We post Fridays TechLinked after the WAN Show ends, so to basically everyone not on
Pacific Time, I just want to say, happy early Saturday morning. Get some sleep after this,
k? The controversial Bill C-11, or the Online Streaming Act, was passed into Canadian law
on Wednesday, leading many Americans to ask, what is that? In brief, C-11 will allow the
Canadian Radio, Television, Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, to regulate how much
Canadian content is shown to Canadian viewers by streaming services like Netflix and Spotify.
But also social platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.
The tech giants will also be required to financially contribute to the production
of Canadian content. So, get ready for Netflix's gritty new crime series, Guns and Hosers.
Proponents of the law say it simply brings online platforms under the same rules that
have applied to traditional broadcasters for decades. But critics, including many Canadian
content creators, are worried the law may regulate user-generated content thanks to the
government repeatedly rejecting amendments that would specifically protect content creators.
Don't worry, the chair of the CRTC says they have no intention to regulate users.
So, it'll probably be fine, eh? Hey, did you know Wolverine's Canadian?
And Deadpool? Scott Pilgrim? We exist. AMD claims they have resolved the issue,
causing Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs to fry, and PCs don't need that much cholesterol in their diet.
Board partners ASUS and MSI have already released statements suggesting expo memory profiles may
be causing unsafe SoC voltages. And it turns out that was, in fact, the issue, or one of them,
at least. AMD's released new firmware modifying certain power rails, including the SoC power rail,
without stating what other rails are affected and why, which is really frustrating to me,
a gnarly dude who loves grinded rails, if they are safe. Okay? Safety is cool. You know what's cooler?
You know what's cooler than ripping those Narnars? Safety. Calling your mom at the end of the day.
The company also didn't clarify if 7000 X3D CPUs were the only processors affected with a
severe electric shock kink. We recommend anyone with an M5 system update their BIOS as soon as
board manufacturers release them, since it's possible that non-X3D Ryzen 7000 chips also need
to establish a safe word with their mommyboards. Mommyboards are the best for grinding. You've
been a bad boy. This mommy's gonna take care of you. And Japanese company iSpace seems to have lost
their lunar lander, but they're pretty sure it's on the moon, right?
We don't know. iSpace launched Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, in December of last year,
carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, hoping to be the first private company to
accomplish a moon landing. Instead, according to their official statement, shortly after the
scheduled landing time, no data was received indicating a touchdown, because it's not football,
that's why. Apparently, the descent speed rapidly increased before communication loss,
so they believe there is a high probability of crash. We're not sure, but we got our top people
on it. So we've got a missing commercial flight craft with a matrix reference as a name, and the
moon is involved. Is this a real story, or did someone ask chat GPT to write a conspiracy theory?
While iSpace probably isn't the first private company to land on the moon, their CEO says
they are the first private company to collect data from an attempted lunar landing. And that's
groundbreaking. The price for the ROG Ally handheld PC may be only $700 for its high-aspect version,
according to leaks, putting it only $50 above the most expensive Steam Deck variant. The alleged
sources for this leak include a Best Buy product page screenshot, an earlier leak from Snoopy Tech
on Twitter, and Roland Quant, a gadget leaker who shared data with The Verge. There is an
alternate universe version of me that is ecstatic because he doesn't have student loans to pay off.
In the CMA's final report on why they blocked the Microsoft Activision merger, the regulator cast
doubts on Microsoft's 10-year Call of Duty deal with Nintendo, saying the switch isn't
technically capable of running a version of the game, criticizing its impact on competition.
They also cited internal documents from Microsoft while mentioning the difference in technical
performance and audience between the Xbox and Switch consoles. Guess, maybe, maybe Microsoft
should have made a sizable effort to convince people the Xbox doesn't compete with the Nintendo
Switch in a lawsuit about the lack of competition in gaming. Tesla lawyers are arguing that Elon
Musk cannot be deposed in a wrongful death suit to answer questions about his exaggerated claims
about the safety of Tesla's autopilot software because he is very famous and a target of deep
fakes. Thus, nothing he has said publicly on a stage in front of a camera in a room full of
hundreds of people should be held against him in the court of law. I mean, who can argue with that?
It's called deep fakes, not deep truths. A Model S and Model X at this point can drive autonomously
with greater safety than a person right now, said Musk allegedly in this video, right here,
posted in 2016 by a prominent news outlet that Musk has never before claimed was faked or asked to
be taken down. But we just can't know. There was a Balenciaga reference. There was a Balenciaga.
We have our top people on it. The first babies born from eggs fertilized by a robot have been
born, and that robot was only kind of sexy. It was a five at best. Sadly for sci-fi fans,
this does not mean that the world has seen its first robot baby daddy. Rather, the robot injected
a normal human egg with boring, normal human sperm. Yeah, no miracle whatsoever. Howl 9000,
you are not the father. Typically, a trained embryologist has to perform the procedure,
making it extremely expensive. But this time, an engineer with no fertility training was able to
control a specialized robot with a PS5 controller and fertilize the delicate eggs, like a high-stakes
game of asteroids. That's right, gamers can fertilize eggs. Later versions. And the next
version of Smash is coming out on the NES, which sounds like a warning of an impending collapse
in the timeline. Fortunately, however, it's just super tilt, bro. The brainchild of a French
indie developer that reached its fundraising goal in just two days. The game will, amazingly,
feature online multiplayer thanks to dark magic. And maybe the cartridges on board Wi-Fi helps with
that too. I don't know, I'm not a wizard. I just look like one. Nintendo can barely make online
work on the Switch, yet one French dude with a dream adds online gaming to their first console.
Be better. And I dream of you watching more tech news this Monday.
Speaking of dreams, Mitch, you need to wake up. Please open your eyes. It's been seven years.
Please, for the love of God, Mitch. See you Monday!