WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.640 Welcome to TechLink, your source of monthly updates on which tech giants are mad at each other. 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:08.880 Who stole Who's Boyfriend this week? More than 11, which is right now. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.160 You want me to do it again? No. Go ahead. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:18.440 Welcome to Tech... Nintendo has issued DMCA takedown requests to Microsoft subsidiary GitHub over software 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.840 tools used to emulate Nintendo's sovereign copyrighted games, which were simply not meant 00:00:22.840 --> 00:00:26.880 to be played outside of their natural habitat, severely underpowered consoles. 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:30.880 One such tool is Lockpick, which allows users to dump decryption keys from their Switch 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:35.560 games so that they can be emulated on PC by thugs and ruffians. 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.840 Wrap scallions even. Gross. The gallows for you! 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:43.520 Nintendo fears for the integrity of the true experience of playing their games on the 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:49.240 Switch since emulating Switch games has the terrible side effect of making them playable. 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:55.920 The true experience is just watching your Pokemon glitch out of existence and then crash. 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.520 This takedown doesn't simply apply to the original posting to the software, but would 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:04.920 also affect anyone who FORT the GitHub repository, which is a way for people to copy a project 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:12.800 on GitHub so that they can experiment or iterate on it. Take for example Simon Arons on Twitter, who received a copy of Nintendo's DMCA request 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:18.800 when he made the Forking mistake. Some speculate that this is due to the tears of the kingdom leak, and Nintendo, I get it. 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:22.920 I know taking away the ability for users to get keys from games they legally paid for 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:28.520 and thus incentivizing those users to obtain keys illegally sounds like a solution to piracy, 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:37.560 but wait. If you carry the three, if you don't do that, I think we got it wrong. 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:42.440 According to leaks, Google is planning to make search more visual, snackable, personal, 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:47.200 and human, which I assumed meant they wanted to be the go-to search engine for cannibals. 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.920 Apparently what that extremely quotable corpuspeak actually means is that Google is aiming to 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.200 tackle search prompts that aren't answerable by their traditional farm-to-table search results. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.160 According to leaked internal documents, the newly humbled Emperor of Search will be adding 00:02:01.160 --> 00:02:11.320 short videos to its results because of how young people like to get their information. 00:02:11.320 --> 00:02:16.600 An internal Google study suggested 40% of the youths use TikTok or Instagram when searching 00:02:16.600 --> 00:02:29.720 for restaurants. As a result, not only will future searchers be asked follow-up questions by an AI chatbot, 00:02:29.720 --> 00:02:34.200 but also may be prompted to swipe through visuals like TikToks or shorts. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:37.720 Because when you're plumbing the depths of accumulated human knowledge on a topic, you 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:43.600 want to start with the thoughts of thousands of 14-year-olds with main character syndrome. 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:47.360 This man looked at me for five seconds in a gym and I felt attacked. Let me explain. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:55.160 And then spends four minutes telling us nothing. Anyway, an Uber's ex-Chief security officer has been sentenced for covering up a 2016 00:02:55.160 --> 00:03:00.680 hack. After receiving an email from hackers telling him they had the data of 50 million Uber customers 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:07.520 and 7 million drivers, then security chief Joseph Sullivan paid the attackers $100,000 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.400 under the condition of them signing an NDA to not disclose the hack to anyone. 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:16.000 For his crime of covering up the exposure of at least 57 million users' names and phone 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:23.800 numbers, he was issued a $50,000 fine and sentenced to three years of probation. 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.800 How was he supposed to do security from prison? Was he supposed to secure the prison? 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:33.920 Use your brain, guys. 50 current and former chief security officers from the likes of Netflix US and even the 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:38.400 US government sent a letter to the judge pleading for Sullivan not to go to prison. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.360 They said their job requires nuanced judgment calls in a largely unregulated environment. 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:46.560 I mean, how was Sullivan supposed to know he was committing a crime? 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.840 He's not a federal prosecutor anymore. It's been years. 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:55.880 Yeah, and it's not like he was regarded as a security expert in Silicon Valley anymore 00:03:55.880 --> 00:03:59.280 because he was charged with his crime, but you know, before he was, I wanted to do more 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.880 main stories, but all I have are these stupid quick bits. Stupid. 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:05.880 Mom! Go to my room. 00:04:05.880 --> 00:04:09.960 Twitter has admitted private circle tweets have been viewable by everyone on Twitter, 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.080 merely most of a month after the issue was discovered by users. 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:20.040 Circle tweets are supposed to only be viewable by other members of the circle, yet circle 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:24.680 users have been getting likes and views from outsiders. 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.600 I didn't want everyone on Twitter to know how much I love the TV series Monk starring 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:34.880 Tony Shalhoub, Elon, Bridge, a company that made popular iPad accessories, has gone kaput. 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:39.240 They actually released a trackpad keyboard for iPad Pro months before Apple released 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:44.720 the official Magic Keyboard and added native trackpad support to iPadOS, but Apple reserved 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:50.200 trackpad gestures for first party accessories and also Logitech, who Apple apparently likes 00:04:50.200 --> 00:04:54.560 better. Apple did offer the functionality to Bridge, as long as they could figure it out themselves 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.000 without debugging tools, which Logitech received through hard work and favoritism. 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:03.040 The inability to compete and cash flow issues sealed the company's fate. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.760 All that's left now is a logo on their website and a massive why. 00:05:06.760 --> 00:05:10.280 Why indeed. Why? Why, Lisa, why? 00:05:10.280 --> 00:05:14.080 You are tearing me apart! 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:17.960 The Apple Watch has been credited with saving a woman's life due to its fall detection 00:05:17.960 --> 00:05:22.680 feature, marking the first time a human life has been saved by knowing what season it is. 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.840 By the way, it's currently not fall. 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:30.840 When the user's coworker found her collapsed on her hotel room floor, she called 911, only 00:05:30.840 --> 00:05:33.920 to find that emergency services were already on the way. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.440 When reached for comment, Apple responded, now that the Apple Watch has the ability to 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:42.120 save a life. The only feature left to add is the ability to take one. 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.960 Chinese company Power Leader has announced a new revolutionary CPU line called PowerStar 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:51.360 and unveiled their first chip, the P301105. 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.600 Now some people have been claiming that the CPU is just a rebranded Intel Core 10th Gen 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.760 chip because they looked at the P3 with their eyes, but Power Leader says these chips have 00:05:59.760 --> 00:06:05.720 been specially designed for daily desktop users. Of course they never said who designed them. 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:11.000 I won't Intel. The company didn't mention a price or release date, but you can find this leaked information 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:15.440 by searching for Intel Core i3-10105. 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:20.840 And French biotech company NeoPlants has released its first line of genetically modified house 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:26.960 plants. Their superpower? The ability to clean indoor pollutants with the power of 30 normal plants. 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:30.560 I was really hoping for telepathic ferns, but I guess slightly better air quality is 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:39.840 fine. As long as you throw them, you gotta start it. 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:45.280 The soil they're planted in has formaldehyde eating microbes, which is a way better superpower. 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:49.320 The X-Men aren't calling you back either way, but the formaldehyde eater has a much better 00:06:49.320 --> 00:06:52.720 shot than the HEPA filter man. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:57.080 And he hasn't made any progress because he again, he can't move, he's a plant. 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:01.880 And don't filter out the tech news, we'll be back again this Wednesday. 00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:06.040 And if you don't come back, I'll be sad. And when I'm sad, I get mad. 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:10.960 And when I get mad, I'm sorry, I'm still upset about the quick bits. 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:11.480 Mom?