1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,640 Windows 11 is getting a new feature that will roll back bad updates to a more 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:10,240 stable version automatically, starting with driver updates with no action 3 00:00:08,559 --> 00:00:15,920 needed from the user or the device manufacturer. This is fantastic. I can't 4 00:00:13,519 --> 00:00:21,039 wait for my PC to roll itself back to Windows 10. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:25,840 TechLink. And in a new tech community blog post, Microsoft acknowledged the 6 00:00:23,439 --> 00:00:29,599 issues surrounding bad drivers being delivered through Windows Update and 7 00:00:27,599 --> 00:00:34,320 bricking parts of your system. They're not sure where those drivers came from, 8 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:39,120 but we're all trying to find the guy who did this. So, Microsoft is developing 9 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:43,840 cloud initiated driver recovery, which will identify borked drivers, create a 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:48,079 recovery request, deliver the roll back instruction to your device through 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:53,920 Windows Update, and most importantly, confirm an approved driver to install 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:58,000 before uninstalling the bad one. So, they forgot about that a couple times. 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:02,640 It's going through validation testing now and the official rollout is set for 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,640 September 2026. Fingers crossed we don't end up in a situation where the cloud 15 00:01:04,479 --> 00:01:10,000 initiated recovery will need its own cloud initiated recovery. I hope that 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:14,640 they've thought of this. Don't worry guys, Windows update will update itself. 17 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:20,080 Thousands of Samsung workers are planning to go on strike next Thursday 18 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,640 and in anticipation DDR4 prices have 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:28,200 already jumped 20% in a single week. Sorry, just a second. I just have to 20 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,200 just I'll be right back. EXCUSE 21 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:42,000 ME. As with literally everything bad happening in the world right now, this 22 00:01:38,479 --> 00:01:44,320 traces back to AI and the fat stacks of 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:49,360 cash chip makers are making off the resulting memory demand. The workers 24 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:54,159 union dispute is focused around how Samsung is calculating employee bonuses 25 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:58,960 from this year's record revenue. Samsung is offering workers 10% of operating 26 00:01:56,399 --> 00:02:01,920 profits and a one-time payment of $340,000. 27 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:07,280 >> Wow. Wait, >> that sounds pretty good. Until you look 28 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:12,400 at SKH Heinix, where employees are pulling in $470,000 29 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:17,440 in bonuses this year. This is chump change. Come on. 30 00:02:14,959 --> 00:02:22,080 Samsung's offer caused negotiations to collapse on Tuesday, and the company was 31 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:28,400 forced to start winding down chip production ahead of the strike. This is 32 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:31,760 wild. Samsung, which stands to lose $2 33 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:34,160 billion daily during the shutdown, is 34 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:38,160 eager to restart negotiations. The union, however, is totally fine waiting 35 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:43,040 until the strike ends on June 7th because, oh yeah, the SKH employees, 36 00:02:41,519 --> 00:02:49,840 analysts project that they're going to get a $900,000 payment next year. I 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:56,239 would hold out too, I think. >> Riley, do you want to move to Korea with 38 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:57,920 me and work for for SK Hires? 39 00:02:56,239 --> 00:03:03,920 >> The food's delicious, as far as I can tell. AMD just confirmed that FSR 40 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:09,840 upscaling 4.1 is no longer going to be reserved exclusively for Radeon RX 9000 41 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:13,920 series GPUs. It's officially coming to older cards, which means you can finally 42 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:18,560 stop trying to sell your kidney on eBay for a 9000 series upgrade. That was 43 00:03:16,239 --> 00:03:23,920 probably not a good idea anyway. Senior VP Jack Quinn tweeted that coming this 44 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:30,000 July, Radeon 7000 series owners will get FSR 4.1 and over 300 supported games 45 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:35,200 right at launch and RX6000 folks haven't been forgotten, but that roll out will 46 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:37,120 occur later in early 2027. Older cards 47 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:42,560 will still take a bigger performance hit since they use INT8 math instead of the 48 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:44,879 9000 series FP8 accelerator, but having 49 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:50,480 the option on the table is a huge win, especially since the PS5 and Xbox Series 50 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,599 X/S use the same RDNA2 architecture that 51 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,640 Radeon 6000 series cards use. Meaning 52 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,959 FSR4 on console is now a possibility. 53 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:03,519 You know what's better than FSR 4.1 on a 7-year-old GPU? 