1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,560 The European Union has passed sweeping regulations over the cryptocurrency market, 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:09,680 causing mass reports of crying crypto enthusiasts who felt the disturbance in the broarse. 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,280 The law is complicated, so aren't you lucky that TechLinked is the show where 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:18,800 your boy L.M. Jesus and shooter editor Oliver come in on a stat holiday to give you the lowdown. 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,800 The markets in crypto assets, or Mika regulation, when it's not trying to look like Grace Kelly, 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:31,360 will require any business planning to issue trade or store crypto assets, such as crypto exchanges 7 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:37,760 or digital wallets, be licensed to do so within the entirety of the EU. On top of this, the act is 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,760 meant to combat tax evasion, money laundering, and war profiteering by making transactions traceable, 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,400 something that will anger crypto bros since they're the number one on the list of people who 10 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,280 hate tracings just above my high school art teacher. The tracing will come into effect 11 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,680 January of 2026, so if you've been eyeballing that very stylish black market RPG7, you better hurry. 12 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,960 The regulations will also hold exchanges liable for customer losses, as one of the biggest pushes 13 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:11,280 to write this legislation was a collapse of FTX. So to say something I'm sure hasn't been said 14 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:19,120 since November 2022, thanks Sam Begman Fried. Good on ya. Last week, a massive number of ASUS 15 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,320 routers lost network connectivity, perhaps in a symbolic representation of the customers the 16 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:29,120 company will lose if they can't go a single week without a controversy. On Wednesday, 17 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,720 the ROG forum blew up with users claiming their router froze after it had run out of memory, 18 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,600 which is weird since the only thing my router has to remember is to not drop connection while 19 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,120 I'm streaming Monk starring Emmy Award winner Tony Shalub. In the case of all users, their issues 20 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,600 occurred at the same time, yet none of them were hosting online call of duty matches. 21 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,760 You know how it's always the host who has like the crappiest connection? On Thursday, 22 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,880 ASUS put out a news release stating, an error in the configuration of their server settings 23 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:05,440 file was the cause of the issue. If that sounded too vague, a redditor in r slash sysadmin explained 24 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:11,600 that ASUS pushed a corrupted definition file for ASD, a built-in security demon found in many of 25 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,560 ASUS' routers. That's what you get for trusting demons. You ask them for fame and they put you 26 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,640 on an internet show where you'll never be quite as loved as the kind, silly guy with a mustache. 27 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,080 And free-to-play game War Thunder experienced heavy backlash when they tried to change the in-game 28 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,720 economy, which allows me to make the sense of pride and accomplishment reference I needed to 29 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:43,600 complete my iU's Reddit bingo card. If I win, I get to erase one cursed post from my memory forever. 30 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,760 Earlier this month, developer Gaijin Entertainment proposed a bundle of changes to the in-game economy 31 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,280 that would make it harder to progress after matches without paying real money. In response, 32 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,160 the players of the 20th century Combat Sim did what they had been trained to do for years. 33 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,160 Precision bombing of the game's Steam reviews. And wouldn't you know it, Gaijin listened to 34 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,640 the community. Writing a post on the game's forum announcing the changes were being removed, 35 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:14,880 and the post didn't even leak any classified documents. Impressive. Maybe they should have 36 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:19,200 stopped there though because the creative director of Gaijin decided to write a post on the game's 37 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:24,240 site explaining how the economies of free-to-play games work, which a lot of War Thunder players 38 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,960 felt was out of touch. Perhaps because a lot of these players have spent thousands of hours 39 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,600 pretending to fight in early 20th century battles in a free-to-play game. But I don't know, just a 40 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,720 thought. Maybe they know what's a little something about being out of touch. Maybe they know a little 41 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:41,440 something about free-to-play games. Quick bits are like the fries at the bottom of the fast food bag 42 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:46,320 of tech news, except these bad boys are always piping hot. And there's a handsome man in there too, 43 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:51,600 talking about this guy. And also, Oliver's kind of cute too. Indie game developer Rusty Lake has 44 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,040 had their Discord name stolen and is telling other Indie devs to beware. If you're not familiar, 45 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,040 Discord announced they would be removing their four-digit discriminators that allowed multiple 46 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,600 users to have the same username. The company said they would give username priority to owners 47 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,880 of verified servers, but it seems that didn't help Rusty Lake, or as they're now known on Discord, 48 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:18,400 the underscore real underscore Rusty underscore Lake 1. A bug on Twitter seems to be reviving 49 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:24,320 deleted tweets. Journalist James Vincent deleted all of his tweets, likes and retweets on May 8th, 50 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:30,320 yet suddenly today he found many to be restored. Apparently, Vincent isn't alone, as a security 51 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,000 expert and lesson in masculinity, Dick Morrill, found 34,000 of his previously deleted tweets 52 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,720 had also reappeared. An ex-Twitter employee claimed this probably occurred because servers 53 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:46,240 were improperly moved between data centers. The ex-ex-the-everything-app employee made this 54 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:52,160 claim on Mastodon, so maybe there's a Dick Morrill to this story. China has banned U.S. chip 55 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:57,040 manufacturer Micron from key infrastructure projects after a national security review 56 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:03,120 the country began in April. The state cyberspace agency of China took a break from traveling 57 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:09,200 to Mars in the metaverse, I assume, to claim Micron's products have serious network security risks. 58 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:15,360 Just one day after President Biden and other G7 leaders agreed to reduce dependence on China. 59 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,400 Last month, the U.S. asked South Korea not to fill any Chinese chip shortfalls if Micron was banned, 60 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,640 but she didn't invite President Yoon Se-kyul to your fancy G7-party, Digit Joe. So now he's with 61 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:32,640 Joe Mama. Amazon will now let people buy alcohol without showing an ID using the company's 62 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:38,320 palm scanning technology. Apparently this technology has been used for years at Amazon's ghost stores 63 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,160 because there's nothing more convenient than giving tech giants your biometric data. 64 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:47,680 The first venue to support this feature is Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. 65 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,760 Any fan attending a Rockies game will still vastly overpay for mediocre beer, 66 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:56,480 but now they can do it slightly faster. And researchers in Japan have built concrete houses 67 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:02,160 using dirty diapers. In a paper published in Nature, the engineers cite the demand for low-cost 68 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:07,280 housing in Indonesia and note that the infrastructure for recycling things like diapers don't exist 69 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:13,840 outside of developed countries. Ergo, diaper houses. By sterilizing and shredding the diapers, 70 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:18,480 the researchers found that they could use the literally shittier material to replace up to 71 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,600 40% of the sand in concrete that's used for non-load-bearing walls. Though technically, 72 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:30,000 a non-zero percentage of that wall will be made of loads. And we'll have loads more tech news for 73 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,200 you on Wednesday. So set a reminder, ring a bell, hire a rooster, do whatever it takes to come back 74 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,760 here. We're very lonely in this building. There's just two of us. Please come save us.