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The infamous 12-volt high-power connector is no more, and it's being replaced with something

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hopefully less flammable. I'm Jacob, this is TechLinked, and this is justice. As the 16-pin

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connector has been responsible for so many melts, it should be working at a sandwich shop.

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But according to Igor's lab, future GPU owners will not need to fear it. As PCI SAG,

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the organization responsible for specifying the PCIe standard, gave Igor an excerpt of a new

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specification that will replace the 12-volt high-power with a new connector. Called 12-volt

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2x6, the new connector should be compatible with 12-volt high-power headers since the specifications

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don't list any new header changes, and the 12-volt 2x6 connectors will use the same 12-power rails

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and 4-sense pins. One of the major changes is that the 12-volt 2x6 pins are set further back in

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the plug based on the radical idea that electricity should only flow from the cable if it is fully

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inserted into your GPU. Another interesting change is this connector will support cards up to

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675 watts, which is 75 watts higher than the original 16-pin connector, and you know NVIDIA

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is frothing at the bit to make an even larger graphics card to suck up even more power. Brace

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yourselves, the achonkalypse is nigh. Google has been accused of misleading advertisers about

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their TrueView in-stream ads, according to advertising research firm Adalytics. You've

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probably seen TrueView ads at some point, they're the ones you can skip after five seconds,

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and that's important because advertisers are only supposed to be charged for TrueView ads if a

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customer watches 30 seconds of the ad, or the whole ad if it's shorter than that, and the video must

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be playing audio. The ads must also be in-stream, which means that they played before, during,

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or after video content, or whenever your mom needs a life in Candy Crush. I assume that's

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how it works, I haven't played Candy Crush in years. However, Adalytics found that 42-75% of

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TrueView ad spend was allocated to ads that did not meet Google's claims standards.

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Many advertisers Adalytics reached out to were surprised to learn their ads were allegedly

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muted and auto-playing on niche third-party websites or, and I quote, foreign-developed

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Android mobile gaming apps for toddlers. You know, toddlers, famous for their vast

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expendable income and ability to speak good. In a blog post, Google's director of global video

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solutions said the report made extreme and inaccurate claims and that over 90% of ads on

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Google Video Partners are visible to people across the web, which notably doesn't mean anyone saw

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them. And Adalytics actually points out that not once in the blog post was sound mentioned,

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which is a big part of how many people experience ads and also the world. And speaking of Google,

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there's been a strange succession of pixel leaks over the last week and some of them make sense,

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but others just today, pictures of the Pixel 8 Pro were posted to Reddit and like a pair of tight

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jeans, they leave little to the imagination. The photos match older leaked renders showing a flat

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screen, which is nice for people like me who use screen protectors. Why do you make curved screens?

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I hate it. Do you ever, Mark, have you ever used the screen protectors on a curved screen?

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They're terrible. They're awful. They're just these these thin like plastic polymers that like

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they tear and rip. They do nothing. Spray them. That's even worse. Oh, and according to a leaker

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with an aggressively polished name, Kamila Wojcikowska, the, I hope that's right, the 8 and 8 Pro will

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have larger batteries and support charging speeds that are four watts faster than last gen and

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the phones will also support the newer Wi-Fi 7 standard. That's all great, but what I don't

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fully understand is why the Pixel 8 series will support USB DisplayPort alternate mode,

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according to a source inside Google. Google could be taking pointers from the convergence

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idea from a decade ago where phone manufacturers wanted them to become desktop computers. Now,

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it'll be fantastic that they can make this work, but based on my experience with my Pixel this summer,

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I'm expecting a Chromebook that will shut itself off after being in direct sunlight for 10 minutes.

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What are quick bits? They're an icon. They're a moment. There are five shorter stories that follow

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the three main stories of every episode. There you go. That's for you. Now you know. Google,

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the company I was just talking about earlier, has decided they want to use everyone's data to train

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their AIs and not just on their platforms, any publicly accessible sources to help train Google's

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AI models. I mean, it makes sense. I'm honestly just surprised they put it in writing in their

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privacy policy. Maybe they wanted to finally do something that OpenAI didn't do first.

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Multiple third-party Reddit apps shut down over the weekend due to the API changes taking effect,

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while Relay and Now for Reddit have decided to switch to a subscription model. You have the drama

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still isn't over as the moderators for r slash blind, who are, fun fact, visually impaired,

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alleged that Reddit has made it impossible for them to actually moderate. The more accessible

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red reader app is apparently impossible to log into for them, but admin seems to be ignoring them

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when they ask questions. Hey Reddit, maybe you should observe how much you're blowing it?

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Mark Gurman teased several new Apple monitors in his subscribers only newsletter,

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including one with an onboard iOS chip that can be used as a smart home display when your Mac is

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idle. To give you an idea of what that might look like, picture a computer monitor, now picture a

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smart home display, and now picture a gaping hole in your savings account. There it is. Valve has

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issued a rare statement after they were accused by a developer named Simon Carlis of rejecting

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games with AI-generated assets from Steam. Basically, they said their review process is a

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reflection of current copyright law and policies, which shocked me because I was certain knowing

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the law would require you to be able to count past two. It's a Valve can't count past two joke.

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And Twitter decided to institute limits on how many tweets users can read. After the change,

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journalists were upset to find out that emergency service accounts were not exempt from the

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rate limit restrictions. And Twitter was probably upset to find out they might have been de-dossing

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themselves, at least according to one developer. Shortly after they instituted the rate limits,

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tweet decks stopped working altogether. I mean, man, why can't Elon have like one nice… wait,

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how many companies does he own? Why can't he have five nice things? And we hope you'll enjoy

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a nice thing of tech news this Wednesday when we drop another episode. It won't be a holiday,

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so we'll have a sidekick, and I won't feel so alone. I mean, Mark's here,

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but he's behind a camera. I'm all alone.