Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosali here. For today's video, I'm gonna be taking a look at a very, very cool online video editing software called FlexClip. Now just to be 100% transparent here, I am checking out the software because FlexClip wrote me an email last week and said, would you like to check out our online video editor? And I said, I would certainly like to do that. And the reason I said yes, is because I'm a huge believer in these online video editors. I think they're going to be, I imagine in 20 years time to be conservative, everyone's going to be editing their videos in the cloud. Now, if you've never used an online video editor, you might be wondering with justification, well, what's the difference between a local video editor, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, CadenLive, whatever you're used to editing with and an online video editor.  Now with an online video editor, it's basically SaaS. It's a cloud software. The actual video editor is delivered in the cloud and you therefore need to upload your footage to the cloud first. Now, people forget that this is a big disadvantage for online video editors. And in my opinion, it's possibly the reason they haven't really become huge yet, right? Most people are still editing their videos in offline video editors, especially the more professional you get. And that's been my main criticism of these online video editors to date has been twofold. Firstly, they tend to lack the kind of power user features or the more advanced editing features and we're gonna see that when we get into this product. And the second criticism would be, well, you know, what if you have a five MBPS upload speed like I do? And let's say you come back from a shoot with 10 gigabytes of 4K footage, it's just not gonna work. You might be able to justify one upload of your rendered project, but having to upload an entire bin of footage is just gonna be way, way too slow for an editing workflow. On the plus side, however, the advantage of editing stuff in the cloud, well, there's actually a few advantages. Firstly, because it's cloud software, it lives in the cloud. That means you can start editing at home, you can move to your office, you can move to your girlfriend's apartment and log into your editing timeline from anywhere, which is pretty cool, right? It's not tied to a computer, it's not tied to a machine. Your project now lives in the cloud. The second advantage really would be rendering.  So if you have a sucky computer, rendering can be a real pain in the butt, especially if you're doing 4K. These online video editors, because the compute has moved from our computer up to the cloud, often can back these online video editors with super, super fast rendering computers, a type of editing rendering workstations that would cost thousands of thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars actually to buy in real life. So that's also a big advantage. A lot of these tools can offer virtually instantaneous rendering, which is very, very cool. Final advantage of these things and we're gonna get into FlexClip after that is because we're living in the cloud when we're editing in tools like FlexClip. A lot of them offer cloud to cloud publishing. If we have our video on FlexClip and we want to publish to YouTube, we can move across the cloud. And typically when you're uploading from one cloud service to the next cloud service, it's gonna be far quicker than uploading from your computer to any cloud. The reason for that is that it's technical reason. Cloud services are closer to the backbone of the internet. They tend to have much better, much stronger internet connectivity than your average home user. So one of the nice features of FlexClip is the ability to publish to YouTube. All that intro aside, let's go and check out FlexClip and see how good or how bad it is. Now, as I mentioned, FlexClip wrote to me, they hooked me up with a free business account for the purpose of this review. However, FlexClip haven't paid me for this review. And these are my own nitpicky opinions about it. So it's totally honest here. So this is the first screen you get to. Now, the first thing I must admit, I wasn't blown away with was the feeling that this is really for kind of template videos. So you know those YouTube videos where it's like 10 best tortillas or like these kind of like spammy accounts that churn out all of these listicle videos? My first feeling was, well, it's really intended for this because the first screen is actually the template screen, right? You say, do you want to use this template, that template, or another template? Now, I'm interested in doing this for editing videos from scratch. The point in time when I'm going to go from editing videos on my computer to editing videos in the cloud personally is when my bandwidth is good enough that that upload lag I mentioned is not an issue. And when the cloud editors are powerful enough, that has got all the features. I'm not so interested in templates, a little bit stock video. And just to show you guys their stock video library, I can search by category, let's go into business and I can get these stock video clips. I have no idea if they're integrating someone else's library. I doubt it's their own stock. As you can see the resolution here is 720p. And if I click use video, it'll jump me into the timeline. That's rarely the type of workflow that would make sense to me. I almost never say, let's start from a stock footage. It's more like I want a bit of stock in my timeline. So I'm gonna look a little bit at if you can bring in stock that way. But if you want to start from stock, I don't know why, but again, if you're maybe making these more social media style videos, you can browse the stock library and start from that point forwards. And the cloud storage, it's 100 gigs is what it's showing here is my allocation. Now the thing about these cloud storage libraries is once you upload to the cloud, it's gonna stick there. So 100 gigs is really, really not bad actually, right? If you're smart about it, upload your stuff to the cloud, render out from the cloud and then delete all those files that you've left in the cloud. And if you do that workflow, make sure to back up those videos if you need to back them up, but you're never gonna blow through that 100 gigs. So it's really not bad actually. Finally, you've got a my fonts editor which is a little bit more advanced. You can upload your own fonts to the cloud. So there you go. Start from scratch. Now, let's actually get to the medium bones of this tool which is of course editing. Now, when I click on edit mode, when I click on start from scratch, it says, do you wanna do a timeline video? Do you wanna do a storyboard video? And what aspect ratio do you want? This is a nice feature. For YouTube, the standard aspect ratio is 16 to nine, but vertical video is becoming a big thing if you're distributing via Facebook, Instagram, you know, more mobile oriented platforms, you might wanna use that nine to 16 aspect ratio or one of these other ones. You also support one to one, four to five and 21 to nine, which is a cinematic aspect ratio. You might see music videos where those lines are added so that it can show up in a 16 to nine display. So I'm gonna stick with my 16 to nine and I'm going to go for timeline mode because I want to replicate an offline video editor as best as possible.  So I'm gonna just like throw in the first 10 clips in that video library and let's see how that goes from there. Okay, I'm in my video library from my hummus eating expedition and I'm going to totally randomly import from 2,900 to 2,910 Actually, I'm gonna skip that last clip because it's gonna slow things down because it's 74 megabytes. You can see the biggest file is 17 megs, sorry, it's 20 megs. So they're short, they're gonna be short little clips but just easy to kind of demo with. Now, the first thing that really impressed me and I've edited a few videos in this so far just to get a handle on the features is do you see the fact those thumbnails like generated like instantaneously? I don't know how that's happening, but it's very impressive. It didn't happen in other cloud editors I used. Now, I'm just gonna like throw together a very random timeline. There's a bit of black on my timeline, I'll talk about that in a second just to show you guys what we're gonna do for this mock video. This is a kind of bureau style shot of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, old city. I'm going to drag and drop and it's a drag and drop functionality. I'm gonna drag and drop that guy onto my timeline.  Here's the coffee place's signage. Here is the coffee menu. And then there's this. Now, I'm gonna be super nitpicky because that's just unfortunately the kind of person I am. I don't have like a lot of clarity on where what's going on at the moment was the upload process, right? So I'm obviously in the process of uploading these local files to the cloud and because my internet is slow, that's taking a while. I can see this little syncing animation going on but I don't really know like exactly where we are and I don't know what's uploading. I can kind of see this progress bar coming in on this clip. So I assume that's what it's working on and as it finishes with this, we're gonna jump to the next clip but I would appreciate if this were a bit more granular. If it said, well, we are 40% done, this is the current clip uploading rather than me having to kind of look out for these progress bars on the thumbnails.  Now, I tried earlier, I uploaded a video footage with a WAV file for audio, an MP3 file and a few JPEGs and PNGs, static images and these automatically sorted into these folders, right? We've got videos, photos and audio. So that's a really nice feature and I have to be honest to give you guys a spoiler alert. Overall, I'm quite positive about this video editor. I'm gonna find a few nitpicky things to critique it about. It's pretty decent. It sees touches that are quite nice. Now, one other cool functionality is there is this recording tab you may see, record screen or webcam. It brings you to this functionality that kind of looks a bit like Loom, the video sharing platform that's becoming more popular. You can either record directly in the browser your webcam, just your screen or your screen on your webcam. Now, I don't think I can do it while I'm recording my webcam into OBS. So I'm not gonna show this feature as it works but it does work nicely. The one feature I wish was more clear was recording audio. There is this little audio button and that's where you go to record your voice and it says press and hold to do the recording. Now it's supposed to be capturing my voice from the microphone and I'm gonna just release that and the last time I did this, I actually didn't really see where that audio clip wound up. It does say saving periodically so it looks like something's happening in the cloud and we're getting that syncing process going on again. So that might actually be my audio clip syncing up to the cloud. I didn't try that feature last time. Now let's look at the timeline here. The timelines at the bottom as you'd expect and by default they add this little bit of black at the start of the clip. Now something I wish was a tiny bit easier was a fade to black. The way you have to do it is you have to have black then you fade into the clip. Now the way you select transitions on this is by clicking on the transitions icon and then you get the various transitions starting with the fade. So let's say for my video, right, I want to fade into this Bureau shot at Damascus gate. Now we saw at the start of this clip there was a whole, it actually only stabilizes somewhat about here. Now trimming is super easy. You can see I'm now trimming this clip on my timeline and I'm going to stop the trim here and if I start this video again, okay, the black's a bit too long. We did fade into black so I can reduce the black at the start of the video. Now the black is less long and we're fading into Damascus gate. Now clicking on the transition icon I can actually go more granular. The duration of my fade is 0.8 which is long as possible. I thought it was a bit too slow. So let's go to 0.4 seconds or 400 milliseconds and let's now take another look at this guy and that fades a little bit quicker, a little bit snappier and then we're going to go to clip of the coffee shop. Click of the coffee shop's menu. This is going to be our little mock video project and then clip of and again we're going to have some jerkiness. So let's just end up this video with like one or two seconds here and then fade out to black at the end of that video. So that's our little 10 second video project, let's say. Now to reorganize clips on the timeline if I want to put five before four it's just drag and drop so it's super, super intuitive as I mentioned there. If I click on add audio, I can work with the audio. I can add audio from my local computer but there's going to be, there's audio in these clips. Now that's something I wasn't so keen on is I can see the videos on my timeline but I don't actually get the audio waveforms. Now something, let's go into the actual options here and I'm going to try and make this review in not like 30 minutes but just to really show as many features as might be interesting to you. They do have some features for editing the clips directly in the cloud. The first one is a zoom toggle. I can start from 100% and make it smaller. So you can do kind of a transform effect here if I brought this down to let's say, you know, a 40 and I wanted to do four videos I can actually toggle this way I'm going to go back to fist and I'm going to go back to okay.  