{"video_id":"_XTrvekIBzs","title":"Everything Announced This Week, Basically","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-06-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":615,"segments":[{"start_s":0.48,"end_s":6.96,"text":"Whoa. Computex, Google IO, Microsoft Build, somehow even more stuff. You","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.6,"end_s":10.96,"text":"know, it's a good thing I had a nice relaxing long weekend because it turns","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.88,"end_s":15.679,"text":"out what I was coming back to is tech news. Hell, there's nashing of teeth and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.08,"end_s":21.08,"text":"magic smoke. Let's start with the biggest news out of Computex, new GPUs.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.4,"end_s":28.56,"text":"AMD finally officially revealed the RX960 XT will launch on June 5th with an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.88,"end_s":31.92,"text":"8 GB variant for 300 USD and a 16 GB","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.56,"end_s":34.84,"text":"version for 350. That places the 16 gig","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":31.92,"end_s":42.079,"text":"one quite favorably compared to NVIDIA's $380 RTX 560Ti 8 GB. I just hope AMD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":39.52,"end_s":46.8,"text":"isn't lying about it having 15% more gaming performance per dollar because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.239,"end_s":50.8,"text":"CEO Lisa Sue is a doctor and that would be medical malpractice. AMD also","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.8,"end_s":60.52,"text":"announced new professional Threadripper 9000 series CPUs with up to 96 cores and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":54.719,"end_s":63.6,"text":"a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU with 32 GB of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.52,"end_s":65.76,"text":"RAM. RAM, that is. Let's hope AMD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.6,"end_s":70.32,"text":"provides drivers for their new GPUs ahead of time so reviewers can do their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":67.68,"end_s":74.96,"text":"job, which, you know, is normally what happens, but you never know in these","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":71.92,"end_s":77.439,"text":"wacky times when, according to myriad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":74.96,"end_s":84.479,"text":"tech reviewers, NVIDIA only allowed some outlets to publish previews ahead of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":80.56,"end_s":86.799,"text":"RTX 5060's launch on Monday under strict","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":84.479,"end_s":91.119,"text":"conditions, including being limited to testing certain games and capping every","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":89.119,"end_s":96.24,"text":"email back to NVIDIA with, \"Hail Jensen.\" Despite being at Computex once","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":94.24,"end_s":101.28,"text":"the public drivers dropped, hardware unboxed, stayed up through the night","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":98.32,"end_s":105.6,"text":"like champions to test the 5060 with some loaned parts from MSI and some","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":104.0,"end_s":111.92,"text":"other proper reviews are starting to trickle out as well, which well actually","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":108.88,"end_s":114.079,"text":"they don't make the $300 card look too","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":111.92,"end_s":119.84,"text":"bad in terms of price to performance. Although the 8 gigs of VRAM trips it up","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":116.56,"end_s":121.92,"text":"in places and MSRP is a social construct","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":119.84,"end_s":126.96,"text":"with no inherent meaning. just like the concept of outside. Meanwhile, Intel","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":124.64,"end_s":133.76,"text":"didn't reveal more gaming cards, instead unveiling the Ark Pro B50 and B60 at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":130.399,"end_s":135.68,"text":"around $300 and $500, respectively.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":133.76,"end_s":140.0,"text":"That's a ballpark because they'll only be available inside pre-built","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":137.52,"end_s":144.2,"text":"workstations in a variety of fun third-party designs like the dual GPU","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":142.8,"end_s":149.8,"text":"version from Maxon. So cool. What's even cooler","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":147.44,"end_s":156.959,"text":"though is Intel's name for their new multi-GPU feature, Project Battle","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":153.12,"end_s":159.519,"text":"Matrix. Just yeah. It'll allow up","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":156.959,"end_s":166.319,"text":"to eight Arc Pro GPUs to link together to make up to 192 GB of pulled VRAM","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":163.28,"end_s":167.92,"text":"available for AI workloads. On paper,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":166.319,"end_s":173.92,"text":"that's actually more capable than an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000, which would still","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":171.599,"end_s":179.04,"text":"be