1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,680 Twitter has officially begun rebranding itself to Elon Musk's favorite letter X. 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:11,240 The platform is not a Twitter anymore. It's an X Twitter. If you're not a fan 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,160 of puns, you're about to have a bad couple days in the internet. I'm Riley 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:19,680 Murdoch. This is TechLinked and this is the letter X in the Monotype special 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:25,600 alphabets for font, which also looks similar to a standard character added to 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:27,480 Unicode in 2001, which is why Elon could 7 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:31,960 tweet the new logo of his massive social media company as literal text. To be 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:36,840 fair, Elon has said that they will change the logo to something a bit more 9 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,560 permanent, but it was still kind of sad for me to read this thread by Martin 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,560 Grasshopper telling the story of how he and two other designers created 11 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:48,600 Twitter's iconic bird logo before I caught myself being sentimental about 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:53,440 marketing for a tech giant and hit the X on the tab after I found the right one. 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,480 The rebrand comes soon after Musk handed the CEO reins to Linda Yaccarino, who 14 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:04,320 apparently shares Elon's passion for building X into the everything app 15 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:10,440 capable of serving all four fundamental human needs: audio, video, messaging, 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:15,080 and banking with a little sprinkle of AI to make things feel extra dystopian. The 17 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:19,000 new x.com is Elon's latest adventure in trying to brand literally everything 18 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:23,880 he's involved in with an X in some way, including PayPal. There's a whole story 19 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:30,640 there, but this time it's not just the platform. Tweets will now be called X's. 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:37,280 I X'd an X this morning, but no one X'd back at me. Didn't even get any sub X's. 21 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,920 Re-X? If you're looking to exit the 22 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:43,440 platform, I'm sorry, the Twitter alternative landscape isn't looking 23 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:48,720 super compelling. Threads just got an update with new features, but Meta won't 24 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:54,240 say what they are, although TikTok just added text posts. And to be frank, the 25 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:58,320 CCP having all my data has never seemed less problematic. When Google's new 26 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:02,800 extension API for Chrome made it more difficult for ad blocking extensions to 27 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:07,280 function, Mozilla managed to implement a workaround keeping ad blockers working. 28 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:11,720 Fortunately for Google, a new proposal by four of the company's engineers 29 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:16,880 promises to find a completely new way to have the internet be full of nice, 30 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,920 orderly, auto-playing videos that follow you down the page as you scroll. Where 31 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:25,560 you going? THERE'S NOTHING DOWN THERE. What are you looking for? The FAQs? 32 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:30,400 Louis Rossmann called the proposal, known as the web environment integrity 33 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:34,360 explainer, one of the scariest things he's ever heard in his life, and he's 34 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:38,840 talked to Linus off camera. Google's engineers proposed that websites ask for 35 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:43,880 tokens from users' machines, which have been verified by attesters controlled by 36 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,960 yep, Google. This would most likely break 37 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:52,840 most ad blockers, and with Google controlling which websites and browsers 38 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:56,880 are seen as trustworthy, could put nails in the coffin of the open web, which is 39 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:02,720 why many critics on GitHub are calling the scheme DRM for websites. Look, it's 40 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:07,280 okay. This internet just turned into network television, but we can probably 41 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:12,680 start a different web free of government and corporate control. You mean the dark 42 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:18,320 web? A different one than that. Apple has begun sending out developer kits for 43 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:19,680 the Vision Pro mixed reality headset and 44 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:25,280 Oh. I thought Tim Cook was going to send assassins for not saying spatial 45 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:29,320 computing instead OF MIXED REALITY. THE KITS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE kept super 46 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:34,000 secret and not reviewed by anyone in a YouTube video, so do not listen to 47 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:38,040 Marques here. Think of your waifu and chibi figurines. What will they do when 48 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:43,040 the assassins come? 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A leaked hands-on video of Sony's upcoming 81 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:09,000 Project Q PlayStation streaming handheld has revealed that the device runs some 82 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:12,960 version of Android, or at least this one does, igniting the hopes of many 83 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,800 tinkerers who no doubt dream of circumventing Sony's restrictions. I 84 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:21,320 mean, it's supposed to only be able to stream PlayStation 5 games on a local 85 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:25,080 network, which seems kind of ridiculous until you see the picture with the 86 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:28,120 screen taken off and realize I mean, you can't do anything else because the gears 87 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,640 there's nothing in there. That's That's all they could manage. It looks like one 88 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,920 and a half of the weirdest waffle iron ever. I want to cook a waffle in there. 89 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:41,480 ASUS has announced plans to begin mass production of its RTX 4070 graphics card 90 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:45,760 without an extra power connector that it revealed back at Computex as soon as 91 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:49,720 this fall is when they'll begin mass production. But the card requires a 92 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:54,880 specific ASUS motherboard with an additional connector slot next to the 93 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:56,920 standard PCIe x16 slot, which is powered 94 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:02,280 by a 16-pin connector on the back of the motherboard. So, calling it 95 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:05,680 connector-less as many are doing online isn't quite accurate. You know, rubs me 96 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:10,000 the wrong way and frankly puts me in a bad mood, even though it does come in a 97 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:14,600 very nice minimalist white color. I might buy one to hang on my wall, but 98 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:19,160 not for gaming. In other GPU news, gaming handheld maker GPD has released a 99 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:24,120 video showing that the company's external GPU dock works with one of the 100 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,920 company's main competing products, the Steam Deck. 101 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:34,640 What a quirky situation. What's even quirkier is that you have to open up the 102 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:40,880 Deck and remove its m.2 SSD in order to use GPD's OcuLink adapter, and then 103 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:46,120 leave the back off and run Windows instead of SteamOS off of a microSD 104 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:49,480 card. Oh man. But you're going to you're going to get 105 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:52,960 a few more frames on that thing. It's going to be pretty And isn't that all 106 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:56,680 worth it? And in case you missed it, Neopets is entering a whole new era this 107 00:07:55,400 --> 00:08:01,960 week, and they've got a new brand ambassador along for the ride, music 108 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:04,120 legend John Legend, who excitedly posted 109 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:09,080 to his Instagram followers the big news on the weekend. Like, wow, congrats to 110 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:14,680 Neopets for landing a big celebrity for the job, but there's also evidence of 111 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:18,320 John's claim that the game has long been a favorite in his family's house. 112 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,880 Chrissy Teigen was tweeting about the game back in 2018. 113 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:28,480 Back when tweets could just be tweets. 114 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:30,240 X's? Come on. And you come on back on 115 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:34,880 Wednesday for more tech news delivered by me, a human verified by the Worldcoin 116 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:40,320 world government, as long as they're still happy with me. 117 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,320 We'll have to see.