Daily Tech News show is made possible by you listening right now. Just by listening, you help or you might back us on Patreon like that. Charlie, dude, Justin Zellers, Pepper Geesey or brand new patrons, Ernesto, Andrew and Dana. Everybody welcome in Ernesto. On this episode of DTNS, a way to have an AI companion to play video games with not just against inception attacks in VR and Scott Johnson continues to follow how Microsoft is benefiting from keeping its promise of being cross-platform. Who would have guessed? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, March 13th in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Nair from Studio Animal House. Yeah, that's my name. I'm Sarah Lane from Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. I realized that I just didn't say the year. It's 2024. Everyone's like, you know, I don't know what year it is until Tom says because you didn't do that. I was like, where am I? I know, right? It threw everything off. I'm so sorry. It's OK, Tom. I forgive you. Just don't do it again. Panic and run to the quick hits. A bipartisan bill over the sale of TikTok passed the US House of Representatives on Wednesday. The measure would force a sale of TikTok, maybe, from parent company Bydance within 180 days or potentially face a nationwide TikTok ban in the US. The bill still needs to clear the Senate. If it does, President Joe Biden said last Friday he would already sign the bill into law last week. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 50 to zero to advance the bill. So I had a lot of support following an intelligence briefing about the risks of foreign adversary controlled apps and giving the bill momentum. This thing's going to die in the Senate. And if you want to know more about why I think that go get my newsletter on Substack, I explained it all there. But just that's that's what I think. That's what I think is happening. Justin Robert Young is going to talk more about this tomorrow, so stay tuned for that. European Union's Parliament approved the EU AI Act on Wednesday, an act designed to make it hard for me to say the name of the act EU AI Act. This is the first major set of regulatory ground rules meant to govern AI with the technology currently available separated into categories of risk. So there's unacceptable. Those are just flat out banned. And then the rest of them are high, medium and low as far as their hazards are a concern. European Council will still need to offer an endorsement of the European Council is made up of one representative from each country, but that is expected to happen at a meeting that's happening April 10th. So then once it's published, it becomes law 20 days after it's published. And that's expected to happen by the end of May, early June. EU Commissioner for Internet Market Terry Bretton posted on X Europe is now a global standard setter in AI. Epic has asked a US judge to hold Apple in contempt of court for violating an injunction issued in September of 2021, requiring app makers to be allowed to provide links and buttons to direct consumers to alternate means of payment. We've been doing this for a while. Epic takes issue with the rules around how they can mention these alternative means and Apple's insistence that it should get a 27 percent cut of any revenue generated by those links and buttons Apple has until April 3rd to respond. Yeah, so this is not the EU stuff with Epic and Apple. It has nothing to do with that. This just likes to pick fights with Apple, I think those two. Microsoft's co-pilot for security chat bot has a new pricing model ahead of going public on April 1st. Yeah, just do March 31st or April 2nd. People, come on, the company first introduced a preview of co-pilot for security last March, designed to help cybersecurity professionals understand critical issues. Microsoft says it will use a consumption based model charging four dollars per security compute unit, given that the types of prompts and summaries will vary dramatically in size, depending on who the customer is and the type of workload. The BBC will begin streaming its news channel BBC News on some connected TV and fast, meaning free ad supported streaming platforms like Samsung TV Plus, Zumo, Sling TV, Plex, Vizio and Pluto TV, with other partners reportedly also in the mix, BBC News will still be offered by pay TV providers like Charter, Comcast and Direct TV, obviously in the U.S. AMC Networks is the BBC's partner in BBC America's joint venture and is also handling distribution and advertising sales. Yeah, this is this is confusing because BBC America is an AMC Networks thing. BBC News is a BBC thing and they're both separate channels on cable, but now BBC News is going to be free. Do I have this? Do I have that right? It's going to be free on certain free ad supported streaming platforms. Yes, if they if the Dodgers leave leave Spectrum Sportsnet LA and go somewhere that you don't need Direct TV now to get them because BBC News was the other thing change in the Merit Rivera household indeed. All right, so let's talk about VR and scary stuff. A team of researchers at the University of Chicago said that they figured out a way to hack into MetaQuest headsets without the user of that quest knowing dubbed an inception attack that lets the researcher in this case control the users VR environment, steal information, control interactions between users, but all traps that user, so to speak, inside a VR app designed to look like the full VR system. Now, if you're not familiar with VR systems, you know, they don't all work exactly the same. But yes, you could be tricked into thinking, oh, yeah, I'm at my home screen type thing. The study was first reported by the MIT Technology Review, hasn't been peer reviewed so early days here, but the attack apparently requires an attacker to be on the same Wi-Fi network as that quest user with the headset also in developer mode, you might say, well, I'm not a developer. This would never apply to me. People put their quest into developer mode for a variety of reasons to get different apps, third party stores, that kind of thing. Then at that point, if this all happens, malware could be installed onto the headset home screen, looking identical to your original screen. You don't notice yet you're controlled by the researchers in this case. So you're telling me that VR headsets are as vulnerable to outside attacks as every other device we own. I very much have kind of the upshot of this. But I think there's something to this, right, Scott? Because when we're in VR, I think we are all guilty of not thinking about things the same way we do when we're like on our laptop or phone. Oh, 100 percent. And we don't we don't I think we're not quite used to the idea of calling these things just, you know, computing devices, which is what they are. They have very specialized use cases, but they're still computing devices. To me, the the comparison is a good one when you talk about EVs versus regular gas vehicles, we put them up into the higher tier of, oh, my gosh, did you hear what happened to this thing? They're still sort of new and, you know, we haven't had it around forever. So I think there's a lot of freak out about that. But as usual, I see this as a positive thing. In fact, I don't know, I kind of can credit you years ago for pulling me off the ledge a few times on some stuff where researchers or a university or even the companies themselves find some massive weakness. They let everybody know about it. They document it. Like, this is what we want. There's always going to be holes, right? Yeah, yeah, I would much rather have this than me and developer mode going, oh, no, why am I suddenly losing all my information or whatever, you know, whatever they're going to take or do or mess with me? I would much rather have this happen. I bet met is happy to some degree, whether they want to admit it or not, that this happened in this way so that they can take care of it and patch up. Yeah, patch it. Right. Yeah. So it's no different than our phones and our computers before that. And and everything else that's got a bunch of microchips in it. We're always going to have this in the better. The sooner we know from the good guys that something's wrong, the better we're all going to be. I mean, the study is very involved. You know, it's a long read, but a good one. And we have the link to that in our show notes.   