1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,360 You may ask yourself, where is my tech news? 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:09,360 And you may ask yourself, how, why did, where did it go? 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,400 All right, that's enough. Valve will apparently help Lenovo reveal 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,600 the future of gaming handhelds at CES in January, 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,880 according to an email received by Sean Hollister at the Verge. 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:26,400 Lenovo says they'll have SteamOS and Steam Deck co-designer 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,440 Pierre Lou Graffet featured as a special guest, 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,960 causing many to speculate that the Lenovo Legion Go S 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,600 with that mysterious Steam button that has been leaking all over our feeds 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:42,600 the past few weeks may indeed run SteamOS instead of Windows. 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:48,640 But hold on, there's another special guest, Xbox executive Jason Ronald, 12 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,640 who Lenovo is referring to as Microsoft's VP 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,960 of Next Generation. I can't imagine that Microsoft would be jazzed 14 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:02,120 about Lenovo going with a competing operating system instead of Windows, but given their recent marketing push, 15 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:07,000 Jason might be there just to demonstrate that even a SteamOS powered gaming handheld 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,040 is somehow also an Xbox. 17 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,600 They're never gonna release an Xbox handheld. They're just gonna say, look behind you, 18 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,200 you already have one, aww. 19 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,680 With any luck, a SteamOS handheld not made by Valve 20 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,480 will be far from the weirdest thing CES has to offer. 21 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,480 Evan Blass, leaker of the Legion Go S, 22 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:33,760 also leaked Lenovo's laptop with an extending rollable display. 23 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,120 And One X Player has teased their own handheld PC 24 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,240 with a removable keyboard. And that's just the vanilla stuff. 25 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,800 It gets way crazier. There's like furry robots. 26 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,800 Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. Later, later, I'll show you later. 27 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,560 YouTube says enough is enough. It's gonna start cracking down 28 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:56,160 on what it calls egregious clickbait defined in their blog post as, 29 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:01,880 videos where the title or thumbnail promises viewers something that the video doesn't deliver. 30 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,560 Which they say is especially important for news content. 31 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,720 Hey, that's us. Now, I know some of you are looking 32 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,960 at the title of this video and thinking, 33 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,880 eww. But look at the examples YouTube provides here. 34 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,920 A video title saying the president resigned 35 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:25,320 where the video doesn't address the president's resignation. And then a thumbnail saying it's news content 36 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:30,360 when it's not. Is it egregious clickbait to title a video? 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,400 Wait, what? It's not deceptive. 38 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,640 It would have to have some information in it for that. Although some people clearly thought the headline 39 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:42,080 in the thumbnail was correct when the point was to say that it's not. 40 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,380 Look, this isn't about me. This is about India. Because that's where Google says 41 00:02:46,380 --> 00:02:50,840 they'll be rolling out this crackdown first. And this is also about Google 42 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,520 because you could argue Google clickbaited users 43 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,240 by flip-flopping on the issue of digital fingerprinting. 44 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,480 Which is when software uses little details to create a unique identifier 45 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,880 that can track a user across websites. The UK's data protection regulator 46 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,760 has called Google out for saying verbatim in 2019 47 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,680 that they think digital fingerprinting subverts user choice and is wrong. 48 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,040 Yet announcing this month that actually they went to college 49 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,160 and they met this really smart guy in Econ class and he thinks it's okay. 50 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,960 So I'm learning so much. He's traveled. 51 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:30,200 The European Commission has published a list of measures 52 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,600 Apple must take to ensure interoperability between iOS slash iPadOS 53 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:41,400 and third-party hardware and software. That means Apple will be expected to actually try 54 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:48,000 to support non-Apple accessories like earbuds that aren't AirPods, can you imagine? 55 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:55,280 But the EU may go as far as to require Apple to let Android or other platforms use AirDrop. 