WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 Twitter is continuing its ill-advised rebranding as X 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.520 with a mixed degree of success. I'm James Shrive, this is TechLinked 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:13.280 and the iconic dictionary-changing tweet has been renamed to the utterly generic post. 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:17.200 Very Zuckerbergian. Similarly, the once-free-to-use tweet deck 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:22.880 is now available as X-Pro. Not to be confused with X-Pro MIT's online learning program, 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:26.240 X-Pro the Chinese dirt bike brand, X-Pro the crypto token, 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:29.440 X-Pro the laptop, or X-Pro the photographic technique, 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:34.080 otherwise known as cross-processing. While X was initially unable to change its name 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:37.760 on the Apple App Store due to having fewer than two characters, 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.440 Apple has now made an exception, inflicting the rebranding on iPhone users everywhere. 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.880 Last week, Elon Musk tried and failed to remove the Twitter sign from X headquarters 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:51.920 without a permit. Musk having learned exactly nothing, 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:55.760 then had workers erect a giant flashing X on the roof, 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:01.600 directly facing a residential building across the street. It too has been removed at X Corpse expense. 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:05.760 Worry not, Musk fans, because X has introduced its hottest new feature to date, 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:11.280 the ability to hide the blue check mark indicating that you actually paid for this tomfoolery 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.120 like the scarlet letter it is. Shame is a feature, not a bug. 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.280 A recently declassified report revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.120 are purchasing large amounts of sensitive and intimate information 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.440 that could be used to facilitate blackmail if it fell into the wrong hands, 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:30.800 raising the question of whether shadowy government spies 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:34.240 should be described as the right hands. Depends, how soft are they? 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:38.720 Now, new legislation proposed by Congress would restrict all government agencies 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:43.600 from purchasing data from private vendors that would otherwise require a warrant to obtain. 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:48.080 The government agency most displeased with the news is exactly the one you'd expect, 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:51.200 the Fish and Wildlife Service. Actually, it's the NSA. 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.720 Representatives of the NSA have apparently reached out 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:59.680 to lawmakers to express concerns that these legal changes could restrict their ability 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:04.160 to conduct mass surveillance on U.S. citizens without having to convince a judge first. 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:07.360 To be fair, NSA lawyers have reportedly created 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:12.240 extensive internal guidelines for the collection of commercially available data. 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.960 And I tell you what they are, but they're classified. 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.760 The cyberspace administration of China or CAC 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:24.960 has proposed regulations that would dramatically curtail internet use 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:30.400 among the country's miners. 16 to 18-year-olds get two hours per day, 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:36.000 one hour if you're eight to 16, and users under eight get just eight minutes. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:41.520 Combine that with forbidding any miners from internet usage between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:45.600 And I'm guessing someone high in the Chinese government is tired of being woken up by their toddler's 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:49.120 blasting baby shark at 3 a.m. in the morning. I know I am. 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:55.680 In an official statement, the CAC said, the regulations are to help miners reduce internet addiction 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.800 and the influence of bad information. I'm just gonna carefully sidestep over the latter point, 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.560 like the landmine it is, and focus on the addiction part of that statement. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:09.600 In the past, China has also cracked down on online gaming addiction by restricting miners 00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:12.960 to an hour a day on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:18.000 Kids aren't the only ones upset. Tencent and ByteDance are some of the many tech firms 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:24.080 whose stocks have dropped since the announcement. Won't someone think of the billion-dollar corporations? 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:27.600 Quick, someone do a TikTok about it. The quick bits have been inside you all along. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.520 So you better cough and back up before I start the Heimlich maneuver. 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:37.200 It's crotch to buns. Apple has announced it will now be requiring developers 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:42.400 submitting their apps to the Apple Store to justify their use of certain APIs 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:46.000 in an attempt to quash certain forms of user tracking. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.400 The concern here is that some developers might be misusing these tools as a loophole 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:55.760 to get away with fingerprinting users, as in attempting to create unique identifiers for users 00:03:55.760 --> 00:03:59.040 or their devices without permission. It's like getting fingerprinted in real life, 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:03.520 except it lacks the rare opportunity to feel a police officer hold your hand, but gently. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.120 Oh, Officer Brian. The way he rolled it across the pad. 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.440 Let's share a donut later. A new Android malware called Cherry Bloss 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:15.600 can steal user credentials using optical character recognition 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:18.640 and is inside at least four apps available to download 00:04:18.640 --> 00:04:21.680 from sites promoting get-rich-quick schemes. 00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:26.320 If a user infected with Cherry Bloss opens a legitimate cryptocurrency service, 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:29.600 the malware or overlay a window that mimics the app, 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:33.760 snap a photo when you enter your credentials, and then use optical character recognition 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:37.280 to recognize the displayed text and give it to the attacker. 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:40.960 If you feel misled by those get-rich-quick schemes, they weren't lying to you. 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:44.480 They just never specified who was getting rich. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:48.800 Today, Twitch announced that it will be expanding its ban on gambling live streams 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:54.480 to two additional online casinos and prohibiting promotion of CSGO skin gambling sites, 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:58.320 claiming that gambling viewership has dropped by around 75% 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:02.640 since it implemented its new policy last October. This coincides with a survey 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:08.480 from YouTuber Hongon Ganga or something that suggests over 70% of CSGO skin gamblers 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:12.400 start before they're the age of 18. He also created a new Steam account 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:16.880 and accessed unregistered casinos without ever passing an age gate. 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:19.760 Under the username I'm14BTW, 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:25.920 maybe they knew he was lying? After losing contact with Voyager 2 last month, 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:32.560 NASA finally reconnected with the probe this Tuesday. The silence started when a wrong command tilted 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.360 the Voyager 2's antenna away from Earth, preventing it from receiving additional instructions 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:40.400 or sending any data back. Or maybe NASA said something hurtful 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:43.920 and Voyager 2 just needed some time for itself. But what more does it need? 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.120 We've already given it space, 12.3 billion miles of it. 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:51.040 We're trying to make this work here. Semiconductor manufacturer Infineon 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.440 will soon offer biodegradable circuit boards that dissolve in hot water, 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:59.040 making them not just recyclable, but compostable too. But worry not, 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.120 your computer is not likely to decompose on a humid summer day in Delhi. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.280 The soluboard needs to be immersed in near boiling water for half an hour 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:11.040 before it starts to delaminate. Face it, if you're regularly steeping your motherboard 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.720 like a forgotten teabag, your warranty is pretty much toast anyways. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.480 Gotta be in there for at least 60 minutes to get the full flavor. Steeped. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.280 And tea and toast sounds like a perfect snack for when you come back on Friday for more tech news. 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:25.200 Just don't spill it on anything.