Gemini AI Expands Video Summarization in Google Drive #1822

Lead story for Thursday, May 29. Google has expanded its Gemini AI in Drive to summarize videos, offering time saving insights like action items and key updates from footage. With captions enabled, users can interact via chat g b t or chatbot, excuse me, to extract information without watching the video. Additionally, engagement analysis feature shows video views and drives details panel. I wanna welcome you to episode 1,822. I'm your host,

Todd Cochran. Of course, this story is leading a whole bunch of other Gemini announcements last week that quite frankly, I was I was not around for. Working in London, I I really missed all of the big announcements last week. So it's one of those situations where I'm just kinda

catching up on on all the announcement. It was this one's a little weird that it's not about what's in YouTube, but it's what's in your drive, the videos that are in your drive, and how many people view them that are in your Google Drive. I know, like, from the company standpoint, when we put videos in Google Drive, they, they're there really for either,

you know, they're not being, it's just a backup and it's not something that we go view videos in in, in Google Drive. So I don't fully understand the, you know, the significance of this. If someone else uses their, their Google Drive, they share these documents to with other companies or or these videos with other companies? I I don't know. But it is just a little bit a little bit odd in my regard. So, that's leading today, but, hey. Hey. I wanna welcome you again to episode 1,822.

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or website with your friends and family because every time a code is used, it supports Geek News Central. And, again, thank you for keeping the show all going and going strong. But yeah. So while I was in London, I had, all of a sudden and my mom wasn't here, and neither was my sister or son-in-law. They were off, in Tennessee, and all my security cameras went down. And I couldn't connect with a whole host of IP devices here and, really didn't know what the situation was until

I got back. And in, I've got a I think I've told you guys about this before. I've got a Hushbox that has, basically, the router, from Unifi, and it has, power conditioning and a and a major major, UPS device, a commercial one. And the first one of these I had bought, from, what's the name of the company? Cyber doesn't matter, but I'd had the other unit ten years, replaced the battery in it at about seven years, and then it gave up the ghost at about ten years.

So I bought another unit five years ago. They're quite expensive. We're talking a a hunk of a UPS, and, this one lasted five years. I had to buy a new one when I, had the studio, in the in the other location. And, so I came home, and I'm kinda eyeing this thing. And it didn't need it to restart, so I had to turn the power off, turn the power on because it's it's connected into a power conditioner, turned the unit on, and lo and behold, it it came up and everything's fine until today.

And today, it's like, where did my Wi Fi go? Oh, that thing's out. Turn it back on. About an hour later, click. I heard it, and, off goes the Wi Fi again. So I'm like, okay. You know? Here we are again. And, of course, there's no extended warranties on these things. And, it's it's I mean, the battery is d e a d, dead, dead, dead. I priced the replacement battery because that's essentially what's all that's wrong. And, oh my god. Better just buy a brand new unit. Pretty sad.

So, Saturday, I have a delivery, but right now, I've got everything. It's not hotwired per se. But, I I do have because I've been through this before. I did have a plan. And in my head, I was able to pull the UPS out, unplug everything. And because there's a a power conditioning unit below, plugged all the plugs in, flipped the switch, and we're back on. But the challenge is no UPS. So if the lights blink or anything, we'll be out. So, London was lovely. Had a great time in London.

Got to see a whole bunch of stuff over really two days of, I think, 15 to 20,000 steps a day. But this has been a killer week. Monday was a holiday, obviously, and then it just I've crammed literally two weeks worth of work into three days or so here. And I'm I'm just, at this point, kind of a walking zombie, to a certain effect. But wanna get the show out for you, but I wanna catch you up on what's going on. Thanks everyone for being here. If you're watching live, you've

catching the show later, that's great. It's okay. But, back in the studio here, feels natural minus the, we'll pray that the power doesn't surge, which it usually doesn't. When it goes out, it goes out. But, and there was enough of a variation, something going on to to trip it. So the first article up after the opening story today is billions of cookies up for grabs is expert warn over security. And law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace, but

apparently, there's 93,700,000,000 cookies available for criminals to buy online. And of those between seven to 9% are active according to NordVPN's breakdown of stolen cookies by country. Cookies may seem harmless, but in the wrong hands, their digital keys are most private information. What was designed against convenience is now growing vulnerability exploited by criminals worldwide. So I don't know how do they get these stolen cookies. That that's the situation I don't fully get.

