WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560 The European Union has passed sweeping regulations over the cryptocurrency market, 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:09.680 causing mass reports of crying crypto enthusiasts who felt the disturbance in the broarse. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:13.280 The law is complicated, so aren't you lucky that TechLinked is the show where 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. 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, 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.360 will require any business planning to issue trade or store crypto assets, such as crypto exchanges 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 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.760 meant to combat tax evasion, money laundering, and war profiteering by making transactions traceable, 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 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:53.280 hate tracings just above my high school art teacher. The tracing will come into effect 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. 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:04.960 The regulations will also hold exchanges liable for customer losses, as one of the biggest pushes 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 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 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:24.320 routers lost network connectivity, perhaps in a symbolic representation of the customers the 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:29.120 company will lose if they can't go a single week without a controversy. On Wednesday, 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, 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 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 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.600 occurred at the same time, yet none of them were hosting online call of duty matches. 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:53.760 You know how it's always the host who has like the crappiest connection? On Thursday, 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.880 ASUS put out a news release stating, an error in the configuration of their server settings 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 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 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 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. 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 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.720 economy, which allows me to make the sense of pride and accomplishment reference I needed to 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. 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:49.760 Earlier this month, developer Gaijin Entertainment proposed a bundle of changes to the in-game economy 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:55.280 that would make it harder to progress after matches without paying real money. In response, 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. 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 00:03:06.160 --> 00:03:10.640 the community. Writing a post on the game's forum announcing the changes were being removed, 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:14.880 and the post didn't even leak any classified documents. Impressive. Maybe they should have 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:01.040 Discord announced they would be removing their four-digit discriminators that allowed multiple 00:04:01.040 --> 00:04:05.600 users to have the same username. The company said they would give username priority to owners 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, 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:18.400 the underscore real underscore Rusty underscore Lake 1. A bug on Twitter seems to be reviving 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:24.320 deleted tweets. Journalist James Vincent deleted all of his tweets, likes and retweets on May 8th, 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 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:36.000 expert and lesson in masculinity, Dick Morrill, found 34,000 of his previously deleted tweets 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:40.720 had also reappeared. An ex-Twitter employee claimed this probably occurred because servers 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:46.240 were improperly moved between data centers. The ex-ex-the-everything-app employee made this 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 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:57.040 manufacturer Micron from key infrastructure projects after a national security review 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:03.120 the country began in April. The state cyberspace agency of China took a break from traveling 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. 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:15.360 Just one day after President Biden and other G7 leaders agreed to reduce dependence on China. 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, 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 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 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:38.320 palm scanning technology. Apparently this technology has been used for years at Amazon's ghost stores 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:42.160 because there's nothing more convenient than giving tech giants your biometric data. 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. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.760 Any fan attending a Rockies game will still vastly overpay for mediocre beer, 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:56.480 but now they can do it slightly faster. And researchers in Japan have built concrete houses 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 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:07.280 housing in Indonesia and note that the infrastructure for recycling things like diapers don't exist 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:13.840 outside of developed countries. Ergo, diaper houses. By sterilizing and shredding the diapers, 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:18.480 the researchers found that they could use the literally shittier material to replace up to 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.600 40% of the sand in concrete that's used for non-load-bearing walls. Though technically, 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 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 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.