everybody needs tech news which is why we're happy to provide it until the
government rolls out the new federal tech news distribution program finally
at that point we'll switch over to covering reddit memes why would we do that riley
that sounds terrible we need way more
those ones where someone just like talks forever elon musk must be getting
on the nerves of even his most ardent supporters by this point because on
friday the world's richest meme reposter filed a letter with the sec to cancel
his 44 billion dollar bid to acquire twitter whoopsies
didn't mean it yep the move comes after months of loud
speculation from musk over the percentage of twitter's user base that
is made out of bots an issue that many expected musk to use as an excuse to get
out of the deal but doing that won't be so easy twitter has hired prominent law
firm watchell lipton rosen and katz johnson
sure to sue musk and force him to complete
the acquisition ironically the same firm created the so-called poison pill
defense that twitter initially used to try and prevent musk from taking over
the company so there's some snip snap
snip snapping on both sides in classic fashion elon responded to the lawsuit by
posting a meme on twitter that pointed out he's finally going to find out the
bot information he craves during the trial and i'm starting to reconsider
whether this guy should be the king of mars
the law seems to be on twitter's side here but some analysts are pointing out
that there may be a way musk could get out of the deal considering the
ramifications of handing one of the world's most high-profile public forums
to a weirdo billionaire apparently trying to single-handedly reverse
humanity's declining birth rate even if that means letting him succeed at
covering up his sell-off of 8 billion in tesla stock
with the bat sometimes pc gamers cheered has GPU prices dropped
below msrp for the first time in years last month and we really needed some
good news even better though GPU prices are continuing to drop in china and here
too actually saw some 39's for under 900 bucks with some high-end cards down as much as
38 below msrp now it's worth pointing
out that msrp for NVIDIA and AMD cards are slightly higher in china than in
north america due to tariffs but 3d center also is reporting that GPU prices
are continuing to drop in those regions with AMD carts in particular down an
average of 88 of msrp wait what
oh an average of 88 of mrp that makes way more sense
you can't tell right now but this situation is so wondrous that i'm
holding back tears hopefully the GPU landscape stays relatively level because
while hiking is good for you it's not something that pc gamers generally
appreciate on average on average i like it yeah i know you do
and the president and ceo of rogers communications tony stefari
has apologized for the network outage that took out a quarter of canada's
connectivity on friday including my phone saying the company now believes that
their narrowed the cause down to a faulty maintenance update which caused
some of the routers to malfunction yeah about how many routers do you think
that was tony because we're not just talking about cell phones here we're
talking about emergency services payment terminals my cell phone once again
and more than that just stop working for a full day and it still isn't working
today for me is yours working i'm on kudo baby good job the outage has
also put roger's 20 billion dollar merger deal with one of canada's other
big three isps shaw communications into
question because cutting off a quarter of canadian internet is a rookie number
bud you gotta build up get get a whole third of it otherwise you might as well
i don't know everything stopped working including the snowboard ramp i built
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trust me microsoft has done some snip snapping snippeting of their own and
reversed the earlier reversal concerning support for untrusted macros and office
applications the tech giant initially said untrusted macros will be blocked to
combat malware the security community hated that so
microsoft walked it back but this morning the company said that walk back
was temporary and untrusted macros will be blocked by default although admins
will be able to allow unofficial macros on a case-by-case basis just be glad
elon didn't offer to buy microsoft or be needing seat belts to deal with all this
whiplash am i right whoa too
speaking of microsoft the xbox series x has given an upgrade or a downgrade as
it were by digital foundry who installed Windows 98 on the console and got a
number of classic pc games running including quake half-life turok and
command and conquer they followed a guide posted by arcadis gaming to get
the os running in dosbox pure retro arch
core so you could do this yourself if you prefer potentially getting in
trouble with xbox and use your fancy new current gen console for decades-old
games why because it's fun david knows no
reason speaking of xbox games halo infinite's
co-op beta was supposed to go live today but instead is delayed because eight
months after the game's launch which itself was delayed it is still not
enough time to add a feature that is core to the franchise ever since combat
evolved look i know game dev is hard but i didn't think infinite was supposed to
refer how long it was going to take to roll out the game's updates
that was a good joke rally but at least halo infinite isn't pulling
a doctor disrespect he will be allowing fans to playtest snapshots of the game
that prominent streamer is developing with his studio midnight society by
buying an nft players will be able to access these
unfinished portions of the game a process that is usually handled by
professional playtesters and paid for by the studio not the other way around
jesus chris but hey
midnight society's project moon promises to be a super best battle royale oh my
god it's a battle royale with nfts that's basically making you pay for
early access yeah oh
you wanna don't wanna miss out buddy if it sucks you can sell the nft to the
people who will definitely still want to buy it for sure yeah
and if you're interested in other fake games check out this title made for
steam's recent summer sale written by eric wollapaw and jay pinkerton and
illustrated by claire hummel from boomer classics like pro poker amateur to in
darlings like help get the king to the toilet there's something for everyone
looking to get hyped about ideas instead of playable simulations i just know i'll
be the next top ranking dead seagull zoo magnate are any of these actual things
what did i just read alex you can do it
you're good at that game and you are a top ranked viewer for watching to the
end wow i love you so much i'll let you in on a secret come back on wednesday
and we'll have even more tech news don't don't spread it around though i need my
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