Is it because they've hacked computers, got in middle man, you know, how they've really done this? I I'm I'm not aware of how they've how they're getting the cookies off computers. That is a a curiosity to me. So if one of you may know this answer, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to drop an email geek news at, g mail dot com, of course. The US is slated to block China's access to essential semiconductor design software.

The administration is targeting electronic design automation tools, intensifying tech competition. So I'm not exactly sure what software exactly, but the government informed the electronic design automation industry about the new export controls on EDA software, to China on. So Simon's has supported customers China China for more than a hundred and fifty years continue to work with globally to might mitigate the impact of the restrictions.

But this is the latest chapter in a tech war here. So, the financial implications substantial. Synopsis and cadence earn annual revenue about 1612% from their China business. So while cadence being US based companies and Simon's contributed more 90% share of EDA tools globally, this move, is again tighten things up. But this reflects a broader strategic recalibration. US has shifted strategy now seeing China's push for tech self sufficiency, especially in AI and semiconductors.

So, you know, because that's all, you know, the AI piece is all a, you know, secure national security threat. But since 2020, the Chips Act's coordinated export controls with allies in Japan and Netherlands have strengthened US resolve. So, now it's the actual software itself that is, that is being, being slowed down. Yep. Red Bull just had to have one tonight. I know they're bad for me. Amazon and New York Times have entered into AI related license agreement.

This deal is gonna allow AI training on the outlets content and bring New York Times to a l e x a. I don't even use do you guys use that device anymore? I I mean, I rarely. I might ask what's the temperature. But usually, I I've got a little, you know, weather station outside. I just look at the display on that. But, the New York Times shared agreement will bring new features for customers like accessing summaries and excerpts of Times content. It'll also allow Amazon to train its AI

models on the New York Times content. So, again, Amazon is done the licensing deal. Meanwhile, I think, I don't know if open I don't remember if OpenAI has a licensing deal or not. But, I guess that shouldn't be surprising at all.

Senators are probing whether RealPage pushed state AI law ban. Now I'm not familiar with RealPage. I guess if you're a realtor or or a landlord, you'll know about this. But the more I look at this, I it kinda made me look a little deeper. It appears this company is, is, in my opinion, not really acting in the best interest of people trying to rent apartments and so forth. But the software companies accused of colluding with landlords to raise rents.

They lobbied for pro proposed a proposed ban on states regulating AI, for the next decade, which is curious. In a letter to RealPage CEO, Dana Jones, five Democratic senators asked for more information about the company's potential involvement and provision attack to the Republican's budget reconciliation bill, which bar state laws impact AI or automated decisions for ten years. The senators argue the provision could scuttle attempts to stop RealPage

from feeding sensitive information from groups, yes, groups of landlords into a logarithm used to recommend non competitive rental pricing. RealPage is have been, apparently been, responsible for rising rent prices across The US. The DOJ in eight states sued the company last year claiming it deprives renters of the benefits of competition and apartment leasing terms. So collusion in renting, driving renting prices up. So they want more information on this.

RealPage increased its lobbying spending. Listen to this. The 4,800,000.0 in 2020 and 9,000,000 in 2024. So they're spending a huge amount of money on, on this ongoing situation where they're they're paying for, for lobbyists. This is something I'm sure everyone's gonna go by. Hermes. Now, Chris, you guys heard about the big the big scandal about Hermes and other expensive bag companies.

When the when the tariffs hit, they were kinda outed and that these Ermes bags and, you know, the people are paying tens of thousands of dollars for, stuff that is, you know, probably cost 2 or $300 to, to put together, was largely being done in China and not where the bag originates. I think it's in Italy.

So, you know, I wonder if these headsets, these wireless headphones that they're launching, I wonder if these premium headphones, are largely constructed in China as well, and they just slapped Hermes logo on it once it gets to,

to United States. So, listen to this, ladies and gentlemen. You can have a pair of these for the same price as 33 pairs of Sony x m six headsets. There's no specs to this thing. You don't know if it's gonna sound doggy or not, but, yes, you can have one of these for $15,000. 15 thousand dollars for Hermes headphones. Really?

Fifteenth you have more you know, if if you're gonna go any of you that listen to the show, and I know there's no one listening to the show who's gonna do this, but if you do, if you can afford a pair of these $15,000 Ermes headphones, please contribute a thousand dollars to the show to help me with my, hardware failure. It's about actually $760 is the price of that replacement piece of gear.

