WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.640 Welcome to TechLinked, the show chronicling my effort to absorb the world's tech news 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:08.960 so that when I die, scientists in the future can access my body's memories to find out 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:16.080 what the hell was wrong with all of us. The internet was in chaos today after a serious Amazon Web Services outage. 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:20.840 Banks, airlines, Reddit, Facebook, Fortnite, and a load of other services and platforms 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:26.720 were inaccessible, leaving many people unable to access their own funds, book crucial flights, 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:31.360 and provide crucial context for that weird ass Reddit comment they just posted. 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:37.460 It's not what I meant. Overall, AWS serves about a third of the internet, and this outage even caused some 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:41.000 technical issues at our office. And we're in Canada. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:47.280 We have our own internet. Now this outage is going to cause Amazon to be out some money, too, as companies that 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:52.360 missed out on business during the outage tried to collect repayment from Amazon, with some 00:00:52.360 --> 00:00:57.200 estimates of the financial damage reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars. 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:02.080 Amazon says the outage stems from a DNS issue in North Virginia, an issue which they say 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:07.280 has been mitigated, but there are still ongoing errors, and Amazon says it is working to fully 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.880 restore service. I just hope Amazon can fix things soon. 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:19.920 Think of all those unposted thirst traps being lost like tears and rain. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.360 More research pointing to social media's harmful effects on teens has been conducted 00:01:24.360 --> 00:01:28.840 by social media parent company, Metta, who didn't tell anyone about it, and I guess 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:36.660 hoped everyone just keeps posting through the pain. This internal Metta study, reported on by Reuters, found that teens who reported feeling 00:01:36.660 --> 00:01:42.840 worse about their body after using Instagram tended to see about three times more content 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:48.560 that focused on body shapes or body parts that are usually sexualized, like the chest, 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.380 buttocks, or thighs. This is elbow kink erasure. 00:01:52.380 --> 00:01:58.640 This and other content that people may disagree on the appropriateness of is categorized as 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:05.880 people disagree content by Metta in both the most sensible and most stupid naming decision 00:02:05.880 --> 00:02:11.400 ever. They changed it to that from its former name, Teen Sensitive Content. 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:14.760 Because what? Are teens a bunch of f***ing snowflakes? 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:21.000 Get over it. Obviously, the study doesn't presume to draw a causal relationship between body dissatisfaction 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.920 and being served constant posts of perfect-looking people. 00:02:24.920 --> 00:02:30.840 This is science. But at least Metta is looking at these things and taking some actions, like giving parents 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.880 some controls over their teens' ability to chat with the company's AI characters, who 00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:41.080 have shown a willingness to, problematically, flirt with anything that moves. 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:47.720 Xbox has blamed the price of the ROG Xbox Ally X handheld on ASUS, with Xbox President 00:02:47.720 --> 00:02:52.760 Sarah Bond telling Variety that Microsoft left the pricing up to ASUS, who apparently 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:57.120 have more insight into what people want. 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.520 There you have it. They priced it that way because it's what we wanted. 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.520 We all want $1,000 handhelds. 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.920 And how does ASUS know what gamers want more than the gaming console company? 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:10.960 Actually, this is Xbox. That makes sense. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:16.040 Despite their cluelessness, though, Bond reiterated that Xbox is committed to making next-gen 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:19.360 hardware, which she confirmed is in development. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:24.800 However, former corporate VP of Xbox and former president of Blizzard, Mike Ibarra, thinks 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:31.480 they shouldn't bother. In a tweet, Ibarra wrote that only a moron would continue to make console hardware when 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:39.440 the games all go or will go third-party. Ibarra also went after the This Is an Xbox ad campaign, saying that whoever came up with 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:48.240 that clearly doesn't play games. I mean, pfft, imagine an RPG where any item with a blade is just called sword. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:55.240 How am I supposed to determine the power level? Now you'd think the quick bits are easier to absorb because they're small, but no. 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:59.800 Each one makes me feel like I got a little bit electrocuted. 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:09.040 Totally worth it, though. The scientists are counting on me. A United Airlines flight had its windshield shattered somewhere above Utah by space debris 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:15.760 Maybe? Images of the damage show that the pilot got multiple cuts on their ARM, which is exactly 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:19.560 what aliens would do. Probes. Probed his ARM. 