Seems like it's from my bank. Is it, you know, that kind of stuff. This feels like the same idea, you know, where it's like the the MIT review had posted like what the researchers had said. Like, here's a situation where, you know, Sarah and Tom are, you know, we've decided to join each other in VR. Maybe we're playing Topgolf, whatever we're doing, you know, but all of a sudden Sarah has a hard time connecting. And she's sort of like, that's weird, Tom. How are you doing on that side? Tom's fine. And the entire situation is, you know, in the sense that somebody has taken over Sarah's home screen. And now she and Tom don't talk well together. And, you know, it's all very confusing. But what's happening is, you know, data being stolen. Yeah, I mean, even more de ferris would be if you don't notice that Sarah's headset has been taken over.  Right. But you know, I could say something sensitive that I wouldn't mind Sarah knowing and then not realizing I'm not talking to Sarah anymore. I thought one of the most significant parts of this study was that there was a visible glitch when they performed the attack. Only 37 percent of the people in the study even noticed the glitch and of the like 27 participants, only one of them thought that it was not just a problem with VR. We are so used to VR just being a little janky that most people who even noticed the glitch were like, yeah, it's just VR being VR. Right. So I think the best thing about this study is this study makes us all remember like, oh, right, this is an Android device on my head. So it's just as vulnerable as any other Android device. Sure. And also the other thing, the side note to that is it is listening. It is projecting. It has got cameras and it's on the internet. Like all of these things are like any other computing device with those features. We should, you know, we should think about this at least. Yeah, attention. Here's a good story, not a not a scary story to balance things out. DeepMind's scalable, instructable, multi-world agent or CIMA, S-I-M-A, has been trained to play 3D games like a human would and act on your instructions so you can play with it and tell it like, hey, you know, go farm those boulders over there or whatever you're doing. The key was that they trained it on actual human gameplay, not on the on the game's code. So training data included gameplay from multiple games. Valheim, No Man's Sky, Goat Simulator were all involved in this. The developers approved with they gave their consent. And the model can use its training to play games it was not trained on. Interestingly, the in-game vocabulary that it can understand is limited, but it does very well because the instructions that we use are limited. The scientists at DeepMind published a map of several dozen actions that CIMA can perform that can be combined to encompass around 600 basic skills, and that covers most of what everybody does in a game. They're still working on making it do even more complex things, but the model can combine actions in multiple ways to be a pretty decent co-op player. And in fact, scientists think that because the model is trying to imitate human gameplay, it's seen instead of trying to maximize for a reward, which is what we usually do, like when we train an algorithm to be great at StarCraft, it actually looks at the code and is trying to reach a reward. This one was trained to imitate. And because of that, it takes more risks and it tries new things more often, which helps it learn unfamiliar games faster and even produces some emergent behaviors. So I think there's something in here about a very significant advance in algorithms that we figured out how to encourage emergent behavior by not strictly putting a reward in front of the algorithm. I think that is significant to this. But also this is kind of a fun tool for video game makers as they start to improve this to allow you to play with a virtual character in a way that NPCs just can't do now. Yeah, this is the machine learning I'm the most excited about whenever I hear about it. And this is really great news for a lot of us who I'll use a modern example. Right now there is a game that is just taking the world by storm and everybody's playing it. And that game is held divers to on PC and PlayStation. And that game game is huge. They had all kinds of server issues. That's always a good sign that you've got an overloaded players and want to play your game. The thing about that game is it is purely a co-op experience and a very chaotic one with things like friendly fire turned on. And you can accidentally kill your teammates very easily in the game. In fact, you might call it a feature. My biggest problem with that game is it's best with friends. You can play with bots, but they're terrible. And when your friends aren't online, what are you going to do? Well, then you've got to play with some rando people you don't know. And that is always a mixed bag. I love the idea that these these these AI MPC co-op companions could be advanced enough that they would learn not only to play based on what I do, but based on what other players have done, other player data, maybe even let that scale, depending on difficulty, because there is a I think a nine, nine level difficulty scale in that game that you can go, you know, you can fluctuate between and me being able to rely on that being that fun, random moment. Oh, my gosh, I didn't see that coming kind of thing.  But because they're not online, I can still go on and play and get that experience for the most part. Like it's been a dream forever for co-op play. We've talked about this for decades. This is the first real sniff I've had of what might be real. And thank you for the sniff. We had a little little foley work over there. But the point is, you know, let me play my co-op shooters, my co-op games that require some level of humanity. And let's mimic that in a way that actually feels right. It isn't repetitive or isn't, you know, pattern based or any of that. Now you're talking like that's very exciting for me as a player. I mean, I guess that would be my question.  Because if it wasn't fun and different every time, you'd be like, well, you know, I mean, we're not really replacing humans here.  Yeah, you kind of you kind of you're talking about a thing that I hadn't even considered, but this is an important thing. You know, the article here or the study or the, you know, the research is mostly going to say, well, playing with AI instead of against it or whatever. But I think the principle applies to whether it's against it with it, two people, two regular people against an AI, like all of these scenarios are improved by this kind of thinking, this kind of this kind of machine learning and this kind of training. And so when you're talking about playing the crew, Sarah, which is a racing game for those out there that don't know, it makes a lot of sense that not only could it could I have a better experience doing cooperative things with a AI that I can't find people for. Or when I'm racing against a computer like we've done forever, that might be a markedly better experience with this data. I'm actually really stoked about it. I think it'll be based on what what they say different every time seems absolutely possible. That's one of the biggest advances here. Forget the gameplay. The fact that you can have more emergent behaviors by by producing an algorithm that imitates and therefore takes more risks, I think that's again, I know I said it before, but I think that's really interesting. I think that is something to pay close attention to because that can be applied outside of games too and everybody's trying to get generalized AI that has emergent behaviors. So I think that's really important that in the game situation makes it different, makes it able to be different every time. Whether or not that's fun or not is a whole different situation. Right? Like what if it just starts going off rando? Right now, it only does what you tell it to do. So it's probably not going to be that fun. It's kind of it's going to be more like a lackey, but they are trying to get it to be able to do more complex things and do things on its own more. Yeah. And you may even as a player want to set it to be those sorts of things. Like I want this to be a nervous player. I want this to be a player who panics get rough. Like you could you could have little bits of that and that could really shape it into a real, you know, human behaving AI. So yeah, sign me up. I'm ready to beta test this. Let's go. I wanted to have no sense of direction like me. Yeah, Bob X will call it. And