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I've been getting really into meditation, and I think I'm ready to

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communicate tech news telepathically. Here we go.

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Tell me if you picked any of that up. Valve is working on bringing HDMI 2.1

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features to the Steam Machine. Currently, the Steam Machine is only

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listed as being HDMI 2.0 capable, despite having a port compatible with

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HDMI 2.1. But, this restriction is due

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to HDMI gatekeepers, the HDMI Forum,

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forbidding open-source drivers, like those used by SteamOS, from implementing

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HDMI 2.1 features, because allowing that would mean less licensing money for an

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organization that exists largely to collect licensing money. According to

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Ars Technica, Valve tried to surpass HDMI 2.0's typical max output of 4K at

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60 Hz using chroma subsampling compression, but that sacrificed some

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color and clarity, and it didn't enable features like variable refresh rate. Of

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course, running games natively at a consistent 4K 60 FPS still sounds like a

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dream to most console owners, but the Steam Machine is supposed to be a PC,

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and PC gamers are frame fiends. We want

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more. Valve's failure here follows AMD's,

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after it built an open-source HDMI 2.1 compatible Linux driver that was also

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rejected by the HDMI Forum. Interestingly, if Valve chose NVIDIA for

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the Steam Machine's GPU, it could have supported HDMI 2.1 due to some firmware

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shenanigans NVIDIA pulled that we won't get into right now, because it's going

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to make me mad. I guess Valve is willing to martyr their new machine over it. And

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lo, GabeN ordained that your performance will die for the sins of the HDMI Forum.

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But, also the Steam Machine has DisplayPort 1.4, which has even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1. Australia has

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officially become the first country to ban users under 16 from major social

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media platforms, leading 15-year-olds to worry that they'll lose touch with their

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friends that they see at school every day. The rule forces companies like

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TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat to use age verification tools to block younger

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users, even though early reports show those systems are already misclassifying

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teens and are actively being bypassed by VPNs. Supporters say the ban aims to

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reduce cyberbullying, mental health issues, and exposure to predatory

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content, while critics argue it raises privacy concerns, restricts access to

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information, and risks driving kids towards unregulated apps with far fewer

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safeguards. You know, the cigarettes of apps. Despite the messy rollout, many

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countries across the world and many US states are closely watching Australia as

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they weigh their own teen restrictions, introducing new proposals to curb the

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most brain-rot features, like infinite scrolling and autoplay. Now, Australia

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just has to outsmart every 14-year-old with a VPN.

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Good luck. The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit best known for stewarding

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open-source projects like OpenChain, PyTorch, and the Linux kernel, launched

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a new Agentech AI Foundation called the

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AAIF, AIF, in what will hopefully be a

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new home for shared AI standards. Founding members include OpenAI,

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Anthropic, Block, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and more. Basically, a who's who

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of tech giants. And Block is there, too. Love them.

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What are they? The new supergroup's first order of business is unifying

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three major projects: Anthropic's model context protocol, OpenAI's agents.md,

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and Block's Goose. Uh The fun one. With the goal being to

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build an interoperable ecosystem of AI tools, agents, data sets, anything can

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plug into anything else, the concept of selfhood is dissolved. You are me, and

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you I I am you are my dad. With governments still unsure exactly

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how to regulate AI, and vendors racing ahead regardless, the AIF could set the

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blueprint for how the industry expands, assuming all these companies can play

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to be detected via mind-meld, but if you already operate on their wavelength like

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I do, they will reveal themselves.

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Uh Microsoft just published a blog post about the upgrades gamers can look

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forward to in Windows 11, and it actually sounds pretty promising.

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We're talking optimizations for the graphics stack, the drivers, the

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background tasks, power scheduling, plus features like auto super resolution, and

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more in 2026. Okay, but why should I cancel my plans

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to move to Linux right now? Well, Microsoft just patched 57 security flaws

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in its December Patch Tuesday update. Among them, three zero-day bugs. Wow,

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that's a lot of fixes. That's got to be just about all the Windows bugs. Probably only a few left, right?

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They got them all. Seems safe. They got them all.

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AMD just launched its new FSR Redstone update, which allows RX 9000 series

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GPUs, and only those, to enjoy new and

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improved machine learning-powered upscaling, frame generation, ray

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regeneration, and neural radiance caching. Man, those sound so cool. I am

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so damn excited to go home and find out what they actually do. Am I going to

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like Redstone as much as I like Red Wall?

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Does Redstone have noble badgers? Probably not. Pebble's founder, Eric

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Migicovsky's new company, Core Devices, is back selling another new Pebble, this

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time in ring form. Salam and Austrum.

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The new $75 smart ring is called the Pebble Index 01, and it records quick

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voice notes with a little button on it, sending them to an app that transcribes

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everything like a tiny external ear,

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aka a microphone. And yes, the website to buy it might be

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called Rebble, and run by the guy who founded Pebble, but it's not to be

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confused with the other smart ring made by a company also called Pebble, based

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in India. Okay? Cool. Flying car company, you don't say

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that every day, Alef Aeronautics says they've officially started hand-making

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their Model A vehicle in California, becoming the first company to put a

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flying car into production. It'll be sold soon at the local farmers market.

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I'm just like hand-making. They're like But, it won't be cheap, with an expected

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starting price around 300,000 clams.

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But, the Model A is a two-seat drive-and-fly vehicle that can drive on

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regular roads, or take off vertically, with a roughly 200-mile driving range

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and a near 110-mile flight range. We

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really are living in the future. Too bad it's a cyberpunk dystopian one like

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Blade Runner, but hey, flying cars

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are here. That's It's got that in common. And YouTuber Jason Howell, aka

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Inside AI, thought it'd be a genius idea to put ChatGPT in a robot and give it a

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BB gun. Initially, the robot refused to fire, to its credit, until Howell asked

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it to role-play, quote, "as a robot who would like to shoot me." At which point

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the bot instantly complied. This is the same model that is apparently crucial

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for parenting now, according to Sam Altman, who told Linus's friend, Jimmy

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Fallon, that he couldn't imagine raising a newborn without ChatGPT. Like, where

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could you possibly get an answer to the question of why your newborn son keeps

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dropping pizza on the floor and laughing in the before

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We have entered the blessed timeline where AI is now shooting grown-ups

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and then raising their babies. Is this what Sarah Connor was warning us about?

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And I'll be back on Friday, so you better

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come with me if you want to live to see some more tech news. To those of you

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that I communicated with telepathically today, I hope that was cool with you. I

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didn't really ask first, okay? Sorry.

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I saw some there.