So this now is nonsensical but it's literally at the click of a button you can do this and all these changes you're making on your timeline are being saved and will be preserved in the render. More perhaps usefully they have these filter options. So this is where it gets again these kind of online video editing platforms tend to feel a little bit sort of like Instagram like they're kind of putting the emphasis on those easy creating options and less on the kind of power functionalities but I do get a bunch of these kind of filters and as you can see, I'm applying them onto my video and just to be clear, we're not applying filters to a frame or a clip. We're applying it to the whole clip, sorry. So let's now go scrub through the timeline we're going to get our black entry and now this whole clip and the really cool thing is that these changes seem to apply like instantly I just clicked on that filter and boom may only be a three second clip but that already has the filter added to it so that's quite impressive. In order to get rid of the filter I just need to like repeat the process, clip, filter and then click on none. Now those kind of pre-baked filters are probably not what a lot of more advanced video editors want to use, you'd want to actually do your own you know, find adjustments to contrast, brightness. So this is, this provides some of those functionalities. Now it's not going to be a substitute for professional color grading and color correction but if you just want to make kind of like high level adjustments to the image you can do this. Now the disadvantage to these online video editors as I've mentioned now a few times what happened if I want to key frame the contrast or brightness, right? You can't do that, it's just on a clip by clip basis. So it's those kind of more advanced things that you're not going to see in them but if I wanted to play around with the color temperature here you can see I'm going to all the way down to minus 100. I can play around with the tint so kind of making changes to the white balance a little bit, contrast, exposure, brightness and saturation and of course if I crank saturation all the way back the other direction we're going to get like black and white imagery and these all apply instantly and now let's have a black and white clip of the Damascus gate then going into the coffee shop, so on and so forth. Now speed, we have a speed toggle it goes down to 0.2 and it goes up to seven times or sorry, eight times. So I can do slow-mo if I do this at like 0.5 now I shot this stuff at 25 frames per second so it's not going to look good at slow-motion and you can see it looks kind of crappy but you can do that. Now one thing you can do again the more advanced stuff is speed ramping I can't key frame in speed changes and ramp up or ramp down in the speeds but you know, better than nothing and if I want to make those fine adjustments to the trim I can do them here as well. So that's the kind of core of this product is the, just to reiterate my feelings as a timeline editor it's very, very intuitive it's very simple, it's drag and drop you can add text overlays here so if I want to add a title and now we've got an overlay layer and I can say this place called I'll back a coffee but if I want to add this little overlay add the text here I can go I'll back a coffee old city and then I can drag and drop and I can play around with all these things I can have it on a yellow background instead of a black background I can have the text you get me so these are quite nice but again we're looking at kind of less granular adjustments in terms of applying it to the lengths of the clip we can also like do a little bit of there we go a little bit of curtailing here so you can see that comes up now they have lower thirds as well which is super cool these are templates for lower thirds so if I wanted to have a clip myself speaking and I said Daniel Rossell and instead of marketing director I'm not sure how I can change that actually but there's for sure a way to get into there we go and I can say YouTube channel host right that can come in and to be honest that's really useful I'm always designing new lower thirds in GIMP and I've got a couple made up on Fiverr and so again when you're looking at the cost of these online video editing platforms factor in the cost saved on all these little jobs like outsourcing graphic design getting a lower third animation done up by someone external so they really put quite a lot of tools now in terms of media now I'm not going to bother trying to figure this out I couldn't see how to integrate stock video so to me where that stock hook would be so much more useful would be the stock library should be integrated with the media project bin but it doesn't seem to be so I'm not quite sure if I wanted to get a stock video from that library at access to you how I'd go about actually doing that now there's other little things there is a background stock effect so you can kind of have a little bit of background and then you can of course combine these so if I wanted to have this kind of generic tech background then you can see it's actually an animated background and I can have a few seconds of that and we can do a text overlay finally elements we have shapes and social callouts so we can have let's say a YouTube icon and let's pair that with a bit of text I'm just going to put myself small so you can see what I've done here the YouTube icon, a bit of text saying basic text saying subscribe for more videos super generic call to action subscribe for more videos make this guy a bit smaller centered and YouTube so you can see these kind of work well together so let's just go back to our preview subscribe for more videos oh and that's even an animated element that's super cool and then we can just like fade out so the way to do a fade to black is to add a bit of black, transition, fade and we can do our fade out boom perfect so that's my little random video project now let's take a look at the exporting so as you'd expect there is an export button and I can render depending on what tier you're subscribing to at various resolutions so as I'm on their top tier for my free trial account I'm going to go for 1080p and then click on the export button okay so we're now rendering the video now I remember I said at the start of this video that like rendering one of the advantages of these cloud platforms is really quick rendering so this is not super fast rendering it's two minutes left on I think my video is going to be like one minute I think and it's actually slower than rendering on my local computer so not as quick they might be pulling these those animated elements live in from the cloud that's all I can think of that might explain the delay as you're rendering you do get a share link and you can choose share settings and you get an embed code so even as you're waiting for your video project to render out you can already start getting start getting to work on it and the very very big deal is we have three different cloud services we can integrate with to do cloud to cloud pushes of your content the most important one of course is YouTube so I'm not going to integrate FlexiClip with my YouTube channel the one you're watching this on because I don't want to undo it but if you're using this regularly you could use that YouTube functionality to share your video to social as you can see you've only got one minute left I'm going to pause my review video here give it a minute and then see how our finished video turned out okay abracababra and the magic has happened it's exported successfully download the video option again and it's given me my mp4 file here moment of truth okay fade in Damascus Gate in black this definitely looks like 1080p footage cut to this very random and nonsensical lower third over the coffee shop footage and pan up on the coffee menu and then we're going to have the three seconds here then we're going to fade out to black ah animation subscribe for more videos YouTube and fade out to black so it worked overall impressions about FlexClip as I said if you're an advanced video editor you're doing a lot of stuff like speed ramping drone footage you want to super color grade your footage in very, very advanced ways this is probably not the right tool but then again I actually haven't yet found an online video editor that has that kind of equivalent of DaVinci in the cloud I tried a couple more online video editors I actually really, really like FlexClip the editing timeline was missing a couple of things in my opinion I would like to see audio being being more editable waveforms and stuff like that I'd like to see be more intuitive to overdub audio and video clips but overall those are really kind of like nitty gritty criticisms I was quite impressed quite impressed by this I think if you have a good upload speed and you liked the idea of editing the cloud and you're happy to pay a subscription for that don't think of it as wasted money to pay a subscription for an online video editor when you can get a video editor on your computer for free and again I'm not being paid by FlexClip I'm not pushing an affiliate link just my opinion when you actually think about it there are definite advantages that you're getting quite a lot of value for that spend in terms of being able to store your projects in the cloud definitely makes collaboration easier a bunch of pre-baked animations and text and stock video just to kind of spruce up the production value of your videos overall honestly not a bad package and the integration with YouTube Dropbox and Drive is a really really nice added extra but especially the YouTube integration being able to click on that and publish straight up to YouTube is really useful I've done it before and it works well thank you guys for watching this YouTube video hope it was interesting if you are looking to buy FlexClip subscription if you want to get more video content from me feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel thank you very much for watching


A French warship operating in the Red Sea has shot down two drones that were launched at it from the Yemen coast, the Defense Ministry said on Dec. 1-0 Dlaiti said the multipurpose frigate Languedoc had intercepted and destroyed a first drone at around 9.30 p.m. local French time on Dec. 9, and a second one around 11.30 p.m. at 110 km from the Yemen coast around Al-Hudaytid.Yemen-Suti movement said on Saturday they would target all ships heading to Israel, regardless of their nationality. When warned all international shipping companies against dealing with Israeli ports, the Iran-aligned Houthis have attacked and seized several Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and its Bab Al-Mandab Strait, a sea lane through which much of the world's oil is shipped.


