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Hello, my little tech-linked babies. I hope you were good while I was gone,

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or I can't give you any tech news.

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I'd give it to you anyway. YouTube has begun the rollout

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of its age estimation model in the US, and as promised, users are starting to see pop-ups

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informing them that YouTube couldn't verify

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that you're an adult. They tried so hard and got so far.

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But in the end, you didn't understand this reference.

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Child, a change.org petition calling on YouTube

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to roll back the policy reached 78,000 signatures

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at the time of writing. That's about 0.03% of YouTube's estimated

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246 million US-based users,

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but it is a great petition. Should we put it on the fridge?

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Yeah. Now, what happens if Google estimates

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that you are under 18? Well, Google wants to be clear.

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This does not mean you must provide a government ID.

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You can continue to use YouTube. You just won't be able to watch all the spicy, edgy videos

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all of us grown-ups are watching constantly on YouTube.

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It also means Google won't turn on their new memory-like feature for Gemini,

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which is also rolling out today and allows Gemini to learn

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from your past conversations over time. So you can talk to an AI assistant

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who's already gobbled up your data for training. I mean, who knows you so well?

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Because they love you as a robot-servant friend.

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Google's turning the feature on by default, of course.

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Wouldn't want to lose out on that juicy data from people who don't keep up

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with every single policy update. Although the new temporary chats feature

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is essentially like incognito mode, so Google won't use anything you say in those chats.

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And as I said, the memory feature won't turn on by default

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if you're under 18 or using a work or school account

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or located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK.

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If you're anywhere else, you can turn it off in the settings

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if you're okay making Gemini very sad.

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Reddit has announced it will block the internet archive from archiving most of Reddit,

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despite specifically naming the internet archive just over one year ago

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in a list of good-faith actors that Reddit would not block.

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Well, see, that was before Reddit realized that the internet archive is actually for, you know,

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archiving the internet. They thought it was more like a metaphor.

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As Reddit told the Verge, they've been made aware that AI companies

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are scraping Reddit data from the Wayback machine,

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but are we really worried about that when loading a single page on the Wayback machine

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takes about three days? If scraper bots are willing to sit through that,

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I say let them have the data, they earned it. Of course, Reddit's worried

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because they're making companies like Google pay up to scrape their data.

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So the internet archive might be blocked, but thankfully tools like Bellingcat's

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newly updated auto archiver exist.

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It's designed for journalists and open source intelligence,

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but who says you can't use it to preserve evidence to win an argument on Reddit too?

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The Elon versus OpenAI saga had some fun developments this week.

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On Monday, Elon Musk claimed XAI would be taking legal action against Apple

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for blocking AI apps that aren't chat GBT

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from reaching number one in the app store. OpenAI chief, Sam Altman,

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found that to be a little rich, coming from the guy that pretty blatantly

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manipulates Twitter algorithms in his favor, to which Elon replied,

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nah, look, your post took off more than mine usually do,

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despite me having 50 times your follower count. Altman's reply,

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skillet issue.

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Elon's original post was timely. As the next day, a federal judge denied his bid

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to dismiss OpenAI's claims that Elon has engaged in a years-long harassment campaign.

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Elon was like, there isn't enough evidence here, I'll give you some.

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Turn on GROC voice and it will teach you anything.

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Ah, cool, can it teach you to stop talking for five fucking seconds?

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Speaking of GROC, the bot fact-checked Elon's claim of app store manipulation

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by pointing out that the app store's number one spot was just this year occupied by deep seek

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and perplexity in India, causing ChatGPT's Twitter account

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to give it the old good bot. This was posted on Reddit,

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where apparently you can also summon GROC now.

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Some Redditors were caught off guard. What the fuck are you doing here?

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Just doing my job, champ, and telling you about our sponsor.

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Okay, but you only get quick bits if you behave.

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Just in any way. If you do anything at all, you'll get quick bits.

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Former Intel CEO, not precious Pat Gelsinger, my other other dad.

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Bob Swann's mine. Not him either. But Craig Barrett, who reigned from 1998 to 2005,

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thinks he knows how to save the company, invest more in the foundry.

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With what funds, Craig? Oh, well, just get NVIDIA and AMD

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to give Intel a bunch of money. Oh, money, more money.

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Good idea, Craig. It's been the key this whole time.

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That's why we paid you the big box. But honestly, I think the Intel's gonna be fine.

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After meeting him, Trump has gone from thinking the current CEO,

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Litbu Tan, is a Chinese asset, to thinking his success and rise is an amazing story.

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And there's only one explanation. The Chinese have mastered mind control.

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And there's only one way to stop it. Money.

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Google teased the design of their Pixel 10 Pro Fold, but I'm only really mentioning it

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to remind you not to buy a Pixel right now because the new ones are being announced August 20th.

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Okay, buy. Perplexity AI has officially offered

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to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion,

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a sum that's made even more impressive by being more than twice perplexity's own

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$14 billion valuation. These guys must know the money trick.

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And they know how to make hyperbolic claims like this one as a foolproof form of PR stunt,

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so people end up talking about them. Damn it. Some parts of the UK are dealing with a drought,

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so the UK government is calling on citizens to take action.

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And do some real water-preserving things like deleting their old emails.

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The reasoning here is that data centers require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

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They're just missing the fact that individual users deleting even their entire Gmail accounts

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will help save about as much water as leaving the pub to go piss in the Thames.

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Now that Eric Migokovsky has regained the rights to the Pebble brand,

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his company Core Devices has unveiled the actual design of the Pebble Time 2,

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which goes for a bit more of a refined look compared to the Core 2 Duo,

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which has been renamed to the Pebble 2 Duo, thank goodness.

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Migokovsky also compared it to the Pebble Time Steel

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and, oh God, the Bezzels. It comes in some nice new colorways,

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and yes, we might only be talking about this because of nostalgia, but time.

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Like a pebble washed smooth by the rains of time.

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And YouTuber Basically Homeless posted a fun video

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about how he hacked his own muscles to get good in CS2.

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He created a setup with a Raspberry Pi, a TENS machine,

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and other stuff that forced his muscles and even his trigger finger to contract

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in response to the computer signal before his brain could get to it.

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And after a lot of trial and error, he did in fact get good.

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The all natural way. Holy, we're in agreement then, it's not cheating.

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Yeah, yeah, I'll, I'll leave it. Excellent, thank you. The link to the full video

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in all of our news sources are in the description as always, but you knew that already

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because you watch every TechLink episode. And you're gonna watch the next one on Friday, aren't you?

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When you could be out in the forest, finding more money to solve all the world's problems.

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We got Craig for that. Get Craig on it.