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Phew. Oh, we we did end up getting our scheduled shipment of Tech News, but it

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was kind of close. Apparently, someone made a huge mistake, and now ships are

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having trouble distributing crucial resources throughout the world or something. Anyway, brain off. Tech news

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time. NVIDIA's DLSS5 reveal has been met with overwhelming backlash from gamers

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and the gaming industry spawning memes calling the AI enhanced characters

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yosified looks maxed freaks and game

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developers referring to it as game design without art direction. As with

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all AI generated content, there's legitimate concern about art becoming

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homogenized, everything kind of becoming the same, an issue which has never

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affected games before. Digital Foundry was the first to cover it. And while

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they did mention in their video that people might not like the tech, they

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ended up getting dragged for glazing the demo a bit too hard. At one point, they

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said, "We've never seen elves look this realistic." As they toggle DLSS 5 on and

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off, making an Oblivion Elf NPC morph

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into simply different versions of Mickey Ror. Digital Foundaries follow-up video

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is appropriately titled, "Why we should have waited with our coverage." NVIDIA

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CEO Jensen Wong has told Tom's Hardware that critics of DLSS5 reducing the tech

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to an AI slop filter are completely

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wrong, saying it's not post-processing at the frame level, it's generative

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control at the geometry level. But even

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if those strange words do make sense,

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saying DLSS5 can make game characters look like they were photoshopped by a

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middle schooler using geometry. It's not

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I don't know. It's not better. Now, to be fair, ray tracing and DLSS frame gen

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were both mocked at launch, and now those enjoy generally neutral to

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positive sentiment. So, we may want to entertain the admittedly outlandish idea

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that the internet might be overreacting a bit to something. Despite the

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intensity of the backlash and the tonedeafness of NVIDIA's response, there

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were a handful of dissenting opinions from the gaming community with senior

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character artist Georgian Ava Silkout stating that the online response is

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extreme for what the tech actually is and that most critics don't grasp that

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on a technical level, DLSS5 allegedly is

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just enhancing lighting rather than generating images from prompts. I've

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never seen lighting add makeup to

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someone's face before, but there could be a special light I don't know about. I

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PC Gamer also acknowledged that DLSS5

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makes environments pretty. And NVIDIA's real mistake was in using overhyped

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language and focusing on characters in their demos. But The Verge has what is

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probably the most realistic take here. DLSS5 is to games what motion smoothing

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is to TVs. something you'll turn off when visiting

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your relatives for their own good. They don't It's not their fault they don't

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have taste. AMD has responded to a growing scandal over laptops made by

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Chinese company Chewy mislabeling their

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CPUs, essentially catfishing customers.

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The so-called silicon gate started when notebook check found that the Chewy

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Corebook X reported its CPU as a Ryzen 5

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7430U, but it was actually an older Ryzen 5

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5500U. Honestly, understandable mistake. They

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look similar. We're not even talking about a wrong sticker on the laptop

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situation here. the BIOS, Windows settings, and even CPUZ were unable to

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notice anything a miss despite what the actual die under the heat sink said.

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When Chewy got caught a second time doing the same thing with its CoreBook

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Plus model, they chose to do the reasonable thing and ensure this issue

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was fixed by sending legal threats to Notebook Check for breaking the stories,

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which to no one's surprise triggered a bit of a Stryisand effect. Tom's

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Hardware also confirmed a performance deficit of up to 20% in specific

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workloads while warning that other brands sharing the same ODM motherboard

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might be compromised. The chip continues to hit the fan as Chewy's Hong Kong

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distributor Hornington announced

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just a funny name um announced a recall of the three affected products and

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offered full refunds. Chewy themselves haven't really commented publicly on the

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scandal and frankly it's unclear what anyone can do if they don't want their

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arms ripped off.

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Sort of works. But CPUZ released an update specifically to ensure this

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trickery can be caught. And in their statement, AMD said they had no

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knowledge of the matter uh beforehand and reserved the right to unleash their

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legal team. the corporate equivalent of saying her sis, we don't know her like

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couple cool things this week. The Core Ultra 7270HX Plus and Core 9290HX Plus

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recently. And a new driver will let integrated and discrete ARC GPUs

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cutting loading times by more than three times and by 37 times in God of War

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Ragnarok, which is less of a benchmark and more of a cry for help. What was it

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doing before? Mosilla is adding a free built-in VPN with a 50 gigabyte per

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month data cap to Firefox 149, which

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will be rolling out March 24th. Now, freeVPNs are usually sketchy, but

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Mosilla's entire brand is built on privacy and trust. So, they have a bit

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of a motivation not to harvest your data and ruin everything. Firefox is also

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debuting a new mascot called Kit, which

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Mozilla went out of their way to say is not a fox or a red panda. Stop calling

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it that. While also explicitly stating that Kit has no mouth and it won't even

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be able to scream either. Google's personal intelligence feature is now

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available to all free Gemini users in the US, not just paid subscribers, who

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can now allow Gemini to access all of their Google apps and personalize its

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responses. And in a glorious exception to the general trend of AI things these

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days, it's opt in. You don't it'll leave

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you alone sort of. Google says Gemini

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doesn't train directly on your inbox or photo library, but Gemini will

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absolutely read them when you ask it to

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and maybe when it just gets bored or something. You know, it's like Samsung confirmed to Bloomberg yesterday that

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it's killing off the $2,900 Galaxy Z Trifold just 3 months after launch. The

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company had apparently always positioned the doublefolding phone as a showcase of

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its engineering rather than a mass market product. Why would you want to

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mass market a product that shows off your engineering? Not for us. Selling it

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in small batches directly through their website. Industry sources told South

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Korean newspaper Dong A Ilbo that this

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was because rising component costs left virtually no profit margin. The

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small-scale nature of the releases led every batch to sell out in minutes with

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resellers flipping them for nearly triple the price, which I mean is oddly

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appropriate. It's a trifold, right? Yeah. Am I

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After seeing this extreme customer demand for the phone, Samsung made the

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only logical choice to stop selling it.

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Wait, so I'm still And a student engineer has designed and built a 3D

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printed shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, making 3D printed handguns

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suddenly seem quaint and banal. Alisher

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Kayv also included guidance and flight

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control systems in the prototype using about $96 in parts. Because this kit is

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not screwing around. His website describes how billiondoll state arsenals

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are now in the reach of determined individuals using readily available

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parts, tools, and skills. However you feel about a functional guided

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projectile costing less than a nice dinner for two, one thing's for sure,

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it'll probably keep someone in Washington up to night. And you'll be up

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at night wondering what the tech news is if you don't come back on Friday for

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more tech news. Either that or you'll be worrying about gas prices. But we don't

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talk about that. We just talk about AI slop in games. An illthoughtout

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operation crippling a global shipping bottleneck. won't affect that