- Oh, my gosh, you clicked the video.
I actually made this one special just for you.
- [James] You would do that?
- Don't tell the other viewers, they won't understand.
- [James] They don't get you.
- It's our thing.
AMD has been steadily ramping up the number of cores
in its CPU's and for its next server processor
team red might take it to a whole nother level.
Documents posted by leakers
describe AMD's next gen epic server processor,
code named Genoa, as having a whopping 96 cores
and with multi threading enabled that's 192 threads!
- [James] That's like a blanket.
- That's what the joke I was going to make!
Is this a CPU or premium satin bedsheets?
- [James] Actually it's infinity fabric.
- These people don't care about thread counts.
The documents were apparently sourced from the recent hack
on Gigabyte's servers, which is the absolute last thing
that company needs right now thanks
to the whole exploding power supply controversy.
We should've just put some of those PSUs
around their servers as like defensive measures.
Speaking of exploding PSUs,
time for an update on that story.
Gigabyte released a statement following Gamers Nexus'
excellent investigation into a pair
of dangerous power supply models
being forcibly bundled with GPUs at Newegg,
but now Gamers Nexus has released a new video criticizing
the company again for doubling down on the nonsense.
For one, Gigabyte claimed their PSUs only failed
after heavy testing,
which doesn't represent real world use but--
- [James] You don't know me.
- You don't know what I use my power supply for.
Powers my life!
But some units actually failed after two minutes or less
of normal use.
For two, Gigabyte is offering to replace broken units,
but not issuing a recall,
which will probably lead to many owners of these units
losing gaming matches because their PC is literally on fire.
For three, Gigabyte knew about this a year ago
and did nothing.
So definitely watch Gamers Nexus' full videos
if you love a good excoriation.
- [James] No breathing.
- Excoriation!
I actually don't know that song.
And in the wake of the Taliban reclaiming Afghanistan,
thanks to America's withdrawal,
social media companies are struggling with what to do about
the group's presence on Western platforms.
The Taliban is classified as a terrorist organization,
but they'll now be acting as the defacto government
of Afghanistan.
Facebook will continue to ban any Taliban accounts
and posts, praising, or supporting them
on Facebook and Instagram.
While Twitter appears to be allowing Taliban representatives
to post as long as they obey its rules of conduct.
Which I'm sure they will.
They seem like they are the rule following type.
But the question for WhatsApp is more complicated.
Since as an encrypted platform,
it can't see the content of its users messages,
but it can shut down accounts
when they're identified as Taliban affiliated.
As it is doing with the helpline set up
by the Islamic organization that Afghan civilians
can use to report violence or looting.
In the west, WhatsApp is getting praised for this,
but experts in the middle east,
say the move may just end up harming Afghans
who may actually need help even if it is from the bad guys.
Also, I still don't believe that Facebook
isn't peeping on WhatsApp chats,
but I mean props to them for keeping up the bit.
It's a lot.
It just keeps going.
- [James] It's called the signal protocol, Riley.
- You signal instead. Is that what you're saying?
- [James] WhatsApp uses the signal protocol.
- Sure they do, dude.
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- [James] Quantum bits.
- With dark technology now?
- [James] And nanotubes.
- Epic Games just launched the new Imposters mode
in Fortnite with nary a mention of Among Us,
the extremely popular game that the new mode
is quite obviously based on.
Inner Sloth, developer of Among Us tweeted
that they would have loved to collab with Epic
on the new mode, but like, you know, whatever,
it's not like Fortnite has collabed with literally every
other franchise ever.
Except PUBG, of course.
'Cause Fortnite, you don't know that,
you don't know about games.
- [James] I do so.
- You've played StarCraft.
As was foretold by the leaks, Google announced
the Pixel 5a with 5G yesterday and at 449 USD,
it seems like a no-brainer for anyone in the market
for a Pixel.
It's got a bigger battery, bigger screen
and the same processor as the Pixel 5,
plus it's got a headphone Jack.
It does have slightly less RAM
and no reverse wireless charging.
- [James] Who cares?
- But I would get it anyway.
Oh wait, I can't because it's only available in the US
and Japan!
On behalf of Canada I am sorry you chose to do this Google.
It's a bad, this is a bad thing you did.
We're all upset.
- Oregato.
- Non oregato!
T-Mobile has confirmed early reports
that it's suffered a data breach.
But while a hacker was originally claiming to have access
to a hundred million accounts,
the carrier says only 49 million users were affected.
- [James] Small potatoes.
- Peanuts.
But the data includes names, dates of birth,
social security numbers, and driver's licenses.
So this breach is kind of a big deal.
T-Mobile has promised to pay for two years
of identity theft protection and is offering an extra step
to protect your account called account takeover protection,
whatever that is.
It's just like a gun.
- [James] A panic room.
- Just a little sword.
Here you go.
The developer of FlickType, an iOS keyboard app
for blind users is shutting it down after years
of what he describes as abuse by Apple,
who rejected multiple updates to the app
based on false information after their offers
to buy the app were refused.
The developer, Kosta Eleftheriou,
has filed a lawsuit against Apple,
who he says does the same thing
to thousands of other developers.
Oh man. You know, what would help this situation, Apple?
Side-loading, you know, just a thought.
Have you thought about it?
It's pretty, people like it.
And Boston Dynamics has put out
yet another threatening video showing
how capable their Atlas robots are at parkouring
over obstacles to get to their fleshy human targets
and steal their jobs.
- [James] Parkour!
- No, my job as a parkour artist!
I don't know why as a society,
we continue to allow this kind of intimidation,
but I will continue to watch these videos.
- [James] We're all gonna die.
- Because they are cool. We are gonna die though.
Whoa, cool video Riley! Thanks James!
Come back on Friday for another one.
It'll have more tech news, which I know,
that's what you love.
- [James] Another one.
- Ow, you're just throwing things at me.
- [James] Direct hit!
- Oh, that's what this show's about!