{"video_id":"6F1E3Fzm6k8","title":"Could Elon Get Away With It?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2023-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":492,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":5.359,"text":"everybody needs tech news which is why we're happy to provide it until the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.6,"end_s":9.12,"text":"government rolls out the new federal tech news distribution program finally","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.839,"end_s":15.759,"text":"at that point we'll switch over to covering reddit memes why would we do that riley","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.16,"end_s":17.68,"text":"that sounds terrible we need way more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.759,"end_s":22.32,"text":"those ones where someone just like talks forever elon musk must be getting","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.32,"end_s":27.279,"text":"on the nerves of even his most ardent supporters by this point because 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is made out of bots an issue that many expected musk to use as an excuse to get out of the deal but doing that won't be so easy twitter has hired prominent law firm watchell lipton rosen and katz johnson sure to sue musk and force him to complete the acquisition ironically the same firm created the so-called poison pill defense that twitter initially used to try and prevent musk from taking over the company so there's some snip snap snip snapping on both sides in classic fashion elon responded to the lawsuit by posting a meme on twitter that pointed out he's finally going to find out the bot information he craves during the trial and i'm starting to reconsider whether this guy should be the king of mars the law seems to be on twitter's side here but some analysts are pointing out that there may be a way musk could get out of the deal considering the ramifications of handing one of the world's most high-profile public forums to a weirdo billionaire apparently trying to single-handedly reverse humanity's declining birth rate even if that means letting him succeed at covering up his sell-off of 8 billion in tesla stock with the bat sometimes pc gamers cheered has GPU prices dropped below msrp for the first time in years last month and we really needed some good news even better though GPU prices are continuing to drop in china and here too actually saw some 39's for under 900 bucks with some high-end cards down as much as 38 below msrp now it's worth pointing out that msrp for NVIDIA and AMD cards are slightly higher in china than in north america due to tariffs but 3d center also is reporting that GPU prices are continuing to drop in those regions with AMD carts in particular down an average of 88 of msrp wait what oh an average of 88 of mrp that makes way more sense you can't tell right now but this situation is so wondrous that i'm holding back tears hopefully the GPU landscape stays relatively level because while hiking is good for you it's not something that pc gamers generally appreciate on average on average i like it yeah i know you do and the president and ceo of rogers communications tony stefari has apologized for the network outage that took out a quarter of canada's connectivity on friday including my phone saying the company now believes that their narrowed the cause down to a faulty maintenance update which caused some of the routers to malfunction yeah about how many routers do you think that was tony because we're not just talking about cell phones here we're talking about emergency services payment terminals my cell phone once again and more than that just stop working for a full day and it still isn't working today for me is yours working i'm on kudo baby good job the outage has also put roger's 20 billion dollar merger deal with one of canada's other big three isps shaw communications into question because cutting off a quarter of canadian internet is a rookie number bud you gotta build up get get a whole third of it otherwise you might as well i don't know everything stopped working including the snowboard ramp i built yeah it's july now it's time for quick bits brought to you by team group who are currently giving away an exclusive set of the 32 Gigabyte delta RGB 6400 megahertz ddr5 memory it's got support for Intel's xmp 3.0 one click overclocking for ultra fast speed 120 degrees of ultra wide RGB lighting with a clean geometric silhouette and on top of all of that it's free in the giveaway which is the best part what are we giving away RAM we're not team okay and keep your eyes out for team group's new gen 5 SSD at all new aio liquid cooler for both your CPU and m.2 2280 ssd2 learn more about the giveaway and team group's delta RGB ddr5 RAM at the link down below quick bits make you feel great which is why you have to enjoy them in moderation trust me microsoft has done some snip snapping snippeting of their own and reversed the earlier reversal concerning support for untrusted macros and office applications the tech giant initially said untrusted macros will be blocked to combat malware the security community hated that so microsoft walked it back but this morning the company said that walk back was temporary and untrusted macros will be blocked by default although admins will be able to allow unofficial macros on a case-by-case basis just be glad elon didn't offer to buy microsoft or be needing seat belts to deal with all this whiplash am i right whoa too speaking of microsoft the xbox series x has given an upgrade or a downgrade as it were by digital foundry who installed Windows 98 on the console and got a number of classic pc games running including quake half-life turok and command and conquer they followed a guide posted by arcadis gaming to get the os running in dosbox pure retro arch core so you could do this yourself if you prefer potentially getting in trouble with xbox and use your fancy new current gen console for decades-old games why because it's fun david knows no reason speaking of xbox games halo infinite's co-op beta was supposed to go live today but instead is delayed because eight months after the game's launch which itself was delayed it is still not enough time to add a feature that is core to the franchise ever since combat evolved look i know game dev is hard but i didn't think infinite was supposed to refer how long it was going to take to roll out the game's updates that was a good joke rally but at least halo infinite isn't pulling a doctor disrespect he will be allowing fans to playtest snapshots of the game that prominent streamer is developing with his studio midnight society by buying an nft players will be able to access these unfinished portions of the game a process that is usually handled by professional playtesters and paid for by the studio not the other way around jesus chris but hey midnight society's project moon promises to be a super best battle royale oh my god it's a battle royale with nfts that's basically making you pay for early access yeah oh you wanna don't wanna miss out buddy if it sucks you can sell the nft to the people who will definitely still want to buy it for sure yeah and if you're interested in other fake games check out this title made for steam's recent summer sale written by eric wollapaw and jay pinkerton and illustrated by claire hummel from boomer classics like pro poker amateur to in darlings like help get the king to the toilet there's something for everyone looking to get hyped about ideas instead of playable simulations i just know i'll be the next top ranking dead seagull zoo magnate are any of these actual things what did i just read alex you can do it you're good at that game and you are a top ranked viewer for watching to the end wow i love you so much i'll let you in on a secret come back on wednesday and we'll have even more tech news don't don't spread it around though i need my quick bits"}