Details on NVIDIA's next-generation of GPUs, codenamed Blackwell, appear to
have been leaked, raising the question of whether Team Green can pull off a
better redemption than Shawkshank. Let's hope the answer isn't "Z Watanae no." Do
you remember? That's a deep cut. I'm James Drive, this is TechLinked, and this is the ChipHell
forum post where leaker Panzerlied posted the numbers 2 3 5 6 and 7. Before
you think Panzerlied forgot how to count, Liverpool FC fan and hardware
leaker kopite7kimi elaborated that the
upcoming Blackwell GPUs will be cut into five dies, the GB202,
203, 5, 6, and 7. That naming is notable
for two reasons. Lots of numbers today. 200 series usually represents dies that
are respins, chips that are built again to be better, faster, costlier.
Also, there is no four variant, which is typically meant to be used for the best
bang for the buck GPU. I guess that doesn't exist anymore. Until NVIDIA
decided to prank us by giving that designation to the die for the 4070 and
4070 Ti. Say it. Floor Tom cymbal.
Oh. Oh. Now, NVIDIA has replaced the XO4
die designation with XO5. Does the higher number here indicate lower
performance as usual, or did NVIDIA just want a chip that accurately reference
their favorite mambo?
The new RTX mambo number five. Hey, no
Lou Bega voice. A group of six music labels, including Sony and UMG, is suing
the Internet Archive over their attempt to preserve music recorded on 78 RPM
discs, a format that was discontinued in 1959.
Holy cow, you know you're evil when the Archive's Great 78 Project is trying
to save the work of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and many
other talented dead people. But, the labels argue that because the preserved
songs are already available to stream, there's no chance they'll be lost,
forgotten, or destroyed. Which, you know, press X to doubt. You only can
stream one version usually. When there's a remaster, that's what you get.
When they're in the cloud, they're there forever. So stupid. According to the Internet
Archive, the Olden Times recording still holds significant research value as
artifacts and usage evidence. And that's artifacts as in unintentional sounds in
audio recording, not like the Venus of Willendorf. Hot. This comes only 4
months after the Internet Archive lost another copyright lawsuit brought on by
a group of large publishers who sued the archive for making digital books
available without restriction during the unprecedented global pandemic when most
of the world's libraries were closed.
[sighs] The archive says it plans to appeal the decision, apparently unapologetic for
their dastardly crimes of enabling literacy. But if they can read, they
won't stream our music. Disney has decided to stop producing
physical media in the entire country {slash} continent of Australia because I
guess not enough things regularly perish there. They do. That's the They There's
spiders. spiders. There's lots of spiders. The House of Mouse is instead going full
throttle on Disney Plus because why charge a customer once for something
they really want when you can charge them for one thing they want and
thousands of things they don't want every month until they die.
Obviously, this isn't just about getting people to sign up for Disney Plus and
then forgetting to cancel the subscription. It's also because the cost of
manufacturing physical media, which I'm sure is only near zero. Disney has also
pulled physical releases from some countries in Latin America and Asia
where the sales numbers were underwhelming. Unfortunately for some,
this trend extends beyond movies with upcoming games like Starfield not even
including a physical game in their $300 constellation edition despite including
a steel book case. They don't have them in the future.
Alan Wake 2 is an example of a big budget game releasing digital only, and
even Alan Wake 1 to show you that THQ Nordic is begging for discs. Please,
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your purchase. The doctor told me the quick bits have been inside me all
along. I have 3 months to live. Dell was found to have misled consumers on
monitor prices in June by Australian regulators, who have now issued the
company a fine of 6.46 million US bucks
or 10 million Aussie billabongs. It's actually called a fine. A fine. From
August 2019 to December 2021, Dell's Australian website suggested that
shoppers could get the best price for monitors if they bundle them with other
items, but that best price often turned out to be a much less desirable higher
price. I totally get where Dell is coming from, though. They were probably
talking about the best price for them. Yeah, well, you know, $6 million is
nothing. For Dell? In other tech companies maybe being
badly news, Apple will soon pay up to $500 million to settle a class action
lawsuit filed in 2020 accusing them of secretly throttling performance of older
iPhone models. Remember? Apple maintains that they did nothing wrong, a claim
that's totally consistent with paying a half a billion dollars to people complaining you did something wrong. The
3 million claimants involved in the lawsuit could receive about $65 each
once all is said and done though, so this way everybody's happy. Apple didn't
do anything wrong. They just felt bad. We're sorry you feel that way. Here, you
can get a happy meal. In other Apple news, according to a man whose name
rhymes with Dark Merman, Apple is planning planning a major update for the
Apple Watch's 10th anniversary, Watch X, which sounds like porn. Despite the
Roman numeral, the watch won't be a wearable Hellenic sundial, but a rather
a huge overhaul of the design including a micro LED display, thinner watch case,
magnetic band attachment system, and a blood pressure monitor.
That's got to be weird for the ninth model of the Apple Watch, which isn't even out yet and is by all reports an
extremely minor upgrade to the standard Apple Watch formula.
Middle child syndrome, I guess. Where's Windows 9? Microsoft went micro hard
finding vulnerabilities in the industrial automation software CODESYS,
objectively the sexiest kind of software. In both a presentation and a
blog post, Microsoft stated these vulnerabilities could be used for remote
code execution and denial of service attacks.
Due to the wide use of the software, these vulnerabilities could have been
used to shut down important utilities like power plants, which provide the
energy that allows you to Google why Sharona was written out in the middle of
the third season of Emmy winning TV series Monk starring Tony Shalhoub.
It's a travesty. IT'S A TRAVESTY. WHY SHARONA?
And Netflix is rolling out public testing of its new cloud gaming service
for select subscribers in Canada and the UK.
What? Why? Weird, very weird sounds. Netflix has
had mobile games since last November, but now a random handful of Brits and
Canucks will be able to stream exactly two games on web browsers on certain
TVs, notably not including Apple TV because the Apple Store doesn't allow
cloud gaming and Tim Cook hates joy. To be clear, this is less about exclusivity
and more about making sure that the new system doesn't crap up its own back if a
million people log on simultaneously. What an image.
Jeez. That was not in the script. And you should get your friends all on
simultaneously to to watch this Wednesday's episode of Tech Link. You
can sit all together and say nothing while you stare at your phone. It's just
like dinner at my parents' house. Except my mom uses an iPad.