1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,680 We don't normally do serious intros here at Techlink, but it sounds like a ton of 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,440 people are about to lose their jobs, and that really sucks. What happened to 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:12,719 Intel? You used to be cool, man. You used to be cool. Effective July 15th, 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,560 the first phase of Intel's plan to reduce their workforce by 20% that they 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:21,279 announced earlier this year will commence with 107 jobs eliminated across 6 00:00:19,439 --> 00:00:24,160 four facilities in Santa Clara. These are related to their automotive 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:28,320 business. But Intel has an automotive business. Had 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:32,559 an automotive business and it's getting shut down. But don't worry, it gets 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,760 worse. Xbox is also laying people off next week. According to Jason Shrier, 10 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:39,280 this was originally supposed to be thousands of Microsoft employees, but 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,600 apparently these jobs are going to come almost entirely from the Xbox team. Wow. 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:47,200 Windows search team dodging a bullet again. But three is the magic number, 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:51,039 right? Well, dating app Bumble is empowering management to make the first 14 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:54,719 move and laying off 30% of their workforce because business is down as 15 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:58,719 people have slowly realized that dating apps suck for all genders. Of course, 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,160 all of these terminations from all three companies have been in the name of 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,799 profits because capitalism demands that you must be over 6 ft. And regular LT 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:10,400 sponsor Dbrand is facing their own capitalistic crisis after telling their 19 00:01:08,479 --> 00:01:14,000 customers whose Joy-Cons were detaching that they were just holding their kill 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,640 switch too wrong. The company issued a massive first response to users 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:21,840 complaining about the switch to accessory explaining why and how the 22 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,840 issue was clearly just user error only 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,280 to receive backlash from the community. Part of which included a screenshot of 24 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:30,320 our own Linus Sebastian holding it the same wrong way. Now, this might be 25 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,439 victim blaming, but don't base your model of how you hold things on the guy 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:37,600 who has half a dozen dropping compilations. Okay, just think for a 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,880 second. However, it seems that the you're holding it wrong strategy is 28 00:01:39,119 --> 00:01:44,880 working about as well for Dbrand as it did for Apple 15 years ago. And Dbrand 29 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,320 has since done a 180 and issued an apology statement with a better plan to 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:52,240 properly fix the kill switch 2 with another update coming on July 10th. But 31 00:01:50,479 --> 00:01:58,880 don't expect any apologies from AI companies anytime soon because US 32 00:01:54,079 --> 00:02:00,880 District Judge William Alup als 33 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:04,799 has ruled that yes, you can train large language models on copyrighted works as 34 00:02:03,119 --> 00:02:09,440 long as those works were purchased. And I don't mean purchasing the rights. I 35 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,640 mean you literally have to buy a copy of the book. It's definitely better than 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:16,800 them just pirating everything. At least for now, they've got to pay hundreds or 37 00:02:14,239 --> 00:02:20,080 or no, thousands of dollars to acquire training material, but that seems like a 38 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:24,080 pittance compared to the potential revenue they'll earn from the trained 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:27,280 models. The law is murky, and Judge Alup came to this copyright conclusion at 40 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:31,360 least partially because authors admitted that training these LLMs didn't result 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:35,519 in direct copies or infringing knockoffs. Uh, officer, I'm just buying 42 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:40,319 a lot of guns, but I'm not going to use them. Come on yet. Anthropic, the 43 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:43,680 company being sued in this case, is happy with this result, no doubt, but 44 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:47,599 will be back in court to fight the accusation that they pirated 7 million 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:52,239 books to build a research library. There it is. 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Use our code tech50 and you'll get 50% 62 00:03:54,799 --> 00:04:00,560 off your first order of CookUnity meals. 63 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:04,200 I'm sorry. I was just trying to finish off these quick bits. 64 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:11,280 NVIDIA has announced another card that's dead on arrival, the RTX 5050. It's only 65 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:15,120 going to be $50 cheaper than the 5060 while offering way fewer CUDA cores and 66 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,400 based on what we can glean from the spec sheet, way fewer frames per second. Now, 67 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:22,079 NVIDIA isn't planning on sending any of these out for review, but I will still 68 00:04:19,919 --> 00:04:25,600 provide you with my preliminary review. You NVIDIA, and if you want a purchasing 69 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,520 decision, do yourself a favor and pretend the 50/50 doesn't exist. You 70 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:33,759 know what does exist? Maybe uh the all black iPhone 17 Pro. Imagine Buu himself 71 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:37,520 has leaked images of the upcoming devices, and the design is uh well, it's 72 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:41,759 it's another iPhone, but there's now another bump below the camera bump. That 73 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:44,160 is the innovation we like to see. We'll just have to wait to see how annoying 74 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,800 it's going to be when the camera bar gets caught sliding under your pocket like a Pixel or something. Speaking of 75 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:53,840 minor design improvements for expensive hardware, Noctua put out a 9 and a half 76 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:59,600 minutee video explaining the new NF A12 X25 G2 mm fan is about 9% better than 77 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,639 the last one. Now it comes with a progressive bend impeller. You know what 78 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:09,039 else has a progressive bend? What I don't have though is a centrifugal turbulator hub, an ETA Perf motor, or 79 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:12,800 super torque. What? How's a guy supposed to compete in this market? Come on. And 80 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,639 when I say come on, I mean tell me more about those HDMI 2.2 specifications that 81 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,080 are getting into the hands of manufacturers. Who knows when consumers 82 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:26,960 will be able to get the cables? And who knows how long the cables will be when they have to support 96 Gbits per second 83 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:32,720 of bandwidth, but I look forward to when I can game at 16K at 60 FPS. What a m. 84 00:05:31,199 --> 00:05:38,160 Honestly, while I can't get anywhere close to saturating all of that bandwidth, maybe Asus China's general 85 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:44,080 manager can. Tony U managed to pull about 1,900 watts of power through an 86 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:47,360 RTX5090 with BTF connectors. You know, the ones that are on the back. To 87 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:51,759 accomplish this feat, the Mad Lad used two power supplies and both the 16 pin 88 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:56,320 connector as well as the GCH power connector that ASUS has been working on. 89 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:59,600 And magically, none of the cables melted yet, but I'm starting to melt under 90 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:06,310 these blazing hot studio lights. So, come back next time for more tech news. 91 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:09,800 I'm melting. Oh, I'm melting.