So, yeah, if you if you can afford the $15, go out there and, and make a one time donation to the show and and become a super insider immediately at 15,000. You know, people have lost their minds. Criminals are, of course, using AI to create

fake documents to trick businesses, and this is just going on like crazy. The emails, the text, we're I'm you know, we've doubled down. We're telling the team, be very, very careful on all emails. If you don't know who it's from, now what they're doing is they are they have found my calendar link. And I'm being, auto because my calendar links are and I don't publicly put them out. I only share them in email. But somehow, my calendar links have gotten out on Calendly.

And, now all of a sudden and I gotta do something about it next week. All of a sudden now I'm getting appointments made, and, and I'm looking at the names of the people. I have no idea who they are. There's no email correspondence. I asked the rest of the team that anyone, you know, refer this person, and we're all getting it. The support team's

getting it. The marketing team's getting. We're all so we're gonna have to lock down our calendars, and have some sort of password or something ex expiring link or something. Just makes it a more pain. But so the new cycle has been just full of cases of AI being used to fake crucial documents. And these only scratch the surface. AI has given fraudsters the tools to fabricate fabricate invoices, tax forms, investment contracts, risk assessments, financial audits.

One of the vendors that we work with has kind of a weird company name. Barry, every month is like, is this a real invoice? And I'm like, yeah. It is. And he said, why did they name their company like that? And, it sounds like a, I guess a better way to say it, it sounds like a magic company is giving us a billing, and that's not the type of service they provide us. And they're not, you know, providing, magic items to to the to the company. What they're doing for us is quite magic.

So maybe that's why they named their company the way it is. But, you know, also, they're they're doing DMV text now, basically saying, hey. I'm I'm your I'm your DMV. And if you don't pay, we're going to cancel your license. This is all fake. All fake. So just be careful. Now your license is

not at risk. It's just the texting that you're getting. So, you know, just pay attention out there. This stuff is just taking to a whole new level. Now, on the other hand, if you have an Asus router, there's a big Asus router hack that's out there, and it's created a major botnet planting damaging mail excuse me, damaging malware. So hackers are brute force forcing older Asus routers. Now let me see if I can find the models. They don't list the models. I'm looking here.

But if you have a older Asus router, this is a really heavy severity severity score. There is a, a link in the show notes to this, but please make sure you're updating your firmware. Now if there's no more updates to your router and your router is more than five years old and it's an Asus, I'm just assuming you you could be affected here. The vulnerability was first published in National Vulnerability Debates a long time ago, September 2023.

And Ace has released firmware to update address, but people are not doing an update. So they're being hacked. So just be aware of this. Okay?

Get your get your firmware updated. The Verge, you know, I'm I'm just about done with some of these sites. Verge is one. If you look here on the Verge site, they got this this this $4 a month. They they want you to contribute $4 a month to their site, but we had a second article from the Verge today in the in the in the show prep, and that one did a half screen. So, you know, I I I think at some point, I'm just gonna have to give up. I I understand they want money.

Geek and Essential has been running for years with, you know, with a team of of of writers, and we have content coming out all the time, not at the level that The Verge does, but, you know, at $4 a month, and if Bloomberg wants $5 a month, and all these sites want the next thing I know, I'm paying a hundred or $200 a month for for website to access. And it's it's just a little ridiculous. I have it allowed so that they can they can, run ads

on the site. I have a little pull down here that basically says, that I have it paused. You're allowing ads on the site. I do that for every site that we, talk about here in the show. I I always allow the ads to play. I don't block the ads. But this is a, story about a budget buzzer, and it's called Blink. And, I know a lot of you have those doorbells, cameras, doorbells. I don't hear. I just have security cameras every which way. And, of course, if the Internet stays on with my,

UPS doesn't go bad. But, anyway, $70 a year, two year battery life, which is pretty impressive. So Amazon's budget security company, Blinks. I guess this is an Amazon company. So any of you got any of that gear to let me know how it works. I'm still a big fan of Wyze.

There's a good, article from PC World talking about Spectrum's free streaming services aren't worth the cost of cable. And, that reminds me let me let me talk about this first. They did it they did a analysis of this, and the savings were, you know, minimal. So if you are still paying for for a streaming service, you know, you you're just you're just throwing money away at this point.

And I it's to me, it surprises me because I know that they had, ability for you as you're using cable and paying for a cable bill to have access to Disney, VIX, Max, Peacock, AMC, and, one other, Warner Brothers, I guess. And, but it's not really worth what they they're saying it's worth. So, anyway, link is up in the show notes. I have been made aware of an IPTV service that's out there. If any of you are interested in IPTV, let me know. Drop me an email.

