Whoa, Riley was right. There's a lot of you here. Can you guys go easy on me?
It's my first time telling you about the tech news. NVIDIA and AMD have agreed to
pay the US government 15% of all revenue
from chips that they sell to China. >> Uh, I know, specifically AI chips like
NVIDIA's H20 or AMD's Mi308. The news
comes just days after the Orange administration hosted Jensen's jacket at
the White House where it was announced that NVIDIA was granted the export
license needed in order to sell these chips to China. Impeccable timing cuz
one social media post connected to Chinese state media says that these H20
chips are lacking technological innovation and are environmentally
unfriendly. >> That won't stop them though. >> It does make things a little awkward.
This is the first time a US company has agreed to fork over some of their
revenue in order to obtain these export licenses. Rightfully making some experts
uh a little nervous. But that doesn't matter, right? We're all used to pay to
win by now. And senior golfer Trump needs more tacky gold to decorate his
office with. >> I make you an offer you can't refuse. The move could bring in more than $2
billion to the US government since NVIDIA was expected to sell more than
$15 billion worth of these chips to China. Oh yeah, AMD is here as well with
their 800 million predicted in sales. >> Yeah, there's competition.
>> They're competing hard. Speaking of irrelevant things, AOL, everyone's
favorite dialup internet service provider, has officially announced that on September 30th, they are killing
their dialup service. Rest in peace, little yellow man. No longer do you have
to run for the remaining 160,000 Americans that still use Dialup to get
their 56 kilobytes a second. Is that how slow it was? Yikes. Are you shocked that
many people are still using Dialup? I know I was when I read that number, but
it is down from about 260,000 just 6
years ago. This service shutdown comes just 4 years after Verizon sold Yahoo
and AOL to Apollo for a whopping $5
billion. I do wonder how much of that was Yahoo
>> even then. >> As for now though, all other AOL services are staying up and running,
including their newsfeed. Don't know why I bothered to point that out. It's just
yellow Yahoo newsfeed, but hey, remember
AOL? It's still here. Barely. GitHub CEO
Thomas Donkey has announced that he will be resigning. In a blog post, he
announced he wants to become a startup founder again outside of GitHub and
Microsoft, concluding his almost four years as CEO. Microsoft purchased GitHub
back in 2018 for 7.5 billion and at the
time people were definitely worried that this acquisition by a major corporation
would threaten its community focus. Since then, it's operated more or less
as a separate company, but with the departure of Thomas, the GitHub
leadership team will now be reporting to Microsoft's new core AI team instead of
getting a direct replacement CEO. Thomas plans to stay with GitHub until the end
of 2025 to help the transition. Get out of my swamp, Thomas.
>> Donkey. >> But what the is Core AI? It's a
Microsoft division led by former Meta executive Jay Perakei with the goal of
building an AI platform and tools for both internal use and for its customers.
>> Yay. >> More AI. How will this affect GitHub?
Maybe we'll get an AI CEO. At least then it'll tell me I do a great job
>> every damn time. >> So, you're so good, Elijah.
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required. >> Thanks for going easy with me on the main topics, by the way. Do you mind if
I stick around for some quickies? Uh, quick quick bits. Sorry. Would you pay
to fix your car software? Hyundai has a security vulnerability with some of
their Ionic 5 vehicles that allows their cars to be hacked with a little device
that's disguised to look like an old Game Boy. It works by intercepting the
signal the car sends out when you place your hand on the door handle. The device
then calculates what signal it needs to send back to the car in order to trick
the car into thinking it's a legitimate key fob. This isn't actually a new
device or a new strategy at all. But what is new is Hyundai has the balls to
charge you $65 in order to buy the
optional security upgrade to prevent this. What the Hyundai people have to
pay cuz you suck at coding. I personally
am just going to let mine get stolen for the insurance money. How about we talk
about another car company? This video posted on Tik Tok recently showed a
cabless truck from the company Zelotech cruising at highway speed in China.
While these cabless cars aren't necessarily new to China, they are new
to many Western viewers who argue that they should have faces. I agree since I
think they would look a little less terrifying as they drag victims across
town as seen in this video where the moped didn't even slow it down. It
>> totally depends on their expression, honestly.
New rumors popped up about a more affordable 13-inch MacBook, including
that this device will be using the A18 Pro chip, which is the same chip used in
the iPhone 16 Pro. It is said to be slightly smaller than the current 13.6
in MacBook Air, and Digi Times reports that some components are expected to
enter mass production near the end of Q3. Estimated prices are around $600 to
$700, which if that's true, would make it the cheapest MacBook to have ever
come out. I hope I can just throw a SIM card in this and have a cheaper iPhone
Pro. >> They finally made a folding phone. >> Then at least I'll have the blue text
bubbles. Okay, good. You're still paying attention cuz this one could save you
from being doxed. If you're a user of Instagram, you may have noticed the new
maps feature. Pretty cool and useless, right? Wrong. It's useful for stalkers
since if you spammed accept all permissions when you set up the app
years ago, it will show all of your followers your exact location when you
post something, including that cute video of your cat that you took at your
house on the toilet. >> Yeah, now you see why it's up. Don't
worry, though. Head of Instagram, Adam Our said on threads, "We can and will
make it easier to understand exactly what's happening." also sent from the
toilet >> since this was intended to be used to
show you nearby events or activities that you were missing out on since your
friends didn't invite you. This would probably be the only way I'd get told
about the party. So, I kind of like the feature. And let's end on some wholesome
news. You guys remember r/ the subreddit where users could place a
colored pixel every couple minutes and work together to create beautiful art?
It's back, baby, with wplace.live, which is powered by Libra Maps. So you can
place pixels anywhere on the entire planet. Some of my favorites include the
save hightail art in LA, the anime in Japan, and of course the little LT logo
over our office here. You should go add a Techlink one. That'd be kind of cool.
And by the time you finish that or any other art, it'll be time for the next
TechLinked, which you promised to check out, right? >> Promise.
>> Please. Cuz Riley should be back. I mean, unless you guys enjoyed me
hosting. Uh maybe maybe you don't want him.
>> Please, >> Riley, help. I want to be back. I like this, Riley.