yeah, Bob X. They are well, folks, if you want to stay up to date in the fast moving world of artificial intelligence and get more stories like these, you got to check out AI named this show each week. Tristan Jutra and Teja Kastodi cut through the hype and the doom saying and keep you informed about the latest news in the world of AI in a way you can use. Catch it at AI named this show dot com. Back in February, Microsoft announced it was bringing over four Xbox exclusive titles to other platforms, Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Pentamint, HiFi Rush. On Monday, pre-orders for the premium edition of Four Sea of Thieves was the top seller for the Sony's PS5, beating other highly anticipated games like the new Elden Ring. Although the title has moved down a few spots since, obviously, still got a lot of attention, still listed in the top five bestselling pre-orders. Now, Scott, now, Microsoft's strategy of focusing on getting games into as many players' hands as possible might be validated here. What are your thoughts? I think it is validating. It's early, though, so I don't think we I don't think Microsoft or anyone else can call this a slam dunk yet, but the bet was the bet they were making was that people who are going to buy their games on other platforms, in particular, the PS5 is already a thing that's available on PCs. So that wasn't a, you know, there's no stretch there, really. The only place that doesn't have a game like Sea of Thieves is the switch and it's just not powerful enough to do it. But in this case, we're talking about their neighbor system, the PlayStation 5, and it exceeded expectations in terms of pre-sales for both, I think, Microsoft, Sony and players. I don't think any of us expected it to be quite this high. And this game has been around for a while. This launched on the Xbox One before Series XS and PS5s were even announced. This game has been out that long. But it is known to be an incredible experience. It's made by Rare, one of the most venerable developers of all time. Microsoft now owns them and has for quite some time. And the fact that this is the game showing the most potential and slash promise as a pre-order is not that surprising given the quality of the game. But what it does tell me is the bet was a safe one, meaning a significant bump was going to happen when you offer great games on other people's platforms. And they already sort of learned this on PC. It does very well on PC, Steam in particular. It's a very high selling game, highly rated game over there. And based on these initial numbers, I think they can count on this moving forward if they end up moving Halo Infinite and its multiplayer component, if they end up moving some of their bigger titles coming up like, oh, gosh, the follow up to various games whose names escape me right now. But Microsoft's upcoming big launch title or big titles that are coming, including Starfield, which is already out on Xbox and PC, I think these games, despite tribalism and everybody saying nay, are going to do really well on the competing platform because those people currently have not had access to those games. It's the same thing would happen if Xbox suddenly had some exclusive PlayStation games, it truly would be some of the highest selling software. If Event Horizon Zero Dawn or Horizon Forbidden West was suddenly on Xbox Series X, I promise you that would have great pre-sales and sales. I think it's just proving out this point that Microsoft's counting on in the future, which is for Sony like this or not, I don't know. But it is that platforms will matter much, much less. What you play on, whatever you have, will matter much, much more. And throw into that streaming, throw into that low latency, all these other things, it all supports this idea that it's not going to matter what plastic you have under your TV, it will matter what service you have and or what games you're buying and downloading. So I do think this at least initially supports Microsoft's plan, which they've had for quite a while and and it's going really well. The only place it isn't going well is, you know, the severe tribal stuff that happens between PlayStation and Xbox. There's still a lot of fighting about this. Ignore all that. Let me just look at the numbers and see where things are headed. I think it's going well. The one thing I think will probably end up coming out of this, though, is like a little secondary effect. It will be Sony more quickly because they're already doing this to some degree, but more quickly moving their titles to multi platforms. It may not be Xbox and it certainly probably won't be during this this console generation, if I had to bet, but they will get stuff to PC quicker. They are doing that now, but they're taking forever. They take a year or more, sometimes well more to get a popular title from their console onto onto the PlayStation. And in some cases, we're still getting PlayStation for conversions to PC and not even PS5 exclusive stuff. So they're their exceptions. But the point is like Sony, I think, will feel that this is good for them, too.  And perhaps it's really just down to where your games are and how good those games are. Yeah, it's very, very forward looking. If Microsoft is right, you want to have people like your games because in the future, the platform won't matter as much like the fact that you want people to use Microsoft Office, whether they're using an Android device or a Chrome OS device or a Mac OS device, obviously a Windows device. And this this feels very similar to putting Office on the Mac, you know, like Sony is going to be much more resistant to putting its software elsewhere, but it will. Same way that Apple puts Apple music on Android, right? When it feels like it's really important, it'll do it. I think that we're moving towards that. You're right. But I think it'll always be a little more reluctant to do it than Microsoft, which is realizing, oh, you know, we're making our money off the services and so we want people to want the services, which are either the games or the service you play your game on. Yeah. And the nice thing is they don't have to worry about investing in those services. They are the services. So they've got all the background they need.  So far, they kind of haven't. But if Amazon really ever kind of put two and two together, yeah, they've got a real competitor there. And Sony uses Azure. So if Microsoft can get Sony to do a game streaming service successfully, it makes Microsoft money, too. Yeah, I agree. It's going to be fun to watch. All right. Another thing that's fun to watch are emails coming in to our mail bag. Indeed. Anon Jr. wrote in, you'd be surprised where some tech ends up. Anon Jr. is referencing our conversation about medical, VR, AR, Spatial Reality Tech from our conversation yesterday. He says, when I worked for a hospital, we had to play a series of bed alarms based on the Xbox Connect. Traditional bed alarms alerted when they were no longer since the patient's weight, which often failed if you had a really small or light patient. The new ones use a sensor array of the connect to tell the patient was moving alert and a nurse practitioner or some other nurse who could speak to them through the connect. It also allowed one person to more efficiently monitor several patients who were only at moderate fall risk while they were sleeping. Oh, I love the fact that Connect had so many lives. And Anon Jr. I'm curious, like, are they still using them in any cases? And if they replaced them, what did they replace them with? Yeah, that's wild to me. Holy cow. I know, yeah. And then Peter before in our discord said as one of the developers on the Striker My Mako app, which we have referred to in the same story yesterday about using the Apple Vision Pro in surgical situations. Peter said it's pronounced Mako like the shark. I can say the goal is more than just assisting during the inter during the operation. It also helps the surgeon plan the surgery before the procedure pre-op and tracks statistics over the surgeon's many operations. Thank you, Peter. It's fun to have one of the developers in the chat. Appreciate that. Absolutely. We also got a lot of feedback and we we'd like to highlight feedback when we get it. Joe wrote in a quick note on the discussion related to handheld gaming devices like Steam Deck. Tom and Shannon Morse were talking about this on Monday. Joe says maybe I'm the only one, but it seems like the discussion focused on the possible negatives instead of the positives. Two hour of high end graphics gaming is great. The Windows 11 device ROG ally as has great graphics and the fact that you can dock it and use it as a PC, also a huge plus. Not just limited to gaming, certainly has its quirks. Steam Deck is also great, but more like a Nintendo switch and how user friendly it can be.  