WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.440 Oh no, don't tell me we blue screened too! 00:00:03.440 --> 00:00:06.440 We're okay. We're good? Great! 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.040 Welcome to TechLinked, everything's on fire today! 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:14.600 Public services and businesses across the globe have been taken out by a faulty software 00:00:14.600 --> 00:00:21.600 update within the last 24 hours. The bug has caused Windows systems around the world to enter seemingly unrecoverable boot 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:28.640 loops. Now, Linux systems are unaffected, but some Linux users are suffering from a new and frightening 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.040 experience. Feeling empathy for Windows people. 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:35.800 Tech's and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike rolled out an update earlier this morning 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.160 for their FalconSensor security platform and it was bad. 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:45.840 Airlines have grounded flights, banks are offline, hospitals in multiple countries have 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.240 cancelled non-emergency surgeries and the 911 emergency hotline went down in several 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:57.880 US states. Worst of all, hundreds, maybe even thousands, have been forced to go without an iced brown 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:01.160 sugar oat milkshake in espresso from Starbucks today. 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:06.960 Okay, that's a joke, but on a serious note, US viewers should look up and save the 10-digit 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:11.320 number for their local police or fire department because that wasn't affected. 00:01:11.320 --> 00:01:16.520 Now, CrowdStrike has assured Windows customers that this is not a cyber attack, so you can 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:23.040 feel safe knowing that this level of chaos was caused without any malicious actors whatsoever. 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:28.160 And as a bonus, the situation has given cyber criminals ample opportunities to fish users 00:01:28.160 --> 00:01:34.080 with phony emails and domains that are offering fixes and patches for the outage. 00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:37.680 One of the few countries they're not targeting right now though is Russia, because thanks 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.400 to all of the recent sanctions from the West, they haven't used CrowdStrike since February 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:47.920 of 2022. Wow, good for them. Instead, they use software from local firms like Kispersky Labs, a company that the United 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:52.480 States banned almost exactly one month ago. Coincidence? 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:58.080 I think so. Now, CrowdStrike has deployed a fix, but it requires being online, something that you 00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:02.720 can't really do when your computer is boot-looping, so if that doesn't work, they've suggested 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:07.920 that you start the machine in safe mode, navigate to the CrowdStrike directory folder, and delete 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:12.600 the relevant file, something that needs to be done manually at every single machine. 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:16.120 If that doesn't work, Microsoft has an alternative solution. 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:20.200 Have you tried turning it off and on again? Have you tried it 15 times in a row? 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:29.000 You're 16th time you get a free sub. AMD's Cinebench scores for their upcoming Ryzen AI9 HX370 chip allegedly is better than 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:34.200 Apple's M3 Max, with just one core operating. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:38.320 These alleged scores were leaked by HXL on Twitter, but they seem like they might be 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:43.240 real because they line up pretty well with AMD's own claims, or, well, they line up 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:47.800 with the claims that it's faster, not the massive 15% that they mentioned at their 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:54.840 recent two-day event in Los Angeles. They're also bragging that the HX370 can run up to four displays, that it can play 00:02:54.840 --> 00:03:00.600 AAA games in full HD on integrated graphics, and that its neural processing unit can manage 00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:04.760 50 trillion floating point operations per second. 00:03:04.760 --> 00:03:08.680 To prove all of that, they didn't prove it. 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:12.960 Most of the AI demos actually weren't running on the NPU, and the games that AMD said ran 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:17.440 faster on the new integrated graphics weren't available for testing at the event. 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:22.400 In fact, the beefiest laptop that was showcased was running games on NVIDIA graphics with 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:28.760 NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling. AMD reps provided various excuses for this, like that the laptop hardware and firmware 00:03:28.760 --> 00:03:35.440 isn't final. Okay, fair enough. And also that the Wi-Fi is too slow at the hotel to download different games. 