much more expensive. So, watch out NVIDIA. You're going down any day now. I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":176.8,"end_s":182.8,"text":"I feel it. Now it's Google's turn on the mic, which is an appropriate thing to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":180.64,"end_s":187.44,"text":"say because at their IO conference, the tech giant showed off another","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":184.8,"end_s":193.2,"text":"existential crisis generator. I mean AI video generator. Their newest model V3","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":190.72,"end_s":199.92,"text":"can generate photorealistic video and sound effects and lip-sync spoken","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":195.76,"end_s":205.68,"text":"dialogue from a single prompt.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":199.92,"end_s":207.84,"text":"I am an idiot sandwich. I'm not sure I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":205.68,"end_s":212.08,"text":"can go on. I am also not sure I can go on, but at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":210.4,"end_s":217.319,"text":"least it's all marked right in the metadata with Google's synth ID. Now,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":214.799,"end_s":221.36,"text":"that might make it easier to identify non-consensual intimate images,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":219.36,"end_s":225.92,"text":"including deep fakes, which were just made illegal with the passing of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":223.519,"end_s":230.08,"text":"Take It Down Act, a seemingly well-intentioned law that privacy groups","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":228.319,"end_s":235.12,"text":"are concerned could be used for censorship. There's lots to talk about","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":232.0,"end_s":237.76,"text":"there, but there's no time. Google V3 is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":235.12,"end_s":244.319,"text":"available in the Gemini app or in the new Google Flow AI video editing tool","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":240.799,"end_s":248.0,"text":"for subscribers to Google AI Ultra, a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":244.319,"end_s":250.48,"text":"brand new all you can slop $250 plan","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":248.0,"end_s":254.239,"text":"that also has YouTube Premium in there just for fun. Google did their usual","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":252.48,"end_s":258.639,"text":"thing where they mixed together a whack ton of announcements for things you can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":255.84,"end_s":263.6,"text":"try now along with things that exist in a liinal non-real dimension known as the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":261.919,"end_s":268.24,"text":"coming months. So here's the stuff that's available nowish for AI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":266.32,"end_s":273.199,"text":"subscribers. Gemini is finally getting baked into Chrome, and Gemini is going","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":270.8,"end_s":278.96,"text":"to start adapting its responses using your personal context, just like Apple","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":276.56,"end_s":282.479,"text":"said Siri would do before they scrubbed most of their online references to it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":280.96,"end_s":287.84,"text":"Google said this will allow you to generate more personalized replies in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":284.639,"end_s":289.44,"text":"Gmail, so you can be a better friend who","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":287.84,"end_s":294.56,"text":"tricks your loved ones into thinking you took the time to write a reply when you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":291.96,"end_s":298.72,"text":"didn't. They look so dumb right now. This is friendship. Gemini Live with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":296.88,"end_s":303.919,"text":"camera and screen sharing is now available for everyone, which is cool.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":301.36,"end_s":308.8,"text":"While AI mode is getting a wider roll out to infect more search queries in the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":306.24,"end_s":313.44,"text":"US only. That's good. Keep it contained. A beta for real-time speech translation","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":311.44,"end_s":319.12,"text":"is available in Google Meet. And developers are getting new coding agents","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":315.36,"end_s":321.6,"text":"and tools, including Jewels, Stitch, and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":319.12,"end_s":326.479,"text":"the very literally named Gemini Code Assist. You didn't get a nickname. Not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":324.08,"end_s":332.0,"text":"cool enough yet. Google also updated the Gemini API and SDK with support for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":329.32,"end_s":337.52,"text":"anthropics model context protocol which is catching on as a kind of USBC of AI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":335.6,"end_s":342.32,"text":"allowing models and systems to speak politely with each other helping","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.44,"end_s":348.56,"text":"Google's AI ultra exclusive project Mariner computer use