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YouTube is testing a three strikes you're out policy

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for anyone using an ad blocker, as opposed to the objectively better three strikes

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you get a turkey policy. And that's a bowling joke, baby.

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GameLinked has launched, though this is a bowling channel now. I'm James Strybe, this is TechLinked,

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and this is the pop-up a Reddit user saw on YouTube

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stating that they must disable their ad block after watching three videos, which is super weird.

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YouTube is basically telling users that installing ad block will get them

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three free adless videos without paying for premium,

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like movie theater staff catching you after you snuck in, but letting you watch a little bit more.

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YouTube says they're trying to convince users to allow ads or pay for YouTube premium

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by running a small experiment globally, which I think automatically qualifies it

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as a large experiment. Makes about as much sense as being told,

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your dog slightly exploded. Or for me, a Thursday.

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YouTube says users will receive several notifications

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requesting they allow ads. And in extreme cases,

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disable playback on accounts that don't comply

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to repeated requests. Our team here at TechLinked tried to get a comment

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on the news from alt-tech video website, Rumble,

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but we couldn't hear them over the sound of their entire office salivating.

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They got a gland issue. AMD announced a surprise launch

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of a brand new 5,000 series CPU, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D.

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Another 3D vCash style chip targeted at gamers that could be even the best bang for the buck chip

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in recent memory, according to Tom's hardware, who probably doesn't sound like that.

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Could even be pretty good even. So naturally, it's a limited run product

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and exclusively available at US Retailer Micro Center,

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the smallest of all centers. It's just not for you if you don't live in America.

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And that's not AMD's fault. It's your parents for birthing you in the wrong country.

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Don't forget to call your mom later this weekend and yell at her. Look mom.

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According to Gamers Nexus, AMD says these chips are basically bad yields of the 5,800X3D.

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So they decided to sell them to make more money instead of feeding them to the fledgling AI superintelligence,

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slowly gaining physical form in their mail room.

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I need chips. Sea monkeys.

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AI sea monkeys. No. It's coming in at the low, low price of $230.

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Not bad for basically the technological equivalent of a girl baby born in ancient Sparta.

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Or for just $50 more, a pediatric American can buy the normal 5,800X3D

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at the exact same store. Not all bad batches are as cool as Star Wars

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would lead you to believe. Clones are people too. Not yet.

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And Google continues to make Android the iOS alternative whose defining feature

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is that it's open source, less open source. The company has quietly deprecated support

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for the dialer and messaging apps included in the Android open source project.

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Searching for the two apps in the Android code search directory now leads to a simple message reading

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this app is not actively supported and the source code is only available as a reference.

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Possibly the coldest breakup message I've ever read except for Nicholas,

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although I'm not sure she was entirely human. Well, we made it personal.

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She won't see this. What this means is that anyone who wants to create or maintain a custom Android OS

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will have to develop their own texting and calling application so that the phone

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will work as a phone. Louis Rossman has called Google's tendency

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of continually and quietly removing features from the open source version of Android

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a death by a thousand cuts. As this move will make it harder

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to use non-Google services on Android.

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Because a fun fact about Google services or really services by any tech giant

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be it Samsung or Xiaomi, they like to take a ya data.

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We may never know why they do this. Perhaps it's just a harmless hobby

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like collecting postage stamps that can also be aggregated and sold to advertisers for a massive profit

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like postage stamps, some of them. Did you know that we're the only show on the internet

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featuring quick bits other than game link to the hot new gaming news channel

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that everyone's talking about, even Linus Tech Tips? We are, and they are.

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Just helping us a small channel. Some Reddit moderators were threatened

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with removal this week if they kept their subreddits private in protest of the site's API changes.

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It makes sense, since the full blackout protests earlier this month dropped daily traffic by 7%

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and advertiser traffic by 20% for days afterward.

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Now, Microsoft developer Mojang announced they will no longer be supporting

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the game's official subreddit, probably because they've already had

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their fill of controversies. Remember Notch? Mojang would prefer you didn't.

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The performance issue is reported by many owners and reviewers of the ROG Ally handheld,

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maybe due to the device cooking its micro SD cards

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and we're not talking sous vide. Is it eh?

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Sous vide. Sous vide. Living the leader sous vide.

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Living the sous vide Loki. Turns out the Ally's micro SD slot

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is positioned directly over the device's heat exhaust, which can, according to Jeff Gertzman,

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get so hot that it pushes the card out on its own within five minutes of gaming.

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Now that's against an impact. ASUS told users to reach out to technical support

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if they're experiencing such issues and prefer their SD cards to be served over easy

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rather than scrambled. Tastes a little different. I'd say they're poached.

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It's some solid pepper. Phone monitoring app, Let Me Spy,

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has suffered a major data breach exposing sensitive data of both users and their victims.

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This is problematic. The app sells itself as a way to spy on your children

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and or employees or your children employees. But not like in a weird way,

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just some light stalking between the family. The leak has exposed the calls, message history

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and location data of many unsuspecting employed children

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while also exposing that many parents slash bosses

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were actually government officials or even US college students.

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Hey Chad, congrats on your A plus grade in Stalking 101.

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I knew you would join the art club without me. If Zuck had this in college,

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you wouldn't have needed to build Facebook. Researchers at the University of Maryland,

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the merriest of all lands, are trying to reconstruct physical spaces in 3D

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using only the reflection in a human eye

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by calculating where the eye was looking and the texture of the cornea.

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Researchers who are huge nerds were able to make a blurry composite

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of the room around them, at least in a controlled setting. Trying to use the same technique on stills

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from music videos only proves vague blobs reminiscent of maybe camera equipment

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and what might be the photographer's torso if they had a torso.

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You might view that as a failure, but it also could be that Lady Gaga's camera guy

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is an AI-generated camera guy and just didn't come out right.

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You can't mess up the hands, they ain't got hands. And Japanese researchers have developed

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doctor octopus style robot arms they hope will unlock creativity of all things,

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even though it looks like they might also unlock back pain.

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But apparently not, they're actually so comfortable that you can dance with them on.

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The arms are detachable and swappable, which according to the head researcher

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was inspired by a famous Japanese short story where a woman detaches one of her arms

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and loans it to a man for the night. Now that's a stranger.

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Truly nothing embodies the creative spirit quite like Japanese body horror.

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What was he using the ARM for? And nothing will embody the spirit of techniques

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quite like Monday. When you come back and watch the next episode of TechLinked,

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I promise there will only be two arms present on screen.

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I can't promise that. These guys. Please, no, it's your fault.