WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.560 Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:11.040 and over expecting different results. Congratulations, you're back for more 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:15.320 tech news. YouTube has finally given users a way to kill shorts. The new 00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:19.480 setting lets you crank the existing daily shorts watch time limit down to 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:23.520 zero minutes, which effectively pauses the feed before it starts. It's rolling 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:27.280 out now to both iPhone and Android users. Unfortunately, it's only on 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:31.560 mobile, so all you boomers watching shorts on desktop will continue to have 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:34.600 your brains cooked sous vide style by the never-ending dopamine machine. 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:38.280 Public sentiment has been generally pretty positive, which makes sense given 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:42.640 that a December study showed that more than half of shorts recommendations 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:47.760 served to new users were AI slop or brain rot content. Still, with shorts 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:49.600 averaging 200 billion daily views, oh, 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:53.320 this next generation, hamstringing it like this has got to be a tough call for 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:57.800 YouTube. You might think we're being hypocritical since TechLinked also has 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:01.800 posted shorts, but those were all accidents. The YouTube interface is 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:05.440 confusing now and our fingers slipped. Our phones are so slippery, okay? They 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:09.840 just whew. The European Union just unveiled its 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:13.880 long-awaited age verification app with European Commission President Ursula von 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:19.320 der Leyen triumphantly declaring that online platforms would have no more 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:20.960 excuses not to verify kids' ages because 00:01:19.320 --> 00:01:24.400 the app met the highest privacy standards. Within hours, security 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:28.720 researchers reported they could break into the app in under 2 minutes. Of 00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:32.520 course. Security consultant Paul Moore led the charge detailing that the 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:36.680 encrypted PIN isn't cryptographically tied to the identity vault. The rate 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:41.200 limiting is just a counter in a config file you can reset to zero and biometric 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:45.680 authentication is a single boolean flag you can flip off. The entire 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:50.880 demonstration was so short he was able to fit it into a single tweet. Telegram 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:55.560 CEO Pavel Durov piled on calling the app hackable by design. The EU has since 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:59.880 confirmed a new version is being rolled out to patch the flaws. Adobe's 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:03.880 domination over the creative app industry looks a little weaker this week 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:08.039 after some major competitors made their apps much cheaper and in some cases 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:11.200 totally free. As The Verge reports, Canva just made Cavalry, its 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:15.200 professional motion graphics app, completely free following the same move 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:19.480 it made with the Affinity Suite last year. And Maxon relaunched Autograph, a 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.000 previously dead After Effects competitor, also free for individual 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:26.360 artists. So, if you want to do what After Effects does, 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:30.680 now you have two more options than you did on Monday. But, the real gut punch 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:35.440 came from Blackmagic Design, which unveiled DaVinci Resolve 21 at NAB this 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:39.760 week. The video editor already had Premiere Pro cornered on price, but the 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:44.560 new update adds a full photo editing page that lets you organize raw files, 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:49.000 import your existing Lightroom catalogs, and adds the ability to tether your 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:54.240 camera for live capture. Adobe charges 10 bucks a month for just Lightroom, and 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:58.600 now that's looking like a hard sell, kind of like holding onto your phone 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:02.280 without our sponsor. Oh, snap! Every MagSafe battery pack on the market has 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:06.120 the same problem. You slap it on your phone and your standard MagSafe mount is 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:11.040 gone. Congratulations, your phone is charging and it's the slipperiest thing 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:14.600 in the universe. Great design, everyone. I definitely wanted to drop my phone 00:03:12.959 --> 00:03:18.640 into the toilet of a bus station in Memphis. Thankfully, Ohsnap has you 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:23.880 covered with a Snap Pack, which has MagSafe on both sides. What? It charges 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:28.800 your phone from the bottom and your accessories stack right on top. That's 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:34.760 right. It's a mag so nice, they safed it twice. And with 15-W Qi2 fast charging 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:40.160 and 5,000 mAh of capacity, you can get an iPhone 17 up to 85%. It's not 100, 00:03:38.519 --> 00:03:44.080 but it's in a space-grade aluminum package that's about the same thickness 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:48.840 as your iPhone. It's beautiful. Check out Ohsnap's Snap Pack today using our 00:03:46.320 --> 00:03:53.520 link in the description. Einstein's E = MC squared tells us energy equals mass 00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:58.040 times the speed of light squared. Apply it here and we find that these quick 00:03:55.560 --> 00:04:02.560 bits contain the energy of a small sun. Don't look directly at them. NVIDIA is 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:08.400 reportedly bringing back the RTX 3060 12 GB this June because the RTX 5050 9 GB 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:13.360 has been delayed with no clear launch window. According to the leaker 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.560 Megasized GPU, the 3060 is two 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:19.160 generations old but it still has 12 GB of VRAM, more than the newer card was 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:23.400 ever going to offer. NVIDIA apparently looked at its GPU lineup and said, 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:28.400 "Actually, 2021 was fine." And if you lived it, you know it wasn't. Microsoft 00:04:25.280 --> 00:04:32.000 is giving away $2 million with a $1 cash 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:34.480 prize and three Mercedes-Benzes, Benzai, 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:39.320 to anyone willing to set Edge as their default browser and do one Bing search 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:42.360 as part of a part of a I haven't seen this. This is hilarious. 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:47.680 As part of a new sweepstakes running until May 21st. Geez, you guys. Years of 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:50.680 aggressive pop-ups and dark patterns failed to move the needle. So, 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:55.800 apparently, the plan now is just straight-up bribery. Meta is jacking up 00:04:53.280 --> 00:05:00.080 the price of the Quest 3 by 100 bucks and the Quest 3S by 50 bucks. And 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:04.919 they're pinning it on the global RAM shortage. Sure, that checks out. It's 00:05:03.080 --> 00:05:09.960 definitely the memory crisis and not the $70 they torched on the metaverse before 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:13.640 pivoting to becoming a sunglasses company. You smart sunglasses. Next 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.919 quarter, we'll blame the price of the Quest 4 on Mercury being in retrograde. 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:24.120 Europol emailed 75,000 people this week as part of Operation Power Off, a 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:29.760 crackdown on DDoS for hire services. Four arrests were made, 53 domains taken 00:05:27.400 --> 00:05:32.680 down, and the remaining users received warning letters which loosely translated 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:38.040 to "We know where you live." To drive the message home, Europol also dropped an 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:43.280 Iron Maiden-style music video following Melvin, a chip-addicted Skeletor-playing 00:05:40.840 --> 00:05:48.480 kid who just wanted to DDoS someone for killing his vibe. Poor Melvin, that poor 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:53.360 grotesque little guy. And a new study found that sperm whales language has 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:58.120 vowels, and they work almost identically to ours, despite the two species 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:01.920 diverging 90 million years ago. I swear I still have memories from the womb the 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.720 whale womb. Two vowel types have been identified so 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:09.600 far, each used in distinct structured ways across different whales and 00:06:07.640 --> 00:06:12.920 contexts. So, yeah, vowels have apparently evolved completely 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:17.200 independently twice, which is either the most humbling discovery in linguistics 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:20.840 or a real bad sign for whoever's next. Just like it'll be a real bad time for 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:24.520 you if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news. That's all for today. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:27.880 I'm going to stick my tongue out at a photographer and accidentally create the 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:30.840 most reproduced image of the 20th century. Bye.