You know, let me know which show episode you heard it on. And I'll, connect. Insiders, preferred will get access to that information. But if you're interested in IPTV, let me know.

US deny visas to foreign officials. It says this basically, anyone that's censoring, via social media. So announced by the state department, secretary Mark Rubio said free speech is among the most cherished rights enjoyed by Americans and complained that governments have taken flagrant censorship action against some US tech companies, citizens, and residents when they do when they

have no authority to do so. So they're announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who respond who are responsible for censorship or protected expression in The United States. It's unacceptable for foreign officials to issue a threat or arrest warrants on US citizens or US residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on US soil. Well, how are you gonna block the entire Chinese government?

Because there's a rule that you if you talk bad about China and you go to Hong Kong, you could very well be arrested. It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in essential activities that reaches beyond their authority and and into The United States. So is this pointing a finger at The UK? Is this pointing a finger at the EU?

The announcement did not specify any individual incident or pointing finger at any particular nation, but there was much controversy, of course, in UK

last year. When the social media sites were accused of spreading misinformation in relation to the fatal stabbing in the town of Southport, it was reported that MPs in British parliament were to summon ex owner Elon Musk to testify about his platform's role in the riots as part of investigation into whether he the business models of big tech companies encourage the spread of content. RX has also had run ins with the EU. We know that.

So, again, at the heart of the issue is US social media firms say legislation such as DSA amounts to censorship of their platform. However, while they're US based operations, their content is viewed by millions of people in regions in The U UK, Ireland, and everywhere else. In sponsoring criticism, DSA and the EC Commissioner for Technical Technological Sovereignty said that more content is removed by American social media sites

themselves using their own rules. Well, they have their own right to do that. So, we will see what happens with this. This is my you know, you so here's a question. It's very simple. The UK,

the EU, could say TikTok, and or x or Facebook or whatever is no longer allowed to operate in the country. What would you think about that? Because that's what what it could come to. Right? If, if US companies US based owned companies. And, of course, if you have a division in those countries, you probably are not as, as in the clear as others. But, you know, what happens next when we say no? We're not changing, banners. I don't know if those platforms want that or not. I obviously not.

But that's the the option, I guess. Right? Tesla says it's been testing driverless motor wise model motor model wise in Austin for several days. And it's a month ahead of schedule, said Elon. The Tesla robotaxi service is begin testing, and it in advance of its promised June launch. So there's gonna be 10 to 20 model y's running around Austin. So, nice city, depending on where you live. The HP

yeah. Hewlett Packard stock has plunged as tariffs slammed the company. They're basically saying that, they had a, that the tariffs had just wreaked havoc, stuff that they couldn't get away from. Second quarter revenue rose 3.3 to 13,220,000,000.00, but profit fell 17% to a 500,000,000 compared to the same period last year.

And, basically, it's about the tariffs. They've had to, you know, a little bit of duty on stuff coming out of China, and they are trying to move some of their manufacturing, back to The US. Meta and I don't who's using the Meta AI? Meta AI already has a billion active users. Are you one of those? Are you one of those active users that used it accidentally or otherwise? I don't remember specifically using an AI tool on on Meta.

Zuckerberg said that, these 1,000,000,000 monthly active users across all its apps. I also said during the shareholder meeting that the company will focus on deepening experience and making made AI the leading personal AI with emphasis on personalization, voice conversations, and entertainment this year. So I guess people are using AI in Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. So I don't know. I I have not purposely used AI, and it's trying to force me to.

And sometimes you do search, and it says this is the AI, and the search results aren't even better than it used to be on Facebook. Alexis Nexus risk solutions, a data broker that collects and uses consumer personal data to help its paying cost corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud, has disclosed a data breach affecting 364,000

people. The company said in a filing with Maine's attorney general that the breach dating back to December of twenty four allowed a hacker to obtain consumer sense of personal data from a third party platform used by the company for software development. So, another hacker access the company's GitHub account. The stolen data varies but includes names, dates of birth, phone numbers, postal, and email address, Social Security. Why is this stuff in these systems not encrypted?

Why are we still having Social Security numbers that are not encrypted? Everyone's Social Security number has been exposed, like, times 10 or 20. There's just there's no excuse for this now, that those numbers are not hashed. Apparently, iOS 19 is not coming this fall because Apple's gonna call it something else. Apple's gonna unveil the latest version of iPhone at WWDC.

