- My doctor advised me
that if I keep doing all this tech news,
I could have an achondromascular granulism
before the year's out.
You know I told him?
"It's worth it. It's worth it (beep)."
In case you do other things with your time
than doomscroll social media,
this morning Facebook itself, Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp,
and Messenger all stopped working for hours
and are still down at the time of filming.
And I'm just tickled pink.
- This is great, wow! - (laughs) This is so awesome.
- Life is good. - This is so great.
The issue appears to involve Facebook's BGP configuration.
It stands for border gateway protocol,
which is responsible for routing traffic
across the internet.
The outages led tons of users
to check other sites like Twitter to see what was going on,
leading to Twitter experiencing loading errors
as it struggled under the traffic.
Now, this was all probably caused by an error
Facebook's engineers made when changing settings,
but it happened on the same day that the whistleblower
who leaked Facebook's internal records
concerning teens' mental health
and problems with misinformation came forward.
Coincidence? The truth is out there.
- [Riley] James, no! Your health!
- They got me. I'll never stop.
The 5G, my blood.
If you're planning on buying
a shiny new Windows 11 gaming PC,
you might be in for a surprise, a rude one,
because PC Gamer found that a feature
called virtualization-based security or VBS,
which is expected to be installed
on most Windows 11 prebuilt,
can cause gaming performance to drop by as much as 28%.
- [Riley] That's more than a quarter!
- It looks like this might be happening
because VBS creates a more secure portion of memory
to protect certain kinds of security software from malware.
Unfortunately, that cuts it off from being used by games,
but put down your pitchfork for now.
Also, why do you have a pitchfork in your house, are you-
- [Riley] For big macaroni.
- Because the effect does depend
on which game you're running.
And it's still unclear whether VBS
will be enabled by default on gaming prebuilt
or in the Windows ISO,
you might download to do a clean install.
Hopefully we get some answers
when Windows 11 launches tomorrow o'clock.
I knew Microsoft was friendlier with Linux
than it used to be,
but right now they're really trying
to boost the user base there, huh?
- [Riley] Yeah, they really care about each other.
- Yeah, sharing.
- [Riley] "Here's some users."
- Sharing is caring. - Aw.
- And the design of Intel's first
Arc Alchemist gaming desktops graphics card has hit the web.
And let's just say,
we may want to start calling Intel Team Silver.
- [Riley] Silver fox, whoo!
- That was surfing.
YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead worked with his insider sources
to create 3D renders of the card,
showing a silver fan shroud
with an illuminated Intel logo on the top,
alongside a six pin and a pin power connector.
- Nice. - Mm, chef's kiss.
That can supply up to 300 watts to the card,
but Alchemists is expected to have a much lower TDP
using a combination of science and magic.
- [Riley] Alchemist are getting into alchemy.
- That's how Riley was conceived.
- [Riley] Powerful.
- Unfortunately, Moore's Law, the YouTuber,
says we won't see the cards available for purchase
until the second quarter of next year.
And even that assumes the chip shortage
won't delay it even more.
But some analysts expect that Intel could use lower prices
to compete with graphics heavyweights NVIDIA and AMD,
so they might just be worth the wait.
Not that you have any choice, but you wait and save.
- [Riley] You wait, that's just what life is.
- Unless the shortage gets worse
and then you wait and save and pay more.
- [Riley] Then you die.
- It's all gonna net out.
Just get what you can get when you can get it, guys.
Just like this.
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Quick bits. If you can't see them, they're behind you.
- [Riley] Woohoo!
- If you thought the feud between ex-president
and current nobody Donald Trump and Twitter was over,
you'd be wrong as Trump has filed suit against Twitter
over his permaban.
Get over it, man.
Trump is arguing that Twitter's actions
violate Florida's new deplatforming law,
which prevents social media platforms
from banning politicians.
But that law is actually not currently in force
due to a court decision
that said it actually violates the free speech rights
of social media companies
to host the kinds of content they wanna host.
Wait, did Trump take down Facebook?
- [Riley] His son's really good at hacking.
- The Epic Games Store is finally getting achievements
after being criticized for their own omission
since the store was launched.
The system will work similarly
to what you might see on Steam or consoles, naturally,
with developers being able to put in achievements
that have to add up to a thousand points per game.
Not sure why this took so long, maybe Epic was using
all their achievement points on lawyers.
Ay, boom!
- God, nice one, James. (James screams)
- [Riley] Whoo!
- If you're a YouTube TV subscriber,
and we're told you exist,
you'll be pleased to know that NBC Universal
reached a deal with YouTube TV
to keep its channels on the service.
The two parties were in a spat
that threatened to remove 14 channels
at the end of September,
including local NBC affiliates and NBCSN,
the latter being a blow for sports fans
who might've sought other options
as live sports continue to be one of the major drivers
of revenue for cable and cable like services.
And that's how you know
Jon Martin picked these stories, baby.
- [Riley] Thanks, Jon.
- We're not all just nerds.
Some of us are nerdy sports fans. We do exist.
- [Riley] Nerd sports, ever heard of it?
- If you've been excited to move your money
to the digital bank Google was reportedly launching,
prepare for disappointment as the product known as Plex,
that already exists, Google- - I know.
- Has been canceled.
400,000 people signed up for a waitlist,
but lots of staff turnover at Google Pay
appears to have sunk the idea,
along with the fact that Google Pay app
works much differently
depending on where you are in the world.
And besides, what's wrong with traditional banks
except almost everything, huh?
Do you like fees? Do you like waiting?
Do you like everyone knowing everything about what you do?
How about middlemen? Well, we got a service for you.
- [Riley] (indistinct) the ground floor.
- Yeah, don't buy crypto. That's for losers and porno.
And there's finally an 8K 60 frames per second game
on the PS5.
It's called "The Touryst" and it was actually a game
that came out on Switch two years ago.
But the PS5 version renders natively at 8K
without any kind of upscaling.
I'm guessing the graphics suck.
Even if you actually have an 8K TV though,
you won't be able to output 8K from the PS5
as the console downsamples the 8K to 4K.
But you'll still be able to tell your friends
that it's really 8K, which I think is the main point anyway.
- [Riley] Whoa, you have 8K?
- And like such a gesture,
I think we've gotten our point across,
so comeback on Wednesday for more tech news,
probably delivered by another host
because I do not feel well.
- [Riley] You have to lie down, James.
(James groans) No, stop, no!