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Valve dropped the price of the Steam Deck, so ASUS seized the opportunity to launch a

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new, cheaper variant of the ROG Ally with a 30% slower processor, providing a more interesting

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alternative for those considering lighting their money on fire.

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I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked and this new Ryzen Z1 equipped Ally makes very little

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sense according to basically every review that's out right now. That's because it has one third

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the number of GPU cores its big brother, the Z1 Extreme, has and, accordingly,

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performs as much as 37% slower while being only $100 cheaper at $600 bucks.

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Okay, fine. That's not a fair comparison though. So what about the Steam Deck? Well,

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the Z1 Ally still has roughly half of the Steam Deck's GPU cores and yeah, the new Ally costs

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$50 less than the most expensive deck with a matching 512 gigs of storage, but that was before

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the aforementioned discounts, which actually bring the top deck model down to $70 cheaper than the

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new Ally. And the base model deck, that's still about twice as powerful, $240 cheaper.

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I mean, the Ally has a higher res screen and variable refresh rate, which won't be much

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of a selling point when it's less powerful than the deck anyway. So in terms of valuable

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allies, we're talking like Italy here. Mostly there for emotional support.

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Let's go. I mean, the timing on this release makes it seem like ASUS wanted to be spanked,

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which is weird for a tech company. I'm not kink shaming. I'm kink asking why.

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Chief product officer and guy who always kind of looks like he's about to cry,

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Panos Panay is leaving Microsoft after nearly two decades. He announced this disappointing news

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today on X slash Twitter, the platform known for disappointment. In his post, Panay said,

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I've decided to turn the page and write the next chapter. However, just a couple of weeks ago,

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Panay said he was excited to appear at a Microsoft event happening three days from now,

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making it sound like his metaphorical book writing is going about as well as George R.R.

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Winter. It's never coming out. Accept it. This is especially surprising since the upcoming event

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was expected to unveil the latest surface products and Panay has overseen the surface line since it

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was but a twinkle in former CEO Steve Ballmer's eye. It's got to be kind of gross in there.

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Microsoft has said that current corporate vice president of modern life search and devices,

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Yusuf Mehdi, will be taking over as head of the Windows and surface divisions,

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leaving many with unanswered questions. Questions like, how can someone be a vice president of

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modern life? That's such a made up sounding title. I mean, what's next? Does Microsoft have a

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chief vision officer? Got him. The UK has come up with seven principles to guide development of

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generative AI as laid out by the CMA, the country's antitrust regulator, not the American

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Country Music Awards. At least one of you was confused. The report is the result of an initial

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review of AI first announced back in May and is intended to ensure consumer protection and

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healthy competition are at the heart of responsible development and use of foundation models, which

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refer to generative AI models serving as the foundation for more advanced ones, like Harry

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Selden. Some people got to get that reference. I don't know what it means. I know. The report

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suggests seven principles for consideration that they tragically decided to just list alphabetically

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instead of forcing an acronym we'd be able to make fun of. Rude. In the report, the CMA

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highlights the potential benefits of foundation models while also arguing societal harm could

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result from weak competition or weak consumer protection laws. In other words, it is a thing

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in society. Quick bits are the little one bite desserts you get at the end of a fine meal. Bon

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epitide. But there's five of them. So it's like you had ordered the entire dessert menu.

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Hope you saved some room. The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of

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sensitive internal data beginning in July 2020, according to cloud security firm Wiz. Apparently

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a public GitHub repository for open source AI learning models was mistakenly linked to a

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misconfigured Azure Blob storage bucket, which is also what I call the hot tub at the public pool.

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Regularly visited by blobs. The storage container used an overly permissive shared access signature,

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or SAS token, which meant that anyone who accessed the URL had full control of the entire storage

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account and all the data in it. According to Microsoft, customers should be unaffected beyond

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the haunting knowledge that we are forever a single misposted link away from certain doom.

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That's fine. ASUS, famous inventor of the award-winning ROG ally, we mentioned earlier,

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is suing much bigger tech company Samsung for allegedly violating one of ASUS's

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smartphone-related patents. Samsung has used the patent in basically all their phones and tablets

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since the Galaxy S8 without paying ASUS licensing fees. The patent's description lists a method

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and apparatus for improving a transmission using a configured resource in a wireless communication

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system, which honestly sounds like something Samsung could have figured out themselves.

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Pretty embarrassing. Google announced a major change to one of the main selling points of its

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Nest Hub's Mac's smart displays, the removal of video calling support for Zoom and Google Meet,

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horrifying fans of video chatting one's mom while one chops carrots. They have a subreddit.

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However, a Google Spokesperson has said you can still make and accept video calls on the Nest Hub

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Macs, but what you can't do is join a meeting via a meeting code or a link, meaning you can't

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pre-plan meetings anymore. Google didn't explain why this is happening or how I'm supposed to have

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a hashtag grind set when I can't schedule my business calls during my weekly carrot chopping sesh.

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It helps me think. I don't use the carrots. I just chop them.

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Apple will be issuing a software update for the iPhone 12 following a ban on sales in France

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due to a report that it exceeded EU limits for electromagnetic radiation exposure.

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While other countries are now looking into the issue, Apple states that the discrepancy is likely related to the specific testing protocols used by

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French regulators, where the phone is force-fed grain to fatten its liver to 10 times the usual

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size. They're not built for grain. Apple has reportedly told tech support staff to shut up

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if asked for updates and to deny return requests unless the device was purchased in the last two

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weeks. So for now, French customers will have to keep the phone that may or may not be gently

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cooking their right buck cheek. That's how you deal with top round, low and slow.

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And Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in an interview that he uses the upcoming Vision Pro on a regular

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basis and that he watched the entire third season of beloved Apple TV plus original series,

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Ted Lasso, on the headset. Super relatable guy Tim Cook also said,

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there's some things that I have access to that other people don't have, which was an incredibly

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surprising fact to learn about from the billionaire CEO of a multi-trillion dollar company.

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Yeah, like stakes made from human clothes. And more. And you'll be surprised by how much more

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tech news there is when you come back on Wednesday. It'll be a lot like today, but different in that

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it won't be Monday, so.