agent use computers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":346.24,"end_s":352.88,"text":"which is it needs to do now for the coming later stuff when Mariner is less","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":350.88,"end_s":358.96,"text":"experimental it'll roll out more widely in the Gemini app as agent mode, not to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":356.0,"end_s":362.4,"text":"be confused with AI mode in search, which will be updated with a lighter","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":360.639,"end_s":367.039,"text":"version of deep research called deep search and also with search live, which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.12,"end_s":370.88,"text":"is just Gemini Live, but in search. I swear they are trying to annoy us. But","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.88,"end_s":374.96,"text":"look, let's not let them, okay? Because there are a couple actually cool things","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":372.479,"end_s":377.68,"text":"shown off. Google's hyperrealistic video call tech that makes it feel like you're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":376.319,"end_s":383.199,"text":"in the same room as the other person known as Project Starline is now Google","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":381.28,"end_s":387.6,"text":"Beam and will be rolling out in some form later this year. And also Google","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":385.84,"end_s":392.88,"text":"confirmed they're working on an enhanced desktop mode in Android 16, which still","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":390.639,"end_s":396.72,"text":"makes me happy despite Android desktop modes never really working out for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":394.96,"end_s":402.8,"text":"anyone. But it might work for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":398.759,"end_s":405.199,"text":"us, just like our sponsor, UPDF, the PDF","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":402.8,"end_s":408.68,"text":"editor that's 16th the cost of Adobe Acrobat and gets you lifetime access and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":407.52,"end_s":412.56,"text":"unlimited upgrades. I mean that I mean that sounds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":411.199,"end_s":417.12,"text":"pretty great by itself. Do I have to keep going? 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And you can access it now at a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":442.639,"end_s":447.919,"text":"38% discount, plus five bucks off with a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":445.919,"end_s":452.4,"text":"30-day money back guarantee. Check it out at the link in the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":449.8,"end_s":455.759,"text":"description. All right, you're not quite caught up in everything yet. There's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":453.759,"end_s":460.08,"text":"still the quick bits. Just hold on. At their build dev conference, Microsoft","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":458.0,"end_s":465.12,"text":"also announced a whack ton of stuff, but thankfully most of it is too niche, and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":462.56,"end_s":470.08,"text":"I could safely skip some of it, except for Windows 11 getting MCP support,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.759,"end_s":474.72,"text":"which will make it much easier to let AI assistants actually control your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":472.44,"end_s":478.16,"text":"PC when you want them to. Did they put that in the code? That's seems","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":476.0,"end_s":483.199,"text":"important. MCP is also a big part of Microsoft's NL web initiative, which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":480.639,"end_s":487.84,"text":"will make it easier for AIS and websites to all talk to each other. It's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":484.879,"end_s":492.319,"text":"described as kind of the HTML for the agentic web, which sounds like a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":490.24,"end_s":496.96,"text":"Spiderverse plot element. Also, the Windows subsystem for Linux is now open","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":495.0,"end_s":502.319,"text":"source. And see, I probably could have skipped that, too. It's really niche.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":499.12,"end_s":504.879,"text":"Linux people, yes, it is. I can't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":502.319,"end_s":510.96,"text":"believe this story is way down here, but Fortnite is back on the iOS App Store in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":508.16,"end_s":516.24,"text":"the US with support for external payment options with no Apple fees. This is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":513.44,"end_s":522.08,"text":"crazy. 5 years after intentionally getting kicked off the App Store and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":518.08,"end_s":524.72,"text":"suing Apple over it, Epic Games actually","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":522.08,"end_s":528.399,"text":"won uh for now, although it seems like this might stick just because everyone's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":526.32,"end_s":533.12,"text":"just fed up with Apple at this point. In their letter to Epic last week, Certino","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":531.04,"end_s":537.76,"text":"said they were denying Epic's Fortnite app submission until after their request","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":535.519,"end_s":543.68,"text":"for a stay on the judge's order was reviewed. And when the judge saw it, she","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":540.08,"end_s":545.36,"text":"was like, \"No, do it now, you turds.