WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.400 Did someone say tech news? Yeah. 00:00:03.400 --> 00:00:06.400 I did. Just now. Are you paying attention? 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.400 You were right there. I still love you. 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:13.600 The US is tightening its export restrictions on advanced AI chips to China, as well as 00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:18.800 a handful of other countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Vietnam. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.520 Vietnam too? Full cry and out loud. Cut that. 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:29.200 Specifically, they're targeting NVIDIA's A800 and H800 GPUs, variants of the A100 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:34.400 and H100, that NVIDIA modified specifically for the Asian market to comply with the Biden 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:39.040 administration's restrictions on chip exports to China last October. 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:44.600 Which is wild, because this October is right now, making last October exactly a year ago. 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.920 So it took nearly an entire calendar year to close a loophole that obvious. 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:55.660 The Cayman Islands, though, they still got that one. Previously, consumer graphics cards were largely unaffected, but the new rules also 00:00:55.660 --> 00:01:01.100 restrict sales of NVIDIA's RTX 4090, currently the most powerful gaming card available if 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:08.820 you don't count the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Technically, vendors can still apply for special licenses to sell these GPUs, but it's not 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:12.820 clear how likely the government is to grant them. 00:01:12.820 --> 00:01:17.940 Companies will also be required to inform the US government before selling chips below 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:23.180 the restriction threshold in case somebody decides to, I don't know, buy a whole bunch 00:01:23.180 --> 00:01:27.300 of slightly inferior chips, then then jury-rig them together into a monstrous, frank-a-chip 00:01:27.300 --> 00:01:30.780 yearning for love and acceptance in a world that fears and misunderstands it. 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:34.500 Google Glass may be gone, but the glass holes are back. 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:39.700 That's right, with the release of the MetaQuest 3, grown adults with money, not me, have been 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:45.000 wearing their fancy new face computers into public, using the device's low-latency pastor 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.100 mode that allows them to navigate the surroundings without running into walls. 00:01:49.100 --> 00:01:54.820 That's half the fun. While that's obviously fine if you're just taking your $500 skull accessory on a walk 00:01:54.820 --> 00:01:59.580 through the park, it raises obvious privacy concerns when random tech bros are exploring 00:01:59.580 --> 00:02:04.780 the wonder of AR by recording banal interactions with identifiable service workers and posting 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:10.260 it on the internet. Sorry, Stacey, who works on the Starbucks on 5th and 7th. 00:02:10.260 --> 00:02:14.740 And that's a problem that will only get worse next year, with the coming release of Meta's 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:21.980 far more subtle Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, which early reviews have called a privacy nightmare. 00:02:21.980 --> 00:02:32.620 The Smart Glasses have the obvious advantage that they don't make the wearer look like 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:37.500 a lost Martian tourist, but the more pressing disadvantage that they portend to future where 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:41.420 literally any douchebag in designer shades might be secretly recording you. 00:02:41.420 --> 00:02:44.260 Who says they aren't already? Check your toilets. 00:02:44.780 --> 00:02:49.740 Following a string of rumors, many anticipated that Apple would announce new iPads with refreshed 00:02:49.740 --> 00:02:56.580 chips on Tuesday. Instead, they were not meant with iPads, but the third product to bear the name Apple Pencil. 00:02:56.580 --> 00:03:06.980 No doubt as punishment for daring to try and get a glimpse behind Tim Apple's curtain. 00:03:06.980 --> 00:03:12.780 But a glimpse of Apple's reasoning would be nice to help the new $80 pencil make sense. 00:03:12.780 --> 00:03:18.820 It charges exclusively through a USB-C port hidden under a slider on its butt. 00:03:18.820 --> 00:03:22.620 But it's much better than the first-gen Pencil's accident-waiting-to-appen design. 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:27.780 But it can still attach magnetically to the newest iPad pros and errors, just not to the 00:03:27.780 --> 00:03:32.100 10th-gen base model iPad, thanks to Apple suddenly deciding the cameras go on the long 00:03:32.100 --> 00:03:38.460 side now. And it's the cheapest Apple Pencil, but it's not compatible with the cheapest iPad in Apple's 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:45.820 current lineup, the 9th-gen. It also doesn't have pressure sensitivity, support for double-tap gestures, and you can't 00:03:45.820 --> 00:03:50.180 even engrave it for Christ's sake, what if I want to send one to my mom that says I 00:03:50.180 --> 00:03:56.620 love you, mom? Here's the third Apple Pencil. But none of that really matters for a big enough chunk of Apple fans who will just buy 00:03:56.620 --> 00:04:01.360 the new one and ask us why it's not charging magnetically after. 