Whoa, Riley was right. There's a lot of you here. Can you guys go easy on me?
It's my first time telling you about the tech news. NVIDIA and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of all revenue from chips that they sell to
China. I know, specifically AI chips like NVIDIA's H20 or AMD's MI308. The news comes just days
after the orange administration hosted Jensen's jacket at the White House where it was announced
that NVIDIA was granted the export license needed in order to sell these chips to China.
Impeccable timing because one social media post connected to Chinese state media
says that these H20 chips are lacking technological innovation and are environmentally
unfriendly. That won't stop them though. It does make things a little awkward.
This is the first time a US company has agreed to fork over some of their revenue
in order to obtain these export licenses, rightfully making some experts a little nervous.
But that doesn't matter, right? We're all used to pay to win by now,
and senior golfer Trump needs more tacky gold to decorate his office with.
The move could bring in more than $2 billion to the US government,
since NVIDIA was expected to sell more than $15 billion worth of these chips to China.
Oh yeah, AMD is here as well with their $800 million predicted in sales.
Speaking of irrelevant things, AOL, everyone's favorite dial-up internet service provider,
has officially announced that on September 30th, they are killing their dial-up service.
Rest in peace, little yellow man. No longer do you have to run for the remaining 160,000 Americans
that still use dial-up to get their 56 kilobytes a second. Is that how slow it was? Yikes.
Are you shocked that many people are still using dial-up? I know I was when I read that number,
but it is down from about 260,000 just six years ago. This service shutdown comes just four years
after Verizon sold Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for a whopping $5 billion. I do wonder how much of that
was Yahoo. Even that. As for now, though, all other AOL services are staying up and running,
including their newsfeed. Don't know why I bothered to point that out. It's just yellow
Yahoo newsfeed, but hey, remember AOL? It's still here. Barely.
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke has announced that he will be resigning. In a blog post, he announced he
wants to become a startup founder again, outside of GitHub and Microsoft, concluding his almost
four years as CEO. Microsoft purchased GitHub back in 2018 for $7.5 billion, and at the time,
people were definitely worried that this acquisition by a major corporation would threaten its community
focus. Since then, it's operated more or less as a separate company, but with the departure of
Thomas, the GitHub leadership team will now be reporting to Microsoft's new core AI team,
instead of getting a direct replacement CEO. Thomas plans to stay with GitHub until the end
of 2025 to help the transition. Get out of my swamp, Thomas. Domke. But what the f*** is core AI?
It's a Microsoft division led by former meta-executive Jay Parakey with the goal of building an AI
platform and tools for both internal use and for its customers. Yay. More AI. How will this
affect GitHub? Maybe we'll get an AI CEO? At least then, it'll tell me I do a great job.
Every damn time. You're so good, Elijah. You're brilliant, Elijah. Thank you.
Thanks for going easy with me on the main topics, by the way. Do you mind if I stick around for some
quick bits? Sorry. Would you pay to fix your car's software? Hyundai has a security vulnerability
with some of their Ionic 5 vehicles that allows their cars to be hacked with a little device
that's disguised to look like an old Game Boy. It works by intercepting the signal the car sends
out when you place your hand on the door handle. The device then calculates what signal it needs to
send back to the car in order to trick the car into thinking it's a legitimate key fob. This
isn't actually a new device or a new strategy at all, but what is new is Hyundai has the balls to
charge you $65 in order to buy the optional security upgrade to prevent this. What the f***,
Hyundai? People have to pay because you suck at coding? I personally am just going to let mine get
stolen for the insurance money. How about we talk about another car company? This video,
posted on TikTok recently, showed a cabless truck from the company Zellotech cruising at highway
speed in China. While these cabless cars aren't necessarily new to China, they are new to many
Western viewers who argued that they should have faces. I agree, since I think they would look a
little less terrifying as they drag victims across town, as seen in this video where the moped
didn't even slow it down. Totally depends on their expression, honestly.
New rumors popped up about a more affordable 13-inch MacBook, including that this device
will be using the A18 Pro chip, which is the same chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro. It is said to be
slightly smaller than the current 13.6-inch MacBook Air, and Digitimes reports that some
components are expected to enter mass production near the end of Q3. Estimated prices are around
$600 to $700, which, if that's true, would make it the cheapest MacBook to have ever come out.
I hope I can just throw a SIM card in this and have a cheaper iPhone Pro.
They finally made a folding phone. Then at least I'll have the blue text bubbles. Ah! Okay, good. You're still paying attention,
because this one could save you from being doxxed. If you're a user of Instagram,
you may have noticed the new Maps feature. Pretty cool and useless, right? Wrong. It's useful for
stalkers, since if you spammed Accept All Permissions when you set up the app years ago,
it will show all of your followers your exact location when you post something,
including that cute video of your cat that you took at your house.
On the toilet. Yeah, now you see why it's f***ed up. Don't worry though. Head of Instagram,
Adam Mozuri, said on threads, we can and will make it easier to understand exactly what's
happening. Also sent from the toilet. Since this was intended to be used to show you nearby events or activities that you were missing
out on since your friends didn't invite you. This would probably be the only way I'd get
told about the party, so I kind of like the feature. And let's end on some wholesome news.
You guys remember r slash place, the subreddit where users could place a colored pixel every
couple minutes and work together to create beautiful art. It's back baby with wplace.live,
which is powered by Libre Maps, so you can place pixels anywhere on the entire planet.
Some of my favorites include the save high tail art in LA, the anime in Japan,
and of course the little LTT logo over our office here. You should go add a tick linked one. That
would be kind of cool. And by the time you finish that or any other art, it'll be time for the next
TechLinked, which you promised to check out, right? Promise. Police, because Riley should be back.
I mean unless you guys enjoyed me hosting, maybe don't want him.
Please. Riley help. I want to be back. I like that. Riley!