what i love about tech news is it doesn't care whether you just woke up it
says look at me like me computers and you know
that is special AMD talked some big talk yesterday
promising 50 more performance per watt for their upcoming rdna 3 gpus and 25
more for ryzen 7000 cpus coming later this year but if we're going to talk
performance per watt then you're going to want to hear some more exciting news
that slipped under the radar this week a user called x serious on twitter posted
about an insider graphics driver for rdna 2 gpus that brings a massive free
performance boost in opengl games and applications the driver was speculated
about a few weeks ago by red gaming tech which is a way easier gamer tag to read
but now it's actually available to download and a couple minecraft players
have already boosted their frame rates from 18 to 72 in a graphically demanding
area of the not so graphically demanding game and from 550 to over 900 in the
less demanding ones it's over nine hundred tell that to your grandma she'll
be so impressed oh your frames are so high
opengl is used in a ton of games but also professional applications like
autocad blender and after effects so when this driver drops to the public
Radeon 6000 series graphics cards are gonna have a lot more pep in their step
which is great because as we all know we've been feeling a little
self-conscious lately and also times are tough i don't want to spring for a seven
thousand and when the steps of my six thousand are just so damn peppy you just
want free stuff and pep free pep microsoft has not announced their xbox
cloud gaming dongle but they have announced that you won't need one if you
have a new samsung tv which is great because i don't think the dongle will
even come out with the screen or at all actually it's probably never going to
come out it's basically just a little dongle samsung's entire 2022 lineup will
come with the xbox game pass app which will let you stream games from the cloud
using any bluetooth controller and soon you'll even be able to stream non-game
pass games that you own GeForce now style which is a cool style
way better than karate microsoft also had some other related announcements its
edge browser will unsurprisingly have optimizations like clarity boost to make
it the best choice for cloud gaming with game pass and the company is working on
bringing back game demos wow on disks uh
no maybe so close remember when you didn't have
to buy a console game to figure out you actually wanted to play it or not i do
and it was way better it was way better back in the day they all the time that
i'm old enough to remember was the best time today sucks don't have kids and
good old jeff keely would like to talk to you about his lord and savior video
games at this year's summer game fest where a boatload of game trailers were
unceremoniously deposited they were ceremonious there was a whole ceremony
it's ceremonial ritualistic sorry you got the vanilla ones like call of
duty modern warfare 2 showing off fancy weather simulation and the kalisto
protocol aka dead space 4 space zombies
again but you also had stormgate a co-op strategy game made by starcraft 2
veteran devs that does indeed make you want to give my life for ire good
there's yet another alien shooter called dark descent capital a aliens
aliens like xenomorphs yes they're just movies
and a dishonored but with demons game called witchfire while fort solis and
the somehow still in game development routine are new entries in the abandoned
space station horror genre spoiler alert things are not what they seem
that's truer than ever for skate story a game about a skateboarding demon made of
glass and pain uh if you bail on a skateboard as much
as i do this won't be a long game he's on a mission to swallow the moon
and that's just a tiny taste of game fest so check out pc gamers roundup
linked to the news sources i swallow at least a few moons a day
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quick bits don't care what you think but they do care about what you say please
be respectful mit researchers have discovered an unpatchable flaw in
apple's m1 chips somewhat similar to the spectre and meltdown exploits found on
x86 chips apple thanked the team for finding the flaw but didn't seem too
worried about it because they were probably too busy rolling around and
their giant piles of app store money
another reason to buy m2 because the attack would work by
guessing something called a pointer authentication code the team named it
pacman which has got to be the most fun part of being a security researcher like
it's like adopting a puppy you know yeah or discovering a comet microsoft
accidentally allowed some unsupported pcs to upgrade to Windows 11 this week
Windows insiders posted on reddit that they were installing the os on their
dirty unwashed machines powered by heretical processors like the Intel core
i5 7300 you
know you one user said all seems good after
updating but microsoft was quick to point out that this was a bug and the
requirements have not changed hey we do not not change them further insteon
which is a smart home company and not some kind of pokemon evolution suddenly
shut down operations a few months back but has suddenly come back online thanks
to a small group of passionate insteon users also known as pokemon trainers i'm
keeping this going they managed to acquire the company wait we can do that is this a dao is
this a crypto thing guys do you wanna do you wanna buy google wall street bets
saved gamestop anything's possible we could buy the us constitution
in case you thought Linux was safe from horrible software flaws
it's not security researchers that intezer and the blackberry threat
research and intelligence team very like the phone it is they have teams
i've discovered a Linux malware called symbiote that can infect all running
processes without leaving any sign of his presence except that you'll have
bangs and a company called
violite sure thinks it's found a way to make you a better gamer by blasting
light up your nose violet's transcranial
intranasal photobiomodulation device has too many
syllables and applies light therapy directly to the forehead
no to the blood vessels in your nostrils which can increase
nitric oxide improving oxygen oxygen oxygenation
and thus energy levels energy levels win games folks and as
long as you don't turn your camera on it in the discord chat you'll be vp yeah
it's over i'm not redoing this we have now
expanded both our energy and tech news for today so come back on monday for
more because i'm pretty sure it'll help you gain better somehow yeah i'm going
to shave my nostril hair this week just to open the channel it's going to be so
much faster in life i'm probably gonna get chafed
just from the air rushing through