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Valve just imported around 50 tons of game consoles from China.

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And you know what that means. Maybe steam machines!

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Which is great news for us, but probably a tough day for the customs agent staring at a manifest that jumps from container two to container four.

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Because, you know, Valve can't count to three. Haha!

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I'm Linus Sebastian, this is TechLinked, and according to customs records dug up by The Verge,

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recent shipments by Valve totaled to nearly 100 tons in just the past two months.

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But what's really interesting is that the new containers are noticeably lighter than the previous ones,

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suggesting that the delayed steam machine or steam frame VR headsets may be contained inside them.

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Or they could just be even more steam decks and we're gonna look really stupid in a few weeks.

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Either way, optimism is high. Not all is well in Valve Land though, the steam controller instantly sold out on launch day,

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so if you were hoping to get one 31 minutes after they were released, the joke's on you.

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But the good news is that alongside Valve announcing that more stock is coming,

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they've also released the controller's CAD files under a Creative Commons license.

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So if you can't wait, you can 3D print the shell for the controller

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and then sit in front of a cardboard box to just hallucinate the gaming experience.

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Nintendo approves! You can be just like an AI.

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Meanwhile in Germany, millions of websites and apps using their .DE domain suddenly disappeared from the internet

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for hours on Tuesday night, including Amazon.DE, DHL Steam, and Germany's Transit app.

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The outage was traced to DENIC, the organization that manages Germany's .DE country code domain

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after the registry distributed faulty cryptographic signatures.

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DENIC explained in a blog post that the bad signatures went out during a routine key exchange,

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though they're still investigating the exact chain of events that led to it.

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Per CyberNews, network engineers suspect that DENIC fumbled a scheduled keyswap

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that the registry runs every five weeks. The faulty keys caused any DNS lookup targeting a .DE site to fail security checks

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which brought the whole system crumbling to its knees.

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You gotta love single points of failure, don't you? According to DENIC, the issue is now resolved and the population of Deutschland is back to enjoying German internet,

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which I believe operates like the regular internet except the series of tubes is filled with meat.

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Of course, sorry, that joke was the worst.

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You know what's even worse? Is Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4 Gigabyte AI model file to some user devices

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without asking permission? Evidently, they've decided it's just time to rip the AI band-aid off and everybody's using it with or without permission.

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Evidently, anyone with AI features enabled and compatible hardware is receiving the model,

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so we're talking potentially hundreds of millions of devices.

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Privacy researcher Alexander Henf first flagged the behavior

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and users who tried to delete the file have reported that Chrome will simply re-download it.

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So to get rid of it, you need to go to settings then system and toggle off on device AI.

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Henf also states that the practice likely violates a whole mess of EU privacy laws

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and if it were to be launched on all devices would consume an estimated 240 gigawatt hours of energy,

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which is way more energy than I need to do this easy, light, breezy segway to our sponsor.

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All the other cool kids in me, we call it the QBs,

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but their scientific name is actually Quickey Aspitius.

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Notepad++ creator Don Ho is threatening legal action over an unofficial macOS port

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of Notepad++, but according to Ho, it's not the port itself that's the problem.

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It's that the unofficial site uses the Notepad++ name and branding wholesale

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and even lists Ho himself as a contributor, which he very much denies being.

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Ho is asking users to reply to any social media posts that are hyping up this port

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with a copy-pasted disclaimer, effectively crowdsourcing his cease and desist,

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so it's less control C and more control Cs.

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An unclosable pop-up on Reddit's mobile site has been prompting users to download the app

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to keep browsing and apparently it's on purpose. A Reddit spokesperson told Ars Technica that it is targeting

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frequently logged out mobile users, which of course are the exact people who keep saying they

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don't want the app. Reddit insists though, you will like it once you stop avoiding it,

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and to that I comment, well actually I comment nothing because I'm stuck behind a pop-up.

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Look at me, I'm stuck behind a pop-up. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and XAI have signed deals with the U.S.

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Center for AI Standards and Innovation, letting the government review their frontier models

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before they are released to the public, which according to the New York Times,

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is a sharp reversal of the U.S. administration's hands-off approach to regulating top AI Labs.

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This new deal will vet models for cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons risks

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before they are released, which fingers crossed will keep us safe from any terminator-adjacent

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apocalypses. I mean, I wouldn't bet on Paulie Market about it even though the world is apparently

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a casino now. You just did insider trading. Microsoft's Edge browser apparently has a habit

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of storing passwords in plain text memory as cybersecurity researcher Tom Running disclosed.

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Interestingly, Edge is the only Chromium browser that's doing this.

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But despite Running's warning, Microsoft downplayed the threat, stating that if someone can read your

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memory, you're already compromised anyway. It's part of a bold new cybersecurity philosophy called

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why lock the safe if they're already in the house. I mean, they do have a point,

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but also so does he. And Energizer has a point. Their new ultimate child shield button batteries

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are designed to prevent chemical burns that occur when toddlers accidentally swallow them.

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This is a great move as roughly 3,500 people a year ingest button batteries in the U.S. alone,

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and lithium batteries are apparently especially fatal as they can burn through stomach tissue.

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The new battery features a special coating that blocks current on contact with saliva,

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but conducts normally inside electronics. As one toddler on Reddit wrote,

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We joys finally da forbidden coins are back on the menu. I don't know what that voice was supposed

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to be, but you know what? I know I'm going to see you guys on Friday when tech news is back on

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the menu. In fact, it's the only thing that's ever been on the menu. We're like one of those

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food stands that only serves one thing. We're like the opposite of cheesecake factory.

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Cheese fake factory, man. Cheese fake factory, more like. Haha. What do you have against cheesecake

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factory?