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I swear. Yeah. Microsoft claims it is
ending USBC port confusion once and for
all by making USB requirements like support for power delivery and display
port alt mode mandatory for laptop manufacturers under the Windows hardware
compatibility program or WHCP.
Previously, these requirements were optional, which is why some laptop USBC
ports will fast charge your phone and cook you a chicken dinner while you're
waiting, and others will actively spit out your cable. the sassiest ports. It
sucks. But now Microsoft is translating pain into policy, which makes it sound
like they purposefully caused suffering to use as raw material for the new good
USB rules. Microsoft is making two firm
promises. One, all USB peripherals,
chargers, and displays will work exactly as advertised on any USBC port on a WHCP
certified device. and other one laptops that support 40 or
80 Gbits per second USB speeds will have full compatibility with USB 4 and
Thunderbolt 3 peripherals on every port.
Now, shopping for cables will still require sifting through a hay stack of
performance rating logos that look extremely similar, but going forward,
every laptop USBC port should just work
as long as laptop manufacturers agree to it. I mean, come on. They're not Apple.
NVIDIA and MediaTek's ARMbased laptop system on chip may launch in an
Alienware gaming laptop sometime around the end of 2025 or early 2026. Industry
insiders reportedly told Taiwanese outlet United Daily News. This rumor was
actually first shared last week by YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead, who
flashed a supposed image of this SOC
shared with him by one of his insiders.
Where are my insiders? Andrew leaked something to me. The guest on that
video, Wendell from Level One Text, is sometimes hard to read, but I think he
liked it. Now, the leaked image seems to closely resemble NVIDIA's GB10 SoC,
which powers their DGX Spark AI mini
PCs, a product that led many to think the company was going to unveil a
consumerfocused all NIVvidia compact gaming PC at
Computex. Uh, they didn't.
This PC is one that Windows Central notes would change gaming laptop design
forever because you may have forgotten by now, this is reportedly an ARMbased
gaming APU for laptops. While last
year's Qualcomm Snapdragon X series Windows laptops were impressive in many
ways, gaming was not exactly their strong suit. NVIDIA has a chance to
prove that they can launch an efficient ARM CPU plus GPU combo with AI upscaling
so you can play games on the go that look as lifelike as a Google V3 video. A
Radeon RX960 XT review has leaked or at
least some benchmark slides have leaked after PC news site E Technics seemed to
prematurely publish their review. These slides were captured by dragon rider
based demon Targaryen on Reddit and beloved comedy filmmaker John Hughes on
Twitter, showing the 960 XT, the 16 GB
version, getting an average FPS just under the RTX 5060Ti at 1440p and 1080p.
Although it's a big jump over the RX 7600 XT in 3D Mark's Time Spy benchmark.
So, you'll probably the the the 3D Markheads will love that. Depending on
the real world price, this makes the 9060 XT look not too bad. Hopefully,
some gamers find the funds to pick one up because Valve just released their
Steam hardware survey. And the RX970 and
9070 XT are nowhere to be found, despite
AMD CEO Dr. releases Sue claiming that first week sales of the 9070 XT beat
previous generations of Radeon cards by 10 times. Something's fishy here. NVIDIA
also just reported record gaming revenue, saying it's up 42%
year-over-year and 48% quarter over quarter. But it's possible that this
gaming revenue is just coming from people buying gaming GPUs to use for AI,
which NVIDIA obviously cares a lot more about now that gaming represents a
poultry 8 12% of their total revenue. I
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Quickbits. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of Zotac RTX 5090s were apparently
removed from their boxes and replaced with three backpacks before being
sold. This is like the three kids in a trench coat thing, but it's backpacks.
And to make things worse, they were one strap backpacks, which were kind of cool
at one point, but not anymore. When a victim of this scam, Redditor James Ferg
650, told Microenter, where he bought the GPU, about it, they found 31 more
nonGPUs in their inventory, which appear to have been swapped back at their Zotac
supplier. MicroEnter gave James Fergen
actual 5090 and thankfully took the
backpacks off his hands. Those should not be in the wild. Elon Musk announced
that Twitter, which he keeps calling X for some reason, is continuing to morph
into the Everything app with the roll out of Xhat, which will feature
end-to-end encryption, quote, Bitcoin
style. Which is the only way I order my pizza, burnt to a crisp. There's just
one problem. Bitcoin uh doesn't have
encryption, as pointed out by a number of coin bros in Elon's replies. The CEO
of Airbnb just said he wants to make an everything app and I feel like he might
have a better shot. You let's let him try. Apple has filed an appeal of the
European Commission's ruling that found the company to be non-compliant with the
EU's Digital Markets Act, particularly its interoperability requirements that
require data like notification content to be shared with third-party devices.
Apple says they can't trust what those devices are going to do with sensitive
data like that. And although they've asked to talk to the EU about this, the
EU is giving them the cold shoulder. But, you know, maybe we should hear
Apple out here for a second because RS Technica just did a deep dive on why the
Apple TV is the most secure set top box.
And that's one of the only good options out there when the NVIDIA Shields are
starting to crumble into dust at this point. We need something. Ahead of
everybody actually getting their meat mittens on a Switch 2, Nintendo has
issued a warning not to peel off the protective film on the display, which I
think is very proactive. This has happened many times in the past, most
notably with the first Samsung Galaxy Fold. Mark German was one of the first
to take one for the team and post his embarrassing story about peeling it off
by accident. But that's okay because he became Germicus Maximus, the prime
gurmuloid. But it might not work out for you. So, leave that thing on. And brain
computer interface company Paradromix has taken its competition with Neurolink
to the next level by successfully installing its Kexus implant in a
patient. Got to be honest here though, they did put it in there and then take
it back out 10 minutes later. It It wasn't ready to fully commit, you know?
It just wanted to try it on. Plus, if you leave it in there too long, the
brain starts to taste bitter. This was a bad joke about tea. For more bad jokes,
but also tech news, come back on Wednesday and watch another episode of
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