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to an email received by Sean Hollister at The Verge Lenovo says they'll have Steam OS and steam deck co-designer Pierre Lou griffet featured as a special guest causing many to speculate that the Lenovo Legion go s with that mysterious steam button that has been leaking all over our feeds the past few weeks May indeed run Steam OS instead of Windows but hold on there's another special guest Xbox executive Jason Ronald who Lenovo is referring to as Microsoft's VP of Next Generation I can't imagine that Microsoft would be jazzed about Lenovo going with a competing operating system instead of Windows but given their recent marketing push Jason might be there just to demonstrate that even a Steam OS powered gaming handheld is somehow also an Xbox they're never going to release an Xbox handheld they're just going to say look behind you you already have one a with any luck a Steam OS handheld not made by Valve will be far from the weirdest thing CES has to offer Evan blast leaker of the Legion go s also leaked lenovo's laptop with an extending rollable display and One X player has teased their own handheld PC with a removable keyboard and that's just the vanilla stuff it gets way crazier there's like furry robots hey wa later later I'll show you later YouTube says enough is enough it's going to start cracking down on what it calls egregious clickbait defined in their blog post as videos where the title or thumbnail promises viewers something that the video doesn't deliver which they say is especially important for news content hey that's us now I know some of you are looking at the title of this video and thinking but look at the examples YouTube provides here a video title saying the president resigned where the video doesn't address the president's resignation and then a thumbnail saying its news content when it's not is it egregious clickbait to title a video wait what it's not deceptive it would have to have some information in it for that although some people clearly thought the headline in the thumbnail was correct when the point was to say that it's not look this isn't about me this is about India because that's where Google says they'll be rolling out this Crackdown first and this is also about Google because you could argue Google click baited users by flip-flopping on the issue of digital fingerprinting which is when software uses little little details to create a unique identifier that can track a user across websites the UK's data protection regulator has called Google out for saying verbatim in 2019 that they think digital fingerprinting subverts user choice and is wrong yet announcing this month that actually they went to college and they met this really smart guy in econ class and he thinks it's okay so I'm learning so much he's traveled the European commission has published a list of measur measures Apple must take to ensure interoperability between iOS iPad OS and third-party hardware and software that means Apple will be expected to actually try to support non-apple accessories like earbuds that aren't airpods can you imagine but the EU may go as far as to require Apple to let Android or other platforms use airdrop um no thank you we have our own version that I think no one uses after suffering this attack from the EU Apple responded in the only sensible way they started yelling at meta in a PDF going through their usual stance about how making it easier to do anything on iOS would cause catastrophic privacy breaches apple called out meta for basically bombarding apple with requests to let them slurp up Apple users data and to be fair I totally believe that meta is pushing the boundaries here but Tim we're just talking about letting iPhone users try smartwatch watches that aren't the Apple watch why well cuz it would just be a bit why though you know what for this example a fair enough it's fair now to mention our sponsor s the global eim Service that keeps you connected while traveling even to multiple countries what are you trying to impress someone if so I think downloading one eim for your whole trip with ses affordable prices for regional and Global plans we'll do the trick oh sorry were you looking forward to waiting in line at the airport to buy a local potentially scammy SIM card that's an authentic cultural experience hey you do you s eim plans are compatible with most iOS and Android devices and if yours isn't compatible you'll get a full refund with chat support available 24/7 get an exclusive 15% discount on s eim data plans just download the s app and use code TechLink at checkout and you may ask yourself what even are quick bits what the structure of these videos is perplexing Tech PowerUp has retested their Intel aerol Lake desktop CPUs with the performance fixes Intel outlined this week and well you should check the full report out in our news sources in the description but the gist of it is it's a little better but we're all waiting for that bigger boost Intel said will be coming next month the company also said this week it was terminating its x86 s initiative announced a year and a half ago to make the architecture more efficient but Intel just updated did it to version 1.2 in September oh that was so long ago they had a whole another CEO no sooner had Google unveiled a new AI model called Gemini 2.0 flash thinking equipped with Chain of Thought reasoning capability like open AI 01 then openai released an upgraded version called 03 for researchers to start testing hold on what happened to O2 it's too smart for its own good it annoyed everyone in the open AI office has too many questions open AI also released one of its most senior AI researchers and the ex Google executive that was heading up chat GPT search they must have been particularly annoyed Storage Company SanDisk has undergone a pretty drastic Rebrand in preparation for its planned spin-off from parent company Western Digital next year and honestly between the Bold design the meticulously coordinated marketing materials and this shockingly hype video full of impeccable match Cuts revealing the new logo yo why am I stoked about memory cards right now something's wrong I actually got excited I was like sandis yes let's go the US Federal Aviation Administration has finally done something about the dang drones drone flights in specific parts of New Jersey have been temporarily banned with some exceptions for First Responders and the like the FAA has listed the affected regions on their website so so if you see any weird aircraft in the sky you can probably assume they're hostile aliens that's what this means or I I guess they could be friendly aliens and they just didn't check the website fair enough should have checked though and a UK court has ruled that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright will face a year in prison if he doesn't stop claiming that he invented Bitcoin and suing people over it this guy filed a 1 trillion lawsuit trillion against Bitcoin core and square for implementing the cryptocurrency in an improper way claiming Authority as the creator of Bitcoin for years using forged documents how do you get here he didn't even have to do this just go home Craig it's gone too far and I think it's time for all of us to do just that listen next week is Christmas and there will only be one episode of TechLink the Christmas special on December 25th regularly scheduled episodes will resume on Monday December 30th so take some time off from worrying about the AI dystopia on Monday and Friday I'll see you on Wednesday"}