- You don't need to prove anything to the Tech News.
It loves you, for you!
I mean, I think you kind of suck,
but, - [Man] Why dislike?
(audience laughing)
- There was some concern among the PC faithful,
that Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake processors,
which are expected to launch by the end
of this year would ditch support
for DDR4 memory and require builders
to buy newer, younger, sexier DDR5 memory.
- [Man] Not everyone's into that.
- However, a leaked list
of upcoming ASRock motherboards has seemingly confirmed
that there will be some DDR4 compatible
Raptor Lake boards.
Earlier rumors had indicated Intel wasn't a fan
of letting DDR4 linger on.
But given that Raptor Lake shares the same basic
architecture and socket with Alder lake,
which does support both memory types,
It seems like some other board makers have taken it
upon themselves
to let people use their perfectly good DDR4 memory.
Instead of buying more bits of pricey metal and glass
in a supply shortage
- [Man] In my day, we fixed things.
- Raptor lakes, DDR4 support is especially notable
since AMD's Ryzen 7,000 series will not support DDR4
but there may be some hope there too.
As leaker greymon55 claims
that team red may launch some Zen 4
powered chips on the current AM4 socket, rather
than the new AM5, PCIe 5, DDR5 one.
So, your old memory sticks might still come
in handy after all.
Don't put them in the sink,
the garbage disposal just yet!
- [Man] We call it garburator.
- Garburator is a Canadianism.
- [Man] I know.
The Minecraft community has become engulfed
in turmoil over an upcoming update, which could result
in players being banned
from playing in any online mode
including their own private servers
and subscription based realms, much of the criticism centers
on the fact that any player can report any other player.
A setup that could empower trolls, enabling them to
abuse the system that was designed to stop abuse.
That is a catch 22.
- [Man] It might actually, I'm not sure, it might not be.
- It might just be ironic.
- [Man] Yeah.
- But Microsoft says there's nothing to worry about.
(laughing)
Every player report will be reviewed
by moderators, they say.
And if players knowingly send incorrect
or irrelevant reports, they themselves could
in fact be banned and every banned player will
be able to file for a case review.
Well, it sounds like they formulated the perfect
moderation system that has no potential for misuse.
- [Man] They got lots of storage for those files.
- Finally, somebody note this down, it took a while
but we finally made it.
- [Man] Huzzah!
- And Google really wants Apple
to get on board with RCS messaging,
but there's another RCS that the tech giant
is very much against.
RCS labs!
An Italian spyware vendor
that has been infecting both Android and iOS users
with surveillance tools sometimes in collaboration
with governments and internet service providers.
I don't think the irony
of Google warning people about spyware is lost on anyone.
But the wild thing about these attacks
which occurred in Italy and Kazakhstan, that was noted
by Google's threat analysis group,
is that they were actually initiated by working
with the target's network provider
to cut off their mobile data.
Then send them a link
via text message promising to recover their connectivity
by installing an app.
But the ISP rep I talked to was so nice.
- [Man] They gave me a discount!
- It was so nice.
(audience laughing)
- It's good that Google is getting the word
out about these attacks.
Even if it is a bit of an example
of the pot calling the kettle black to a degree.
Now it's time to call these the quac BTUs.
- [Man] Sure.
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Quickie BTUs are the things
in life that remind us to stop talking Riley
and get to the good stuff.
- [Man] Okay, fine. Geez.
- While the crypto crash means hoards
of used mining GPUs are being dumped
into the market, lowering prices.
You may want to exercise some discretion
when digging for one to buy.
As reports of defective used graphics cards
are beginning to surface.
Some have been taken apart and reassembled improperly
while others have experienced memory failure
from the constant pressure
of being asked to do calculation after calculation.
- [Man] Ugh
- You don't know what it's like, man!
- [Man] I'm bad at math!
- So make sure you perform more than a cursory inspection
of that too good to be true eBay listing.
You ain't winning any games with fake frames.
- [Man] When you have a bad GPU who gives you fake frames.
- The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a ban
on sales of e-cigarettes manufactured
by the once popular Juul.
Due to a lack of sufficient data
concerning the risks of using the company's products.
Juul has obviously appealed the decision, but the news comes
after years of debate over the use of Juul's,
admittedly putting cool looking vapes by children.
- [Man] (laughing) Yeah.
- I mean, cool teens everywhere are bound
to think this freaking sucks, right?
- [Man] No, this is so cool, I thought they were good.
- Bungie has sued Nick Minor, a Destiny 2 YouTuber
known as Lord Nazo for 7.65 million dollars.
After he went on an impersonation rampage sending fake
DMCA takedown claims to other members
of the Destiny community.
The spree was apparently triggered by Minor receiving a DMC
takedown request from Bungie, for improperly using music
from the Destiny soundtrack.
Which does sound like it would be pretty annoying.
- [Man] Yeah.
- So I kind of get where he is coming from.
- [Man] And who of us wouldn't go on a rampage like that.
- And the Osam OV1 used to be a promising upcoming
Android phone created by some
of the engineers behind the essential phone.
But now it's a special crypto phone.
- [Man] Yeah.
- Called the Saga, which will be launched
in collaboration with the makers
of the Solana cryptocurrency.
- [Man] It's special.
- The saga will have access
to special decentralized apps called dApps.
(Man laughing)
- Which you can get on a super cool dApp store.
More like da app store.
- [Man] What?
- As in I'm, well I already did a dab
- [Man] Oh you did a dab. Yeah.
cause I already made the joke before I saw you wrote it.
- [Man] Dab on the dApp.
- And Amazon has broken the barrier
between this life and the next
with the announcement that Alexa will soon be able to speak
in the voice of a deceased loved one.
The virtual assistant will be able to emulate
anyone's voice after listening to just one minute of audio
which could lead to a wonderfully dystopian future where
your child can ask Alexa to read a book, but be grandma.
I mean, the people we love, they're never really gone.
Are they?
They're inside of our Echo.
- [Man] Yeah. Inside the device.
- In fact, I can still hear them now.
- [Man] We trapped them.
- They're saying that if you want to hear more tech news
you should come back on Monday.
- [Man] Grandma?!
- Grandma? - [Man] Is that you?