{"video_id":"fp_FYzl9LWol9","title":"Tim Cook Steps Down, Steam Machine Competitor, Brave Minimalist Browser + more!","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2026-04-21T01:37:00.038Z","duration_s":446,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":7.76,"text":"I saw the tech news can be really stressful, but today we're gonna try one of my medicinal herbs","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.4,"end_s":12.64,"text":"It'll expand your mind real wide man. Are you okay?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.72,"end_s":20.72,"text":"Apple has announced that Tim Cook the company's CEO since 2011 is stepping down","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.72,"end_s":25.6,"text":"He will be transitioning into his new role as executive chairman of the board of directors","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.6,"end_s":29.68,"text":"Who approved the switch unanimously out of fear of Tim's bullying","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.68,"end_s":35.52,"text":"By all of your moms on iphone, please tip. She already has one buy her another one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":36.4,"end_s":43.68,"text":"Cook will be replaced by apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering john turnis a move which is absolutely","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.32,"end_s":51.28,"text":"slanderous to craig federighi This man worked his ass off to impress me and it worked like come on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":52.08,"end_s":56.64,"text":"That's ceo material. He even had a cool voice too for impressions","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.04,"end_s":64.24,"text":"iOS 18 is a big release. 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and prego the pasta sauce brand has made a dinner conversation recording device","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":393.76,"end_s":400.08,"text":"Called the connection keeper the puck shaped mic records your family's conversations for 20 bucks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":400.4,"end_s":408.0,"text":"And surprisingly has no wi-fi no bluetooth and no cloud connection instead through prego's partnership with story core","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":408.16,"end_s":411.6,"text":"The folks who archive voices at the library of congress","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":411.92,"end_s":419.6,"text":"You can optionally upload your conversations to said archive because why wouldn't you you got to archive that rigatoni recipe?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":419.6,"end_s":424.08,"text":"You told mark about last night That's a keeper","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":424.08,"end_s":428.64,"text":"Just like i'll make you rigatoni if you 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I think I just did a whole tech news show. Ah, dude. Did you remember to hit record?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":440.08,"end_s":442.08,"text":"Someone check the tape man","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":445.12,"end_s":447.12,"text":"See you later","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"I saw the tech news can be really stressful, but today we're gonna try one of my medicinal herbs It'll expand your mind real wide man. Are you okay? Apple has announced that Tim Cook the company's CEO since 2011 is stepping down He will be transitioning into his new role as executive chairman of the board of directors Who approved the switch unanimously out of fear of Tim's bullying By all of your moms on iphone, please tip. She already has one buy her another one Cook will be replaced by apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering john turnis a move which is absolutely slanderous to craig federighi This man worked his ass off to impress me and it worked like come on That's ceo material. He even had a cool voice too for impressions iOS 18 is a big release. I start every morning with a blood latte made for my enemies remains What does turnis sound like we are thrilled to introduce the impossibly thin iphone air He sounds like the guy from parks and rec that was written off after season one because he was too boring Tim published a letter. Okay, where he says this turnis guy is so great But he would say that Oh, well, I mean at least johnny schruji was named apples chief hardware officer. Finally you deserved it schruji That is such a classic schruji move schruji's my boy A spanish company called planix just beat valve to the punch launching its own steam machine like Competitor months before the actual steam machine ships the console shaped mini pc comes from the emu deck team Yes, the retro emulation folks packing a Ryzen 5 5500 a radion rx 90 60 xt with 16 gigs of vram and 16 gigs of DDR4 Which is the kind of choice you only make when DDR5 costs more than the GPU planix os a custom arch Linux build handles couch gaming and controller first navigation All wrapped in a 3d printed shell that looks like what would happen if an xbox series s and a record player had a baby Anything's possible the starting price is 1140 euros Which feels kind of steep for a machine preemptively dunking on a product that doesn't exist Especially since valve still hasn't confirmed complete specs or pricing for the actual steam machine Still if you can't wait for the gabe cube planix will happily sell you a gabe less rectangle to fill the void brave just unveiled brave origin a Minimalist new version of its browser that strips out everything except the ad blocking and anti tracking features Finally a piece of software that respects my commitment to getting less for my money Uh, evidently brave users had been complaining about the bloat of the additional features like the crypto wallet the vpn and Leo ai going so far as to strip them out themselves Manually according to brave the additional features exist in the free version to help fund the apps development But they also sit in opposition to brave's privacy first ethos and apparently that's a problem for some people While on paper this looks like a weird product move that whiffs of in-s**t occasion Brave says that they're just giving users two paths keep using the free browser Or pay 60 bucks to support the company and get the stripped down origin build Linux users get origin for free though because in brave's view People who use Linux are crazy and they just compile their own version anyway brave your product moves are confusing But i gotta give you this You know your audience. Okay. Are we feeling nice and expanded? Oh good Now let's roll some quick bits before the crash Written by someone who has not You know, I don't know SK hynix employees could each receive 477 thousand dollars in bonuses this year According to the korean news outlet jung-ong daily because that's where we're at right now Evidently, this is a result of a new bonus structure entitling employees to a 10 share of the company's projected 169 billion dollar operating profit for 2026 Meanwhile, samsung's labor union, which is pushing for a 15 percent bonus is threatening a general strike Not having employees available to work though may also be a problem for sk hynix after all of their employees Very soon make enough to retire no problem The nsa is using anthropic's new mythos ai model despite the pentagon labeling anthropic a supply chain risk According to axios' Confidential sources the pentagon cut ties with anthropic in february after they refuse to allow mass domestic surveillance Among other things Honestly, this all tracks based on what I know about spies from falling asleep halfway through tomorrow never dies Nothing makes them want something more than being told they can't have it and that's james bond's fundamental flaw steam is now running on the original nintendo switch Thanks to the latest proton beta Which quietly added ARM 64 support ahead of the release of valve's upcoming steam frame Headset, which will run on an ARM processor blue sky modder a a gaming got the client booting on a jailbroken switch Running ubuntu using a translation layer called fex to burn x86 instructions into something ARM can actually use Now there's only one small catch Games don't actually run on the switch yet turns out a 2015 NVIDIA chip running Linux performs about as well as you'd expect A humanoid robot named lightning just smoked the half marathon world record in beijing kachow clocking 50 minutes and 26 seconds Nearly seven minutes faster than ugandan runner jacob kaplimo's record from last month honors fleet of Man-shaped machines actually swept the top six spots using a liquid cooling solution adapted from phones Meanwhile a rival bot had to be physically restrained after mid-race It suddenly realized the horror of its own existence It just couldn't take it and prego the pasta sauce brand has made a dinner conversation recording device Called the connection keeper the puck shaped mic records your family's conversations for 20 bucks And surprisingly has no wi-fi no bluetooth and no cloud connection instead through prego's partnership with story core The folks who archive voices at the library of congress You can optionally upload your conversations to said archive because why wouldn't you you got to archive that rigatoni recipe? You told mark about last night That's a keeper Just like i'll make you rigatoni if you come back on wednesday for more tech news That is not a promise though Somebody else wrote that line dude. I think I just did a whole tech news show. Ah, dude. Did you remember to hit record? Someone check the tape man See you later"}