I thought Shannon was pretty positive about why she loved them. But we were, you know, trying to show some of the downsides to some holes. Yeah, yeah. That's all part of the part of the part of the process. Yeah, I appreciate the sort of the idea of like, you know, two hours may sound like not a lot, but it's enough for Joe. So that's cool. Thank you, Joe. Well, thanks to everybody who writes in feedback at Daily Technewshow.com is where to keep those emails coming in. Scott Johnson, you keep coming to our show because you make it better. Why? Why you keep coming here? No, no, you do. That's an order. But in the meantime, let folks know where they can keep up with your latest. All right. Well, I started a little show on Mondays with my daughter, Carter, who is, you know, getting older now. She graduated in video games. She's a lot smarter than me in a lot of ways. She's an artist, really fun person to talk to. So we decided to start a little show together just for funsies. Well, it kind of took off and went crazy. 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Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partner. Welcome back to theCUBE. We are live covering VMworld 2017, day two of coverage. I'm Lisa Martin with my co-host Stu Miniman. We've had a great morning, the main stage, Michael Dell, Pat Gelsinger, Google, et cetera. We're excited to be joined by Dr. Sudhir. Sudhir Srinivasan, the CTO of Dell EMC storage. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thanks for having me. We're excited to have you here. So, you're an EMC guy, we talked about that. When people think of Dell, they think of, well, maybe used to PCs when they think of EMC, they think of storage arrays. Talk to us about one year post combination almost. How has your customer's perception changed? What have you heard in the last year? Sure, yeah. No, it's been a pretty dramatic change, I would say. In the sense of about a year ago or actually two years ago when the deal was first announced that it would be happening, there was a lot of skepticism in the customer base, obviously, around, hey, what does this mean? How's it going to come together? I think a year into it, people started to see some initial signs of better together, and now a year later, we're seeing dramatic, dramatic positive energy and feedback from customer base on how, when they're actually seeing the products and solutions coming together in a combined solution, I think that's, I mean, we used to joke in the old days where our products, EMC's got our portfolio and our products would only come together on the PO, that was the common joke inside. And I think that perception is changing quite a lot now. Sid, bring us into the storage group, because it was one that, if you look, there were lots of places where there were no overlaps. Storage, there was a long partnership between Dell and EMC, then Dell had acquired a couple of companies.  You know, what are those lenses you look through and where are we into, you know, things coming together? So. I think it's a great question, you know, and thank you because one of the things that people miss is that the portfolio strategy is a conscious strategy, right? It is really hard to cover the entire spectrum of workloads, use cases, with a single widget, if you will. And a lot of our competitors will try to convince customers of that, and they're finding that out themselves, that it's really hard to cover that gamut. So I think fundamentally, first and foremost, the portfolio strategy is very important. Now that said, it is acknowledged, and I'll admit that there is perhaps more in the portfolio right now than perhaps is needed. And so that, in fact, is one of our first, one of our big priorities for this year is to simplify the portfolio because it's confusing for our customers. And so we're definitely working towards that. You'll see that roll out starting next year, and then over the next few years. So on that front, sort of maybe weeding things out to simplify, from an innovation perspective, Michael Dell also talked on Main Stage this morning about the importance of customer innovation, but I'd love to understand how, if you can take us kind of more through that, how is Dell EMC innovating internally so that you can be leaders in innovation? Yeah, that's a great question. It's a great question because, you know, when you have a multi-billion dollar business, everybody assumes it's really, really hard to innovate, and it is, right?  Now, but I completely agree with Michael what he said on stage and what he said to us privately, which is, in fact, Dick Egan used to say the same thing. Founder of EMC was that if there's one thing that you should be comfortable with is change, because this industry is changing like crazy, and I've been in the industry now for what, coming up on 20 years, seen a lot, you know, from FDDI to where we are today, and I'm still constantly amazed by how much change is going on even now. So we do believe in change, we believe in actually innovating constantly, and Jeff Woodrow, my manager, he's a big believer in change as well, and we're working on a number of innovations, internally, organic innovations, big innovations. I can't tell you much about that today, but we'll hopefully, as we get closer to next year, we'll be able to talk more about it. That said, we're innovating on our existing products as well, we've refreshed our entire portfolio at Dell EMC World earlier this year. At VMworld just now, we announced our availability of our X2 platform, which is the next generation of the Xtreme IO platform. So we're constantly innovating, and as a result, it's more of a rolling thunder, as opposed to like a big bang, right? So, Sudhir, I kind of look at it there. There's kind of two ways that things are changing a lot in storage. Number one, there's kind of the underneath pieces. So you talked about going from FDDI, you know, when we saw from disk to flash, where EMC was, you know, early on, that kind of reemerged the flash after a couple of decades of it being, you know, not used for a while. We've got things like NVMe and NVMe over fabric coming out. So we're going to start there. Maybe when I want to talk after it, there's kind of the operating model on how we change things, because we went converged in cloud and all those. But on some of those underlying pieces, which I know keep the storage people kind of really engaged, you know, where are we today with some of those transitions? What are some of the things that you're looking at over the next kind of 12, 24, 36 months? I mean, I see actually three vectors of change impacting the storage business, impacting us. One is the media, like you said, there's NVMe and we'll talk a little bit more about that. There's actually a whole bunch of stuff beyond NVMe, like storage class memory, persistent memory coming out. Second set of things is consumption models, what we call consumption model around, whether it's a cloud consumption model, where if you think of cloud actually more as a consumption model as opposed to a destination. And software defined is a big thing. I think that's going to dramatically change the game, especially when you combine it with things like persistent memory. And then the third thing, I think, is the new wave of applications as well. That's generating a whole new class of data that has a whole new set of requirements. For example, real time streaming analytics, right? That changes the, you can't deal with block and file and object in those worlds, you're dealing with new semantics. So those are some of the vectors we're looking at in terms of time. So let's start with kind of the low level, the media and some of those things, right? What is data, what is memory? All those things blurring, where, I hear there seems to be so many people, NVMe, NVM over Fabric seems to be. Hey look, let me hit that off right in front. So it was 10 years ago that Dell and EMC independently before obviously we were in one company actually co-founded the consortium that invented NVMe. So we saw the need of this technology, of the limitations of SAS and SATA 10 years ago. We saw