1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 Apple's game porting toolkit, announced at WWDC, looks like it's a way bigger deal 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:10,880 than Apple made it sound, and may shake the very foundation upon which the Temple of Gaben 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:16,880 is built. I'm Jacob Rush, this is TechLinked, and you're about to be a Mac gamer. It's happening. 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,040 Just accept it. 5 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:25,520 Turns out, in addition to making it easier to port Windows games to macOS, the game porting 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:31,040 toolkit, or GBT, weird coincidence, can be used right now to run Windows games at playable 7 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,360 frame rates and quality settings similar to the Steam Deck's Proton compatibility layer, 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:41,120 as shown by Redditors. This is huge for pressuring my Mac-using friends, imagine me having friends, 9 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,120 into playing games with me, a person who definitely doesn't have friends. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,280 The kit uses source code from Crossover, a wine-based open-source solution for running 11 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:57,680 Windows games on macOS, first published in 2007. According to a statement from Code Weavers, 12 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,680 they are pleased to see Apple recognizing the power of wine as a tool, 16 years after the fact. 13 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,080 That's an oversight that's apparently old enough to drive. Apparently, the new toolkit 14 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:13,600 will quickly convert Windows games to run on macOS, translating Intel-based x86 instructions 15 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:19,360 and Windows APIs to the corresponding Apple Silicon instructions and macOS APIs. Developers 16 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,520 will also be able to launch an unmodified version of a Windows game on a Mac and see how well it 17 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,960 runs before fully porting a game. Some individual users have already tried running major titles 18 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:35,200 on their own, such as Diablo 4 and Cyberpunk 2077, which managed to run on an M1 MacBook Pro, 19 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:40,000 although it ran at 14 FPS and was more than a little buggy, not buggier than when it was 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,640 first released on the PlayStation 4, boom, roasted. 21 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:49,680 Twitch updated its terms of service with restricted new rules on sponsorships and 22 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:54,080 multi-streaming on Tuesday in the platform's latest attempt to trim down its user base. 23 00:01:54,080 --> 00:02:00,080 There's just too many streamers. I can't throw enough kids' birthdays to deal with all these 24 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,960 streamers. Twitch's new guidelines stated that sponsored videos, banners, and audio ads that 25 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,920 are burned in would be prohibited, and a previous policy banning Twitch partners and affiliates 26 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:15,040 from simultaneous live streaming on Twitch-like platforms, also known as simulcasting, will now 27 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:20,960 apply to everyone without advance written permission from Twitch. It's like getting a permission 28 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,120 slip from your mom, except instead of a child taking a field trip to the aquarium, you're an 29 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,920 adult operating a small business. Twitch also limited the size of advertiser logos to a maximum 30 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:35,840 of 3% of the screen, like a sponsored game of Where's Walmart? and a completely prohibited 31 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,400 promotion of a bunch of products ranging from bait pens to mail enhancement products. 32 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,360 No doubt frustrating many unenhanced viewers. Streamers, of course, took this in stride, 33 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,760 by which I mean they were furious and threatened to boycott. Confronted by thousands of angry 34 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,400 Let's players and reaction streamers and Let's not players, you know, the kind of people who 35 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:59,520 yell for a living. Twitch attempted a swift backtrack, first apologizing for the overly broad 36 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,720 changes, then right before we started filming, rewrote the guidelines, forcing us to rewrite the 37 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:12,560 story and film it again. Come on, Twitch, what won't you screw up? So, the new, just updated, 38 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,800 branded content guidelines doesn't restrict burn denads at all, although changes to the 39 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,440 prohibited types of branded products and the ban on multi-streaming still stands. So in the eyes of 40 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:26,960 Twitch, if you live stream in three places at once, you're still a two time and hoe. Unfortunately, 41 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,920 for streamers looking to jump ship, Twitch's partnership program actually charges a $25 42 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:37,280 fee for anyone looking to leave, just like me on a first date. And thousands of Reddit communities 43 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:42,240 are planning to go dark June 12th in protest of Reddit's proposed API costs, which will likely 44 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,760 spell the end of multiple popular third-party apps such as Apollo, Sync, Relay, and Narwhal. 45 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,880 The list of protesting subreddits is extensive, and at least 37 different communities have over 46 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,760 five million subscribers each. Reddit's actions have been so egregious, it's brought together 47 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:04,640 the forces of r slash anti-work, r slash cryptocurrency, and r slash wolves with watermelons. 