- Tech News, Tech News never changes,
except when it does, three times a week, it changes.
Other than that though, never.
- [James] Is this Batman?
- Not even once.
- [James] Is this a Batman thing?
- Maybe.
This morning, the same hacker group that hacked Nvidia,
Lapsus$, with a dollar sign on the end,
'cause that's fun,
also claimed to have hacked Samsung, who confirmed,
that some source code for the company's Galaxy devices
was stolen.
What is going on?
Did someone leave a literal back door open
at the tech giants Clubhouse or something?
- [James] Come on in.
- (laughing) Ooh, what's all this?
Samsung says no personal information of consumers
or employees was compromised,
but the hackers did post a 190GB torrent online,
which is currently being downloaded by who knows who.
- [James] That's nothing.
My NaaS, have you seen it?
It's huge.
- I haven't seen your NaaS and I don't want to.
So find out soon enough,
whether Lapsus$ wants something from Samsung,
or whether they're just the type of people,
who want to watch the world burn.
Wrong Batman movie, that's a different one.
Stay tuned to "They're Just Movies"
we're doing the real one this week.
- [James] I'm Vengeance.
- We're finally doing the real Batman movie.
Meanwhile, the Nvidia hack just keeps getting worse.
Among the data that was leaked by Lapsus$ last week,
was a fair bit of sensitive information,
including drivers and certificates.
Nvidia has continued their refusal
to negotiate with the group
and now these certificates are already being used,
to sign malware disguised as real drivers.
Although the certificates appear to have expired,
anything that was signed before their expiration date,
will still install on Windows with no issues.
Meaning an update from Microsoft will probably be necessary,
to block anything with compromised certificates.
- [James] Windows loves that.
(Riley laughing)
They love updating.
- I love any certificates, I'll take 'em.
In the meantime, don't go downloading programs
claiming to be Nvidia tools from questionable sources,
even if they're wearing leather jackets
that seem super real.
It's probably just vinyl or something.
Russia has been hit with about every economic sanction
that Western governments can muster,
including ones that hurt the country's ability
to obtain legal copies of everything,
from software licenses to Hollywood movies.
So it appears that the Kremlin
is considering legalizing online piracy.
- [James] That's awesome, that's so Russian.
- Sounds like Linus is down.
High ranking members of Russia's parliament
have reportedly suggested unblocking torrent site RuTracker,
as a way for citizens to access Hollywood films,
as well as limiting, or eliminating, liability
for trademark and copyright infringement.
But with Putin's pension for punishing pundits
that don't agree with him,
I can only imagine this ending
in government approved torrent sites,
with restricted content.
Which would make this type of piracy less like,
I am the captain now
and more like, Disney adults of the Caribbean,
which is like, I was never scared of Jack Sparrow.
I didn't think he was gonna gut me.
Please gut me.
- [James] He might not me pick you up from school on time.
(Riley laughing)
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Nvidia is reportedly going to be releasing
an RTX 3090 Ti near the end of March.
But if you were hoping to get your hands
on a 3070 TI 16 gigabyte variant,
team green has reportedly canceled it,
- [James] See ya!
- The 3090 TI will of course be an absolute beast
in terms of performance and what it will cost.
Nvidia isn't planning to make very many of them
so expect to pay around $5,000.
- [James] Shut up.
- I mean probably yeah, probably more.
You know, if you actually, if you expect to buy one at all,
I think we need to have a talk, dude,
get rid of the expectation.
Get a Steam Deck.
Intel is reportedly strongly encouraging motherboard
partners to only support DDR5, not DDR4
on its upcoming 700 series platform code named Raptor Lake.
- [James] Who do you work For Intel?
- The memory companies.
But this isn't that concerning Intel probably
just wants it's own chips to realize their full potential.
Not because they're scared of bad reviews
because of a RAM bottleneck or anything
because these chips are their babies.
They didn't save up that college fund for nothing,
just to have the chips end up running Minecraft
(laughing)
- [James] Hotheads on the couch.
- A new report indicates that more Ryzen CPUs
will be hitting store shelves very soon.
These will all be Ryzen 5,000 series processors.
So there'll be additions
to the existing product stack
rather than a surprise early release of Xen4.
- [James] And I like 5,000.
- That's a good number.
Two of these models will have six cores
and two will have eight cores.
And yet another two will have hard cores.
Don't look at 'em the wrong way.
They are too badass.
According to Electronic Frontiers Australia
the country's proposed anti-trolling bill
has some big issues.
While the, there's trolls in it.
(laughing)
It's not doing anything.
While the bill helps people access a given trolls
personal information for the purposes of filing a lawsuit,
it's still incredibly expensive to bring an action
for defamation between 20 and 80,000 Australian dollars.
Tech giants are also opposed to the bill
as it would require them to collect large amounts
of personal information.
Oh such, we have to do this work that we're already doing
and also possibly expose the tech giants
to liability for defamatory content.
So it's unclear who this is helping.
Although so far, no one has asked the wallabies.
And if you're the owner of a new OLED Nintendo Switch
and are worried about screen burn-in
from all those static UI elements while you're gaming
is a very specific,
- [James] Person.
- Person we're targeting.
you probably shouldn't worry about that.
YouTuber, Wulff Den did a test where he displayed one image
on the screen for an insane amount of time,
and it turned out there was only very slight OLED ghosting
after a whole 3,600 hours.
How many days is that?
Just kidding, I already did the math,
it's 150 days.
- [James] Yeah okay.
24 hours?
- Also important to note is that the switch
doesn't have any of the burn-in prevention measures
you typically see on OLED TVs.
So if you own any kind of newer OLED device
this probably shouldn't be a huge concern for you.
Great.
So PSA, and oh boy, would it be great
for you to come back for more Tech News on Wednesday,
the one day when Tech News changes?
No, I mean, three times it's one of the three days.
I forgot what I wrote in the intro.
These things go so fast.
Whoa.