56 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,960 No, thank you. We have our own version that I think no one uses. 57 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,200 After suffering this attack from the EU, Apple responded in the only sensible way. 58 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,360 They started yelling at Meta. In a PDF going through their usual stance 59 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:14,000 about how making it easier to do anything on iOS would cause catastrophic privacy breaches, 60 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,600 Apple called out Meta for basically bombarding Apple 61 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,720 with requests to let them slurp up Apple users' data. 62 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,240 And to be fair, I totally believe that Meta's pushing the boundaries here. 63 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:32,120 But Tim, we're just talking about letting iPhone users try smartwatches that aren't the Apple Watch. 64 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,160 Why? Well, cause it would just be a bit- 65 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,440 Why though? You know what, for this example, fair enough. 66 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:43,440 And you may ask yourself, what even are QuickBits? 67 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:51,040 The structure of these videos is perplexing. Tech PowerUp has retested their Intel AeroLake desktop CPUs 68 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:56,000 with the performance fixes Intel outlined this week. And, well, you should check the full report 69 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,520 out in our news sources in the description. But the gist of it is, it's a little better, 70 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,760 but we're all waiting for that bigger boost, Intel said, will be coming next month. 71 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,880 The company also said this week that it was terminating its x86s initiative, 72 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,880 announced a year and a half ago, to make the architecture more efficient. 73 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,840 But Intel just updated it to version 1.2 in September. 74 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,400 Oh, that was so long ago. They had a whole nother CEO. 75 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,480 No sooner had Google unveiled a new AI model 76 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,600 called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, 77 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:34,440 equipped with chain of thought reasoning capability like OpenAI's 01, then OpenAI released an upgraded version 78 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,880 called 03 for researchers to start testing. 79 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,320 Hold on, what happened to 02? It's too smart for its own good. 80 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,160 It annoyed everyone in the OpenAI office. It has too many questions. 81 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,400 OpenAI also released one of its most senior AI researchers 82 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,640 and the ex-Google executive that was heading up chat GPT search. 83 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,440 They must have been particularly annoyed. Storage company Sandisk has undergone 84 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:03,040 a pretty drastic rebrand in preparation for its planned spin-off 85 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:08,920 from parent company Western Digital next year. And honestly, between the bold design, 86 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,200 the meticulously coordinated marketing materials, 87 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:17,640 and this shockingly hype video full of impeccable match cuts revealing the new logo. 88 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,880 Yo, why am I stoked about memory cards right now? 89 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:28,600 Something's wrong. I actually got excited. I was like, Sandisk, yes, let's go. 90 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:34,320 The US Federal Aviation Administration has finally done something about the dang drones. 91 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,480 Drone flights in specific parts of New Jersey have been temporarily banned 92 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,760 with some exceptions for first responders and the like. 93 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,880 The FAA has listed the affected regions on their website. 94 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,000 So if you see any weird aircraft in the sky, 95 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,760 you can probably assume they're hostile aliens. That's what this means. 96 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,800 Or I guess they could be friendly aliens and they just didn't check the website. 97 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,040 Fair enough, should have checked though. And a UK court has ruled 98 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,280 that Australian computer scientist, Craig Wright, 99 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:10,360 will face a year in prison if he doesn't stop claiming that he invented Bitcoin 100 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:16,680 and suing people over it. This guy filed a $1 trillion lawsuit, 101 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,360 trillion against Bitcoin Core and Square 102 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,520 for implementing the cryptocurrency in an improper way, 103 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,200 claiming authority as the creator of Bitcoin for years 104 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,840 using forged documents. How do you get here? 105 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,280 He didn't even have to do this. Just go home, Craig. 106 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,640 It's gone too far. And I think it's time for all of us to do just that. 107 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:44,320 Listen, next week is Christmas and there will only be one episode 108 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,200 of TechLinked, the Christmas special on December 25th. 109 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,520 Regularly scheduled episodes will resume on Monday, December 30th. 110 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:57,480 So take some time off from worrying about the AI dystopia on Monday and Friday. 111 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:58,800 I'll see you on Wednesday.