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YouTube has decided to simplify ad controls on videos which is a fun and positive way to say

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take ad controls away from creators. But it's also complicated, don't think too hard,

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you might get a brain owie. I'm James Shrive, this is TechLink, and this is the YouTube support

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page explaining that starting now, new uploads will only be able to toggle ads on or off rather

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than where they show up and whether they're skippable and unskippable. Midroll ads are

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unchanged, except that manually placed and automatic midrolls can both be enabled now before

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they're mutually exclusive. We live in the best timeline.

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YouTube is also changing the TV watching experience for people who miss that pre-TVO era.

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When watching longer form content on television, all the ads will be grouped together. It seems

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like Google intends for these changes to lead to more ads served to viewers and therefore

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more revenue to Google. But it may just lead people to get up and go to the bath or more

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the microwave when the commercials start just like the good old days. But Google's trying to

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get more cash on another front as well. No, not their Chrome visual redesign, that won't help.

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No, it's the Privacy Sandbox for the web feature. It allows websites to send targeted ads

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based on your browser history, now that third party cookies are harder to come by. Although

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Chrome isn't following Safari's lead and disabling those just yet,

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Chromies will now see a misleading pop-up that does a poor job of explaining that you can actually

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opt out of browser tracking, in that it doesn't explain it at all. Some users, most likely in

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regions with stronger privacy laws, are informed they have a choice because Google understands

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consent about as well as a frat house in an 80s movie. Valve has just received

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radio certification in South Korea for a mysterious new device, as uncovered by a user

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of Elon's favorite website slash letter. We can't be quite sure what the device is because the

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description isn't unique. It's actually identical to those for the Quest 3 and Steam Deck,

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though it could be a new VR headset. According to popular rumors, Valve has been testing a

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standalone VR headset codenamed Deckood that's meant to compete with Quest headsets, and it

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would make sense that this would be their next device. Back in 2021, Valve product designer Greg

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Coomer was elated to be asked if the Steam Deck's custom APU would be used in a standalone headset

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and said it would run very well in that environment. Gaming God Gabe Newell was quoted the next year,

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saying the Steam Deck is a stepping stone to standalone VR. Near the end of that same year,

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Coomer, I love it, revealed to Korean publication This Is Game that Valve is continuing to develop

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VR headsets recently. So you might as well just give away your Valve Index at this point to clear

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up space on your desk. Maybe send it to your favorite tech news show writer named Jacob or something.

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Hey, just a thought. Speaking of leaks, a bunch of information has come out concerning

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Meta's plans for its Quest headsets. Meta needs to win back consumers after Apple started edging

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into their turf, with the Vision Pro by apparently making the upcoming Quest 3 accessories, like

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this leaked headstrap and, consequently, some audio accessories, incompatible with the Quest 2.

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But if expensive accessories that make the Quest 3 less of an affordable alternative to the Vision

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Pro aren't enough to entice buyers, Meta may also have reversed its plans to discontinue the Meta

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Quest Pro line. A report from South Korean outlet Mail and Business Newspaper claims Meta has partnered

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with LG who will build various parts for a high-end headset rumored to be named

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not the Meta Quest Pro 2, but the Meta Quest 4 Pro. That would seem to indicate it's less

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like a second-gen Quest Pro and more like an upgraded Quest Non-Pro. Whatever it is,

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it'll reportedly launch in 2025, by which point the VR hype that Apple has revived may have died

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again. So frankly, I wouldn't worry about it. Quickfits only reach their true power when you

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watch them at no speed. Don't do it. Two massive vulnerabilities allowing iOS devices to be infected

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with malware by opening attachments in iMessage were discovered by researchers at the University

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of Toronto's Citizen Lab. It's Citizen Lab. According to them, the bugs had already been

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used to plant spyware on an iPhone belonging to a Washington DC-based civil society organization.

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Fortunately, a security patch has already been released, so update your iPhone before someone

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else hacks in there and finds that slash fiction you wrote about Riley and me. Let's be honest,

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it's not your best work. Microsoft is partnering with startup Erloom in a devious plot to steal

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all the world's precious carbon dioxide with up to 315,000 anti-American metric tons of CO2

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captured over the next decade. Erloom will be building two new carbon capture facilities in

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the United States, but they've already been collecting carbon on Microsoft's behalf through

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a partner facility in Iceland. After greenhouse gases are kidnapped from the atmosphere, they'll

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be bound to limestone and held in underground wells. The purpose of this global conspiracy?

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Perhaps we'll never know. A Japanese rocket meant to blast off last month finally launched after

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weather delays. In addition to delivering a space telescope into low earth orbit, the rocket

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successfully sent a small rover on its way to moon. We're getting rid of that. Meanwhile,

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NASA admitted their SLS mega rocket program meant to send humans to moon is unaffordable.

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Great, now inflation is so bad even astronauts are going to be replaced by robots.

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You can't afford to live on moon? The craters are getting tinier every year.

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Nintendo has teamed up with Google to make a VR headset, more VR, at least according to

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Leaker and Tatooine Moisture Farmer, Nash Weedle. Weedle who in fairness I'm crying

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did actually predict Metroid Dread's release a year before the game's launch claims he's not

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entirely sure how ghoul is involved, but it might involve a subsidiary that makes micro-LE

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There's no ironclad proof that this is true, but earlier this year a redditor found a VR-related

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patent filed by Nintendo. I'll finally be able to live my ultimate fantasy of stepping into the

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shoes of an overweight shroom addicted Italian plumber. And Toyota has provided more information

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on the unexpected shutdown of all 28 assembly lines at all 14 of their Japanese auto plants

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caused by a computer error in late August. That computer error? Insufficient disk space

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following system maintenance. The plants had backup servers, unfortunately those backups were

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running on the same system as the main server and ran into the exact same error. There was some

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speculation that Toyota may have been hacked, but no, they just needed to uninstall some steam

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games. Baldur's Gate 3 or Starfield, guys, you can't have both. And you can't avoid coming back

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on Monday after you've been playing either Baldur's Gate or Starfield for 45 hours. If this

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gives me more tech news, it never stops. It just keeps going. I'm so tired.