- Welcome, child.
I have been chosen this day
to deliver unto you the tech news.
And you shall be exalted!
Multiple reports have emerged,
claiming that gamers' RTX 3090
graphics cards are being bricked,
while trying to launch the closed beta
for New World, an MMORPG being developed by Amazon Games.
Wow, Jeff Bezos, thanks. - There's your problem.
- The dozens of people with 3090s.
It's still unclear what the exact cause is,
but it appears to have something to do
with the lack of a frame rate limiter in the game's menus,
causing said 3090s to just (grunts)
make as many frames as they can and just-
- Oh! (James grunts)
Do it! - (beep) a brick.
And 3090s are incredibly hard workers
with absolutely regard for their own well-being,
like Linus. (laughs)
It's also very likely that part of the answer here
is an issue in Nvidia's drivers or firmware.
For now, if you are playing New World,
make sure you've enabled the FPS limiter,
unless you're looking to buy more graphics cards
to help find Jeff's next trip to space.
- [Riley] He needs our help!
- That kind of implies
that you're buying graphics cards from Jeff Bezos.
Is he a scalper?
Amazon's just one big scalping scheme, isn't it?
The world's youngest Bitcoin billionaire, Erik Finman,
made waves when he announced the Freedom Phone last week,
a $500 device meant to push back
against Big Tech's censorship.
- Woohoo! - But the tech savvy
have pointed out
that the phone appears to be at least a little scammy.
Like Bitcoin.
(Riley laughs)
I'm still holding.
The phone's supposedly custom operating system,
Freedom OS, appears to be LineageOS,
A common fork of Android.
And the phone itself is identical to the UMIDIGI A9 Pro,
a Chinese android phone for 180 bucks on Amazon.
Best of all, the Freedom Phone's uncensorable app store,
that claims to not ban apps at all, even like, malware,
- [Riley] It's fun.
- Is actually the Aurora Store,
an open source client for the Google Play Store,
I mean, hey, you absolutely have the freedom,
to get the Freedom Phone,
making bad choices, is part of growing up.
- [Riley] Becoming an adult,
you know, killing people accidentally. It happens.
- And leaked data has led to multiple reports revealing
that Pegasus, a piece of spyware intended to help
governments track terrorists and serious criminals
like Riley, - Ha!
- has been used by various regimes for surveillance
of journalists, activists, and human rights lawyers.
Pegasus can access all data on fully patched iPhones
and Android devices, according to its developer,
the Israeli based NSO group. NSO claims that will cut off
clients if they misuse Pegasus,
but who watches the watchers?
So far, they deny that evidence of misuse exists
in the leaked records,
which lists Pakistan's Prime Minister,
and the French and Iraqi presidents, as victims.
- [Riley] They're probably doing bad bad stuff.
- Macron,
eating macrons all day.
- [Riley] Too many.
- Amnesty International, which have published the data
has released a toolkit that can determine if your phone
has been infected with Pegasus,
but just to be safe, We changed our minds,
you should get a freedom phone.
- [Riley] Freedom isn't free, baby.
- Hmm.
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I'm still thinking about those temps. (scoffs)
You know it's even hotter than those temps?
The Quick Bits.
- [Riley] Oh.
- Blue Origin successfully launched
its first crewed flight yesterday,
carrying Jeffrey Bezos and his companions
to the edge of space.
Jeff thank every Amazon employee,
even the ones who pee in bottles,
and customer because they paid for this.
Which I'm sure just gave all of us a real warm feeling.
- [Riley] Yeah, that's what I want.
- We did.
But if you're mad at Jeff for spending money
on a romp into space,
He gave $200 million to charity when he landed,
so everything's fine.
- [Riley] Yeah, so it evens out, I think.
- He donated a billion to climate change.
- [Riley] Yeah, that's probably enough.
- Just wash the problem away.
(Riley chuckles) Don't actually do anything.
A leaked benchmark of Intel's Alder Lake 12900K,
shows the CPU beating an AMD Ryzen 95950X,
by 18%, in a multi-core test,
and by 28% in a single core test.
I'm not a mathematician, if these numbers are accurate,
then it seems like the blue chip could beat the red chip
by the percentages I just said,
or the inverse of them.
100 Minus, No, no, I'm not a mathematician.
- [Riley] You couldn't even get this right.
(laughs)
- Days before Nvidia demoed an RTX 3060 GPU playing games
on an ARM-based system running Linux,
a computer scientist named René Rebe,
That would be hard to type.
Patched the AMD GPU driver in Linux
to support a Radeon RX 6700XT
on RISC-V systems,
(grunts) which includes systems
with ARM processors.
- [Riley] There he is.
So what am I reading?
We are rapidly approaching a world of ARM-based desktop PCs
with full graphics cards and honestly,
I don't know if I'm ready for this.
JK, give me those chips boy, give me 'em, Let's go.
- [Riley] Chew 'em up.
- I drink it up.
Microsoft has backed off its initial claim
that the performance enhancing direct storage API
would only be available on Windows 11.
A recent blog post says it's compatible with Windows 10,
which is great news for change avoiding types everywhere.
What do you mean try new food, salami sandwiches
have a perfect nutritional profile,
and avocados are spicy anyway.
- [Riley] Especially if you dip 'em in mayonnaise,
there's eggs in there.
Olives, that's for those Italians.
Wait, salami too? No!
And Ubisoft has made another free-to-play shooter,
that no one wants. It's called,
XDefiant,
(Riley laughs) or Ze Defiant,
or XD Efiant, because Ubisoft cared so little
about what people thought about this,
that they let an AI, like an automatic name generator, just,
- [Riley] Z Shooter Man.
- Maybe they like Intel.
The game is like a hero shooter with characters
from Ubisoft shooter games,
and I'm bored already, So we're done.
What do you mean, that sounds like Smash Bros.
- [Riley] Yeah. But it the Smash Bros of dumb.
- Okay, we're gone.
And we're, apparently we're done with this episode,
so come back on Friday for more tech news,
please,
would be so great if you did that.
- [Riley] Please.
- Please.
- [Riley] Please come back.
- Bye. - I miss you.