If there's a place once you're dead, it does not like us in the wintertime. You've got to get zen with the environment that you're in. And it doesn't matter if it's arctic or jungle or what have you, you have to understand where you are. Being pushed all the way to the edge and then figuring out what you can handle. And this schoolhouse definitely does that. Sometimes, enemies don't fire weapons. Adversaries, like ice, wind and snow, have slowed down and even halted military campaigns. The primary thing that we're trying to teach here at NWTC is over snow mobility and sustainment. Historically, if you look at the Russo-Finnish war, being able to sustain through harsh conditions pretty much wins the battle. Nestled in the heart of the Alaskan mountain range, the Northern Warfare Training Center is an offshoot of the 10th Mountain Division from World War II. It's been training soldiers to thrive in austere environments since 1948. You have to understand the environment that you're going into. And that applies whether it be arctic or jungle, desert, whatever the case may be. You have to understand where it is you are. And you have to understand its peculiarities and the special skill sets that are required to go into that environment and be successful. In a place where it's not uncommon to see icicles forming on your friends' faces. Doesn't feel great. A skill you need to know is one that seems pretty basic. Here, it's every layer, every piece has a purpose. My socks have a certain purpose. My tops have a certain purpose. How many I put on and what order, it's all important. And they learn that here. In addition to cold and snow, this region of Alaska is also known for being remote, which can mean less infrastructure for getting around. The United States is a very machine dependent army. So for a lot of folks to get away from their machines and away from their roads and their infrastructure is sometimes shocking to their system. And without their machines, they have to use snowshoes or skis to move over snow. But some of these students have never even seen skis before. The skiing was difficult. I was never a skier. Never touched skis. I didn't fall coming down that one though. Glad about that. It's not like snowshoeing. It's like, okay, I've ruck with snowshoes before. And then boom, skis. We basically gave you your introductory ski courses that you would get at a resort or something. It's the baby steps. This is how you stand. This is how you walk. This is how you go downhill. This is how you stop. You know, once I got on the skis and fell a bajillion times, it just makes you want to keep getting better.  Even being able to use snowshoes is important, but skiing adds speed to the element and stealth show. Getting dressed and moving around will only get you so far.  I pooped in a box for six days. They learned to set up a patrol base using 10-man tents and arctic stoves, which is about 200 pounds of gear they'll pull on a sled called an accio. And then we also teach them how to big whack, how to live out here in this. And they have a six-day field problem where they're out there in it. They don't come back to the building. And for some of them, it's a significant emotional event for them. That's pretty accurate statement. That was one of the design concepts that we came up with when we did this, is to keep the students outside as much as possible. A lot of people include in myself, like, when I heard I got orders to Alaska, I'm like, I'm about to die. It's going to be cold. I'm not going to like it. Oh, my God. Which is something the instructors hear a lot of. It's kind of good to know that I know probably better than you do what you can handle. And I love seeing them get pushed to the breaking point. And then they break through it. And then they have nothing but the utmost respect for what we do here. Because it does get rough. I learned a lot. Because I had no idea that the Army is training to repel down mountains, being this type of weather. And that puts the future of the Army in perspective. Like, we might be fighting people in this kind of weather, having to do this kind of training. You don't ever want to forget the things you took so long to learn. It would be a huge mistake on our part. When people think of this school, if there was one word that you wanted people to think of, what would it be? Hmm. Essential. Essential. It would be one word descriptor, absolutely essential.


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Can you make $1,000, $2,000 or even $10,000 a week by making promises? The answer is yes, yes you can. Making promises and actually sticking to them is not only super important in real life if you wanna have healthy relationships, but it can also make you a lot of money in the stock market. Last week I made $3,878 by making promises and in this video I'll show you how you can do the same. I'm talking about options trading, in particular, selling options. I'm not the best at buying options but I'm really good at selling them. So every time you sell an option, you make a promise. So technically it's an obligation to buy or sell shares of a company. Let's just make up an example. Let's just say you have $5,000 to invest and there is your favorite company called Subscribe with the ticker symbol SUB which currently trades at $50. So now you can either buy 100 shares directly for the price of $5,000 or you can sell an option saying you would love to buy it at a discount. So now you can sell a put option with the strike price of $45 with a timeframe of one week and for this promise that you would buy 100 shares at the price of 45, you will receive a premium. So what does that mean? So with this specific contract, you make a promise to purchase 100 shares at the strike price of $45 within a timeframe of one week. If SUB drops below $45, you have the obligation to purchase 100 shares at the strike price of $45. And if it doesn't, you just keep the premium for making the promise and you can start all over again next week. Let's look at the real life trade. Last week I sold two put options on Nvidia with a strike price of $300 which paid me $600 or to be exact, 1% of my investment in one week. When I placed the options, Nvidia was trading around $315. By the end of the week, Nvidia finished the week at $303.90 which means I did not have to buy 200 shares but I kept my $600 in premium and I got my collateral of $60,000 back in my account. Another way to get paid for making promises is to sell covered calls. You can do that whenever you have 100 shares of a specific company. Let's hop back into our example. Let's just assume that you already bought your favorite company, SUB at $45 and it's currently trading at $50. You don't wanna sell at $50 but you wanna make money while holding the shares. Here's what you can do. So you can make a promise to sell your 100 shares of SUB at $60 a share in one week. For this promise, you guessed it, you get paid. So here are the two outcomes. If SUB shares increase in value and surpass $60, you have to sell your 100 shares at $60 and if it doesn't surpass $60, you keep your shares in the premium. Let's look at the real life example again. Last week I sold 33 covered calls on Riot with a strike price of $56 which paid me $1,188 for the week. Let's see what happened. When I sold the contracts, the price of Riot was somewhere below $40 and since I wanted to keep my shares but still make money with them, I chose a strike price so far out which decreased the chances of me getting a sign. By the end of the week, Riot traded at $44.19 which means I kept my shares and my premium. Once again, I made a promise to sell my shares at $56 and got paid for that promise. It never happened so I didn't have to sell my shares. I got my collateral back and I can start all over again next week. So in total, I placed 40 contracts this week on different companies which paid me $3,878 this week. Out of the 40 contracts, 39 of them were sell orders and only one was a purchase, a buy order. Here's a list of my option trades in week 45 in 2021. So selling options is one of my favorite ways to make my money work for me. If you want to give it a try but you don't wanna risk your money because you're not familiar with the process yet, don't worry, there are so many platforms like TD Ameritrade that offer paper trading. Paper trading means you have a fake, a play account where you can just test out the water and see how it feels. I think that's a great way to get started, test your skills with zero risk. So what are you waiting for? Make some promises and get paid.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Matt Zaglin, Scott Hepburn, and Bjorn Andre. Coming up on DTNS, David Spark is here to tell us the security trends coming out of the RSA conference, plus the Insteon smart home server mystery, and how much you should worry about the Apple M1 chip vulnerability. DTNS starts now. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, June 10th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merrant. I'm from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Schmidt. And joining us today is David. Yes, David. I'm sorry. I almost left you to introduce yourself. Go host and producer at the CISO series, David Spark. Welcome back. It's good to have you back, man. I'm thrilled to be back. Let's start right in with a few tech things you should know. Netflix announced several new game titles that are tied into its TV shows. For example, the Queen's Gambit chess game is, as you might assume, a chess game. It's coming sometime later this year. Shadow and Bone Destinies is a single-player RPG set in the world of the show too hot to handle. If you're not familiar, it's designed to mimic the reality show where singles are on an island competing for shockingly very little money. And Casa de Papel is a heist game. There are also several other games not directly tied to Netflix franchises. All right. That's what I thought they'd be doing right from the beginning, but interesting. Truckers in South Korea increased a strike action on Friday. This is a story worth keeping an eye on because it could reduce delivery of material needed for semiconductor manufacturing. Container traffic at the port of Busan was down by a third. Port activity at Incheon was down to 20 percent. And port activity at Ilsan was suspended as of Tuesday. It also has cut Hyundai's factory production by half an affected steel maker, Posco. The truckers are protesting the effect of rising fuel costs. And President Yoon Suk-yul