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TechLynx saves you time by updating you on the tech news, but you could also save time on other

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stuff with the help of Magical who sponsored this video. What kind of stuff we'll tell you later,

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okay? Don't worry about saving time. Google's AI overviews and search appear to have broadly

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rolled out to the American public and the internet has exploded with examples of the world's most

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popular search engine telling users to thicken pizza sauce with glue, non-toxic of course,

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and eat at least one small rock per day. So refreshing to see more health advice from

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alternative sources like geologists. And not even real ones, that was quoted from an onion article.

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But Google isn't just citing the wrong experts, the glue pizza recommendation was pulled from an

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11-year-old comment left by the Reddit user f***smith. Don't ask what he makes. He's got a very

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specific specialization. We managed to reach him by phone, but all we heard was

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Yes, it appears that Google now treats forum posts claiming you can hover if you jump and simply

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don't look down as gospel truth and is also pulling a meta AI and claiming it has children.

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Their favorite breakfast is Smoothies Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie, which actually makes that

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more believable. That's what they would like. What do you put in your smoothie Johnny?

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Yep, Google is now so broken it told one user that doctors recommend smoking two to three

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cigarettes per day during pregnancy. So it's a good thing that there's a way to disable the AI

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feature. If you don't want to mouse over and enable the new web filter for every search,

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you can add UDM equals sign 14 to the end of the earth search URL and automate that process in

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your browser settings. Of course, if you prefer Google to help you reimagine Nintendo's Wario as

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a sassy, messy, polyamorous bottom in Mario Drag, then yeah, it's a free country. I mean, you could

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wall you like. iFixit says it's dropping its partnership with Samsung over the company's

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unwillingness to make it easier to repair their devices. Two years ago, the companies agreed

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that iFixit would be Samsung's designated third party parts and tools distributor,

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with Samsung making replacement parts available to anyone. The idea was that Samsung was setting

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off hand in wrench with iFixit on a journey to make their devices more repairable. Instead,

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Samsung kept part prices high and components glued together, proving that there ain't no fiction

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what got broke. It's an option. To make matters worse, a leaked contract seen by 404 media

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indicated Samsung required independent repair shops to give up the personal information and

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repair details of customers, as well as immediately disassemble Samsung devices repaired with third

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party parts. Terms like these will be illegal once right to repair laws passed in New York,

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Minnesota and California come into effect later this year, and iFixit says they'll still provide

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parts and repair fixed kits for Samsung devices. So all is not lost for Galaxy lovers. But you

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might want to think about seeing other phone manufacturers. No, I can fix him. Oh, oh honey.

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A new report has thrown a wrench into the conflict between dystopia generator, open AI,

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and Scarlett Johansson, the star of multiple movies that depict said dystopia. Here's a quick

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refresher of the issue. Open AI demoed its new real-time voice mode for Chad GPT last week,

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using a voice that many, including apparently Sam Altman himself, compared to the AI voice

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assistant played by Scar Joe in the 2013 movie, Her. Scar Joe eventually released a statement

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claiming that Open AI asked Her to voice their assistant in September 2023. She declined,

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months later they reached out again two days before the GPT-40 event. Now in the ensuing backlash,

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Open AI paused the use of the alleged Scar Joe copying voice called Sky as legal experts chimed

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in on the actress's right to sue the company. Her case was looking pretty solid. But two days ago,

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a Washington Post investigation found that the actress behind the Sky voice, who wished to

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remain anonymous, was hired in June 2023, months before Johansson says she refused Open AI's

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request. Furthermore, according to Open AI's casting call and her agent, the Sky actress was

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never directed to imitate Scar Joe, or her character in Her. Now don't get me wrong,

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Open AI has been acting pretty sketchy lately, but to me, the two voices sound completely different,

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other than the fact that they're both women from either LA or Manhattan speaking in a friendly

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tone. It's like saying Christian Bale and Jason Statham are copying each other's gritty,

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cockney style of speaking. It's two different blokes, isn't it?

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Especially since Jason Statham can only be heard within a one-foot radius.

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I'm f***ing Batman, innit? Are you ready to save even more time? Oh boy, I am! AMD is allegedly rebranding their upcoming

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stupidly named Ryzen AI 100 APUs. No, they're not making the name less stupid, you silly goose.

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They're making the number bigger, because Intel made them feel inadequate.

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According to a leaker, Team Blue's upcoming Core Ultra 200 series made AMD feel like their

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chip number was too small, so they're rebranding it as the Ryzen AI 300 series. We've reached out

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to psychologists to try and determine exactly what level of small penis compensation this is.

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None of them have returned our calls. Microsoft suffered a massive services outage this morning that left users completely unable to

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access Bing, Co-Pilot, ChatGPT Internet Search, and DuckDuckGo, which wouldn't have been sad at all

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if Google wasn't treating search like a creative writing class right now.

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Thankfully, Microsoft seemed to get on top of the issue pretty quickly and fixed it about

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nine hours later, without specifying exactly what caused it. The incident is a lovely reminder

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that other than the Russia-based Yandex, we have exactly two companies providing the backbone

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of Internet Search, and they're both a little off their rocker right now, so that's cool.

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The US government has announced that it intends to resume a 25% tariff on graphics cards,

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motherboards, and PC cases assembled in China. This follows another recent decision to double the

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tariff on Chinese semiconductors from 25 to 50%. The tariffs were paused over the past year,

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in part to take industry feedback. Several companies, including NVIDIA and HP, argued

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that they don't have the manufacturing capacity to take on all of the components currently made

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in China. US consumers should therefore expect to see the cost of electronics rise sharply,

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because we're passing the taxes on to you. Spotify says they have discontinued car thing.

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Car thing, didn't it? You make my car thing.

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That's their $90 hardware experiment that brought Spotify and voice controls to cars

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without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Now, this doesn't mean they're no longer making the device,

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they already stopped doing that two years ago. Now, they're going to remotely brick every car

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thing in existence before the end of the year. There's nobody fund, no trade-in option, it just

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becomes e-waste. Oh, and Spotify recommends you contact your local Waste Disposable Department

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on how to dispose of the device. Spotify doesn't want you mishandling the garbage they made.

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That's expensive, it's $90 garbage. I think doesn't even work. What do you want me to do with it?

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And whale scientists think they figured out why orcas have been ramming and sometimes sinking

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boats off the coast of Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco. This behavior has been going on

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for five years. 673 boats have been attacked since 2020. What could inspire such aggression?

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Grief? Revenge? Nope, it turned out it was bored teens.

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Juvenile killer whales just apparently enjoy messing with the rudders of ships,

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it was a fad and it just kind of caught on. Everyone was doing it.

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Mom! Now, this isn't to say that these orca teens aren't dangerous.

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Official guidance is that if you see one, do not enter the water or they will tear you apart

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with pointed insults about your outfit and general vibe, your self-esteem may never recover.

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And I may never recover if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news. I mean like,

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it's gonna happen, the show and someone needs to watch, I can't. I'll probably be doing the tech

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news, you know, like someone please. The world is so confusing.