Samsung had a lot to unpack at their Galaxy Unpacked event today,
leading many to speculate that they might need to get a larger house.
I'm Jacob Rush, this is TechLinked, and this is the Galaxy Z Flip 5's new larger cover screen,
making it much easier to be a modern day narcissist and stare marveling at your own image.
Zed. Did I say Zed? Sorry, eh? Sorry, didn't mean to.
The Flip 5 also folds completely flat, as does the new Z Fold 5,
the hot dog to the Flip's hamburger. Delicious. The new Galaxy Watch 6 and 6 Classic were unveiled, and I need everyone to shut up,
so you can hear these next five words. The rotating bezel is back, baby!
That was 6, but I had to add the baby for emphasis. The 6 Classic brings the fan-favorite feature back from the far away year of 2021.
Wait, did somebody say tablets? Someone must have, because there's a new Galaxy Tab S9, S9 Plus, and S9 Ultra,
all with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chips, OLED screens, and IP68 dust and water resistance ratings,
which are bound to convince a handful of people to spend double the price of an iPad on these
tablets instead. NVIDIA's RTX 4060 Ti 16GB graphics card has finally launched.
That's right, NVIDIA's partner successfully pushed out the card NVIDIA didn't want to make
themselves. And the crowd goes mild.
Not only does it cost you an extra $100 for just 8GB of extra VRAM,
but according to tech power-up, quote, for the vast majority of games out there,
there is no difference between an 8GB and 16GB card at 1080p and 1440p.
German outlet PC Games Hardware was kinder in their interim review,
though they themselves admitted choosing to test games that are memory eaters,
which I'm sure is also the name of a horrifying creature from German folklore.
Hey, speaking of happy endings. Watch out, go to sleep, or the memory eater will get you.
The memory eater is going to come to eat you. It's a happy story. It ends really nice.
Speaking of German happy endings, the 4060 Ti 16GB has already been discounted at German
retailer MindFactory because sales are suffering in Europe.
Who could have foreseen that a card with almost no reviews wouldn't sell?
Should we have called the ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi?
She's dead? The website formerly known as Twitter is encountering friction in its attempted rebranding.
On Monday, Twitter user TaylorTab tweeted, sorry, sitter user sailorxabsxxt showing a video of workers dismantling the sign on X's
San Francisco headquarters. Shortly thereafter, they were interrupted by local police as X leadership.
Not to be confused with the previous leadership, X leadership apparently failed to inform the
building's owner. This left the sign reading simply err as in err.
Are you sure about this? Not technically CEO anymore, but also still kind of CEO Elon Musk has renamed conference
rooms to things like exposure with a capital X and sexy with a three instead of an E.
Because he wanted to remember that's what I called the Tesla models.
Because that's what I like to think about when I'm in a business meeting. Public indecency.
Sexiness. Initially, X was unable to use the at X handle as it's been used by photographer Jean X Huang
since 2007. But instead of asking Huang for the handle, not Twitter, X apparently just took it.
Huang, now with the far less pithy at X random string of numbers handle,
jokingly requested he be given the giant bird off the sign as compensation.
Seeing as they won't be needing it anymore. Little birdies all grown up flying out of the nest.
We love you. Don't die. What? You've never seen a quick bits intro before?
We'll take a good look, sicko. Whoa, Jake.
Cyber security researchers have found an intentional backdoor in encrypted radios that
reduces their 80 bit encryption key to a much smaller key that can be brute force
decrypted in under a minute using only consumer hardware.
The radios have been in use for over 25 years to transmit important commands to vital infrastructure,
meaning this vulnerability could allow a hacker to reroute trains and trigger blackouts.
Now the organization behind the natural encryption standard would prefer you not call it backdoor.
It's more of a poorly secured rear-facing entrance.
Sure, maybe there's no door at all. It's just an opening, but it's for the pets.
It's a large doggie door. Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have teamed up with mapping company TomTom
to release release the first map data set for their open source mapping project.
The data is intended to allow third party developers to create their own interoperable
products to compete with Google Maps and Apple Maps. We don't often find good reason to give kudos to tech giants, but for a service people
constantly depend on to direct their movements, it's probably good to have a few good options.
Now we have two. Apple Maps doesn't. Haha, I got him. He's pretty good now.
Yeah, they don't direct Brazilians into trains anymore.
Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, the four horsemen of the AI apocalypse,
have formed the Frontier Model Forum to ensure that AI technology is safe, secure,
and remains under human control. I guess these four massive corporations represent humanity better than the masses
of indie developers playing around with the open source AI models, like the ones released by Meta.
The AI-focused tech giant, most notably, missing from the forum. Oh well, you can never have too many tech consortiums claiming to stop the apocalypse.
Here's open. One of them will work. The ESRB has asked the FTC for approval for a system called
Privacy Protective Facial Age Estimation, or PFE,
which will let parents snap a selfie to provide parental consent
for the kids to play the latest entry in the stabbing simulator franchise.
Sounds a bit iffy, privacy-wise, but the ratings board says the system won't store
any images or identify individual faces. Its only purpose is to verify whether the subject is old enough to remember the term
metrosexual. I don't need to remember the definition, I just look in the mirror.
I don't know. I can still see it causing an issue for adults with baby faces like me.
I'm actually 62. I was blessed by the elves with long life.
And the California homeowner was reportedly dropped for housing insurance after his insurer,
the CSAA, claimed that they sent a drone over his property and found his yard cluttered with
potential hazards. The CSAA refused to show him the photos and later denied there had been any drone at all,
claiming that the photos might have been captured by a fixed-wing airplane or satellite instead.
I mean, whatever you sent over to the neighbor's yard, what?
Because clearly it was the drone part that got his knickers into us,
not the invasive aerial surveillance. You know, I always give one of these every once in a while,
just so Google will get a nice shot of me on Google Earth, just, you know, hey.
And we've got no aerial surveillance on your house, but let's just say that if you don't come back for more TechLink this Friday, we'll know.