WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.360 You may ask yourself, where is my tech news? 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.360 And you may ask yourself, how, why did, where did it go? 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:14.400 All right, that's enough. Valve will apparently help Lenovo reveal 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.600 the future of gaming handhelds at CES in January, 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.880 according to an email received by Sean Hollister at the Verge. 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:26.400 Lenovo says they'll have SteamOS and Steam Deck co-designer 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:30.440 Pierre Lou Graffet featured as a special guest, 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:33.960 causing many to speculate that the Lenovo Legion Go S 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.600 with that mysterious Steam button that has been leaking all over our feeds 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.600 the past few weeks may indeed run SteamOS instead of Windows. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:48.640 But hold on, there's another special guest, Xbox executive Jason Ronald, 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:51.640 who Lenovo is referring to as Microsoft's VP 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.960 of Next Generation. I can't imagine that Microsoft would be jazzed 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, 00:01:02.120 --> 00:01:07.000 Jason might be there just to demonstrate that even a SteamOS powered gaming handheld 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.040 is somehow also an Xbox. 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.600 They're never gonna release an Xbox handheld. They're just gonna say, look behind you, 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:18.200 you already have one, aww. 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.680 With any luck, a SteamOS handheld not made by Valve 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.480 will be far from the weirdest thing CES has to offer. 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:28.480 Evan Blass, leaker of the Legion Go S, 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:33.760 also leaked Lenovo's laptop with an extending rollable display. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.120 And One X Player has teased their own handheld PC 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.240 with a removable keyboard. And that's just the vanilla stuff. 00:01:41.240 --> 00:01:44.800 It gets way crazier. There's like furry robots. 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:47.800 Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. Later, later, I'll show you later. 00:01:47.800 --> 00:01:51.560 YouTube says enough is enough. It's gonna start cracking down 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:56.160 on what it calls egregious clickbait defined in their blog post as, 00:01:56.160 --> 00:02:01.880 videos where the title or thumbnail promises viewers something that the video doesn't deliver. 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:05.560 Which they say is especially important for news content. 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.720 Hey, that's us. Now, I know some of you are looking 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:10.960 at the title of this video and thinking, 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:16.880 eww. But look at the examples YouTube provides here. 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:19.920 A video title saying the president resigned 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 00:02:25.320 --> 00:02:30.360 when it's not. Is it egregious clickbait to title a video? 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.400 Wait, what? It's not deceptive. 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 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:42.080 in the thumbnail was correct when the point was to say that it's not. 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.380 Look, this isn't about me. This is about India. Because that's where Google says 00:02:46.380 --> 00:02:50.840 they'll be rolling out this crackdown first. And this is also about Google 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.520 because you could argue Google clickbaited users 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.240 by flip-flopping on the issue of digital fingerprinting. 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.480 Which is when software uses little details to create a unique identifier 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:06.880 that can track a user across websites. The UK's data protection regulator 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:10.760 has called Google out for saying verbatim in 2019 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:15.680 that they think digital fingerprinting subverts user choice and is wrong. 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.040 Yet announcing this month that actually they went to college 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.160 and they met this really smart guy in Econ class and he thinks it's okay. 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:25.960 So I'm learning so much. He's traveled. 00:03:26.920 --> 00:03:30.200 The European Commission has published a list of measures 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:35.600 Apple must take to ensure interoperability between iOS slash iPadOS 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:41.400 and third-party hardware and software. That means Apple will be expected to actually try 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:48.000 to support non-Apple accessories like earbuds that aren't AirPods, can you imagine? 