The tech join tech giant is going to shake up the naming system with the next version to be called iOS 26 compare according to Bloomberg. Why is that? Switching to a system that identifies iOS by year describes it as the most sweeping change yet to its operating system names.

Change it from 19 to 26 because of the year? Well, you know, Apple device expect to unveil the iPad OS 26, Mac OS 26, watch OS 26, TV OS 26, Envision OS 26 at its WWDC twenty twenty five event. Why isn't everything gonna call 2025 and not 2026? Who knows? NASA's gonna shut down the Spot Station site. So if you've been using Spot the Station website, and I've done a few times over the years, they're pulling the plug on it. And no specific was there a reason given? Let me see. Was it is it budget?

Yeah. There's other apps. Yeah. But they're gonna pull it pull that site down. So if you want to space, want to track the International Space Station, Lots of ways to do that. Links are in the article. Of course, SpaceX continues. Of course, the I did get to watch the, ship nine launch. I was in a board meeting at the time on Tuesday, so I was kinda watching out of the corner of my eye at the same time as the as the launch, and it was quite exciting, as usual.

And, they're getting they're getting closer. But boy, oh, boy, they just can't get it completely right. Of course, they purposely, brought the first stage in at a very, very high angle of attack and, was testing it, and then it didn't it didn't survive. But we know the first stage made it to engine shutoff, but then it lost attitude control. And that was some freaky that that was almost psychedelic.

It was a mixture of the there's some sort of it looked like a fire going on and plasma and this thing spinning. I mean, it would almost make you sick to the stomach if you if you watched it continuously. But, we'll see how long before they they go with the launch 10. But, they did, put 27 Starlinks up yesterday, but they're doing about two or three of those a week now. So that's not,

not something that's totally crazy. Hey. Windows 11 is gonna get some much needed HDR improvements, and, the latest update is available to users right now. And once installed, you can now toggle the ability to stream HDR video options even when HDR is disabled with Windows Windows, allowing you to view HDR content from apps like Netflix or websites like YouTube

without having to enable HDR throughout Windows. So you can do it kind of selectively, and they do have a keyboard shortcut, Windows key alt b, to enable it in games and so forth. So, anyway, definitely check that out. Do you guys hear me? I just about yawned. I need,

a little more, go go juice here. God, it's so good, but so bad for you. I thought about, the way this week is going. I was singing about pouring a bourbon for the for the show tonight, but I'm thinking it's probably not a good idea. We'll save it for the, the editing process. For some of you, you're gonna be happy. Elon has stepped away from the White House, AKA Dodge. His time is up. His official role within the US government is coming to an end.

And, the at Dodge mission is going to continue by others. And, so we'll see how much they are able to save. But the problem is, here's what I've heard, and I just saw it today. Everyone was complaining that the current budget didn't cut any of that money that they saved. And it's because they were trying to get this thing through, that whatever they're calling that big, big, beautiful bill. And, big indeed with lots of money being spent and more deficits.

So, you know, and no one's no one's excluded from this party here. Although, I heard today that they're gonna do a supplemental bill that will strip the spending from the bill they just passed, which is absolutely insane. Why didn't they take it out to begin with? So they have a bill with it all in. Now they're gonna another have another bill to take it all out. It just come on You know I I don't understand. I I really don't But anyway Elon's done yet a hundred thirty day role.

Basically, he was a special government employee,

so he had to leave, before the end of the month. Although, Musk did some criticizing of the of the bill, saying the land landmark tax legislation will increase the federal deficit, undermine his cost cutting efforts at Doge. So, you know, they wanna try to to slash, like, 1 to 2,000,000,000 A trillion. Excuse me. And but currently, the the website that's they're only up to, like, 2 or 300,000,000,000 that they've been able to save, which is still a lot of money.

And, some of it was being spent kind of eye opening ways, so we'll see what progresses. DJI's first robot vacuum is edging closer to launch according to a new leak, and it could clean up in the premium robo vac space. Now I didn't mention it or did I? My kitty cat passed away, while I was gone, and we knew he wasn't doing well. He had been, you know, stomach bloated. He'd been skinny. He wasn't eating real well, and something happened.

