- Hi there, welcome to another video about tech news
on a normal day where nothing significant is happening.
(Riley laughing)
Retail listings for Nvidia's
as yet unannounced GeForce RTX 3060 Ti have been spotted
at a Saudi Arabian retailer for 3,690 Saudi riyal,
which works out to about $986 US.
It's frankly cheap for a card that hasn't come out yet.
That's premium.
- [James] What are the taxes and stuff?
- Maybe they're just trying to get ahead of the scalping
for when it actually launches.
Early bird pricing.
The 3060 Ti has also shown up
at a few Chinese online retailers,
which seems to indicate the card would launch December 2nd
for 399, 100 bucks less than the 3070,
and that's much more reasonable.
We're also seeing fresh rumors about an RTX 30 ADTI
to take on AMD's Radeon RX 6800, as well as an RDX 3050 Ti,
which would solidify Nvidia's position at the low end.
- [James] There's so many cards!
- Yeah, but the crazy thing is this generation,
we got AMD looking good at the high end,
and Nvidia taking the low end.
What is this topsy-turvy situation?
James, I'm spinning out of control.
James, help!
- [James] Just wait for the supers.
- [Riley] It appears that Watch Dogs: Legion,
a game about hackers, has been hacked.
- [James] Yeah!
- A ransomware group called Egregor claims
to have infiltrated the servers of both Ubisoft and Crytek,
and as proof, they published a bit of data
on their site yesterday.
But Egregor says they have the entire source code
for Watch Dogs: Legion,
and will begin posting it online
unless Ubisoft contacts them.
I'm assuming they want something other than figurines
from Ubisoft's ridiculously ugly collector's edition.
- [James] Or else we're gonna release our own DLC!
- No, please!
Ubisoft says they're investigating the breach,
but this isn't actually the only technical problem
on their hands.
Legion's auto-save feature
is reportedly corrupting player saves,
leading to infinite loading screens.
But I think that might just be part of the immersion,
like you have to hack your way out of it.
Egregor had the right idea, I mean, to be fair.
Don't hack people.
And okay, fine, we'll talk about the US election
for one second.
Votes are still being counted
and there's a lot of information flying around,
so Twitter and Facebook have been labeling a lot more posts
than usual that contain misinformation.
A good many of these came from President Donald Trump,
who claimed yesterday.
He claimed yesterday that he won the election already
and posted that Democrats are trying to steal the election
by continuing to count mail-in and absentee ballots.
Facebook and Instagram have notices posted
on their feed pages notifying users that the winner
of the presidential election has not been projected yet
as there is every indication
the results probably won't be completely known
for another day or two.
I guess this is the type of thing you want Facebook
and Twitter to fact check,
even if I am still salty they didn't like my hot take
about how cats are literally the spawn of Satan.
- [James] What was wrong with Satan?
- It's, it's.
That's a good point.
- [James] And we're due for another "Spawn" movie.
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- [James] You've done this so many times.
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- Bloomberg's Mark Gorman,
an Apple leaker with a stellar track record,
is reporting that the first ARM-powered Apple Silicon Macs
will be a 13-inch MacBook Air,
and a 13 and 16-inch MacBook Pro,
and that we're likely to see these
at Apple's One More Thing event on November 10th.
These laptops will probably look the same
as the existing models with the focus expected
to be on their performance and power efficiency.
- [James] And biceps.
- One can hope.
Intel hasn't confirmed whether they'll be watching the event
but industry sources claim they'll most likely be
in bed eating some unusually moist ice cream.
'Cause they're crying into it.
The tears are dripping into the ice cream
and then it becomes a bit of a-
Owners of the Google Pixel 5 have been posting photos
of a strange gap between the body and screen of the phone.
But a Google spokesperson says that's a totally normal part
of the Pixel 5 design.
- [James] Because they're designed by Tesla.
- We asked them.
And it doesn't affect its water or dust resistance,
even though some photos have a gap on one side of the screen
and not the other.
I feel like this is maybe a post Twitter
should put a label on.
And here's another regular reminder
that this is why you don't pre-order.
- [James] Colin.
- Oh, Colin's right there.
(crew laughing)
Did you pre-order it?
Do you have it right now?
I don't wanna see it.
Wait, does it have a gap?
- No! - Show us your gap.
- It will.
A report for Mercury Research found
that AMD's Ryzen CPUs have passed 22% market share,
AMD's highest CPU market share since 2007.
But for me, this is also a reminder
that Intel ain't quite dead.
They still got over 60% CPU market share,
so don't feel the need
to send them any fruit baskets just yet.
That's what you send companies when they die, I think.
Uber and Lyft will not have to classify their drivers
as employees after California voted overwhelmingly
in favor of proposition 22,
which allows gig-based companies to continue treating
their drivers as independent contractors.
I'm sure you might feel a certain way
about this news based on your politics, but and that's it.
But something we can all agree is pretty dumb
is GameStop holding a TikToK contest for their employees.
(upbeat music)
With one of the prizes being 10 additional labor hours
to use during Black Friday week.
As in the prize was the privilege of working more
during the most intense shopping week of the year
in a pandemic.
- [James] Wait, what?
- Overtime pay though!
- [James] That's what it is, really?
Now I'm gonna do a TikTok dance about.
- [James] You get to work more?
- Capitalism!
And this episode can't go over time,
so now it's over.
Come back on Friday for more tech news.
If we're all still alive.
- [James] Join us on TikToK, that's where we'll be.
- Probably not.