1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,400 Well, everyone, World War II is almost here. Or maybe we've already been in it. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:10,080 But at least I can take a Tesla robo taxi to the enlistment office and 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:14,639 distract myself with hardware news on the ride over. That's right, the robo 4 00:00:11,759 --> 00:00:19,359 taxi is alive. Sort of. The program launched this weekend with Model Y's, 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:23,920 not cyber cabs, in Austin, Texas, and was limited to invitees, many of whom 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:29,279 were, surprise surprise, proTesla influencers, in a small geoenced area to 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:33,600 avoid construction, major highways, and complex intersections is scary. Tesla is 8 00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:37,440 allegedly using a special version of full self-driving that's not available 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:42,399 to the average Tesla owner. Of course not. It's not like people paid for full 10 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,840 self-driving years ago. They did. Oh, 11 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:47,840 they did. Well, kind of sounds like Tesla doesn't 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:52,480 trust the technology yet, which is even more apparent by their inclusion of 13 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:56,399 safety monitors. These are people there. It's like Amazon with the cameras. These 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:01,600 are people. Elon promised unsupervised trips by June. It is June, but this 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:05,840 launch not only has Chase cars in some instances following the 10 to 20 Model 16 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:10,240 Y's, but each taxi also has safety bonders in the front passenger seats 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:14,159 with kill switches ready to end the trip. Better than your life. Most 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:18,159 patrons said their rides were uneventful. Hail the car with the robo 19 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:22,799 taxi app. Find it at the pickup location, show the safety monitor your 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:29,360 phone, and away you go out into the wild blue geoence yonder and straight into 21 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:33,600 perhaps oncoming traffic. Thankfully, there have been no accidents yet. Elon 22 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:37,119 stated that there will be over a thousand driverless vehicles within a 23 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:42,159 few months, and rides currently only cost a flat rate, regardless of 24 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:45,040 distance, of $4.20. Oh, Elon, you're so 25 00:01:42,159 --> 00:01:48,960 quirky. That's the weed number, man. That's like the 69th time he said that. 26 00:01:47,119 --> 00:01:54,159 Nice. Speaking of rich people stuff, soon your 5090 could pull a,000 watts. 27 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:57,840 We've actually got a few GPU tidbits for you here, but let's start with Derbau 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:02,880 shunt modding a liquid cooled Astral card to draw a conservative 800 watts. 29 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:09,520 Definitely not the limit, but enough to outperform the super expensive RTX Pro 30 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:12,879 6000. in 3D Mark Speedway. It may have 31 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:15,440 been only by like 6 FPS, but hey, that 32 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:20,400 card costs overs $10,000. A win's a win. Hate NVIDIA. Dozens of Linux and Intel 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:27,040 Arc users can rejoice. It's been found that disabling Intel's graphics security 34 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:30,239 mitigations can net a nice 20% uplift in 35 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:32,239 Open CL and level zero in Ubuntu. This 36 00:02:30,239 --> 00:02:36,239 can be a little risky. Security measures are in place for a reason, but Intel 37 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:40,400 seems confident that it'll be fine. totally fine. They're so confident you 38 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:45,040 can already grab the Open CL and level zero compute stacks on their GitHub 39 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:48,239 pages security. And for more free performance, this time for hundreds of 40 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:53,440 you, Jay's two cents has pointed out that systems rocking 13th or 14th gen 41 00:02:51,200 --> 00:03:00,000 Intel chips and NVIDIA graphics cards might not actually have rebar enabled. 42 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:04,319 BIOS says it's enabled. GPUZ says it's enabled, but you'll need to dig into the 43 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,760 NVIDIA profile inspector to know the truth and potentially make a change. 44 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Check out Jay's video for more information and then check out our 45 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:17,519 sponsor. Oh snap, they looked at all the bulky, cheap, plasticky phone grips out 46 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:22,400 there and thought, hm, how about not that? Then they made the Snap Grip Lux, 47 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:26,480 a multi-functional MagSafe compatible, strong as hell phone grip that's somehow 48 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:29,760 still thinner than your camera bump. Look at this thing in grip mode. Now 49 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:34,159 look at it in kickstand mode and what it's charging now and it's magnetically 50 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:38,480 sticking to all sorts of metal stuff so you can do video calls or watch a show 51 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,599 and remember what it's like to have both hands free. 52 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,440 Yeah, I mean that's going to happen sometimes. It's time to upgrade to a 53 00:03:43,519 --> 00:03:49,920 phone grip that doesn't suck. Check out the O Snap Snap Grip Lux at our link in 54 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:54,640 the description. But what about the quick bits? In preparation for the Xbox 55 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:59,360 Ally X, Microsoft has been spotted testing out their consolidated game 56 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:03,360 library in the Xbox app. Finally, an end to game segregation across platforms. A 57 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:06,959 beautiful world where Steam and Xbox games can live together in harmony. To 58 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:11,760 try for yourself, just download the Xbox Insider Hub on PC and join the gaming 59 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:16,320 preview. Then take a look at the My Library section. Not literally my 60 00:04:14,239 --> 00:04:20,400 library. You don't want to go in there. And if you want to play those games with 61 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:24,479 a Steam Controller, don't. Because Tommy B has shown us the path to enlightenment 62 00:04:22,479 --> 00:04:28,639 with his version of the Steam Controller 2 or Steam Deck controller. He used a 63 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:32,560 ton of off-the-shelf and 3D printed parts to create a splitable unit that 64 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,400 features everyone's favorite trackpads. And honestly, it looks pretty sick. 65 00:04:34,479 --> 00:04:39,360 Valve, please hire this man or just pay him a bunch of money and make it 66 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:44,479 official. Either way, just let the people have it. Now, there's more good news. Today's just it's just a good day. 67 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:48,880 The Epic team working on Unreal Engine 5 updates has shown off a significant 68 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:54,639 performance uplift going from patch 5.4 to 5.6 in the Paris Tech demo from scans 69 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:59,360 factory. GPUbound scenarios saw up to 25% higher frame rates and CPUbound 70 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:05,120 scenarios saw up to 35% with reduced frame time spikes and all with better 71 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:06,720 visuals. Holy actually. Yeah. U 5 72 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,360 is finally going to be optimized. Incredible. R/patient gamers, you shall 73 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:16,479 be exalted. Something else to look forward to is this super cool real life 74 00:05:13,919 --> 00:05:20,479 ad block using augmented reality. You see an ad or a product, it gives a big 75 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:26,479 transparent ad block logo. But soon, thanks to Steen Stigen Spavenho, I'm so 76 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:30,720 sorry, man. You too could be inundated with giant red rectangles. It's not 77 00:05:28,479 --> 00:05:36,720 perfect, but it's a cool first step to an ad-free world. ltdstore.com. And 78 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:42,000 last, but not least, yep, War Thunder forum users are added again. War Thunder 79 00:05:39,919 --> 00:05:47,440 Forum users will be War Thunder Forum users this time. A user uploaded a 80 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:51,759 section from a Nat TOPS manual for the 81 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:54,560 AV8B and TAB8B Harrier. Clearly marked 82 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:57,759 that it's not public information. It's not a massive leak, but it's a leak 83 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:01,680 nonetheless. So, somebody set the counter back to zero for the reset. Just 84 00:05:59,919 --> 00:06:04,639 like I'm resetting in a couple of days, stay tuned for Wednesday's episode where 85 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:11,039 we'll have stories about crazy stuff like magical GPU price cuts. Just 86 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,039 kidding. I can't tell the future.