{"video_id":"AEOhwQogTxI","title":"Wait - What Just Happened?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":412,"segments":[{"start_s":0.44,"end_s":6.48,"text":"I I typed Tech news into the AI TechLink","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.24,"end_s":10.639,"text":"script generator but I got all this Tik Tock news instead I mean I guess it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.719,"end_s":15.48,"text":"sounds kind of sim I don't know I think it misheard me after the US Supreme","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.36,"end_s":17.8,"text":"Court upheld the Tik Tock ban law last","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.48,"end_s":23.359,"text":"week Tik Tok took its own apps and services offline in the us on Saturday","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.64,"end_s":29.08,"text":"night serving users a popup explaining that a law Banning Tik Tok means 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news instead I mean I guess it sounds kind of sim I don't know I think it misheard me after the US Supreme Court upheld the Tik Tock ban law last week Tik Tok took its own apps and services offline in the us on Saturday night serving users a popup explaining that a law Banning Tik Tok means that you can't use it it's very helpful I'm sure some people needed that clearly laid out but by the following morning Tik Tok said they were restoring service thanks to the now inaugurated US president and freshly minted meme coin Peddler Donald Trump it's not concerning it's it's actually hilarious and and and so based um the president assured Tik Tock that their service providers won't be punished but someone should probably tell that to Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and two Republican Senators who promised to uphold the law and Sue those same service providers the legal murkiness here is probably why Tik Tok is still not relisted on Google or Apple's app stores with apple publishing a specific support document about the situation saying it is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates but I'm assuming Tim Cook forgot to add and to add a few extra fees on top because you even if Tik Tok isn't back on the App Stores yet it is on online but the same can't be said for other apps owned by the same parent company bite dance including mobile editing app cap cut which is just fine with Instagram who published a cap cut competitor on the weekend called edits worst of all gacha game Marvel snap which is published by bite dance is still offline and before you finish writing that comment telling me that it's not a gacha game I haven't played it so I wouldn't know but it is so what the heck just happened why can't we ban Tik Tok well one analyst told the Associated Press that by abruptly shutting off service Tik Tok proved how unpopular the ban was among its users which was a big surprise we thought they'd be completely on board but it doesn't seem like Tik Tok is getting off scottf free Trump says he wants an American entity to own 50% of Tik Tok and after all this cruffle representatives of bite dance and the Chinese government have indicated they are open to disc discuss this idea so now we still have Tik Tok and rednote the other Chinese app paying us influencers to promote it as a Tik Tok replacement and as a bonus we also have new Tik Tock style Doom scrolly video feeds on Blue Sky and Twitter but we don't need the Tik Tock Replacements now can we can we roll those back uh now at the risk of sounding political I just think it's worth pointing out how many big Tech CEOs were at Trump's inauguration Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos Tim Cook Sundar Pichi and of course Elon Musk and even Tik Tok CEO Shu Z Chu this doesn't usually happen and following Trump into a church service afterwards is also a bit unusual and uncomfortable I mean the sensation of your skin burning underneath your suit cannot be pleasant come on over 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and while that's nothing new there's nothing worse than installing a new chip only to find find out its Secret Sauce is cheese whiz but when it comes to robots China's Tech is a lot more impressive especially when it comes to running fast so this spring the country is set to hold the world's first human SL robot marathon in Beijing which the South China Morning Post describes as part of efforts to combat the challenges of an aging society and a falling birth rate I I don't know how a robot Marathon will help with that but but I mean distract the sad people with fast robots I don't hey I hope it works 3D printer manufacturer bamboo lab was criticized this week for locking down its 3D printers blocking or making it very difficult to control them through thirdparty software some frustrated users soon managed to extract the authentication certificate for the Bamboo Connect app and whether that had anything to do with it or not bamboo lab actually backtracked or maybe they'd say they clarified that their recent update will not block third party soft W but rather ensure it continues to work while enhancing security so you won't be hacked while making all those 3D printed guns the chief of europool the eu's primary law enforcement agency told the financial times today that big Tech has a responsibility to give the police access to criminals encrypted messages which the criminals use to remain anonymous but if they're Anonymous how do you know they're criminals ah just kidding this is a complicated issue but given that government back doors led to Chinese hackers basically having unfettered access to America's Communications networks and they're still in there I'm just wondering what the real responsible thing to do is and last week somebody slapped Doom into a PDF this week it's Microsoft Word yep software engineer voy gry was apparently inspired by Doom PDF to set up a VBA macro to display the game's frames asbm files in the document it appears to run smoother than the pdf version so give it a shot if you're looking to confuse your company's activity tracking software oh this guy must be so productive and if you want to be extra productive come back here on Wednesday we'll get you back up to speed on all the tech news so you can go back to working and won't be distracted because I mean why would you check Reddit it's you you already know everything"}