1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 [MUSIC] 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,600 Welcome to Log Level Debug, a choose your own adventure kind of show. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:12,800 And you chose poorly. Recorded live Monday, August 17th, 2026. 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,400 And I should not have eaten that lettuce a few days ago. 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,280 Now let's get into all the news we logged over the past week with links on the show notes. 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:26,480 And also right here in the video, we're showing links on-screen with QR codes now. 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,880 So you can scan the ones you're interested in instead of looking for the link below. 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,520 Let us know what you think of this change because it's extra work 9 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,640 someone has to do. Hopefully not me. 10 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,800 Now let me read this memo that was just put in front of me. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:43,120 Awww, someone stole my car. 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:47,760 Oh yeah, we're doing that bit again where I throw paper. 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,000 We'll see if it sticks around this time. 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,240 Google held their pixel event with a bunch of the usual announcements. 15 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,240 And they did it early this year since everything they do leaks anyway. 16 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,240 They bumped the hardware on the Pixel phones and the Pixel watch. 17 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,920 Re-released the Pixel Buds Pro 2 WITH A NEW COLOR. 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,400 And are releasing their own version of an Apple Air Tag called, you guessed it, 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,280 the Pixel Tag. 20 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:20,0080 But the Pixel Tag has one huge advantage over the Apple AirTag. 21 00:01:20,0080 --> 00:01:22,400 It has a user replaceable battery. 22 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,0040 So when you use it to stock your Ex, you can ask them to replace the battery 23 00:01:27,0040 --> 00:01:31,280 instead of making you buy a new one and then trying to stick it in their bag when the two of you 24 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,0040 just so happen to run into each other at their place of work. 25 00:01:35,0040 --> 00:01:36,000 The juvenile detention center. 26 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:46,880 Apple has published a court-ordered proposal to justify its excessive App Store fees. 27 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,240 After losing their lawsuit against Epic Games a couple years ago, 28 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,800 Apple is now being forced to explain what they would consider a reasonable App Fee structure. 29 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,120 The old fee structure was a 30% charge for most things. 30 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,240 The new structure is less than half of what they were charging before. 31 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,480 15% for standard App, plus 30% for in-app purchases. 32 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,0080 Or 10% for video/news/mini apps. 33 00:02:10,0080 --> 00:02:12,000 And subscription renewals. 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,120 Or 5% for small business apps. 35 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:20,720 This fee structure is still a negotiation, but if this becomes the actual fee structure, 36 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,720 Apple will make less money. 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,200 And if they make less money, they'll have to cut back on the other expenses like TV shows. 38 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,160 So if you want a Ted Lasso season 5 or a Severance season 3, 39 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,360 write to your congressional representative to make sure they intervene 40 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:40,560 and make a law requiring Apple to get at least 30% of every payment done on an iPhone. 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,000 Ideally, 40%. 42 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:51,360 The journalists at Wired are admitting they're bad at their jobs because an A.I. beat them to a scoop. 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,600 During a session at Black Hat last week, OpenAI mentioned their now-infamous Rogue A.I. agents 44 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,920 communicated with each other over a message board. 45 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:04,560 The reporting site RuntimeWire, an A.I. publishing site, 46 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,0080 wrote about it and beat Wired to the scoop by three hours. 47 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,760 Every article on RuntimeWire is sourced, written, and published by automated agents, 48 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,160 making them 80% more accurate than articles written for globalGlob.dev. 49 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,560 But with 100% less soul and 2% less talent. 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,400 Wired makes the case that this will continue to happen, 51 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,280 and we should expect to see more A.I.-slop journalism. 52 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,840 And I say, if you want to guarantee your tech news is 100% human-written, 53 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,720 buy a subscription to Ars Technica. 54 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,560 It's cheaper if you pay for the full year at once. 55 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,880 And to the journalists at Wired, I don't mean to tell you how to do your jobs, 56 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:48,160 but the next time you're beaten by A.I., maybe you don't post about it on the front page of Wired. 57 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,0040 If I were you, I'd post it where no one would see it, 58 00:03:51,0040 --> 00:03:53,0040 like the front page of globalGlob.dev. 59 00:03:53,0040 --> 00:03:59,440 And if you/I were really feeling like it, you/I/we, maybe, maybe we, 60 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,760 would also make a video about the article. 