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Techlink does not legally liable for any feelings of breathless

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exhilaration or dystopian horror experienced while viewing

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our show. By watching this part of the video, you agree to that. And everything else, I say, ha, gotcha.

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Around 2,500 pages of technical documents purportedly detailing the inner workings of Google Search

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has leaked online. The documents directly contradict

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years worth of public statements from Google about how their algorithm works, including

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that rankings aren't determined by click-centric user

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signals. They are. They don't consider subdomains separately from domains.

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They do. And they don't consider the age of a domain or penalize new sites.

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They do again. Google itself has not confirmed or denied

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whether the documents are authentic, possibly because the leaked trove was allegedly acquired

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when Google itself accidentally published them to GitHub.

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That's a Microsoft site. And they were saved by an external automated

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documentation service. If true, the charitable read here

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is that Google was trying to obfuscate the way its algorithm works from spammers and potential competitors.

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The uncharitable read is that Google is a lying liar who lies.

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Beyond these kinds of direct, let's say, fibs,

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marketing expert Rand Fishkin says, the documents reveal that Google Search prioritizes

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big, powerful brands over pretty much everyone else,

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even when small independent sites are more authoritative, trustworthy, and relevant, which is a bit

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like getting all your health advice from Mr. Beast because he has way more Twitter followers

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than your doctor. He does. That's Dr. Beast to you.

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PayPal has announced that it is launching an ad network that will target its 400 million users

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with personalized promotions based on the data the company has collected on their past purchases

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and spending habits. And honestly, PayPal, I don't need ads

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for more body pillows. You should already know that. PayPal says that users will be able to opt out

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of their data being included in the ad targeting, which isn't quite the same as opting out

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of their data being collected. The only option PayPal appears to offer

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for controlling what information they collect about you is deleting your account.

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This would also presumably affect users of Venmo and browser extension Honey, which PayPal controls.

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The announcement follows a rough patch for PayPal, including significant layoffs,

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tepid growth projections, and an unwhelming stock performance.

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That being said, this could also be an opportunistic bid

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to take advantage of the DOJ's ongoing antitrust lawsuit

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against Google's own ad business. Who knows?

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Maybe in 20 years, 30 years, it'll be PayPal

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writing absurd checks to regulators in a desperate attempt to make their legal problems go away.

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OpenAI says that it has formed a new safety committee

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less than a month after it dissolved the old AI safety committee.

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This new, even safer committee will apparently be led by CEO Sam Altman,

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who obviously just has a ton of time on his hands and loves meetings, as well as board chair Brett Taylor

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and fellow board member, Nicole Seligman.

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Seligman, you decide. According to OpenAI's blog post,

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the first task of the safety and security committee will be to evaluate

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OpenAI's current processes and safeguards for 90 days,

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after which they will report to the full board and presumably recommend the creation

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of a third final safest committee. In a fantastic case of awkward timing,

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former OpenAI board member, Helen Toner, has spoken publicly on Sam Altman's firing

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and rehiring late last year. According to Toner, a major factor

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leading up to the surprise dismissal was a series of serious lies by omission

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on the part of Altman, including failing to disclose ownership stake

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in the OpenAI startup fund and failing to notify the board

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that chatGPT would be launching November, 2022,

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meaning that they found out about it at the same time as the rest of us on Twitter.

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Much like hot dogs, quick bits are made of all the less appetizing offcuts of regular tech news,

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which would grind up into delicious paste and extrude Reddit to your waiting mouths.

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Sometimes they're wrapped in stomach skin. Colorado is the latest state to pass

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right to repair legislation for consumer electronics with a bill that goes beyond requiring

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that companies provide documentation, software data,

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and repair tools to consumers and independent repair shops at a fair price.

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The new law also limits parts pairing,

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which other states have shied away from due to industry pushback.

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This will likely put even more pressure on Apple who have softened their position

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on used parts in recent months, like an uptight mom folding to the social pressure

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to order pizza by pretending it was her idea, but only plain cheese.

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Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Chinese tech giant Tencent

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that will let Windows 11 users install Android apps through the Tencent App Store,

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which will be integrated with the Microsoft Store, albeit only in China.

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It's unclear whether this new arrangement involves the Windows subsystem for Android

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used by Microsoft's Amazon App Store partnership, which the company suddenly killed a couple months ago.

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What is clear is that Microsoft is either scared of making a deal with Google,

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or they just don't know what the Google Play Store.

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New rumors have surfaced regarding NVIDIA's purportedly upcoming ARM-based processor,

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not only is Team Green allegedly partnering with MediaTek to take on Qualcomm's Windows on ARM offerings next year,

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but NVIDIA may be turning to Intel's foundries

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for the silicon. It may sound a bit weird for Intel to help usher in the end of the x86 architecture

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that they developed in the first place, but hey, if someone's gonna put an end to your life's work,

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it'd be nice to at least make a buck off its demise.

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Turn into hot dogs. The Japanese space agency JAXA has lost communication

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with its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus,

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not Uranus. Losing contact with Akatsuki is significant,

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since it's currently the only active mission at Venus, probably because the planet is a hellscape.

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In addition to newly discovered volcanic activity, Venus sports a surface temperature of 464 degrees Celsius,

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a surface pressure 92 times higher than Earth's,

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and it's covered in clouds of sulfuric acid,

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the worst kind of acid. Yet, we sent a probe there anyway,

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proving that even the greatest scientific minds of our time somehow can't tell

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when a woman wants to be left alone. Men.

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Gigabyte has built a motherboard with a PCIe slot that can support graphics cards weighing up to,

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a whopping 128 pounds, which would sound completely unnecessary

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even five years ago. But it seems like recently the GPU industry

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has heavily selected for a chunk. Bench Life previewed the board, named the B650e,

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AORUS Pro X, a USB4, and while it has some other cool features,

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I just couldn't concentrate on them after imagining plugging in a graphics card

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the size of a dog. Maybe even three or four dogs,

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depending on how small your dog is. It wouldn't even have to work.

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I'd be happy. And just looking at the proportions of the slot, it would be a wiener dog.

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You know what else would make me happy? If you came back on Friday for more tech news,

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please, I need this.