The infamous 12-volt high-power connector is no more, and it's being replaced with something
hopefully less flammable. I'm Jacob, this is TechLinked, and this is justice. As the 16-pin
connector has been responsible for so many melts, it should be working at a sandwich shop.
But according to Igor's lab, future GPU owners will not need to fear it. As PCI SAG,
the organization responsible for specifying the PCIe standard, gave Igor an excerpt of a new
specification that will replace the 12-volt high-power with a new connector. Called 12-volt
2x6, the new connector should be compatible with 12-volt high-power headers since the specifications
don't list any new header changes, and the 12-volt 2x6 connectors will use the same 12-power rails
and 4-sense pins. One of the major changes is that the 12-volt 2x6 pins are set further back in
the plug based on the radical idea that electricity should only flow from the cable if it is fully
inserted into your GPU. Another interesting change is this connector will support cards up to
675 watts, which is 75 watts higher than the original 16-pin connector, and you know NVIDIA
is frothing at the bit to make an even larger graphics card to suck up even more power. Brace
yourselves, the achonkalypse is nigh. Google has been accused of misleading advertisers about
their TrueView in-stream ads, according to advertising research firm Adalytics. You've
probably seen TrueView ads at some point, they're the ones you can skip after five seconds,
and that's important because advertisers are only supposed to be charged for TrueView ads if a
customer watches 30 seconds of the ad, or the whole ad if it's shorter than that, and the video must
be playing audio. The ads must also be in-stream, which means that they played before, during,
or after video content, or whenever your mom needs a life in Candy Crush. I assume that's
how it works, I haven't played Candy Crush in years. However, Adalytics found that 42-75% of
TrueView ad spend was allocated to ads that did not meet Google's claims standards.
Many advertisers Adalytics reached out to were surprised to learn their ads were allegedly
muted and auto-playing on niche third-party websites or, and I quote, foreign-developed
Android mobile gaming apps for toddlers. You know, toddlers, famous for their vast
expendable income and ability to speak good. In a blog post, Google's director of global video
solutions said the report made extreme and inaccurate claims and that over 90% of ads on
Google Video Partners are visible to people across the web, which notably doesn't mean anyone saw
them. And Adalytics actually points out that not once in the blog post was sound mentioned,
which is a big part of how many people experience ads and also the world. And speaking of Google,
there's been a strange succession of pixel leaks over the last week and some of them make sense,
but others just today, pictures of the Pixel 8 Pro were posted to Reddit and like a pair of tight
jeans, they leave little to the imagination. The photos match older leaked renders showing a flat
screen, which is nice for people like me who use screen protectors. Why do you make curved screens?
I hate it. Do you ever, Mark, have you ever used the screen protectors on a curved screen?
They're terrible. They're awful. They're just these these thin like plastic polymers that like
they tear and rip. They do nothing. Spray them. That's even worse. Oh, and according to a leaker
with an aggressively polished name, Kamila Wojcikowska, the, I hope that's right, the 8 and 8 Pro will
have larger batteries and support charging speeds that are four watts faster than last gen and
the phones will also support the newer Wi-Fi 7 standard. That's all great, but what I don't
fully understand is why the Pixel 8 series will support USB DisplayPort alternate mode,
according to a source inside Google. Google could be taking pointers from the convergence
idea from a decade ago where phone manufacturers wanted them to become desktop computers. Now,
it'll be fantastic that they can make this work, but based on my experience with my Pixel this summer,
I'm expecting a Chromebook that will shut itself off after being in direct sunlight for 10 minutes.
What are quick bits? They're an icon. They're a moment. There are five shorter stories that follow
the three main stories of every episode. There you go. That's for you. Now you know. Google,
the company I was just talking about earlier, has decided they want to use everyone's data to train
their AIs and not just on their platforms, any publicly accessible sources to help train Google's
AI models. I mean, it makes sense. I'm honestly just surprised they put it in writing in their
privacy policy. Maybe they wanted to finally do something that OpenAI didn't do first.
Multiple third-party Reddit apps shut down over the weekend due to the API changes taking effect,
while Relay and Now for Reddit have decided to switch to a subscription model. You have the drama
still isn't over as the moderators for r slash blind, who are, fun fact, visually impaired,
alleged that Reddit has made it impossible for them to actually moderate. The more accessible
red reader app is apparently impossible to log into for them, but admin seems to be ignoring them
when they ask questions. Hey Reddit, maybe you should observe how much you're blowing it?
Mark Gurman teased several new Apple monitors in his subscribers only newsletter,
including one with an onboard iOS chip that can be used as a smart home display when your Mac is
idle. To give you an idea of what that might look like, picture a computer monitor, now picture a
smart home display, and now picture a gaping hole in your savings account. There it is. Valve has
issued a rare statement after they were accused by a developer named Simon Carlis of rejecting
games with AI-generated assets from Steam. Basically, they said their review process is a
reflection of current copyright law and policies, which shocked me because I was certain knowing
the law would require you to be able to count past two. It's a Valve can't count past two joke.
And Twitter decided to institute limits on how many tweets users can read. After the change,
journalists were upset to find out that emergency service accounts were not exempt from the
rate limit restrictions. And Twitter was probably upset to find out they might have been de-dossing
themselves, at least according to one developer. Shortly after they instituted the rate limits,
tweet decks stopped working altogether. I mean, man, why can't Elon have like one niceâ¦ wait,
how many companies does he own? Why can't he have five nice things? And we hope you'll enjoy
a nice thing of tech news this Wednesday when we drop another episode. It won't be a holiday,
so we'll have a sidekick, and I won't feel so alone. I mean, Mark's here,
but he's behind a camera. I'm all alone.