WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.919 Blime me. What? You want my home address? Like I'm 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:12.160 inviting xvideos.com over for a cuper when a bloke's just trying to have some 00:00:09.440 --> 00:00:17.119 quiet time to herself. Come off it. The UK's online safety act has officially 00:00:14.799 --> 00:00:22.320 gone into effect requiring platforms that allow pornography to have strong 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:27.199 age checks, a phrase that describes almost anything other than asking users 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:31.039 to check a box if they're over 18. Although I like to imagine that worked 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:36.960 for someone. According to UK regulator Ofcom, age verification pop-ups are now 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:42.480 the first thing displayed to UK users on not only around 6,000 adult websites, 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:47.360 but on every major platform with adult content from Reddit to Twitter to 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:52.320 Twitter for anxious people. Okay, but how do they verify user ages? Especially 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:57.760 when many British children sound like tiny lords and ladies. Mother, I'm off 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:02.960 to a cricket match with John. That kid sounds 40 years old. Offcom recommends a 00:01:00.559 --> 00:01:07.280 number of methods, all of which risk compromising user privacy to some 00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:11.760 degree. In a completely unrelated development, there was a massive spike 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:16.960 in searches for VPNs in the UK this week, leading to concerns that many 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:20.479 Muppets, BPIs, and Chabs will install 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:22.560 free VPNs that are unsafe, potentially 00:01:20.479 --> 00:01:27.759 setting many Gooners up for a rude awakening. Now, the BBC reported that 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:33.119 platforms can't encourage the use of VPNs to get around the checks, but this 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:38.320 smart guy noted that Ofcom's language indicates this is only true for child 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:43.759 users. So, it's still okay to encourage VPN use for adult users. So, you just 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 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 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:56.479 look at the actual guidelines PDF instead of the website, you can see that 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:59.280 this isn't true and the BBC was right 00:01:56.479 --> 00:02:03.520 originally. This has been Obscure Tweet Takedown with Riley. Moving on. If 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 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:11.760 verification in the UK, you can use Death Stranding's photo mode instead, as 00:02:10.239 --> 00:02:16.879 Discord is apparently fine with admitting an infinite amount of Norman 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:21.840 Reedi. But should age verification be required for Wikipedia? The Wikipdia 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:25.120 Foundation has challenged its status under the law and told the High Court of 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:29.920 Justice this week that it could be forced to limit UK users access if the 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:34.319 government doesn't acknowledge that no one's really going to Wikipedia to blow 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:38.239 off some steam. All right, I mean, almost no one. I'm sure there are some 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:43.040 hidden gems in there. Seems like at the very least the government might have to 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:48.720 respond to this UK petition to repeal the online safety act, which blew past 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:51.120 its goal of 100k signatures as the title 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:55.440 wave of age check pop-ups started to hit. All those people are hoping that 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:59.440 the UK repeals this law and gets back to passing legislation that actually 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:04.400 matters, like editing their antirust rules so Epic Games will bring Fortnite 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:10.480 back to iOS. Do you hear the UK iPhone gamers screaming? This is bollocks. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:16.239 Stupid. Intel just announced more layoffs, saying in its Q2 earnings 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 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:24.959 would mean around 24,000 jobs gone 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 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:33.280 even cutting entire countries. Plans to build facilities in Poland and Germany 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:38.480 have been cancelled and an existing one in Costa Rica's being downsized. Perhaps 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:42.560 most concerning is the company's SEC filing spotted by semi analysis which 00:03:40.959 --> 00:03:47.920 says that if they can't find a big customer, Intel might have to pause or 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:50.799 discontinue development of its nextG 14A 00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:55.200 node and successor nodes. I'm going to be frank here. I've covered Intel for a 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:59.439 long time and this feels like the sky is falling. And to make things worse, CEO 00:03:57.519 --> 00:04:03.200 Lip Bhutan published a letter to employees with the plan for what they're 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:08.159 focusing on going forward. 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And 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:37.039 YouTuber The Fox was able to share more details like the fact that it does not 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:42.800 have an internal battery. It's got an external 80Wh hour unit that can clip 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:46.960 onto the back of it like the giant heavy backpacks worn in high school by the 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 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:55.919 see it. I am dork. Dork me. Apple has 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:59.919 launched Apple Care 1, a new $20 a month subscription that can cover up to three 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.919 Apple devices, including ones you already own, as long as you take them to 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:08.479 an Apple store to verify that they're in good condition. As far as device 00:06:05.919 --> 00:06:13.520 insurance goes, it's not bad. But as his germulousness, Mark German points out, 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:17.360 the vast majority of people will pay 240 bucks a year for the next several years 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:21.440 and never use it. But that's new income that Apple will desperately need to 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:26.800 replace all the revenue from third party iOS apps that the EU is blocking them 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:31.280 from collecting. Evil EU, bad. Apple will be saved by all the maniacs who 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:35.919 insist on using their phones without a case. The founder of the Pebble 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:39.759 smartwatch, Eric Migakovsky, has confirmed that the new Pebbles his 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:43.600 company has been working on will be called Pebbles, which is good because 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:48.560 everyone was already calling them Pebbles. And Pebble rolls off the tongue 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:54.560 so much better than the new smartwatch made by the Pebble guy or its previous 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:57.039 official name, the Core 2 Duo. There was 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:01.919 We already had that. Migakovsky secured the rights to use the Pebble name once 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:05.840 more, so it's now the Pebble 2 Duo. the 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:08.080 remix reawakening Pebble 2 duo again. 00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:13.120 Just some ideas. And OpenAI will probably release GPT5 in August 00:07:11.039 --> 00:07:17.360 according to Tom Warren at The Verge based on his own sources. But it also 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:22.319 lines up nicely with things Sam Alman has said recently and with the fact that 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:27.919 references to GPT5 were spotted in code for Microsoft's Copilot Assistant, which 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:35.599 is getting an appearance mode where it shall reveal its true form to you. A 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:37.840 tiny, slightly unevenly shaped blob. 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 00:07:40.479 --> 00:07:49.280 subsidiary predicts that AI assistants may soon age like an organic being and 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.960 maybe even have a room that it lives in. 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:56.960 Maybe when it grows up a bit, it can graduate from being a formless CGI blob 00:07:54.080 --> 00:08:01.840 to controlling the new R1 humanoid robot from Chinese company Unit, who once 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:06.319 again couldn't resist having like the second thing its consumer marketed robot 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:10.639 does in its launch video, be punching and kicking. Unitry, hi. This is like 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 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 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:23.840 to interrupt. But hey, feel free to interrupt me on Monday by clicking on 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. 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:33.599 I'll just be sitting right behind the thumbnail waiting. 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:33.599 Maybe I should be working on my kung fu.