this coming. We helped drive the standards, including the NVMe over Fabric standard. And that's like well before some of these companies that are claiming NVMe today were actually even born. So NVMe to me is a journey, right? There's the bus, changing from the SAS bus to the NVMe bus, that's one part. Then there's the media that stands behind them, the NVMe transport. Things like 3D crosspoint that are starting to come out. And then even beyond that, you get to really persistent memory type of applications. So we see this as a journey. We're going to be rolling out NVMe and all our products across the entire portfolio, starting this year, later this year. For first today, Scale.io already supports NVMe devices in 14G, so you're going to see that. Yeah, I guess my follow-up just to dig in a little deeper because when we got the CTO, you got to dig down. There were some when Flash came out, they were like oh yeah whatever, I'm going to throw a couple or percentage in. Well, we saw Flash greatly changed architectures, it changed some of those application considerations, especially Wikibon's David Foyer has been beating on, let's really look at databases, let's do this. NVMe, is it extension and kind of evolution or will this be a similar revolution to what we saw with Flash? I think it's a similar revolution. It's a similar but perhaps less of a quantum leap, I would say. And the reason is because you're going from tens of milliseconds or milliseconds of latency that's spinning media to sub-millisecond with Flash. Now you're going from sub-millisecond to sub-sub-millisecond but it's getting diminishing. I think where you're going to see a lot of dramatic is as it's more on the latency as the applications get closer and closer to the servers, right? So I think you're going to see a lot of pretty dramatic change in that space. Speaking of change and revolution, the three vectors that you talked about, media, consumption models, this new wave of applications, how as CTO are you seeing the buyer's journey change as a result of these vectors? So that's actually part two of the question that Stu was just asking is, while I agree that it's going to be a revolution, what I've also seen in 20 years is that these things don't happen instantly. Yes, Flash was a big change but even today, over 40, 50% of our revenue still come from hybrid systems, mixed-flashing. So these things take time, right? So customers are taking leaps, I would say. I'm seeing a spread off the early adopters and we're probably in the big medium and the big bell curve right now and then there's some laggards as well. They're still buying pure HDD-only systems. Do you see a difference there, sorry, with respect to industries, maybe healthcare or financial services that are early adopters? Definitely, I think there's industries and there's also a size of customer, right? The bigger the customer, the more eager we see they are in doing this digital transformation. So we're seeing a lot of them going all in on software-defined, right? So we're definitely seeing that shift from buying purpose-built arrays to software-defined. Now it's not going to be instantaneous again, it's going to be over many years. Similarly, in the mid-range and below, we're seeing a shift from modular systems to hyper-converged systems as well. So we're seeing that as well. We're seeing a lot of shift from purely on-prem to a hybrid solution of on-prem plus cloud. So all of our products are now attaching to the cloud as well. So we're definitely seeing all of these transitions. Yeah, when it comes to the cloud-native piece, there are some that have said, well, it's going to be kind of a completely different way of doing things, really focused on the developers, and won't that just live in the public cloud or will SaaS applications be where a lot of those live? So what do you say to the you've improved media, you've improved consumption models, but maybe they're just, it's easier for me not to own some of these pieces. The company, small companies, I don't want to deal with infrastructure at all.  That's another great question. What we are seeing, I would say, is definitely some of that, especially as you said in the smaller companies, it's easy for them to get started, right? With minimal initial expenses, they can get started in the public cloud, so we definitely see that. But as you get larger, what we're seeing is the economics of running everything in the cloud on a sustained basis just don't work out. It's much more cost-effective to run things on-prem. So I think for cost reasons, when you're running over sustained operations, as well as for security reasons, we're still seeing a lot of hesitation and especially as you get to the higher end of the market, people are concerned, especially with all the breaches and things like that, that they're concerned about where their assets are. So we actually at Dell Technologies, I would say, and Dell EMC in particular, we're seeing a pretty significant opportunity propping up where customers want to run on-prem data centers just like the cloud. That's where things like software-defined storage become really important because, hey, the public clouds are running all the software-defined. That's one of the secrets to their agility and speed. Why can't we have that on-prem? And we actually absolutely see that. In fact, today's announcement of PKS is right on the money for that. So we're here at VMworld, with respect to that, seeing more customers want to bring things on-prem, maybe kind of the true private cloud that Wikibon's been talking about. What are you guys doing now with VMware 2.0 line up? We've heard a number of things about yesterday with AWS. You mentioned Pivotal today, Google. What's going on today with Dell EMC and VMware to help customers really build a solid on-prem solution? Yeah, so I think Pivotal is certainly a key piece of that, Pivotal VMware. So the whole VMware cloud foundation, cloud suite is a key piece of that. The integration with PCF is, I think, going to be very key because what customers need, especially the traditional customers, if you will, who don't quite have the expertise yet to build cloud-native applications, they need a platform, not just a infrastructure. So I think that's why Pivotal is very important. And we're working very closely with, and as Dell EMC, we're working closely with both of those partners in delivering those solutions. VxRail is a good example of that. VxRail, VxRack are good examples of the two technologies coming together. And so those are the kinds of things. I think that's where software-defined storage, you'll see a lot more integration between Dell EMC's software-defined portfolio with the VMware and Pivotal ecosystems. So the storage group, you've talked about, you have a lot of options. We've been talking about software-defined storage, how that is driving a lot of the change there, it gives a lot of flexibility there. How does the storage team look at things like Vmax and ExtremeIO compared to the software-defined storage these days? I presume everybody's seen the famous chart where there's the traditional infrastructure and then there's the cloud native, the new world, and that's a transition that's going to happen and we think it's going to be a very long transition, right? Mainframes are not dead, right? So they're still alive and there's a reason because people are running their absolute mission critical applications on those infrastructures.  And that's, I think, going back to innovation, the question about it, where is Dell EMC innovating? We're the only company that's actually embracing these changes, this transition to software-defined, right? With products like ECS and ScaleIO and so on and so forth. So we see that the transitions will happen slowly but there's going to be a lot of opportunity for highly reliable, you know, six, seven, nine's reliable infrastructure based on purpose-built infrastructure as well. It definitely matches a lot of, as you said, the true private cloud report that we have on Wikibon. Well, thank you so much, Sudia, for joining us on theCUBE. We now bring you into the CUBE alumni, the illustrious CUBE alumni category. Glad to be here. And thank you for sharing your insights as CTO on what you're doing with customers and innovation. Thank you very much. And we want to thank you for watching. I'm Lisa Martin from My Co-host to a Minimum and we are live covering day two of VMworld 2017 from Las Vegas. Stick around, we will be right back.


