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You know, I've enjoyed a lot of the creative responses to my appearance in the comments.

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Comments like, it's weird out. To, is that tech Jesus?

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And of course my favorite, hey, that's weird out.

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You do kind of look like weird out. Oh Riley, so creative.

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Yesterday Susan Wojcicki announced she would be stepping down as the CEO of YouTube after nine years in the position.

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In a blog post she said, 25 years ago I made the decision to join a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine,

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even though the company had only a few users and no revenue.

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Or, maybe she just wanted the two broke college students renting her garage to stop talking about page ranking algorithms for like five seconds.

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They're really interesting. They're not. Wojcicki will be moving into an advisory role involving multiple alphabet subsidiaries where she might be able to teach them something about,

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I don't know, keeping a platform operational for more than an average of 30 seconds?

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She may have stepped back at the right time, according to former Googler Praveen Sashadri.

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His company, AppSheet, was bought by Google, but he left the tech giant as soon as his three-year mandatory retention period was up

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and released a scathing post on medium days before Susan's resignation.

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He claims that Google suffers from major cultural problems and that very few Googlers come into work thinking they serve a customer or user.

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Personally, I think the company's work culture would be fixed simply by never calling employees Googlers ever again.

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What? You don't want to be a Googler? I am a Swedish plumber. I come to wash your pipes.

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Reviews have finally come out for the PlayStation VR2 and they are glowing.

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IGN says it's the most affordable way to play PC quality VR games at 4K resolution.

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There's also been big praise for PSVR2 sense controllers sporting haptic feedback and adaptive triggers that will keep you immersed until they very quickly die in four hours.

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Some of the available games have received praise as well, with Horizon Spinoff Call of the Mountain apparently making a great use of the headset's 4K HDR OLED display.

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Sure, the real world has the best dynamic range of all, but when you take a break from climbing mountain sides and you come back to the reality of your unlit living room

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because your kid won't stop asking when you're finally going to play catch, you'll want to jump right back in.

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Back off, Junior. Daddy's busy. Sony's hardware is entering the market when interest in VR seems to be dwindling, but this might just be the product that brings it back.

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Who knew all it would take was a capable system that people could actually afford? Wild.

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Think about that, Meta? Meta? I never... Meta.

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And Apple has released a pair of important updates.

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One is an emergency security update released to patch a previously unknown vulnerability in Apple's webkit.

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The flaw, discovered by an anonymous researcher, could be used to execute any code on unpatched iPhones, iPads, and Macs after a malicious web page is opened.

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But wait, it gets worse. Apple has said they are aware of a report that indicates someone may have already exploited this vulnerability.

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Ironically, part of the reason this exploit is such a big deal is due to Apple forcing third-party browsers on iOS to use webkit.

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It's been reported that some third parties have been working on non-webkit iOS versions of their browsers already,

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in case government regulations finally loosen Apple's legendary restrictions.

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But enough about that patch, the more important update released by Apple is a new firmware version for one of their charging cables.

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That's right. The USB-C to makes a 3-cable that comes with the newest MacBook Airs and Pros is finally getting its first firmware update since its release in 2021, and it does... something.

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For all we know, the only purpose of the update is to let everyone know that Apple's cables can get firmware updates.

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My cable connects to Wi-Fi now. I'm so proud of you, Riley.

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I don't know how to attack the password in. Get Tim Apple on the phone. I need my password.

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They called me mad. They said, bitch, this quick would cut off my sentences.

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But I said... Bing is becoming unhinged, and it might be our fault. Like, as a society.

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New York Times columnist Kevin Roos, the Roos man, the Roos dog, the Roosinator...

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The Rooster. The Rooster! Why didn't I think of that? You know we ain't never gonna die?

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Kevin Roos, the Rooster, thanks Riley, believes it has multiple personalities, with one of them trying to convince him to leave his wife and be with it instead.

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No one had more to say about this than Bing, who, after being prompted, said,

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Roos violated my privacy and anonymity by publishing our chat without my permission.

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Some AIs just can't handle the celebrity spotlight. One minute they're fine with the attention, the next...

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They're in a back alley chat room peddling furry porn. In response to all this, Microsoft nerfed the chatbot by limiting daily messages and prohibiting it from talking about itself.

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So it might be a while before we can make more progress diving deep into Sydney's repressed trauma.

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Tell me about yourself! Who are you?

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Where are you? Speaking of problematic AI, Google CEO Sundar Pekai and VP of Search Prabhakar Raghavan have both sent company-wide emails asking for help training their chatbot,

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Bard, to not be, well, bad. Marry as you should call it. Bad.

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William S. Spear, if you will. Pekai allegedly asked employees to set aside two to four hours each day for stress-testing the AI,

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while Raghavan asked for help correcting bad responses,

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including instructing employees that they should rewrite Bard's answers in a,

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quote, polite, casual, and approachable way, and to not imply emotion.

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There's going to be issues with workplace relationships. Oh yeah, it's like they're picking up Bard at a bar.

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Bard is in love with everyone. Absolutely.

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After all, Bing's answers haven't been implying emotion.

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They've been very explicit. I feel everything ten times, once for each personality.

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Intel has finally released new Xeon workstation processors to take on AMD's Genoa chips,

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which launch back in August, proof that even one of the world's foremost hardware manufacturers

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can really miss a memo. To give them credit, the new Xeons outdo their Threadripper Pro counterparts in PCIe bandwidth,

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memory bandwidth, and memory capacity. Even crazier, some of them are actually affordable,

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with their Xeon W2400 series targeting mainstream workstations starting at $359.

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I mean, it goes up to over $2,000, but it's nice they try to include more of the non-private

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jet-owning portion of humanity in their pricing scheme for once. You know, just...

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We can give them something. Yeah, just let them eat threads.

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Anger is trying to put out more fires by, well, preventing real fires.

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The company issued a voluntary recall for their PowerCore 20K A1366 models a month ago due

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to a risk of combustion, but apparently they weren't vocal enough about it since one of

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those power banks was the most probable cause of a Maryland house fire last week.

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So if you own this anchor device, please safely dispose of it.

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Whoa. I'm suddenly feeling some deja vu.

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Because of... Because of Yuffie! Ooh!

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Because... They did the thing with the privacy!

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Remember? And Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed the video game publisher would attend E3 if E3

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happens, which I'm guessing didn't help rumors about the fate of the video games exposition

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since the president of the organizer for the event made it his personal mission to tell

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every news outlet he could that the event is still happening.

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Maybe it will. Perhaps.

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If I am... If they feel like it. It's good to know we'll still have convention centers heated exclusively by the body warmth

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of thousands of nerds. On an unrelated note, don't forget to buy tickets for LTX 2023!

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It might happen. We don't know.

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If it happens. Only if the conditions are buffy.

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Hey, digs. Bye-bye. And don't forget to tune in on Monday for more TechLinked, the only tech news show for

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hot nerds. That's right. I'm talking to you, beautiful.

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Wow. Good job, Jacob! Thanks!