YouTube f***ed up - Jan. 11, 2023

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

YOUTUBE ANNOUNCES TIME TRAVEL

YouTube stealth-launches new ad-friendly guidelines, demonetizes YouTubers’ back-catalog

https://kotaku.com/youtube-violence-profanity-policy-rtgame-moist-critical-1849971177

November 2022 update https://lmg.gg/GfXfD

Full ad-friendly content guidelines https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/youtube-creators-outraged-as-new-profanity-guidelines-wreak-havoc-2021678/

demonetizing back-catalog https://twitter.com/RTGameCrowd/status/1608385443245989889

YouTube rep says policy is retroactive in correspondence with RTGame https://youtu.be/DRsVDZvmaAE?t=362

allowed MORE profanity in first 30 seconds in April 2021 (editor: scroll down and click on the “2021” tab, and highlight the third paragraph of the “April 2021” update where it says “Second, we're also expanding monetization to allow for adult themes delivered through the context of humor (e.g. romance, dating jokes) and the usage of moderate profanity (e.g. shit and bitch) in the first 30 seconds.”) https://lmg.gg/xJBNT

 

YOU’RE GROUNDED

FAA glitch caused every flight in the US to be grounded

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/faa-computer-outage-live-updates-flights-us-affected-rcna65248

FAA statements ion NOTAM system https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-notams-statement

White house has said there’s no evidence of a cyberattack https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1613153561289932800

Tracker FlightAware lists over 16,000 delays today (editor: highlight section “Total delays today”) https://uk.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today

Which sounds like a lot but apparently is not unusual, based on Sunday (editor: highlight section “Total delays today”) https://uk.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/minus3days  

But there have been at least 2,000 more delays and 1,000 cancellations within, into, or out of US (editor: highlight sections “Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today” and “Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today”) https://uk.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today

 

POOR UNFORTUNATE GOALS

Microsoft embracing AI

New AI can mimic your voice after hearing you for only 3 seconds https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai-voice-mimic-deepfake-natural-copy-audio-1849969596

Demonstration of audio samples and VALL-E’s capability https://valle-demo.github.io/

Built on Meta’s EnCodec audio compression tech https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec

Rumor is that Microsoft is looking to bring OpenAI’s GPT features to many applications https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/9/23546144/microsoft-openai-word-powerpoint-outlook-gpt-integration-rumor

Apparently an unknown version of the text-generating GPT model has been incorporated into Word https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ghost-writer-microsoft-looks-to-add-openais-chatbot-technology-to-word-email

 

QUICK BITS

 

WHEN MICROSOFT CLOSES A WINDOWS….

Windows 7, 8.1 users are officially on their own (no more security updates)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/closing-time-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-have-received-their-last-updates/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-reportedly-gets-secure-boot-in-last-dying-gasp

 

BIG NEWS FOR CABBAGE LIVESTREAMS

England mandates Gigabit internet in new houses

https://www.pcgamer.com/gigabit-ready-internet-connections-are-now-mandatory-in-new-homes-in-england/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/uk-requires-most-new-homes-to-be-built-with-gigabit-internet-support

 

MERCEDEEZ NUTS, TESLA

Mercedes is first automaker to offer level 3 self-driving in US

https://insideevs.com/news/630075/mercedes-first-to-offer-level-3-self-driving-in-the-us/

https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/mercedes-to-offer-level-3-autonomous-driving

 

THEY DIDN’T SAY THAT…THEY JUST WROTE IT

FF16 producer confused why people think a PC version will be coming, or why they think it will come 6 months after the PS5 release

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/nobody-said-a-word-about-a-pc-version-says-final-fantasy-16-producer

Maybe because they said this in a trailer (editor: highlight fine print that says “Also available on PC”) https://youtu.be/ofWtkPs92Nc?t=224

And said this in another trailer (editor: highlight fine print “Not available on other platforms until 12.31.2023”) https://youtu.be/wvunu2e29tc?t=159

 

THOSE WHO FORGET THE MEMES OF THE PAST…d

Some dude built a meme search engine

https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.html

Creator goes by @IAmMandatory on Twitter https://twitter.com/iammandatory

The actual meme search engine https://findthatmeme.com/