- Aw hey, how's it going? (guffaws)
Oh, I see how it is.
You just want me for my tech news.
James, you like me for my-
- [James] Tech news! - Oh, okay.
You'd think that by now companies would have learned
not to use words like "Unhackable"
to describe their products,
because to no one's surprise,
Nvidia's unhackable mining limiter
for its new RTX 3060 GPU's hasn't been hacked per se,
but a smart person has found a way around it.
- [James] Is this the second time a smart person did this?
- No, because of this,
a beta driver leaked for the RTX 3060,
and one user was able to remove Nvidia's restrictions
on Ethereum mining without messing with the BIOS
or having to do anything especially difficult.
Apparently, this method gets the hashrate
to above 40 mega hashes per second,
well above what the limiter allows.
Nvidia has already taken down the driver,
but there are surely plenty of copies floating around
out there on the interweb now it's been released.
So if you're a gamer who's also a miner, good news for you.
If you're just a person who mines, stop it.
Stop that!
- [James] Yeah, gamers only. - Gamers only club.
- [James] These are for us.
- You know how Google Chrome is a notorious memory hog?
Well, Google has been well aware of that for some time,
and now the company thinks it has a pretty solid way
to address the issue.
Chrome Version 89 has apparently
slashed RAM usage on Windows by as much as 22%.
(hand swooshes)
- [James] (yells)
- And if you're using a Mac,
the company says that the improvements
push the Apple Energy Impact Score down by as much as 65%.
- [James] Yeah yah, girl!
- I didn't even know that score was a thing.
I wonder what mine is?
So hopefully the battery on your Macbook
won't crap out on you as quickly.
Google didn't forget about Android either,
as a new version feature something called, (chuckles)
Freeze-Dried Tabs.
Sounds, not very delicious.
- [James] It's good for dogs.
- That take up far less memory
but allow you to Zoom and click on links.
That sounds a heck of a lot better
than that freeze-dried moon cheese (scoffs)
I was talked into buy from Walmart.
Pee-ew! (laughs)
I don't, what is that?
- [James] Moon cheese.
- Is that like a Dakotan thing?
- I'll show you some moon cheese.
- (laughs) (spits)
- [James] (muffled) not from Dakota,
he's from North Carolina. - Carolina! (laughs)
Sorry.
If you live in the U.S. and you're tired
of the limited choices available
when it comes to wired home internet service,
there might be another option on the horizon.
Verizon- - [James] Love it!
- Is expanding its 5G home internet service
to another 10 cities across the country
before the end of this month:
Las Vegas, Charlotte,
San Diego, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Kansas City, Salt Lake City,
Hartford, Omaha, and Louisville!
- [James] I might go to one of those one day.
- (clucks) Although theoretically,
the service offers speeds up to one gigabit,
the provider says 300 megabits per second
is closer to what you can realistically expect.
- [James] That's a lot.
- It's fine. - [James] It's all right.
- In case you're not familiar with 5G,
it's an entirely wireless connection,
so it shouldn't be too hard to set up on your own.
But hopefully, you won't need to stick aluminum foil
on the antenna.
But you might want to anyways, for aesthetics.
Now it's time for Quick Bits brought to you
by the Drop ALT Mechanical Keyboard.
It's based on Drop's top-selling CTRL Keyboard.
- [James] Wah-wah-wah!
- Wah-wah!
Drop removed the function row,
shrinking the design from 87 keys down to 67.
Built it with a solid aluminum frame
and hot-swap switch sockets and made it fully programmable
so you can remap and assign key binds to every key!
The ALTS Keyboard also
has a fully customizable RGB backlight and under-lighting,
so everyone who sees it will know
you have sick gamer cred,
when we're allowed in other people's houses again.
Buy a Drop ALT Mechanical Keyboard using our code: FREECAPS
and you'll get a free set of Skylight Keycaps.
See how that works?
So check it out at the link below.
I bet you didn't even know it was the Quick Bits time now.
Uh, surprise! (gasps)
If you were on Twitter yesterday,
discussing anything related to a certain city
in Western Tennessee,
you might've found yourself inexplicably banned.
A situation exacerbated by the fact
that the city's NBA team had a game yesterday.
And the fact sports fans were discussing
the NCAA Tiger's tournament chances
ahead of the bracket reveal!
- [James] It's my way back on Twitter.
(laughing)
This is my way, my chance.
- Wow, what?
The cause was apparently a bug in Twitter's code,
not related to any actual goings on in Memphis
and has since been resolved.
So feel free to talk about Elvis
and dry rub ribs once again.
Careful though,
that sounds like you could get banned for that, still.
Amazon is reportedly significantly expanding Fc Games,
it's in-house system to Gamify the workday
for employees in their warehouses.
Although the games are reportedly not all that great,
not surprisingly, it gives the workers something to do
during long shifts.
Though the concern is that the games encourage workers
to speed up tasks, which might increase errors,
or even make it more likely employees could get injured.
Thankfully, there's a whole bunch
of people out there who could replace them, no problem.
Elon Musk may be one of the world's richest people,
but that title clearly isn't enough for him, (laughs)
as he's reportedly restyled himself
the Technoking of Tesla, instead of merely being CEO.
Cool! He's also bestowed the title
Master of Coin onto Tesla's CFO for good measure.
Are these official, what,
or is this just like a Twitter joke?
- [James] I bet he doesn't even listen to techno?
- You're not the Technoking!
Oof-oof-oof.
No word yet on whether these titles will be added
to the end of every company email they send out,
(chuckles) but we'll let you know.
The head of a Canadian company that sold phones
with customized encryption is an extremely hot water
with the U.S. federal government.
The company, SKY GLOBAL, is accused of selling devices
to drug traffickers to help them conceal their activities.
However, authorities in Europe ended up decrypting
about a billion text messages sent over the network anyhow.
- [James] Settle down, U.S.,
you literally sell guns to people.
- SKY GLOBAL'S CEO and an associate are facing charges
under the RICO Act.
So yeah, remember that bit we said earlier
about trusting things advertised as unhackable?
Don't do that!
The RICO Act is used to take down mafia people a lot,
did you know that?
Thanks Netflix documentaries.
And here's a story that's straight out
of a 2000's teen drama.
A mom in Pennsylvania is facing charges
after she allegedly used a deep faked photos
and videos of her daughter's cheerleading squad teammates
in order to get them kicked out.
The deep fakes show the victims
engaged in unbecoming conduct,
but it looks like the joke is on the mother
after cops traced her IP address.
Who is this mom?
Who allowed her to have children?
- [James] (laughs) That's psycho.
- To top it all off,
the cheerleading team is called the Victory Vipers,
so maybe we'll see them in a Dodgeball sequel
after all this has cleared up.
I don't want that.
And who allowed us to continue this episode for so long?
Ah, it's done now.
Come back Wednesday where the tech news will keep flowing
all the way down until the next time.