The European Union has passed sweeping regulations over the cryptocurrency market,
causing mass reports of crying crypto enthusiasts who felt the disturbance in the broarse.
The law is complicated, so aren't you lucky that TechLinked is the show where
your boy L.M. Jesus and shooter editor Oliver come in on a stat holiday to give you the lowdown.
The markets in crypto assets, or Mika regulation, when it's not trying to look like Grace Kelly,
will require any business planning to issue trade or store crypto assets, such as crypto exchanges
or digital wallets, be licensed to do so within the entirety of the EU. On top of this, the act is
meant to combat tax evasion, money laundering, and war profiteering by making transactions traceable,
something that will anger crypto bros since they're the number one on the list of people who
hate tracings just above my high school art teacher. The tracing will come into effect
January of 2026, so if you've been eyeballing that very stylish black market RPG7, you better hurry.
The regulations will also hold exchanges liable for customer losses, as one of the biggest pushes
to write this legislation was a collapse of FTX. So to say something I'm sure hasn't been said
since November 2022, thanks Sam Begman Fried. Good on ya. Last week, a massive number of ASUS
routers lost network connectivity, perhaps in a symbolic representation of the customers the
company will lose if they can't go a single week without a controversy. On Wednesday,
the ROG forum blew up with users claiming their router froze after it had run out of memory,
which is weird since the only thing my router has to remember is to not drop connection while
I'm streaming Monk starring Emmy Award winner Tony Shalub. In the case of all users, their issues
occurred at the same time, yet none of them were hosting online call of duty matches.
You know how it's always the host who has like the crappiest connection? On Thursday,
ASUS put out a news release stating, an error in the configuration of their server settings
file was the cause of the issue. If that sounded too vague, a redditor in r slash sysadmin explained
that ASUS pushed a corrupted definition file for ASD, a built-in security demon found in many of
ASUS' routers. That's what you get for trusting demons. You ask them for fame and they put you
on an internet show where you'll never be quite as loved as the kind, silly guy with a mustache.
And free-to-play game War Thunder experienced heavy backlash when they tried to change the in-game
economy, which allows me to make the sense of pride and accomplishment reference I needed to
complete my iU's Reddit bingo card. If I win, I get to erase one cursed post from my memory forever.
Earlier this month, developer Gaijin Entertainment proposed a bundle of changes to the in-game economy
that would make it harder to progress after matches without paying real money. In response,
the players of the 20th century Combat Sim did what they had been trained to do for years.
Precision bombing of the game's Steam reviews. And wouldn't you know it, Gaijin listened to
the community. Writing a post on the game's forum announcing the changes were being removed,
and the post didn't even leak any classified documents. Impressive. Maybe they should have
stopped there though because the creative director of Gaijin decided to write a post on the game's
site explaining how the economies of free-to-play games work, which a lot of War Thunder players
felt was out of touch. Perhaps because a lot of these players have spent thousands of hours
pretending to fight in early 20th century battles in a free-to-play game. But I don't know, just a
thought. Maybe they know what's a little something about being out of touch. Maybe they know a little
something about free-to-play games. Quick bits are like the fries at the bottom of the fast food bag
of tech news, except these bad boys are always piping hot. And there's a handsome man in there too,
talking about this guy. And also, Oliver's kind of cute too. Indie game developer Rusty Lake has
had their Discord name stolen and is telling other Indie devs to beware. If you're not familiar,
Discord announced they would be removing their four-digit discriminators that allowed multiple
users to have the same username. The company said they would give username priority to owners
of verified servers, but it seems that didn't help Rusty Lake, or as they're now known on Discord,
the underscore real underscore Rusty underscore Lake 1. A bug on Twitter seems to be reviving
deleted tweets. Journalist James Vincent deleted all of his tweets, likes and retweets on May 8th,
yet suddenly today he found many to be restored. Apparently, Vincent isn't alone, as a security
expert and lesson in masculinity, Dick Morrill, found 34,000 of his previously deleted tweets
had also reappeared. An ex-Twitter employee claimed this probably occurred because servers
were improperly moved between data centers. The ex-ex-the-everything-app employee made this
claim on Mastodon, so maybe there's a Dick Morrill to this story. China has banned U.S. chip
manufacturer Micron from key infrastructure projects after a national security review
the country began in April. The state cyberspace agency of China took a break from traveling
to Mars in the metaverse, I assume, to claim Micron's products have serious network security risks.
Just one day after President Biden and other G7 leaders agreed to reduce dependence on China.
Last month, the U.S. asked South Korea not to fill any Chinese chip shortfalls if Micron was banned,
but she didn't invite President Yoon Se-kyul to your fancy G7-party, Digit Joe. So now he's with
Joe Mama. Amazon will now let people buy alcohol without showing an ID using the company's
palm scanning technology. Apparently this technology has been used for years at Amazon's ghost stores
because there's nothing more convenient than giving tech giants your biometric data.
The first venue to support this feature is Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.
Any fan attending a Rockies game will still vastly overpay for mediocre beer,
but now they can do it slightly faster. And researchers in Japan have built concrete houses
using dirty diapers. In a paper published in Nature, the engineers cite the demand for low-cost
housing in Indonesia and note that the infrastructure for recycling things like diapers don't exist
outside of developed countries. Ergo, diaper houses. By sterilizing and shredding the diapers,
the researchers found that they could use the literally shittier material to replace up to
40% of the sand in concrete that's used for non-load-bearing walls. Though technically,
a non-zero percentage of that wall will be made of loads. And we'll have loads more tech news for
you on Wednesday. So set a reminder, ring a bell, hire a rooster, do whatever it takes to come back
here. We're very lonely in this building. There's just two of us. Please come save us.