hey good to see you i was just i was just scuba diving over there looking for
tech news and yeah i'm really glad that i'm up here
now because it it is gross over there
a year and a half after being banned from the iOS app store fortnite is
finally coming back to the iphone
sort of see relations between apple and epic
games are still as hostile as ever so epic has made a deal with NVIDIA to
stream the mobile version of fortnite through GeForce now which is possible
using a web app in the iOS safari browser so it's less that the game is
back on the iphone and more like it's kind of squeezed itself in through the
doggy door but you think that matters to the poor iphone gamers who've been stuck
in a depressive spiral since august 2020
although there are probably some other factors at play here too
although the game has remained accessible on non-iphones as a direct
download this whole time Android users will also be able to stream the game
through the GeForce now app if they sign up for the closed beta iOS users though
it's safari classic streamlined apple simplicity it just works play the game
by streaming it on a website through a web browser instead of using a clunky
old app revolutionary i love it
in other NVIDIA news the company's cfo colette cress has told multiple outlets
that team green expects the GPU shortage to get better in the second half of 2022
is it because they saw it in their orb
or is it because there are competitors coming that are actually going to like
manufacture mainstream cards i don't know
while press has claimed that NVIDIA expects a better supply situation for
their own gpus should be taken with a grain of salt as everything should be
when it's in vague corporates some chinese media outlets have reported
larger numbers of rtx 3050 cards being distributed to board partners
it also makes sense to remain skeptical that the shortage will ever end as long
as crypto mining is a thing um i don't know what the asteroid line is about but
good job riley battle and crypto mining and russia has done the world solid
claiming to have neutralized notorious ransomware gang re-evil
the fsb said it arrested 14 members of
the group which were responsible for among other things hacking the world's
largest meat supplier and software infrastructure company caseya last year
those are two separate companies not the same company that is in meat and
software luckily nothing ended up happening to
the meat unfortunately the same day that russia announced the arrests the company was
accused of orchestrating a massive cyber attack that took down multiple ukrainian
government websites where the hackers left anti-ukraine messages this attack
comes in the midst of other accusations that russia is preparing a real invasion
of ukraine which would definitely offset any positive solids
that russia did by arresting the ransomware gang you know
you know i'm just gonna have to take that back russia you're back to square
one with me maybe even in the negatives
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out of the oven not too crispy you got to let them cool a little yeah i burned
one too many times the log 4j vulnerability discovered about a month
ago was so bad and widespread that the white house held a meeting yesterday a
month after to talk about how open source software needs better security
well google seems to think it's the government's job to do something about
it since many federal infrastructure systems rely on open source projects
that are often maintained on a volunteer basis so going forward all open source
developers will be officially employees of the us federal government yeah
problem solved right oh easy a few days after AMD said they're looking into
adding support for ryzen 5000 series cpus on older x370 motherboards asrock
has come out and done just that exact thing a BIOS update for the company's
x370 pro 4 adds ryzen 5000 support
although it does remove support for AMD's bristol ridge apus because you
can't have it all i mean what's next you want to plug an SSD into your CPU socket
get over yourself i've already done it a couple of high-profile tech products are
getting kicked like cans down the road a little bit as a couple of reports
indicate that both apple's ar headset and tesla cyber truck has been delayed
to 2023 not the cyber truck
this is frankly completely unsurprising given that there is very little evidence
that either of those are actually real i mean the cyber trucks Windows appeared
to be real during that demo where they shattered but the rest of the truck
could have been cardboard for all we know
that's why the rest didn't shatter oh it's cardboard and they're on the moon
and twitter founder and outspoken nft bro jack dorsey's new crypto focused
company block has announced that they are building an
open bitcoin mining system that
decentralizes mining making it more distributed and efficient by apparently
making it a lot easier for anyone anywhere to easily purchase a
mining what does this have to do with anything
i mean isn't this the main concern that people have with crypto the amount of
people already mining we have to decentralize
this it's all you give it to the people it's already decentralized that's the
whole point they can fix it and this week microsoft shut down the original
halo 3 servers that were used when the game first launched on xbox 360 way back
in 2007 and people online are very sad about it because those servers represent
precious memories like all those times you hurled joe mama jokes and hateful
slurs at strangers through xbox live and
and squatting yeah and it's squatted
over them because they hear it they hear it through the mic thankfully a gaming
group was able to help one player fishy 956 get in one final halo 3 achievement
before the server shut down for good which i guess made them feel nice probably i'd
feel nice if you came back on monday for more tech news because it'll make wading
through the detritus of the internet over there much more worthwhile there's
got to be something we can do about that decentralize it decentralize it make it
easier for everyone to buy one