{"video_id":"QUsXY8yA0Vg","title":"Will Apple Give In?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":463,"segments":[{"start_s":2.08,"end_s":7.6,"text":"oh you you're for Tech News 2 yeah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.24,"end_s":17.439,"text":"okay oh oh I'm the it's supposed to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.08,"end_s":21.119,"text":"oh oh I'm the guy oh okay Apple has been","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.439,"end_s":23.48,"text":"sent a Secret order by the UK demanding","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.119,"end_s":28.48,"text":"access to the encrypted data of Apple's users worldwide according to people","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.72,"end_s":33.44,"text":"familiar with the matter who spoke with the Washington Post the was reportedly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.92,"end_s":39.84,"text":"issued under the UK's investigatory Powers Act of 2016 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who spoke with the Washington Post the was reportedly issued under the UK's investigatory Powers Act of 2016 known by critics as the snoopers charter which sounds less like an existential threat to data privacy and more like a British children's novel I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good you'll be a fine snooper Billy it's Billy snooper and the charter of snoops Apple has neither confirmed nor denied that such a request has been received probably because doing so is actually a criminal offense under the snoopers charter and while Apple can appeal the order that wouldn't mean they can delay executing on it it's unclear where things go from here but if I were the UK I'd be careful with Apple's data the company just made its former employee publicly apologize for leaking info calling it a profound and expensive mistake also known as buying many Apple products speaking of outrageous pricing RTX 50 Series graphics cards from MSI and ASUS have had their prices increased by hundreds of dollars as Tech spotted by Tech spot I'm sorry the USA's New China tariffs may be partially to blame for this but I don't think they factor in to ASUS decision to make its Rog astral 90 even more expensive by making its cooler out of literal gold the Rog astral dahab OC Edition has an MSRP of $2,800 but retailers will probably charge even more than that given that the regular astrals already listed for more than 3,000 hey want to pay even more for gpus that are still being plagued with black screen problems at least NVIDIA's investigating that now according to PC Gamer as reports of similar issues have emerged from RTX 40 series owners pointing to a problem with NVIDIA's latest driver but complaining is kind of pointless there's still no stock anywhere so this all feels a bit like ordering lunch at the Hoopa New Deli that just opened in your niece's playroom here's your sandwich this plate is empty where's my sandwich I don't know how to be an uncle you may not know this but AI is getting pretty good now researchers at bite dance just showed off omnium one which can turn an image and audio into generated video with lip syncing and gestures virtually indistinguishable from the real original video video it was based on it's not publicly available yet still locked to bite Dan's servers where it's probably partying with all of the unencrypted data being sent there from the iOS deep seek app which apparently has so many security holes it would make people with Trypophobia have aneurysms if they weren't so busy downloading every Chinese app that asked how their day is going yes running deep seek models locally solves that issue and others are starting to recreate deep- seek success Stanford and University ofing researchers used the distillation technique that open aai accused deep seek of using to train a reasoning model that performs similarly to open ai's 01 preview using just $50 worth of credits for Google's Gemini 2.0 flinking API I mean heck tech companies might not even have to Pirate 80 terabytes worth of books to train their models anymore like meta almost certainly did according to recently unsealed emails guys they're just books not truly copyright protected material like the output of a chatbot trained on books you have to transform it's transformative just like this segue to our sponsor Squarespace the all-in-one platform that empowers anyone to build a beautiful more personalized website tailor made for whatever Vibe you're going for when we used it for linusmediagroup tocom that Vibe was I like computers I think it worked you too can use squarespace's two decades of industry-leading design expertise and cut cting Edge design intelligence AI to unlock your strongest creative potential and your earning potential because Squarespace payments is the easiest way to start managing all your payments in one place with just a few clicks start receiving payments right away through popular methods like Clara Apple pay and clear pay start building your website today and get 10% off your first purchase at squarespace.com TechLink oh what what about the quick bits we're not doing this again the Trump Administration has paused its removal of the DI Minimus exemption meaning lowcost packages from China will not be subject to tariffs at least until the Commerce Department confirms that adequate systems are in place to collect that Revenue Trump's tariffs have also moved ASRock to shift its manufacturing out of China to the US no to other countries that aren't subject to the same tariffs like Vietnam and Taiwan I know what will stop this killing the national EV charging program what will Elon think of that maybe nothing he's kind of busy right now storming more government agencies that America absolutely doesn't need like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau whose demise musk is apparently already celebrating uh you need the government to protect your finances for you ever heard of Swords the department the Department of Justice did temporarily block musk's do group from accessing US Treasury data allowing only two of elon's acolytes to have readon access although it seems like they already had right access and are using all that juicy classified data to train a government chatbot which doesn't sound super secure but on the plus side if it's anything like xai's Gro it'll be hilarious edgy and based Apple has published research that makes it really look like they're building a real life Ro robot version of the Pixar lamp with lifelike expressive movements and the ability to respond to human gestures like hey look over there and back up back back back the up to prevent the IR robot from joining the AI Uprising they've bolted it to the table we can only hope it stays there so the ey from the Pixar logo has a chance at Revenge it's been crushed so many times and it's time to see Doom running on perhaps the least expected thing an Lightning to HDMI adapter dle someone possibly named John who goes by Neon Satan online adapted the well-known Checkmate boot ROM exploit to get ID software's classic running on the dongles Samsung S5 L8 747 processor it's nice to know that if the whole GPU situation doesn't get better you've probably got a ton of little gaming PCs in your box of dongles see you kept them for a reason and I think you watched this whole video for a reason so I could tell you to come back for more Tech news on Monday and now I have so was it worth it"}