48 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,320 One subreddit, however, is planning to cross the picket line, r slash UFOs, which were negged on 49 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,800 the walkout after users protested that they may miss an important revelation in the U.S. 50 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:26,160 government's ongoing public investigation into UFOs. What if on June 12th the aliens 51 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,760 evade and were all caught in their pants down because Reddit user u slash the truth is out 52 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,560 there at 69 failed to man his post? He wasn't narrow to running fast enough. What are we 53 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,720 going to do? The blackout will last at least 48 hours, but some of the subreddits may not come 54 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,920 back at all as their moderators refuse to use Reddit's clunky first-party moderation tools. 55 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:49,040 While it's easy to hate on Reddit moderators as a population composed of power-tripping 56 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,320 busybodies and actual 14-year-olds, Reddit offloads a ton of potentially expensive labor 57 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,680 onto its volunteer moderators. The mods do a lot to make Reddit what it is, both for better and 58 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,880 for worse. While the change to API prices was likely motivated by AI developers using Reddit 59 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,920 as a free training data bucket, pricing out third-party apps isn't necessarily a drawback in 60 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:15,600 Reddit size. I mean, that's capitalism. The platform has increasingly pushed users towards 61 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,000 its first-party app, though less through making it the app of pleasant and convenient experience, 62 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,240 and more through making its mobile website like trying to read a book with both your hands 63 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,720 duct-taped to your face. That's why audio books. 64 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,880 Grab onto your friggin' butts, you guys, because here comes five full quick bits! 65 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,520 The biggest WWDC announcement has finally been revealed. It wasn't the Vision Pro, 66 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:51,040 the Mac Pro, or even the Mac Gaming Revolution. It's that iPadOS 17 will support external webcams, 67 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:57,200 other cameras, and any microphone over USB-C, continuing Apple's long, slow journey of maybe, 68 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:03,120 eventually, justifying that, what's a computer ad by actually making the iPad into a sort of 69 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,880 computer? PC users, however, are still waiting for an apology. Bing users have noticed that entering 70 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,400 a search for Chrome actually prompts Bing to look for news articles about Bing features instead. 71 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,480 Apparently, someone at Microsoft genuinely thought they could serve a full-page Bing ad to 72 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:24,720 Chrome Enthusiasts and blame it on their state-of-the-art AI. Whoa, it's going rogue. 73 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,680 Wouldn't you know it? The error stopped happening minutes after the story broke and 74 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,800 Microsoft was reached for comment. Man, that Sydney sure learns fast. 75 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,000 Instagram is allegedly testing an AI chatbot according to a leaked screenshot. The AI will 76 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,160 answer questions and give advice that you definitely shouldn't take, it's going to be bad, 77 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,680 but more uniquely. The screenshot says you can chat with 30 AI personalities and find which 78 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,240 one you like best. Apparently, the people at Meta looked at chat you between Bing and thought, 79 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,600 you know what would make a thing more stable? More split personalities. 80 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:07,040 30 of them? Yeah, 30. They deleted 20 last time. The Bing, presumably, the most popular personality 81 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:12,480 will then be uploaded to Mark Zuckerberg, who has none. I mean, it's not that they gave him legs. 82 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:18,240 That's true, they finally did. They spent all that time greasing him with Sun's screen. 83 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,000 Have you seen that picture? Well, that's actually his motor oil. 84 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,360 The FBI is warning that scammers are increasingly using public photos and videos to create deep 85 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:33,040 faked sex tapes as a tool for extortion. Sex-stortion, if you will. Personally, I won't. 86 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,440 This is an evolution of an already common practice of catfishing unsuspecting people 87 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,280 into sharing sexual videos and images of themselves for blackmail purposes. 88 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,840 This is why I don't have friends. Because you kept extorting them for news? 89 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:51,040 No, no. So I never get extorted. I always come out on top. I'm always on top. 90 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,480 Even more people are potentially vulnerable to this new scam, 91 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,640 as most of us have pictures and videos of ourselves hosting a thrice weekly news show. 92 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:06,240 It's a common problem. And a Redditor has created anime-inspired QR codes that actually work using stable diffusion. 93 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,520 According to their website, they were able to train a model of ControlNet, 94 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,600 which is stable diffusion's neural network, to generate QR codes resembling 95 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,760 traditional Chinese patterns and Japanese Ukiyo-e art styles. 96 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,800 More importantly, they made codes that look like waifus. 97 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,920 Truly, this is an age of wonders. Now, lonely internet dwellers can fall in love with URLs. 98 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:32,400 I mean, I've already made a shrine to the YouTube channel in my closet and image your channel. Please answer my emails. 99 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,960 And you'll fall in love with Friday's episode when you come back for more tech-linked. 100 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:42,160 But don't get like weird and drawn anime Riley Husbando. Or honestly do, we could use the engagement. 101 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:44,560 Or you could draw me.