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2:38This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, June 8th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand WWDC, right Rob? Yes, it is today. Today would be Monday and it is WWDC kickoff. So we had the launch. We're going to break down just everything that we heard from Tim Cook and all the other folks today. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Rob Dunwood.

3:01Sarah Lane: And I'm Sarah Lane. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

3:07And joining us to go over what Apple just announced at WWDC, Nika Monford from SnobOS. Welcome back, Nika. Hello. We are all very pleased, I think, at least I expect we are, that it was a shorter announcement than usual.

3:24Sarah Lane: It depends on what you wanted to hear. Yeah, I suppose so, right? But we're going to get to that. It was a very different WWDC announcement as well. Not organized on products lines, but on features. We got news on platform developments, focusing on liquid glass improvements and a few UI tweaks. across the various OSs, and then a lot on Apple Intelligence, centerpiece, of course, being the new Siri. So let's start there. Siri gets an app. We knew this was coming, and now it's confirmed. It's also accessible in a lot of different ways. It's built into Spotlight. You can pull down for search, like from the dynamic island in mobile operating systems.

4:06Gets added to context menus. And Apple Vision OS, Sarah, I can't wait for you to try this. apparently you'll be able to just look at a Siri blob and then talk to it. You don't have to use the wake word. It'll just know you're looking at it.

4:20Sarah Lane: I was actually excited about this because I'm the only one on the panel that I know of who has a Vision Pro. One thing I thought was sort of curious, and we can get into why this keynote felt a little different, but it was like, why is the voice asking the blob sounding like AI? Why wouldn't it sound like a normal person? it was just like it was just a funny little note where i was like i'm gonna write that down that just kind of confuses me yeah because it would be on my head and it would be my voice but yeah i'm anything anything that pushes vision os forward i'm into because you know i i want it to be relevant the siri app will be english first with more languages to come uh you will be able to update siri's pace and expressiveness they'll have something called personal context to Understanding.

5:12So it'll be able to look through your emails and stuff it knows about you if you're using Apple's versions of those. Screen awareness. It knows what's on the screen and can react to it. App actions. It can actually launch apps and take actions with apps. Doesn't even have to be an Apple app. Line, for instance, will be able to call on Siri. Notify me coming to Safari so you can close a tab and have it update you when something changes on that web page. You don't have to keep the tab open. Call context will surface info based on who you're calling and won't be listening to your call. But if you're calling an airline, it'll be like, oh, you probably need your confirmation number.

5:48This is all built on Apple Foundation models combined with Gemini. They acknowledged that early on, but then really just talked about Apple's own models from there on out. It will either run on device or in private cloud compute. Apple emphasizing many times that it will not know anything about what you are saying to or getting from Apple intelligence. You'll be able to vibe code some extensions for Safari. If you want Safari to do something, they didn't call it vibe coding, but that's pretty much what it is. You also be able to do that with shortcuts. If you want to have a shortcut on iOS, macOS, you can just tell it what you want in natural language.

6:25Automatic proofreading across all text writing on most apps. you can update your passwords automatically the camera got a bunch of stuff they improved cleanup and extend and then added something called spatial reframing and you'll be able to point your camera at stuff and ask about what it is so that's the obvious stuff but they also showed you like pointing at a receipt and then you could figure out which parts of the receipt were yours and then actually use apple's cash app to to pay for your part of the bill system-wide dictation bunch of other things in here nika what impressed you most about the apple intelligence and siri part of the presentation so i think the biggest thing for me is they essentially for lack of a better term split the baby right so you have the gemini models the foundational models running on cloud compute and then you have the on-device models both of them still give you that level of privacy and data security that Apple is known for, but it's still giving you that feel of using say, a open AI or a Claude or perplexity or Gemini or whatever the case may be.

7:41And I think what we're seeing with Apple intelligence and Siri AI, which I've been calling it Siri AI for months now so when i heard it i was like ha i was right uh but i was just kind of calling that for lack of a better term to to know what they were going to do if they were going to call it siri plus or siri pro max you know they love to give all of these types or all of those right but i think the biggest thing for me is it if they can deliver on what they showed us today this is giving what I expected Apple Intelligence to give when they first announced it. I like the fact that there are multiple ways to engage with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI.

