{"video_id":"l7Cp1N41ZPw","title":"Is This Really Happening?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":467,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":7.319,"text":"as you can see uh it is a new year uh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.879,"end_s":10.12,"text":"one that we can now verify contains some","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.319,"end_s":14.28,"text":"Bonkers Tech news right off the bat uh so uh here's here's some of it the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.24,"end_s":18.96,"text":"Nintendo switch 2's motherboard has leaked in photos posted on Reddit and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.119,"end_s":24.0,"text":"while normally I'd sprinkle in some allegedly in here the sheer quantity of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.92,"end_s":28.359,"text":"switch to leaks in recent months is making it pretty easy to see which 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concerns that the console's graphics won't be able to render Mario's nipples at the 4K and 60 FPS they deserve others like YouTuber the Wolf Den aren't as worried LOL ratio in fact Nintendo just filed a patent yesterday spotted by Laura Kate Dale on Blue Sky that describes upscaling techniques and since NVIDIA's dlss is the best in the game I'm sure the switch 2 will do justice to whatever nips May slide on to its display sounds painful so when the heck is Nintendo going to speak up about this console well they're going to talk about it sometime in the next 3 months according to the game awards Twitter account for some reason look Jeff Key's just protecting his shy Japanese Mega Corporation friend see they're just not ready yet that was Jeff Keeley ien I haven't worked on it in other leaks that seem surprisingly legit news halflife three um it seems like it's happening YouTuber and data Miner Gabe follower who's been responsible for some reliable info in the past claims his sources say valve has begun friends and family play testing for the project code named hlx which is strongly believed to be Half-Life 3 his video goes through many more breadcrumbs but speculation was truly set Ablaze when Mike Shapiro the voice actor for Half-Life characters Gman and Barney tweeted a video speaking in a Gman ask voice and teasing unexpected surpris in the New Year unexpected surprises the last time Shapiro did something like this was back in 2020 during the launch of valve's VR title halflife Alex now this may be solid proof that we can soon expect at least another Half-Life game it may also be a promo for Shapiro's own music given that the painting shown in the video is the art from the two week old Mike Shapiro single best long dog in world if that's the case I will be disappointed but happy for Mike and his reportedly very good and lengthy pet California's ban on what it calls addictive feeds for minors on social platforms was approved by a federal judge on New Year's Eve in the world's latest attempt to stop whatever is happening to gen Alpha we don't understand it but we know its Aura is highkey Ohio which is not goals at all did you understand that highkey Ohio yes why Ohio just you got to look it up the ruling means companies like meta snap and bite dance will be forced to make significant changes to their social apps to prevent miners from accessing algorithmic feeds fed by their personal data why don't those companies Sue to stop this well they did after Bill SB 976 was signed into law in September Industry Group net Choice sued to block it from taking effect and indeed judge Edward J dilla did block many of the Bill's key elements but upheld the ban on addictive feeds social platforms will also not be able to send minor notifications from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from midnight to 6:00 a.m. go to sleep kids you can have brain rot for breakfast even better you could wake up and build a website with our sponsor ODU and their code-free easy to use drag and drop elements they provide unlimited hosting reliable support and a free custom domain for an entire year I know you're having trouble processing how great that sounds well guess what they also adapt your content for all devices they provide a chat gbt powered copywriter to help with brain stuff and they have live chat and help desk tickets for support if you need help with anything look just hit the link in the description to create a website for free it'll all make sense oh turns out there are quick bits in the New Year too which I honestly I wasn't expecting but okay honey the scam posing as a coupon finding service has been hit by a class action lawsuit filed by a group of lawyers and YouTubers including Wendover Productions and legal eagle AKA Devin Stone who says after watching YouTuber Mega lag's recently posted expose he was Furious presumably because he found out about honey stealing influencers affiliate link commissions and not because he couldn't understand megal leg's kiwi accent whoa what I understood him fine I just thought isn't it cool that people talk differently PornHub parent company ISO has blocked access to its network of adults websites in Florida and South Carolina who just joined a list of 16 other US states who have passed age verification laws to prevent minors from accessing adult content it was 17 other states but a judge blocked the law in Tennessee and an investigative redditor from the state confirmed they can still access the site doing the hard work so you don't have to or in case you can't that was a pun a map from 44 media shows that ISO sites are now blocked across nearly half the country if you're going by a land mass which I don't know why you would the US Treasury Department says that Chinese hackers broke into several workstations and accessed classified documents and what the agency called a major cyber security incident as opposed to the normal ones that happen every Tuesday the breach comes as US government officials are still trying to get hackers out of the country's telecoms networks which is hard when they can squeeze through gaps the width of a pencil or the length of a human hair or something they squish their bones flat or something I don't get it and a software engineer helping to maintain the diaspora Federated social network said that while investigating load spikes in the Project's infrastructure he discovered that around 70% % of requests received by those websites are sent by Bots collecting data to train large language models Bots from open AI Amazon and anthropic apparently come back to crawl the same web page every 6 hours and manage to evade every attempt to block them unlike the Crawlers from Google and Bing which still remember how to behave decently these younger Bots though they're skibby rizing all over the place I never did that but I did ask you to come back for Tech news and so I shall again Friday is when there will be more so see you then what why are you still 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