A Very Special TechLinked Christmas (Boxing Day) Special 2025

Timestamps: 0:00 welcome back, my dancing sugar plums! 0:38 PC Hardware 3:48 Consoles, Handhelds, Windows, SteamOS 7:16 AI, chatbots, and robots, oh my 10:50 dbrand's Galaxy Z Trifold giveaway! 11:52 NOT a Quick Bits Intro at all 12:08 Platforms, Age Verification 14:18 Tariffs, trade wars, UK backdoors 15:35 Cloud and infrastructure outages 16:32 Miscellaneous other tech events NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/jp4aT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 they made James read this 0:10 Pirate group scrapes nearly ALL Spotify tracks 1:16 Steam Deck LCD discontinued, 64-bit app 2:16 China uses loophole, rents Blackwell GPUs 3:27 MSI! 4:33 QUICK BITS INTRO 4:42 Mozilla adding Firefox AI 'kill switch' 5:14 YouTube causing high CPU usage 6:09 Moore Threads new Huashan AI GPU 6:52 Power outage knocks out Waymo robotaxis 7:28 Google breaks the Dreamcast web browser NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/vm1hV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 GET IN MA SWAMP 0:14 China's reported chip advancement 2:07 RAM shortage affecting PCs, phones 3:41 Apple App Store changes in Japan 4:56 UGREEN NAS DH4300 5:56 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:05 Riot Games finds critical motherboard flaw 6:46 LG TV owners can delete Copilot 7:17 Browser extensions recording AI chats 7:53 Amazon catches North Korean IT worker 8:31 TRON 2 modular robot NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/VxBrO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 thank you for coming to this meeting 0:13 Firefox, AI, Larian, and impulsive backlash 3:22 Nvidia's rumored GPU production cuts 4:28 War Thunder! 5:11 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:20 Ford batteries for data centers 6:05 700Credit data breach 6:43 AppX high CPU usage on W11 7:29 Apple helping businesses with manufacturing 8:16 Twitter (X) sues Operation Bluebird 8:55 YouTube Playables AI games, Google '6 7' meme NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/s83nI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 ya just come craaaawlin' back 0:12 Microsoft denies Copilot sales low 2:02 RAM crisis price increases 3:34 Micro Center! 4:13 QUICK BITS INTRO 4:18 Roomba maker files for bankruptcy 5:15 Google taking away features 6:02 Panther Lake chip spotted, Arc B770 6:56 Automated AI 7:42 US Tech Force 8:28 ADHD 'audio shield' NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/ySUPL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 unprepared for a Sean Bean impression 0:12 Google Disco, GPT-5.2 1:55 Disney spurns Google, befriends OpenAI 3:56 US govt takes 25% cut of H200 China sales 5:25 Novium Hoverpens! 6:36 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:53 Ayaneo Pocket Play 7:36 Fortnite back on Google Play Store 8:23 Federal AI law exec order 9:07 Operation Bluebird: bring back Twitter 9:47 2025 Game Awards highlights (for Riley) NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/q1ImK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 let's mind-meld, guy 0:13 Steam Machine's HDMI 2.1 problem 1:54 Australia enforces social media ban 3:01 Big Tech, Linux Foundation, AI Agents 4:11 CookUnity! 5:25 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:39 W11 gamer promises, bug fixes 6:22 AMD drops FSR Redstone 6:53 Pebble Index 01 smart ring 7:32 'World's first flying car' 8:15 ChatGPT in a robot with a BB NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/klaNH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 why does he do this 0:15 Possible Intel Arc B770 leaks 1:28 Ads in Gemini, Grok, "chatbot dialect" 2:57 EU makes Meta use less personal data 4:11 DeleteMe! 4:59 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:10 Black Friday Xbox sales report 5:54 AI browser security warning 6:36 Treatment repairs DNA, tissue 7:16 EngineAI answers 'CGI' claims NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/CUdUj Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 no shortage of sass 0:07 Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros for $82B 1:39 W11 bugs vs. SteamOS performance 2:58 Meta news deals, AI support fix 4:24 SHARGE Retractable 3-in-1 power bank 5:14 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:24 Google Antigravity wipes entire drive 6:03 Cloudflare, and downdetector, was down 6:41 YouTube AI slop tutorials 7:15 3D-printed cornea implanted in human 7:46 Kohler flushes privacy down the drain NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/b1nwH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 c'mon don't be like that 0:11 Intel Arc GPUs hit 1% market share 1:41 Micron kills Crucial memory 3:50 OpenAI declares 'Code Red' to beat Gemini 5:24 Odoo! 6:22 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:28 India changes its mind on the app thing 7:07 Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold 7:46 New York requires surveillance pricing disclosure 8:23 Android 16 AI notification summaries 9:10 EngineAI T800 vs Unitree H1 NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/9b7Vy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices