Windows 11 is getting a new feature that will roll back bad updates to a more
stable version automatically, starting with driver updates with no action
needed from the user or the device manufacturer. This is fantastic. I can't
wait for my PC to roll itself back to Windows 10. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is
TechLink. And in a new tech community blog post, Microsoft acknowledged the
issues surrounding bad drivers being delivered through Windows Update and
bricking parts of your system. They're not sure where those drivers came from,
but we're all trying to find the guy who did this. So, Microsoft is developing
cloud initiated driver recovery, which will identify borked drivers, create a
recovery request, deliver the roll back instruction to your device through
Windows Update, and most importantly, confirm an approved driver to install
before uninstalling the bad one. So, they forgot about that a couple times.
It's going through validation testing now and the official rollout is set for
September 2026. Fingers crossed we don't end up in a situation where the cloud
initiated recovery will need its own cloud initiated recovery. I hope that
they've thought of this. Don't worry guys, Windows update will update itself.
Thousands of Samsung workers are planning to go on strike next Thursday
and in anticipation DDR4 prices have
already jumped 20% in a single week. Sorry, just a second. I just have to
just I'll be right back. EXCUSE
ME. As with literally everything bad happening in the world right now, this
traces back to AI and the fat stacks of
cash chip makers are making off the resulting memory demand. The workers
union dispute is focused around how Samsung is calculating employee bonuses
from this year's record revenue. Samsung is offering workers 10% of operating
profits and a one-time payment of $340,000.
>> Wow. Wait, >> that sounds pretty good. Until you look
at SKH Heinix, where employees are pulling in $470,000
in bonuses this year. This is chump change. Come on.
Samsung's offer caused negotiations to collapse on Tuesday, and the company was
forced to start winding down chip production ahead of the strike. This is
wild. Samsung, which stands to lose $2
billion daily during the shutdown, is
eager to restart negotiations. The union, however, is totally fine waiting
until the strike ends on June 7th because, oh yeah, the SKH employees,
analysts project that they're going to get a $900,000 payment next year. I
would hold out too, I think. >> Riley, do you want to move to Korea with
me and work for for SK Hires?
>> The food's delicious, as far as I can tell. AMD just confirmed that FSR
upscaling 4.1 is no longer going to be reserved exclusively for Radeon RX 9000
series GPUs. It's officially coming to older cards, which means you can finally
stop trying to sell your kidney on eBay for a 9000 series upgrade. That was
probably not a good idea anyway. Senior VP Jack Quinn tweeted that coming this
July, Radeon 7000 series owners will get FSR 4.1 and over 300 supported games
right at launch and RX6000 folks haven't been forgotten, but that roll out will
occur later in early 2027. Older cards
will still take a bigger performance hit since they use INT8 math instead of the
9000 series FP8 accelerator, but having
the option on the table is a huge win, especially since the PS5 and Xbox Series
X/S use the same RDNA2 architecture that
Radeon 6000 series cards use. Meaning
FSR4 on console is now a possibility.
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What if we what the I'm talking about, Ryan? What
the you know ASUS will be launching its first ROG branded RAM at ROG day 2026
and while it's only launching in China and Taiwan on June 1st, it's news
because last year ASUS vehemently denied
rumors that they would be going into memory manufacturing. It still remains
to be true how much they are going into manufacturing. This RAM module is a DDR5
48 gig kit and seems uh somewhat average
until you pop it into the latest ASUS ROG motherboard and toggle ROG mode,
which is what me and the boys call it when we want to go ham on raw hot dogs
on any day that's not ROG day. Oh, Travis is going rag mode. Oh, Travis is
in septic shock now. A new University of
California study analyzing AI use among students at large research universities
looked at 500,000 grades from 2018 to
2025 and found a couple interesting things. First, depending on their field
of study, about 30 to 40% of students admitted to cheating using generative AI
on either assignments or exams. Second,
compared to 2022's baseline, there's been a 30% increase in students
receiving A grades. Hm. This has been a
problem for some time now, and universities reportedly have no idea
what to do about it, which coincidentally is also what their students said about the assignments.
JGBT, what is this? Oh, that's your homework. Can you do it? Sure. Sony's
newest flagship phone, the Xperia 1 8,
has launched with an AI camera assistant that's gone viral, but not in the good
way like you would want it to. Sony's ads are getting flamed online for
showing the AI blowing out brightness and washing out colors in their demo
photos. Sony has since tweeted trying to clear up the confusion, uh, saying that
the assistant isn't modifying the photos. is just suggesting creative
settings you can use if you want to, which is which is corpo speak for. WE
KNOW THE AI SUGGESTIONS ARE BAD. NO ONE'S FORCING YOU TO USE THEM. SHUT UP.
SHUT UP. MY BOSS IS HERE. PLEASE. I tried to delete the tweet. I don't know
how. The Stop Killing Games initiative scored a big win this week as the
California Appropriations Committee approved a bill requiring publishers to
ensure that game developers provide offline solutions or issue refunds in
the event of a service interruption. The bill still has a few more steps before
it could become a law, but still, this is huge. The Entertainment Software
Association, an industry lobbying group, called the bill fundamentally flawed
because clearly gamers never buy games. They only license them. Yes, that's what
we're trying to change. We don't like that. No, no, no, no, no. You guys don't
get it. You don't own the games. We know. Instagram has just released a new
feature called instance that lets users share spontaneous unfiltered photos with
their friends, which is a little confusing because that is what that is
what Instagram is. >> Yes. >> Yes. Correct. Oh, and then you keep
reading and you find out that oh, the photos disappear after your friends view
them. So, it's not just like Instagram. It's actually just another feature of
Snapchat that Instagram forgot to copy, but now they got around to it. Yay. But
I know you won't forget to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news.
That's right. Monday's a holiday here in Canada. It's Victoria Day where all
Canadians take the day off work to perform a ritual at the Prime Minister's
House in Ottawa where Queen Victoria's zombie bones are buried, lest she rise
again and usher in a new Victorian age
of extremely strict moral standards for thousands of years. So, it's just a fun
thing we do together.