- I had a really weird dream last night.
But I'm not going to tell you what it was about.
Let's do some tech news!
- [Riley] Linus, what, what was it?
- [Linus] There was a Twitch leak yesterday.
- [Riley] Oh what was in it?
- [Linus] Twitch.
- [Riley] Yeah, but what leaked?
- Twitch did. Yes. The whole thing.
(Riley laughs)
- Yesterday, an anonymous 4chan user posted a torrent
for a 125 gigabyte file containing the entire source code
for the Twitch website, its various apps and SDKs,
and internal "red teaming" tools
designed to test hacking defenses,
which I guess, (chuckles) didn't work.
- [Riley] Hey.
- [Linus] Twitch confirmed that the breach took place,
but didn't confirm the legitimacy of its contents.
Which also included payout information
for literally thousands of streamers
showing the top creators were earning
many millions of dollars per year,
which may actually be an underestimate
since it doesn't include income
from multimillion-dollar exclusivity agreements.
And this is leaving viewers who thought
that their favorite streamer was, you know,
also a member of the proletariat, absolutely shook.
- [Riley] Who's gonna be in the revolution with us?
- But, perhaps the most interesting part of the leak
is an unannounced game store intended to compete with Steam,
codenamed, Vapour.
(Riley laughs)
- Get it? 'Cause it never came out?
- Anyway, change your Twitch password everyone.
- [Riley] Hey, what? No,
what does it mean? - Ey.
- [Riley] Steam vapor, water vapor.
- But also vaporware, 'cause,
- [Riley] Yeah, sure.
- Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger has declared
that AMD's win streak is over!
Okay, he didn't quite say it like that
because Pat's a nice man,
he wouldn't, throw that kind of shade!
- [Riley] Get 'em Pat!
- But he did let loose some Flanders-esque fightin' words
in an interview with CRN.
Gelsinger says that, "Intel won't dismiss them
of the good work that they've done,
but that's over with Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids."
- [Riley] Great!
- (laughs) "Won't dismiss them of the good work,"
Anyway, these codenames refer
to Intel's upcoming mainstream and Xeon CPUs.
Gelsinger also besmirched ARM's progress
in the server processor space,
saying that Intel is going to make sure
that ARM's role there, stays minimal.
Dang! It's more like Pat Gel-zinger!
- [Riley] Ey!
- Ey!
The comments from Team Blue's leader
hit the web along with a social experiment video
where Intel tricks Mac lovers into loving Intel PCs instead,
which to be fair is pretty easy to do
when you're paying them for it.
- [Riley] Some of them are pretty good.
- And yes. Microsoft officially launched
Windows 11 yesterday, beginning a new era!
For the PC.
One that seems to be defined more by hardware requirements,
rather than major software features.
That is unless you count the myriad bugs
and performance issues that many users are running into.
AMD has said that they're working on a fix for a bug
that is causing their CPUs to run slower.
Systems with Intel's killer networking
are experiencing drops in speed
and failure for load some websites and games.
A memory leak bug seen in the pre-release builds
has apparently survived the launch process.
It's like a, it's like a memory leak cockroach!
- [Riley] It won't die!
- And we're still waiting to see whether that nasty
VBS feature is going to cause massive performance drops
in game performance on pre-built computers.
Of course, many users are also reporting
that their new Windows 11 installations are running,
fine, just fine,
and we're as happy for them
as we are for the surviving members of the Squid Game.
- [Riley] Oh, Spoilers!
- How is that a spoiler?
- [Riley] Do people die or survive?
- Oh my god.
You know what? It doesn't matter.
The point is, it's probably gonna get better.
And if it doesn't, what are you gonna do?
Switch to Linux?
- [Riley] Yes. Yes, I will.
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- Could you have ever imagined there'd be this many
short news items?
Valve has released a video telling people
they definitely should not!
Open up their Steam Deck and replace components
themselves because they could break their device
or even die.
Then, they show them how to do exactly that.
Not the "die" part, the open-it-up part.
It's kind of the best of both worlds, really.
You know, now I just want an Apple video
doing the same thing, except it would just stop
after the first part.
- Yeah. - Don't open it!
(Linus blows raspberries)
- [Riley] And that's it!
- Syniverse, a company that routes SMS text messages
for hundreds of carriers worldwide has said that,
somebody had, unauthorized access to its database
from May 2016,
to May 2021.
- [Riley] That's five years!
- For five years.
(laughs) US-based carriers have so far said
that there is no indication the breach led to messages
or personal details being compromised,
but wow, five years is a long time
to just not do anything with access
to that kind of sensitive information.
- [Riley] Here's a cookie, don't eat it.
- But hey, we're not just telling you this
to raise your anxiety.
We're telling you this to,
let this be your semi-regular reminder to not use SMS for,
anything.
But especially two-factor authentication.
It's bad.
But also don't panic.
Trust Facebook.
Google has proved once again that they are serious
about YouTube Music a good music app,
and have finally added background listening
for non-premium users.
Five years. Wow, we got a theme today.
Five years after they launched it and a whole year
after they killed its predecessor, Google Play Music,
which had the same feature that they're now just adding back
into YouTube Music.
But wait, it's only in Canada.
Wait, what?
- Oh! - Wow, we got something first?
- [Riley] Nice!
- All is forgiven, Google.
Actually not all is forgiven.
Play Music had a feature to just natively cast
my Sonos stuff in, and Google and Sonos they're feuding,
and they won't fix it, so I'm going to Spotify.
- [Riley] They're a bunch of hosers.
- Samsung's upcoming mobile processor
with AMD's RDNA2 graphics will reportedly support
ray tracing according to a post
on China's Weibo social media platform.
We can't imagine what mobile game
would warrant taking a frame rate dip like that
in order to have fancier reflections,
but hey, we said the same thing about PC games
and now basically every gaming PC in the world
has ray tracing on, 100% of the time.
- I have it on me now. - Now.
- It's paradigm shift.
And Nintendo revealed the final character
joining the roster of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
It's Waluigi.
Is who it should have been.
- [Riley] Ha!
- Ha! Got you.
But instead it's actually Sora the keyblade wielder
from the Kingdom Hearts franchise,
which is really sort of relevant right now.
- [Riley] Have you played any?
- Nah, I can't say I've ever played a Kingdom Hearts game,
- [Riley] Me neither.
- But yeah, it's still cool Sora's in there,
but what's next? SpongeBob?
And that was the final story.
So come back on Friday for more Tech News.
You wanna know what my dream was, by the way?
- [Riley] Oh, what?
- It was that I was not going to do the Tech News today,
but now, I was afraid of telling you about it
in case it didn't come true,
but then, - I thought you like
doing the Tech News? - it didn't come true.
- [Riley] I thought you love technology.
- Did I say dream? I meant nightmare.
- Oh. - I love doing the Tech News.