Iran threatens Big Tech, Open Source Woes, April Fool's Roundup + more!

Duration: 10:02

Timestamps:

0:00 HAHAHAHAHA FUN

0:15 Big Tech under threat

1:52 AI putting Open Source at risk

3:31 April Fool's Roundup

5:39 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:54 Claude Code source code leak

6:42 Artemis II lunar mission launch

7:22 Oracle fires thousands of workers

8:13 Baidu robotaxis freeze on roads

9:04 Memory chips that work at 700 degrees

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

IRAN SO FAR AWAY

Iran threatens Meta, Google, Apple and other US tech companies:

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-threatens-to-start-attacking-major-us-tech-firms-on-april-1/

CBS News briefing outlining the order of events - https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-gas-price-4-dollar-gallon-oil-trump-isfahan-desalination-plant/#post-update-225efd10

Quote about it being disseminated through telegram on tuesday

Attacks were supposed to start at 8pm tehran time but as of yet there are no reports https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-war-news-if-you-kill-our-leaders-well-attack-us-firms-like-google-meta-iran-11292804

Quote pointing to the list of companies

https://www.techspot.com/news/111909-iran-threatens-attacks-nvidia-microsoft-intel-other-us.html

Quote showing there are thousands of people at risk here

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/iran-irgc-nvidia-appple-attack-threat.html

Quote from CEO of Helix risk management that tech assets are part of the war

Similar attack was carried out back on march 6th against AWS data centers- https://www.ft.com/content/09fa5c20-2c8f-4f41-9d91-c78476eaac20?syn-25a6b1a6=1

THE VIBES ARE OFF DUDE

AI is going to kill open source using this clean room as a service tool - https://www.techspot.com/news/111904-ai-can-clone-open-source-software-minutes-problem.html

Open Source is under attack - https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/in-the-long-list-of-awful-things-ai-might-lead-to-we-can-also-add-killing-open-source-software/

The presentation was part of FOSDEM 26 - https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

Launched a service called Malus - https://malus.sh/index.html

Can’t tell if it’s a joke or not, with insane super villain posts like this thank you for your service blog post: https://malus.sh/blog.html

And these insane customer testimonials

AI is for sure killing open source - https://thenewstack.io/is-ai-killing-open-source-software/

Quote about The volume of garbage PRs generated by AI caused curl to close their bug bounty program

And the recent tribulations at Tailwind - https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2026/01/08/tailwind-labs-lays-off-75-percent-of-its-engineers-thanks-to-brutal-impact-of-ai/4079571

And Github’ discussion of an AI pull request kill switch - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai/

WHATS REAL ANYMORE?

The hardest day of the year for Techlinked is april fools, but dont let me stop you from enjoying these great gags.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/funniest-2026-april-fools-jokes-from-around-the-internet/

“IT’S HARD TO TELL WHAT’S REAL!”

https://youtu.be/o8gKDwOmy8s?t=483

8:03 - 8:07 - Riley talking, then morphs into Linus

The Scrōll Stoppr from Yahoo

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWlb769Ajpy/

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PlayStation Project Playmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vQKrQbyEjo&t=3s

0:08 man reclines as his controller plays game for him

0:29 man’s gaming ai controller purchases vbucks and bankrupts him

MEAT-AI glasses

https://www.traeger.com/meat-ai

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CALLoGNE by Metro  / Metrobytmobile

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUJKb0jX0d/

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Sega Sanic shirt

https://shop.sega.com/collections/sanic-april-fools-collection

Witcher Project R.O.A.C.H. horse head stick to use while riding

https://x.com/thewitcher/status/2039296736212951433

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MSI Monitor arm with an attachable cat bed

https://x.com/msiUSA/status/2039326924997341504

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AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

https://www.techspot.com/news/111906-amd-buy-intel-completing-strangest-reversal-chip-history.html

