2023 Daily Tech News Show


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5			On this episode of DTNS, Google unveils its best bet for AI dominance, called Gemini, Why Twitch is leaving Korea and why GTA 6 probably won't come to PC until 2026.	Twitch Chat Pop-out Window
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8			This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday Dec 6th, 2023. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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19		sl	Apple confirmed that foreign governments served it with confidential orders to disclose the details of push notifications. Apple does run a separate push notification using different credential services than iMessage, which isn't encrypted. Google uses a similar setup with Firebase Cloud messaging, and is alleged to also have handed over notification data to governments. Apple was forbidden from making the requests public, but both Apple and Google's compliance was made public after a request from US Senator Ron Wyden.	https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/06/push-notification-spying/
20		tm	AMD announced a new line of its own AI accelerator chips, the MI300. AMD CEO Lisa Su predicted the market for accelerator chips could reach as high as $400 million or more in the next four years. That's double the estimate she gave in August. AMD's MI300 has 2.4 times as much memory and 1.6 times as much memory bandwidth as Nvidia's H100. AMD claims it is better than Nvidia at inference, the process of running models after they are trained.	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-ceo-debuts-nvidia-chip-182428413.html
21		sl	Bloomberg's Mark Gurman's sources say Apple is working on multiple new iPad and Mac models and upgrades for early next year. That would reportedly include two sizes for the iPad Air, plus an OLED iPad Pro and an M3 MacBook Air. the iPad line in particular might love a refresh…2023 is the first year in the product’s history when no new versions were released.	https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/apple-prepares-m3-macbook-air-and-revamped-ipad-pro-for-early-next-year
22		tm	We'll get to Gemini in just a few, but it appears Meta got the memo and wanted a little press of its own. The company launched a standalone generative AI tool for the web called "Imagine with Meta" that allows users to create images by describing them in natural language. It's powered by Meta’s existing Emu image generation model and can create high-rez images from text prompts. Free for users in the US and generates four images per prompt.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/meta-launches-a-standalone-ai-powered-image-generator/
23		sl	Google announced new features for the Pixel 8 Pro today, including Video Boost, which Google says in a blog post “uploads your videos to the cloud where our computational photography models adjust color, lighting, stabilization and graininess." Night Sight as part of Video Boost "uses AI to apply noise reduction to videos recorded at night or in low-light conditions so you see rich detail and color.” A new Balance portrait light mode in Google Photos helps eliminate harsh shadows, and Photo Unblur helps sharpen photos with human and pet faces.	https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23990607/google-pixel-december-update-feature-drop-video-boost
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27		tm	Despite delays in some parts of the announcement and demos, Google launched its new Large Language Model Gemini. There are 3 versions:	https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/google-launches-its-largest-and-most-capable-ai-model-gemini.html
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34		tm	Google also announced its next Tensor Processing Unit, which it uses to train models. These run in data centers, and companies like Salesforce and Lightricks have already started using the TPU v5p chips on a rental basis. A v5p pod collects 8,960 chips with a 4,800 Gbps per chip interconnect. Google claims you'll get 459 TFLOPS of 16-bit floating point performance. It can train models and faster and more cost-effectively than v4 chips. If you're an interested developer you'll need to discuss availability with Google.	https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/google-announces-the-cloud-tpu-v5p-its-most-powerful-ai-accelerator-yet/
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38		tm	Twitch will stop operations in South Korea starting February 27, 2024, due to high costs there. Twitch had been working to lower costs by experimenting with peer-to-peer delivery and even reducing streams to 720p in the country. But the company claims network fees to interoperate with ISPs are "still 10 times more expensive than in most other countries." Twitch will help South Korean streamers move to other services. Twitch isn't talking about how much consumers pay, it's talking about the fact that it has to pay to send its streams to users. This is a policy that only exists in Korea called Sending Party Network Pays or SPNP. The party sending traffic to a user pays an ISP in order to deliver the traffic. You may recall Comcast trying to get Netflix to do this in the US several years back. In Korea it's the law.	https://venturebeat.com/games/twitch-south-korea-shut-down-2024/
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40			NOTES - In 2016 South Korea introduced a SPNP model, requiring ISPs to charge fees for data traffic they receive from each other. This is different than how the internet works everywhere else, where peering arrangements between CDNs, ISPs and transit providers are largely unregulated and negotiated between each party. In 2020, ISPs decided to try to extend the policy to large Content . AKA your Facebooks Googles, Netflixes and of course Amazon and its Twitch service. Regulators have allowed them to charge domestically. And the Korean National Assembly is considering legislation to make it mandatory for all companies foreign and domestic. - Rather than acquiesce, Netflix has taken SK Telecom to court over the issue. The courts ruled in favor of the ISP but Netflix is still fighting in court over what the fee should be. Google has refused to pay and so far has not been confronted. And of course now Twitch has pulled out.
