- Tech News, it's the story of us.
And our eventual replacement by sentient vacuums.
- [Man] This sucks!
- They deserve it, they work hard.
Microsoft was found guilty in 2001
for artificially boosting Internet Explorer
using its monopoly power.
But now, 20 years later,
the company is trying the same thing, with Edge.
The latest build of Windows 11 breaks the functionality
of a widely used tool called EdgeDeflector,
used to mitigate Microsoft's annoying practice
of making every web link
in a built-in Windows feature open in Edge,
even if your default browser is set to something else.
Thankfully, developer Robert Maehl,
has created a new tool called MSEdgeRedirect,
that works around Microsoft's workaround
that broke the first workaround.
- [Man] Counter-countermeasures!
- Whoosh!
So users can stay one step ahead
of Microsoft's desperate attempts to
please, please use Edge, we even made it Chrome,
it's just Chrome now, just use it, please.
I guess they're not worried about antitrust
because that lawsuit was about Internet Explorer.
This is Edge, it's completely non-overlapping.
- [Man] Stop Edge-ing us!
- I'm getting Edge-ed.
Gamers were excited yesterday when Rockstar launched
the highly anticipated
Grand Theft Auto trilogy: Definitive Edition,
only to have their excitement turned to horror,
as the PC version suffered from graphical glitches,
major issues with the rockstar launcher app,
and annoying online check-in requirements
that made the game unplayable
when the servers went offline.
- [Man] That's video games, baby.
- (laughs) These are from, like, the PS1?
Gotta check in, we gotta know,
how are you doing?
Do you like the game?
Rockstar has now pulled the game from sale on PC
until they can fix the multiple problems.
Although, the trilogy is still available on consoles.
Apparently Rockstar has a history of screwing up the launch
of remastered versions of its games.
So you'd think they'd take the time
to iron things out for this one.
But maybe the launch itself has the same kind
of tongue-in-cheek commentary
on how much game launches suck sometimes.
Be very on brand.
No, no, no, no, no.
I punched a sex worker in game to make a statement.
You don't get it.
- [Man] You didn't pick up her cash.
(laughs)
- So?
Points?
And following intense community backlash,
Discord CEO, Jason Citron,
sounds delicious,
- [Man] Lemon-y!
- has done the old walk-back after indicating
his company was getting onboard the NFT train.
Oh no!
It all started earlier this week when Citron
replied to a tweet from a crypto investor
with an image of a Discord build
featuring integration with a couple of crypto wallet apps.
Then, the Discord community exploded,
threatening to cancel nitro subscriptions
to avoid encouraging pyramid schemes
that "destroy the environment."
Do they mean Ponzi schemes?
- [Man] That's different actually.
- You gotta get your schemes right.
- [Man] That's a different scheme.
- I know.
Check out Investopedia.
A couple of days later,
Citron tweeted that his original image
showed an internal concept
that Discord has no plans to ship.
And for now they're focused on protecting users
from spam, scams, and fraud.
The holy trinity.
Evil.
So Discord users don't have to worry.
I mean, if Discord does ship an NFT version,
you can just right-click it.
That takes away its power, from what I hear.
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A defense lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse,
the teenager who killed two people during riots last summer,
made a strange argument during the trial this week,
that pinching to zoom in on an iPad,
shouldn't be allowed because iPads, quote
"have artificial intelligence in them
that allow things to be viewed
through three dimensions and logarithms."
- [Man] Ahhh
- Those dang old logarithms.
- [Man] High school math (indistinct) - 3D ones too!
The judge asked the prosecution
to prove that zooming in doesn't
insert pixels in there and alter the image,
which to be fair, it kind of does,
but it just, there's just so many,
- [Man] The judge knows from looking
at a lot of shops in his day.
- Speaking of superfluous pixels,
Google accidentally pushed a nearly two gigabyte update
to pixel phones running Android 12 this week,
that was completely unnecessary
because the update was the Android 12 build
they were already running.
Google has now resolved the issue and should probably get
to work pushing updates to that lawyer's brain
because what?
I still can't,
what do you think like the iPad AI is going to add in?
Like, you zoom in far enough, oh my God,
it's George Soros.
- [Man] The glove fits!
(laughs)
- We figured it out.
Hold onto your Ryzen CPU's because a new cryptocurrency
called Raptorian can be mined most effectively
on CPU's with large L3 caches,
like AMD's Ryzen, ThreadRipper,
and Epic processors.
As if there weren't enough things
keeping tech products out of consumer's hands.
Now we may be looking at a new wave of scalpers
targeting team red.
- [Man] You just told me to go and buy it.
- Oh no!
- [Man] You're part of the problem.
- Whoopsies.
Apparently mining difficulty for the coin
is going up with earnings going down,
so hopefully these Raptors get thrown off the sand soon or,
No! (laughs)
Microsoft has added some nice quality of life updates
to the Xbox PC app,
which now supports custom install locations for games
Faster done-loads, those are the special ones.
And support for game mods, just like Steam.
Unfortunately the whole app only opens as a tab
in Microsoft Edge, so there's still some work to do.
- [Man] Stop Edge-ing us!
(laughs)
- [Riley] And the world's first iPhone with a USBC port
has been sold on eBay for 86,000 U.S. dollars.
The device is a custom modded iPhone 10
built by robotics engineering student Ken Pillonel,
who warned potential buyers that they shouldn't try
to use the phone as an actual phone
because doing basically anything with it might break it.
- [Man] This phone has one life to it.
Once it's dead, it's dead.
- And it's worth $86,000.
I think that's where the middle-class salary.
A phone that doesn't work.
Continuing this video is not worth it though.
So come back on Monday for more tech news delivered either
by me or a sentient vacuum,
we're working on getting them in, the shipment is.
- [Man] This sucks!
(chuckles)