ah nothing like hosting TechLinked on a holiday when there's no one else in the
office got the got the tech news all to myself
not lonely at all oh unless you count
dennis uh hi dennis i forgot i forgot you were here yeah i'm here so remember
last week when the u.s government banned american companies from doing business
with huawei yeah uh turns out that's a
really huge deal in compliance with the white house order google suspended
business with huawei which means huawei will no longer have access to the latest
Android os and system updates huawei devices will still have access to the
play store and updates for their apps but on a system level the company will
be restricted to using whatever version of Android is available from the Android
open source project or aosp like a like
a common peasant but guess what other companies are also american and have to
comply with the order Intel qualcomm and broadcom who are also suspending sales
of components to huawei now for their part huawei have guaranteed their
customers will receive in-house security updates but it's clear this move will
have a significant impact on the company's global ambitions and its
customers experience it's important to note that all of these anti-huawei
developments are recurring despite a lack of concrete evidence that the
company is being used as a spying tool for the chinese government u.s
intelligence apparently showed classified information to tech giant
executives in recent months to brief them on the dangers of companies like
huawei but any proof of spying if it
exists has yet to make it to the public the american commerce department
actually said that parts of the huawei ban may be scaled back to mitigate the
potentially disastrous effects this situation might have on the businesses
of both huawei and american companies
all this to say if you were thinking about getting a huawei phone
maybe just wait until the dust settles a bit
there's lots of other really great chinese phones oh no
no no no Intel is facing a crisis of their own in the fallout from last
week's revelations concerning more speculative execution vulnerabilities
found in the company's processors Intel chips will soon be getting patches for
the flaws known as zombie load ridl fallout store to leak forwarding and
collectively known as mds AMD has taken this opportunity to let the public know
their chips are completely safe from these attacks thanks to hardware
protection checks in their architecture not only that but Intel chips will
suffer a performance hit thanks to the patches and according to pharonix that
could mean anything from a 16 to 50 percent decrease depending on the
workload meanwhile AMD's chips are sitting pretty with a minimal impact
from any fixes that need to be applied so the whole Intel chips are best for
gaming might not be true for very long i mean it's kind of a
net negative for overall chip performance but i like to celebrate the
small wins with AMD keep going guys you're doing great
and google glass is coming back why it's
anyone's guess you want a google glass dennis
yes do you know everything google anything google ah that sounds dangerous
you want google spying on you sure watch me
but the division behind the wearable formerly known as google x and now known
simply as x has officially unveiled glass enterprise edition 2 running a
qualcomm snapdragon xr1 system on chip the device also features improved camera
performance bluetooth 5 and the exact same physical design apparently it looks
like the x team responsible for glass are moving out of alphabet's moonshot
division and into the ar vr division of google where it will
continue to develop its products alongside the daydream and ar core teams
maybe in a post pokemon go and minecraft earth world there will be a bit more
acceptance for people with computers and cameras on their heads but not computers
and cameras foreheads i'm sorry dennis we're just not ready
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yeah another story from last week with continuing fallout is the epic game
store's mega sale apparently the communication between epic and game
publishers wasn't so solid and as a result some games including borderlands
3 and vampire masquerade bloodlines 2 have been removed from the store
previously you were able to pre-order those games but they'll be apparently
unavailable until the sale concludes on june 13th
whoopsies but also you shouldn't be pre-ordering things
anyways and maybe you don't like that i'm telling you what to do well i'm not
ruin the industry and your own life see if i care i do care please don't do that
you'd think that sony making a deal with microsoft about cloud gaming would
concern the gaming part of sony the
playstation team but apparently they weren't even aware the deal was taking
place and now they have to do business with their bitter xbox rivals well at
least they'll be able to talk to nintendo because that company is joining the powwow and is apparently looking
into using microsoft's cloud tech for their own streaming solutions wow it's
like microsoft is the nerdy kid at school who was bullied until the cool
kids got him to do their homework and he thought they wanted to be friends
but they just wanted him for his cloud streaming technology
the classic story google's newly released pixel 3a and
3axl phones are doing what newly released pixel phones do and
experiencing problems users are reporting the phones are shutting
themselves down booting into safe mode or performing a factory reset may help
the issue but until google gets a patch out all 3a users can do is take this
opportunity to put their phone down and look around at the real world for pete's
sake you don't have to see everything through a gender swap filter
you do want to see everything through that dennis early builds of microsoft's
chromium-based edge have been out for a while and now mac users can try it out
for themselves or try out firefox or
just regular chrome just anything but safari
just get out of there and a forum called og users which was a popular place for
hackers and cyber criminals to trade stolen account credentials was itself
hacked last week with forum users usernames passwords emails ip addresses
and private messages being leaked along with the source code for the website
itself now we just need someone to hack the hackers who hack the hacking form
and the rest of us will probably be safe i mean we can just we can just chill let
them fight it out among themselves you know i'm sure that's how that works and it's
safe to say that's enough tech news for one day guys thanks for watching and if
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