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You know what? I want to cover some old tech news. Like it's like it's 1998 and

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Internet Explorer just overtook Net Vista and there were only 151 Pokemon.

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Good stuff. But counterpoint Quaxley

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H. Okay, the magic's still there.

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Electronic Arts, the makers of your favorite full-priced annual sports game

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roster update, announced today that it has been acquired for $55 billion.

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The consortium buying EA includes Saudi Arabia's public investment fund along

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with Infinity Partners, which was founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law,

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Jared Kushner. Not the kind of Kush typically associated with gamers.

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The enormous deal makes EA the biggest leveraged buyout ever. And we'll see the

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company's shareholders get $210 per share. Right now, we don't know how this

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buyout will impact EA's games. We'll have to wait to find out if this is part

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of Saudi Arabia's attempt to resuscitate their public image or if EA's video

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games will start to show signs of Saudi government influence. Perhaps a next-gen

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Sims title featuring forced labor and executions, or a Battlefield 6 DLC game

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mode featuring journalist assassinations. EA already just blew up

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our beloved Zack Efron, so really nothing's off the table. Qualcomm

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Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme

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chips have been benchmarked by a number of tech outlets since their unveiling

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last week, with most of those outlets running headlines like this shows

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promise. And hey, not bad. Now, normally

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that kind of measured cautious enthusiasm really gets me going. But

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it's important to note that the only results being shared are from specific

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synthetic benchmarks that Qualcomm pre-installed on the demo laptops.

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Although they did let the journalists press the start button for which they

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received a sticker that said, "I helped." Now, some of you may remember

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Qualcomm had a similar setup while promoting the first gen Snapdragon X

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series. The pre-launch hype for those chips reached a fever pitch. Reviewers

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and certain tech news related individuals were foaming at the mouth

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for what we all thought and hoped would be Windows answer to Apple silicon

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power, efficiency, and compatibility on the ARM architecture. And then the

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actual chips launched, and their performance turned out to be just okay.

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They were interesting and innovative and definitely pretty cool, but compatibility issues remained and the

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gaming experience didn't live up to the hype. So, forgive me if I feel the need

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to use a bit more than a pinch of salt in this particular entree, even if I do

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love to see it on the menu. Open AAI is adding a couple long- aaited features to

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ChatGpt. Parental controls and the ability to buy stuff directly from the

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chatbot. Two things that actually go together quite well. After a lawsuit

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from the parents of a teen who took his own life, the parental controls OpenAI

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promised are finally here allowing parents to link to their teenagers

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accounts if the teen opts in and if the

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teen doesn't ever disconnect their account, which they can do at any time,

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although the parents will be notified. And right there is a perfect

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illustration of how in the internet age we, you know, we're we're just trying to

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trying to figure uh we don't know what the doing. Um, this is parental

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controls for the good kids that need it the least, but it's something. If the

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accounts stay linked though, parents can customize their teens experience by

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setting time limits, turning off voice mode and image generation, and hopefully

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disabling that other new feature, instant checkout. It'll let ChatGpt

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suggest products that users can buy without ever leaving the app. It's built

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on an open agent commerce protocol developed with Stripe and will only work

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with Etsy listings for now. Although the plan is to add support for over a

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million Shopify merchants soon, which is exciting news for the dieards who

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couldn't ignore that something real was

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missing in their relationship with their AI boyfriend or girlfriend, the ability

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to engage in commerce. or at least have a conversation about our sponsor,

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Proton, the email provider that's not linked to big tech, so they don't want

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your personal data. Oh, you live in Xplays with Y other people and/or

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animals. They could literally not care less. Although, they are happy for you.

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See, Proton uses endtoend zero access encryption, so only you can read your

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emails. I thought that's how it's supposed to work. Plus, they use advanced fishing protection, tracker

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blocking, and they even monitor the dark web to see if your email shows up

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because that's not allowed. And if you're super serious about privacy,

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Proton lets you use unlimited email aliases. Plus, you can connect to it

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through the tour network for another layer of anonymity. Wow, I wish Proton

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could also replace apps like Google Docs and my VPN and password manager, too.

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That would be Guess what? They can. So, yeah, I guess you've got to go create an

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account for free. Try it for a few months and see how it feels to stick it

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to big tech now. Uh, using our links in the description. Proton Reggie Allei is

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the fastest Pokemon with a base speed stat of 200, but that legends,

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it's got nothing on these quick bits.

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NVIDIA's RTX50 Super series of cards are

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rumored to be arriving in the first half of 2026. Bench Life reports that

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although the cards were expected to be announced at January CES 2026, the cards

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should actually be revealed between March and May this coming year. Bench

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life suggests that the RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, and 5080 will all get super

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variants, which will see all three cards memory capacity expanded. It's very

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thoughtful of NVIDIA to delay these cards so we have more time to process

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the damage they'll do to our collective bank accounts. Stop buying NVIDIA.

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They're going to they're going to sell out. It's just a fact. Asus is working

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to address stuttering and performance issues with several of its ROG gaming

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laptops. Apparently, the issue impacts ROG laptops all the way back to the 2021

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models. But this bug was only recently brought to light by Zeke on GitHub,

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whose work was highlighted on our September 19th WAN Show. Our I mean

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maybe >> ASUS has released beta BIOS updates for

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a number of the affected laptops. And in a community update, the company says to

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expect more finalized work in early October. It's good of ASUS for finally

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getting on this long-standing issue after being called out on a popular tech

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podcast. Now, that's the kind of quick customer service we love to see. All

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right. Apple has made its own chat GBT- like chatbot app, but it exists only to

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test their new Siri AI revamp. Ultimate

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knower of Apple secrets, the Imperious Germinator Mark German reports that the

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new app camedas is being used internally by Apple staff

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to test out the company's current AI models. However, the app is not planned

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to be released alongside the long- awaited upgraded Siri, which could start

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rolling out as early as this coming March. Now, early is doing a lot of work

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in that sentence. Honestly, though, Apple take all the time you need to make

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this good. Nobody needs a slightly better Siri. It's too late for that.

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Microsoft doesn't seem to like your energy when you're working with its

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Office products. So inspired by AIdriven

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Vibe coding, they're introducing Vibe

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working, aka not working. Using Microsoft's new

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office agent in Copilot Chat, you can type in prompts to create AI generated

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PowerPoint presentations and Word documents with Excel support coming

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soon. Probably not going to win any Excel championships with this, but hey,

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you can also use the incredibly similarly named agent mode in Word or

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Excel to create AI generated spreadsheets and documents right in the

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app. Ultimately, what is better for your work vibes than just letting AI do a

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worse job of your tasks for you? Your work doesn't make sense. Who cares?

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You're vibing. And what do you do for work? We vibe.

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and beloved streamer Skyrim Grandma, also known as Shirley Curry, has

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announced her retirement from uploading Elder Scrolls videos. In her goodbye

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video, the soon-to-be 90-year-old told her viewers that after about 15 years of

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streaming, she is tired and not having fun anymore. But don't worry, Curry says

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she'll still be posting vlog every so often, and she even left information to

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stay in contact with her. Nice to see her retire like this instead of because

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of an arrow to the knee.

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Plus, there are always rumors that The Elder Scrolls 6 could be right around

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the corner. So, one day we might see Skyrim Grandma ride again, but I know

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Techlink will definitely ride again on Wednesday. So, come back on that day.

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For now, go like and subscribe and I will go catch up on literal decades

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worth of new Pokemon. What the hell is a Blilon?

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Blesson.