you came for Tech news so that's what I'll give
you if if you also want to hear my Sci-Fi series pits just let me know you
know at any point Microsoft has reiterated that it will not budge on
including TPM 2.0 or The Trusted
platform module as a hardware requirement for Windows 11 with senior
product manager Steven hosing writing in the company's it pro blog that the
security feature is non-negotiable unless you're a business
business and opt for the iot Enterprise ltsc version of Windows 11 which doesn't
require it or if you're following guides from Microsoft themselves as well as
others that tell you how to install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC but
other than that it's off the table the Double Down comes as Microsoft is
ramping up pressure on Windows 10 users to upgrade which for many means
upgrading their Hardware too because of the phantom menace requirement different
TPM the whole issue is Complicated by the fact that the real requirement
keeping some users from upgrading isn't even TPM 2.0 there are a couple
generations of Intel and AMD processors that have that feature but aren't
included in the list of supported processors for Windows 11 so what does
Microsoft actually want your PC to have to let you upgrade your OS the right
Vibe they actually don't even want you to upgrade they just like popping ads up
in your face ah got him you're sick
Intel finally unveiled their second gen Arc gpus yesterday after busting them
out of freshly fired CEO Pat gelsinger's
office he was fired because he wouldn't let the company launch them that's not
that's not true I'm just looking for a reason that makes sense lonus Tech tips
has a full breakdown but the tldr is the
ark b580 will launch for 250 bucks on
December 13th with the b570 launching at
2 20 bucks on January 16th in a number
of colors and flavors thanks to Intel having more board Partners on board this
time despite having a power draw on the lower side with the limited edition
reference design only sporting a single 8 pin connector Intel says the b580 is
24% faster than the previous gen Arc
a750 a higher tier board and delivers
64% better rate tracing performance than an RTX 460 and you might say
I don't care about R tracing well Indiana Jones and the great circle just
became the first mainstream game to require Hardware Ray tracing support you
want to get with the times or have an atypically swashbuckling archaeologist
say that you belong in a museum that would not feel good alongside
architecture improvements Intel's upgraded their XE super sampling Tech to
X SS2 which now has frame generation
like NVIDIA's dlss 3 and AMD's FSR 3
along with a low latency feature Intel is leaning hard into its aggressive
pricing here saying the battle mage cards have 25% better performance per
dollar than NVIDIA and AMD's 60 tier
cards and they've got about a month to convince Gamers that's the case before
team red and green start dropping their own nextg gpus NVIDIA is heavily
expected to announce the RTX 50 Series at CES and AMD's own recently released
code references both the RX 8800 and RX
8600 look at me you're going to wait for
the reviews this time before shooting your mouth off right you can do it stay
strong open AI has announced 12 days of open AI which means that starting
tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. Pacific it'll host a live stream every day for 12 days
to launch or demo new AI features a
holiday tradition of tech Bros since days of your or so Chachi B tells me but
gole gole seized this opportunity to give Sam Alman a taste of his own
preempt your competitor's AI announcements medicine the tech Giants
suddenly opened access to their vo video
generator through their vertex AI platform along with their imagin 3 image
generator but more importantly they unveiled Genie 2 a foundation World
model that one-ups the world Labs demo for Monday's episode and generates 3D
game worlds you can run around in or or sail around in for up to a minute before
reality starts to decohere Deep Mind
says that genie2 generates game content
that's plausible which I was going to say is the bare minimum for games but
then I remembered Kingdom Hearts exists unlike decart's AI generated Minecraft
simulation Genie 2 can actually make it so the world looks the same or at least
similar when you turn around imagine and
can generate gameplay in multiple perspec Ives like first person third
person and isometric a few demos even showed characters interacting with
objects in ways that stretch the meaning of the word plausible but again death
stranding shipped so Genie 2 can render game protagonists as well as NPCs and
lead to some fun situations like this one where the player just stood in a
garden and didn't move at all and eventually a ghost appears huh if that's
not creepy enough the googlers took their previously announced generalist AI
agents capable of operating in any game and drop them into these nonsensical
dream worlds presumably as a kind of
prank hey wait a sec is this
AI yeah just like you just like me a
that's funny oh Deep Mind also showed their New Gen cast AI weather
forecasting system outperforming the current best in-class model but that's
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space travel experiment has torn the fabric of reality and there's portals
everywhere also humans have evolved Tales again they they came back I'm
working on it but first quick bits in response to the US tightening export
restriction even more China said it would ban Rare
Minerals crucial to Tech production from being exported to the US who said it's
just now realizing how much rejection can hurt the ban minerals include
gallium and geranium of which China is the biggest producer on the plus side if
stuff isn't being exported to the US then it can't be subject to tariffs so
at least American companies won't have to pay extra for it win-win the FBI and
cesa America's cyber Defense Agency have
warned the Nation about the dangers of using unencrypted messaging such as text
messages sent between iPhones and Android phones it's a bit of a strange
warning coming from the FBI which has historically opposed encryption which
makes it harder to get into people's phones for national security purposes
the thing is it looks like Chinese hackers still have deep access to
American communication networks after using a government back door to break in
so please make sure to use encrypted messaging apps until we can get these
hackers out of here and then we can go back to unencrypted so the right
government can spy on you properly Ubisoft has announced it's shutting down
its free-to-play shooter X defiant less
than a year after launching and less than 2 months after denying reports that
it was going to do this very thing while The Game season 3 content will still
launch with servers remaining live until June 2025 the news also means the
shutdown of three different Production Studios and 277 employees being laid off
my heart goes out to those developers one of whom I really hope brought up the
fact that that name sounds like a Call of Duty parody game they made up for a b
movie to avoid licensing fees X defiant
it sounds like a translation error and the FTC won't let scummy companies be
proposing orders yesterday that would ban location data firms ventel and
mobile wallala from selling location data which can reveal details about
consumers visits to medical clinics and places of worship sensitive areas the
ban would prevent these companies which are some of the most prominent of their
kind from conducting their main business providing location information to
advertisers as well as government agencies like the IRS daa and FBI man
they're not going to be able to arrest anyone soon thankfully the propos is
subject to public comment for 30 days before it can be made final so go let
the FTC know if you really want weird companies to still be able to dox you
and let me know if you want more Tech news by coming back here on Friday for
more I think I'm going to take a page from Tim Cook and keep doing this until
the voice in my head says it's time it
hasn't said it yet it says all kinds of other fun things though