1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 We post Fridays TechLinked after the WAN Show ends, so to basically everyone not on 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,760 Pacific Time, I just want to say, happy early Saturday morning. Get some sleep after this, 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,960 k? The controversial Bill C-11, or the Online Streaming Act, was passed into Canadian law 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:19,280 on Wednesday, leading many Americans to ask, what is that? In brief, C-11 will allow the 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,720 Canadian Radio, Television, Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, to regulate how much 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,680 Canadian content is shown to Canadian viewers by streaming services like Netflix and Spotify. 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,720 But also social platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. 8 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:38,480 The tech giants will also be required to financially contribute to the production 9 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:43,680 of Canadian content. So, get ready for Netflix's gritty new crime series, Guns and Hosers. 10 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,200 Proponents of the law say it simply brings online platforms under the same rules that 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,840 have applied to traditional broadcasters for decades. But critics, including many Canadian 12 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,880 content creators, are worried the law may regulate user-generated content thanks to the 13 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,360 government repeatedly rejecting amendments that would specifically protect content creators. 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,680 Don't worry, the chair of the CRTC says they have no intention to regulate users. 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,440 So, it'll probably be fine, eh? Hey, did you know Wolverine's Canadian? 16 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:17,600 And Deadpool? Scott Pilgrim? We exist. AMD claims they have resolved the issue, 17 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,280 causing Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs to fry, and PCs don't need that much cholesterol in their diet. 18 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,920 Board partners ASUS and MSI have already released statements suggesting expo memory profiles may 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,840 be causing unsafe SoC voltages. And it turns out that was, in fact, the issue, or one of them, 20 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:40,000 at least. AMD's released new firmware modifying certain power rails, including the SoC power rail, 21 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,800 without stating what other rails are affected and why, which is really frustrating to me, 22 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:50,640 a gnarly dude who loves grinded rails, if they are safe. Okay? Safety is cool. You know what's cooler? 23 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,200 You know what's cooler than ripping those Narnars? Safety. Calling your mom at the end of the day. 24 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,640 The company also didn't clarify if 7000 X3D CPUs were the only processors affected with a 25 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,000 severe electric shock kink. We recommend anyone with an M5 system update their BIOS as soon as 26 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,440 board manufacturers release them, since it's possible that non-X3D Ryzen 7000 chips also need 27 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,600 to establish a safe word with their mommyboards. Mommyboards are the best for grinding. You've 28 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,160 been a bad boy. This mommy's gonna take care of you. And Japanese company iSpace seems to have lost 29 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,760 their lunar lander, but they're pretty sure it's on the moon, right? 30 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:31,760 We don't know. iSpace launched Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, in December of last year, 31 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,560 carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, hoping to be the first private company to 32 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,280 accomplish a moon landing. Instead, according to their official statement, shortly after the 33 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,840 scheduled landing time, no data was received indicating a touchdown, because it's not football, 34 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,560 that's why. Apparently, the descent speed rapidly increased before communication loss, 35 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:56,080 so they believe there is a high probability of crash. We're not sure, but we got our top people 36 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:01,280 on it. So we've got a missing commercial flight craft with a matrix reference as a name, and the 37 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,800 moon is involved. Is this a real story, or did someone ask chat GPT to write a conspiracy theory? 38 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,520 While iSpace probably isn't the first private company to land on the moon, their CEO says 39 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:17,200 they are the first private company to collect data from an attempted lunar landing. And that's 40 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:31,840 groundbreaking. The price for the ROG Ally handheld PC may be only $700 for its high-aspect version, 41 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:37,040 according to leaks, putting it only $50 above the most expensive Steam Deck variant. The alleged 42 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,840 sources for this leak include a Best Buy product page screenshot, an earlier leak from Snoopy Tech 43 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:47,920 on Twitter, and Roland Quant, a gadget leaker who shared data with The Verge. There is an 44 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,720 alternate universe version of me that is ecstatic because he doesn't have student loans to pay off. 45 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,520 In the CMA's final report on why they blocked the Microsoft Activision merger, the regulator cast 46 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,920 doubts on Microsoft's 10-year Call of Duty deal with Nintendo, saying the switch isn't 47 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,480 technically capable of running a version of the game, criticizing its impact on competition. 48 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:11,440 They also cited internal documents from Microsoft while mentioning the difference in technical 49 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:17,920 performance and audience between the Xbox and Switch consoles. Guess, maybe, maybe Microsoft 50 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,000 should have made a sizable effort to convince people the Xbox doesn't compete with the Nintendo 51 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,720 Switch in a lawsuit about the lack of competition in gaming. Tesla lawyers are arguing that Elon 52 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,280 Musk cannot be deposed in a wrongful death suit to answer questions about his exaggerated claims 53 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:38,480 about the safety of Tesla's autopilot software because he is very famous and a target of deep 54 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,360 fakes. Thus, nothing he has said publicly on a stage in front of a camera in a room full of 55 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:48,160 hundreds of people should be held against him in the court of law. I mean, who can argue with that? 56 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,440 It's called deep fakes, not deep truths. A Model S and Model X at this point can drive autonomously 57 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:58,480 with greater safety than a person right now, said Musk allegedly in this video, right here, 58 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:03,120 posted in 2016 by a prominent news outlet that Musk has never before claimed was faked or asked to 59 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,560 be taken down. But we just can't know. There was a Balenciaga reference. There was a Balenciaga. 60 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,880 We have our top people on it. The first babies born from eggs fertilized by a robot have been 61 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:18,320 born, and that robot was only kind of sexy. It was a five at best. Sadly for sci-fi fans, 62 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:23,120 this does not mean that the world has seen its first robot baby daddy. Rather, the robot injected 63 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:29,200 a normal human egg with boring, normal human sperm. Yeah, no miracle whatsoever. Howl 9000, 64 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:33,920 you are not the father. Typically, a trained embryologist has to perform the procedure, 65 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:38,560 making it extremely expensive. But this time, an engineer with no fertility training was able to 66 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,080 control a specialized robot with a PS5 controller and fertilize the delicate eggs, like a high-stakes 67 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:50,800 game of asteroids. That's right, gamers can fertilize eggs. Later versions. And the next 68 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,960 version of Smash is coming out on the NES, which sounds like a warning of an impending collapse 69 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:00,000 in the timeline. Fortunately, however, it's just super tilt, bro. The brainchild of a French 70 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,120 indie developer that reached its fundraising goal in just two days. The game will, amazingly, 71 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,560 feature online multiplayer thanks to dark magic. And maybe the cartridges on board Wi-Fi helps with 72 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,040 that too. I don't know, I'm not a wizard. I just look like one. Nintendo can barely make online 73 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,360 work on the Switch, yet one French dude with a dream adds online gaming to their first console. 74 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,720 Be better. And I dream of you watching more tech news this Monday. 75 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaking of dreams, Mitch, you need to wake up. Please open your eyes. It's been seven years. 76 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:35,040 Please, for the love of God, Mitch. See you Monday!