okay it's time for serious Tech
news it's serious
stop an Intel press release dropped this morning suddenly announcing CEO Pat
gelsinger's retirement after less than four years in the position with some
real Mafia energy Mr Ginger is currently
resting but he sends his regards no fur the questions Insider sources told
Bloomberg and Reuters that Intel's Board of directors weren't happy it was taking
so long for gelsinger to turn the ship around after years of previous
Executives continually breaking off the rudder so they gave him a choice to step
down or be forced out so it makes sense
why ginger is also stepping down from the board the vibe would be super
awkward according to an Insider Source I just made up some are theorizing Pat was
spending too much money to fix the company's issues which angered
shareholders the board would prefer to hire a new guy to try and fix things in
less than 4 years maybe try taking away free coffee again I I don't know or
maybe Intel's upcoming Arc Gen 2 Gaming gpus will help the company confirmed a
reveal tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern to officially divulge whether all of those
leaks were real including the one from the weekend where the funky kit show
casually broke embargo to show off an arc b580 and this other one showing the
b570 with 10 gigabytes of vram I hope
old Pat took the new gpus home with him and he's got a lot of time to game now I
was this close to making of my other dad NZXT Flex program which rents out PCS
for a monthly subscription has been called a scam for engaging in
manipulative bait and switch tactics by YouTube channel Gamers Nexus who I've
never heard of it's more than Flex just being a bad deal though gn's hourlong
video highlights things like NZXT off offering a named build like the player 3
PC which has an RTX 470 TI super if you
buy it but an RTX 470 nons super if you
rent it yet the performance of the two configurations is presented as the same
so many people wouldn't catch this our TechLink analysts have assured me that I
probably would though NZXT is also accused of changing subscription prices
sometimes every day and jacking up prices for customers a few months in
NZXT has resp responded saying they are aware of the recent claims made against
us and are actively reviewing the situation although I hope that the fact
that you can build your own PC with less than a Year's worth of flex monthly
payments isn't a recent claim
what well that's news to me I mean why why are we doing this that's ncxt by the
way blizzard is forcing game store GG to
delist the original versions of Warcraft
1 and 2 because blizzard just launched remas mastered versions of those on
Battle.net so why would you ever need to buy both Originals for 15 bucks or 13
bucks with the discount code make Warcraft live
forever well Gog says one reason is that
you'll get an offline installer so you don't have to wake up one day to find a
blizzard exec took away your game because he doesn't like you Go's also
tweaked the code themselves improving performance and adding support for high
resolutions and upscaling and they added Warcraft 1 and two to their go
preservation program promising to update the game so it stays compatible with
modern and future systems even after it's delisted on December 13th they're
fixing other people's games now if that's not in the spirit of Zug Zug I
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I it's great quick bits though are no
joke I tried to make them laugh once I barely escaped leaks for new radon gpus
from AMD are also starting to pop up in case you thought they were going to let
Intel and NVIDIA have all the fun for the next few months the Radeon 8800 XT
is about to enter mass production so it's expected to launch in early 2025
with Ray tracing performance similar to the RTX 480 and better than the RX 7900x
while using 25% less power that's all according to a couple of reliable
leakers on the chipal forums named Jang
Jang how and wjm 47196 Titans in the industry Microsoft
is getting real serious about making you Windows 10 using mother upgrade to
Windows 11 already tweaking a help page for surface device and updating hundreds
of other support documents with banners and notices saying essentially hey you
got less than a year until Windows 10 loses support quit screwing around no
doubt Microsoft is aware that market share for Windows 11 actually dipped
this month losing some ground to Windows 10 I don't know it's like throwing an ad
in people's faces when they start up their PC makes them not want to listen
to it I I know Microsoft I'm as confused as you are open source router project
open wrt has offered custom firmware for
ages but now they'll be offering their own Hardware in collaboration with the
software Freedom Conservancy an organization that may not actually let
deprecated apps like notepad roam free on a big stretch of grassy land
somewhere but I'm going to imagine they do anyway the open wrt router and its
specs were actually announced back in January with an almost unbrick design
and you can get it as just a board or with a case and everything I'm guessing
it's the best thing you can buy on AliExpress that's the only place you can
get it I don't know why apple is being sued by Amar Baka a current Apple
employee of 4 years for spying on its
staff through work-related and personal devices it's not the first time an
employee has expressed concern over Apple's surveillance of its own workers
in 2021 Jacob Preston took issue with apple requiring him to sign into certain
work rated services using his personal Apple ID it comes across a bit
hypocritical when Apple touts their commitment to privacy as a
differentiator compared to other Tech Giants but it makes more sense when you
think about it like this consumer privacy just depends on employees not
having any is that hard to understand and an AI startup called World Labs has
released demos of 3D worlds it says can
be generated from a single image and navigated like a video game it's just a
video game where you can only move about 2 feet in any direction but that's just
the Prototype World lab says things will get more immersive since instead of
using generative AI to predict pixels they're predicting an actual depth map
of a 3D space is this just procedural
generation is this just no man's Sky again oh man I can't wait to jump into
some AI generated 3D worlds and explore every nook and cranny to find all the
fun things the developers left for me oh I'll leave you with a reminder to come
on back on Wednesday for more Tech news so you can keep your mind sharp after
all brain rot is apparently the Oxford word of the year for 2024 we can do
better