The Ukrainian army is advancing in two directions. Further effective counter-attacks by the Ukrainian military on the flanks of the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk, Oblast, may complicate Russia's operation to hand over the positions of the Wagner Private Military Company to Russian regular army units, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War, ISW, believe. The report stated that the Russian military bloggers said that Ukrainian forces had conducted successful counter-attacks in the area of the settlements of Orykovo-Vasylivka, 11 kilometers northwest of Bakhmut, and Klishivka, 7 kilometers southwest of Bakhmut. The ISW pointed out that one of the Russian military bloggers said that Ukrainian counter-attacks in the area of Orykovo-Vasylivka forced the veteran private military company units to retreat up to a kilometer from the positions they had previously held in the area. Military bloggers also say that Ukrainian forces have seized high ground along the E-40 road Bakhmut-Sloviansk near Orykovo-Vasylivka and that fighting in the area is ongoing. They also stressed that Ukrainian troops advanced towards Klishivka and crossed the Siversky-Donetsk canal, likely intending to encircle the settlement and force Russian troops to retreat eastward. At the same time, the report notes that geo-location footage posted on the 24th and 25th of May indicates that Russian forces may have regained limited positions west of Klishivka. The ISW's preliminary assessment is that it may be difficult for Russian forces to replace the Wagner Group forces in Bakhmut, partly due to effective, limited and localised Ukrainian counter-attacks. The decreased tempo of Russian offensive operations in the Bakhmut area and the reported ongoing relief in place operation are likely further providing Ukrainian forces in the area, the initiative to launch a new phase of operations around the city if they so choose. The ISW noted.


Cool. Here we are with 3.02. This one's about staying within your confidence rate. RBT's will follow the direction of their supervisors and inform them when they are asked to do something that goes beyond their scope of their certification. So this includes things that you should not be doing completely alone. FBAs, family training, writing treatment plans, providing supervision, yeah those are completely out of the scope of RBT. 40 hours of behavioral training is not enough to run a full-blown experiment. It is a master's program depending on the opinion of how you feel about yourself at times. But the bottom line is you don't run these by yourself and if you're being demanded to do that it is against the ethical code because it is out of your scope of practice. You may be involved with running the conditions of a functional behavior analysis. Or a BCBA might want your opinion during a family training about what you're seeing with a client. As part of indirect and moving on into becoming a BCBA or a lead technician you may be part of writing a treatment plan but you won't be submitting it by yourself. It is not something you are just told to do when you go off and they do it. That's completely unethical and it gets in your code. And you have the right to say no.


Hopalong Cassidy With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Hopalong Cassidy star in William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Hopalong Cassidy This famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure In the role of Hopalong Cassidy is the popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd And now another exciting story of the early West dead or alive Right now after competing in the big rodeo at Amarillo Hopi and California are headed back toward their home spread the old bar 20 With two more days of riding ahead of them the country becomes wilder and more desolate with each pass and mile But their hearts are light and their spirits gay For Hopi is one most of the rope and riding events and there's folding money in their belts and silver in their jeans Hopi when them waddies back on the bar 20 hear about that new Bulldog and record you set There'll be a hot time in the old town that night Hey, what do you pull up for Hopi? It's like another group of riders cross the trail here. Look at those hoof prints, California made right reason to Yeah Now a bunch of them maybe a dozen more than that looks like the same bunch whose trail we crossed some miles back when we hit the Hood Hills probably some wranglers rounding up strays, you know better than that. You don't write bunch stuff like this looking for strays Oh, well, let's go Whoever they are those riders must be looking for something but not cattle Well, I guess we'll hit town a red dog before sundown We'll bed down for the night there you shoot me. I never cost this range myself You seem to know it right. Well, well, I ought to I did a bit of prospecting around here quite a few years back In my old partner hard shell Hank Brady who Hank Brady? We called him hard shell because he sure was a tough nut Temper like dynamite with a heart of gold.   No, I never did Pretty well mined out the best thing we ever hit Peter that fast We split up soon after and I went back to cow punchin. What happened to old hard shell. No, I'm a bad luck. I'm afraid I heard later.  Oh tarnation. That's tough. What happened to his little boy? I've often wondered California never could find out I wrote Hank up the state panic a couple of times but never got an answer That's a long time ago listen That's coming from across that long side. Yeah, something's going on those riders whose trail we've been crossing a Hunting party maybe huh could be Funny that many of them all hunting together all the pens. What do you mean on what they're hunting? They are a hunting party. There's only one kind of game. They could be looking for and the way they're organized I don't think it's coyotes or mountain lion. No me neither. They're looking for a man, right? Well, ain't none our business. I wonder let's go topper I'll be this country's getting wilder by the minute. You're sure you know where we're going California I know this territory like I know the inside of the bar 20 punk house. I hope What is it find those trees ahead of us to our right and left looks like we've met up with that hunting party I'll be quick. No, don't touch your gun. They got us covered Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story dead or alive While hoppy in California riding home from a rodeo where hoppy won a considerable sum of prize money the two cowboys are way late and captured by a large gang of horsemen as Their leader rides up to take their guns hoppy sees the star pinned to his vest and recognizes him Sheriff Thompson, what do you think you're doing keep your hands up? Don't you remember me? Well, I'll be Old Hank Brady's partner hop along Cassidy. That's right. Come on. Of course. I remember you It's all right boys. I think you better be sure So you what's going on here anyhow, sure if this is my partner California Carlson if you don't mind We'll lower our hand. I