41			MORE NOTES The experiment has degraded what was a vibrant broadband market. Korea has consistently ranked at the top of world charts for broadband. Part of this is due to a policy that requires ISPs to be allowed access to infrastructure to runt heir wires. While there is no net neutrality, every ISPs can access poles and apartment buildings providing a competitive landscape. The SPNP rules are having the opposite effect though. The cost of transit in Seoul is now 8 times higher than in European network hubs like Frankfurt and London. Elsewhere in Asia cost of transit has fallen 20 percent per year over the last few years. Studies have found a rise in the price of mobile data and rises in service fees. And critically, traffic latency has increased from 120ms in 2018 to 160ms in 2020. Network infrastructure investments have declined as well. And some content providers, not just Twitch, have degraded service or moved out of the country. It appears to be failed experiment and it's hard to tell if Twitch is trying to force the issue or just responding to the numbers. It's probably both. Korea is still one for me the top eSports markets in the world, so its fairly significant that one of the top esports streamers is taking the measure of shutting down there. The EU has been examining similar policies so experts have written up several studies of the Korean market to help advise regulators there.
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51		sl	When Rockstar announced GTA 6's 2025 release date, they only mentioned the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\|S. This lead to speculation by PC Gamer that a PC port of the anticipated game would come sometime in 2026. This has drawn the ire of PC gamers who are obviously pumped about the game. So it raises the question, Scott. Why do some PC ports come so much later than the console versions?	https://www.pcgamer.com/so-were-not-getting-gta-6-on-pc-until-2026-at-the-very-earliest-right/
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53			(SCOTT NOTES:) - Consoles benefit GREATLY during this period of exclusivity for this huge of game, because even PC purists will often get a console just to play the game. (Same thing happened in 2013 with GTAV) - Then those same PC purists re-purchase the games again when it finally does hit PC. - Big same with GTA V. - The PC coming later, means the long tale with mods, online, etc is much deeper and longer than on the consoles it launched on. - Added benefit of having two closed systems to dev for initially means less bugs, less issues, etc - Personally, I think they is exactly why they do it. They also did this with Red Dead 2. (red dead 1 never even got a PC release)
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69			Exactly as we hoped, Colin wrote in to further explain log video- You can think of log as a way of storing video that is more suited for post manipulation within the same compression wrapper. If you're not planning to color correct your video, you probably don't want to use log. It isn't "better." Generally, a camera's sensor produces a range of brightness data from the world and then applies a standard curve to it to make it look natural to the eye within a the range of brightness in your compressed file. Storing in log, teh camera doen't perform that curve, leaving an image that looks "flat" or washed out to the eye, but doesn't make decisions for you about which portions of the captured data are important. You can think of log as a step between normal and raw. It uses no more space than normal video, but uses that space to preserve as much information as possible. Why log? The eye perceives brightness logarithmically, which is why the unit we use to describe light, "stops", is logarithmic. If you open up your lens one stop, you allow in twice as much light. Two stops is four times. So brighter areas are a LOT brighter than dimmer areas within an image, meaning that you can preserve data more evenly by using more of your data in the darker areas of the image. When filmmakers shoot in log, we still deliver a final image that resembles what you would get with a normal video, but we've controlled how that curve is applied creatively.
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71			Michael - I had to buy my high school daughter an iPhone last year due to iMessage compatibility. The two main issues were the lack of ability to add/remove people from group messages and photo/video sharing. She was left out of group messages because of the add/remove issue, and the photos her friends shared with her were all degraded quality, both significant problems for a high school girl in 2023 (no one cared for my alternative solutions:)
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99		tm	Disney+ has added Hulu as a sixth category on the Disney+ Home Screen alongside Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney itself. You'll see the option if you pay for bundled service or subscribe o Hulu-enhanced Disney+ for an extra $2 a month. Subscribers will be prompted to update parental controls before viewing Hulu content for the first time. This is described as a beta test of integration with a full combined app to come in March. Disney has already made its first payment to Comcast as part of the process of buying out Comcast's remaining stake in Hulu.	https://deadline.com/2023/12/disney-plus-hulu-streaming-beta-launch-one-app-experience-1235652680/
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