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I'm Riley Murdoch.

This is TechLinked, and Apple has finally joined the foldable phone party with the iPhone Duo.

The reveal wasn't much of a surprise, considering the years of rumors and dbrand actually spoiling the phone yesterday.

Still, the Duo folds into a pocketable 5.4 inches and opens into a 7.6-inch display that minimizes the visible crease thanks to, uh, as I understand it, layers sli- things are sliding on each other, like this? Sounds hot.

I'm Riley Murdoch.

This is TechLinked, and it turns out nobody actually hacked anything.

According to data miner Gabe Follower, everything was accessible through an old Valve content distribution server seemingly left unlocked after Valve migrated to Steam Pipe back in 2013.

Some of the goodies in the Steam files include a model of a cancelled concept gun rumored to be developed for Half-Life 2 Episode 3, a 2009 build of Portal 2 with never-before-seen menus and sequences, And we even got assets from the canceled Portal prequel, F-Stop, where you'd use a camera to resize and move objects to solve puzzles.

The big news today is, of course, that NVIDIA's DLSS 5 was, oops, accidentally leaked after shipping with an early access build of NBA 2K27.

And modders have already managed to get it running in titles that it wasn't meant for on hardware that it definitely wasn't meant to support, 'cause, I don't know, I guess modders are just unemployed 10X engineers? I'm Linus Sebastian, this is TechLinked, and just hours after the leak, modders on the RenoDX Discord server quickly managed to get DLSS 5 working with the 2019 game, Control.

Working may be an overstatement.

The modder was running it on a 5070TI at 4K and found that it essentially cut their FPS in half, but maybe that's because it's not the official NVIDIA implementation, or maybe it's just because the tech is basically a, a giant neural network performing cosmetic surgery on your game's characters in real time.

I'm James Tribe.

This is Tech Linked, and California's attorney general, Rob Bonta, says Meta is finally agreeing to implement foundational changes to how teens use Instagram and Facebook.

Teens don't use Facebook.

Beyond stronger age verification, our favorite, Meta's agreed to impose actual restrictions on teen accounts by default.

And honestly, Windows defending absolutely nobody is a pattern at this point.

I'm James Tribe, this is TechLinked, and Shield Break comes from a researcher going by Nightmare Eclipse, who's been dropping Defender bugs all year.

So many that Microsoft reportedly threatened them with legal action, then walked it back after the entire security community piled on.

Emboldened, the hero of this story kept humbling Defender because Shield Break was built for the express purpose of proving Microsoft's last fix didn't work.