suppose you tell us first what you're doing back in this neck of the woods I were heading home from the rodeo in Amarillo. Who do you think we were anyway? I'm be figured you might be two of the convicts that broke out of state fan couple of days ago convicts Yeah, there was three of them headed for these hills Funny darn thing you turning up just about this time Cassidy. What's so funny about it? One of those escape convicts in case you didn't know is your old partner hard shell Hank Brady you mean he that's what I said He and two mighty mean killers hombres that should have been hung long ago Broke out together and kill the guard and that out for this territory. I figure they're holed up somewhere around here We trail them as far as the foothills kill the guard I'm sure if I'm mighty sorry to hear Hank Brady's mixed up in this he'll hang for it Cassidy All three of them and anyone that tries to help them is asking for a whole heap of trouble. What do you mean by that? That's what I said First old Brady's boy disappears from Red Dog Taking a whole parcel of grub from the folks have been keeping him and all of a sudden you show up Brady's old partner wait a minute.  He's got a gun and that makes him as big as any man. You'll ever want to meet You don't know nothing about this. I give you my word sheriff. It's all news to me And I hope so If we catch the boy will probably find out where his paul knows other two convicts are hiding that grub and medicine He took was for them and no mistake medicine. Yeah for his paul. I reckon Hard shell was hit by the fire one the guards as he went over the wall He was seen to fall but he got up and kept going. We don't know how bad he was hit but it sure didn't do him No good. I see. Well, he'll be right in Cassidy. Sorry to bother you. That's all right. All right, boys If you see a sign of the boy or them coyotes were after you might tell one of my deputies the red dog I'm afraid your ex-partners in a mighty bad fix hobby. Yeah, but it isn't him I'm worrying about as much as that kid is Eddie. We got to find him in California find him Oh chances are hard shell and those other two are hiding out in one of the old claims We used to work years ago the boy would know about them But nobody else in these parts would like to remember him after so many years Let's have a look at a few of them Well, this is about the fourth place we've looked happy and not a sign Well a few others say wait a minute there's an old cabin I recall where we used to cash grub about a mile further up in the hills. Come on There's the cabin all right Caught on a side of bacon. It's like I'm in a bin drop for somebody Yeah Maybe when he hurt us company There's someone behind us.  All right turn around My you sure have grown remember me Yeah hop along Cassidy So you've turned against pop too, huh? The sheriff had to get you to help run him down now hold on Eddie I'm not working for the sheriff my partner, California. I came up here looking for you. Why?  It's my life and I'll do my dog on please with it The law isn't going to grab pop now if I can help it and nobody's gonna stop me Eddie There's a good guy He shot that crooked pole cat and self-defense and they sent a prison for it.  We let him go. I could have jumped as we left No, I wanted him to get away California. Oh pull up No, he's taking the boy back by force. He'd only run off into the hills again I guess the only way to save him is to well Catch a hard shell hankin those two thugs with him. That's a mighty interest and proposition Just how do you figure we're gonna do that wait? Listen Eddie must have had a horse tethered back in the woods. That's what I figured come on. We're following him Not too fast. I want him to get a good start. That's why I let him get away He knows where hard shell is hiding. I think he does he'll lead us straight to him Gone we've plum lost his trail on these rocks hoppy. I told you we should have followed him closer No, we got to give him time Seems to me he's heading straight as an arrow the last four or five miles for that mountain dead ahead See you way off there. Yeah, but that don't mean nothing He might turn off a dozen times before he got there. He might but I don't think so. That's old smoke stack mountain Hard shell and I made our last strike there Other mine is before his mind that old mountains are fairly the whole thing is almost hollow with shafts and passages You think they might be hiding out there.  Why didn't you take some of that group with you in the high tailor from the cabin? I'm sorry, Mr. Griggs, but I wanted to get here as fast as I could to warn you this little hop along cast me Boy along Griggs Eddie you should have never come here in the first place. You should have stayed in town I couldn't dead. I knew you'd been shot And if you don't get a small grub, he's liable to starve. See I Don't dare go back to the cabin. Mr. Griggs if hoppy to the posse I don't care where you get it Just get it and make dog going sure nobody follows you here.  Don't worry. Why shouldn't I? How do I know Cassidy didn't double back and folly here? He couldn't not the trail I left on those rocks. You better be right Let him alone Eddie Eddie Pile up more of these old dead leaves around me. I'm cold never mind. I'll do it get going boy We need grub and more kerosene for that lamp. You hear kerosene. I'll try That better. Yeah, thanks. I don't want Eddie mixed up in this you're here I don't want you to ask him to help us. It ain't right Greg's right. What are you talking about? It's our lives He's got to help us. Where's Rico? Standing guard the mouth of the upper shaft I'm going up there now The chances are there won't be nobody coming from this side of the mountain But you keep your eyes on the mouth of the shaft over there understand sure Rico and I'll cover the main approach That Cassidy ombry and his pal did follow Eddie.  Remember we shoot the kill Now back to hop along Cassidy and dead or alive While riding home from the Amarillo rodeo hoppy in California learned that three escaped convicts are hiding out in the rocky terrain near red Dog one of them is hoppy's former partner hard shell Hank Brady Hoppy's on the trail of the convict now open to find them before Brady's young son Eddie gets into trouble trying to help his dad escape Hoppy has narrowed down the search to smokestack mountain a jagged peak that he and Brady used to mine As soon as we climb over this last ridgeline have a clear slope all the way to the foot of smokestack mountain Well, are we gonna tell if hard shell and those other two convicts are holed up there? That is before they start shooting at us. We're not when they start pumping lead. We'll know Sounds pump dangerous. Well, honey gonna blow is a little risky sometime and hot and three of them is three times as risky There you can see the foot of the mountain through those trees. Yeah Looks like the trees run down just halfway There's quite a piece of clearing before you get to the base I know those black openings all up and down the bare wall of the mountain used to be mine shaft entrances If I'm gonna be our sitting duck at least I'd like to be in a shooting gallery where I'd get paid for it You're just waiting to be coaxed. Come on Okay, keep back in the shadow of these trees California those men are there we'd make fine targets Planning to cross that clearing to get into that lower mine shaft will make even finer targets I don't propose any such thing. We're going around. Oh, why didn't you say that of war? Getting my goose pimples up this way. There are a couple of abandoned shaft openings on the other side Where the woods go clear to the base of the mountain. Come on. This is the main entrance and back You mean we're gonna crawl into this hole in the ground the shaft winds up and around crosses most of the main tunnels Let's go quiet Someone they're all right. Don't move any of you. We got you get your head Well, it's just one man laying on the ground hard shell. Don't grab for anything.  