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This episode dives into Google's settlement with Epic Games, aiming to ease Play Store fees and app restrictions. YouTube’s recent blunders spark discussion on wrongful takedowns and membership pop-ups. A UK parliamentary debate highlights the issue of games becoming unplayable after server shutdowns. Quick bits cover Google's innovative space data centers, Apple’s potential budget MacBook, and Amazon's lawsuit against an AI shopping competitor. Plus, exciting updates on PS5 cross-buy features and a Jeep recall due to fire risks!

Microsoft finally squashes the pesky "Update and Shut Down" bug after nearly a decade! AMD unveils plans for future GPUs, while Google pulls the Gemma AI model post a hallucination fiasco. Apple enters the web app arena, allowing users to browse and install apps remotely. Meanwhile, hackers are banding together to reroute shipments. In space news, SpaceX and Beszar are teaming up to create chips in orbit, while Reflect Orbital aims to light up Earth at night with innovative mirrors. Tech is truly out of this world!

Get ready for some tech twists! AMD confuses users by renaming older laptop CPUs. A hacking scare unfolds as Discord accounts fall prey to sneaky malware disguised as game mods. Australia takes on Microsoft in a lawsuit over questionable billing practices. Fujitsu brings back Blu-ray drives in their latest laptop, proving discs aren't dead yet. Meanwhile, Tesla's 'Mad Max' mode catches the eye of regulators. And in a wild twist, mushrooms are engineered to serve as biodegradable memristors for gadgets!

Timestamps: 0:00 ooooh it's gettin spicy 0:10 Valve's Steam update ganks CS2 market 1:19 Microsoft responds to ChatGPT Atlas with Clippy 2:54 Xbox Profits + Halo on PS5 4:36 Rove Lab! 5:25 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:35 Apple threatens to withhold privacy feature 6:11 Apple will help you switch to Android? 6:47 Memory prices hiked 30% 7:18 Nike Project Amplify 7:48 Poker fraud used X-ray tables, smart glasses NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/rci1Y Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dive into the future with Samsung's Galaxy XR, boasting innovative features and smart glasses aspirations. Explore OpenAI's new Atlas browser with ChatGPT, raising questions about privacy and safety. Learn how AWS's recent outage is impacting smart devices while Amazon leans into robot workers. Also, uncover YouTube's AI likeness detection aimed at curbing impersonations and an intriguing study revealing that 45% of AI news responses have issues. Finally, witness advancements in bionic eyes and a quirky exploration of rectal liquid retention for ventilation!

Timestamps: 0:00 I'm like Bryan Johnson but healthier 0:10 AWS outage takes out huge chunk of internet 1:19 Meta researches how bad IG is 2:40 Xbox blames Ally X price on ASUS 3:50 UGREEN Magflow! 4:39 QUICK BITS INTRO 4:51 Plane maybe struck by space debris? 5:50 Hackers stole govt agent records 6:36 China accuses US in National Time Center hack 7:32 Microsoft denies data center negative effects 8:30 Kohler Dekoda analyzes your...movements NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/BgLlX Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 Not Picard; Picard-OH 0:12 Steam user count nearly doubled in 5 years 1:20 New OpenAI restrictions, FB auto-editing 2:58 Ground News! 3:53 QUICK BITS INTRO 4:14 iPhone Air, Galaxy S26 Edge sales low 5:03 Google throws shade at Microsoft 365 5:49 Uber drivers can do 'microtasks' for AI 6:43 PayPal partner's stablecoin mints $300 trillion NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/VonPb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 sorry maybe next time 0:11 Apple M5 iPad Pro, Macbook Pro, Vision Pro 1:41 ROG Xbox Ally X reviews, leaks 3:19 ChatGPT restrictions lifted 5:16 Vessi x LMG giveaway! 6:01 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:13 Windows 10 support ends 6:54 Nvidia DGX Spark launches 7:24 Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes, ft JerryRigEverything 8:03 Anduril EagleEye smart helmet NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/1d144 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 your music education starts here 0:15 Sony, AMD reveal Playstation 6 GPU tech 1:28 Intel unveils Panther Lake, XeSS 3 MFG 3:17 Discord says hackers are lying 4:38 Thorum! 5:33 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:43 Apple, Google plan for Texas age checks 6:36 California passes two laws 7:22 Battlefield 6 launch issues 7:54 South Korea loses 858TB of govt data 8:58 Figure 03 household robot NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/AR7EE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Timestamps: 0:00 Soren K didn't have that sigma grindset 0:14 Win11 local account loopholes blocked 1:39 Qualcomm acquires Arduino 3:05 Synology walks back verified drives policy 4:27 Micro Center! 5:21 QUICK BITS INTRO 5:31 Nintendo sues Reddit mod for $4.5M 6:21 Logitech shutting down POP smart buttons 7:08 Steam, Xbox, Playstation all hit by DDoS 7:59 Sora 2's copyright drama 8:54 Neuralink patient controls robot arm NEWS SOURCES: https://lmg.gg/RWh1P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices