WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.360 Techlink does not legally liable for any feelings of breathless 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:06.720 exhilaration or dystopian horror experienced while viewing 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:10.800 our show. By watching this part of the video, you agree to that. And everything else, I say, ha, gotcha. 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:16.640 Around 2,500 pages of technical documents purportedly detailing the inner workings of Google Search 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.280 has leaked online. The documents directly contradict 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:24.560 years worth of public statements from Google about how their algorithm works, including 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:27.560 that rankings aren't determined by click-centric user 00:00:27.560 --> 00:00:31.920 signals. They are. They don't consider subdomains separately from domains. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:36.240 They do. And they don't consider the age of a domain or penalize new sites. 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:39.760 They do again. Google itself has not confirmed or denied 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:44.200 whether the documents are authentic, possibly because the leaked trove was allegedly acquired 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:47.200 when Google itself accidentally published them to GitHub. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.200 That's a Microsoft site. And they were saved by an external automated 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.600 documentation service. If true, the charitable read here 00:00:54.600 --> 00:01:00.400 is that Google was trying to obfuscate the way its algorithm works from spammers and potential competitors. 00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:05.000 The uncharitable read is that Google is a lying liar who lies. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.080 Beyond these kinds of direct, let's say, fibs, 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:12.920 marketing expert Rand Fishkin says, the documents reveal that Google Search prioritizes 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:16.880 big, powerful brands over pretty much everyone else, 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:22.000 even when small independent sites are more authoritative, trustworthy, and relevant, which is a bit 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:27.040 like getting all your health advice from Mr. Beast because he has way more Twitter followers 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:30.240 than your doctor. He does. That's Dr. Beast to you. 00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:35.120 PayPal has announced that it is launching an ad network that will target its 400 million users 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:39.960 with personalized promotions based on the data the company has collected on their past purchases 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:43.520 and spending habits. And honestly, PayPal, I don't need ads 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:48.920 for more body pillows. You should already know that. PayPal says that users will be able to opt out 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:53.000 of their data being included in the ad targeting, which isn't quite the same as opting out 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.800 of their data being collected. The only option PayPal appears to offer 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.320 for controlling what information they collect about you is deleting your account. 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:05.920 This would also presumably affect users of Venmo and browser extension Honey, which PayPal controls. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.720 The announcement follows a rough patch for PayPal, including significant layoffs, 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:13.040 tepid growth projections, and an unwhelming stock performance. 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:16.160 That being said, this could also be an opportunistic bid 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:19.520 to take advantage of the DOJ's ongoing antitrust lawsuit 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.520 against Google's own ad business. Who knows? 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.560 Maybe in 20 years, 30 years, it'll be PayPal 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:31.120 writing absurd checks to regulators in a desperate attempt to make their legal problems go away. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.280 OpenAI says that it has formed a new safety committee 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.280 less than a month after it dissolved the old AI safety committee. 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:41.440 This new, even safer committee will apparently be led by CEO Sam Altman, 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:46.040 who obviously just has a ton of time on his hands and loves meetings, as well as board chair Brett Taylor 00:02:46.040 --> 00:02:49.240 and fellow board member, Nicole Seligman. 