So, I've been reading comments and I've seen that some people don't want the
intros and I hear that. So, in this
video, we're going to skip the intro. Okay, no preamble, no, you know, just
just tech news like right away. Many Chat GPT users were shocked to discover
this week that many of their chats were being indexed by Google and were thus
searchable by anyone who knows how to use Google. though the numbers for that
class of user are dwindling as Google transitions from a search engine into an
idiot librarian who's constantly seeing things. Now, I said many chat GPT users
and not all because the cause of these leaks is this checkbox in the share
dialogue asking if you want to make this chat discoverable which quote allows it
to be shown in web searches.
How could this happen? I can see how some people quickly looking to share
their chat may have thought they had to check that box in order to make it
sharable while not understanding what they were doing. And apparently OpenAI
feels the same because their infosc chief announced they have since removed
that option. It's not clear why it was ever an option really other than to be a
point of embarrassment for OpenAI after they made such a fuss about being forced
to retain users chats by the judge in the New York Times copyright case. User
privacy is crucial and must be protected. Yes, we have a confusing
button that will share your private chat with the entire internet. What's the problem? Google's attempt to appeal its
big loss to Epic Games in 2023 has
failed with a ruling from the 9th Court of Appeals upholding the result of the
original lawsuit over Google's anti-competitive Android policies. In a
statement, Google said, "This decision will significantly harm user safety,
limit choice, and undermine the innovation that has always uh oh, it's
been really good, and now it's going to be really bad." Whatever, Google, you
sound no one's listening. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was quick to proclaim that
the Epic Games Store will be listed on the Play Store in addition to being
available directly from Eric
Eric's website. Welcome to ericsgamestore.com.
It's unclear when Google will be required to host competing app stores on
its store. That might be next year. But Google is required to enact a list of
other changes very soon. Like they have to stop inhibiting developers from using
non- Googlele payment methods or linking users to their site. And they have to do
that within 14 days. You mean a fortnight?
Oh, Google asked for another week and the judge gave it to them. Ah, is there
a word for three weeks? Tribtodomal,
maybe. Ah,
sucks. See, Google needs more time because it's so busy doing other things
like preparing to break all the goo.GL URL shortener links that aren't being
actively used. Originally, Google was just going to gank all of them in
August, but now it's responding to feedback from people wondering how
Google's going to try and control the whole internet, but sherk its
responsibility to keep the links working. Did these people go to the
bathroom during the Uncle Ben part of Spider-Man or something? Hey, if you're
worried that Google will break its authenticator app, Proton just launched
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doing the Quickbits now. I think that was nice and short. Didn't
want to drag that out. It's literally just introducing the next few like it
doesn't have to be a big thing that we The age check apocalypse continues to
rage across the UK and parts of the broader internet and all these
submitting selfies and credit cards and government IDs is concerning according
to privacy experts and many others who couldn't afford privacy experts school.
The UK's online safety act is also having knock-on effects with the BBC
reporting that Twitter and Reddit are restricting under 18 accounts from
accessing news related but sensitive content about current events like wars.
The usage of VPNs to get around age checks has skyrocketed, leading some
regulators to wonder whether a ban on VPNs is needed. And once people figure
out how to get around that, we just might have to ban the VPN ban bypass
VPN. If they get around that though, let
them through. They earned it. Nintendo has cited market conditions as the
reason they'll be hiking the price of Switch One consoles and also Alarmo
because if you bought a $100 alarm clock, you can do another 10 bucks. Deal
with it. Gaming news account Warriio 64 tweeted the new prices after they showed
up on Target's website with an increase of 30 bucks for the Switch Light, 40 for
the vanilla Switch, and 50 for the Switch OLED. Although the prices
reverted shortly afterwards, so things might look differently come August 3rd
when the price changes go into effect. Nintendo's announcement said price
adjustments for the Switch 2 aren't happening right now, but may be
necessary in the future to prevent the
collapse of the entire global financial system. It's just necessary. Man,
Amazon's got some great ideas in the pipe. CEO Andy Jasse told investors on
Thursday, "There will be opportunities to have Alexa advertise products to
users as they talk to her, which sounds like the worst. Although it also reminds
me of The Truman Show when his wife is like holding up Coco from the slopes of
Mount Nicaragua and he's like, "Who are you talking to?" And that's a great
movie. I mean, maybe this will all be fine. Amazon also funded ShowrRunner, a
streaming service that lets you use AI to make your own TV shows, which sounds
like slop no one will want to watch. And funnily enough, the CEO agrees. Intel
has updated its XESS tech package with
support for frame generation and low latency for older non-Intel GPUs,
specifically NVIDIA's RTX 30000 series and AMD's RX 6000 series. Your mileage
may vary and you might be better off without it, but it's nice to know that
like a good state farm, this thing is there. Tik Tok is launching a new app
called Tick Tock Pro in Germany, Portugal, and soon Spain. It's basically
Tik Tok without live streams, shopping
features, or ads. But it will also have the sunshine program, which will
incentivize users to engage with charities that will generate a currency
called virtual sunshine, which will then be converted into donations to those
charities sent from Tik Tok. It sounds
like a good thing, but it's also very unusual, leading some to wonder whether
this is a move by Tik Tok to appease regulators who've criticized the
platform's more toxic elements. I mean,
I don't know. It kind of gives the donating to charities thing a panicked
vibe. Ah, yes. I love this video. Oh, those children need our help. Let's uh
and Valve CEO Gabe Newell is so rich he
didn't just buy a yacht, he bought a whole yacht company. Newell has acquired
Ocean Co., one of the world's top super
yacht companies. But if you're worried he was going to come in there and screw
up the company's culture, don't be. Their press release says Gabe just wants
Ocean Co to push harder on what it already does best, putting people first.
not people in general. Uh people who can afford to spend a small nation's GDP on
a monstrosity named the Black Pearl. Who's going to take care of them? H Gabe
will. Thank goodness. And thank goodness you watched this whole episode because
guess what? Monday is a holiday for us. So there won't be a new TechLinked
until Wednesday. But tell you what, I've made over,00 of these. You know, give
one of those of you. John Hank, I'll see you on Wednesday.