1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 Samsung had a lot to unpack at their Galaxy Unpacked event today, 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,520 leading many to speculate that they might need to get a larger house. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,520 I'm Jacob Rush, this is TechLinked, and this is the Galaxy Z Flip 5's new larger cover screen, 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,000 making it much easier to be a modern day narcissist and stare marveling at your own image. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,400 Zed. Did I say Zed? Sorry, eh? Sorry, didn't mean to. 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,800 The Flip 5 also folds completely flat, as does the new Z Fold 5, 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:34,480 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, 8 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:39,280 so you can hear these next five words. The rotating bezel is back, baby! 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:46,960 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. 10 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:55,440 Wait, did somebody say tablets? Someone must have, because there's a new Galaxy Tab S9, S9 Plus, and S9 Ultra, 11 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,720 all with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chips, OLED screens, and IP68 dust and water resistance ratings, 12 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,160 which are bound to convince a handful of people to spend double the price of an iPad on these 13 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,760 tablets instead. NVIDIA's RTX 4060 Ti 16GB graphics card has finally launched. 14 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,760 That's right, NVIDIA's partner successfully pushed out the card NVIDIA didn't want to make 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,760 themselves. And the crowd goes mild. 16 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,640 Not only does it cost you an extra $100 for just 8GB of extra VRAM, 17 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,040 but according to tech power-up, quote, for the vast majority of games out there, 18 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:32,880 there is no difference between an 8GB and 16GB card at 1080p and 1440p. 19 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,640 German outlet PC Games Hardware was kinder in their interim review, 20 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,720 though they themselves admitted choosing to test games that are memory eaters, 21 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,320 which I'm sure is also the name of a horrifying creature from German folklore. 22 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:49,520 Hey, speaking of happy endings. Watch out, go to sleep, or the memory eater will get you. 23 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,280 The memory eater is going to come to eat you. It's a happy story. It ends really nice. 24 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaking of German happy endings, the 4060 Ti 16GB has already been discounted at German 25 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,080 retailer MindFactory because sales are suffering in Europe. 26 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,800 Who could have foreseen that a card with almost no reviews wouldn't sell? 27 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,680 Should we have called the ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi? 28 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:16,880 She's dead? The website formerly known as Twitter is encountering friction in its attempted rebranding. 29 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:27,600 On Monday, Twitter user TaylorTab tweeted, sorry, sitter user sailorxabsxxt showing a video of workers dismantling the sign on X's 30 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:33,840 San Francisco headquarters. Shortly thereafter, they were interrupted by local police as X leadership. 31 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,640 Not to be confused with the previous leadership, X leadership apparently failed to inform the 32 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:44,080 building's owner. This left the sign reading simply err as in err. 33 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,520 Are you sure about this? Not technically CEO anymore, but also still kind of CEO Elon Musk has renamed conference 34 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:55,520 rooms to things like exposure with a capital X and sexy with a three instead of an E. 35 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,640 Because he wanted to remember that's what I called the Tesla models. 36 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:02,880 Because that's what I like to think about when I'm in a business meeting. Public indecency. 37 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:09,440 Sexiness. Initially, X was unable to use the at X handle as it's been used by photographer Jean X Huang 38 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:16,880 since 2007. But instead of asking Huang for the handle, not Twitter, X apparently just took it. 39 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,360 Huang, now with the far less pithy at X random string of numbers handle, 40 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,520 jokingly requested he be given the giant bird off the sign as compensation. 41 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:30,080 Seeing as they won't be needing it anymore. Little birdies all grown up flying out of the nest. 42 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,280 We love you. Don't die. What? You've never seen a quick bits intro before? 43 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,080 We'll take a good look, sicko. Whoa, Jake. 44 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:44,000 Cyber security researchers have found an intentional backdoor in encrypted radios that 45 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,480 reduces their 80 bit encryption key to a much smaller key that can be brute force 46 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,760 decrypted in under a minute using only consumer hardware. 47 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,720 The radios have been in use for over 25 years to transmit important commands to vital infrastructure, 48 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,200 meaning this vulnerability could allow a hacker to reroute trains and trigger blackouts. 49 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,520 Now the organization behind the natural encryption standard would prefer you not call it backdoor. 50 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,280 It's more of a poorly secured rear-facing entrance. 51 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,760 Sure, maybe there's no door at all. It's just an opening, but it's for the pets. 52 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:20,560 It's a large doggie door. Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have teamed up with mapping company TomTom 53 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,640 to release release the first map data set for their open source mapping project. 54 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,800 The data is intended to allow third party developers to create their own interoperable 55 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:36,000 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 56 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,720 constantly depend on to direct their movements, it's probably good to have a few good options. 57 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,720 Now we have two. Apple Maps doesn't. Haha, I got him. He's pretty good now. 58 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,000 Yeah, they don't direct Brazilians into trains anymore. 59 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,240 Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, the four horsemen of the AI apocalypse, 60 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,400 have formed the Frontier Model Forum to ensure that AI technology is safe, secure, 61 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,920 and remains under human control. I guess these four massive corporations represent humanity better than the masses 62 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,680 of indie developers playing around with the open source AI models, like the ones released by Meta. 63 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:14,960 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. 64 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:23,760 Here's open. One of them will work. The ESRB has asked the FTC for approval for a system called 65 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,040 Privacy Protective Facial Age Estimation, or PFE, 66 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,520 which will let parents snap a selfie to provide parental consent 67 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,040 for the kids to play the latest entry in the stabbing simulator franchise. 68 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:40,000 Sounds a bit iffy, privacy-wise, but the ratings board says the system won't store 69 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,320 any images or identify individual faces. Its only purpose is to verify whether the subject is old enough to remember the term 70 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,360 metrosexual. I don't need to remember the definition, I just look in the mirror. 71 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,400 I don't know. I can still see it causing an issue for adults with baby faces like me. 72 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,480 I'm actually 62. I was blessed by the elves with long life. 73 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,520 And the California homeowner was reportedly dropped for housing insurance after his insurer, 74 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,320 the CSAA, claimed that they sent a drone over his property and found his yard cluttered with 75 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:14,720 potential hazards. The CSAA refused to show him the photos and later denied there had been any drone at all, 76 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:19,040 claiming that the photos might have been captured by a fixed-wing airplane or satellite instead. 77 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,440 I mean, whatever you sent over to the neighbor's yard, what? 78 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,560 Because clearly it was the drone part that got his knickers into us, 79 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,360 not the invasive aerial surveillance. You know, I always give one of these every once in a while, 80 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,600 just so Google will get a nice shot of me on Google Earth, just, you know, hey. 81 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:42,800 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.