is taking a neutral stance, which means an agreement may take longer. And if this drags out, that's going to affect the supply chain. If you might recall, Seth Green, the actor and producer, built a TV show around a board Ape NFT that he owned. Board Ape NFTs carry intellectual property rights with them, unlike many other NFTs, but that's what they do. You also might recall that his board Ape was stolen and then sold to somebody who went by the alias Darkwing84 and Mr. Cheese. Well, we've got some good news. Board Ape 8398, AKA Fred Simeon, has been transferred back to Seth Green as of Tuesday. They're long global nightmares over everybody. A wallet controlled by Green transferred 165 Ether to a wallet controlled by Mr. Cheese. So it looks like Mr. Green paid about 100,000 more than Mr. Cheese had paid for it. So that's where we land on this one. I love that it's green and cheese and a story about money. At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD announced that Zen 4 CPUs will arrive later this year offering 8 to 10% faster instructions per clock than Zen 3. Single threaded performance gains greater than 15% and more than 25% improved performance per watt. Company will also introduce Zen 5 in 2024 with all new micro architecture and integrating AI and ML optimizations. On the graphics side, AMD said its RDNA 3 GPU architecture will be built on a 5-nanometer process and offer at least 50% improved performance per watt and be built on a chiplet design for efficient scaling. Two government regulatory stories worth keeping track of today, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority plans to launch an investigation into Apple and Google's market power and mobile browsers, as well as into Apple's cloud gaming restrictions. The CMA also launched a separate investigation into the Google Play billing requirements in the Play Store and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted documents saying it's upgraded its investigation into incidents with Tesla's autopilot to an engineering analysis that's its second and final phase before it could determine a recall. Could get a recall there, that's worth keeping an eye on too. Alright, let's talk about Instion.  Now Instion light switches, outlets, and sensors all still worked over RF, but users couldn't access their hub remotely and cloud integrations with Google and Amazon stopped working because they relied on those servers. A few days after that shutdown, Smart Labs said it had failed in attempts to sell Instion and had therefore handed over the intellectual property to a third party for sale. That's all we heard until this week, Tuesday, Stacy on IOT, Stacy Higginbotham's newsletter reported that some of her users as well as folks on a Reddit thread reported that their hub just started working again. No warning, which I mean, that's a good thing, but nobody told him it was going to happen. It just happened. It seemed that Instion servers had come back on, Sarah. We had a mystery. We did. So the mystery cleared a little bit on Thursday when somebody named Ken Fairbanks, that CEO of Instion Technologies, posted that a small group of passionate Instion users that have successfully inquired Instion, so they explained that their first priority was getting the servers back online. And then they did that before they had access to the Instion website or email or social accounts, hence the lack of communication. It was a clandestine move. That makes sense, but it'd be interesting to find out how Fairbanks's group was able to purchase the company when others could not. Stacy Higginbotham, as you mentioned, Tom, reported that Universal Devices CEO Mike Cohnenem said in June that his company, which makes a popular hub that works with the Instion system, made a bid but was rebuffed. All right. But I've got a clue on why Fairbanks may have succeeded where Michael Cohnenem didn't. In his LinkedIn profile, he has a history of business development and investing as you might expect somebody leaving an investor group that bought Instion, but it includes a stint with Smart Labs as VP and general manager from 2004 to 2007, where he was, quote, responsible for the development, marketing and business development of the Instion home control networking technology and products. So he kind of helped bring Instion about in the earlier days. Obviously he says he's part of a passionate group that wants to restore it and he's got a stake in that, but he probably had some connections that he could pull to get this deal to happen. Good too, right? Because Instion users get their service restored. However, I don't know, David, does this give you confidence that, you know, if you buy smart home material?   I'm trying to remember. Z-Wave. Z-Wave. Thank you. I remember at CES, this goes back a number of years, the two of them were kind of fighting tooth and nail and their booths were like right next to each other. And it was all of like, you've got to choose one environment, another.  Pick a team and hope you picked the right one. The Instion people picked the wrong one, but luckily not all is lost. Yeah. And even when matter comes, which I'm cheering for you, it's going to come. Yeah. It's going to come later this year. No, it's going to come there. I believe in it. When matter comes, it'll end that war. It'll end that HD DVD Blu-ray war for that part of the battle. But something like this could still happen because even if you're using matter, you still might have servers that are providing at least integration with cloud, right? In which case, if you're a smaller company and your servers go away, you could have this kind of disruption. So it, it's, it is a weakness in the system. If you've got cloud based service for stuff, which you kind of have to have.  That's a good question. I'm sure I have.  You were essentially setting a trend. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know if I ever had something go away while I was, oh, you know what? Google reader. That's the closest I can think of. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. I guess that would apply to me as well. And many other Google services, but that was one I was relying on quite a bit for, for my daily, my daily driver. All right. Well, let's talk some chips. Shall we? Apple's M1 chips like some ARM chips implement something called PAC or PAC, which stands for pointer authentication code. PAC checks are used to protect the CPU against attackers with memory access. PAC was introduced in ARM 8.3. It adds a cryptographic signature to pointers in memory. So if an attacker tries to replace the pointer, like with a buffer flow attack, for example, it won't have that signature and will be rejected and the attack will fail or it should fail if all things go well. It's a last line of defense though. If an attack has succeeded against the operating system and it's compromising memory pointers to execute its attack, PAC can still stop it unless you do this attack method that folks at MIT discovered. Tom, I know you looked into this a bit. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is both very interesting, bad for people in certain situations, but for most of us, a curiosity and good that they, they found it, not somebody else. A scientist at MIT seesail developed what they call a PACMAN attack on Apple M1 systems on chip that can find correct values to pass the check. So first there would need to be a successful vulnerability on the software side that would otherwise be stopped by PAC. If you don't have that, this attack doesn't work. You've got to have that vulnerability. Then the attack uses a speculative execution attack. These are pretty common now. If you've heard of Spectre and Meltdown attacks on the x86 instruction set, this is a similar type of attack on ARM. Speculative execution tries to anticipate tasks before they're called for in order to speed up processing. So speculative execution is a good thing. That's what the processor is using to speed up its work. Speculative execution attacks can read patterns in how the processor anticipates those tasks and then deduce data from that through a side channel. The MIT scientists conducted a speculative execution attack and then judged whether they had guessed the correct PAC value or not through the side channel because there are so many possible, only so many possibilities for a PAC value. They just kept guessing until they got the right one and then they were able to get past the PAC defense and let the vulnerability happen. So the PACMAN attack requires physical access to the machine. You're not going to be able to do that speculative execution attack over software, not remotely anyway. That's the good news and the bad news.  On the other hand, it also means it cannot be patched. So the question you're probably asking is, how bad is this?  No, I mean, unless you have some other beef with it, don't throw away your laptop or don't get angry at Apple in the same situation because the attacks work against any ARM chip that is implemented PAC, including chips from Qualcomm and Samsung. So it's not just an Apple issue. The attack wouldn't be necessary against chips that don't implement PAC as those chips don't have that protection. But PAC also doesn't bypass all security on the M1. Only bugs that otherwise would only be stopped by PAC checks. Because of that, Apple told TechCrunch that it had concluded this issue does not pose any immediate risk to our users and is insufficient to bypass operating system security protections on its own. The forthcoming M2 has not been tested for the flaw. I'm sure it will be, but as of right now, still juries out. The scientists who discovered the attack will present findings on June 18th at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Yeah, and we'll probably get a few more details about this. David, you're right there in the security space these days. How does this make you feel? Honestly, I'm not a Mac user, so I'm not as concerned. But you might be a Qualcomm user. You might be a Samsung user, right? Yes, it was.  