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Hello, my little TechLinked babies. I hope you were good while I was gone or I

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can't give you any tech news.

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I'd give it to you anyway. YouTube has begun the roll out of its age estimation

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model in the US. And as promised, users are starting to see popups informing

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them that YouTube couldn't verify that you're an adult. They tried so hard and

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got so far, but in the end, you didn't

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understand this reference. child. A change.org petition calling on YouTube

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to roll back the policy reached 78,000

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signatures at the time of writing. That's about 0.03%

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of YouTube's estimated 246 million

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US-based users, but it is a great petition. Should we put it on the

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fridge? Yeah. Now, what happens if Google estimates that you are under 18?

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Well, Google wants to be clear. This does not mean you must provide a

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government ID. You can continue to use

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YouTube. You just won't be able to watch all the spicy, edgy videos all of us

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grown-ups are watching constantly on YouTube. It also means Google won't turn

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on their new memoryike feature for Gemini, which is also rolling out today

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and allows Gemini to learn from your past conversations over time. So, you

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can talk to an AI assistant who's already gobbled up your data for

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training. Ah, I mean, who knows you so well because they love you as a robot

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servant friend. Google's turning the feature on by default. Of course,

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wouldn't want to lose out on that juicy data from people who don't keep up with

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every single policy update. Although, the new temporary chats feature is

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essentially like incognito mode, so Google won't use anything you say in

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those chats. And as I said, the memory feature won't turn on by default. If

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you're under 18 or using a work or school account, or located in the

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European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK, if you're anywhere else, you can

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turn it off in the settings. If you're okay making Gemini very sad, Reddit has

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announced it will block the Internet Archive from archiving most of Reddit

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despite specifically naming the Internet Archive just over one year ago in a list

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of goodfaith actors that Reddit would not block. Well, see, that was before

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Reddit realized that the Internet Archive is actually for, you know,

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archiving the internet. They thought it was more like a metaphor. As Reddit told

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The Verge, they've been made aware that AI companies are scraping Reddit data

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from the Wayback Machine. But are we really worried about that when loading a

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single page on the way back machine takes about 3 days? If scraper bots are

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willing to sit through that, I say let them have the data. They earned it. Of

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course, Reddit's worried because they're making companies like Google pay up to

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scrape their data. So, the Internet Archive might be blocked. But

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thankfully, tools like Bellingcat's newly updated autoarchchiver exist. It's

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designed for journalists and open-source intelligence. But who says you can't use

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it to preserve evidence to win an argument on Reddit? Two. The Elon versus

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OpenAI saga had some fun developments this week. On Monday, Elon Musk claimed

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XAI would be taking legal action against Apple for blocking AI apps that aren't

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chat GPT from reaching number one in the app store. OpenAI chief Sam Alman found

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that to be a little rich coming from the guy that pretty blatantly manipulates

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Twitter algorithms in his favor. To which Elon replied, "Nuh-uh. Look, your

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post took off more than mine usually do despite me having 50 times your follower

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count." Ultman's reply, "Skill issue."

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Elon's original post was timely as the next day a federal judge denied his bid

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to dismiss OpenAI's claims that Elon has engaged in a years's long harassment

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campaign. Elon was like, "There isn't enough evidence. Here, I'll give you

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some. Turn on Grock voice and it will teach you anything." Ah, cool. Can it

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teach you to stop talking for five seconds? Speaking of Grock, the bot fact

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checked Elon's claim of app store manipulation by pointing out that the

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app store's number one spot was just this year occupied by deepseek and

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perplexity in India causing ChatGpt's Twitter account to give it the old

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goodbot. This was posted on Reddit where apparently you can also summon Grock.

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Okay, but you only get quick bits if you behave

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just in in any way. If you do anything at all, you'll get quick bits. Former

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Intel CEO, not precious Pat Gellzinger,

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my other other dad. >> Bob Swan's mine. >> Not him either. But Craig Barrett, who

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reigned from 1998 to 2005, thinks he

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knows how to save the company. Invest more in the foundry. With what funds,

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Craig? Oh well, just get NVIDIA and AMD to give Intel a bunch of money. Money.

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More money. >> Good idea, Craig.

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>> It's been the key this whole time. >> That's why we paid you the big bucks.

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>> But honestly, I think the Intel is going to be fine. After meeting him, Trump has

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gone from thinking the current CEO, Lit Bhutan, is a Chinese asset to thinking

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his success and rise is an amazing story. And there's only one explanation.

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The Chinese have mastered mind control.

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And there's only one way to stop it. Money. Google teased the design of their

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Pixel 10 Pro Fold, but I'm only really mentioning it to remind you not to buy a

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Pixel right now because the new ones are being announced August 20th. Okay. Bye.

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Perplexity AI has officially offered to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5

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billion. A sum that's made even more impressive by being more than twice

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Perplexity's own $14 billion valuation.

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These guys must know the money trick. And they know how to make hyperbolic

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claims like this one as a foolproof form of PR stunt so people end up talking

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about them. Damn it. Some parts of the UK are dealing with a drought. So the UK

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government is calling on citizens to take action and do some real water

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preserving things like deleting their old emails. The reasoning here is that

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data centers require vast amounts of water to cool their systems. They're

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just missing the fact that individual users deleting even their entire Gmail

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accounts will help save about as much water as leaving the pub to go piss in

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the temps. Now that Eric Migakovsky has regained the rights to the Pebble brand,

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his company Core Devices, has unveiled the actual design of the Pebble Time 2,

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which goes for a bit more of a refined look compared to the Core 2 Duo, which

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has been renamed to the Pebble 2 Duo. Thank goodness. Megakovsky also compared

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it to the pebbletime steel and oh god the bezels. It comes in some nice new

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colorways and yes we might only be talking about this because of nostalgia

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but time like a pebble washed smooth by

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the rains of >> time

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and YouTuber basically homeless posted a fun video about how he hacked his own

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muscles to get good in CS2. He created a

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setup with a Raspberry Pi, a TENS machine, and other stuff that forced his

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muscles and even his trigger finger to contract in response to the computer

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signal before his brain could get to it. And after a lot of trial and error, he

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did in fact get good the all natural way.

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>> Holy, we're in agreement then. It's not cheating. >> Yeah. Yeah, I'll leave it.

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>> Excellent. Thank The link to the full video and all of our news sources are in

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the description as always, but you knew that already because you watch every TechLink episode. And you're going to

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watch the next one on Friday, aren't you? When you could be out in the forest

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finding more money to solve all the world's problems. We got Craig for that.

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Kit Craig on