Tech news is neither here nor there it's in its own Dimension filled with magic
smoke and giant heads like the ones from Easter Island except they're all Tim
Cook and they answer every question with no no Microsoft has backported
AMD's Branch prediction improvements for Zen 3 4 and 5 CPUs to Windows 11 version
23 H2 meaning that ryzen users can
download this new optional update rather than sitting by the window sighing and
waiting for version 24 H2 to become available 24 H2 is currently in release
preview and reviewers report substantial performance improvements in several
games according to testing by Hardware Lux some of the games like Starfield are
seeing gains of 13 to 41% depending on
processor model and others like cyberpunk 2077 saw gains anywhere from 4
to 61% there were also some odd outliers
like control which saw General improvements but an odd 10% regression
with the 7800 x3d Hardware unboxed
likewise found a 2 to 4% Improvement for
Halo infinite but a 30 plus% Improvement
for Gears 5 if this optional update is at all similar to the performance
granted by the 24 H2 preview build it should bring real world performance
closer to the benchmarks that AMD had to retract last week after reviewers were
unable to replicate them Source I made
it up meanwhile MSI motherboards are incorporating AMD's update for ryzen
59600 x and ryzen 7 9700x CPUs with a
toggle in the BIOS that increases TDP from 65 to5 Watts which promises to be
around 133% faster it's not downloading
more RAM but it's close enough both I
fix it and Jerry rig everything performed tear Downs of Google's
upcoming pixel9 Pro XL to test the company's claims of a two-fold increase
in durability you can hit it with two hammers now and it it will still break
while the phone was indeed more durable over the past pixel generation it was
also significantly more complicated to repair with plenty of hidden screws and
fiddly brackets the worst kind of bracket it's like you're trying to get
to second base with a robot who is also jigsaw daughter would you like to play a
game with my robot daughter what I fix its inspection hit a rocky start when
their application of gentle heat and pressure to remove the device's screen
caused a significant delamination rendering half the display unusable
though luckily for this generation Google has implemented a dual entry
design that allows the user to open the device from the back in order to replace
the battery meaning users will be able to avoid removing the comparatively
fragile screen while the pro xl's double
XL battery comes with a pair of deceptively handed looking pull tabs
they were apparently just for show both I fix it and Jerry rig everything wound
up resorting to isopropyl alcohol to disolve the powerful glue and finally
using a spudger to Crowbar the battery out it's just a prank you know things
get real when the spudger gets involved Jerry rig everything further pointed out
that all of the tiny screws were different sizes adding unneeded
complexity and creating a devious trap for absent-minded repair technicians
with hay fever don't sneeze or it's all over gotcha you got punked an audit
performed by the US Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector
General has found serious flaws in how the FBI stores tracks and disposes of
electronic storage media containing sensitive and classified information
like National Security documents and my sixth grade diary you know they have it
we're in Canada but they're very thorough according to the oig's report
the FBI doesn't do enough to track internal hard drives and thumb drives
increasing the risk of loss or theft the organization also failed to consistently
label these drives with the appropriate classification levels which could lead
to employees getting a little too casual with top secret documents likewise
facilities holding Electronic media to be destroyed and disposed of were found
to be insufficiently secured to the point of being monitored by
nonfunctional security cameras that's why the they weren't they're not being
monitored it's about the threat the FBI has acknowledged the findings and
outlined a few potential Solutions such as putting the drives in cages and using
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in the tech news Dimension you know they fly around in there which is why you do
want to keep your head down they will sting you they poop everywhere SpaceX
has delayed the launch of the Polaris Dawn Mission which is being funded and
crewed by billionaire Jason isaacman
isaacman is perhaps the fourth billionaire to take an unreasonable
interest in space if it happens one more time I can fill out my punch card and
get a free sub I could just take all my money up there and then it'll just be me
and my money it'll be perfect the Polaris Dawn Mission will be the
farthest crude space flight in 50 years what's a few more days in more
unfortunate SpaceX news one of their Falcon 9 Rockets tipped over and fell
into the ocean today oh oh no oh no oh
no no no no no no no no in the Rockets defense it had completed 23 successful
flights it deserved a beach day we're out here supporting the the Falcon
Rockets you guys work hard I want to see the Falcon 9 Rockets
unionized signs of upcoming AMD Hardware
has been spotted online bench leaks tweeted some geekbench results for a
system with a device ID of gfx1 1201
which was previously associated with Navi 48 a GPU that will power at least
one radon RX 8000 series graphics card
hopefully the RX 8600 because these
results place it between the 7700 XT and
7800 XT but you're a handheld gamer now
you don't care about desktop gpus you want me to move on to this 96 core Zen
5based rizon Threadripper CPU spotted
in a shipping manifest looks cool I don't know when it's coming and also I
don't know why you would care more about that you can't install that in your
handheld either you're a quirky one we're going to figure you out though
ganet the largest newspaper publisher in the US has decided to shut down its USA
Today product review website reviewed
blaming changes to Google's algorithm affecting search traffic so far so
normal sadly but it's notable that the site's own Union ized staff accused
ganet of using it to publish AI written articles just last October suspicions
were raised not just by the article strange stilted writing but also by the
fact that several articles were structured near identically to one
another further the authors cited in the by lines seemed to have no other
traceable web presence making them either AI Fabrications or privacy
conscious ghosts with a passion for Consumer journalism I know which one I
prefer they just left us too soon they had unfinished business for some spooky
reporting researchers from Google and telev University have revealed game
engine oh I get it an AI model that can
act as a game engine this was demonstrated by its ability to
interactively generate 1993's Doom in
real time using techniques similar to stable diffusion game engine can
apparently Run quote Doom at over 20 FPS using a single
tensor processing unit and human testers
were only able to distinguish genuine Clips lasting a few seconds from these
generated Clips around 60% of the time
now does this mean that we are essentially forcing a computer to
hallucinate demons yes you truly can run
doom on everything and the world's first online accessible
bioprocessor is now available to almost anyone
final Sparks neurop platform is a service that allows remote access to 16
human brain organoids basically little
meatballs made from brain cells since we
last reported on this in May final spark has now opened up paid 247 access to
their weird wetwear for academic
customers it costs $500 per month while industrial users can get a quote for
access to a sin against nature I'm
joking here brain organoids like this have been used in robotics research and
are also helping search for a cure for Parkinson's Disease it's a welcome
Redemption Arc for meatballs which are mostly known for causing heart disease
it's $600 a month if you want it with oregano just don't ask them if they're
alive and we're known to give you more Tech news if you come back on Friday
that is it's like training your very own human brain bioprocessor except it's
free and also it's your brain