TL;DR: Linus and Luke kick off with YouTube’s AI-powered autoscaling snafus and revamped content guidelines, diving into how dopamine-driven “gambling” ads and vice marketing might be steering user behavior. They also unpack the Japan Patent Office’s surprise rejection of Nintendo’s capture patent, ponder the ethics of tech in elderly care with 1X Tech’s NEO robot, and weigh in on BC’s crypto-mining ban versus an AI phone-farm startup called Doublespeed.
Later, the duo tackles semiconductor drama—AMD locking features on RX 5000/6000 cards and quietly rebranding Zen 2/3+ chips, Nvidia’s $5 trillion valuation versus under-powered DGX claims—and broader tech shake-ups like Google yanking Nest Thermostat Gen 2 support and Win 11 bypass videos. Oh, and Linus takes the wheel of a Huawei Maextro S800, Luke frets over login dark patterns, and they tease new LTT Labs articles, all sprinkled with sponsor plugs.
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