1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:07,919 Blime me. What? You want my home address? Like I'm 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:12,160 inviting xvideos.com over for a cuper when a bloke's just trying to have some 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:17,119 quiet time to herself. Come off it. The UK's online safety act has officially 4 00:00:14,799 --> 00:00:22,320 gone into effect requiring platforms that allow pornography to have strong 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:27,199 age checks, a phrase that describes almost anything other than asking users 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:31,039 to check a box if they're over 18. Although I like to imagine that worked 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:36,960 for someone. According to UK regulator Ofcom, age verification pop-ups are now 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:42,480 the first thing displayed to UK users on not only around 6,000 adult websites, 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:47,360 but on every major platform with adult content from Reddit to Twitter to 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:52,320 Twitter for anxious people. Okay, but how do they verify user ages? Especially 11 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:57,760 when many British children sound like tiny lords and ladies. Mother, I'm off 12 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:02,960 to a cricket match with John. That kid sounds 40 years old. Offcom recommends a 13 00:01:00,559 --> 00:01:07,280 number of methods, all of which risk compromising user privacy to some 14 00:01:05,199 --> 00:01:11,760 degree. In a completely unrelated development, there was a massive spike 15 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:16,960 in searches for VPNs in the UK this week, leading to concerns that many 16 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:20,479 Muppets, BPIs, and Chabs will install 17 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:22,560 free VPNs that are unsafe, potentially 18 00:01:20,479 --> 00:01:27,759 setting many Gooners up for a rude awakening. Now, the BBC reported that 19 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:33,119 platforms can't encourage the use of VPNs to get around the checks, but this 20 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:38,320 smart guy noted that Ofcom's language indicates this is only true for child 21 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:43,759 users. So, it's still okay to encourage VPN use for adult users. So, you just 22 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:47,600 have to make sure it's an adult user. And then you can tell them to use a VPN 23 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:51,840 to get around the thing that will make sure it's an adult user. Except if you 24 00:01:50,159 --> 00:01:56,479 look at the actual guidelines PDF instead of the website, you can see that 25 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:59,280 this isn't true and the BBC was right 26 00:01:56,479 --> 00:02:03,520 originally. This has been Obscure Tweet Takedown with Riley. Moving on. If 27 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:07,600 you're scared of VPNs and you're a gamer trying to get around Discord's new age 28 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:11,760 verification in the UK, you can use Death Stranding's photo mode instead, as 29 00:02:10,239 --> 00:02:16,879 Discord is apparently fine with admitting an infinite amount of Norman 30 00:02:14,239 --> 00:02:21,840 Reedi. But should age verification be required for Wikipedia? The Wikipdia 31 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,120 Foundation has challenged its status under the law and told the High Court of 32 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:29,920 Justice this week that it could be forced to limit UK users access if the 33 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:34,319 government doesn't acknowledge that no one's really going to Wikipedia to blow 34 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:38,239 off some steam. All right, I mean, almost no one. I'm sure there are some 35 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:43,040 hidden gems in there. Seems like at the very least the government might have to 36 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:48,720 respond to this UK petition to repeal the online safety act, which blew past 37 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:51,120 its goal of 100k signatures as the title 38 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:55,440 wave of age check pop-ups started to hit. All those people are hoping that 39 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:59,440 the UK repeals this law and gets back to passing legislation that actually 40 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:04,400 matters, like editing their antirust rules so Epic Games will bring Fortnite 41 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:10,480 back to iOS. Do you hear the UK iPhone gamers screaming? This is bollocks. 42 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:16,239 Stupid. Intel just announced more layoffs, saying in its Q2 earnings 43 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:22,159 report that it plans to have only 75,000 employees by the end of this year, which 44 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:24,959 would mean around 24,000 jobs gone 45 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:29,280 compared to the end of 2024. Team Blue has got to stop the bleeding. So, it's 46 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:33,280 even cutting entire countries. Plans to build facilities in Poland and Germany 47 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:38,480 have been cancelled and an existing one in Costa Rica's being downsized. 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And 73 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:37,039 YouTuber The Fox was able to share more details like the fact that it does not 74 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:42,800 have an internal battery. It's got an external 80Wh hour unit that can clip 75 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:46,960 onto the back of it like the giant heavy backpacks worn in high school by the 76 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:52,960 kind of dorks that will buy this thing. Is it worth it? I'm kidding. I I want to 77 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:55,919 see it. I am dork. Dork me. Apple has 78 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:59,919 launched Apple Care 1, a new $20 a month subscription that can cover up to three 79 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:03,919 Apple devices, including ones you already own, as long as you take them to 80 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,479 an Apple store to verify that they're in good condition. As far as device 81 00:06:05,919 --> 00:06:13,520 insurance goes, it's not bad. But as his germulousness, Mark German points out, 82 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,360 the vast majority of people will pay 240 bucks a year for the next several years 83 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:21,440 and never use it. But that's new income that Apple will desperately need to 84 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:26,800 replace all the revenue from third party iOS apps that the EU is blocking them 85 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:31,280 from collecting. Evil EU, bad. Apple will be saved by all the maniacs who 86 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:35,919 insist on using their phones without a case. The founder of the Pebble 87 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:39,759 smartwatch, Eric Migakovsky, has confirmed that the new Pebbles his 88 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:43,600 company has been working on will be called Pebbles, which is good because 89 00:06:41,759 --> 00:06:48,560 everyone was already calling them Pebbles. And Pebble rolls off the tongue 90 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:54,560 so much better than the new smartwatch made by the Pebble guy or its previous 91 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:57,039 official name, the Core 2 Duo. There was 92 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:01,919 We already had that. Migakovsky secured the rights to use the Pebble name once 93 00:06:58,639 --> 00:07:05,840 more, so it's now the Pebble 2 Duo. the 94 00:07:01,919 --> 00:07:08,080 remix reawakening Pebble 2 duo again. 95 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:13,120 Just some ideas. And OpenAI will probably release GPT5 in August 96 00:07:11,039 --> 00:07:17,360 according to Tom Warren at The Verge based on his own sources. But it also 97 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:22,319 lines up nicely with things Sam Alman has said recently and with the fact that 98 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:27,919 references to GPT5 were spotted in code for Microsoft's Copilot Assistant, which 99 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:35,599 is getting an appearance mode where it shall reveal its true form to you. A 100 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:37,840 tiny, slightly unevenly shaped blob. 101 00:07:35,599 --> 00:07:42,639 Sounds about right. But maybe it won't stay that way. The CEO of Microsoft's AI 102 00:07:40,479 --> 00:07:49,280 subsidiary predicts that AI assistants may soon age like an organic being and 103 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,960 maybe even have a room that it lives in. 104 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:56,960 Maybe when it grows up a bit, it can graduate from being a formless CGI blob 105 00:07:54,080 --> 00:08:01,840 to controlling the new R1 humanoid robot from Chinese company Unit, who once 106 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:06,319 again couldn't resist having like the second thing its consumer marketed robot 107 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:10,639 does in its launch video, be punching and kicking. Unitry, hi. This is like 108 00:08:08,479 --> 00:08:15,120 the one thing we're hoping the friendly daily life robots don't do. They're not 109 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:19,120 They're not They're They're all punching and kicking. They're not listening. They're having a good time. I don't want 110 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:23,840 to interrupt. But hey, feel free to interrupt me on Monday by clicking on 111 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:27,840 the next Techlink video when it goes up on that day. I won't be doing anything. 112 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:33,599 I'll just be sitting right behind the thumbnail waiting. 113 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,599 Maybe I should be working on my kung fu.