{"video_id":"F4aHAfc6kXQ","title":"The 5090 Situation Gets Even Worse","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":536,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":7.6,"text":"it's February 21st 2025 and we got Tech news but we won't have any on Monday","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.0,"end_s":11.36,"text":"February 24th I'll have the day off but I probably won't be able to relax as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.599,"end_s":16.359,"text":"I'll be too excited to return on Wednesday I love Tech news more than my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.799,"end_s":21.84,"text":"family and I hope they never find out NVIDIA's launch of the RTX 50 Series has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.24,"end_s":28.76,"text":"had another wrench thrown in its gears after Tech PowerUp and others discovered","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.24,"end_s":31.0,"text":"that some 509s have fewer Ro or 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love Tech news more than my family and I hope they never find out NVIDIA's launch of the RTX 50 Series has had another wrench thrown in its gears after Tech PowerUp and others discovered that some 509s have fewer Ro or raster operations pipeline units than they should leading to lower performance than so-called normal 90s is it okay to say that the issue was first spotted on a Zotac model by Tech PowerUp Forum user Wy gamer but reports soon emerged of similar Roop shortages on an MSI RTX 590d the China exclusive version as well as a manly 90 but what does that even mean in 2025 you know it's the brand leaker Mega siiz GPU claims what we're seeing is a small defective batch of GB 202 chips which power the 590 making it into the supply which has reportedly LED NVIDIA to initiate investigation that could potentially delay the launch of the RTX 5070 ruining AMD's plans to reactively price its upcoming RX 970 series or more likely follow its historical pattern of pricing things horribly for no reason not that any of this really matters this week's RTX 570 TI launch had the same stock issues as the 80 and 590 despite both NVIDIA and new EG Reviving their covid era direct buying GPU programs so even if you get your hands on a new card it might be borked hey have you heard about reading books I think that's like the third time I've made that joke in recent memory apple is axing its Advanced Data protection feature for us in the UK after the government there issued a pretty wild order demanding Apple provide a back door through the features endtoend encryption doing so would expose the data of users not only in the UK but anywhere in the world to the UK government but they were like ah we don't care let us in knock knock new Apple users in the UK will no longer be offered ADP encryption and existing UK users will be required to disable it sometime soon making so the government can access their data no problem although they need a warrant to do so amazingly some are characterizing this as Apple defying the government by not giving them the back door they wanted but as epic gam CEO Tim Sweeney points out apples simply opening the front door instead which at least is a polite gesture I'm sure the British will appreciate open aai is now rolling out its computer using agent operator for 200 bucks a month chaty GPT Pro subscribers in most countries where chat GPT is available including Canada who just won a hockey game against the US which means we can keep being a country according to chat GPT agents are all the AI rage right now Humane might be dunzo but rabbit just showed their Android agent controlling a tablet which of course they used to generate a revenue plan from a business idea and share it with contacts the most important use case for AI bothering your friends with your Ponzi scheme ideas but what about physical agents robotics company figure just demoed their Bots running Helix their new generalist action model which allowed them to follow instructions given by their Californian dad to put away groceries even passing items to each other while sharing very slow but knowing looks that seem to say I'm dad's favorite no I am you this action model is similar to Google's art T2 which combines multiple perception and language models so robots can do stuff but Microsoft's new magma is a single multimodal model that can do all of that not that we could verify it it's all closed Source but deep seek has announced it will do one better than just being open weights and will be fully open sourcing five of their repos starting next week so instead of the CCP controlling what deep seek models say you do you can be China you can also check out our sponsor Microcenter your source for PC parts and support at prices that'll make you go wow those are pretty good even better February is build your own month with amazing deals on CPU bundles cases coolers RAM and more Microcenter also got a new GPU tradein program bring in your working GPU purchased at Micro Center and get same day value for your graphics card and for any other old or out-of-date Tech Micro Center can help you recycle it or donate it to charity but Riley I live in Santa Clara you say buddy that's perfect their new location there is opening soon don't forget to sign up for a free 128 gig flash drive when the store opens and check out micro centers build your own month at the links in the description if tech news is my family quick bits are the Legos on the floor after my son destroyed the set I spent an hour building for him stepping on them hurts on multiple levels YouTube will soon launch a cheaper version of premium in the US called premium light which would remove ads on all content except music videos according to Bloomberg who described YouTube as a vast library of podcasts and how-to clips and if those are the other options I guess we post music videos premium light has reportedly been in testing in other countries but soon users in the US will be able to see if they like tariffs on their music videos I don't think that's a proper analogy but okay HP instituted a policy that added a 15minute wait time to the company's support calls according to the register as a way to quote encourage more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to selfsolve while there certainly is a place for tough love I'm not sure making people wait even longer on the phone with support staff is the way to do it and HP seemed to agree as they rescinded the policy after widespread reporting on how dumb it was although we don't know what the hold music was if they're playing bangers I might be okay with it your computer's busted but hey Time To Get Funky meta has said that even if they did torrent 82 tabt of pirated books it's no big deal if you don't seed them as seen in a filing from the social media giant this week you see it's not the training AI on unlicensed pirated content that's the issue it's performing the common courtesy of helping other do the same thing like come on that's illegal this whole thing has got real I did not inhale uh Vibes yes I put the ebooks in my mouth but earlier this week Microsoft announced Muse an AI game generator that was trained on and could only recreate low resolution slop versions of the gameplay from Ninja theories failed MOA bleeding edge which is I think something all of us were asking for Xbox Phil Spencer suggested Muse could help with game preservation by emulating any game based on gameplay footage a suggestion AI researcher and game designer Dr Michael cook called idiotic because that's kind of like preserving the Mona Lisa by having your toddler draw it from memory I mean the spirit is there and Google released an AI tool called co- scientist this week which can generate hypotheses for researchers to investigate the BBC claimed in an article that this tool had cracked a super bug problem in two days that took scientists years that sounds amazing but as another article from New Scientist and excellent science YouTuber Angela Kier points out what actually happened is the co-senior the suggestion was based on a previous paper the team had published in 2023 and I don't know if you could call providing a list of possible solutions cracking the problem but hey I'm not a scientist but if you come back on Wednesday for more Tech news remember no Tech link on Monday then I think that makes you a scientist right maybe I I don't actually know what they do"}