I mean, speaking of vulnerabilities in general, one of the, from Kenneth Security, their big vulnerability security company, and they'd calculated like 60% of all vulnerabilities flat out ignore. So I mean, every company is dealing with thousands. You really need to understand how this impacts your environment. So for me, it's not really impacting my environment, but for someone else, it could be a monstrous. And so the answer to how do you feel is, how is this connecting to your environment? Yeah, right. If you are a high value target, and you might be in a situation where you'd have to hand your laptop over to somebody, or your laptop might be out of your control, or maybe you leave it in a hotel room or something, you might need to think about this. You might need to think about the fact, and you'll be very curious on June 18th to find out, okay, physical access, but how long do they have to have physical access? Does it require soldering? That sort of thing. And most of us are not going to be in that situation. And the other thing that Apple's saying is, we're also trying to protect you from these vulnerabilities in the operating system. It's not like the M1 was the main defense against these vulnerabilities. We're hoping to shut down all these kinds of memory attacks that you would need in the first place before they ever get to the processor. This was just the safety of last resort. So it essentially sets the security on an Apple back to where it was before PAC was implemented in the ARM chip set, which it isn't always implemented on a lot of chips already. So yes, it's a good thing they discovered it. Hopefully they get it fixed in the M2. I don't think it's devastating for 99% of M1 users. What you should be more concerned about in talking about physical access is when you hand your phone over to one of those fix-it companies to put a new screen on. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you make sure that you're super trustworthy that they're not going to go in and do something. But there's all kinds of other things they could do in that situation more than this. This might not be the one that they try to use. Yes, I know what I'm just saying. You didn't need this for them to come. Yeah, exactly. If someone's having physical access to your machine, that's a whole different ballgame. That's a whole different ballgame. That's concern one.  Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Send us a long note. WWDC was not the only tech conference going on this week. The IT security-focused RSA conference ended Thursday. David attended the event and has become tradition on Daily Tech News Show, has showed up to talk to us about some of the trends you noticed. Honestly, I think this was my tenth RSA. This might be actually close to ten appearances with you. It could be. I think you've done it pretty much every year we've done the show. Yeah. Yeah, I've come many, many, many times. So I will always precursor this with the show is enormous. There's no conceivable way I can see all of it. So this is Dave's review from what I saw, what my eyeballs and ears could see and hear. By the way, these are just views of the show floor, which was plenty packed. It wasn't the volume of people. I think the volume was probably half, about 20,000 people. They've had like 42,000. I think it was back in 2020 at the beginning of 2020. But I will say that in terms of booth sponsors, it was completely packed. They sold essentially every spot on the floor to cybersecurity companies. And the thing that's amazing for those of you not in the world, that world only is growing with new competitors, essentially new players in the marketplace. And that, again, these are just numbers I've heard. In the early days, I had heard 3,000, 4,000. Then I was hearing 5,000 companies. Now I've heard as high as 6,000. Who the friggin? Real quick, this happens in San Francisco, correct? Every year. What did the venue look like this year? Well, the venue is enormous now. So for those who've ever been to the Moscone Conference Center, there used to be a North Hall and a South Hall for all the booths. But there's been such a demand that the Moscone Center actually did a major conversion. And there is no North and South Hall. It's just one giant hall because they connected the two. And so there's like pretty much now they added another 50% more space, if not even more, for a booth. So it's just, it's overwhelming. It's just an enormous marketplace period, cybersecurity. And most consumers don't know it because they're not selling to consumers. They're just vendors selling to other businesses to secure their environments. All right. So obviously one of the trends is you keep hearing about all these vulnerabilities, folks. Guess what? That means security is booming. There's more companies needed than ever. Does it feel like companies are taking it seriously? There's more vectors to come in. This is the thing is that, you know, there were days like, you know, you only needed like firewall and some like identity management type thing. But now there's all these new vectors. Oh, no, there's, you know, there's IoT, Internet of Things that we need to secure that environment too. And oh, now we also have cloud. We now have to secure that environment. Oh, but there's many vectors of cloud. And there's the issue of how are you configuring your cloud? Well, you need a security program to handle that as well. And are you multi-cloud? Well, you need to have security and manager multi-cloud. Like the number of vectors, it's endless. And then Gartner, the research firm keeps coming up with a new category. There was one called, that came out a while ago. I don't know if Gartner didn't coin it, but called XDR. Actually, I think it was Palo Alto Networks that coined it. And nobody was really glomming on, but at this year, the show XDR, which is the next generation of what EDR, which stands for Endpoint Detection. CrowdStrike probably the biggest player in that space. XDR is kind of the next level of how do I detect on the endpoint, but how do I connect it to all the other knowledge I have in my environment to tell the story of what the heck's going on. And it also includes my cloud endpoints as well. So it's more, there's more acronyms to learn, more categories, more confusion. It's overwhelming. What's the messaging around security? What was the tone that you felt? The tone, I think the tone is a lot less negative, even though it's such a horrible situation we're all kind of dealing with, and nobody's wrapped their arms around it by any stretch. There is a need to be more positive about cybersecurity in that we can win, we can beat. It is a manageable thing to a degree. There is no such thing as 100% security for that matter. But mostly the reason for the positive messaging is actually to get more staff in the industry. If you keep talking about it being scary, people are not going to work in this industry. And the good news is it's a very lucrative industry if you can get into it. The demand is high. Every single CISO, essentially chief information security offer that I speak to is hiring. Everyone's hiring. It's the big joke we have on our show. I always ask, are you hiring? And rarely does someone say no. You talked last time you were here about the hiring practice gap between the people who want the jobs and the experience that they require. Was that pretty much the same at RSA or did you see any improvement there? One of the big issues to solve the gap issue is training. And then you probably have heard the classic line of, well, I'm fearing if I train the people and they leave and I've wasted the money on this training, but it's kind of such a kind of an incestuous group that people do bounce from one to the next and they will come back and they will refer you. So actually the reverse is true. If you don't train them, they're going to leave because people coming into this industry want to move up. They want to be trained. And if training is not part of your organization's culture, then A, they don't want to join. And if they find out they're going to leave because everyone wants new skills and they want to move up. Nobody comes into this level, into this industry to stay at the green level and just stay there. I feel like as consumers, we often hear the story of this company didn't spend the time and resources it should have and then it got breached and now the damage is worse than if they had prepared. RSA is one of the places where these companies have the opportunity to strike the deals, to strike the deals, spend the money, get the resources. Do you get any sense that that's getting better? It's a fire hose of information. Often what forces companies to get there is actually not the stories of, oh, this company got breached, that company got breached. Yes, they do want to beef up their security, but it's honestly, it's regulations and now the Security and Exchange Commissions, the SEC, has proposed new rulings forcing public companies to disclose what their security posture is. Now again, it's just a proposal that's going through a lot of debate right now, but you realize this, the SEC has rules that you have to disclose your financials, you got to disclose other things. One of the things they don't have is disclosing what your security posture is. And this is quite important to, and also if you have insurance too. And we're talking about this a lot, cyber insurance is also a much bigger story now too. And more and more companies are getting rejected for cyber insurance. We're talking 30 to 40% of companies that apply for cyber insurance get rejected because they don't have the security controls in place. So they realize, well, if I want this, I have to get to this level. So it's often not the fear that's forcing the sort of the rapid movement, but rather if I don't do this, I can't get insurance. If I don't do this, I'm going to get fined. So there's an immediate, very visible danger in front of them that will for sure happen. And it's not an attack. Yeah, once you focus the CFO's mind, suddenly things start to happen. All right, let's check out the mailbag before we get out of here. Let's do it. Rob, who lives in Germany, writes, and this is in response to our FIDO conversation from the other day. Rob says, one issue I see with FIDO, at least in my smallest group of people, is what if you can't have your phone with you? I work for the U.S. military and there are many of us who work in areas where no personal wireless devices are allowed. Phones, wireless headphones, smartwatches, even air tags and tile devices are a no-go where I work. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there another alternative? Good news, Rob. While we usually use a phone as an example, since almost everyone has one, there are alternatives to using your phone with FIDO, too. One example, I pulled off of Army.mil, the U.S. Army's page, reading about multifactor authentication that a fast identity online or FIDO-certified cryptographic USB hardware token is an acceptable way to do logins on Army computers. So there are alternatives beyond the phone and then there are ways to use secure phones as your login instead of your personal phone, stuff like that, and sometimes those kinds of accommodations are made. But yes, FIDO is actually being taken up by military organizations as well as private organizations. I imagine FIDO is a big topic conversation at RSA, too, right, David? Yeah, well, password lists has been a hot... Like what you were describing, passwords are an antiquated element of the Internet. They were never... It's ironic. They were designed for some level of security, but they were never designed to be secure to start with, which is bizarre, I find. But there has been this long drive to get off the password or move to multifactor authentication where MFA is really, literally putting a bandaid on a bad process. But we talk about this all the time that if you're going to do one thing to beef up your security, or actually two things, one is always MFA, and that will greatly, greatly reduce the potential for account takeover. That's multifactor authentication, not a master in fine arts. Multifactor, yeah, not master fine arts. Why not both? Yeah, if you have both, it's great. It can be both. And then the second thing is getting a password manager. But if you don't have to use a password manager, it's great. But it's entering the last pass, one of the biggest password managers is the one who's pushing the password list model. And then in response to... Justin and I kind of discussing whether Xbox cloud gaming is the mushy middle, which Justin thought, or I thought like a pretty advantageous thing for a lot of folks who just don't want to have to use a console or a PC. Josh Grisdale wrote us a night's note saying that he loves living in the mushy middle. And Andrew wrote, I am the exact target demographic for all these cloud gaming advances. I'm a lifetime gamer, even scrimping and saving for new consoles in college. But as marriage, career, vacations, etc. have taken priority, $300 plus gaming consoles that I get to use for less than 10 hours a week have dropped off the budget priority list. But a monthly Xbox Game Pass subscription fits in nicely now that my PC can't run wow anymore. I imagine there are a good number of folks like me who used to game more frequently and would like the option to check out modern titles without needing to outlay so much money. 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Good morning everyone. Welcome to PC103 the class on New Testament survey Even before we could begin with a new book the book of Hebrews Can I request one of you all to please lead us in prayer? Amen. Amen. Am I audible to everyone? The fan is not affecting you. Can you hear me? You all can hear me? Okay, I'm audible online but as a class Yeah, can you increase the volume of the mic? Thanks. Thanks, Anthony for confirming. Yeah Let's turn to the book of Hebrews so that we can meditate on through scriptures So we won't be covering chapter by chapter of us by verse But then we are just doing a Survey on this whole book of Hebrew But what we will be doing is when you're in your third year We would be doing a detailed study on the book of Hebrews So we would be covering chapter by chapter most of the scripture verses will be covered in a detailed study So this is about the survey. We would be Doing a background study on the book of Hebrews. So what do you know about the book of Hebrew? What do you know about the book of Hebrew anyone from the online? You all can unmute an answer or you can post your comment on the chat What do you know about the book of Hebrew? Who's the author of the book of Hebrew? There's no author or it's anonymous You don't know the author We will you're saying apostle Paul Okay, anyone else Most likely so we are not assured That apostle Paul is the author, but the most likely you're right both of you're right. Okay. We don't know Exactly who's the author of this book of Hebrew? Some scholars a bet saying that apostle Paul may be the author So we will get into it and look at So Hebrew The book of Hebrew is known to be the book of better things It talks about the superiority of Jesus Christ So We are going to we're going to look at some of the concerning views of this letter The the first thing is the authorship of this book is a major concern better things Better things Better things Better things Better things The book of better things. Okay, you got it right at this point you don't account The book of better things. So it's about the concerning about the authorship of this book is They want to know who was the author some scholars say Apostle Paul would have been the author. So the argument is still on None of us have decided who's the author But some of them say so what made the scholars Or the commentators say that apostle Paul may be the author Any reason why when you said apostle Paul may be the author and we will when you said Apostle Paul may be the author what made you to say that The style of his writing Okay Similar to the other books the other letters of apostle Paul. Yes, you're right So some of the commentators or the scholars suggest that this book would have been written by a apostle Paul Or just like how rin says it's similar to the book of act So maybe look would have written dr. Luke would have written or some say paulers who had a Who had a good knowledge on the word? So paulers may have written or Barnabas Or a killer and this is So we don't know the debate is still on who is the author of this book But most of the scholars rely on apostle Paul for some of the reason which we will be discussing now some say They all agree. Yes Paul's name is not written in this book of ebrew Just as like how we addressed all the other 13 letters He addresses i called write to you He starts the very letter with his name are in the book of ebrew. That's not the way it is written The author name is not written Maybe one of the reason because this letter is addressed to the Hebrew believers Now who are these Hebrew believers? Who are these Hebrew believers? They are the jewish christians Now he already has a great prosecute Cuters following from every place to place that is the jewish Jewish people they totally against apostle paul They were persecuting him They stoned him to death They never allowed him to share the gospel share the good news So maybe that was one of the reason why he Reference him said from writing his name at the beginning of this letter because that may do Arm to him than doing any good So paul may have hit this identity from the jewish people because of the Great persecutors way from the same set The second thing we see is There's a style of writing Is slightly different from the other books The style of his writing And also the set of audience if you see the other letters Also paul is writing his letters to the gentiles gentile believers But here it is the jewish believers he's writing to so the audience is completely different And the language in this book Seem to be the pure greek In new testament Which is much superior to the other episodes One of the reason could be because this particular letter is addressed to one Set of people the Hebrew people so the language is very important for them So you see a pure greek language the way it was written Though in the book of acts We see that apostle paul was the chosen vessel by god Recognized by the early church that he was the apostle to the gentiles and this In this letter the letter to he brews. There were no way no way that it is addressed to any of the gentiles We all need dedicated toward the Hebrew believers He has not mentioned anything to do with the gentiles Now been said that We also see in galatians chapter 2 verse 7 to 8 Can we read Galatians chapter 2 So more more likely we see apostle paul was sharing the gospel among the gentiles Can I request all to turn to acts chapter 9 verse 50? So this is what the law told at the time when apostle paul had an encounter So god spoke to ananias Same and ananias go meet paul Now he's a changed person pray over them Now what the law tell ananias who was a apostle paul? Here you see he is a chosen vessel of mind Now god is saying ananias about the apostle paul saying he is a chosen vessel of mind Who will bear my name? He will witness me he will bear a witness among who? Among the gentiles first of all gentiles. So that's why his calling was toward the gentiles Second the kings the people in authority You see god created an opportunity for apostle paul to minister to the people in authority And then you see and the children of israel now who is the children of israel? Jews The heed room believers where the children of israel So this may be one of the reasons why the scholars debate apostle paul may be the author Though he wrote all 13 letters addressing to the gentile believers to the converted christians This letter is dedicated to the heed room Christians And here you see there's no way of mentioning about his name This is the authorship or about any gentile leader because the jews were against the gentiles Him writing his name or mentioning any of the gentile leader or to the gentile believers The jewish believers they neglect this letter from reading So there is no purpose of him writing this letter This may be one of the reason why apostle paul will refrain from addressing this name or any of the gentile leaders But if purely addressed to the heed room christians and also He wrote this letter in favor of them in the manner that they would like to read by having a pure greek language By addressing to them addressing the old covenant and how much more the new covenant is better So the whole letter is Bringing a clear picture of jesus christ is the only lord and saviour He's bringing through this letter. He talks about the faith Through this letter. He talks about the better covenant is the new covenant Okay, and then there's certain argument for the authorship of apostle paul Okay, so how In he wrote 13 chapter 13 verse 18 to 25 Yes, so upload the ppt. Let me upload it Thank you Okay Vijay, can you please come? Yeah, it's coming now. Thank you Now it's taking Is it See Okay Thank you. Sorry about the late display on online. Okay, so the book of ebrews We we are talking about the argument that is happening toward the book of ebrews What happened? Here it's seen correctly. This is the thank you Okay, so some of the scholars So some of the scholars Are you on the authorship of apostle paul? First is