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:39.520 It's not like they existed somewhere. Did you build the laptop in the hotel? 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:43.480 Maybe they did. And maybe I need to tell you about our sponsor. 00:03:43.480 --> 00:03:47.680 Enough slow sponsor bites. I want some quick bites. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:53.440 And I want them now. The new MetaQuest 4 has got a tentative release date, with two versions of the headset launching 00:03:53.440 --> 00:03:59.360 in 2026, and a premium version planned for the following year, codenamed La Jolla, La 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.360 Jolla. I think we're La Jolla. Cool. 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.520 And if you don't like bulky headsets, you're in luck, because Meta is also launching a pair 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.920 of 70 gram augmented reality glasses. 00:04:08.920 --> 00:04:12.960 For reference, a typical pair of glasses is a little less than 40 gram. 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:17.840 So… still heavier, but a lot lighter than a Quest. 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:22.640 Intel is making it harder to thermal throttle their upcoming Aero Lake CPUs. 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:26.960 Not by making them run cooler, mind you, but by raising the temperature at which they will 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:30.960 throttle. According to the schematics published by Leaker, Joaquin? 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:35.280 Jacob? Cool. That is exactly what they plan to do. 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:40.920 Just increase the TJ Maxx from 100 degrees to 105 degrees Celsius, meaning that they 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:45.200 will definitely have hotter threads than the real TJ Maxx. 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:51.480 That's a good one. Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing if the CPU is designed for it and operates 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.760 reliably at that temperature, but since currently they're 13th and 14th gen processors seem 00:04:56.760 --> 00:05:01.600 to be designed around a philosophy of crashing more than the competition even at a TJ Maxx 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.480 of 100 degrees, I can't say that I'm feeling too hopeful. 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:10.320 Back in 2018, Google announced the deprecation of their URL shortener and just wanted to 00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:14.040 give you a reminder that, yes, that's still happening. 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:18.960 While they stopped generating shortened links in 2019, they transferred those links to fire-based 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:25.640 dynamic links, but now that they're shutting that down too, when you click through a goo.wool 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:29.880 link, you'll be directed to a page informing you that that link will soon be dead. 00:05:29.880 --> 00:05:33.280 Boy, oh boy, Google killing even more of the internet. 00:05:33.280 --> 00:05:40.200 That's my favorite thing. In the words of my boy Axl Rose, nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain. 00:05:40.760 --> 00:05:44.040 It lasts only as long as November. Yeah, and then it's over. 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:49.400 Dyson, the market leader in moving air very expensively, is making a second attempt at 00:05:49.400 --> 00:05:54.120 headphones after the hilarious Dyson Zone. 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:59.400 The newly announced Dyson On-Track headphones will have customizable earpads and outer caps 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:05.920 and 55 hours of battery life with their best-in-class noise-canceling On. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.760 And with a price of 500 big ones, they are undercutting the AirPods Max and not much 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:17.240 else. They must be mad that Apple got their air branding out before they did. 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:21.160 But hey, at least if they're bunked, then we could say they blow without anyone getting 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:27.360 upset. And Toyota Mariahoners, speaking of being upset, are launching a class-action lawsuit 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:32.520 accusing Toyota of misleading consumers into thinking that buying a brand-new car based 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:37.440 on hardly-supported hydrogen fuel cell technology was a good decision. 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:42.280 The lawsuit focuses on Toyota not disclosing lower-than-advertised driving range, the difficulty 00:06:42.280 --> 00:06:46.480 of finding functioning fuel pumps, and the fact that hydrogen is twice as expensive as 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:52.200 it once was, meaning the $15,000 fuel card that the company gave as an incentive is 00:06:52.200 --> 00:06:55.760 not going to last for the promised five years. 00:06:55.760 --> 00:06:59.720 Then there's the issue of the fuel pumps freezing to the car, requiring a 30-minute 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:09.080 wait for the pump to warm up. The last one is really a flaw with hydrogen tech in general, so get perverent, get PVNRT'd 00:07:09.080 --> 00:07:15.160 nerds neat. And speaking of nerds, you nerds need to tune back in on Monday for more tech news, and 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:19.200 maybe spend your weekend learning thermodynamics to better appreciate the beauty of the ideal 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:24.320 gas law. They're not going to do that.