8:33And I like that they used in this keynote, natural language processing, they use that nomenclature a lot. They use agentic AI, nomenclature a lot, which they haven't done in previous discussions when it came to Apple intelligence. So to me, this version of Apple intelligence is giving what I've always liked about AI is make my life easier to do things that are a bit cumbersome that I won't have to expend a lot of energy to so that I can do other things that I actually want to spend time and energy doing. So if they can stick to what they say they're going to deliver, then this is definitely a step in the right direction, because I've I've been saying that I thought that Apple was kind of behind the gun on what it expect what its expectations for AI was.

9:32Now, Rob, I saw several folks in the chat while we were watching this mentioning the old Clarion call of, well, Android already has this coming from the Samsung side of things. How did you take this? So I don't want to be that guy and say, oh, we're just doing what Google already offers or what Android already offers. And the reason for that is because they're using Google's version of AI to do the things that they're doing, at least the stuff that's happening in the cloud. So that absolutely makes sense. I actually did stay awake for this one and went through a lot of the individual things they were saying line by line.

10:07It's like, oh, yeah, that, you know, that's that's Gemini, that's Gemini, that's Gemini. So that all makes sense. You know, this stuff is built on top of Gemini. Where I am curious to see is that they also, you know, I shouldn't say curious to see what was curious to me was that they did really let you know that, hey, we're still doing a lot of stuff on the phone. Now, what I think about is how much of that stuff that can be done on the phone is going to be part of people's every day. When I think about Gemini, when I think about even like I use a Samsung device, when I think about Samsung AI, there's a lot of stuff you can do on the phone.

10:41I hardly ever do any of it. Most of the stuff that I do on my phone is either done in Gemini in the cloud or done in cloud in or in cloud in the cloud, because that's where most of my AI uses go. So I want to see how does Apple, how do they tow that line? They made a distinction. They wanted you to know that there's a lot of what's being done by us on the phone. I believe that they met their contractual obligation to say Google and Gemini one time in the whole event. But a lot of what they're doing is being powered by Gemini. As we've known for months, that was going to be the case. I wonder, does that continue to be the case for Apple?

11:19Or are they going to try to move away from that and move into their own model? Or will they really be able to kind of split this baby and have, well, you have the cloud stuff and you have the online stuff. And they just interface. You just use the app Siri and you talk and it just gives you answers and you don't have to worry about are you in the cloud or are you on device? I'm wondering how well they're going to be able to pull that part off. Yeah, Apple made a point of saying private cloud compute quite a bit. And what private cloud compute is, and they didn't go into it as much as they have in the past.

11:50I think they just said, go look it up if you want to know. it's a way to use the cloud to process your requests in a way that's end to end encrypted and your requests can't be seen by Apple. And they mentioned that multiple times. Apple can't even see it, even if it's going to the cloud. And they did throw out the like, and we have third parties auditing this, you know, so you can continue to be assured that it works as intended and all of that. But I do think that, yeah, people generally tend to think of on-device as a shortcut for that's the private part. And then when it gets sent to the cloud, that's a different situation.

12:24So I'm not sure if Apple got that message across or not. Also, they were showing in the spatial reframing, this happens on device so it can happen fast and then it'll go to the cloud to finish up. And that's gonna be dependent on the speed of your connection.

12:40Sarah Lane: I was wondering when I heard Gemini, I thought, did I miss anything that also said ChatGPT or Claude. They only said Gemini by name. Yeah, Gemini, they are using Gemini's models to integrate with their own models to run Apple intelligence. ChatGPT is still available for you to select and use. And in fact, when they talked about Codex, they talked about Claude as well as something you can select and use. But I think that's going to get confusing for people too, is that Gemini isn't an option for you to use the way ChatGPT has been. Gemini is just the underlying technology now. Yeah. And I think that's one of the things that I don't know if it was clearly communicated.