when we read ebrew chapter 13 verse 18 to 25 Can I request one of y'all to please go through it at least the first 18 verse 18 verse 19 also Thank you So what we see here Say similar style of apostle paul in every letter he has a salutation addressing to certain believers and people here you see the same style is followed Throughout the 13 letters from the letter to roman still the last letter to filaments You see the same style is been followed So that may be one of the reason why scholars believe that apostle paul may have been the author The second you see the author of this book The author Had of this book may have had a greek background by virtue So who had apostle paul had a greek background He was familiar with his language the greek language at the same time He was very familiar with the jewish customs and the culture as well again a apostle paul qualifies even this A author should have been from a jewish background as well because of the understanding that he has to have been Old covenant About the jewish religious customs and other thing that was one of the reason why you could so Strongly write the comparison between the old covenant and why the new covenant is better than the old covenant in the book of peoples The third point we see here is in second peter chapter 3 verse 15 and 16 you see apostle Peter is addressing on apostle paul's author ship So peter writes to the jewish believers and he mentions about apostle paul saying that I'm just reading a scripture from online and remember the lord is waiting so that the people have time to be saved This is jest as our beloved brother paul Write wrote to you with the wisdom of god gave him speaking of these things in all his letters in one of the way he is writing so Peter's mentioning to the jewish believers. He's not writing to the generalities writing to the jewish believers saying that This is why apostle paul a beloved brother writing to you. So this scripture or this line Also recommends a apostle paul would have been the author of this letter Okay The author who wrote this letter also should have been truly trained by the scriptures who had a Revelation from the lord who had a relationship with the lord For him to differentiate between these two carbon and the old and the new carbon and to justify The new carbon is better. So you need to have this tremendous revelation That was none other than apostle paul who had this revelation from the lord So that may be one of the reason why the scholars tend to say that apostle paul Then this letter was written by one who was in bonds when we return to he grew chapter 10 verse 34 He grew chapter 10 verse 34 Okay, I'll just read it because of time for you had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted Joyfully accepted The plundering of your goods knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourself in heaven So here is mentioning that For you had compassion on me in my chains. So who was it chains who was in the prison who was on the bonds? apostle paul So the authors again did the bed saying that yoy is addressing about him. So there was none other than apostle paul behind the in the bonds And also when we read chapter 13 verse 18 and 19 in the salutation which Was read before the letter was written by one who was now cut off from the jewish believers Because of the persecution that apostle paul had to face from the jewish people He was cut off from the jewish believers And also we see the authors seem to have been a very close Associate and a travel companion with timothy so who accompanied timothy? Or who did timothy accompany in the missionary journeys? He accompanied apostle paul in the second missionary journey So again the authors say this would have been again apostle paul to be the author of this letter So paul always had a tremendous desire to see the brethren say that's why he mentioned the roman chapter 9 verse 1 to 4 He says that you know, I tell the truth in christ. I'm not lying for my Conscious Also bearing me witness in the holy spirit That I have great sorrow And continued grief in my heart for I could wish that I myself Were a curse from christ for my brethren my countrymen according to the switch So he had a great desire to see even the jewish believers being saved Excuse me So we all know to move what this letter addressed and written to whom was this letter been addressed or written to The jewish believers or the hebrew christians. So it was written to the saints the slight change Okay, so this book of hebrew was written to the saints Of The one we're not very new christians, but then who followed jesus who accepted the scripture from a very long time And also when we read hebrew's chapter 10 verse 32 we see that but recall the former days in which after you were sorry Illuminated you endure a great struggle with suffering So this letter was written through the saints who had Suffered greatly through the persecution and the hardship under the leader under the emperor nero Nero were persecuting the believers persecuting the christians So the the letter the author of hebrew is encouraging He's encouraging the believers Saying that He gives A message through this book of hebrew saying the message of the superiority of jesus Was very important to the jewish christians in role Who was struggling under the leadership or under the emperorship of nero Because he was literally persecuting the christians He was giving christians as the food to the beast He was feeding to them or he was lighting i mean he nailed them on the cross and he lit them as a torch light On the street of grove so that the others were following The gospel of jesus christ We turn back and come back to the mosaic law come back to the old covenant This was one of the reasons why the author of the book of hebrew is encouraging The believers the the uh the jewish christians or the hebrew christians To go through the persecution to endure the persecution is Encouraging them to set your focus on jesus set your focus on the greater reward The persecution that you endure is the short while when you reach you get a bigger reward in the lord jesus christ We have the eternal life in him So he is encouraging them to face the persecution go through what you're going through but don't give up Because you are holding on to a better covenant than the mosaic law lamb and we also see scholars suggest that the church at jerusalem Was the original recipient of this letter So the jewish believers were in the church of jerusalem which was headed by james The brother of jesus was the senior pastor of the jerusalem church So this letter was addressed firstly to the church of jerusalem And after that this letter was circulated toward the other churches Probably this book would have written between 62 to 64 ad One of the reason why this letter was addressed to the second generation of the believers And also this letter was addressed before the heaviest persecution of the emperor nero and also The temple at jerusalem was still there And because it was there there was a high priest there and The sacrifice is worth there. That's why in the book of ebru chapter 8 verse 4 Can I request you all to turn to chapter 8 verse 4? We see that for if we were on earth We're talking about jesus at the e would not be a priest and there are priests Who offer the gifts according to the law that Was written when the church was there So that was one of the reason why the scholars came up with the period of 62 to 64 ad Now why do we call the book of hebru as the book of better things? The slightest change on online in the class Okay Now tell me Why was the book of ebru considered to be as the book of better things The purpose of this book is written for us For better things it's showing the comparison between the old covenant and the new covenant There are two words key words that are very prominent in this book talks about better Many scripture verses in the book of ebru talks about it better greater So that was one of the reason the author of the book of ebru is comparing This is the book of better things He's comparing that jesus is presented as the pre eminent one One who established the new and the better covenant and he goes ahead further and he says that jesus Is greater than anything that you believe he's addressing to a ebru christians who believe On the prophets they believe that moses was the great prophet So here the author of this book is addressing no jesus christ Is better and greater than the prophets that you believe he is greater than the Angels that you look at one is greater than the moses is greater than jesus Is greater than the erin was the first high priest is greater than Abraham because jesus when he was the he addressed himself saying i am I am was before Abraham And he says the law then Jesus did not come to destroy the law, but he came to Establish is greater than that law And he said the author is also saying that the new covenant is better than the old covenant in what ways Yeah, the new covenant is better than the old covenant in what ways Because the new covenant has a better revelation It gives us hope when you read through the scriptures. I've mentioned all the scriptures We see that it is better than the other revelation. It's better than the hope Because it is jesus is the jesus is the revelation is the great high priest The new covenant is better than the old covenant The promises are much greater in the new covenant that brings life to the dead The blood of jesus redeems us from every cell. It's no more the covering In the old covenant the blood of the animal was just a cover But in the new testament the blood of jesus gives us redemption It makes us righteous. It makes us gives us a right standing front of god The sacrifice of the animal is better than the jesus Jesus sacrificed once and for all on the cross We have a great possession in christ now in christ We have been seated at the right hand of god, which is the highest Position that we have in christ jesus That is the great and the highest position. There is no more position higher than that We have been seated In Christ at the right hand of god The possession has been restored through the sacrifice of jesus And in hebrew 1116 it talks about the new heaven as a country In old covenant talks about jesus in a modern new cover talks about the new heaven that we will Be possessed in christ jesus. So some of the unique features that we can discuss in the book of hebrew We see that the jesus is the high priest is both merciful and he is faithful We also see that um