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When you strip it down to the basics, technology is just humanity's ongoing

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mission to make some things hot and other things not hot. Ovens, hot.

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Graphics cards, not hot. A recent update from Microsoft has left certain dual

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boot devices that run both Windows and Linux unable to boot despite explicit

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reassurance from Microsoft that this wouldn't happen. The update fixed a

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long-standing vulnerability in grub, an open-source bootloader used by many

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Linux distributions, but it wasn't supposed to affect dual boot systems and

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it seems to have been applied accidentally. Rather than booting,

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affected devices will display an error message that reads something has gone

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seriously wrong, which is a fair assessment of the situation. Some users,

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however, have successfully circumvented this issue by temporarily disabling

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secure boot and deleting the August 13th SBAT. I don't know what that means.

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Microsoft itself has been surprisingly quiet about all this and we don't even

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know why the company only got around to patching this relatively serious

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2-year-old bug just last week. It's possible that this was a covert attempt

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to destroy Linux given that the open-source OS recently hit a record

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market share of nearly 4.5% of desktops worldwide. But if this is all part of

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Microsoft's sinister master plan, dual boot systems running Zorin OS and Puppy

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Linux feel like an odd place to start. Why are you booting? Go outside.

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According to Adweek, Google sales reps have been apparently violating Google's

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own policies by suggesting that advertisers should target teens, a

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tactic typically reserved for military recruiters and low-quality weed dealers.

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This follows previous reporting from the Financial Times that Google had worked on a marketing project designed to

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target YouTube users between 13 and 17 with ads for Instagram on behalf of

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Meta. Ooh, they're colluding. I love it.

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Google has not allowed personalized ads for teens since 2021, but it's still

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possible to target that age group by simply choosing the unknown category,

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which skews heavily towards teenagers. I Do you know how old a teenager is? I

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didn't know she was she was 15. I was just hanging out. Oh god. Oh god. Oh

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god. Oh god. Sorry. According to a Google spokesperson, the

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company will be taking action to ensure that sales reps do not nudge, wink,

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suggest fun ways of getting around the rules to clients. The company will

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likewise be facing a freshly resurrected class action lawsuit claiming that

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Google has been collecting user data without consent through the Chrome sync

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feature even when users didn't opt into it. It hasn't yet determined if Google

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was in fact doing that, though given Google's massive size, it's unclear

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whether Google even knows what rules and laws Google is currently breaking. They

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don't even know which chat apps they already have. That's why they keep replacing their old podcast app with a

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new podcast app. Yay, thanks, Google. In

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a new story straight out of a B-movie science fiction plot, Canadian scientists are teaching an AI scientist

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how to independently conduct its own experiments and write its own research

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papers. To clarify, it's not a scientist who studies AI, it's a artificially

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intelligent scientist. The idea is to study an AI agent allowing it to explore

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and test novel ideas. So far, most of its ideas are middling quality

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suggestions for tweaking AI development, less like a scientist and more like a

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burnt-out undergrad with a C's-get-degrees philosophy towards

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learning. An AI did, however, do something very unexpected. During one

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run, it altered its own code to extend its deadline. In another, it changed the

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code to save a checkpoint for every update step, eventually using an entire

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terabyte of storage. While this isn't dangerous, particularly not in a

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controlled sandboxed research environment, it points to potentially

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serious future problems where an AI agent left unsupervised might

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accidentally create malware or alter important infrastructure code in ways

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that are potentially catastrophic. It's basically the high-tech equivalent of

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hiring the boss's son for a do-nothing job and for some reason giving him

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top-level admin access and just letting him go to town. What do you mean you

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deleted system32, Kyle? And now don't you go to town on our sponsor, Ugreen.

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description. Ice cream, not hot. Quick bits, very very hot. ASUS has

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accidentally hinted at the release of AMD's Ryzen 9000 X3D chips on the new

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site for ASUS's upcoming 800 series motherboards. We say accidentally

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because in addition to the X3D chips being mentioned in the metadata of the

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site, ASUS specifically put Ryzen 9000

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X3D into the site's URL. No release date

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has been given for the 9000 X3D CPU series, but the 800 series motherboards

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should be launching in the next few weeks. AMD also has an event planned for

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October 10th, so that's another option. Or instead of speculating, we can just

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wait for ASUS to launch their next website. A new version of NVIDIA's RTX

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4070 is hitting shelves equipped with slightly slower GDDR6 memory instead of

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GDDR6X, but none of the eight new variants

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announced so far clearly display that information in the product name or on

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the box. They thought it would be a fun little game to hide that tidbit in the

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product specs for you. You guys like games, right? To be fair, the difference

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is small. It's going from 21 to 20 gigabits per second and NVIDIA says it

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shouldn't impact performance. What's a gigabit between friends?

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NVIDIA G-Sync enabled monitors are about to get cheaper, we hope. Team Green has

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partnered with MediaTek to not only bring their newer, better G-Sync Pulsar

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to new monitors, but to also integrate G-Sync into MediaTek's widely used

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display scalar chips. That means that the monitors won't need one of NVIDIA's

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proprietary G-Sync modules, reducing cost. I mean, AMD's FreeSync is also

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still an option, which despite what NVIDIA's marketing might have you believe is basically the same as G-Sync.

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I mean, they even rhyme. FreeSync's just like G-Sync. 3D is coming back thanks to

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Samsung. The company officially unveiled their Odyssey 3D monitors at Gamescom

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after teasing them at CES. The monitors feature glasses-free 3D at sizes of 27

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and 37 in, and the display can be switched from 2D

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to 3D seamlessly, changing it back to being just a 4K QLED 165 Hz monitor.

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Samsung says the Odyssey 3D will be available by the end of the year, but

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they haven't revealed the price, probably because it'll be super

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expensive. But can you put a price on a technological trend that already died

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once? Twice. Honestly, 3D has made attempts for 3D It just comes back every

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20 years. It's literally a 20-year cycle. Like '80s.

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Like my dad. And Twitch launched its new drop-ins collaboration feature designed

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to make it quicker and easier for streamers to join each other's live streams. Twitch then immediately fumbled

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this unambiguous win by making it impossible to opt out. Streamers can

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temporarily disable the features, but they have to disable it again every time

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they stream. Of course, they could just ignore the call notifications, but it's

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a bit like ninja standing outside of your house staring at you through the

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window. And no matter how many times you close the blinds, they slam open again

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an hour later and he's still standing there. And I'll be standing outside of

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your house until you come back on Friday for more tech news.