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Real quick, there won't be a tech link this coming Monday because I would much

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rather try and fail to cover all the Computex news on Wednesday. What a

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thrill that'll be. Apple is up to its old tricks, slapping big red warning

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symbols on some iOS apps in the EU like Instacart that don't use App Store

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payments, something they've been allowed to do for more than a year. And well,

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Apple's used these warnings since then, too. It's just that a bunch of people

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notice them now that some apps are actually starting to implement external

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payments. It's Apple's typical playbook of technically complying with new

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regulations, forcing them to allow third party payments, but doing it angrily

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like a nurse that you've offended somehow. Is this the wound? Here's a

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band-aid. That attitude can also be seen in Apple telling Patreon that its

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external payments link can't open in an inapp browser window. The link has to go

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out of the Patreon app to Safari, which might as well be the elephant graveyard.

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No, don't go there, Simba. But when it comes to App Store related shenanigans,

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Apple isn't the only sketchy player. After resubmitting Fortnite to the US

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version of the iOS App Store last week, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced

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that Fortnite's next update must drop on

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all platforms simultaneously. That's important. He

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then went on a little tweet storm directly asking his fellow Tim Cook to

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let the kids play as racist Darth Vader. Wait, no, that that's that's for later

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in the episode. Sweeney pointed out that Fortnite's not allowed on the App Store,

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but a game called Fort Battle Royale Epic Shoot was. When Apple took that

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down, Sweeney recommended another knockoff. But Apple neither accepted or

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rejected the official Fortnite update, which Sweeney said put the Games Friday

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update in jeopardy. Now, this morning, Epic Games claimed Apple blocked its

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Fortnite submission. Shocker. And for

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some reason, this means Fortnite can't be released to the US App Store or to

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the iOS Epic Game Store in the EU where

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it was already available. And now, quote, "Sadly, Fortnite on iOS will be

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offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it." Now, Fortnite was unavailable to

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download for iOS today in the EU, but in statements to Bloomberg, Apple denied

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blocking Fortnite on Epic's own store.

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It says it just asked Epic's EU developer account to resubmit the app

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update without also bundling it with the US App Store submission, which it

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doesn't want to allow. So, TLDDR, either Apple's lying or Tim Sweeney took

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Fortnite off Epic's own store on purpose to make Apple look bad. Unfortunately,

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neither of those are that far-fetched. Like, Tim's trying to open up the App

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Store, which is good, but he doesn't really care about who he misleads along

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the way. He's like Luan Rail from the best Star Wars thing ever made and/or

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season 2 finale streaming now on Disney Plus. Disney sucks, but the show

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doesn't. I love Tim Sweeney retweeting an American Fortnite player who's sad

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about being this close to playing Fortnite on iOS again only to get

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rugpulled. And the only reason he had that hope in the first place is because

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Tim Sweeney promised that Apple would approve Fortnite this time. He also

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retweeted an AI video saying that elephants evolved from Demetradon. I

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think we all know what that says about him. So, you guys like dinosaurs, right?

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It's not a dinosaur. Shut up. Now, I spent way too long talking about that,

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so I'm going to have to speed through this next stuff. Video cards with a z.com spotted a reference to an Intel

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Arcpro B60, whatever that is, on the Mac

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Sun website. So, I guess we'll probably at least get to see that at Comp

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Computex next week along with maybe a Radeon RX960 XT, which will not look

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like the reference design in this tweet from AMD. That's just a mockup that

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won't go on sale, but which they nevertheless wanted to show you because

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they're proud of the intern that made it. Congrats, Kevin. Listings for eight

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and 16 GB versions of the card have already been spotted, so it seems like

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this thing might launch next week. We probably won't get to see AMD's rumored

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Medusa Point Ryzen APU with 22 cores or

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the ARMPowered PC processor cenamed Soundwave that will reportedly take on

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NVIDIA's own ARMPowered N1 chip in 2026.

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Though, unless Kevin makes a banging mockup for those

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two, good luck, dude. OpenAI finally

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made its GPT 4.1 models available in chat GPT this week and then announced a

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new cloud-based coding agent called Codeex, not to be confused with Codeex

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CLI, the open-source agent for terminal

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apps that launched last month. Uh, no. If if you'd like to be confused, let me

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tell you about how XAI's chatbot Grock suddenly started rambling about white

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genocide in South Africa anytime someone tweeted for its opinion on literally

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anything that wasn't that. Sometimes it answered the question it was actually

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being asked and then went now regarding

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South Africa. Other times it completely ignored the prompt and just jumped right

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into it. I mean, that's what we're all here for, right? After taking the bot

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offline for a bit, XAI brought it back, said they'll be publishing Grock's

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system prompts to GitHub going forward, and blamed the issue on an unauthorized

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modification made presumably by someone with permissions to do so that also has

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strong opinions about South Africa. When asked who it thought the rogue employee

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was, new feeling much better now, Grock

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said, "Come on, guys. I mean, obviously it wasn't noted CEO of XAI, originally

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from South Africa, Elon Musk. He wouldn't risk his company's rep for

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that, right? He's never done racially charged things in front of large groups

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of people before. And I've never had a worse segue

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now. There's just no time. Spotify has

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responded to backlash from podcasters upset over the company's recent update

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adding public play counts to every podcast. Spotify's new policy will be to

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show public play counts only for podcasts with more than 50,000 plays.

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That way, you won't be able to tell how many people are listening to all the

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fake podcasts discovered by Business Insider and CNN this week that are only

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like 10 seconds long because they're just a front for selling drugs.

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Everybody's happy. Reports circulated this week about a massive Steam data

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breach that supposedly compromised 89 million accounts. And full disclosure, I

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didn't include it on Techlink because something seemed off. And sure enough,

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Valve has confirmed that the only thing that was really compromised were a bunch

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of one-time login codes that don't work anymore. The company says there's no

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real reason to change your password. But do you need a reason? Do it

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anyway. Come up with a fun one. Australian startup Gilmore Space was due

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to launch the country's first orbital class rocket this week. But during

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launch preparations, the rocket's nose cone deployed prematurely. Uh there were

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no photos, but it probably looked something like this clip. Uh according

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to scientists, in other words, the top fell off, and they should probably build

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the next one, so that doesn't happen. Well, some of them are built so the front doesn't fall off at all. And

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Fortnite is back one more time because it gave Darth Vader, a boss character in

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the game Star Wars mode, an AI version of James Earl Jones's voice that players

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can talk to. Vader immediately started

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swearing freaking and being a little racist.

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Spanish, a useful tongue for smugglers and spice traders. To be fair, he's a

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space Nazi super soldier. It's not completely out of left field. Epic Games

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pushed a hot fix immediately and pointed out you can report it to them the next

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time the guy that literally slaughtered a temple full of younglings says

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something a bit edgy. And who knows, maybe I'll say something edgy when you

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come back on Wednesday, not Monday, for more tech news. I've got some dark

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thoughts in here. You wouldn't think so, but you don't even want to know what I

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think about the atomic purple Game Boy Color.

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