jesus christ as a high priest. He has gone into the highest place And he's interceding for you and me. He is the sinuous and the spotless lamb He is our sympathizer. He is an eternal high priest He is a forerunner is greater than the father abraham. He is much higher There's no more sickness disease or any kind of weakness And he is seated jesus christ is seated at the highest possession the right hand of the father and he is our intercessor He has sacrificed himself as a one-time sacrifice. So we don't have to Offer any more sacrifice for our sin So we see the unique feature is jesus himself the book of hebrew also presents as the greatest definition And the example of faith so we see chapter 11 to be the Heroes of faith where it starts like this in hebrew chapter one verse one. Can we look into that? Sorry, yeah Chapter 11 verse 1 talks it starts like this now Say is the substance of things good for and the evidence of Things not seen it starts with us and it goes on when we read verse 6 it says But without faith it is impossible to please him that is please god So even comes to god must believe that he Is and that he is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him So you know The whole scripture the whole chapter The author of this hebrew addresses on faith he addresses faith on god And then he addresses faith of the people from the old temple old covenant He talks about the faith of ebrew, enoch, noah Talks about ebraham, sarah, isik, chekid, joseph and then he goes on to moses and the children of israel But he never misses on any of the prophets That they believe on and he clearly says That the faith of jesus christ is more important And he also addresses on the faith on the people who are Been persecuted because he is addressing to them to strengthen their faith So here we see when we talk about this letter you see the whole letter is also Encouraging us to have faith on jesus christ set your focus on jesus christ because he is much more superior The old covenant Sorry, the new covenant is much more superior than the old covenant So The apostle in the writer Of the letter the hebrew Is bringing towards The faith that we should have on jesus christ He's also taking the opportunity see everywhere. This is one of the reasons why the scholars say the author may be a apostle Paul because when we study throughout the 13 letters Every way you see there was an issue or a problem a apostle Paul brought in The solution through the gospel Now in the letter of hebrew you see what was the problem here He's addressing to the persecuted christians to strengthen their faith on jesus christ How he's bringing a comparison between the old and the new and addressing that point on to the persecution Personally endure this this is just for a shorter while But look at jesus the greater reward that you would be getting so even in this period he's bringing the good news of the gospel By saying endure just like how jesus endured you endure it for your reward is greater in heaven So that may be one of the reason why the scholars believe that Apostle Paul may have been the author because this is time of bringing the gospel message here by encouraging people He also encourages Um, you know the hebrew christians saying that let not your eye will be on any of the prophets or Angels or on the old carbonate or on the mosaic law or on moses himself Let your idle let the priority let your focus be on jesus christ So now just like how the author of the book of hebrew is encouraging the hebrew christians Today you and i can look into this letter and learn who is our ideal Who is our priority in our life? Who's a priority Who are we voting on to in our life? Is it jesus our focus? Because in the presence where we have seen and experienced Because we live at least Bounty of idolatry In anyone's life So we may replace any of the creative objects or the creative being as The ideal but then Here through this letter of hebrew the author is making it very clear to you and i saying that There's only one person who deserves To hold that primary place in our life That's jesus christ Because he is the only one who died for you and me he was a spotless lamp He was that sacrifice that one time sacrifice or sacrifice himself on the cross He shed his blood he washed our sins and made us pure he restored our relationship with god He gave us the highest position to be seated at the right hand of god We cannot get that through anyone else other than jesus christ So he should be the main place in the heart in our life Nothing else and no one else So we should get jesus as the highest priority in our life. He is To be in the better position. He is the greatest high priest. He is the better covenant He is the greatest hope that we can hold upon He is the better sacrifice who have died for us.  It's all in its place The rightful place if we are struggling in any area Just look into our life and see are we giving jesus the right place So through this letter, we see the author of this letter Is saying that jesus is absolutely the superior who is the revelation of god And he is the eternal high priest This is what the The book of he grew Talking about it that we need to honor jesus give him the right place. He is the better covenant He is our god So with that, we will end the session and if there's anyone who would like to share on this letter, please feel free to share About your learning or is there anything new that you would like to add on? Please feel free Before we could get into a time of breath Okay, so when I see that there's no questions Jackie, would you like to pray? Yeah, if your mind is fine, please Can somebody check if Jackie see a voice is heard Can you hear me? One second Jackie one second Can you speak? Yeah, so can you hear now? I think the volume of the speaker need to be in place She is Uh, can you speak Jackie? Yes, now can you hear? Yes, we can hear you the volume We can hear you please Father god, thank you lord Thank you for this time lord that you have given each of us lord To look into your world and learn from your father god Father even as we meditate upon this book of hebrew's lord god almighty Father what a privilege we have lord that we have come to the new covenant father god through jesus christ our lord father god Father, you are yourself seated on the right throne interceding for each of us. You are high Please father god There is nothing that we have to fear or worry lord god almighty Help each of us lord to make you our first priority lord and lord almighty You love us as we are father god and we can come to you with all boldness lord crying out to you about father And that's the highest privilege we have lord god almighty You've given us your word and lord everything else lord you've given us your life and everything else father god Help each of us lord to surrender lord to your word and live in the power of your word lord god And you have crushed satan above all father god and above everything you have exalted yourself father god Father help us lord each of us lord to come to the realization of the truth that you love us as we are And we have a high priest lord god jesus christ interceding for each of us And what more do we need lord god almighty lord help us lord to imbibe this truth and walk in this truth lord Every day of our lives lord Become more and more like jesus our god almighty and glorify you in our thoughts in our word and everything that we do In jesus mighty matchless name we pray Thank you jessie. Thank you everyone for joining in today's session god bless you all to the next letter next Thank you god bless


I just got done watching Blue Beetle, the newest DC superhero movie that we're definitely not all sick of by this point. But this one features a Hispanic superhero, so that means it's amazing because it's different. Or at least that's what people would have you think. The truth of the matter, it's just like all the rest of them. If you're new here, I usually film these out of a studio and the quality is much better, but I'm on the road right now seeing family and friends, and Blue Beetle's all about family, so I wanted to check it out. But that means you get a crappy quality video review and that's just what you're gonna have to deal with. But let me come in close with you and be honest. Just moving the seat up. My god, how close does it get?  Blue Beetle's all about family, but that's all it's about. The effects are terrible. They look like the Flash again.  So they're very unpolished, very unfinished. I like all the characters. The family's great. The Mexican flavor in this one is really solid. It definitely keeps things a little bit more fresh in that sense, but that's the only sense. It's got lame CG battles. It has very cartoonish visuals. It has a CW TV show feel to it. And dear gods, the color grading is atrocious.  They pepper a lot of neon into this, which is typically an easy win. I'm trying to get into the light, but neon mixed with yellow doesn't work. It looks really bad. It looks like this lighting looks really bad. I didn't hate this movie either. I just think it's really mediocre across the board. If you're sick of superhero films, this isn't going to do anything new to win you over. I don't think it didn't do anything for me. If you have kids, I will say it does feel very kind of childish CW. There's even an extended fart joke in there. My chin is being highlighted, but the problem is there's also a lot of swearing, like a good amount of swearing in this movie. It doesn't bother me. I mean, I'd be fine with my kids seeing it, but I know that there's a lot of people out there that they don't want their kids to hear, you know, hells and dams and shits. And there's a lot of that. I like the music. The theme song is cool. Susan Sarandon's having a good time hamming it up as a villain. Very generic though. Incredibly generic. All the white people are racist in the film, which is fair. We are. We are. It's funny. I came home to be with my family and nobody wanted to go to this with me because again, the racism. Well, there you have it. My super exciting visceral review of Blue Balls McGee, the 3000th superhero film that claims it's doing something new, but is doing nothing new at all. If you like this video, I don't do anything else like this.  But I'm probably going to be doing these for two weeks. I did.  So please think about subscribing for honest, somewhat funny reviews. Maybe you got to laugh. Maybe you didn't. That's that's on me. And yeah, hopefully I'll see you next time. Goodbye.