Samsung had a lot to unpack at their Galaxy unpacked event today leading many
to speculate that they might need to get a larger house I'm Jacob Rush this is
techlinked and this is the Galaxy Zed flip 5's new larger cover screen making
it much easier to be a modern day narcissist and stare marveling at your
own image dead did I say Zed sorry sorry didn't mean to
the flip 5 also folds completely flat as does the new Zed fold five the hot dog
to the flips hamburger delicious the new Galaxy watch 6 and 6 classic were
unveiled and I need everyone to shut up so you can hear these next five words
the rotating bezel is back baby that was
six but I had to add the baby for emphasis the sixth classic brings the
fan favorite feature back from the far away year of 2021
wait did somebody say tablets someone
must have because there's a new Galaxy Tab S9 S9 plus and S9 Ultra all with
Snapdragon hn2 chips OLED screens and ip68 dust and water resistance ratings
which are bound to convince a handful of people to spend double the price of an
iPad on these tablets instead NVIDIA's RTX 4060 TI 16 Gigabyte graphics card
has finally launched that's right NVIDIA's partner successfully pushed out
the card NVIDIA didn't want to make themselves and The Crowd Goes mild not
only does it cost you an extra 100 for just eight gigabytes of extra vram but
according to Tech PowerUp quote for the vast majority of games out there there
is no difference between an 8 Gigabyte and 16 Gigabyte card at 1080P and 1440p
German Outlet PC games Hardware was Kinder in their interim review though
they themselves admitted choosing to test games that are memory eaters which
I'm sure is also the name of a horrifying creature from German folklore
hey speaking of Happy Endings watch out
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a happy story it ends really nice you
won't even remember your mama speaking of German Happy Endings the 4060 TI 16
Gigabyte has already been discounted at German retailer mine factory because
sales are suffering in Europe who could have foreseen that a card with almost no
reviews wouldn't sell should we have called the ancient Greek oracle of
Delphi she's dead the website formerly known as
Twitter is encountering friction in its attempted rebranding on Monday Twitter
user Taylor tab tweeted sorry sitter user sailor Sab sixth showing a video of
workers dismantling the sign on X's San Francisco headquarters shortly
thereafter they were interrupted by local police as X leadership not to be
confused with the previous leadership ex-leadership apparently failed to
inform the building's owner this left the sign reading simply ER as in are you
sure about this not technically CEO anymore but also still kind of CEO Elon
Musk has renamed conference rooms to things like exposure with a capital x
and sexy with a three instead of an e
because he wanted to remember that's what I called the Tesla models because
that's what I like to think about when I'm in a business meeting public indecency sexiness initially X was
unable to use the at X handle as it's been used by photographer Jean X Huang
since 2007. but instead of asking Huang
for the handle not Twitter X apparently just took it Huang now with the far less
pithy at X random string of numbers handle jokingly requested he be given
the giant bird off the sinus compensation seeing as they won't be
needing it anymore it's all bird is all grown up to fly out
of the nest we love you don't die now it's time for
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cyber security researchers have found an intentional back door in encrypted
radios that reduces their 80-bit encryption key to a much smaller key
that can be brute force decrypted in under a minute using only tumor Hardware
the radios have been in use for over 25 years to transmit important commands to
vital infrastructure meaning this vulnerability could allow a hacker to
reroute trains and Trigger blackouts now the organization behind the detector
encryption standard would prefer you not call it back door it's more of a poorly
secured rear-facing entrance sure maybe
there's no door at all it's just an opening but it's for the pets
it's a it's it's a large doggy door meta Microsoft and Amazon have teamed up with
mapping company TomTom to release release the first map data set for their
open source mapping project the data is intended to allow third-party developers
to create their own interoperable products to compete with Google Maps and
Apple Maps we don't often find good reason to give kudos to Tech Giants but
for a service people constantly depend on to direct their movements it's
probably good to have a few good options now we have two Apple Maps doesn't ah I
got them he's pretty good now yeah they don't direct Brazilians into trains
anymore Microsoft anthropic Google and open AI
The Four Horsemen of the AI apocalypse have formed the Frontier Model Forum to
ensure that AI technology is safe secure and remains under human control
I guess these four massive corporations represent Humanity better than the masses of Indie developers playing
around with the open source AI models like the ones released by meta the AI
Focus Tech Giant most notably missing from the Forum oh well you can never
have too many Tech consortiums claiming to stop the apocalypse here is open one
of them will work the ESRB or S has asked the FTC or for for approval for a
system called privacy protective facial age estimation or Buffet
which will let parents snap a selfie to provide parental consent for the kids to
play the latest entry in the stabbing simulator franchise
sounds a bit iffy privacy wise but the ratings board says the system won't
store any images or identify individual faces its only purpose is to verify
whether the subject is old enough to remember the term metrosexual I don't
need to remember the definition I just look in the mirror I don't know I can
still see it causing an issue for adults with baby faces like me I'm actually 62.
I was blessed by the by the elves with long life by the Oracle of Delphi and
the California homeowner was reportedly dropped for housing insurance after his
insurer the CSAA claimed that they sent a drone over his property and found his
yard cluttered with potential hazards the CSAA refused to show him the photos
and later denied there had been any drone at all claiming that the photos
might have been captured by fixed wing airplane or satellite instead I mean
whatever you sent over to the neighbor's yard
because clearly it was the Drone part that got his knickers into us not the
invasive aerial surveillance you know I always give one of these every once in a
while just so Google will get a nice shot at me on Google Earth just you know
hey and we've got no aerial surveillance on your house but let's just say that if
you don't come back for more TechLink this Friday
will know sends a memory eat us