\" If","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":543.68,"end_s":550.16,"text":"you're curious about the history of all of this, I made a big old techer video","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":547.839,"end_s":553.92,"text":"somewhere about 3 years ago. I'm just saying. We've seen laptop tablet things","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":552.16,"end_s":559.839,"text":"with one big foldable display before, but Huawei's looks real fancy. The","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":556.8,"end_s":561.839,"text":"MateBook Fold Ultimate Design is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":559.839,"end_s":568.399,"text":"13-inch foldable tablet that when unfolded is just 7.3 mm thick, thinner","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":565.68,"end_s":573.279,"text":"than an iPhone 16. It runs Huawei's Harmony OS and is only available in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":570.24,"end_s":575.12,"text":"China for the equivalent of $3,300, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":573.279,"end_s":579.76,"text":"I just like knowing it's out there. And Noctua has teamed up with Pulsar to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":577.6,"end_s":585.12,"text":"build a version of the second company's Fineman FO1 with a built-in Noctua fan.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":583.68,"end_s":590.8,"text":"It's a mouse, by the way. I probably should have said that. It's not the first mouse with a fan. The Marsback","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":589.04,"end_s":595.36,"text":"Zephyr Pro has been around for a few years, cooling the sweaty hands of many","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":593.2,"end_s":600.0,"text":"a thankful gamer. But it is the first one with a fan the color of old hospital","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":598.0,"end_s":603.68,"text":"walls. I mean, how could you say no? And how could you say no to coming back for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":601.68,"end_s":608.48,"text":"more tech news on Friday? Was that too rude to Noctua? I don't. There's a ton","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":606.32,"end_s":612.56,"text":"of Computex stuff, at least that we didn't cover today. So, don't go online","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":610.56,"end_s":616.64,"text":"for a couple days and then come watch my show. It's a reasonable request.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Whoa. Computex, Google IO, Microsoft Build, somehow even more stuff. You know, it's a good thing I had a nice relaxing long weekend because it turns out what I was coming back to is tech news. Hell, there's nashing of teeth and magic smoke. Let's start with the biggest news out of Computex, new GPUs. AMD finally officially revealed the RX960 XT will launch on June 5th with an 8 GB variant for 300 USD and a 16 GB version for 350. That places the 16 gig one quite favorably compared to NVIDIA's $380 RTX 560Ti 8 GB. I just hope AMD isn't lying about it having 15% more gaming performance per dollar because CEO Lisa Sue is a doctor and that would be medical malpractice. AMD also announced new professional Threadripper 9000 series CPUs with up to 96 cores and a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU with 32 GB of RAM. RAM, that is. Let's hope AMD provides drivers for their new GPUs ahead of time so reviewers can do their job, which, you know, is normally what happens, but you never know in these wacky times when, according to myriad tech reviewers, NVIDIA only allowed some outlets to publish previews ahead of the RTX 5060's launch on Monday under strict conditions, including being limited to testing certain games and capping every email back to NVIDIA with, \"Hail Jensen.\" Despite being at Computex once the public drivers dropped, hardware unboxed, stayed up through the night like champions to test the 5060 with some loaned parts from MSI and some other proper reviews are starting to trickle out as well, which well actually they don't make the $300 card look too bad in terms of price to performance. Although the 8 gigs of VRAM trips it up in places and MSRP is a social construct with no inherent meaning. just like the concept of outside. Meanwhile, Intel didn't reveal more gaming cards, instead unveiling the Ark Pro B50 and B60 at around $300 and $500, respectively. That's a ballpark because they'll only be available inside pre-built workstations in a variety of fun third-party designs like the dual GPU version from Maxon. So cool. What's even cooler though is Intel's name for their new multi-GPU feature, Project Battle Matrix. Just yeah. It'll allow up to eight Arc Pro GPUs to link together to make up to 192 GB of pulled VRAM available for AI workloads. On paper, that's actually more capable than an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000, which would still be much more expensive. So, watch out NVIDIA. You're going down any day now. I I feel it. Now it's Google's turn on the mic, which is an appropriate thing to say because at their IO conference, the tech giant showed off another existential crisis generator. I mean AI video generator. Their newest model V3 can generate