- If you break eye contact with the tech news, it wins.
Agh!
It wins.
It wins every time.
Nvidia confirmed yesterday that the incident
it was investigating last week was indeed a cyber attack.
And that the hackers did steal data.
There. It feels better to say it out loud, doesn't it?
Start the healing process.
Unfortunately, that's gonna be hard in this case,
the hackers have started to release the data
including the source code for Nvidia's DLSS technology
and various other confidential files.
One of those apparently includes references
to chips believed to be designed
for an upgraded Nintendo switch.
That's right. We'll never be rid of these switch pro rumors.
It's the new half life three. I've accepted it.
The hackers have threatened to release more data
unless Nvidia A, talks to them, they may just be lonely,
and B releases their GPU drivers
as open source from now on and forever.
Amen.
Will Nvidia have a change of heart about open source?
And is it really a change of heart if you do it
because criminals gave you an ultimatum?
Great questions.
The tech world and the world in general
really continues to punish Russia in whatever ways they can
for the invasion of Ukraine.
Apple has halted all sales of its products in the country
and pulled Russian state media apps off of its app store
with similar moves being taken
by all sorts of companies:
Disney, Ford, Boeing, BP, Shell.
Russia's basically being left
with the one thing they got going for 'em, cold weather.
One thing Russia can control though
are the companies that rely on it for rocket launches
like space internet company OneWeb,
whose satellite payload launch was delayed
because of Russia demanding
that the British government divested stake
in the company first.
Realistic? Sure.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's IT army has been continuing
its retaliatory cyber attacks on Russia.
They managed to take down parts
of Russia's internet on the weekend
and even disabled some EV charging networks,
making their displays read 'Putin is a dickhead'.
(David laughing)
Yes, electric vehicle charger. He is.
He kinda looks like, like it's like a literal description.
And in slightly more optimistic news
major chip industry players have united
in an effort to create an open source interconnect system
for chiplets called
The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express
or UCIE.
UCIE! UCIE!
It's delicious to say. A-E-I-O-U.
And this is no joke.
Intel, AMD, arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, Microsoft
and TSMC are all on board for the standard
which would allow chip makers to take a CPU core,
a Graphos core, a networking chip,
all made by different companies
and snap 'em together like Lego blocks.
Okay. Not exactly like Lego blocks.
Not like you could like build a plane out of them,
although maybe you could
if you ran a flight simulator on them.
Stay on topic.
Anyways, these open source chiplets sound awesome
but you know who doesn't think so?
Nvidia, 'cause they're not part of it.
Time to hack 'em again.
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Ah, see, no, you don't even to keep eye contact
with the Quick Bits.
No, you will go insane.
Epic Games has acquired Bandcamp,
the music platform known for DRM free audio purchases
and fair creator payouts.
The purchase sorta makes sense
since Epic's whole shtick right now is pushing
for a fair and open internet
with decent revenue sharing on online platforms.
I just hope they don't pull the same thing they did
with the early Epic Game store
and land a ton of exclusive releases.
I'm already buying that Tamagotchi iPod
for Kanye's album, but that can't be a trend.
I don't wanna keep doing this.
- Have you seen that thing?
- [David] No.
- It's like a little puck.
EV truck company, Rivian, surprised its future customers
with sudden price hikes of as much as 20%
on existing pre-orders.
Meaning some people who had signed up
to buy an $80,000 truck were now looking
at a $100,000 purchase or the option
of downgrading to a lower spec model.
Naturally this upset people and a poll
on the Rivian forum showed over half
of users were considering canceling their reservations.
I guess you could say they had even more reservations.
That's not a Riley joke.
That's like a John joke.
(beep) off Rivian.
Another day, another stadia.
Amazon has now made its Luna cloud gaming service available
to everyone in the mainland United States.
So that includes Canada, right?
- [David] Yep.
- Yeah. 'Cause we're basically, it's the same thing.
Luna has various paid channels with differing selections
of games, but the prime gaming channel will be free
for Amazon prime members with a rotating selection of games.
And you can even use your phone own as a controller
with fire TV devices!
So Apple fanatics will wanna stay tuned next week
because their cult HQ has announced an event
on Tuesday called Peek Performance.
But with the two Es, two Es instead of EA, David?
It's like you're peeking.
Where a new iPhone SE, an iPad air
and new Macs are expected to make an appearance.
But it doesn't really matter what they show.
We're all gonna watch it because it's Apple,
the world's hippest jewelry company.
And Polestar has revealed its 02 concept vehicle,
an electric Roadster with a retractable roof
and a freaking built in drone that can launch from the back
of the car.
Eh?
You're into that.
(David laughing)
Yeah, it's just a concept car, but it is apparently built
on the same aluminum chassis as the Polestar 5,
due to launch in 2024.
And I'm always gonna report on cars with built in drones.
Those are the only cars I want to report on.
Everything else is just a, is just a car.
What, why would it?
And that was a regular episode.
Come back on Friday for more tech news.
Until then, if you see any out in the wild,
look away, unless you want this to happen to you.
No!