YouTube is testing a three strikes you're out policy
for anyone using an ad blocker, as opposed to the objectively better three strikes
you get a turkey policy. And that's a bowling joke, baby.
GameLinked has launched, though this is a bowling channel now. I'm James Strybe, this is TechLinked,
and this is the pop-up a Reddit user saw on YouTube
stating that they must disable their ad block after watching three videos, which is super weird.
YouTube is basically telling users that installing ad block will get them
three free adless videos without paying for premium,
like movie theater staff catching you after you snuck in, but letting you watch a little bit more.
YouTube says they're trying to convince users to allow ads or pay for YouTube premium
by running a small experiment globally, which I think automatically qualifies it
as a large experiment. Makes about as much sense as being told,
your dog slightly exploded. Or for me, a Thursday.
YouTube says users will receive several notifications
requesting they allow ads. And in extreme cases,
disable playback on accounts that don't comply
to repeated requests. Our team here at TechLinked tried to get a comment
on the news from alt-tech video website, Rumble,
but we couldn't hear them over the sound of their entire office salivating.
They got a gland issue. AMD announced a surprise launch
of a brand new 5,000 series CPU, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D.
Another 3D vCash style chip targeted at gamers that could be even the best bang for the buck chip
in recent memory, according to Tom's hardware, who probably doesn't sound like that.
Could even be pretty good even. So naturally, it's a limited run product
and exclusively available at US Retailer Micro Center,
the smallest of all centers. It's just not for you if you don't live in America.
And that's not AMD's fault. It's your parents for birthing you in the wrong country.
Don't forget to call your mom later this weekend and yell at her. Look mom.
According to Gamers Nexus, AMD says these chips are basically bad yields of the 5,800X3D.
So they decided to sell them to make more money instead of feeding them to the fledgling AI superintelligence,
slowly gaining physical form in their mail room.
I need chips. Sea monkeys.
AI sea monkeys. No. It's coming in at the low, low price of $230.
Not bad for basically the technological equivalent of a girl baby born in ancient Sparta.
Or for just $50 more, a pediatric American can buy the normal 5,800X3D
at the exact same store. Not all bad batches are as cool as Star Wars
would lead you to believe. Clones are people too. Not yet.
And Google continues to make Android the iOS alternative whose defining feature
is that it's open source, less open source. The company has quietly deprecated support
for the dialer and messaging apps included in the Android open source project.
Searching for the two apps in the Android code search directory now leads to a simple message reading
this app is not actively supported and the source code is only available as a reference.
Possibly the coldest breakup message I've ever read except for Nicholas,
although I'm not sure she was entirely human. Well, we made it personal.
She won't see this. What this means is that anyone who wants to create or maintain a custom Android OS
will have to develop their own texting and calling application so that the phone
will work as a phone. Louis Rossman has called Google's tendency
of continually and quietly removing features from the open source version of Android
a death by a thousand cuts. As this move will make it harder
to use non-Google services on Android.
Because a fun fact about Google services or really services by any tech giant
be it Samsung or Xiaomi, they like to take a ya data.
We may never know why they do this. Perhaps it's just a harmless hobby
like collecting postage stamps that can also be aggregated and sold to advertisers for a massive profit
like postage stamps, some of them. Did you know that we're the only show on the internet
featuring quick bits other than game link to the hot new gaming news channel
that everyone's talking about, even Linus Tech Tips? We are, and they are.
Just helping us a small channel. Some Reddit moderators were threatened
with removal this week if they kept their subreddits private in protest of the site's API changes.
It makes sense, since the full blackout protests earlier this month dropped daily traffic by 7%
and advertiser traffic by 20% for days afterward.
Now, Microsoft developer Mojang announced they will no longer be supporting
the game's official subreddit, probably because they've already had
their fill of controversies. Remember Notch? Mojang would prefer you didn't.
The performance issue is reported by many owners and reviewers of the ROG Ally handheld,
maybe due to the device cooking its micro SD cards
and we're not talking sous vide. Is it eh?
Sous vide. Sous vide. Living the leader sous vide.
Living the sous vide Loki. Turns out the Ally's micro SD slot
is positioned directly over the device's heat exhaust, which can, according to Jeff Gertzman,
get so hot that it pushes the card out on its own within five minutes of gaming.
Now that's against an impact. ASUS told users to reach out to technical support
if they're experiencing such issues and prefer their SD cards to be served over easy
rather than scrambled. Tastes a little different. I'd say they're poached.
It's some solid pepper. Phone monitoring app, Let Me Spy,
has suffered a major data breach exposing sensitive data of both users and their victims.
This is problematic. The app sells itself as a way to spy on your children
and or employees or your children employees. But not like in a weird way,
just some light stalking between the family. The leak has exposed the calls, message history
and location data of many unsuspecting employed children
while also exposing that many parents slash bosses
were actually government officials or even US college students.
Hey Chad, congrats on your A plus grade in Stalking 101.
I knew you would join the art club without me. If Zuck had this in college,
you wouldn't have needed to build Facebook. Researchers at the University of Maryland,
the merriest of all lands, are trying to reconstruct physical spaces in 3D
using only the reflection in a human eye
by calculating where the eye was looking and the texture of the cornea.
Researchers who are huge nerds were able to make a blurry composite
of the room around them, at least in a controlled setting. Trying to use the same technique on stills
from music videos only proves vague blobs reminiscent of maybe camera equipment
and what might be the photographer's torso if they had a torso.
You might view that as a failure, but it also could be that Lady Gaga's camera guy
is an AI-generated camera guy and just didn't come out right.
You can't mess up the hands, they ain't got hands. And Japanese researchers have developed
doctor octopus style robot arms they hope will unlock creativity of all things,
even though it looks like they might also unlock back pain.
But apparently not, they're actually so comfortable that you can dance with them on.
The arms are detachable and swappable, which according to the head researcher
was inspired by a famous Japanese short story where a woman detaches one of her arms
and loans it to a man for the night. Now that's a stranger.
Truly nothing embodies the creative spirit quite like Japanese body horror.
What was he using the ARM for? And nothing will embody the spirit of techniques
quite like Monday. When you come back and watch the next episode of TechLinked,
I promise there will only be two arms present on screen.
I can't promise that. These guys. Please, no, it's your fault.