13:28They did say Gemini foundational. And I don't know if people were able to pick up on the fact that it did say, you know, there are on-device models, which are Apple's fundamental models. Right. But also the Gemini is the foundational model. So basically think of your cement floor, the actual foundation of a house that you build everything on top of. They're using Gemini as that foundation to work hand in hand in conjunction with Apple's models. And I think to Rob's point, I think they will eventually try to find a way to get off of Gemini, similar to kind of how they've had an Intel chip that powered their devices for the longest time.

14:13Then they came up with Apple Silicon. I think Apple in the first few years of Apple intelligence wasn't able to figure out how to use AI within their ecosystem to give the output that they wanted. And that's why they went with Gemini. I remember an article talking about they tested out other, they tested out perplexity. They tested out, I think, Anthropic as well to see, you know, which one of you are going to kind of give us the best result. And I think this is a stock gap fix for the interim because they could not wait any longer to figure out Apple intelligence. They had to do something now because it was starting to look really, really bad for them.

14:59So I think, to what you said, Rob, I think eventually they will get this foundational thing, these foundational models in-house to Apple, but for now they have to use Gemini. I don't know. I wonder. I think the outcome of this is that when you get iOS 27 on your phone, you'll never think of Gemini. They had to mention it, like Rob joked about it, contractually obligated to acknowledge, like hey we're using this but i think when you're using your your computer it'll just be apple intelligence when you're using your phone it's just apple intelligence and it may end up being more like icloud we never care about whether icloud is running on aws or azure or apple's own servers and the fact of the matter is it's running on all three of those probably more aws and azure and maybe even google i think they're using some google cloud stuff but it doesn't matter no one no one out of sight out of mind yeah i wonder if that's the way it'll be with gemini It could be.

15:58Yeah, I kind of think it is for a couple of reasons. If people don't realize that they're using Gemini and don't care that they're using Gemini, does it behoove Apple to get off of it? You know, what is the benefit of Apple to doing that? That's that's question number one. Question number two is could Apple do that if they if they if they wanted to? I don't know that they can. The reason that the Apple is using Google stuff is because Apple was woefully behind where everyone else was, including Google. just because they're using Google now. I don't know that that means, oh, now we have the time to really catch up and catch everybody else because it's not like everyone else is standing still.

16:35Google will be infinitely better a year from now than they are today, as will Anthropic, as will Perplexity, as will pretty much everyone else who actually is kind of known for doing AI, something that Apple isn't. So my thought here is that does this become the next Google for them in the sense that, you know, Google search, Apple never got off of Google search. They just made it work. They just did what they did. Now they were getting enormous amounts of money to stay on Google search, but they never got off of it. My question now is, will they, will they never get off of, of, of Gemini or will there be maybe another model that they say, you know what, Gemini did his thing, but now we're going to move to, to Anthropic.

17:15Now we're going to move to someone else. Are they always going to run their stuff on top of someone else's stuff because they're so far behind, at least today, where everyone else's stuff is. Yeah. Some of the reporting from Gurman indicated that that might be the case is that they've engineered this so that it's Apple's models integrated with Gemini in such a way that down the road they could swap to Opus or GPT or something else. Lift and shift it out. I think it'll depend on Apple's ego if the ego can handle it being run by somebody else. I think that really will be the determining factor. I think Apple doesn't.

17:55If they want to put the effort into trying to build this when they could be using those engineers and those scientists to be doing something else. So I think that's kind of what it'll maybe go down to.

18:05Sarah Lane: It's kind of like the foundation, the cement analogy you made, Nika, a few minutes ago. I don't know how much Apple cares as long as it's Apple branding to the end user. I mean, all of us are kind of picking it apart like okay so what's actually you know what what's actually running all of this stuff but the average user if series better apple intelligence makes sense safari ends up being uh you know a browser that gets more traction because of new capabilities i don't know how much apple cares they may not i i unless unless something like okay the agreement with Google using Gemini becomes like, you know, astronomically more expensive and Apple can do it in-house.

