Nvidia’s GeForce Trading Cards, EU Chat Control Vote, Claude Reflect + more!

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Episode: Nvidia’s GeForce Trading Cards, EU Chat Control Vote, Claude Reflect + more!
Date: July 11, 2026
Host: Riley Murdoch (Linus Media Group)
Theme: Fast-paced, humorous news roundup covering the week’s hottest tech and gaming stories.

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of TechLinked delivers a witty, rapid-fire overview of major tech news, including Nvidia's quirky GeForce Trading Cards, the EU’s ongoing debate over private message scanning laws, new AI features from Anthropic, and more. Hosts deliver sharp commentary on the latest headlines, balancing snarky takes with genuine insights for tech fans.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Nvidia’s GeForce Trading Cards

[00:30–02:10]

• Topic: Nvidia launches 14 GeForce Trading Cards—not GPUs, but actual collectible cards celebrating moments in Nvidia’s gaming history.
• Details: Cards feature milestones from the 1999 GeForce 256 through releases like the RTX 2080 Ti’s Cyberpunk 2077 tie-in. Not for sale—only available via giveaways and conventions.
• Commentary:
  • “You won’t be able to put any of them in your PC… they just wouldn’t do anything.” – C [00:33]
  • “You have to win them through Summer of RTX giveaways or collect them at event booths at conventions like Quakecon and Gamescom.” – B [01:10]
• Rumors Debunked: The 5090 SE GPU “leak” is called out as false—citing incompatible specs and an unreliable source.
  • “A leak… says this card would have 32 gigabytes of Vram... according to OverClocked3D, is not a combination that would be compatible at all.” – C [01:33]
  • “Game gpu, a website which… is unreliable and actually banned from the subreddit.” – C [01:33]

2. EU Chat Control 1.0 Vote

[02:10–03:38]

• Topic: The European Parliament’s vote on repealing the Chat Control 1.0 law (mass message scanning for child protection).
• Outcome: The law wasn’t struck down due to technicalities—an absolute majority was needed, simple majority wasn’t enough.
• Context: The law is provisional, awaiting more detailed legislation.
• Key Insight:
  • “Trying to do a good thing by doing maybe a bad thing.” – C [03:06]
  • A positive amendment: End-to-end encrypted apps (like WhatsApp) are specifically excluded.
• Status: Not yet active; pending EU Council review.
  • “First, it needs to be reviewed by the EU Council, which… is kind of like the European version of the Council of Elrond.” – C [03:28]

3. Anthropic’s Claude Reflection

[03:42–04:22]

• Topic: Anthropic launches Claude Reflection, a dashboard tracking your AI usage patterns, similar to Spotify Wrapped.
• Features:
  • See your most discussed topics and “peak pestering hours.”
  • Quiet hours, wellness nudges (“touch grass”), embarrassing self-reflection prompts.
• Hosts’ Take:
  • “A great way to track your habits, like paying 20 bucks a month to ask AI questions you could have googled.” – B [04:00]
  • “Luckily you can’t see your total time spent on Claude. It’s a stat the well being team didn’t want to maximize, but they’ll still add it later.” – B [04:12]
• Broader AI Commentary: OpenAI is folding its Atlas browser (barely a year old) features into Chrome extensions and a desktop app.

4. Patreon & Cloudflare Block AI Scraping

[06:00–06:34]

• Topic: Patreon partners with Cloudflare to block AI crawlers from scraping creators’ content.
• Details: Cloudflare’s initiative launches for ad-supported sites; Patreon as anchor partner hopes others follow.
• Industry Quote:
  • “Jack Conte… partnering with Cloudflare because creators… deserve credit and compensation for their work.” – B [06:22]
• Highlight: Rare enthusiasm for tech CEOs: “the one tech CEO that doesn’t suck.” – B [06:34]

5. Accenture Data Breach

[06:34–07:16]

• Topic: Consulting giant Accenture suffers breach (~35GB of data exposed, including RSA and SSH keys).
• Potential Impact: Fortune 100 clients like McDonald’s, Walmart, Microsoft, Pfizer affected.
• Concern: “We could be feeling aftershocks of this hack for years to come.” – B [07:12]

6. John Deere Settles Right to Repair Lawsuit

[07:24–08:07]

• Topic: John Deere will allow farmers and independents to access the same tools and software for tractor repairs as official dealers… for 10 years.
• Take: Settlement is a partial victory for right-to-repair advocates.
  • “The main drawback… access to these tools only lasts 10 years.” – C [07:52]
• Personal Anecdote: Host jokes about losing farm repair stories to share with his “farmer Uncle Don.” [08:07]

7. Meta Smart Glasses Privacy & Future Plans

[08:11–08:41]

• Topic: Meta updates smart glasses to permanently disable the camera if you tamper with the privacy light… but new “super sensing glasses” in development will always be recording.
• Satirical Take:
  • “A rare privacy win. Boy, I hope the rest of this story doesn’t immediately undermine this sense of joy I feel.” – B [08:15]
  • “These super sensing glasses will continuously record audio and snap photos every few seconds…” – B [08:44]

