WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.680 Twitter has officially begun rebranding itself to Elon Musk's favorite letter X. 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 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 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:19.680 Murdoch. This is TechLinked and this is the letter X in the Monotype special 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:25.600 alphabets for font, which also looks similar to a standard character added to 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:27.480 Unicode in 2001, which is why Elon could 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:31.960 tweet the new logo of his massive social media company as literal text. To be 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:36.840 fair, Elon has said that they will change the logo to something a bit more 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:40.560 permanent, but it was still kind of sad for me to read this thread by Martin 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:44.560 Grasshopper telling the story of how he and two other designers created 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:48.600 Twitter's iconic bird logo before I caught myself being sentimental about 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. 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:58.480 The rebrand comes soon after Musk handed the CEO reins to Linda Yaccarino, who 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:04.320 apparently shares Elon's passion for building X into the everything app 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:10.440 capable of serving all four fundamental human needs: audio, video, messaging, 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:15.080 and banking with a little sprinkle of AI to make things feel extra dystopian. The 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:19.000 new x.com is Elon's latest adventure in trying to brand literally everything 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 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. 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. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:38.920 Re-X? If you're looking to exit the 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:43.440 platform, I'm sorry, the Twitter alternative landscape isn't looking 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:48.720 super compelling. Threads just got an update with new features, but Meta won't 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:54.240 say what they are, although TikTok just added text posts. And to be frank, the 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:58.320 CCP having all my data has never seemed less problematic. When Google's new 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:02.800 extension API for Chrome made it more difficult for ad blocking extensions to 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:07.280 function, Mozilla managed to implement a workaround keeping ad blockers working. 00:02:05.240 --> 00:02:11.720 Fortunately for Google, a new proposal by four of the company's engineers 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:16.880 promises to find a completely new way to have the internet be full of nice, 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:20.920 orderly, auto-playing videos that follow you down the page as you scroll. Where 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:25.560 you going? THERE'S NOTHING DOWN THERE. What are you looking for? The FAQs? 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:30.400 Louis Rossmann called the proposal, known as the web environment integrity 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:34.360 explainer, one of the scariest things he's ever heard in his life, and he's 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.840 talked to Linus off camera. Google's engineers proposed that websites ask for 00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:43.880 tokens from users' machines, which have been verified by attesters controlled by 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:47.960 yep, Google. This would most likely break 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:52.840 most ad blockers, and with Google controlling which websites and browsers 00:02:50.040 --> 00:02:56.880 are seen as trustworthy, could put nails in the coffin of the open web, which is 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:02.720 why many critics on GitHub are calling the scheme DRM for websites. Look, it's 00:03:00.440 --> 00:03:07.280 okay. This internet just turned into network television, but we can probably 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:12.680 start a different web free of government and corporate control. You mean the dark 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:18.320 web? A different one than that. Apple has begun sending out developer kits for 00:03:14.440 --> 00:03:19.680 the Vision Pro mixed reality headset and 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:25.280 Oh. I thought Tim Cook was going to send assassins for not saying spatial 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:29.320 computing instead OF MIXED REALITY. THE KITS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE kept super 00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:34.000 secret and not reviewed by anyone in a YouTube video, so do not listen to 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:38.040 Marques here. Think of your waifu and chibi figurines. What will they do when 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:43.040 the assassins come? Some developers will use the kits to optimize their apps for 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:47.280 virtual re- I mean, for spatial computing, but according to Mark Gurman 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:51.640 at Bloomberg, Netflix and many other high-profile 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:57.640 developers will not be optimizing their apps for the rather small Vision Pro 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:59.920 user base if when it exists. 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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's other startup 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:22.520 trying to fundamentally change human life on the planet as we know it, 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:26.720 Worldcoin, has launched its global rollout after already scanning the 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:32.040 eyeballs of 2 million users with its creepy orb thing, which is actually not 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:36.440 that scary according to this crypto reporter. But don't worry, in return, 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:41.000 the human receives some Worldcoin cryptocurrency, which actually shot up 00:05:38.840 --> 00:05:45.800 in value following today's news, and more importantly, a world ID, which can 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:50.240 theoretically be used to prove said humans aren't robots, which I guess will 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:54.480 be more necessary than ever thanks to OpenAI unleashing their chatbot into the 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:59.000 world. He may have let the bull into the China shop, but he came prepared with 00:05:56.640 --> 00:06:03.760 lots. He's got lots of tape. A leaked hands-on video of Sony's upcoming 00:06:01.080 --> 00:06:09.000 Project Q PlayStation streaming handheld has revealed that the device runs some 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:12.960 version of Android, or at least this one does, igniting the hopes of many 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:16.800 tinkerers who no doubt dream of circumventing Sony's restrictions. I 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:21.320 mean, it's supposed to only be able to stream PlayStation 5 games on a local 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:25.080 network, which seems kind of ridiculous until you see the picture with the 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:28.120 screen taken off and realize I mean, you can't do anything else because the gears 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 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. 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:41.480 ASUS has announced plans to begin mass production of its RTX 4070 graphics card 00:06:39.320 --> 00:06:45.760 without an extra power connector that it revealed back at Computex as soon as 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:49.720 this fall is when they'll begin mass production. But the card requires a 00:06:47.640 --> 00:06:54.880 specific ASUS motherboard with an additional connector slot next to the 00:06:51.880 --> 00:06:56.920 standard PCIe x16 slot, which is powered 00:06:54.880 --> 00:07:02.280 by a 16-pin connector on the back of the motherboard. So, calling it 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:05.680 connector-less as many are doing online isn't quite accurate. You know, rubs me 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 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:14.600 very nice minimalist white color. I might buy one to hang on my wall, but 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:19.160 not for gaming. In other GPU news, gaming handheld maker GPD has released a 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:24.120 video showing that the company's external GPU dock works with one of the 00:07:21.520 --> 00:07:26.920 company's main competing products, the Steam Deck. 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:34.640 What a quirky situation. What's even quirkier is that you have to open up the 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 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:46.120 leave the back off and run Windows instead of SteamOS off of a microSD 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:49.480 card. Oh man. But you're going to you're going to get 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 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:56.680 worth it? And in case you missed it, Neopets is entering a whole new era this 00:07:55.400 --> 00:08:01.960 week, and they've got a new brand ambassador along for the ride, music 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:04.120 legend John Legend, who excitedly posted 00:08:01.960 --> 00:08:09.080 to his Instagram followers the big news on the weekend. Like, wow, congrats to 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:14.680 Neopets for landing a big celebrity for the job, but there's also evidence of 00:08:12.280 --> 00:08:18.320 John's claim that the game has long been a favorite in his family's house. 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:21.880 Chrissy Teigen was tweeting about the game back in 2018. 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:28.480 Back when tweets could just be tweets. 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:30.240 X's? Come on. And you come on back on 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:34.880 Wednesday for more tech news delivered by me, a human verified by the Worldcoin 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:40.320 world government, as long as they're still happy with me. 00:08:37.520 --> 00:08:40.320 We'll have to see.