Well, I guess that answers my question Get their country cool. It's easy since when are you lined up with a law Cassidy? We're not with that posse if that's what you mean Hank You got us prom long.   Why don't you see? They're the one chance we got what what do you mean keep miss hostages. They they'll cover our getaway Hmm. Hey, I think maybe hard shell Hank has got something there Maybe Okay, Rico time up both of you with pleasure Griggs as soon as he's home breeze is hog tide you you and Rico get back to the upper shaft and keep your eyes open There might be might be more coming like and you're strong enough to keep them covered Hank I'm still strong enough to pull a trigger. I ain't gonna listen to no more of this happy you and your pardon to just lie They're quiet. I'm tired of hearing your pull over tonight. I mean business Okay, hard shell seems to me you ought to be seeing a doctor Worry, don't you if you don't care about yourself. You might think what you're doing to that boy yours What kind of a father are you?  I told you once already All right, Hank. All right. I was just thinking the time when you and I worked side-by-side in these diggins Remember how you planned and green with the things you're gonna do for Eddie Send him to college bank. He's happy happy. I'm a warning you and then you had to turn killer now It was self-defense. I swear it happy was killing that prison guard self-defense. It was that gun crazy pole cat griggs I didn't even have a gun not then anyway But it's hang of a rolling for now for a court. I Know I'm finished happy after I was hit. I told the boys to head out here.  You're worth five hundred dollars Huh dead or alive? So that's it a reward out for me, huh? Hank, believe me. I didn't come here to help run you down I came here just to save Eddie's more trouble.  Let's face it Hank you're through you have nothing to lose and your son has everything to gain Hoppy Hoppy are you on the level you ever known me to go back on my word? all right, I I'll take your word hoppy, but Eddie Eddie mustn't know it's blood money.  I'll cut you loose good man Hank, can you reach me? Yeah There your hands are free. Thanks. Give me that knife That takes care of the rope around my ankles Oh still California. Yeah, yeah, your hands are loose In your ankles. Okay, get up Like a movie tour. I'll give you what I just gave up. How hard show double-crossing the coyote What are we waiting for? Let's finish them. Wait a minute Listen someone's coming Just put the stuff down and drop that shotgun Eddie Bob, what have they done to you?  What's that? California grab Rico. I've taken care of griggs hang on the Rico's gunhand. I'll get him The lamp that lamp smash these leaves are on fire Eddie get out of here California carry hard shell out. I'll pick it up. These other two Get out this might I'll be a person Now back to hop along Cassidy I Know how you feel Eddie your dad was a good man Yeah, and I'm sure glad he lived long enough to tell you it was griggs that shot him and not us Why did you have to save those two? So why why didn't you leave me there to burn? Listen Sounds like the sheriff's posse head in this way. Yeah, I figured they'd be seeing that smoke for him from the mountain by now It was sure nice of you to riding with me all the way to the railhead poppy We're proud to do it Eddie. Yes, sir. It was a real pleasure Shucks with you all dressed up in them new duds I plum felt like one of them railroad porters are carrying the boss man's bags.  I'll never forget what you two fellas have done for me. It's not us nearly so much as it was your dad Eddie I know Well better climb aboard Eddie. I know you'll like it back east with your Mars folks. I hope so Goodbye, Hoppy California. Goodbye. Good luck to you He's gone. We might as well run Yeah, I hope he has a nice trip Poor kid. Yeah, let's go Topper Well, California, we've been kind of delayed getting back to the home ranch, and I guess it was worth it Yeah, my reckon it was Eddie looked mighty spry in them new eastern style clothes Brandy new suitcase ticket divorce. Yeah, I ain't books showing a nice balance Yes, sir. I reckon it was worth it. All right, best of all, California He's got proud memories of his dad. Of course. We had to tell him it was his dad who didn't the money away for him Of course, he'll never know that it was his dad's blood money that paid for all that Funny thing what? Nobody else seems to know it either. Huh? What do you mean? Nobody else seems to know it Who's just talking to the sheriff a couple of days ago after he brought those two pole cats into red dog We was waiting in town to testify at the coroner's in quest. What's so funny about that? What the sheriff said sad about what? Reward money, which you told hard shell hank was posted for him $500 debt or alive. Oh, I just happen to mention it the sheriff Thompson. He just looked at me and asked me what I was talking about There wasn't any reward not a dime. I see He said that huh, that's what the man's head. Well, what do you know? It just kind of give me a idea give you an idea. I hope you were kind to it. It was in a strange place Oh, I shucked happy why don't you come right out and admit it that there are $500 come right out of your own pocket The exact amount of the prize money you wanted the Amarillo rodeo Well, why not wasn't it worth it? It made a hard shell feel that he was a some good to that boy here. He loved that boy, California Yeah, I know and it gave Eddie a warm spot in his heart for old Hank gave him a feeling that his dad had been thinking of him I'm trying to provide for his future In fact, $500 is a downright cheap price for the proud feeling at Eddie will carry with him for the rest of his life Good bye from hop along Cassidy We hope you'll be back with us soon when hoppy will again bring you more adventure and excitement Hop along Cassidy star and William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the West by Walter White Jr Dead or alive was written by Howard Swart. All stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence E. Mulford This is a Commodore production


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