WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.520 Apple's game porting toolkit, announced at WWDC, looks like it's a way bigger deal 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 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. 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.040 Just accept it. 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 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:31.040 toolkit, or GBT, weird coincidence, can be used right now to run Windows games at playable 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:35.360 frame rates and quality settings similar to the Steam Deck's Proton compatibility layer, 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, 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:45.120 into playing games with me, a person who definitely doesn't have friends. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.280 The kit uses source code from Crossover, a wine-based open-source solution for running 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:57.680 Windows games on macOS, first published in 2007. According to a statement from Code Weavers, 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. 00:01:04.240 --> 00:01:08.080 That's an oversight that's apparently old enough to drive. Apparently, the new toolkit 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:13.600 will quickly convert Windows games to run on macOS, translating Intel-based x86 instructions 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:19.360 and Windows APIs to the corresponding Apple Silicon instructions and macOS APIs. Developers 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 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:28.960 runs before fully porting a game. Some individual users have already tried running major titles 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, 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 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.640 first released on the PlayStation 4, boom, roasted. 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:49.680 Twitch updated its terms of service with restricted new rules on sponsorships and 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:54.080 multi-streaming on Tuesday in the platform's latest attempt to trim down its user base. 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 00:02:00.080 --> 00:02:04.960 streamers. Twitch's new guidelines stated that sponsored videos, banners, and audio ads that 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:09.920 are burned in would be prohibited, and a previous policy banning Twitch partners and affiliates 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:15.040 from simultaneous live streaming on Twitch-like platforms, also known as simulcasting, will now 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:20.960 apply to everyone without advance written permission from Twitch. It's like getting a permission 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 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.920 adult operating a small business. Twitch also limited the size of advertiser logos to a maximum 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 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:40.400 promotion of a bunch of products ranging from bait pens to mail enhancement products. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.360 No doubt frustrating many unenhanced viewers. Streamers, of course, took this in stride, 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.760 by which I mean they were furious and threatened to boycott. Confronted by thousands of angry 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 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.520 yell for a living. Twitch attempted a swift backtrack, first apologizing for the overly broad 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.720 changes, then right before we started filming, rewrote the guidelines, forcing us to rewrite the 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, 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.800 branded content guidelines doesn't restrict burn denads at all, although changes to the 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 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, 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:31.920 for streamers looking to jump ship, Twitch's partnership program actually charges a $25 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 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 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:47.760 spell the end of multiple popular third-party apps such as Apollo, Sync, Relay, and Narwhal. 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:52.880 The list of protesting subreddits is extensive, and at least 37 different communities have over 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:57.760 five million subscribers each. Reddit's actions have been so egregious, it's brought together 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:04.640 the forces of r slash anti-work, r slash cryptocurrency, and r slash wolves with watermelons. 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 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:20.800 the walkout after users protested that they may miss an important revelation in the U.S. 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:26.160 government's ongoing public investigation into UFOs. What if on June 12th the aliens 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 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 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 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.920 back at all as their moderators refuse to use Reddit's clunky first-party moderation tools. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:49.040 While it's easy to hate on Reddit moderators as a population composed of power-tripping 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:54.320 busybodies and actual 14-year-olds, Reddit offloads a ton of potentially expensive labor 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 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:04.880 for worse. While the change to API prices was likely motivated by AI developers using Reddit 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 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:15.600 Reddit size. I mean, that's capitalism. The platform has increasingly pushed users towards 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:20.000 its first-party app, though less through making it the app of pleasant and convenient experience, 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 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.720 duct-taped to your face. That's why audio books. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.880 Grab onto your friggin' butts, you guys, because here comes five full quick bits! 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:43.520 The biggest WWDC announcement has finally been revealed. It wasn't the Vision Pro, 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, 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:57.200 other cameras, and any microphone over USB-C, continuing Apple's long, slow journey of maybe, 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 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:08.880 computer? PC users, however, are still waiting for an apology. Bing users have noticed that entering 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:14.400 a search for Chrome actually prompts Bing to look for news articles about Bing features instead. 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:18.480 Apparently, someone at Microsoft genuinely thought they could serve a full-page Bing ad to 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. 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:31.680 Wouldn't you know it? The error stopped happening minutes after the story broke and 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:36.800 Microsoft was reached for comment. Man, that Sydney sure learns fast. 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.000 Instagram is allegedly testing an AI chatbot according to a leaked screenshot. The AI will 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, 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:51.680 but more uniquely. The screenshot says you can chat with 30 AI personalities and find which 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, 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.600 you know what would make a thing more stable? More split personalities. 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 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. 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. 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.000 Have you seen that picture? Well, that's actually his motor oil. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:27.360 The FBI is warning that scammers are increasingly using public photos and videos to create deep 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. 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:37.440 This is an evolution of an already common practice of catfishing unsuspecting people 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:41.280 into sharing sexual videos and images of themselves for blackmail purposes. 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:45.840 This is why I don't have friends. Because you kept extorting them for news? 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. 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.480 Even more people are potentially vulnerable to this new scam, 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.640 as most of us have pictures and videos of ourselves hosting a thrice weekly news show. 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. 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:09.520 According to their website, they were able to train a model of ControlNet, 00:08:09.520 --> 00:08:13.600 which is stable diffusion's neural network, to generate QR codes resembling 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.760 traditional Chinese patterns and Japanese Ukiyo-e art styles. 00:08:17.760 --> 00:08:20.800 More importantly, they made codes that look like waifus. 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:08:43.760 --> 00:08:44.560 Or you could draw me.