WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.280 Valve just imported around 50 tons of game consoles from China. 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:10.400 And you know what that means. Maybe steam machines! 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:18.240 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. 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:21.600 Because, you know, Valve can't count to three. Haha! 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:27.200 I'm Linus Sebastian, this is TechLinked, and according to customs records dug up by The Verge, 00:00:27.200 --> 00:00:33.360 recent shipments by Valve totaled to nearly 100 tons in just the past two months. 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:39.760 But what's really interesting is that the new containers are noticeably lighter than the previous ones, 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:46.880 suggesting that the delayed steam machine or steam frame VR headsets may be contained inside them. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:51.200 Or they could just be even more steam decks and we're gonna look really stupid in a few weeks. 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:58.160 Either way, optimism is high. Not all is well in Valve Land though, the steam controller instantly sold out on launch day, 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:03.360 so if you were hoping to get one 31 minutes after they were released, the joke's on you. 00:01:03.360 --> 00:01:08.000 But the good news is that alongside Valve announcing that more stock is coming, 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.240 they've also released the controller's CAD files under a Creative Commons license. 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:15.840 So if you can't wait, you can 3D print the shell for the controller 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:20.000 and then sit in front of a cardboard box to just hallucinate the gaming experience. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.040 Nintendo approves! You can be just like an AI. 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:30.880 Meanwhile in Germany, millions of websites and apps using their .DE domain suddenly disappeared from the internet 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.800 for hours on Tuesday night, including Amazon.DE, DHL Steam, and Germany's Transit app. 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:43.680 The outage was traced to DENIC, the organization that manages Germany's .DE country code domain 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.200 after the registry distributed faulty cryptographic signatures. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:53.840 DENIC explained in a blog post that the bad signatures went out during a routine key exchange, 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.840 though they're still investigating the exact chain of events that led to it. 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.440 Per CyberNews, network engineers suspect that DENIC fumbled a scheduled keyswap 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:11.200 that the registry runs every five weeks. The faulty keys caused any DNS lookup targeting a .DE site to fail security checks 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:14.400 which brought the whole system crumbling to its knees. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:22.240 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, 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.120 which I believe operates like the regular internet except the series of tubes is filled with meat. 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.680 Of course, sorry, that joke was the worst. 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:41.280 You know what's even worse? Is Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4 Gigabyte AI model file to some user devices 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:49.760 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. 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:55.040 Evidently, anyone with AI features enabled and compatible hardware is receiving the model, 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:59.200 so we're talking potentially hundreds of millions of devices. 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:03.200 Privacy researcher Alexander Henf first flagged the behavior 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:08.960 and users who tried to delete the file have reported that Chrome will simply re-download it. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.560 So to get rid of it, you need to go to settings then system and toggle off on device AI. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.840 Henf also states that the practice likely violates a whole mess of EU privacy laws 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:26.880 and if it were to be launched on all devices would consume an estimated 240 gigawatt hours of energy, 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:33.440 which is way more energy than I need to do this easy, light, breezy segway to our sponsor. 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:36.160 All the other cool kids in me, we call it the QBs, 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.120 but their scientific name is actually Quickey Aspitius. 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:49.200 Notepad++ creator Don Ho is threatening legal action over an unofficial macOS port 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:54.560 of Notepad++, but according to Ho, it's not the port itself that's the problem. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:00.320 It's that the unofficial site uses the Notepad++ name and branding wholesale 00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:05.520 and even lists Ho himself as a contributor, which he very much denies being. 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:10.400 Ho is asking users to reply to any social media posts that are hyping up this port 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:15.920 with a copy-pasted disclaimer, effectively crowdsourcing his cease and desist, 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:19.600 so it's less control C and more control Cs. 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:28.880 An unclosable pop-up on Reddit's mobile site has been prompting users to download the app 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:35.280 to keep browsing and apparently it's on purpose. A Reddit spokesperson told Ars Technica that it is targeting 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:40.880 frequently logged out mobile users, which of course are the exact people who keep saying they 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:45.680 don't want the app. Reddit insists though, you will like it once you stop avoiding it, 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:52.560 and to that I comment, well actually I comment nothing because I'm stuck behind a pop-up. 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:59.280 Look at me, I'm stuck behind a pop-up. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and XAI have signed deals with the U.S. 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:03.760 Center for AI Standards and Innovation, letting the government review their frontier models 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:07.920 before they are released to the public, which according to the New York Times, 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:14.560 is a sharp reversal of the U.S. administration's hands-off approach to regulating top AI Labs. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:20.480 This new deal will vet models for cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons risks 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:25.760 before they are released, which fingers crossed will keep us safe from any terminator-adjacent 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:30.480 apocalypses. I mean, I wouldn't bet on Paulie Market about it even though the world is apparently 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:35.360 a casino now. You just did insider trading. Microsoft's Edge browser apparently has a habit 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:41.440 of storing passwords in plain text memory as cybersecurity researcher Tom Running disclosed. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Interestingly, Edge is the only Chromium browser that's doing this. 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:52.640 But despite Running's warning, Microsoft downplayed the threat, stating that if someone can read your 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:58.560 memory, you're already compromised anyway. It's part of a bold new cybersecurity philosophy called 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.960 why lock the safe if they're already in the house. I mean, they do have a point, 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:11.360 but also so does he. And Energizer has a point. Their new ultimate child shield button batteries 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.600 are designed to prevent chemical burns that occur when toddlers accidentally swallow them. 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:22.480 This is a great move as roughly 3,500 people a year ingest button batteries in the U.S. alone, 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:26.960 and lithium batteries are apparently especially fatal as they can burn through stomach tissue. 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:36.720 The new battery features a special coating that blocks current on contact with saliva, 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:42.240 but conducts normally inside electronics. As one toddler on Reddit wrote, 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:48.160 We joys finally da forbidden coins are back on the menu. I don't know what that voice was supposed 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:54.560 to be, but you know what? I know I'm going to see you guys on Friday when tech news is back on 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.400 the menu. In fact, it's the only thing that's ever been on the menu. We're like one of those 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:02.800 food stands that only serves one thing. We're like the opposite of cheesecake factory. 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.960 Cheese fake factory, man. Cheese fake factory, more like. Haha. What do you have against cheesecake 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:09.440 factory?