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So if you haven't been following along, the Legion Go S is the first non-Valve device that officially supports SteamOS. But it's not this Legion Go S — the white version comes with Windows 11 installed. It's also more expensive at $760, which is quite a bit more than originally planned when Trump tariffs took effect. The black version of the handheld is the SteamOS version, and while it was initially planned to cost $500, it now goes for $600.
But here's the fun part. You can just install the free SteamOS on your white Legion Go S, directly from Valve, and turn it into that objectively better version, while also saving some money with this deal. Heck, you technically get a "free" copy of Windows 11 in there, making it even sweeter. This is the base model of the Legion Go S, with a somewhat pokey Ryzen Z2 Go processor and "just" 16
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Starting on July 15th, and with less than a week of notice, YouTube will be taking a closer look at members of the YouTube Partner Program. This is the monetization side of YouTube videos that makes a career as an independent (or even corporate) YouTube video producer functional. Beginning next week, YouTubers who want to keep their advertising dollars will have to avoid "mass-produced and repetitious content," as well as "inauthentic" videos.
Technically these guidelines or effectively identical policies have been in place long before the current crop of AI-created video and audio tools became widely available. That channel that simply re-uploads movie trailers or collects nothing but Parks & Recreation clips isn't meeting the threshold of actual creation, so most of those videos were probably demonitized and/or their advertising dollars were sent to the original intellectual property owners. But it seems like Google is adding a bit of language to the policy to make it easier for the company to cast a wide net on the new crop of AI slop.
TechCrunch spotted a video from YouTube's
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