WEBVTT 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? 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 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 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:26.640 after the orange administration hosted Jensen's jacket at the White House where it was announced 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:31.520 that NVIDIA was granted the export license needed in order to sell these chips to China. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:36.800 Impeccable timing because one social media post connected to Chinese state media 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:43.600 says that these H20 chips are lacking technological innovation and are environmentally 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:48.160 unfriendly. That won't stop them though. It does make things a little awkward. 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 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:59.040 in order to obtain these export licenses, rightfully making some experts a little nervous. 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:02.960 But that doesn't matter, right? We're all used to pay to win by now, 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:07.040 and senior golfer Trump needs more tacky gold to decorate his office with. 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:12.880 The move could bring in more than $2 billion to the US government, 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:18.160 since NVIDIA was expected to sell more than $15 billion worth of these chips to China. 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:21.520 Oh yeah, AMD is here as well with their $800 million predicted in sales. 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:28.880 Speaking of irrelevant things, AOL, everyone's favorite dial-up internet service provider, 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:33.520 has officially announced that on September 30th, they are killing their dial-up service. 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 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. 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, 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 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 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, 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 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:18.640 Yahoo newsfeed, but hey, remember AOL? It's still here. Barely. 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 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:30.080 wants to become a startup founder again, outside of GitHub and Microsoft, concluding his almost 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, 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:42.080 people were definitely worried that this acquisition by a major corporation would threaten its community 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 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.640 Thomas, the GitHub leadership team will now be reporting to Microsoft's new core AI team, 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:57.680 instead of getting a direct replacement CEO. Thomas plans to stay with GitHub until the end 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? 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 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 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. 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:28.400 Every damn time. You're so good, Elijah. You're brilliant, Elijah. Thank you. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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***, 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 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:20.960 stolen for the insurance money. How about we talk about another car company? This video, 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:26.080 posted on TikTok recently, showed a cabless truck from the company Zellotech cruising at highway 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 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 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 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:44.080 didn't even slow it down. Totally depends on their expression, honestly. 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:50.000 New rumors popped up about a more affordable 13-inch MacBook, including that this device 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 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:02.640 slightly smaller than the current 13.6-inch MacBook Air, and Digitimes reports that some 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:07.680 components are expected to enter mass production near the end of Q3. Estimated prices are around 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. 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. 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, 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:27.440 because this one could save you from being doxxed. If you're a user of Instagram, 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 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:38.560 stalkers, since if you spammed Accept All Permissions when you set up the app years ago, 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:44.560 it will show all of your followers your exact location when you post something, 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.160 including that cute video of your cat that you took at your house. 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, 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 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 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 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. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:20.240 You guys remember r slash place, the subreddit where users could place a colored pixel every 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:25.520 couple minutes and work together to create beautiful art. It's back baby with wplace.live, 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:31.600 which is powered by Libre Maps, so you can place pixels anywhere on the entire planet. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.840 Some of my favorites include the save high tail art in LA, the anime in Japan, 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 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 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:49.920 TechLinked, which you promised to check out, right? Promise. Police, because Riley should be back. 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.920 I mean unless you guys enjoyed me hosting, maybe don't want him. 00:06:55.200 --> 00:06:58.560 Please. Riley help. I want to be back. I like that. Riley!