He stay he was staying here in the house, and, my mom checked on him, and, he wasn't doing well. He couldn't, couldn't hardly walk. And, so, you know, sadly,

we had to put him or she had him put down. And, but I have not been running my my vacuum cleaner here because it always kinda got hung up around where the cat area was, you know, where the litter box and all that stuff was. So, this weekend, I'm gonna get it charged up and get the propellers updated and make sure it's all good to go, and we'll give it a run. We'll see what happens, if it, if it can there's just so

many obstacles here. I I'm just afraid it's especially if it gets around here in the studio, it's gonna get back in here and just, like, lose its mind. So I'd love to have a vacuum that worked. You know, instead, I run the vacuum cleaner once a week, but, you know, that's okay too. Right? Adidas data breach linked to a third party vendor, sneakers and sports wear giant, disclosed a data breach this week after hackers assessed a third party customer service provider.

And, how many people does it say? No. They haven't said, but, Adidas is the latest to fall victim to, to attack. In the interesting brief, the administration is telling SCOTUS that ISPs shouldn't be forced to boot alleged pirates. So the administration's backing cable company Cox in a battle that could determine whether ISPs are forced to disconnect users accused of privacy. Cox said ISP shouldn't have to terminate customers based on unproven allegations

of copyright infringement. It's been asked seeking customer a supreme court review. Sony's victory in that underlying lawsuit, the court asked the US Solicitor General to file a brief expressing views of the United States government.

The solicitor general filed a brief yesterday saying the court Supreme Court should grant it's called oh my god. This is some legal word. Ceter c e certiorari? C e r t o r a r I? Certiorari? Oh my god. To address the first question presented in the Cox, petition. So, basically, I guess that gives them relief. What does that word mean? I'm gonna have to have to look this up. Let me copy this here. I I'm too curious to let it go or we're all gonna learn a new word together here.

Maybe maybe some of you okay. It's certiorari. A writ. It's a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a decision of a lower court. Writ of a review. That's essentially what sir sir t o r e. So the lawyers out there, you know, that's in your language reporter, but, there's widespread termination spirit if this goes through. So this is a big case for any of you that are out there that are, still, doing torrents and stuff like that.

Apple, you know, they lost big on this situation where you now in The US, app developers are updating the app so that you can buy through a link in the app on an external website. But the Airbn Commission this week released the full text of its decision. It found Apple in violations of its digital competition rules. The ruling makes clear that Apple App Store still falls short of DMA requirements. If it doesn't comply with the next thirty days, it risk having to make additional periodic

penalty payments. The EC decision, which laid down last night, fined Apple five hundred seventy million dollars for App Store guidelines for pre developer for steering customers' alternative payment options. Remember, they said, okay. You don't have to pay, but then you have every month have to send us a report of everyone that does an off-site payment, and you have to send us 30% of that.

So, this era may be coming to an end. Of course, Apple's appealing it. So we'll see. At least here in The United States, we'll see what goes on there. And, you know, and and total irony here, do you guys know who Palmer, Lucky is? Well, Palmer Lucky, has built a an incredible business, but in in basically defense. And he was fired, from, Google with quite some fanfare some time ago. So Lucky's defense company, Anduril Industries, and made

us at Thursday. They will together build a new, a new line of rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables that provide virtual reality or augmented reality experience for the military. Now Anduril, a n d u r I l, is a huge defense contractor. And, but again, this collaboration brings together social media giant who's long been the target of Washington's scrutiny and a weapons maker that is a rising star inside the Pentagon and much hated by a lot of a lot of folks.

A lot of folks don't like this company, but they've done an incredible amount of look, amount of work at this. He says I should have looked at I should look at this as I have succeeded. Lucky said in the interview, I've successfully persuaded not just Meta, but many others that work with the military, that it's important. So very interesting here. In a statement, Mark Zuckerberg said Eagle Eye Technology will help US Soldiers protect our interests at home and abroad.

So that's that's big too. You know? So, Meta. Wow. This is big. This is a big one. Quite ironic as well. Ladies, and even gentlemen, Victoria's Secret has taken down their website after a security incident. Must be pretty bad. If they've taken down their website because of an ongoing security incident, that's that that doesn't bode well at all. And, the company says the message of replacing the websites of Victoria's Secret and Pinkstars remain open while operations are being restored.

So they must have had a huge, huge brief.

I mean, yeah, breach. Very, very, very, very, very interesting. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm back here. I'm glad, to be back in the saddle here. Regular schedule shows for the foreseeable future. We'll get back in the, groove of thanking our insiders. If you wanna become an insider, geekonessential.com/insider. Don't forget about our sponsor, GoDaddy. And again, for those of you that, recommended in April, thank you so much. A great month.

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