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:26.360 But he managed to land safely. Apparently, the aircraft was too high up at the time of impact to have been hit by a bird 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:34.160 of earthly origin anyway. And while hail and an unregistered weather balloon are being bandied about as possible 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:38.760 culprits, space debris and meteorites are also being suggested. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.840 Wait, so we still have just no idea? Have they looked at the plane yet? 00:04:42.840 --> 00:04:46.280 I'm pretty sure they think it's the weather balloon. 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:52.960 Don't tell them that. So this is how the invasion kicks off, with the Zenos throwing their interstellar garbage 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:58.880 at our passenger planes. We could be talking about alien technology here, folks, and that's what makes it tech 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:07.200 news. Sure. Thousands of NSA and US government officials have had their personal data stolen by a group 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:14.680 of hackers. The same group recently doxxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:19.360 Apparently, the data comes from the nearly one billion Salesforce records stolen earlier 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:24.120 this year, and the group says they have data on more than 22,000 government officials. 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:28.840 Previously, Salesforce told its clients it would not pay a ransom on the data, so it's 00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:33.760 everyone else's problem now. And it appears the hacker group is looking to do business elsewhere. 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:39.720 However, upon the alleged doxxing of an NSA official, the group's server was taken offline. 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:44.200 Maybe they've pissed off the US government, or maybe they got taken down along with Fortnite 00:05:44.200 --> 00:05:48.040 and Snapchat and all the other important things. 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:53.600 China has accused the US of carrying out cyber attacks against their national time center, 00:05:53.600 --> 00:06:01.040 potentially shattering the fabric of reality itself. Now, that might sound like the US is attacking the hyperbolic time chamber from Dragon Ball 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:07.440 Z or something, but the time center dictates China's standard time and is crucial for communications, 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:11.160 finance, transportation, power, and defense services throughout the country. 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:17.360 You know, things that need time. Although the US embassy has not addressed China's allegations, China claims this is 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:24.120 part of a years-long set of cyber attacks that saw US agencies use 42 types of special 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:29.640 cyber attack weapons, which forced China to experience the horror of daylight savings 00:06:29.640 --> 00:06:38.120 time. Still, anyway. But the US better look out, or China might send an army of dancing unitary robots that 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:43.000 will sashay their way to vengeance. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:50.080 It is a little terrifying. Microsoft is denying any links between its data center complex in Querataro, Mexico, 00:06:50.080 --> 00:06:54.480 and local water shortages, power outages, and illnesses. 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.440 While Microsoft claims they prioritize the needs of the community there, and Mexico's 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:04.720 national power company attributes power outages to stray animals and lightning strikes, reports 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:09.380 of issues have escalated in the last year since the data center opened. 00:07:09.380 --> 00:07:13.840 Even if the data center isn't directly responsible for these issues, it seems the Querataro 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:19.000 region might not be the best spot for a data center anyway because of the regular droughts 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.800 it experiences and lack of power infrastructure. 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:28.800 Things you've said that you need. Some data centers have even resorted to running on gas generators. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.960 Sure, Microsoft's statements here come off as unconvincing, but they said they didn't 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:40.080 do it. So I'm going to blame the only other obvious offender that's left, El Chupacabra. 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:47.520 They never proved it wasn't real. Kohler, the home goods company, has revealed the Dakota, a little camera that attaches to 00:07:47.520 --> 00:07:51.800 your toilet bowl and snaps pictures of what's going on in there. 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.760 The images of your bowl business will get scanned to tell you about your hydration level 00:07:56.760 --> 00:08:01.960 and gut health, okay? Don't worry though, the sensors are pointed down. 00:08:01.960 --> 00:08:06.800 Your data is end-to-end encrypted, and Kohler promises that with the Dakota, privacy comes 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:12.520 first, which really does feel like it needs to be stated about a camera that close to 00:08:12.520 --> 00:08:18.520 your wrinkle star. And hey, why don't you get your wrinkle star back here for more tech news on Wednesday? 00:08:18.520 --> 00:08:21.880 It's going to be good. And no, I can't promise you that. 00:08:21.880 --> 00:08:26.080 I don't know what I'm going to be required to absorb into my body on any given day. 00:08:26.080 --> 00:08:28.000 And you might ask, Riley, what does that mean?