- If tech news is like coffee,
then this show is like a caramel macchiato.
I will not elaborate, that'd be such a latte thing to do.
AMD has confirmed reports that its graphics tuning utility,
Radeon Software, has been overclocking
some users' Ryzen CPUs without asking permission.
- [Crew Member] Rude.
(host blowing)
- If you're thinking that sound,
(host blowing)
free performance with even less work on my end sounds great,
well then, you probably should catch up
on the whole consent thing ASAP.
(crew member laughing)
But you should also be aware that
while every Ryzen CPU supports overclocking,
actually doing it voids the CPU's warranty,
what about the 5800X3D, that doesn't support overclocking?
- [Crew Member] Well, I guess that one doesn't.
- Not to mention potential system damage
if your hardware doesn't have suitable cooling.
Radeon Software has had the ability
to automatically overclock CPUs for over a year
but it was an opt in feature.
Thankfully AMD has confirmed that the forced overclocking
is due to a bug that will be fixed shortly,
not an intentional change, they're not like Microsoft.
Until the patch comes through though,
you might wanna disable
any active GPU profiles in Radeon Software,
unless you like living dangerously like me,
I overclock everything.
Speculation about what effect Elon Musk may have on Twitter
ran rampant when the world's richest man bought a 9.2% stake
in the social platform on Monday,
but we didn't have to wait long
to see the first fruits of that decision.
On Tuesday, Elon was added to Twitter's board of directors
and was welcoming tweets by the company's CEO
and its founder Jack Dorsey.
The day before, Musk had tweeted a poll
asking if users wanted an edit button
to which the overwhelming answer was, "Uh, yeah."
(crew member laughing)
- [Crew Member] Yeah, we do.
- And right after he was added as a board member,
Twitter confirmed that their April Fool's Day tweet
about working on an edit button wasn't actually a joke,
obviously,
(host blowing)
you felt for that?
- [Crew Member] Come on.
- Interestingly, the platform also rolled out a change
causing deleted tweets embedded in news articles
to disappear, before, this was a way to preserve them,
maybe Elon had nothing to do with these changes,
but what if he did?
What's next?
To keep your Twitter account,
everyone must repost one cringe Reddit meme a week?
- [Crew Member] You're required to participate.
- You must make your eyes laser eyes.
(crew member laughing)
And Epic Games officially launched Unreal Engine 5
at their State of Unreal Keynote yesterday
and naturally showed off all sorts of fancy looking demos
that made me sad when I looked up from my monitor,
realized I wasn't actually piloting a spaceship.
- [Crew Member] This time.
- The whole earth is a spaceship
and I'm not piloting it yet, very much not,
that's Jeff Bezos.
Epic pointed out some easier to use developer tools
like the RealityScan mobile app
which lets you bring real world objects into Unreal Engine
by taking a bunch of photos of them with your phone,
can you scan yourself in?
Scientists still aren't sure, it's a grandfather of paradox.
Epic also confirmed that Square Enix and CD Projekt RED
will be using Unreal Engine 5
for the next Tomb Raider and Witcher games
instead of their own game engines and well, knowing Epic,
that's probably due to being paid wads of cash
and not because the engine is great,
it could be great though,
and then meta humans are looking nice,
especially those matrix ones,
I like the leather and the 90s glasses.
- [Crew Member] That's so James.
- Can't wait to get in the metaverse and meet them all.
- [Crew Member] Probably really nice.
- If Keanu's in the metaverse,
does he know he's in the metaverse?
- I've been waiting for you, no, you're breathtaking.
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- [Crew Member] Hey.
- Vevo, the music video hosting company
that you see on YouTube all the time was hacked yesterday
by Spanish-speaking, criminal group,
(speaking in foreign language)
who replaced videos from big name artists
like Ariana Grande, Drake, Eminem, and more
with a video of Paco Sanz,
a Spanish man who lied about having terminal cancer.
Vevo managed to regain control,
wait, is he behind this or is this just a meme?
- [Crew Member] No, I think they're making fun of him.
- Okay, Vevo managed to regain control
and restore the videos
but the reason for the hack is still unclear.
I think Pelaos can mean something like butt bald
and Paco is bald, so that's funny.
- [Crew Member] Nice one.
- Maybe.
- [Crew Member] We get this.
- In other Eurocentric news,
Germany's central office for combating cybercrime AKA ZIT,
ZIT, and the country's federal police
said they had seized the servers
of the world's biggest cybercrime forum known as Hydra,
you can't make this up unless you already did in the 60s
because you're Marvel, 80s?
The dark website has been operating since 2015
and have been involved in laundering
around $5 billion of stolen funds.
No doubt another Hydra head will grow back eventually,
that's what they do but for now I think ZIT
is justified in feeling a little Herculean.
- [Crew Member] Do you get Herculean?
- Who be soft?
Ubisoft has announced they will release no more updates
for 2017's Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
Months after announcing the title
as this sole game in which the company's quote NFTs
could be purchased and used.
(crew member laughing)
- [Crew Member] Whoopsie.
- And those last forever, but don't worry crypto gamers,
Ubisoft says Quartz is still happening we swear,
and it'll be implemented in future games,
maybe even a new Ghost Recon
and maybe you can bring those NFTs you bought
into that game, you might not have wasted your money,
we got our fingers crossed for you.
- [Crew Member] Hope, maybe it'll turn out for the best.
- A couple more here, there we go.
In other crypto and also Jack Dorsey news,
he tweeted out an image of what many are assuming
is the hardware crypto wallet being developed
by his company, Block.
Along with the photo, Jack simply wrote, "Rocky,"
probably because the wallet kind of looks like a rock,
if you're interested though,
you might wanna hold your horses,
'cause Block just confirmed that an ex-employee
got away with downloading user data.
For me, I'm gonna say, "No, thanks to Rocky,
I'll take Bullwinkle instead."
This is a stupid joke. - You like that one?
- You should be blocked.
- [Crew Member] 'Cause it's a fun cartoon.
- OpenAI announced the second iteration
of its DALL-E text-to-image generation system
which creates stunningly coherent images
based on text descriptions.
So you can tell it to create an image
of an astronaut riding a horse in space
or doing literally anything
and DALL-E will do it in various artistic styles,
the styles of Salvador Dali, even?
Surrealist, ah, the latest version allows you
to replace individual elements of a scene,
so you can be even more aware
of our limits as fleshy water bags, I can't do that.
- [Crew Member] Try.
- Racers don't work that well, they always leave a mark.
I can tell you to come back on Friday for more tech news,
we'll have a much better analogy for non-coffee people then.
- [Crew Member] "TechLinked" is like-
- Tea, now we recorded at four o'clock
and then comes out a couple hours later.