18:48Sarah Lane: Okay. Of course, things could change, but I think they could get away with using a lot of other technology under the hood. Yeah. I think we have to take ourselves out of the, this is what we do for a living. We all live and breathe by how Apple moves, how Google moves and stuff like that. Most iPhone users don't. What most iPhone users, and I'm not an iPhone user, But what I what I believe most iPhone users think about this is that, you know what? Siri sucks. Oh, you know what? Siri doesn't suck as much anymore. Yeah, I think that's the thought process to go through. It's like, oh, wow, Siri doesn't suck.

19:23It's actually kind of good. And I think that is the win for Apple, because if we think about, you know, John Tarnas, he is a hardware person. He now, you know, he's going to be running the company and doing everything that Apple does. But we know him as a hardware person. and AI isn't hardware. It runs on hardware, but it's not hardware. And if he is the AI guy and say, you know what? The Google integration is working just fine and people are no longer saying the Siri sucks. So if that's a win for us, let's get them to use our stuff because once again, we were contractually obligated to say Gemini and Google one time we did it and we were never going to say it again.

20:04And we're going to just keep them using our stuff and how that stuff gets the answers for them, they don't need to know about that as long as they're happy with the answers that they're getting. We're live streaming this recording and C-Spawn said informative and thoughtful discussion gave us a super chat. So thank you for that, C-Spawn. Thanks, C-Spawn. Yeah, I do think that I look at this and I don't think Apple did everything they need to do to convince the industry and the investors that they are back in the game. They made progress. You know, they basically said all that stuff we promised a year or so ago, we really have it coming in the operating system this time.

20:43But they are not in front. And most of this stuff isn't the kind of thing that makes an early adopter go, oh, that's an interesting take. It's all things that you can do in other ways. Now, Apple's magic is usually taking things that you can do in other ways and making them really easy to do. So that once we get the betas and get our hands on them, we'll be the test of like, yeah, it's all run of the mill stuff that these models can do these days. But they did it really well. They made it really easy. They made it so you don't have to know what an agent is. You don't have to know what vibe coding is.

21:16And you can do it. If they've pulled that off, then then I think it's a win for Apple. If not, I think they still have catch up to do. I think there's definitely still work to do because as you said, and I think I said it before, is their Apple intelligence, what they're showing us Apple intelligence is, is what we expected three years ago. And so we're finally here. And that's good because again, they couldn't feel like this again. They couldn't. It would tank everything. So it'll be interesting to see rather than putting all of that manpower on creating Apple intelligence on models built in-house, maybe they'll take those people that they were using for that and, you know, kind of reallocate them, so to speak, and say, OK, what's next?

22:10Hopefully they have a what's next group for this to try and close that gap so that people can say, oh, yes, you're now with everybody else. But then, you know, the next thing is like, oh, you've kind of leapfrogged it and you're, you know, on the forward leading end of it. So I think when we see that, then I think people will be like, OK, Apple is back on it when it comes to AI. Here's a question. Pull that Bella Ramsey commercial out and start running it again. They could definitely do that. But Sarah, you mentioned this. Here's the question. Does Apple care? Well, they probably care. They probably care.

22:52They're jumping through a lot of hoops to try to make this as good as it possibly can be. But the real question for me is that, is that the game that they're ultimately playing? Are they trying to be what Google is ultimately going to be in AI? What OpenAI is ultimately going to be in AI? What perplexity, you know, what all these other AI companies are going to be? I think that the Apple seeded that ground darn near three years ago. And I don't know that that's something that they can attain. So I'm just wondering, is there a play? Let's make our assistant is branded with an Apple logo next to it.

23:26The thing that is called Siri, not feel like it's inferior to everyone else, because I think that that is what most people's perception of it was. It's not it's not even that is it's it's truly in theory. This thing doesn't even come close to what these other, you know, with these other third party apps I can install can do. And that may no longer be the case. And if that is no longer the case, is that the win, Tom, that, you know, that may be what Apple's trying to get to? We're not we're never trying to be what Google is going to be. Google is an AI company. OpenAI is an AI company. I still say that Apple is a marketing company that sells ridiculously, really good hardware.

