Valve just imported around 50 tons of
game consoles from China. And you know
what that means? Maybe Steam machines,
which is great news for us, but probably
a tough day for the customs agent
staring at a manifest that jumps from
container 2 to container 4, cuz you
know, Valve can't count to three. I'm
Linus Sebastian. This is Tech LinkedIn.
And according to customs records dug up
by The Verge, recent shipments by Valve
total to nearly 100 tons in just the
past 2 months. But what's really
interesting is that the new containers
are noticeably lighter than the previous
ones, suggesting that the delayed Steam
Machine or Steam Frame VR headsets may
be contained inside them. Or they could
just be even more Steam Decks and we're
going to look really stupid in a few
weeks. Either way, optimism is high. Not
all is well in Valve land, though. The
Steam Controller instantly sold out on
launch day. So, if you were hoping to
get one 31 minutes after they were
released, the joke's on you. But the
good news is that alongside Valve
announcing that more stock is coming,
they've also released the controller's
CAD files under a Creative Common
license. So, if you can't wait, you can
3D print the shelf for the controller
and then sit in front of a cardboard box
to just hallucinate the gaming
experience. Nintendo approves.
>> You could be just like an AI. Meanwhile,
in Germany, millions of websites and
apps using their.de domain suddenly
disappeared from the internet for hours
on Tuesday night, including Amazon. DHL,
Steam, and Germany's Transit app. The
outage was traced to DENIC, the
organization that manages Germany's.de
country code domain after the registry
distributed faulty cryptographic
signatures. DNI explained in a blog post
that the bad signatures went out during
a routine key exchange, though they're
still investigating the exact chain of
events that led to it. Per Cyberne News,
network engineers suspect that Dnick
fumbled a scheduled key swap that the
registry runs every 5 weeks. The faulty
keys caused any DNS lookup targeting
A.D.E. site to fail security checks,
which brought the whole system crumbling
to its knees. You got to love single
points of failure, don't you? According
to Dick, the issue is now resolved. And
the population of Deutseland is back to
enjoying German internet, which I
believe operates like the regular
internet, except the series of tubes is
filled with meat. Of course, sorry, that
joke was the worst.
You know what's even worse is Google
Chrome has been silently downloading a 4
gigabyte AI model file to some user
devices without asking permission.
Evidently, they've decided it's just
time to rip the AI band-aid off, and
everybody's using it with or without
permission. Evidently, anyone with AI
features enabled and compatible hardware
is receiving the model. So, we're
talking potentially hundreds of millions
of devices. Privacy researcher Alexander
Hen first flagged the behavior, and
users who tried to delete the file have
reported that Chrome will simply
reddownload it. So to get rid of it, you
need to go to settings, then system, and
toggle off ondevice AI. H also states
that the practice likely violates a
whole mess of EU privacy laws and if it
were to be launched on all devices would
consume an estimated 240
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>> Oh, you said you said it.
>> That's not it.
>> Kind of.
>> Notepad++ creator Don Hoe is threatening
legal action over an unofficial macOS
port of Notepad++. But according to Hoe,
it's not the port itself that's the
problem. It's that the unofficial site
uses the Notepad++ name and branding
wholesale and even lists Hoe himself as
a contributor, which he very much denies
being. Ho is asking users to reply to
any social media posts that are hyping
up this port with a copypasted
disclaimer, effectively crowdsourcing
his cease and desist. So, it's less
control C and more control C.
>> I said your Dawn's a hoe.
>> An unclosable popup on Reddit's mobile
site has been prompting users to
download the app to keep browsing. And
apparently, it's on purpose. A Reddit
spokesperson told RS Technica that it is
targeting frequently logged out mobile
users, which of course are the exact
people who keep saying they don't want
the app. Reddit insists though you will
like it once you stop avoiding it. And
to that I comment, well actually I
comment nothing because I'm stuck behind
a pop-up. Look at me. I'm stuck behind a
pop-up. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Google
DeepMind, and XAI have signed deals with
the US Center for AI Standards and
Innovation, letting the government
review their frontier models before they
are released to the public, which
according to the New York Times is a
sharp reversal of the US
administration's hands-off approach to
regulating top AI Labs. This new deal
will vet models for cyber security,
biocurity, and chemical weapons risks
before they are released, which fingers
crossed will keep us safe from any
Terminator adjacent apocalypses.
>> A I mean, I wouldn't bet on Poly Market
about it, even though the world is
apparently a casino now.
>> You just did insider trading.
>> Microsoft's Edge browser apparently has
a habit of storing passwords in plain
text memory, as cyber security
researcher Tom Running disclosed.
Interestingly, Edge is the only Chromium
browser that's doing this. But despite
Running's warning, Microsoft downplayed
the threat, stating that if someone can
read your memory, you're already
compromised anyway. It's part of a bold
new cyber security philosophy called why
lock the safe if they're already in the
house. I mean, they do have a point, but
also so does he. And Energizer has a
point. Their new ULTIMATE CHILD SHIELD
button batteries are designed to prevent
chemical burns that occur when toddlers
accidentally swallow them. This is a
great move as roughly 3,500 people a
year ingest button batteries in the US
alone. And lithium batteries are
apparently especially fatal as they can
burn through stomach tissue. Good lord.
The new battery features a Sorry. The
new battery features a special coating
that blocks current on contact with
saliva but conducts normally inside
electronics. As one toddler on Weddit
wrote, "We join. The forbidden coins are
back on the menu." I don't know what
that voice was supposed to be, but you
know what? I know I'm going to see you
guys on Friday when tech news is back on
the menu. In fact, it's the only thing
that's ever been on the menu. We're like
one of those food stands that only
serves one thing. We're like the
opposite of Cheesecake Factory.
>> Cheese Fake Factory, man. Cheese fake
factory, more like.