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I see you.
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Fire and Ash is now streaming on Disney. It's the film critics are calling the best avatar yet. A true epic and completely jaw dropping.
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This is the only pure thing in this world.
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Return to Pandora on Disney.
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It will be an adventure for the whole family.
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And watch the Oscar winning phenomenon at home.
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This is sick.
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Fire and Ash now streaming on Disney. Rated PG13.
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Microsoft just gave Windows another one year to live, extending free security updates all the way until October 2027. Pretty unexpected, considering that Microsoft is also the one that's holding the pillow over the dying operating system's proverbial face. I'm Linus Sebastian. This is TechLinked, and the reason for all of this is simple math. Roughly one quarter of all Windows users are still on Windows 10 and in no hurry to leave. That is just plain too many people to cut off. So the company quietly caved. Not by making an announcement, just by adding a one line editor's note that was slipped into an old blog post Caught by Windows. Latest the most interesting part. Those security patches are only free in one of three ways. You have to back up all the data to a Microsoft account, pay $30, which isn't free at all, or cash in 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points, a currency that you can slowly earn by running your searches through Bing. Which means that every joyless Bing search that you've ever suffered through was secretly a savings plan for this very moment. Well done. IBM, meanwhile, says that they've built the world's first sub 1 nanometer chip. I'm talking 100 billion transistors crammed onto a sliver the size of your fingernail. And it's the kind of announcement that makes investors clap. And then technophiles ask, well, hold on a second. How did you do that? And the answer's pretty cool. IBM's new NanoStack design stacks transistors upward in 3D, which they claim is gonna give up to a 50% performance boost or 70% better energy efficiency compared to their 2 nanometer design, which. Okay, hold on a second. What does that actually mean? 2 nanometer? 1 nanometer? Are we even smaller nanometers? I thought we were just building up. Well, here's the thing. Those nanometer numbers stopped being real measurements years ago. Like, many years ago. These days, they're pretty much just shorthand for how much performance and how much efficiency you get out of a particular manufacturing node. Things haven't actually been shrinking for a while due to unfortunate laws of quantum physics, which is why this news is pretty exciting. Of course, though, it is still a lab demo, and IBM says that production could be five plus years out, which in industry terms means probably a recession and two more bubbles from now. Apple is reportedly skipping the high end versions of their M6Mac chips, fast tracking instead an AI focused M7 generation that could land as early as 2027. This kind of feels like a gentle way for Apple to say, hey, just buy the M5 Max and stop asking questions. According to Bloomberg, the base M6 will still ship this year, but the Pro Max and Ultra tiers are just going to be leapfrogging straight to M7, making M6 the first Apple silicon generation to be released without any beefier siblings. While Apple hasn't officially stated the reason, an industry wide memory shortage has reportedly forced the company to reevaluate product roadmaps, which is corporate for we're kind of improvising here, everybody. Bear with us. The M7 is designed primarily around on device AI and Apple is apparently targeting a whopping 240 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth, up from just 153 on the base M5. And okay, so what? Apple's fix for a memory shortage is a chip that's even hungrier for memory bandwidth. Seems crazy, but hey, nobody else has got it figured out. Just like nobody can figure out when I'm gonna drop this message from our sponsor boot.dev.
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humans only use 10% of their brains, which is exactly why these five delectable morsels are designed for exactly that 10%. Riot is finally letting players switch off Vanguard's always on anti cheat, meaning that it will load only when you're in a game. Unfortunately, to do this, your Windows 11 PC needs to have the full security stack enabled, so it has to be the 25.2edition of Windows 11. You have to have Secure Boot, you have to have TPM 2.0 and also a bunch of other acronyms that you've probably never heard of. But I mean, hey, at least you can finally stop the Colonel Babysitter from watching you all day. As long as you turn your gaming rig into a locked down work laptop. Valve, meanwhile, has quietly edited the Steam Machine's store page and downgrading its bold 4K gaming at 60fps promise to a much humbler up to 4K. The change came after reviews showed that the console performs around the level of the PS5 and cannot always hold that frame rate in demanding games. So the most convenient way to fix this is not to make the Steam Machine faster, but just to drop the number, because now even a 4K slideshow technically counts, as long as you don't think about it too much. Speaking of not thinking, YouTube is overhauling the Shorts player with a clear screen mode that hides every button for distraction. Free brain rot plus 2x playback so you can power through twice the content in the same amount of time. Wow. They also killed the one tap dislike button. So now telling the algorithm no thanks means you have to dig into a menu right as the feed fills with AI slot. Wow. But don't worry, at least we got a new heart icon. OpenAI is staggering its ChatGPT 5.6 launch limiting early access exclusively to government approved customers due to cybersecurity concerns. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick even phoned Sam Altman personally to demand compliance. In a leaked internal memo, Altman told staff that it is not OpenAI's preferred long term model. You gotta feel bad for Sammy here. Hey, he licked the boot so thoroughly, so enthusiastically and for so long, and yet the boot showed zero loyalty to him. If only there was some way he could have seen this coming. And U.S. regulators want to drop the rule that self driving cars need a brake pedal, but only for vehicles that are built with no human controls at all, like Tesla's Cyber Cab or Amazon's Zoox Robo Taxi the car still has to be able to stop on a dime. It just won't have a pedal that a human could press. So next time your passenger instinct screams and your foot stomps to the floor, there'll be nothing there but carpet and faith. Just like I have faith that you'll come back Monday for more tech news. As for me, I'll be in the lab trying to access the other 90% of my brain. So far, I've unlocked a third nostril and the ability to taste sounds.