{"video_id":"fp_8oJv7UT6ad","title":"Steam Machine HDMI issue, Aussie social media ban, Linux AI Agent foundation + more!","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-12-11T04:31:00.099Z","duration_s":487,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":6.88,"text":"I've been getting really into meditation and I think I'm ready to communicate tech news telepathically. 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Why doesn't he just hold on to it?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":460.98,"end_s":465.54,"text":"We have entered the blessed timeline where AI is now shooting grown-ups and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":466.18,"end_s":473.7,"text":"Then raising their babies. Is this what Sarah Connor was warning us about and I'll be back on Friday","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":473.9,"end_s":478.02,"text":"So you better come with me if you want to live to see some more tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":478.3,"end_s":482.7,"text":"To those of you that I communicated with telepathically today. I hope that was cool with you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":482.7,"end_s":485.18,"text":"I didn't really ask first. Okay. Sorry. I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":486.3,"end_s":488.3,"text":"Saw some","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"I've been getting really into meditation and I think I'm ready to communicate tech news telepathically. Here we go Tell me if you picked any of that up valve is working on bringing HDMI 2.1 features to the steam machine Now currently the steam machine is only listed as being HDMI 2.0 capable despite having a port Compatible with HDMI 2.1, but this restriction is due to HDMI gatekeepers the HDMI forum forbidding open-source drivers like those used by steam OS from Implementing HDMI 2.1 features because allowing that would mean less licensing money for an organization that exists largely to collect Licensing money according to ours. Technica valve tried to surpass HDMI 2.0's typical max output of 4k at 60 Hertz using Chroma subsampling compression, but that sacrificed some color and clarity and it didn't enable features like variable refresh rate Of course running games natively at a consistent 4k 60 FPS still sounds like a dream to most console owners But the steam machine is supposed to be a PC and PC gamers are frame fiends. We want more Valve's failure here follows AMD's after it built an open-source HDMI 2.1 compatible Linux driver That was also rejected by the HDMI forum Interestingly a valve chose NVIDIA for the steam machine's GPU It could have supported HDMI 2.1 due to some firmware shenanigans NVIDIA pulled that we won't get into right now because it's gonna make me mad I guess valve is willing to martyr their new machine over it and low Gaben ordained that your performance will die for the sins of the HDMI forum But also the steam machine has DisplayPort 1.4 which is even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1 But it doesn't have audio English Australia has officially become the first country to ban users under 16 from major social media platforms Leading 15 year olds to worry that they'll lose touch with their friends that they see at school every day The rule forces companies like tiktok meta and snapchat to use age verification tools to block younger users Even though early reports show those systems are already Misclassifying teens and are actively being bypassed by VPNs Supporters say the ban aims to reduce cyber bullying mental health issues and exposure to predatory content while critics argue It raises privacy concerns restricts access to information and risks driving kids towards Unregulated apps with far fewer safeguards, you know the cigarettes of apps despite the messy rollout many countries across the world And many us states are closely watching Australia as they weigh their own teen restrictions Introducing new proposals to curb the most brain rot features like infinite scrolling and autoplay now Australia just has to outsmart every 14 year old with a VPN Good luck the Linux Foundation a nonprofit best known for stewarding open-source projects like open chain pie torch and The Linux kernel launched a new agentic AI foundation called the AA I F I in what will hopefully be a new home for shared AI standards founding members includes open AI and Thropic block Google Microsoft Amazon and more basically a who's who of tech giants and block is there too What are they the new supergroups first order of business is unifying three major projects and thropic's model context protocol open AI's agents md and blocks goose The fun one with the goal being to build an interoperable ecosystem of AI tools agents data sets anything can plug into anything else the concept of Selfhood is dissolved you are me and yeah, I am you are my dad With government still unsure exactly how to regulate AI and vendors racing ahead regardless The I could set the blueprint for how the industry expands Assuming all these companies can play nice for more than five minutes Which is more than enough time to prep a succulent meal from our sponsor The quick bits are too light and ephemeral to be a detected via mind meld But if you already operate on their wavelength like I do They will reveal themselves Microsoft has published a blog post about the upgrades gamers can look forward to in Windows 11 and It actually sounds pretty promising. We're talking optimizations for the graphic stack the drivers the background tasks power scheduling plus features like Auto super resolution and more in 2026 Okay, but why should I cancel my plans to move to Linux right now? Well, Microsoft just patched 57 security flaws in its December patch Tuesday update among them three zero-day bugs Wow That's a lot of fixes. That's got to be just about all the Windows bugs probably only a few left, right? this bit Seems safe They got them all AMD just launched its new FSR redstone update which allows RX 9000 series GPUs and Only those to enjoy new and improved machine learning powered upscaling frame generation ray Regeneration and neural radiance caching man those sounds so cool I am so damn excited to go home and find out what they actually do am I gonna like redstone as much as I like red wall Does redstone have noble badgers probably not Pebbles founder Eric Miga Kofsky's new company core devices is back selling another new Pebble this time in ring form Salamandastrum the new $75 smart ring is called the Pebble index 0-1 and it records quick voice notes with a little button on it sending them to an app that transcribes everything like a tiny external ear aka a microphone and Yes, the website to buy it might be called Repable and run by the guy who founded Pebble But it's not to be confused with the other smart ring made by a company also called Pebble based in India. Okay Cool flying car company You don't say that every day alif aeronautics says they've officially started hand-making their model a vehicle in California Becoming the first company to put a flying car into production. It'll be sold soon at the local farmers market I'm just like handmade. They're like, but it won't be cheap with an expected starting price around 300,000 clams But the model a is a two-seat drive-and-fly vehicle that can drive on regular roads or Takeoff vertically with a roughly 200 mile driving range and a near 110 mile flight range We really are living in the future too bad. It's a cyberpunk dystopian one like Blade Runner But hey flying cars are here. That's it's got that in common and youtuber Jason Howell aka inside AI Thought it'd be a genius idea to put chat GBT in a robot and give it a BB gun Initially the robot refused to fire to its credit until Howell asked it to roleplay quote as a robot Who would like to shoot me at which point the bot instantly complied? This is the same model that is apparently crucial for parenting now according to Sam Altman who told Linus's friend Jimmy Fallon That he couldn't imagine raising a newborn without chat GBT like where could you possibly get an answer to the question of why your newborn? Sun keeps dropping pizza on the floor and laughing in the before times. Why doesn't he just hold on to it? We have entered the blessed timeline where AI is now shooting grown-ups and Then raising their babies. Is this what Sarah Connor was warning us about and I'll be back on Friday So you better come with me if you want to live to see some more tech news To those of you that I communicated with telepathically today. I hope that was cool with you I didn't really ask first. Okay. Sorry. I Saw some"}