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What 71 00:05:15,039 --> 00:05:24,560 the you know ASUS will be launching its first ROG branded RAM at ROG day 2026 72 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:30,639 and while it's only launching in China and Taiwan on June 1st, it's news 73 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,560 because last year ASUS vehemently denied 74 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:38,000 rumors that they would be going into memory manufacturing. It still remains 75 00:05:35,039 --> 00:05:45,280 to be true how much they are going into manufacturing. This RAM module is a DDR5 76 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:47,600 48 gig kit and seems uh somewhat average 77 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:52,320 until you pop it into the latest ASUS ROG motherboard and toggle ROG mode, 78 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:57,680 which is what me and the boys call it when we want to go ham on raw hot dogs 79 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:05,120 on any day that's not ROG day. Oh, Travis is going rag mode. Oh, Travis is 80 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:08,000 in septic shock now. A new University of 81 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:14,080 California study analyzing AI use among students at large research universities 82 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:16,560 looked at 500,000 grades from 2018 to 83 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:21,440 2025 and found a couple interesting things. First, depending on their field 84 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:27,600 of study, about 30 to 40% of students admitted to cheating using generative AI 85 00:06:23,919 --> 00:06:30,160 on either assignments or exams. Second, 86 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:36,000 compared to 2022's baseline, there's been a 30% increase in students 87 00:06:32,639 --> 00:06:37,680 receiving A grades. Hm. This has been a 88 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,280 problem for some time now, and universities reportedly have no idea 89 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:46,319 what to do about it, which coincidentally is also what their students said about the assignments. 90 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:52,720 JGBT, what is this? Oh, that's your homework. Can you do it? Sure. Sony's 91 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:55,199 newest flagship phone, the Xperia 1 8, 92 00:06:52,720 --> 00:07:00,400 has launched with an AI camera assistant that's gone viral, but not in the good 93 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:04,639 way like you would want it to. Sony's ads are getting flamed online for 94 00:07:02,479 --> 00:07:09,680 showing the AI blowing out brightness and washing out colors in their demo 95 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:14,319 photos. Sony has since tweeted trying to clear up the confusion, uh, saying that 96 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:18,800 the assistant isn't modifying the photos. is just suggesting creative 97 00:07:16,479 --> 00:07:22,800 settings you can use if you want to, which is which is corpo speak for. WE 98 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:26,720 KNOW THE AI SUGGESTIONS ARE BAD. NO ONE'S FORCING YOU TO USE THEM. SHUT UP. 99 00:07:24,639 --> 00:07:30,400 SHUT UP. MY BOSS IS HERE. PLEASE. I tried to delete the tweet. I don't know 100 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:34,639 how. The Stop Killing Games initiative scored a big win this week as the 101 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:39,440 California Appropriations Committee approved a bill requiring publishers to 102 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:44,400 ensure that game developers provide offline solutions or issue refunds in 103 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:47,599 the event of a service interruption. The bill still has a few more steps before 104 00:07:45,919 --> 00:07:51,759 it could become a law, but still, this is huge. The Entertainment Software 105 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:57,199 Association, an industry lobbying group, called the bill fundamentally flawed 106 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:02,560 because clearly gamers never buy games. They only license them. Yes, that's what 107 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:07,120 we're trying to change. We don't like that. No, no, no, no, no. You guys don't 108 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:12,160 get it. You don't own the games. We know. Instagram has just released a new 109 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:17,280 feature called instance that lets users share spontaneous unfiltered photos with 110 00:08:14,639 --> 00:08:21,280 their friends, which is a little confusing because that is what that is 111 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:26,479 what Instagram is. >> Yes. >> Yes. Correct. Oh, and then you keep 112 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:30,800 reading and you find out that oh, the photos disappear after your friends view 113 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:35,519 them. So, it's not just like Instagram. It's actually just another feature of 114 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:39,200 Snapchat that Instagram forgot to copy, but now they got around to it. Yay. But 115 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:44,159 I know you won't forget to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news. 116 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:48,160 That's right. Monday's a holiday here in Canada. It's Victoria Day where all 117 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:52,480 Canadians take the day off work to perform a ritual at the Prime Minister's 118 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:58,320 House in Ottawa where Queen Victoria's zombie bones are buried, lest she rise 119 00:08:55,279 --> 00:09:00,800 again and usher in a new Victorian age 120 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:06,399 of extremely strict moral standards for thousands of years. So, it's just a fun 121 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,399 thing we do together.