24:03and you know what i've known about apple for years now that's that's kind of what they be they sell really really good hardware that a lot of people like and i just think that if if this is if this gets them to parity with everyone else they don't have to win the ai game they just have to be able to put something out even if they're using someone else's models that just doesn't suck compared to everyone else and i would hope that that's what the new siri is this reminds me a lot

24:28Sarah Lane: of the, you know, pre-Apple Maps. Apple Maps is actually really good now, but remember when Apple Maps first came out and everyone was like, well, this sucks. Google Maps is way better. It's terrible. Did it make people ditch iOS devices? No, because they had another option. And I understand the idea of the race to be the best in AI, right? You know, just to kind of put that blanket term on everything it it's not going to keep me from using mac os or ios or ipad os or vision os i have options to use third-party apps if for some reason those options went away that would be another story but that's not what apple has to deal with apple eventually wants everything to be baked into its own ecosystem of course it does um and of course it's working on that you know it's working on stuff that was not announced today that's how companies work but i i don't feel like to your to your point rob the you know apple selling hardware i don't think they hurt for kind of catching up to you know everybody who's who's out in front not when it comes to selling expensive things and could it be the signal one thing could it be the signal that we now have an apple ceo who is hardware guy could that be the linchpin to say we got ai going we're fine with it now we're going to get back to to what we're really good at which is hardware which will be the foldable and the glasses and and all that stuff yeah yeah uh speaking of uh the platform improvement side of this is usually the entire wwdc uh and it was just the first part uh we got a nice little funny craig fader e skit about the naming of the next Mac OS, which will be called Golden Gate.

26:17They're adding a slider control to liquid glass across platforms so that you can adjust the transparency. Parental controls got a lot of improvement. They spent a lot of time on that. Better scheduling, the ability for children to ask for approval to visit a website that is blocked. They can do that with apps right now now you'll be able to do with websites and uh to request to be able to ask to talk to a contact for specific people and there's already nudity filtering that blurs images of nudity before it's sent or received they'll now do that for gore as well bloody imagery uh the health app added paramenopause and menopause tracking airpods are getting custom eq uh and i thought this was one of the more significant announcements, iOS 27 improvements coming to all devices that currently support iOS 26.

27:09So it'll be the most compatible iOS release that they've ever done because they're not sunsetting any of the models that currently support iOS 26. They'll all be able to run iOS 27. That last part is a really big deal because usually a phone or two or three drops off and that not being the case, you know, people are hanging on to their hardware longer and longer and longer. So this, this, this is a good one. I applaud Apple for doing this. Like if you, if you had an, if you had a iPhone that worked before you had an iPad that worked before with iOS 26, it still works. You don't have to go get a new one to get all the new hotnesses coming out.

27:47That is not hardware specific. That's a good, that's a, that's a real good plus for me. They're reading the room and they see that people are, like you said, holding onto their devices longer and they aren't going for the new hotness. If they don't have to, If their phone isn't broken, if it's still working, it's like, you know what, we're going to hang on to this because we don't know what the situation is ultimately going to look like because it's looking a little sketch. So I agree. I think that's, you know, the thoughtfulness behind it to take into consideration people who may not be able to or, you know, don't even necessarily want to get a new device, but still, you know, can have the all the bells and whistles that some of the newer devices have.

28:28Or they just didn't do that much to change it. And so it was easy to be like, you know what? It could be that simple. I was putting the positive marketing spin on it now.

28:39Sarah Lane: I did think that the camera improvements, you know, just changing, you know, cropping without actually cropping a photo or being able to say like, oh, this, you know, extreme close up of Tom is awesome. But for the website I'm building, I really wish it was a medium shot and be able to have some stuff around you. Is that something everyone's going to be using all day, every day? Probably not. But they did seem pretty nifty to me. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Image Playground is going to be more useful now. I get frustrated with Image Playground the few times I try it, which is usually when my niece wants to play with it on what it is limited to doing.

