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it's February 21st 2025 and we got Tech news but we won't have any on Monday

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February 24th I'll have the day off but I probably won't be able to relax as

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I'll be too excited to return on Wednesday I love Tech news more than my

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family and I hope they never find out NVIDIA's launch of the RTX 50 Series has

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had another wrench thrown in its gears after Tech PowerUp and others discovered

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that some 509s have fewer Ro or raster

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operations pipeline units than they should leading to lower performance than

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so-called normal 90s is it okay to say

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that the issue was first spotted on a Zotac model by Tech PowerUp Forum user

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Wy gamer but reports soon emerged of

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similar Roop shortages on an MSI RTX

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590d the China exclusive version as well

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as a manly 90 but what does that even

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mean in 2025 you know it's the brand

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leaker Mega siiz GPU claims what we're seeing is a small defective batch of GB

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202 chips which power the 590 making it

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into the supply which has reportedly LED NVIDIA to initiate investigation that

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could potentially delay the launch of the RTX 5070 ruining AMD's plans to

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reactively price its upcoming RX 970

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series or more likely follow its historical pattern of pricing things

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horribly for no reason not that any of this really matters this week's RTX 570

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TI launch had the same stock issues as the 80 and 590 despite both NVIDIA and

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new EG Reviving their covid era direct

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buying GPU programs so even if you get

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your hands on a new card it might be borked hey have you heard about reading

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books I think that's like the third time

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I've made that joke in recent memory apple is axing its Advanced Data

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protection feature for us in the UK after the government there issued a

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pretty wild order demanding Apple provide a back door through the features

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endtoend encryption doing so would expose the data of users not only in the

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UK but anywhere in the world to the UK

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government but they were like ah we don't care let us in knock knock new

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Apple users in the UK will no longer be offered ADP encryption and existing UK

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users will be required to disable it sometime soon making so the government

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can access their data no problem although they need a warrant to do so

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amazingly some are characterizing this as Apple defying the government by not

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giving them the back door they wanted but as epic gam CEO Tim Sweeney points

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out apples simply opening the front door

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instead which at least is a polite gesture I'm sure the British will

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appreciate open aai is now rolling out its computer using agent operator for

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200 bucks a month chaty GPT Pro subscribers in most countries where chat

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GPT is available including Canada who just won a hockey game against the US

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which means we can keep being a country according to chat GPT agents are all the

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AI rage right now Humane might be dunzo but rabbit just showed their Android

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agent controlling a tablet which of course they used to generate a revenue

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plan from a business idea and share it with contacts the most important use

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case for AI bothering your friends with your Ponzi

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scheme ideas but what about physical agents robotics company figure just

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demoed their Bots running Helix their new generalist action model which

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allowed them to follow instructions given by their Californian dad to put

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away groceries even passing items to each other while sharing very slow but

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knowing looks that seem to say I'm dad's

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favorite no I am you this action model is similar to Google's art T2 which

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combines multiple perception and language models so robots can do stuff

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but Microsoft's new magma is a single

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multimodal model that can do all of that

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not that we could verify it it's all closed Source but deep seek has

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announced it will do one better than just being open weights and will be

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fully open sourcing five of their repos starting next week so instead of the CCP

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controlling what deep seek models say you do you can be China you can also

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I spent an hour building for him stepping on them hurts on multiple

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levels YouTube will soon launch a cheaper version of premium in the US

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called premium light which would remove ads on all content except music videos

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according to Bloomberg who described YouTube as a vast library of podcasts

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and how-to clips and if those are the other options I guess we post music

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videos premium light has reportedly been in testing in other countries but soon

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users in the US will be able to see if they like tariffs on their music videos

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I don't think that's a proper analogy but okay HP instituted a policy that

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added a 15minute wait time to the

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company's support calls according to the register as a way to quote encourage

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more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to selfsolve

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while there certainly is a place for tough love I'm not sure making people

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wait even longer on the phone with support staff is the way to do it and HP

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seemed to agree as they rescinded the policy after widespread reporting on how

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dumb it was although we don't know what the hold music was if they're playing

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bangers I might be okay with it your computer's busted but hey Time To Get

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Funky meta has said that even if they did torrent 82 tabt of pirated books

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it's no big deal if you don't seed them as seen in a filing from the social

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media giant this week you see it's not the training AI on unlicensed pirated

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content that's the issue it's performing the common courtesy of helping other do

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the same thing like come on that's illegal this whole thing has got real I

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did not inhale uh Vibes yes I put the

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ebooks in my mouth but earlier this week

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Microsoft announced Muse an AI game

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generator that was trained on and could

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only recreate low resolution slop versions of the gameplay from Ninja

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theories failed MOA bleeding edge which

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is I think something all of us were asking for Xbox Phil Spencer suggested

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Muse could help with game preservation

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by emulating any game based on gameplay

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footage a suggestion AI researcher and

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game designer Dr Michael cook called idiotic because that's kind of like

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preserving the Mona Lisa by having your toddler draw it from memory I mean the

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spirit is there and Google released an AI tool called co- scientist this week

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which can generate hypotheses for researchers to investigate the BBC

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claimed in an article that this tool had cracked a super bug problem in two days

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that took scientists years that sounds amazing but as another article from New

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Scientist and excellent science YouTuber Angela Kier points out what actually

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happened is the co-senior

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the suggestion was based on a previous paper the team had published in 2023 and

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I don't know if you could call providing a list of possible solutions cracking

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the problem but hey I'm not a scientist

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but if you come back on Wednesday for more Tech news remember no Tech link on

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Monday then I think that makes you a

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scientist right maybe I I don't actually know what

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they do