8. World-First: Remote Surgery with Humanoid Robots

[08:41–09:49]

• Topic: UCSD surgeons performed live gallbladder removal on pigs remotely using $75,000 “Sergey” robots, much cheaper than standard Da Vinci systems.
• Remark:
  • “You can outfit them for surgery for under 75 grand. Just a fraction of the half million required for the Da Vinci system…” – B [09:25]
• Patient Outcome: Pigs recovered fine (“sheep wedding” joke closes segment).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Nvidia Trading Cards: “You just need to be patient and wait for Logan Paul to put one on a chain and wear it in a video.” – B [01:59]
• On the EU Parliament: “Kind of like the European version of the Council of Elrond. They now have three months to either approve it, reject it, or find some otherwise unoccupied guys to carry it to a volcano.” – C [03:28]
• On Claude Reflection: “If you don’t reflect enough, you end up like OpenAI, which is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser barely a year after launch.” – B [04:22]
• On Meta Privacy: “A rare privacy win. Boy, I hope the rest of this story doesn’t immediately undermine this sense of joy I feel.” – B [08:15]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [00:30] Nvidia GeForce Trading Cards announcement
• [01:33] RTX 5090 SE rumor debunked
• [02:18] EU Chat Control 1.0 vote explained
• [03:17] Exclusion of end-to-end encrypted apps
• [03:42] Anthropic "Reflection" dashboard intro
• [04:45] OpenAI Atlas browser shut down
• [06:00] Patreon and Cloudflare collaboration against AI content scraping
• [06:51] Accenture data breach details
• [07:24] John Deere right to repair settlement
• [08:11] Meta’s smart glasses privacy update
• [08:41] Meta’s next-gen always-on glasses
• [09:16] Telemedicine robot surgery

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Tone & Style

• Conversational, quick-witted, with playful banter between hosts.
• Frequent use of analogies, cultural references (e.g., Lord of the Rings, Logan Paul), and self-deprecating asides.
• Strong editorial voice—skeptical, irreverent, but insightful.

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Perfect for listeners seeking quick tech news with a healthy dose of snark and skepticism!

Transcript

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Are all batteries the same? That's like asking if all soccer players are the same. Take Messi, the most decorated player ever. Is there any other player who has achieved that? No, just him. Now take Duracell. Is there any other battery with powerboost ingredients inside? No, just Duracell. Remember, goats only trust goats because they're built different. And Messi only trusts Duracell.

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Nvidia has released 14 new GeForce cards.

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Sadly, you won't be able to put any of them in your PC, because they're not graphics cards, they're trading cards. I guess technically you could put them in your PC, they just wouldn't do anything.

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I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked. And this is Nvidia's new GeForce Trading

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Cards Series 1, each of which celebrates a moment in Nvidia's gaming history.

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From the 1999 GeForce 256 to a

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Cyberpunk 2077 RTX 2080 Ti. You know that joyous period before they abandoned us to a wretched economy where a new GPU cost more than a used Honda Civic?

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Nope.

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You can't afford a lot of gaming hardware these days.

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And you also can't buy these cards. You have to win them through Summer of RTX giveaways or collect them at

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event booths at conventions like Quakecon and Gamescom. Now, if you were hoping for cards that could, I don't know, run games, keep looking.

[B]

Because rumors about an RTX 5090 SE are semingly bull.

[C]

A leak that has been spreading around online says that this card would have 32 gigabytes of Vram paired with a 384 bit bus, which, according to OverClocked3D, is not a combination that would be compatible at all. It also doesn't help that the rumor comes from Game gpu, a website which, according to an Nvidia subreddit mod, is unreliable and and actually banned from the subreddit.

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But hey, if you manage to grab

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a few trading cards, you just need

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to be patient and wait for Logan Paul to put one on a chain and wear it in a video.

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And just then wait a little bit for idiots to care about the value of it.

[B]

And then you finally afford a gpu. The European Parliament just voted on whether to kill the EU's infamous mass message

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scanning law, known by its detractors AS Chat Control 1.0.

[B]

And and despite the majority of the votes that were cast being in favor

[C]

of nuking it, the controversial law was not struck down. Now, that's because for this specific type of vote, the EU requires an absolute majority, meaning more than half of the total parliamentarians.

[B]

But because of the number of absentees and abstentions, opponents of the law only managed a simple majority. Now for those of you who don't know, Chat Control 1.0 is a provisional

[C]

EU law that that allows the mass

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scanning of private messages for material that could harm children.

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Now it's provisional because this is in place while they work on more fleshed out legislation.

[B]

It's the classic conundrum of trying to

[C]

do a good thing by doing maybe a bad thing. One good outcome of the vote, however,

[B]

was that Parliament did pass an amendment to the language specifically excluding end to

[C]

end encrypted apps like WhatsApp from the scope of the law.

