so Linus is live streaming right now he decided to live stream right when i was
gonna film TechLinked unbelievable so i have to talk a little quieter okay it's
just like we're having a private conversation okay now it could be argued that tesla
kick-started the auto industry's move towards electric vehicles but their cars
have always been a bit on the high side in terms of price well that's still the
case but they're moving more towards affordable prices yesterday tesla
announced its standard range model 3 would be available for 35 000 bucks
before any federal or local tax incentives the company's model s and x
vehicles can now also be had for about fifteen thousand dollars cheaper
depending on the version the price cuts apparently necessitate tesla closing
most of its physical stores and switching to online only sales all this
comes at the heels of the announcement of volvo's polestar 2 an all-electric
vehicle seen as a competitor to the model 3 and the first car to feature
built-in Android auto and google assistant you don't even need to connect
your phone it also starts with a chair mounted pressure switch so that's cool
wow electric cars are now much more affordable for slightly less rich people
than before now i've avoided addressing this on techlink because it's kind of a
sensitive issue but it's been so in my face that i kind of have to youtube has
disabled comments on all videos featuring children the move comes in
response to the discovery that pedophiles were leaving comments on
videos of miners that weren't just creepy and disgusting but were also
being used to link to actual illegal content youtube believes the problem is
so widespread that disabling comments is necessary to keep children safe some
creators will be able to keep comments enabled but will have to actively
moderate their comments channels with lots of videos featuring children like
family vloggers are understandably upset given that this destroys their ability
to interact with their fans on the platform but ceo susan wojiki said that
it's a necessary trade-off to keep kids safe it's unclear whether this policy is
here to stay or whether it's a temporary measure but it is a nice reminder of how
horrible humanity can be sometimes don't forget
we're monsters not many ways you can make a joke about that and normally we
wouldn't be reporting on driver updates as a major news story but this is one
you might actually want to pay attention to NVIDIA has identified eight security
vulnerabilities in their graphics drivers and are urging users to update
as soon as possible users who don't update may be at risk of remote code
execution denial of service leaks of personal info and spontaneously
combusting pcs nope
not that last one a lot of enthusiasts often stay on an older driver to make
sure their system remains stable but is that worth having to watch your monitor
as a hacker leaks your nudes right in front of your eyes and then dying in a
fiery explosion i don't think so so update your drivers
unless you have an AMD graphics card then i just wasted 30 seconds of your
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clicking the link in the description it's on to the quick bits usb ports and
devices have been vulnerable to malicious actors for some time but now
Thunderbolt is joining the club a vulnerability called thunderclap was
expounded upon at the ndss 2019 security
conference and it could apparently allow malicious Thunderbolt devices to steal
data directly from a computer's memory yeah not so high and mighty now are you
Thunderbolt now you know what it's like to be a usb
screw you man aussie tech channel hardware unboxed took a detailed look at
NVIDIA's deep learning super sampling or dlss and found that it's
not that different from existing super
sampling technologies as long as you give them some tweaks dlss is along with
rtx one of the main selling points of NVIDIA's new rtx line of gpus but
hardware unboxed is saying it's not really a selling point at all in fact
they might be saying that NVIDIA's not even a real company wow
that's a heavy allegation hardware unboxed but i'm with you the open beta
for ubisoft's looter shooter the division 2 kicks off today even though
anthem just came out a week ago and it was supposed to be so good and it turns
out that it's not and that's really dumb so i guess you can play the division 2
now just go just go
the celebrity universal forensic extraction device or ufed is a tool used
by u.s law enforcement to hack into suspects iphones so as you can imagine
it's pretty dangerous so it's not the best news that it's showing up on ebay
for a hundred bucks a pop now these are reportedly old models since celebrite
launched a new version so while they can only hack into older models of phones it
still begs the question of how these devices got onto the market in the first
place
did you do this yes and this isn't really tech news but
it is kind of cool researchers at the university of science and technology in
china have managed to give mice the ability to see near-infrared light that
essentially gives them heat vision the only catch is they did it by injecting
specialized nanoparticles directly into the animal's eyes
look i want to have laser eyes as much as the next guy but needles
it's not laser eyes it's heat vision all right i'm tired of talking in this quiet
voice i want to be myself lioness stop live streaming for the for good
goodness sake ah
see you guys later