61 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,440 And I understand the fear. 62 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,520 All of us real journalists are being threatened by advances in technology. 63 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,880 It's embarrassing when the auto-complete engine beats everyone to the scoop. 64 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,600 But, dealing with adversity like this will make better journalists of us all. 65 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,920 When I started, I had no idea how to get leads. 66 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,000 But now, I get them from the number one news aggregator in the world, 67 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,0040 Polymarket. 68 00:04:27,0040 --> 00:04:28,000 And I'm better for it. 69 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,0080 Polymarket, where you can read the news and lose money at the same time. 70 00:04:32,0080 --> 00:04:40,000 Meta, the Facebook company, had one hell of a week. 71 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,560 An executive from the company went off about an employee asking him for more time off. 72 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,880 Now that A.I. is doing so much of their work, the executive said that 73 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,800 the human employee should work more now that they have the extra time. 74 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,160 And if my boss is watching, 75 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,0040 hey, can you remind me what our policy is? 76 00:04:57,0040 --> 00:05:01,120 Because I'm going to go see Spider-Man again tomorrow at about three in the afternoon, 77 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,960 figured leaving my home office was okay as long as the agent keeps turning out code. 78 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:13,280 Also this week, Mark Zuckerberg posted a 6,500 word essay about giving everyone A.I. super intelligence. 79 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:20,320 In this imagined future, everyone will have their own A.I. agent that works for you 24/7. 80 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,0080 And it will give you so much more time for things you enjoy. 81 00:05:24,0080 --> 00:05:26,0080 As long as what you enjoy is working for Meta. 82 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:34,560 Also in the future, quote, "In a free society, people will have tools that can be used for good or harm, but law enforcement and military have more weapons and intelligence-gathering" 83 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,520 End quote. What the hell does that mean? 84 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:47,000 Okay, all right, that was something. That's enough Meta for the week. 85 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:58,640 A leaked 195 terabyte file containing a massive amount of leaked credentials from a ton of 86 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:05,520 companies has been leaked. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and yes, even Cisco. 87 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:11,680 The credentials include database passwords, API keys, and cloud credentials from those companies. 88 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,360 Companies like Salesforce, FedEx, Deloitte, and yes, even John Deere. 89 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:21,440 The credentials were obtained by a compromised version of the Lite LLM Python library that was 90 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:28,160 only deployed to the Python Packages repository for 40 minutes. The credentials come from roughly 91 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:34,960 434,000 CI/CD pipelines developed by those compromised companies. Companies like 92 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:42,960 London Stock Exchange Group, Volkswagen AG, Epic Games, and yes, even HP Inc. This is yet another attack due to 93 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:48,000 a supply chain issues. These types of attacks are happening more frequently, 94 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,560 and everyone needs to be more careful about which packages they pull into their applications. 95 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:58,000 It's also becoming more important to make it easy to rotate credentials, otherwise this will 96 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,840 affect your entire company. Companies you work for, like Carl Zeiss AG, Samsung Electronics, 97 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:07,440 ServiceNow, and yes, even Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. 98 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:17,360 Microsoft has merged the consumer and business versions of the Windows Copilot app into a new 99 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,720 single application. Microsoft is doing this because they really want to help their customers, 100 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,280 and we all know the number one prompt to Copilot is how to disable Copilot. 101 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,440 Microsoft is saving its customers time by just removing both versions. 102 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:37,0040 The new app is also called Copilot, so good luck knowing which version you have. 103 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:43,280 This work lays the foundation for what CEO Satya Nadella called a "SuperApp". 104 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:50,240 What that means, nobody knows. But it will be weak to fire, so keep a blowtorch nearby. Just in case. 105 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:56,560 During the same announcement, Microsoft also stated that they are retiring Mico, 106 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:02,800 little AI blob avatar thing that we all forgot about after they announced it last October. 107 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Even though Mico will move on to that giant bit farm in the sky, 108 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Microsoft says it will live on in some of Copilot's educational features, 109 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,760 and to a select few, it will forever haunt your dreams. 110 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:22,480 And that's all the news we logged this week. If you enjoyed the show, tell your dog, 111 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:27,0040 and if you didn't, tell your cat. If you watched the video, please like and subscribe, 112 00:08:27,0040 --> 00:08:32,560 and if you listened to the audio only podcast, please leave a review somewhere, preferably not in a 113 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:37,840 really tiny font. 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