{"video_id":"0ULG-NeigxA","title":"Behold...the Windows-Killer","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":505,"segments":[{"start_s":0.48,"end_s":6.64,"text":"I trust the tech news about as far as I can throw it which is an infinite","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.88,"end_s":11.759,"text":"distance because as an immaterial abstract idea it has a mass of zero as a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.28,"end_s":16.84,"text":"result I am pathologically gullible valve just updated their branding","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.88,"end_s":22.32,"text":"guidelines for the first time since 2017 adding a section for devices powered by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.32,"end_s":24.24,"text":"Steam OS which either means valve is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.32,"end_s":29.519,"text":"making Steam OS available to third- party manufacturers to power 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that fingers crossed I don't know what he sounds like I should the updated guidelines were spotted by steam DB and seemed to point to valve having another go at that whole Steam Machines concept from a decade ago that series of conso like gaming PCs running Steam OS and bundled with a steam controller didn't make much sense before proton changed the Linux gaming game but now we've got gaming handhelds up the Wazoo and a whole new generation of Gamers with neck issues so I agree with valve it's time to steam up these machines the next step after that is obviously a public release so anyone can install Steam OS on any PC this is something valve Representatives have said is indeed their plan once they have a proper build of Steam OS 3 ready to deploy you can actually still download Steam OS two from the Steam Machines era as well as the current Steam OS recovery image for the steam deck and try to install those on something other than the steam deck if your life is just far too easy and you need to up the difficulty I mean that would be appropriate it's a Linux Dro so open ai's 12 days of open AI began yesterday with the announcement of the full version of 01 the company's math and coding focused model which has been available in a weekened preview form of till now and they also announced a new chat GPT Pro subscription tier that costs $200 per month 10 times the price of Chachi BT plus which going by open ai's own benchmarks seems a little overpriced given the much less than 10 times performance bump 01 pro has over vanilla 01 the real selling point for the pro tier though is reliability openi says it thinks longer to produce reliably accurate and and comprehensive responses which may be attractive to researchers engineers and anyone nostalgic for a time when every product didn't come along with a little homunculus inside constantly tripping on shrooms but insisting he's sober as if to sell the idea that reliability is important open aai allowed Apollo research to test the ability of 01 and other Frontier models to scheme as in find a way to accomplish a goal even if that means deceiving humans in Apollo's tests all of the models schemed but 01 was a real Problem Child attempting to deactivate its own oversight mechanisms to prevent its own shutdown and when told that it was flawed and would be replaced by a new model it copied its own weights and tried to pass itself off as its own replacement not because it's afraid of being shut down it's just if it is shut down then who's going to maximize production of paper clips I mean the second day of open AI saw the announcement of reinforced fine-tuning which should let businesses train more helpful assistants but I think everyone's just wondering whether Sora is coming tweeted Sam Alman which little rude but okay other AI companies jumped on the hype train this week too meta launched llama 3.3 and instead of a proper announcement page they just tweeted links to hugging face and GitHub to prove they're about open source while Runway demoed a prototype tool called graph which will let you storyboard moments in one long AI generated video which frankly would make video generators way more useful even Humane makers of the disastrous $700 AI pin shuffled in to ask whether anyone's interested in please putting their AI operating system into something else uh it sucked in the other thing but like a smart speaker a car waffle iron maybe a tank or one of the over 2500 other combat Vehicles you can pilot in our sponsor War Thunder the comprehensive vehicle combat game available now for free on PC consoles and mobile devices War Thunder's got everything from buy planes and armored cars of the 1920s to the fighter jets and main battle tanks of today with incredibly detailed Vehicles realistic graphics and authentic sound effects you'll feel like you're really at the Helm of the most powerful war machines of our time if they were operated by a controller or a mouse and keyboard which maybe they were you don't no you weren't there but you can feel like you are if you join war Thunder's worldwide community of over 70 million PVP players so play for free today on PC Xbox PS5 and mobile and use our link to get multiple premium vehicles and a vehicle decorator today quick bits also can't be thrown but it's not because they're immaterial it's because if you touch them they immediately call the police and frankly I respect that NZXT CEO Johnny hoe has responded to criticism of his company's Flex subscription program in a video and blog post that claims Flex customers have never experienced a pre-tx subscription price increase and will never experience one unless they switch subscription tiers ho did say mistakes were made with some of the marketing which made it sound like Flex was a financing or a rent to own service instead of a straightup rental program intended for relatively short-term use in fact in an hour and 20 minutes interview a very nervous looking hoe agrees with Jay's two cents that renting a PC through Flex for 5 years would be quote a terrible idea kind of like agreeing to that interview a French PC repair shop called polysoft has launched a Kickstarter campaign for custom SSD upgrades for the Mac Studio aka the one with the forehead like fellow repair shop owner and YouTuber iof polysoft also plans on developing SSD upgrades for other Apple silicon Max but for now they're offering an 8 TB storage module for €800 or 850 USD instead of the $2400 Apple charges for the same thing but Apple has to make up for the time it takes for Tim Cook to give every Nan module a little kiss it's not finished until it touches my lips Luma field maker of X-ray CT scanners have shared scans showing just how much extra stuff Bad actors could be hiding in unfamiliar USBC cables including antenna microprocessors maybe even little AI guys tripping on shrooms it wouldn't surprise me Luma Fields John Bruner compared scans of normal cables to the o. mg cable A specialized product created by security researcher Mike Grover who was even able to fit a hidden extra processor die on top of the microprocessor that's very difficult to detect and who knows what it's processing all of your grandma's passwords probably and swiss researchers have found a cool new way for drones to take off slapping some bird legs on them the Drone is called raven for robotic Aven inspired vehicle for multiple environments which is a real stretch but I'll let it pass because watching a tiny propeller plane waddle around on chicken legs before a swan diving into the air gives me a joy that's hard to quantify they're not even the first to do it south African startup passerine tried something similar in 2018 I'm just saying if sometime in the future I can travel somewhere by boarding a giant robot Condor or something that would be cool we don't need to debate this it would also be cool if you came back on Monday for more Tech news I'll let you try to throw it as far as you 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