhone,
right?
We're constantly updating our iPhone, aren't we?
But one of the things I don't do
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guys, you know what that is?
Is I do not install my updates right
away.
Like right now I'm at 18.5. I
will not install 18.6 immediately.
I will wait a little bit.
So just kind of reminiscing a little bit,
NVIDIA's AI cloud revolution in Germany, I think
that's going to kick our self in the
butt saying we better do something here in
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the United States.
Nintendo has always been very strong.
But the fact that this Switch 2 is
redefining gaming, that's pretty hot.
And what's going on with the Supreme Court?
I am very disgusted with that.
Several people on social media that saw the,
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you know, we do the reels starting with
Monday.
And then so they'll just say, no, we
do this.
We put reels out every single day.
We put two reels out every day.
So we do 14 a week.
So this whole show ends today on Friday,
but we still have one more reel tonight.
And then we have two more reels on
Saturday, two more reels on Sunday, which I've
already covered here.
But every day I give you like a
little bird's eye view of like what that,
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you know, what we're going to be talking
about.
Then the show, of course, I can cover
it more.
A lot of you are saying, well, John,
you know, people already have the information.
So if you already think people have it
and you don't want to protect it, well,
that's a bad attitude.
And I got to say kudos to Disney
and also to Universal for going after Mid
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-Journey.
Now you might want to know something.
And I think this is a very important
thing to know.
Who owns Mid-Journey?
So it's an independent research lab with David
Holtz as its founder.
And so Mid-Journey is founded by what
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they call Leap Motion.
It's generative intelligence.
So you might be wondering, so where, and
where are they located?
So Mid-Journey, it's independent research lab.
They call it Mid-Journey Inc.
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It was founded by David Holtz.
It's located in San Francisco, California.
They're currently on the Gateway Boulevard in South
San Francisco.
And so my problem is Mid-Journey and
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data privacy.
And so do they use your data?
Yep, they all retain and use your personal
data to the extent necessary to comply with
only legal obligations.
Now that's what they say.
I'm not crazy with how their software is
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working.
That's just my thing.
And the fact that they have done stuff
like this and the fact that they're trying
to say that they're not really responsible, well,
that makes me not want to work with
them.
And this whole concept of this new date
-based browser history thing, I think that's ludicrous.
I think that's really getting into people's private
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life.
And that's something no one belongs into without
permission.
Even though if you upload the stuff, who's
to say that it's only going to be
on this site?
Who's to say that they don't sell it
to a third-party company?
Don't be surprised.
The thing with Ross Miner and his gaming
excellence and consulting is amazing.
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What Google is doing, they're just trying to
stay afloat because they're just trying to see,
they know they're going to get pounded.
They just don't know how much.
So they're trying to survive.
And Elon Musk is having some issues.
Trump and Musk and their feud.
My question is, and this is a very
good question, is, and this is something I
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want to know from you guys, is the
feud between Trump and Musk real or fake?
Good question, right?
Trump says Musk will face serious consequences.
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But is Trump going to change his way?
I don't know.
I first thought this might've just been a
staging, right?
I'm not sure.
And Europe is doing some great things with
keeping things cool.
I've got to hand it to them there.
And Meta, I've got to tell you, for
you going after these people, creating these apps,
what you say sounds great.
My question is, are you really doing what
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you say or are you just trying to
do this to get like some good PR
for yourself?
And Harvard, kudos to you and other libraries,
but how are you tracking to make sure
this data doesn't get exploited?
And how are you making sure that the
data being uploaded is actually ethical?
Is it being done by certain people?
Is it being done by grad students?
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Is it being done by students?
And how are you holding them accountable, right?
So we talked about a lot today, from
the AI battles to game-changing tech.
We gave you a very big dosage of
innovation and impact.
And we gave you some interesting tech bites
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here.
We shared some cybersecurity knowledge.
I gave you some direction of where Apple's
going in their rival little bit of trying
to compete with Meta's glasses.
So it's going to be very interesting, you
know, what's happening.
But at the end of the day, I
think it comes down to what products, what
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services and how are these developers protecting our
own wellbeing?
I mean, how are they doing it?
Are they saying they're doing it, but they're
really not?
I mean, I think that's a very, very
big issue.
So again, we laugh about the fact that
AI gets a library card, but are we
really monitoring that?
I hope you guys have a fantastic evening.
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Do check out believeandachieve.com for more of
my amazing, inspiring creations.
And I'll catch you guys next week on
the Jay Moore Tech Talk show.
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