TL;DR

This week on the WAN Show, Linus and Luke dive head-first into Amazon AWS’s massive outage that took down a slew of big-name services (Twitch, Steam, you name it), unpack Valve’s CS2 update tanking the market cap to $3B (and whether Chinese investors are playing puppet master), and marvel at the absurd idea of jet engines powering data centers. They also preview Samsung’s AI-powered Galaxy XR headset, debate the future of smart glasses vs. neural interfaces, and catch up on everything from SuperBox devices randomly soft-locking to OpenAI’s Atlas/Microsoft’s Mico AI projects.

In the lighter corners of tech, they laugh over YouTube’s new AI-face detector, cringe at a police swarm over a bag of Doritos, celebrate tiny retinal implants restoring vision, and grumble about Microsoft’s 30% margin squeeze on Xbox devs. Oh, and there’s plenty of banter about LTT’s own gadget glitches, store updates, and the age-old question: “What’s the dumbest thing Linus has ever done?”

Watch on YouTube