[B]

Despite what some outlets are reporting, however, Chat Control 1.0 is not yet active. First, it needs to be reviewed by

[C]

the EU Council, which as far as I understand it is kind of like the European version of the Council of Elrond. They now have three months to either

[B]

approve it, reject it, or find some

[C]

otherwise unoccupied guys to carry it to a volcano.

[B]

Anthropic has launched Reflection, a Spotify wrapped style mindfulness dashboard that reveals all the topics you bother Claude the most about and your peak pestering hours with options

[C]

to set quiet hours and let Claude nudge you to touch grass.

[B]

It's a great way to track your habits, like paying 20 bucks a month to ask AI questions you could have googled for free, or better yet, run

[C]

on a local model instead of using data centers anyway.

[B]

Luckily you can't see your total time spent on Claude. It's a stat the well being team

[C]

didn't want to maximize, but they'll still add it later.

[B]

Anyway, Reflect is all about Reflections asking you the occasional humiliating question like what's one thing you want to keep doing yourself, even if Claude could do it faster? But honestly, these questions are important. If you don't reflect enough, you end up like OpenAI, which is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser barely a year after launch.

[C]

Turns out nobody wanted to ditch Chrome

[B]

for it, so Atlas agentic tricks are getting stuffed into the ChatGPT desktop app and a Chrome extension.

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[C]

It's probably not important Patreon has partnered

[B]

with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping creators work. This is part of an initiative Cloudflare

[C]

announced last week to block AI crawlers

[B]

on ad supported pages starting September 15th. The goal is for Patreon to be

[C]

an anchor partner with the hope of other platforms following suit.

[B]

Jack Conte, Patreon CEO, says that he's partnering with cloudflare because creators on his platform deserve credit and compensation for their work.

[C]

There's Jack, continuing his long tradition of

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being one half of indie funk pop band omplamoose and the one tech CEO that doesn't suck. Accenture, the massive consulting company your dad's rich friend Doug works for, has suffered a data breach where a hacker has claimed to have stolen 35 gigabytes of data.

[C]

Now, while that doesn't sound like a

[B]

lot, it reportedly includes RSA and SSH

[C]

keys, which could expose the data of Accenture's clients.

[B]

Which isn't great news since the firm serves most of the Fortune 100, including McDonald's, Walmart, Microsoft, Pfizer and a bunch of others. So depending on what's in that corpus

[C]

of leaked data, we could be feeling

[B]

aftershocks of this hack for years to come.

[C]

Fingers crossed those aftershocks don't hit McDonald's. If we're gonna endure the slow, rolling dystopia that is 2026, we're gonna need Big Macs.

[B]

John Deere has finally settled the FTC's right to repair lawsuit, ending an era where farmers paid thousands for simple fixes to their equipment that the company would only allow authorized dealers to perform. The settlement will give farmers and independent shops access to the same repair tools and software that Deere previously reserved for its dealers. Or as I call them, dear Lers. The main drawback of the settlement is that the access to these tools unfortunately

[C]

only lasts 10 years, though advocacy groups are already gearing up to fight the good fight in 2036, when we'll all be living underground, hiding from the robots. Now, the other drawback is that without the lawsuit, I now have nothing to

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talk to my farmer Uncle Don about at family functions.

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God, I do not want to marry any of his sheep.

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Meta has pushed an update to its smart glasses that will permanently shut off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light. Nice. A rare privacy win. Boy, I hope the rest of this story doesn't immediately undermine this sense of joy I feel. Anyway, the Financial Times is now reporting that the company is working on a pair of glasses that is recording all the time without ever activating the light. No. What?

[C]

According to the ft, these super sensing

[B]

glasses will continuously record audio and snap photos every few seconds, constantly feeding those two streams of data into Meta's AI so it can help you recall your day. It's just trying to help, man. Huh? If only there was any other way that humans could remember what happened to them. We need AI. And surgeons at UC San Diego have teleoperated a pair of humanoid robots to yank the gallbladders out of two live pigs. It was a world first. The bots are just off the shelf.

[C]

Unitree G1s, apparently collectively nicknamed Sergey, driven

[B]

by hand motions, a headset and a foot pedal, and.

[C]

And the cool thing is here that

[B]

you can outfit them for surgery for under 75 grand. Just a fraction of the half million

[C]

dollars required for the Da Vinci system normally used for these kinds of operations.

[B]

Now, in case you were wondering about

[C]

the pigs, they recovered fine despite the operation taking hours instead of the more typical 30 minutes. But I think in this case, it's fine. I don't think they had anything on their schedule. My sheep wedding isn't for a few

[B]

weeks, but it'll be way less than a couple weeks until this Monday, when

[C]

you're gonna come back for more tech news. As for me, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do something important. I was about to.

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I keep. I keep forgetting what I'm.

[C]

What I'm supposed to do.

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I need those Meta glasses.