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Oh hey, look, it's the weekend! So do you, do you have any plans?

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Dude, do you wanna talk about tech news maybe?

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I love tech news, so what do you?

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YouTube started sharing ad revenue with short creators this week,

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and I'm not talking about Linus. All the revenue YouTube makes on ads in the shorts feed

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will be pooled and split monthly between short creators

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based on their percentage of viewership within their country. For example, if a mustachioed Canadian tech newsman

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hosted a short about fish committing fraud that was written by an equally handsome Jesus lookalike,

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those two babes would be able to get a cut of the US creator pool if their short

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was watched in the country. We did a short. There are some weird caveats to this system though.

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YouTube is only sharing revenue from ads that play between shorts.

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So if your viewing session starts or ends on an ad,

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those ads revenue might not be pooled. Same thing for ads on pages for hashtags

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or reusable sounds, which frankly, doesn't make any ad sense.

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Ha! Oh, but what are we gonna do? Switch to TikTok?

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Not if they get banned from Google and Apple's app stores, which a bipartisan group of US lawmakers

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is trying to accomplish. In defense, TikTok has created a transparency center

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where third parties can review the app's source code,

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provided they sign an NDA and go through metal detectors

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and block their phone in a storage locker. But otherwise, other than that,

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they're being fully transparent. I mean, they told us their entire morning routine in 2008.

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We didn't ask. They wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. AMD has been holding on to some product supply

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by undershipping CPUs and GPUs.

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Team Red says they're doing this to balance supply with demand so the poor shelf stockers

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don't have to find space for all those extra components. They've been asking for this.

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Don't think of your shelf. There's just too much stuff on the shelf, please.

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AMD couldn't possibly be doing this to keep prices high. I mean, when supply is larger than demand, prices...

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Nothing happens to them, everyone. While undershipping is not an uncommon tactic

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in the industry, AMD is doing all right in other areas

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without keeping PC chip prices elevated. See, while AMD is struggling in their PC chip revenue,

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they are still doing well due to their data center business

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increasing by 42%. But other chip manufacturers can't say the same.

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Intel had a larger decline in PC chip sales than AMD

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and they also lost 33% in data center sales

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compared to where they were a year ago. Apple and Qualcomm are also both down

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nearly across the board from where they were this time last year.

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Probably because we're not all locked inside and sad anymore.

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Now we're back outside and sad. Let's see the trees while I cry.

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And Elon Musk, known on the street as El Pajaro Azul,

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announced today that any creators on Twitter will get a piece of the revenue generated from ads

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that appear in their reply threads. Of course, he couldn't just give that to any creator

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so it'll only be ones that are subscribed to Twitter Blue.

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Double D, double D. Double D, but a button.

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That wasn't right, but sure, that might sound like a bad deal

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since Twitter Blue will cost you $8 a month, but your ad revenue is only limited

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by how many reply guys you've collected. They're like Pokemon, they show up.

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Well, Ned's gone now. In the tall grass. For a small upfront recurring fee,

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you could run a small business where you get to be your own boss.

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Wait, why does that sound so familiar? Anyway, it was also announced

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that Twitter will no longer allow free access to their API.

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Elon says this is to stop bot scammers and opinion manipulators.

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And I agree with them. Scammers can't afford to pay for the API.

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Where would they get the money from? Scamming people? And if you want to manipulate opinions on Twitter,

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you need to pay to run ads or buy a gold check mark like Daddy Musk intended.

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Speaking of check marks, Elon has reiterated his desire

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to remove legacy check marks, perhaps to further encourage tweeters to buy Blue.

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For just $8 a month, just the price of a Starbucks coffee,

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you can help a billionaire pay his legal fees from all the ex-staff currently suing him.

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Please, give generously. I'm the arms, I'm the angel.

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You know, not a lot of people know this, but quick bits is short for bisquick biscuits.

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No one knows why. Netflix revealed an anti-password sharing feature

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in a Help Center article that would require users to connect to the same home Wi-Fi network every 31 days.

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And oh boy, did that go poorly. The streaming company claims it was an accident.

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See, they've been testing paid sharing in some Latin American countries over the last year.

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And they said this information was just for them. So you don't need to worry about the shareholder letter

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that says they're going to start rolling out the same paid sharing to other countries

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within the next two months. It probably won't be yours, because you're their favorite.

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They like you better than... Massive numbers of scammers are tricking people

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into downloading malware. Yes. That just happens all the time.

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But this one is different. They accomplish this by spoofing real brands

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and using Google's ad placement on their search engine to grab clicks.

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This marks the first time in history anyone has benefited from Google ads.

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While this has been going on for some time, there has been a recent dangerous spike of malvertising

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using malware that can escape most antivirus solutions.

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Researchers believe this is because the malware ran track in high school.

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He's so fast. How does he... Put that boy on the sports team.

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The Xbox 360 marketplace is not shutting down.

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Another news thing that just... Why is it news? I'll tell you.

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Just stating they were committed to supporting their legacy,

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users on Reset Era found an official support article

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from Microsoft saying that the marketplace would close

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within the next year, marking a 180 from their previous statements.

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Microsoft then clarified that this was actually not the case coming back around to their original position.

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There's a theme with the stories today. I'm gonna announce something and there's...

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Oh, just kidding. Maybe that's why Nintendo is still closing their 3DS and Wii U eShops.

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Only Microsoft can make an Xbox 360. Never forget that.

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You get it? Nope. Cause they made a 180 and then they made another 180?

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Oh. Blizzard wants you to choose your friends carefully,

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announcing that they will not only punish cheaters in Overwatch 2,

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but also any of their potential pals. In a blog post, the game publisher stated

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that they will begin suspending, or in some cases even banning,

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players who willingly group up regularly with cheaters.

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It's gonna be interesting to see how this goes. There's gonna be a lot of kids that are going to have

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a harder time reestablishing a relationship with their unfaithful dads

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after what they did to their moms. The dads.

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Cut it, cut it before I say that, that sounds weird. And officials in the US are still determining what to do

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about a Chinese high altitude balloon that has drifted all the way into Missouri

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after a brief stint over Western Canada. We call that Shanghai drifting.

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High ranking American officials have said they suspect the balloon is for spying purposes

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with some prominent Republicans calling for it to be, of course, shot down.

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But the Pentagon says that might be too dangerous. And if it is a spy balloon,

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it's less capable than the surveillance satellites that China already uses.

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However, the Department of Defense doesn't by China's claim

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that it's actually a civilian weather research airship

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that simply blew off course. A story that weather experts have said

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is not unfeasible.

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So confident. I mean, said experts didn't comment on whether this whole thing could be

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an elaborate Chinese prank. There might just be confetti in there.

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And it's not unfeasible that there will be another TechLinked on Monday

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because there will be, it's quite feasible. It's, we do one every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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So it's, it's, it's, it's very fees,