29:16Now it looks like it might actually get useful. So that's good, too. uh well overall i think what apple was trying to do is uh address uh controversies so are we bad at ai they're trying to say no uh are are we bad at protecting your children they're trying to say no uh and then they were trying to emphasize their advantages we're great with privacy they were hammering you over the head with that uh liquid glass was both right like we're great at design also a lot of you hated liquid glass so we've not abandoned now you've got the slider You can have it exactly the way you want it.

29:53Sarah Lane: The choice is yours. Yes. The corners are all tight now, too. They spent quite a good amount of time talking about that. Well, thank you all for helping us break down WWDC for everybody. A little bit longer episode as they tend to be when there's a WWDC to talk to. Before we let you go, Nika, let folks know where they can find more of you talking about this very stuff. You can find me pretty much on all the social media outlets at TechSavvyDiva. And you can also catch my podcast that I co-host with Terrence Gaines, who I'm sure you guys are familiar with over at SnobOS Cast. So definitely check that out.

30:27And we'll definitely get in to a lot of this on our show on Wednesday. Yeah. And we're going to check in with Terrence and Nika on the Thursday live as well. Once we've had a few days to process everything that's happening at WWDC. And of course, Sarah Lane also hosting Live With It. if you haven't checked that out you got a brand new patron for it yeah thank you mom my mom just

30:53Sarah Lane: joined our patreon for live with it if you if you would also like to directly support our show patreon.com slash live with its show is where to find out more about doing that but yeah we we're kind of graduating the show used to be a segment on DTNS every so often then it became more regular and then we were like you know what this is a fun standalone show it's really resonating with people. So, so we're, we're looking forward to growing that. And of course I'll be back on, on Thursday DTNS live as well. And I'll see the rest of you on DTNS on Wednesday. Fantastic. And thanks to everyone who supports the show, Rob, we got some new names in the, in the list this week.

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34:42All right, really quickly, I want to summarize some big deals that came out over the weekend that would be easy to lose sight of in all this WWDC news. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang visiting South Korea at the end of last week for a four-day trip. And there are some highlights of a very productive trip, not including which Hongdae Samgip Sol restaurant he visited. The theme was AI, with Huang calling South Korea AI Valley. But he also said robotics is going to be the next major sector here in Korea. And as we know, the physical AI is putting AI into robotics. Here are some of the deals. LG and NVIDIA announced commitments to co-design data center architecture, implementing LG's cooling tech, energy storage from LG Energy Solutions, and next-gen factory design, both with wireless ISP LG U +, and their consulting business LG CNS.

35:38LG's autonomous driving efforts also are going to start using some NVIDIA tech. Most of the biggest deals were with LG, but nvidia also made a deal with chip maker sk hynix to partner on future memory chip designs high bandwidth memory designs as well as chip manufacturing but of course nvidia is also going to buy a lot of current sk hynix memory for all its products including for vera rubin rtx spark and some physical ai products they talked about robotics there as well naver if you don't know is the dominant search and internet company in south korea it's often called the google of south Korea, but it's more than that.

36:15It's going to use NVIDIA's DSX infrastructure platform to expand data centers, both domestically and overseas, to make some gigawatt data centers. Hwang also met with gaming company Krafton, maker of PUBG Battlegrounds, to talk about robots in gaming. Doosan will use NVIDIA Tech and its factories making energy products. You're probably, if you're in the U.S., more familiar with their tires, but they make fuel cells, small modular reactors, as well as robotics. And Hyundai discussed partnering with NVIDIA on its Boston Dynamics robots. To top it all off, on Sunday, South Korea's president named the former president of Naver and the current minister for small business and startups, Hang Song-suk, as prime minister of Korea.

37:00So you have a very startup technology friendly prime minister there now. So, Tom, when I'm thinking of NVIDIA, just last week, we heard that, oh, they're getting into maybe making Windows PCs, making desktops, doing this kind of stuff, and they want to control everything. They're serious. NVIDIA is literally in everything these days. They are, you know, they are trying to say we are if it has a chip in it and it has any letters A and I, we want to be associated with it. So I think that that is a big thing, you know, and I always go to the, you know, to the movies. But NVIDIA is starting to feel like that big giant company like Omnicorp from RoboCop or General Dynamics from, you know, you know, from different TV shows and stuff like that.

