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Google has revealed what is going to be the successor to Chromebooks.

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Googlebooks.

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They're gonna come out this fall running Google's Android-based Aluminium OS,

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but don't worry, that's just the code name. They're gonna have a different name for it

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by the time it launches. They got the same crack branding team on it

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as the one that came up with Googlebook. Googlebook.

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I'm Riley Murdock, this is Techlinked, and the Googlebook announcement

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comes ahead of Google I.O., the company's annual Dev Conference.

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This year's theme, even more AI. I mean, Google VP, John Miletus says the Googlebook

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will run native Android apps with no emulation

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because it'll be running an OS built on the Android stack. Something that many of us were very excited about

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because I guess we assumed that Google wouldn't stuff it full of AI bloat.

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I don't know why we thought that. Google was showing this kind of stock Googlebook imagery

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in a lot of the presentation, but they didn't actually give any details on hardware.

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Apparently it's going to be a very similar situation to the one with Chromebooks.

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Miletus says Google is working closely with major OEMs

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from Acer to Lenovo to ensure premium quality,

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and Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are all on board on the processor side,

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meaning that both x86 and ARM support

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is baked in to Aluminium OS right out of the gate.

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Google similarly did not go into a ton of detail about Aluminium OS,

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but they did talk a lot about Magic Pointer,

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which summons Gemini whenever you wiggle your cursor.

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So you can wiggle it over a table of data

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to turn it into a charter, wiggle it over an image of a Japanese storefront

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to get a translation. According to Google, the Magic Pointer is so important

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because pointing is really at the core of a lot of the interactions we have.

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I thought it was human connection, but no, actually, I just, this is the core of a lot.

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I just kind of go around, but it's where the Facebook poke came from.

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After months of waiting, the Trump phone is finally here,

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asterisk, asterisk on basically everything in that sentence.

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People who put down a $100 pre-order deposit for the Trump phone have been freaking out this past week

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after Trump Mobile updated its terms and conditions

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on April 6th. This led to people posting a lot

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of demonstrably false information on social media.

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Posts went viral claiming that the terms and conditions said that the phone would not arrive,

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that people would not get their deposits back or refunded, that 600,000 pre-orders of the phone

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were confirmed. According to the Verge, however, that claim of 600,000 pre-orders is just,

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that came out of nowhere, someone made that up. And the terms and conditions do have

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a lot of weird language in there about how Trump Mobile might not release a phone.

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Just because you gave us $100, doesn't mean we're going to release a phone.

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I don't know. However, they do very explicitly promise refunds

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if the phone never ships. Who knows if they're going to honor that,

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but it's in there. The general vibe on the internet for the past week

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and a half has been that the Trump phone is dead,

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which is a totally fair thing to think. I thought it was dead a long time ago.

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But even more reporting from the Verge has surfaced evidence that the Trump phone

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is more real than it's ever been. It got FCC approval back in January

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and PTCRB approval in March, which is reportedly one of the final steps

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before a phone actually launches. And sure enough, Trump Mobile stated this morning

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that the phone is going to ship this week.

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Now, that said, the aforementioned terms and conditions also say delivery will come in no specific timeframe,

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which could put it anywhere between now and the eventual heat death of the universe.

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But the important thing is that we should all keep doing our best to figure out

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what is it going to happen with this phone? I mean, stability of the stock market,

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you know, inflation, wars happening, that's all,

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that's fine. We got to figure out what is up with this yellow colored phone.

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Meta employees across the US have begun to organize protests in response to the company's new

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mouse and keyboard tracking software. The pushback comes after last month's announcement

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that the tool would be logging employee activity in order to train the AI agents that Meta planned

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to use to replace those same employees. The company then announced that 10% of staff

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would be laid off on May 20th to help fund $135 billion in AI spending.

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So the fallout has triggered unprecedented worker

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organizing at Meta with the movement now spreading to the UK through a tech workers union.

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So I guess congratulations to Zuckerberg for finally achieving Meta's goal

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of bringing people together. This news comes during a rough stretch

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for the cursed puppet that is the Zucker corn as Meta stock dropped nearly 9% after Q1 earnings

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showed a loss of 20 million active users across their platforms and an impending $3.7 billion

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penalty as part of the ongoing New Mexico lawsuit.

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Honestly, in moments like this, I kind of feel sorry for Zuck.

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But then I remember that he's actually a lizard 95%

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of the way through a transformation into a man.

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And I actually feel totally fine again. Like you're gonna feel about our sponsor.

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Quick bits. I hardly know her.

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Spotify suffered a global outage Tuesday afternoon

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with more than 15,000 users reporting problems.

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The rest of them didn't even notice. Coincidentally, on the same day,

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the company rolled out a flashy new feature celebrating and recapping your entire listening history.

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Not just this past year. Some users reported that their music had cut out

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but the ads kept playing. Different user decided to go analog,

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listening to records to pass the time. Luckily, Spotify fixed the issue and it's working again now.

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Almost got a bit introspective there listening to an artistic work in its entirety.

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I don't want that. The EU has announced that it is working on

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expanded child safety legislation, intended to crack down on social platforms

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for addictive features. The commission said the move is necessary

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because these platforms have failed to protect children from harm.

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Enforcement is, however, where the EU will struggle

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as their age verification app was called a fundamentally ill-conceived disaster by security experts.

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Which, incidentally, is what my local paper called my high school jazz bands decision

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to incorporate Roman candles into our pep rally performance.

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It looked really cool though. Amazon announced Tuesday it's rolling out

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30 minute deliveries to dozens of US cities starting with bits of Seattle and Philadelphia.

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It's most aggressive push yet into quick commerce.

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The company is using smaller, dark facilities tucked into neighborhoods close to where customers live.

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Knowing Amazon, I think those dark facilities

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might be where they keep employees trying to unionize.

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Or just take more than a five minute break. Apple released iOS 26.5 this week

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alongside a warning to update immediately since it patches over 60 security flaws

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and many of them are serious. As usual, Apple's keeping the specifics vague

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in order to give users a head start before attackers reverse engineer the patches, I guess.

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So you should probably go get the update unless you've always dreamed of being a silent partner

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in a Belarusian crypto mining operation. In Chinese robotics company, Unitree,

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debuted the GD01, a nine foot, 500 kilogram manned mecca

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that could be yours for only $650,000.

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The demo showcases a pilot controlling the bot

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as it stomps happily along before proceeding to knock down a brick wall.

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Why are all of their demos so violent?

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They just accept it. They're just like, well, if we make robots,

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they're gonna kill us. So is it like that's what, but that's not all.

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It also transforms and crawls backwards on all fours

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like the girl from the ring. They one upped it for this one.

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The cockpit doesn't rotate though. So in that form, the pilot would stare helplessly

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at the clouds, a great design for anyone who values

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a nice sunset over surviving a giant robot fight.

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I certainly hope you survive long enough to come back on Friday for more tech news.

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I'm sure we'll have some more quantifiably questionable

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and refreshingly quenchable quality stories.