1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,480 Whoa, Riley was right. There's a lot of you here. Can you guys go easy on me? 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:12,400 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 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:22,240 China. I know, specifically AI chips like NVIDIA's H20 or AMD's MI308. The news comes just days 4 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:26,640 after the orange administration hosted Jensen's jacket at the White House where it was announced 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,520 that NVIDIA was granted the export license needed in order to sell these chips to China. 6 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:36,800 Impeccable timing because one social media post connected to Chinese state media 7 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:43,600 says that these H20 chips are lacking technological innovation and are environmentally 8 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,160 unfriendly. That won't stop them though. It does make things a little awkward. 9 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:52,560 This is the first time a US company has agreed to fork over some of their revenue 10 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:59,040 in order to obtain these export licenses, rightfully making some experts a little nervous. 11 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,960 But that doesn't matter, right? We're all used to pay to win by now, 12 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,040 and senior golfer Trump needs more tacky gold to decorate his office with. 13 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,880 The move could bring in more than $2 billion to the US government, 14 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:18,160 since NVIDIA was expected to sell more than $15 billion worth of these chips to China. 15 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,520 Oh yeah, AMD is here as well with their $800 million predicted in sales. 16 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaking of irrelevant things, AOL, everyone's favorite dial-up internet service provider, 17 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:33,520 has officially announced that on September 30th, they are killing their dial-up service. 18 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:38,640 Rest in peace, little yellow man. No longer do you have to run for the remaining 160,000 Americans 19 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:44,640 that still use dial-up to get their 56 kilobytes a second. Is that how slow it was? Yikes. 20 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,480 Are you shocked that many people are still using dial-up? I know I was when I read that number, 21 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:55,760 but it is down from about 260,000 just six years ago. This service shutdown comes just four years 22 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:04,000 after Verizon sold Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for a whopping $5 billion. I do wonder how much of that 23 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,120 was Yahoo. Even that. As for now, though, all other AOL services are staying up and running, 24 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,640 including their newsfeed. Don't know why I bothered to point that out. It's just yellow 25 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:18,640 Yahoo newsfeed, but hey, remember AOL? It's still here. Barely. 26 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,640 GitHub CEO Thomas Domke has announced that he will be resigning. In a blog post, he announced he 27 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:30,080 wants to become a startup founder again, outside of GitHub and Microsoft, concluding his almost 28 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:36,720 four years as CEO. Microsoft purchased GitHub back in 2018 for $7.5 billion, and at the time, 29 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:42,080 people were definitely worried that this acquisition by a major corporation would threaten its community 30 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,120 focus. Since then, it's operated more or less as a separate company, but with the departure of 31 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,640 Thomas, the GitHub leadership team will now be reporting to Microsoft's new core AI team, 32 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:57,680 instead of getting a direct replacement CEO. Thomas plans to stay with GitHub until the end 33 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:05,680 of 2025 to help the transition. Get out of my swamp, Thomas. Domke. But what the f*** is core AI? 34 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,520 It's a Microsoft division led by former meta-executive Jay Parakey with the goal of building an AI 35 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:18,240 platform and tools for both internal use and for its customers. Yay. More AI. How will this 36 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,640 affect GitHub? Maybe we'll get an AI CEO? At least then, it'll tell me I do a great job. 37 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,400 Every damn time. You're so good, Elijah. You're brilliant, Elijah. Thank you. 38 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,840 Thanks for going easy with me on the main topics, by the way. Do you mind if I stick around for some 39 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:39,520 quick bits? Sorry. Would you pay to fix your car's software? Hyundai has a security vulnerability 40 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:44,720 with some of their Ionic 5 vehicles that allows their cars to be hacked with a little device 41 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,160 that's disguised to look like an old Game Boy. It works by intercepting the signal the car sends 42 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,640 out when you place your hand on the door handle. The device then calculates what signal it needs to 43 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:59,440 send back to the car in order to trick the car into thinking it's a legitimate key fob. This 44 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,480 isn't actually a new device or a new strategy at all, but what is new is Hyundai has the balls to 45 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:11,440 charge you $65 in order to buy the optional security upgrade to prevent this. What the f***, 46 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:16,960 Hyundai? People have to pay because you suck at coding? I personally am just going to let mine get 47 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,960 stolen for the insurance money. How about we talk about another car company? This video, 48 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:26,080 posted on TikTok recently, showed a cabless truck from the company Zellotech cruising at highway 49 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,120 speed in China. While these cabless cars aren't necessarily new to China, they are new to many 50 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,520 Western viewers who argued that they should have faces. I agree, since I think they would look a 51 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,880 little less terrifying as they drag victims across town, as seen in this video where the moped 52 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,080 didn't even slow it down. Totally depends on their expression, honestly. 53 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,000 New rumors popped up about a more affordable 13-inch MacBook, including that this device 54 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,880 will be using the A18 Pro chip, which is the same chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro. It is said to be 55 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:02,640 slightly smaller than the current 13.6-inch MacBook Air, and Digitimes reports that some 56 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,680 components are expected to enter mass production near the end of Q3. Estimated prices are around 57 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:13,920 $600 to $700, which, if that's true, would make it the cheapest MacBook to have ever come out. 58 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,200 I hope I can just throw a SIM card in this and have a cheaper iPhone Pro. 59 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:22,960 They finally made a folding phone. Then at least I'll have the blue text bubbles. Ah! Okay, good. You're still paying attention, 60 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,440 because this one could save you from being doxxed. If you're a user of Instagram, 61 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:33,600 you may have noticed the new Maps feature. Pretty cool and useless, right? Wrong. It's useful for 62 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,560 stalkers, since if you spammed Accept All Permissions when you set up the app years ago, 63 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,560 it will show all of your followers your exact location when you post something, 64 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,160 including that cute video of your cat that you took at your house. 65 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:53,840 On the toilet. Yeah, now you see why it's f***ed up. Don't worry though. Head of Instagram, 66 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:59,680 Adam Mozuri, said on threads, we can and will make it easier to understand exactly what's 67 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:07,360 happening. Also sent from the toilet. Since this was intended to be used to show you nearby events or activities that you were missing 68 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,360 out on since your friends didn't invite you. This would probably be the only way I'd get 69 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,120 told about the party, so I kind of like the feature. And let's end on some wholesome news. 70 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,240 You guys remember r slash place, the subreddit where users could place a colored pixel every 71 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,520 couple minutes and work together to create beautiful art. It's back baby with wplace.live, 72 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:31,600 which is powered by Libre Maps, so you can place pixels anywhere on the entire planet. 73 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,840 Some of my favorites include the save high tail art in LA, the anime in Japan, 74 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:41,120 and of course the little LTT logo over our office here. You should go add a tick linked one. That 75 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,360 would be kind of cool. And by the time you finish that or any other art, it'll be time for the next 76 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,920 TechLinked, which you promised to check out, right? Promise. Police, because Riley should be back. 77 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,920 I mean unless you guys enjoyed me hosting, maybe don't want him. 78 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,560 Please. Riley help. I want to be back. I like that. Riley!