Claude Chats Appear in Google Search, GrapheneOS Duress PIN Prosecution, RAM Crisis Hits PCs and Phones + more!

Reddit users have discovered that Claude conversations have been showing up in Google searches after becoming shareable through Anthropik's link sharing feature. Terms and Conditions has officially cemented its status as the greatest work of fiction no one has ever read. I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked, and while your chat with Claude is private by default, the share button turns it into a publicly accessible link. Up until Anthropic recently de-indexed the pages, anyone could just search site clod.ai slash share on Google and pull up a pile of conversations containing everything from a user's crypto wallet keys, a truly staggering amount of incestuous erotica, oh, and the answer to why is the record industry hiding that birds are secretly professional rappers who co-wrote most of Jay-Z's albums? Did we open that link? No? Some users argue that there should have been stronger guardrails or a simple no index tag to stop this all from happening. Anthropic however says it's not at fault as they give you a pop-up warning when you hit share they've never directly handed Google the links and they claim that the only way that the chats would have been Google-able is if a user posted them somewhere public and crawlable. It's how I try to be. Nope. Now this isn't actually the first time this has happened. It happened to Claude last year, and it also happened to ChatGPT, Grok, and just recently, DeepSeek. And that, kids, is why you keep your crypto keys and your Jay-Z bird theories in a TXT file on your desktop, like God and the 90s intended. Don't let mom see it. She'll take away your privileges. Federal prosecutors have taken a U.S. citizen to court after he tricked border agents into deleting the contents of his phone. Sam Tunick was reportedly returning from vacation when US Customs and Border Protection detained him at the airport and searched him on grounds of possible possession of CSAM. Now, the CBP agents repeatedly demanded the passcode to Tunick's phone, and since the phone was running Graphene OS, he eventually handed over the phone Duress pin which is a Graphene OS feature that erases your device when that pin is entered Tunic defense attorney is arguing that the CSAM search was a pretext and that Tunic was really targeted over his ties to protests against Atlanta's new $100 million police training facility. Now, Tunic is being charged under criminal code 2232, destruction of property to prevent seizure, which can carry up to five years in prison, which is a pretty intense consequence for factory resetting your own phone while you were arrested by police and they were trying to get it by, but still. According to a real man with a fake sounding name, Bill Buddington from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this risks setting a precedent that could effectively criminalize privacy tools like Graphene OS. And as annoying as people who use Graphene OS are, do we really wanna put them in jail? Probably not. unless there's actually CSAM on his phone. In which case, sure, yes. CounterPoint Research has reported that global PC shipments dropped 4% last quarter, which marks the first decline in sales volume since early 2025. Further evidence that, as prophesied by the Oracle, Lit Butan, although that's the CEO of Intel, not, he doesn't work for Oracle. The RAM-pocalypse continues. Apple and Asus were, reportedly, the only computer makers to buck the trend, with Apple's volume of units sold climbing 13% thanks to its budget MacBook Neo. Unfortunately, the bleeding shows no signs of slowing as Qualcomm has told its customers that Snapdragon chip prices will rise by a double digit percentage starting September 1st. Google has also confirmed that the Pixel 11, which it's expected to reveal in August, will cost more than the previous model, with leaked listings pointing to a $100 increase around the lineup and a base model starting around $900. Oh man. Leaked specs for the Pixel also show the Pro models dropping from 16 gigabytes of memory to 12. Though Google is promising that it is re-engineering Android to be able to smoothly run on less RAM something they could have done at any point apparently And for anyone hoping Chinese RAM manufacturer CXMT would ride to the rescue Tom Hardware reports that its new modules are entering the market but they're selling at prices that match current market rates. That is disappointing, unlike our sponsor. Gotcha. Privacy. Used to be minimalist, now you shop like it's a sport? Use privacy as your safety net. It creates a secure layer between your real card and every merchant, so if a site gets breached, there's nothing useful to steal. 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Now, it's not publicly confirmed, and even if true, it's high-bandwidth memory, not consumer-focused RAM. so your Chrome tabs will keep starving regardless of what happens. Hey, use Firefox already. It won't help, but just do it. Microsoft is now using the TPM security chip, a hardware feature required for Windows 11, to crack down on pirated Windows activations. Think of the TPM chip as a built-in vault on your computer that holds encryption keys and checks that nothing been tampered with The new system makes corporate Windows activation servers prove that they genuine hardware before handing out licenses which is killing this old piracy trick. Now this is only going to affect the enterprise, not everyday users, and pirates already found a workaround. So I guess Microsoft locked the vault, but left a window open. That's nice. Meta just launched Facebook Verified, which brands your account with a white check mark, certifying that your profile is human and not AI. Because I guess that was easier than trying to kick all the bots off the platform that they put there. Now, all you gotta do to get this coveted proof of life is to hand Meta a video scan of your face, which I'm sure is totally safe and fine. And the company that got caught lying about putting facial recognition software in its smart glasses won't be using those scans for anything weird or bad, probably okay. Mark seems like a nice guy. And the Vatican's official prayer app, Click to Pray, spent at least six months leaking the names and emails of over 700,000 users, according to security researcher Bob the Hacker. Bob found out the app had basically no protection, so anyone could see your private info just by guessing your account number without needing a password. Even worse, the Pope's app botched its security badge, making real emails look identical to scam ones. Now, Bob warned the Vatican about this for six months, but this was only patched once the story spread. In the Vatican's defense, Ecclesiastes warned us that a little bird may carry your words and report what you say. They knew about Twitter in the olden times. So we must kill all the birds and feast on their flesh. So saith Reverend Sanders, enemy to all sky-dwelling vermin. Is this a KFC? Okay. Speaking of revelations, come back Wednesday for more tech news because these stories, they do abide, man. And I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowing the news is out there. Taking it easy for all of us sinners. I can't, sorry, I can't do Sam Elliott right now. Come back, I'll do it next time.