A (2:39)

Do one.

C (2:40)

I don't know.

A (2:41)

Yes.

C (2:42)

The agreement will also see Unity support games made with Unreal Engine on their recently announced Commerce Dashboard, which lets creators manage pricing, payments, promotions, and digital catalogs on multiple platforms. We're talking about a fairly deep collaboration between two of the most popular game engines here. Maybe Timothy Sweetner is right. This already is his metaverse and we're just living in it.

A (3:03)

Zuck's right over there.

C (3:04)

Zuck's in. Hi. That's meta. Meta. Yeah.

A (3:08)

That's so meta.

C (3:09)

Pebble, the once discontinued fan favorite smartwatch seemed like it was flying high after being revived, but now it's hit some turbulence. The community finds itself torn between Core Devices, which now builds new pebble hardware under original founder Eric Migogoff's geek skin. Gee, and Rebel. That's hilarious that they're called Rebel, the nonprofit that has maintained the Pebble App Store and cloud services since the original company shut down. Just weeks ago, both sides announced a deal. Core would build a new app store front end, Rebel would continue running the back end, and together they'd support all pebble users, new and old and dead. Probably such an old device. But talks broke down over who ultimately controls the app Store data, which consists of roughly 13,000 apps and watch faces that Rebel has maintained since the servers were shut down in 2018. Rebel says core demanded unrestricted access, which they fear could allow Core to build a closed proprietary store and leave Rebl behind. And they also accused Core of scraping their publicly available data in violation of the agreement. Core counters that the data shouldn't belong to anyone. What they want is an open public archive to keep pebble accessible. And that the scraping Rebel's referring to was just Eric using a simple web tool to browse watch faces.

A (4:23)

Eric does that all the time.

C (4:25)

He doesn't scrape.

A (4:27)

He's not a scraper.

C (4:28)

Both sides claim they're protecting Pebble's future, which looks increasingly uncertain as long as mom and dad keep fighting. Please stop. But hey, at least the watches still tell the time, right? This is caps locked and you're gonna have a lot of extra time on your hands thanks to our sponsor, Wolfbox.

A (4:49)

It's the portable air duster for blowing dust off stuff and or just cleaning in general. The Wolfbox comes with a full wolf pack of options with three adjustable air levels and four different nozzles so you're ready to clean in any scenario. Cleaning up the kitchen ain't the same as cleaning up a campsite, so get you an air duster that can do both. Speaking of camping, the Wolf Box has a flame retardant handle and square bottom, just how I like them, and it can be used to extinguish fires. It's wireless, portable, handheld, lightweight, and has an optional removable battery so you can double its usage time. When you use this air duster, you're gonna be saying who let the dogs out? Cause it's got powerful wind speed and wind pressure, just like those dogs chasing Liam Neeson in that movie. You know the one. Wolf Box Black Friday sale starts November Twentiet There are big deals across all platforms so don't miss out.

C (5:44)

Got another call home from school. The quick bits are in trouble again. They just cannot sit still and listen Too much sugar Cloudflare had a major outage yesterday that knocked out big services like ChatGPT and X for thousands of users. The outage came after a change in permissions caused too many entries to be added to a file connected to Cloudflare's bot management system, causing it to buckle under the load and crash out harder than a real housewife. Cloudflare says they fixed the issue and stressed that there was no sign of a cyber attack. However, this was the third major Internet outage in a month and people are starting to wonder what can be done to prevent these crashes and what backups we have in place for when they do happen. Like how I always keep an extra new toothbrush in the house just in case the data center powering my normal one goes down. AMD is officially launching its next AI powered, upscaling tech FSR Redstone on December 10. In a tweet, AMD exec Jack Quinn declared that where darkness ends, Redstone begins before showing off a pretty bland, seemingly Marvel Studios title card inspired video. At the moment, not much is known about FSR Redstone, but words like neural radiance, caching and ray regeneration wow. Have been thrown around. And those sound hella fancy. I guess AMD is hoping it's fancy enough to justify the reported desire to increase GPU prices, according to a post on China's board channels. With memory prices increasing, a price hike on AMD's GPUs is imminent. Obviously. I'll tell you AMD, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland together on screen. This is not Disappointed. Again, disappointed. Google just launched Gemini 3, which it's calling its smartest AI model yet. You would hope. If Google's benchmarks are to be believed, Gemini 3 might actually be a new era of intelligence, considering it's apparently significantly better at understanding text, images, audio, and a lot of other stuff than some of its competitors can even understand. My wife the new Gemini is built into both the Gemini app and Google Search from day one. But being that it's a Gemini, is it ever really going to get away from the stereotypes that it's indecisive, impulsive, unreliable and nosy? Russia is now cutting mobile Internet for travelers re entering the country for up to 24 hours, claiming it stops Ukrainian drones from using SIM cards for navigation. The system has caused chaos in border regions where roaming happens accidentally. This happens to me all the time.

A (8:19)

Oh man.

C (8:20)

Phones that reconnect after being on foreign networks get automatically quarantined until users prove using captchas or by dialing a call center, that they're a human, not a quadcopter.

A (8:30)

Oh it's every day I keep telling people, not a quadcopter.

C (8:34)

Riley keeps buzzing in my ear and TikTok is rolling out a new Internet AI generated content slider in its Manage Topics settings so you can choose to see more or less slop in your for you feed. TikTok is also working on invisible watermarking to make AI videos easier to spot. But they're invisible. The watermarks that only TikTok can read will help them identify AI content, even if it's edited or re uploaded. The platform announced that these features will be rolling out in the coming weeks. What do you think the person who slides their AI content slider to only AI is like I bet they're a Gemini. And I bet you'll be back on Friday for more tech news. I've gotta go. I wanted to keep working on my funny intro a bit, but now I've got a parent teacher conference about the quick bits to go to. They're not even my frickin kids.