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.280 Seligman, you decide. According to OpenAI's blog post, 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.960 the first task of the safety and security committee will be to evaluate 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:00.320 OpenAI's current processes and safeguards for 90 days, 00:03:00.320 --> 00:03:05.000 after which they will report to the full board and presumably recommend the creation 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.240 of a third final safest committee. In a fantastic case of awkward timing, 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:14.600 former OpenAI board member, Helen Toner, has spoken publicly on Sam Altman's firing 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:18.160 and rehiring late last year. According to Toner, a major factor 00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:23.080 leading up to the surprise dismissal was a series of serious lies by omission 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:26.600 on the part of Altman, including failing to disclose ownership stake 00:03:26.600 --> 00:03:30.400 in the OpenAI startup fund and failing to notify the board 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.120 that chatGPT would be launching November, 2022, 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.680 meaning that they found out about it at the same time as the rest of us on Twitter. 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.880 Much like hot dogs, quick bits are made of all the less appetizing offcuts of regular tech news, 00:03:44.880 --> 00:03:49.680 which would grind up into delicious paste and extrude Reddit to your waiting mouths. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.800 Sometimes they're wrapped in stomach skin. Colorado is the latest state to pass 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.840 right to repair legislation for consumer electronics with a bill that goes beyond requiring 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.880 that companies provide documentation, software data, 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:06.320 and repair tools to consumers and independent repair shops at a fair price. 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:09.320 The new law also limits parts pairing, 00:04:09.320 --> 00:04:12.960 which other states have shied away from due to industry pushback. 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:17.660 This will likely put even more pressure on Apple who have softened their position 00:04:17.660 --> 00:04:22.180 on used parts in recent months, like an uptight mom folding to the social pressure 00:04:22.180 --> 00:04:26.220 to order pizza by pretending it was her idea, but only plain cheese. 00:04:26.220 --> 00:04:30.500 Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Chinese tech giant Tencent 00:04:30.500 --> 00:04:35.780 that will let Windows 11 users install Android apps through the Tencent App Store, 00:04:35.780 --> 00:04:39.900 which will be integrated with the Microsoft Store, albeit only in China. 00:04:39.900 --> 00:04:44.100 It's unclear whether this new arrangement involves the Windows subsystem for Android 00:04:44.100 --> 00:04:49.140 used by Microsoft's Amazon App Store partnership, which the company suddenly killed a couple months ago. 00:04:49.140 --> 00:04:53.900 What is clear is that Microsoft is either scared of making a deal with Google, 00:04:53.900 --> 00:04:57.940 or they just don't know what the Google Play Store. 00:04:57.940 --> 00:05:02.540 New rumors have surfaced regarding NVIDIA's purportedly upcoming ARM-based processor, 00:05:02.540 --> 00:05:08.660 not only is Team Green allegedly partnering with MediaTek to take on Qualcomm's Windows on ARM offerings next year, 00:05:08.660 --> 00:05:11.740 but NVIDIA may be turning to Intel's foundries 00:05:11.740 --> 00:05:17.180 for the silicon. It may sound a bit weird for Intel to help usher in the end of the x86 architecture 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:22.820 that they developed in the first place, but hey, if someone's gonna put an end to your life's work, 00:05:22.820 --> 00:05:26.060 it'd be nice to at least make a buck off its demise. 00:05:26.060 --> 00:05:30.740 Turn into hot dogs. The Japanese space agency JAXA has lost communication 00:05:30.740 --> 00:05:34.820 with its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus, 00:05:34.820 --> 00:05:38.420 not Uranus. Losing contact with Akatsuki is significant, 00:05:38.420 --> 00:05:43.820 since it's currently the only active mission at Venus, probably because the planet is a hellscape. 00:05:43.820 --> 00:05:49.660 In addition to newly discovered volcanic activity, Venus sports a surface temperature of 464 degrees Celsius, 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:52.660 a surface pressure 92 times higher than Earth's, 00:05:52.660 --> 00:05:55.700 and it's covered in clouds of sulfuric acid, 00:05:55.700 --> 00:05:59.620 the worst kind of acid. Yet, we sent a probe there anyway, 00:05:59.620 --> 00:06:03.460 proving that even the greatest scientific minds of our time somehow can't tell 00:06:03.460 --> 00:06:07.380 when a woman wants to be left alone. Men. 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:12.580 Gigabyte has built a motherboard with a PCIe slot that can support graphics cards weighing up to, 00:06:12.580 --> 00:06:16.260 a whopping 128 pounds, which would sound completely unnecessary 00:06:16.260 --> 00:06:19.300 even five years ago. But it seems like recently the GPU industry 00:06:19.300 --> 00:06:26.020 has heavily selected for a chunk. Bench Life previewed the board, named the B650e, 00:06:26.020 --> 00:06:30.860 AORUS Pro X, a USB4, and while it has some other cool features, 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:34.260 I just couldn't concentrate on them after imagining plugging in a graphics card 00:06:34.260 --> 00:06:37.420 the size of a dog. Maybe even three or four dogs, 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:41.180 depending on how small your dog is. It wouldn't even have to work. 00:06:41.180 --> 00:06:44.820 I'd be happy. And just looking at the proportions of the slot, it would be a wiener dog. 00:06:44.820 --> 00:06:48.820 You know what else would make me happy? If you came back on Friday for more tech news, 00:06:48.820 --> 00:06:51.020 please, I need this.