WE TRULY DON’T KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE: AMD previews FSR 5 Scarlet Cortex … which nevermind we just asked, is an april fools day post, but also WE HAD TO LITERALLY CONFIRM WITH AMD… Joke works best when you have no idea its a joke I guess. AAAAND AMD will PROBABLY release some feature that does the same thing as DLSS 5 at some point, so it's like "ha ha imagine if AMD did that" THEY'RE SUPER GOING TO DO THAT

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/#:~:text=Page%3A,as%20single%20page

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Presentation slides / diagrams

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/2.html

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Visual Comparisons https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-fsr-5-scarlet-cortex/5.html

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QUICK BITS

ACCIDENTAL OPEN-SOURCE

Claude Code’s source code was accidentally leaked after a security researcher discovered an .map file in an npm package that linked to a zip archive containing 512,000 lines of readable TypeScript.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/904776/anthropic-claude-source-code-leak

https://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963/

Anthropic was quick to tell Axios "This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" and no user data was leaked.

https://lmg.gg/AnthropicResponseinAxios

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A few redditors pointed out the poetic irony in Anthropic building 23 separate layers of bash security only to be undone by a single text file. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1s9fpas/the_claude_code_source_leak_today_is_a_good/

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Anthropic DMCA’ED the leaked Github repository because "Publicly accessible" for me, but "proprietary intellectual property" for thee.

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026%2F03%2F2026-03-31-anthropic.md

ITS MOON-ING TIME

NASA’S Artemis II is set to launch today at 6:24PM EDT from the Kennedy Space Center.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/01/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-orion-moon-trip-live-updates

This is the first mission since Apollo 17 that NASA crewed a mission beyond low Earth orbit entering lunar vicinity, and part 2 of a longer roadmap in the Artemis series

https://lmg.gg/ArtemisIITextHighligh

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Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen will spend 10 days on a lunar flyby.

https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/ArtemisIICrewPoster/ArtemisIICrewPoster~medium.jpg

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sendoff-for-artemis-ii-crew/

Glover is the first black astronaut, Koch is the first woman, and Hansen is the first non-american to visit the moon's orbit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPyl6d2FJGw&t=124s

02:04 Crew walking

02:18 Crew Suited up in spacesuits

02:55 Crew staring intently in the camera

PROPHECY OF LAYOFFS

Oracle is cutting thousands of its employees as the company decides AI data centers have a better value proposition.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html

Workers across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico received a termination email from "Oracle Leadership" at 6 a.m. with no prior warning. Access to systems was cut immediately.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/oracle-believed-to-have-cut-10-000-positions-across-multiple-divisions-as-mass-layoffs-begin-company-is-reportedly-reducing-headcount-as-it-makes-massive-investments-in-ai

Michael Shepherd , a Senior Operations Manager at Oracle took to linkedin to write “To my colleagues who were impacted today — your worth is not defined by this moment. “

https://lmg.gg/OracleQuote

Which was definitely not something he had to prompt ChatGPT for while he was enjoying a bubble bath, that's only reserved for Larry.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSQBXMxEZTG/?img_index=2

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ROBOTAXI COFFEE BREAK

Over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on roads and highways across Wuhan on Tuesday night, due to a system failure.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/905012/baidu-apollo-robotaxi-freeze-china

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Local reports say passengers were trapped in the vehicles for almost two hours, with some stranded in the middle of highways with trucks speeding past them.

https://lmg.gg/BaiduRoutersquote

One passenger told a journalist it took her 30 minutes to even connect to a customer representative.

https://x.com/ZeyiYang/status/2039153730533405102

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https://weibo.com/5044281310/QyKxI2LoF

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SOME LIKE IT HOT

Scientists built a chip that works in temperatures hotter than lava - https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/scientists-built-a-chip-that-works-in-temperatures-hotter-than-lava/

Original Article published in science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb9934

University of Southern California Article -

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/03/usc-scientists-build-a-memory-chip-that-survives-temperatures-hotter-than-lava/

Quote with the impressive result https://lmg.gg/msmZ9