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:06.780 As for actual iPad refreshers, those will probably arrive in the spring or summer, maybe, alongside 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:12.500 a folding iPad, which I will purchase immediately. I mean, the other ones fold if you try hard enough. 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:17.140 Just the one time. Can you say quick bits? No, you can't, because you're not hosting this video. 00:04:17.140 --> 00:04:20.380 I am. I get to read them. And no one can stop me. 00:04:20.380 --> 00:04:23.380 Not even the editor. He won't cut me off. I'm going to keep... 00:04:23.380 --> 00:04:26.540 New York legislators have proposed a new bill that would require a criminal background 00:04:26.540 --> 00:04:32.620 check to buy any 3D printer that could theoretically print all or part of a firearm, which unfortunately 00:04:32.620 --> 00:04:42.060 is most of them. Some digest recommends the Creality Ender 3 v2 or the Prusa i3 MK3S Plus, both of which 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:46.620 are bed slinger style FDM printers, the cheapest, most common kind of 3D printer. 00:04:46.620 --> 00:04:50.860 So if you're a New York resident with a felony conviction and a Warhammer addiction, this 00:04:50.860 --> 00:04:55.900 could seriously cramp your style. I mean, unless you like the visits from hot policemen. 00:04:55.900 --> 00:05:02.060 Put the printer down! AMD has released a new beta driver, which disables its Radeon Anti-Leg Plus technology 00:05:02.220 --> 00:05:07.100 In all supported games, after the feature and its predecessor, Anti-Leg Non-Plus led 00:05:07.100 --> 00:05:11.940 to a wave of player bands in CS2, Apex Legends, and Cod. 00:05:11.940 --> 00:05:17.100 Unfortunately, AMD recommended using Anti-Leg to decrease latency caused by their fluid 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:20.900 motion frames after enabling that in all DX11 games. 00:05:20.900 --> 00:05:25.060 It's like if your friend told you that the best way to get promoted at work was to find 00:05:25.060 --> 00:05:28.540 the most powerful person and punch them in the face. 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:35.140 And all that did was make Linus angry. Qualcomm, in collaboration with Google, has announced development of the first ever masked 00:05:35.140 --> 00:05:38.340 market RISK 5 Android SoC. 00:05:38.340 --> 00:05:42.220 Google announced RISK 5 software support for Android OS late last year. 00:05:42.220 --> 00:05:47.180 Now Qualcomm are developing a yet unnamed RISK 5 Snapdragon SoC for wearable devices 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:54.820 to act as the necessary hardware. If successful, this could present a serious competitive threat to ARM as RISK 5's open 00:05:54.820 --> 00:05:59.220 source architecture means it can be both cheaper and more flexible to implement. 00:05:59.220 --> 00:06:09.820 ARM is already suing Qualcomm over license fees and losing ground to RISK 5 in China 00:06:09.820 --> 00:06:14.060 due to export restrictions, as if these companies needed anything else to make Thanksgiving 00:06:14.060 --> 00:06:18.060 more awkward. 00:06:18.060 --> 00:06:23.620 The IRS is advancing a pilot program that will allow residents in 13 states to electronically 00:06:23.620 --> 00:06:27.060 file their tax returns directly with the IRS in 2024. 00:06:27.060 --> 00:06:32.260 The pilot is a response to a long-standing issue going back to 2001, when the IRS partnered 00:06:32.260 --> 00:06:37.260 with tax preparation companies to offer taxpayers with simple returns of free alternative for 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:42.500 filing their taxes. Those companies then made those free alternatives harder to find than a reason to get up in 00:06:42.500 --> 00:06:49.300 the morning. Or a reason to go to bed at night. Why is it both? 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:54.740 When the IRS banned them from doing that, both H&R Block and Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, 00:06:54.740 --> 00:07:00.940 left the agreement. Intuit has been lobbying against direct filing for over a decade, arguing that free alternatives 00:07:00.940 --> 00:07:05.820 are already available. Which they are, you're just never going to find them, and I'm going to stay in bed 00:07:05.820 --> 00:07:12.060 late. Slimbook and Fedora Project announced a new Linux optimized laptop, the Fedora Slimbook. 00:07:12.060 --> 00:07:16.420 So named after Fedora Slim, a hardboiled private detective who was also the Marlboro 00:07:16.420 --> 00:07:25.700 man. Yee-haw! The laptop comes with a 12th gen Intel Core i7-12700H processor, an RTX 3050 Ti graphics 00:07:25.700 --> 00:07:34.260 card, up to 64GB of RAM, a 4TB NVMe SSD, and a 16-inch 3K 90Hz display. 00:07:34.260 --> 00:07:38.260 The device comes loaded with software from Linux distribution Fedora, which is an absolutely 00:07:38.260 --> 00:07:42.060 wild coincidence, and features the GNOME desktop environment. 00:07:42.060 --> 00:07:47.460 Slimbook will be donating 3% of the revenue from the Fedora Slimbook to the GNOME Foundation, 00:07:47.460 --> 00:07:51.020 which provides end-of-life care for elderly garden gnomes. 00:07:51.020 --> 00:07:55.660 Rest in peace, Papa Smurf, you will be missed. 00:07:55.660 --> 00:08:01.460 Nobody will know if you don't come back for more TechLinked on Friday, but I'll still 00:08:01.460 --> 00:08:04.460 feel it in my heart. 00:08:04.460 --> 00:08:07.620 First Papa Smurf and now this. Why would you do this, Jerry?