37:45Weyland-Yutani. Exactly. They're getting their hands into literally everything. They're the biggest company. You know, this is what big companies do. but it is it is very telling you know they're really starting to seem like if it runs on current if it can do stuff if it's a robot if it's ai if it can think for itself if it needs to think for itself then we let's put it in the body and we'll help with that they literally are trying to put their hands into everything so there will be conversations i imagine um you know in the not too distant future about is that a good thing or a bad thing but right now from an nvidia standpoint they're everywhere yeah and jensen wong's visit there uh was covered like like a visiting rock star uh or a visiting dignitary i would say almost like a head of state oh yeah yeah he was given that same type of treatment yeah so uh i i think it's uh it's it's definitely showing the importance of south korea in this new growing data center robotics area that that wong thought it was worthwhile to spend four days there, but also just how influential, like you were saying, he is and that NVIDIA is with things.

38:54All right, let's get to some quick headlines that are always good to know. These are the little things that make you look smart if you know this stuff. Microsoft Chief Gaming Content Officer Matt Booty told Gamertag Radio that Microsoft will determine Xbox exclusives on a case-by-case basis, but all the big multiplayer games and live service games will remain multi-platform. This came after Microsoft announced that Gears of War E-Day and Clockwork Revolution would be Xbox exclusives. We're back in the world of Xbox exclusives sometimes, but you can never predict which ones. Maybe Meta take an NSO group back to court, saying that it violated a permanent injunction against targeting WhatsApp users.

39:34Meta sued NSO group and said, you cannot use your spyware to target WhatsApp users. And the judge agreed. This time Meta is saying they were using spear phishing attempts and they violated their injunction so they're headed back to trial and if they're found guilty they're gonna get dinged hard on this uh judges don't like when you have to go back and tell you a second time for stuff italian company bending spoons which owns evernote aol vimeo and stream yard among others filed plans for a stock ipo in the u.s and i can only hope that if they do this and pull it off they they slow down on raising the prices on everything that i love to use that would be nice People in the United Kingdom can now join a wait list to have a chance to ride in an autonomous vehicle from Wave in London once service begins later this year.

40:23As TMC faces more demand for its manufacturing than it can handle, the information reports that Google has placed an order for three million of its TPUs to be made by Intel in 2028. Oh, yeah. Intel getting getting some foundry customers. It's starting to look real there. Speaking at London Tech Week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told tech companies they have three months to voluntarily, and I quote, introduce device controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images or face regulations that will force them to do that. Either do it yourself or we'll make it. Italy's product collaborated with Axiom Space to design an interlayered garment for NASA astronauts to wear on missions to the moon.

41:05And I'm just imagining people wearing spaces down the runway. Yeah, the devil and astronauts will soon wear apart. Corning is a big beneficiary of the data center building boom, signing a deal with AWS following big deals with Meta and NVIDIA to provide billions of dollars worth of optical fiber. So it's not just chip makers that are profiting on all of this. Nintendo of Europe has agreed to pay France's trade regulator a 35 million euro fine for misleading consumers about stock drift, stick drift issues when Nintendo switched Joy-Con controllers. And a U.S. company called Antares announced Thursday that a test of its small modular nuclear reactor in the Idaho National Laboratory had reached criticality.

41:50That makes it the first of this type of reactor to create a self-sustained reaction. Tests for actual power generation are scheduled for next year. But these are the hopes for these data centers as you'll be able to make these smaller, safer, modular nuclear reactors to power. All right. It's graduation season. And we'd like to congratulate our very own graduate. Sarah Lane mentioned it earlier. Live with it. The show that reviews products we actually live with. Find out what it's like to try to run your world off decks. That's something that Rob did. Find out what it's like to let Astro the robot run your house.

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