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Is my tech News? And you may ask yourself, how? Why did where did it go? All right, that's enough. Valve will apparently help Lenovo reveal the future of gaming handhelds at CES in January, according to an email received by Sean Hollister at the Verge. Lenovo says they'll have steamos 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 steamos instead of Windows. But hold on, there's another special guest, Xbox executive Jason Ronald, who Lenovo's 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 SteamOS powered gaming handheld is somehow also an Xbox. They're never gonna release an Xbox handheld. They're just gonna say, look behind you, you already have one.
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With any luck, a SteamOS handheld not made by Valve will be far from the weirdest thing CES has to offer. Evan Blass, leaker of the Legion G.O. s also leaked Lenovo's laptop with an extending rollable display, and onexplayer 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, wait, wait, wait. Later, later. I'll show you later. YouTube says enough is enough. It's gonna 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, eh? 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 it's 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 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 measures Apple must take to ensure interoperability between iOS, iPadOS 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. 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's pushing the boundaries here. But Tim, we're just talking about letting iPhone users try smartwatches that aren't the Apple watch. Why? Well, cause it would just be a li. Why though. You know what? For this example, fair enough. It's fair now to mention our sponsor.