TechLynx saves you time by updating you on the tech news, but you could also save time on other
stuff with the help of Magical who sponsored this video. What kind of stuff we'll tell you later,
okay? Don't worry about saving time. Google's AI overviews and search appear to have broadly
rolled out to the American public and the internet has exploded with examples of the world's most
popular search engine telling users to thicken pizza sauce with glue, non-toxic of course,
and eat at least one small rock per day. So refreshing to see more health advice from
alternative sources like geologists. And not even real ones, that was quoted from an onion article.
But Google isn't just citing the wrong experts, the glue pizza recommendation was pulled from an
11-year-old comment left by the Reddit user f***smith. Don't ask what he makes. He's got a very
specific specialization. We managed to reach him by phone, but all we heard was
Yes, it appears that Google now treats forum posts claiming you can hover if you jump and simply
don't look down as gospel truth and is also pulling a meta AI and claiming it has children.
Their favorite breakfast is Smoothies Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie, which actually makes that
more believable. That's what they would like. What do you put in your smoothie Johnny?
Yep, Google is now so broken it told one user that doctors recommend smoking two to three
cigarettes per day during pregnancy. So it's a good thing that there's a way to disable the AI
feature. If you don't want to mouse over and enable the new web filter for every search,
you can add UDM equals sign 14 to the end of the earth search URL and automate that process in
your browser settings. Of course, if you prefer Google to help you reimagine Nintendo's Wario as
a sassy, messy, polyamorous bottom in Mario Drag, then yeah, it's a free country. I mean, you could
wall you like. iFixit says it's dropping its partnership with Samsung over the company's
unwillingness to make it easier to repair their devices. Two years ago, the companies agreed
that iFixit would be Samsung's designated third party parts and tools distributor,
with Samsung making replacement parts available to anyone. The idea was that Samsung was setting
off hand in wrench with iFixit on a journey to make their devices more repairable. Instead,
Samsung kept part prices high and components glued together, proving that there ain't no fiction
what got broke. It's an option. To make matters worse, a leaked contract seen by 404 media
indicated Samsung required independent repair shops to give up the personal information and
repair details of customers, as well as immediately disassemble Samsung devices repaired with third
party parts. Terms like these will be illegal once right to repair laws passed in New York,
Minnesota and California come into effect later this year, and iFixit says they'll still provide
parts and repair fixed kits for Samsung devices. So all is not lost for Galaxy lovers. But you
might want to think about seeing other phone manufacturers. No, I can fix him. Oh, oh honey.
A new report has thrown a wrench into the conflict between dystopia generator, open AI,
and Scarlett Johansson, the star of multiple movies that depict said dystopia. Here's a quick
refresher of the issue. Open AI demoed its new real-time voice mode for Chad GPT last week,
using a voice that many, including apparently Sam Altman himself, compared to the AI voice
assistant played by Scar Joe in the 2013 movie, Her. Scar Joe eventually released a statement
claiming that Open AI asked Her to voice their assistant in September 2023. She declined,
months later they reached out again two days before the GPT-40 event. Now in the ensuing backlash,
Open AI paused the use of the alleged Scar Joe copying voice called Sky as legal experts chimed
in on the actress's right to sue the company. Her case was looking pretty solid. But two days ago,
a Washington Post investigation found that the actress behind the Sky voice, who wished to
remain anonymous, was hired in June 2023, months before Johansson says she refused Open AI's
request. Furthermore, according to Open AI's casting call and her agent, the Sky actress was
never directed to imitate Scar Joe, or her character in Her. Now don't get me wrong,
Open AI has been acting pretty sketchy lately, but to me, the two voices sound completely different,
other than the fact that they're both women from either LA or Manhattan speaking in a friendly
tone. It's like saying Christian Bale and Jason Statham are copying each other's gritty,
cockney style of speaking. It's two different blokes, isn't it?
Especially since Jason Statham can only be heard within a one-foot radius.
I'm f***ing Batman, innit? Are you ready to save even more time? Oh boy, I am! AMD is allegedly rebranding their upcoming
stupidly named Ryzen AI 100 APUs. No, they're not making the name less stupid, you silly goose.
They're making the number bigger, because Intel made them feel inadequate.
According to a leaker, Team Blue's upcoming Core Ultra 200 series made AMD feel like their
chip number was too small, so they're rebranding it as the Ryzen AI 300 series. We've reached out
to psychologists to try and determine exactly what level of small penis compensation this is.
None of them have returned our calls. Microsoft suffered a massive services outage this morning that left users completely unable to
access Bing, Co-Pilot, ChatGPT Internet Search, and DuckDuckGo, which wouldn't have been sad at all
if Google wasn't treating search like a creative writing class right now.
Thankfully, Microsoft seemed to get on top of the issue pretty quickly and fixed it about
nine hours later, without specifying exactly what caused it. The incident is a lovely reminder
that other than the Russia-based Yandex, we have exactly two companies providing the backbone
of Internet Search, and they're both a little off their rocker right now, so that's cool.
The US government has announced that it intends to resume a 25% tariff on graphics cards,
motherboards, and PC cases assembled in China. This follows another recent decision to double the
tariff on Chinese semiconductors from 25 to 50%. The tariffs were paused over the past year,
in part to take industry feedback. Several companies, including NVIDIA and HP, argued
that they don't have the manufacturing capacity to take on all of the components currently made
in China. US consumers should therefore expect to see the cost of electronics rise sharply,
because we're passing the taxes on to you. Spotify says they have discontinued car thing.
Car thing, didn't it? You make my car thing.
That's their $90 hardware experiment that brought Spotify and voice controls to cars
without Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Now, this doesn't mean they're no longer making the device,
they already stopped doing that two years ago. Now, they're going to remotely brick every car
thing in existence before the end of the year. There's nobody fund, no trade-in option, it just
becomes e-waste. Oh, and Spotify recommends you contact your local Waste Disposable Department
on how to dispose of the device. Spotify doesn't want you mishandling the garbage they made.
That's expensive, it's $90 garbage. I think doesn't even work. What do you want me to do with it?
And whale scientists think they figured out why orcas have been ramming and sometimes sinking
boats off the coast of Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco. This behavior has been going on
for five years. 673 boats have been attacked since 2020. What could inspire such aggression?
Grief? Revenge? Nope, it turned out it was bored teens.
Juvenile killer whales just apparently enjoy messing with the rudders of ships,
it was a fad and it just kind of caught on. Everyone was doing it.
Mom! Now, this isn't to say that these orca teens aren't dangerous.
Official guidance is that if you see one, do not enter the water or they will tear you apart
with pointed insults about your outfit and general vibe, your self-esteem may never recover.
And I may never recover if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news. I mean like,
it's gonna happen, the show and someone needs to watch, I can't. I'll probably be doing the tech
news, you know, like someone please. The world is so confusing.