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. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.960 No, thank you. We have our own version that I think no one uses. 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:04.200 After suffering this attack from the EU, Apple responded in the only sensible way. 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:08.360 They started yelling at Meta. In a PDF going through their usual stance 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:14.000 about how making it easier to do anything on iOS would cause catastrophic privacy breaches, 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.600 Apple called out Meta for basically bombarding Apple 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:21.720 with requests to let them slurp up Apple users' data. 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:26.240 And to be fair, I totally believe that Meta's pushing the boundaries here. 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. 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.160 Why? Well, cause it would just be a bit- 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.440 Why though? You know what, for this example, fair enough. 00:04:38.440 --> 00:04:43.440 And you may ask yourself, what even are QuickBits? 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:51.040 The structure of these videos is perplexing. Tech PowerUp has retested their Intel AeroLake desktop CPUs 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.000 with the performance fixes Intel outlined this week. And, well, you should check the full report 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, 00:05:00.520 --> 00:05:04.760 but we're all waiting for that bigger boost, Intel said, will be coming next month. 00:05:04.760 --> 00:05:09.880 The company also said this week that it was terminating its x86s initiative, 00:05:09.880 --> 00:05:13.880 announced a year and a half ago, to make the architecture more efficient. 00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:17.840 But Intel just updated it to version 1.2 in September. 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:21.400 Oh, that was so long ago. They had a whole nother CEO. 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:24.480 No sooner had Google unveiled a new AI model 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.600 called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, 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 00:05:34.440 --> 00:05:37.880 called 03 for researchers to start testing. 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:41.320 Hold on, what happened to 02? It's too smart for its own good. 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:45.160 It annoyed everyone in the OpenAI office. It has too many questions. 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.400 OpenAI also released one of its most senior AI researchers 00:05:49.400 --> 00:05:53.640 and the ex-Google executive that was heading up chat GPT search. 00:05:53.640 --> 00:05:58.440 They must have been particularly annoyed. Storage company Sandisk has undergone 00:05:58.440 --> 00:06:03.040 a pretty drastic rebrand in preparation for its planned spin-off 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:08.920 from parent company Western Digital next year. And honestly, between the bold design, 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.200 the meticulously coordinated marketing materials, 00:06:12.200 --> 00:06:17.640 and this shockingly hype video full of impeccable match cuts revealing the new logo. 00:06:17.640 --> 00:06:20.880 Yo, why am I stoked about memory cards right now? 00:06:22.880 --> 00:06:28.600 Something's wrong. I actually got excited. I was like, Sandisk, yes, let's go. 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:34.320 The US Federal Aviation Administration has finally done something about the dang drones. 00:06:34.320 --> 00:06:38.480 Drone flights in specific parts of New Jersey have been temporarily banned 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.760 with some exceptions for first responders and the like. 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:44.880 The FAA has listed the affected regions on their website. 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:48.000 So if you see any weird aircraft in the sky, 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.760 you can probably assume they're hostile aliens. That's what this means. 00:06:51.760 --> 00:06:56.800 Or I guess they could be friendly aliens and they just didn't check the website. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:01.040 Fair enough, should have checked though. And a UK court has ruled 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.280 that Australian computer scientist, Craig Wright, 00:07:04.280 --> 00:07:10.360 will face a year in prison if he doesn't stop claiming that he invented Bitcoin 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:16.680 and suing people over it. This guy filed a $1 trillion lawsuit, 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.360 trillion against Bitcoin Core and Square 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.520 for implementing the cryptocurrency in an improper way, 00:07:24.520 --> 00:07:28.200 claiming authority as the creator of Bitcoin for years 00:07:28.200 --> 00:07:31.840 using forged documents. How do you get here? 00:07:31.840 --> 00:07:35.280 He didn't even have to do this. Just go home, Craig. 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. 00:07:39.640 --> 00:07:44.320 Listen, next week is Christmas and there will only be one episode 00:07:44.320 --> 00:07:48.200 of TechLinked, the Christmas special on December 25th. 00:07:48.200 --> 00:07:52.520 Regularly scheduled episodes will resume on Monday, December 30th. 00:07:52.520 --> 00:07:57.480 So take some time off from worrying about the AI dystopia on Monday and Friday. 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:58.800 I'll see you on Wednesday.