photorealistic video and sound effects and lip-sync spoken dialogue from a single prompt. I am an idiot sandwich. I'm not sure I can go on. I am also not sure I can go on, but at least it's all marked right in the metadata with Google's synth ID. Now, that might make it easier to identify non-consensual intimate images, including deep fakes, which were just made illegal with the passing of the Take It Down Act, a seemingly well-intentioned law that privacy groups are concerned could be used for censorship. There's lots to talk about there, but there's no time. Google V3 is available in the Gemini app or in the new Google Flow AI video editing tool for subscribers to Google AI Ultra, a brand new all you can slop $250 plan that also has YouTube Premium in there just for fun. Google did their usual thing where they mixed together a whack ton of announcements for things you can try now along with things that exist in a liinal non-real dimension known as the coming months. So here's the stuff that's available nowish for AI subscribers. Gemini is finally getting baked into Chrome, and Gemini is going to start adapting its responses using your personal context, just like Apple said Siri would do before they scrubbed most of their online references to it. Google said this will allow you to generate more personalized replies in Gmail, so you can be a better friend who tricks your loved ones into thinking you took the time to write a reply when you didn't. They look so dumb right now. This is friendship. Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing is now available for everyone, which is cool. While AI mode is getting a wider roll out to infect more search queries in the US only. That's good. Keep it contained. A beta for real-time speech translation is available in Google Meet. And developers are getting new coding agents and tools, including Jewels, Stitch, and the very literally named Gemini Code Assist. You didn't get a nickname. Not cool enough yet. Google also updated the Gemini API and SDK with support for anthropics model context protocol which is catching on as a kind of USBC of AI allowing models and systems to speak politely with each other helping Google's AI ultra exclusive project Mariner computer use agent use computers which is it needs to do now for the coming later stuff when Mariner is less experimental it'll roll out more widely in the Gemini app as agent mode, not to be confused with AI mode in search, which will be updated with a lighter version of deep research called deep search and also with search live, which is just Gemini Live, but in search. I swear they are trying to annoy us. But look, let's not let them, okay? Because there are a couple actually cool things shown off. Google's hyperrealistic video call tech that makes it feel like you're in the same room as the other person known as Project Starline is now Google Beam and will be rolling out in some form later this year. And also Google confirmed they're working on an enhanced desktop mode in Android 16, which still makes me happy despite Android desktop modes never really working out for anyone. But it might work for us, just like our sponsor, UPDF, the PDF editor that's 16th the cost of Adobe Acrobat and gets you lifetime access and unlimited upgrades. I mean that I mean that sounds pretty great by itself. Do I have to keep going? Uh, I might as well tell you that UPDF can edit text, images, and URLs effortlessly with 13 markup tools and more than 100 annotation stickers. You can convert, add passwords, fill, sign, organize PDFs, and use OCR for scanned images. 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It's described as kind of the HTML for the agentic web, which sounds like a Spiderverse plot element. Also, the Windows subsystem for Linux is now open source. And see, I probably could have skipped that, too. It's really niche. Linux people, yes, it is. I can't believe this story is way down here, but Fortnite is back on the iOS App Store in the US with support for external payment options with no Apple fees. This is crazy. 5 years after intentionally getting kicked off the App Store and suing Apple over it, Epic Games actually won uh for now, although it seems like this might stick just because everyone's just fed up with Apple at this point. In their letter to Epic last week, Certino said they were denying Epic's Fortnite app submission until after their request for a stay on the judge's order was reviewed. And when the judge saw it, she was like, \"No, do it now, you turds.\" If you're curious about the history of all of this, I made a big old techer video somewhere about 3 years ago. I'm just saying. We've seen laptop tablet things with one big foldable display before, but Huawei's looks real fancy. The MateBook Fold Ultimate Design is a 13-inch foldable tablet that when unfolded is just 7.3 mm thick, thinner than an iPhone 16. It runs Huawei's Harmony OS and is only available in China for the equivalent of $3,300, but I just like knowing it's out there. And Noctua has teamed up with Pulsar to build a version of the second company's Fineman FO1 with a built-in Noctua fan. It's a mouse, by the way. I probably should have said that. It's not the first mouse with a fan. The Marsback Zephyr Pro has been around for a few years, cooling the sweaty hands of many a thankful gamer. But it is the first one with a fan the color of old hospital walls. I mean, how could you say no? And how could you say no to coming back for more tech news on Friday? Was that too rude to Noctua? I don't. There's a ton of Computex stuff, at least that we didn't cover today. So, don't go online for a couple days and then come watch my show. It's a reasonable request."}