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TechLink everything's on fire today public services and businesses across
the globe have been taken out by a faulty software update within the last
24 hours the bug has caused Windows systems around the world to enter
seemingly unrecoverable boot Loops now Linux systems are unaffected but some
Linux users are suffering from a new and frightening experience feeling empathy
for Windows people Texan cyber security company crowd strike rolled out an
update earlier this morning for their Falcon sensor security platform and it
was bad Airlines have grounded flights banks are offline hospitals in multiple
countries have canceled non-emergency surgeries and the 911 emergency hotline
went down in several US states worst of all hundreds maybe even thousands have
been forced to go without an iced brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso from Star
bucks today okay that's a joke but on a
serious note us viewers should look up and save the 10-digit number for their
local police or fire department because that wasn't affected now crowd strike
has assured Windows customers that this is not a Cyber attack so you can feel
safe knowing that this level of chaos was caused without any malicious actors
whatsoever and as a bonus the situation has given cyber criminals ample
opportunities to fish users with phony emails and domain that are offering
fixes and patches for the outage one of
the few countries they're not targeting right now though is Russia because
thanks to all of the recent sanctions from the West they haven't used crowd
strike since February of 2022 wow good for them instead they use software from
local firms like kasperski Labs a company that the United States banned
almost exactly 1 month ago coincidence I think so now crowd strike
has deployed a fix but it requires being online something that you can't really
do when your computer is boot looping so if that doesn't work they've suggested
that you start the machine in safe mode navigate to the crowd strike directory
folder and delete the relevant file something that needs to be done manually
at every single machine if that doesn't work Microsoft has an alternative
solution have you tried turning it off and on again have you tried it 15 times
in a row you're 16th time you get a free sub AMD's cinebench scores for their
upcoming ryzen AI 9 HX 370 chip
allegedly is better than Apple's M3
Max with just one core operating these
alleged scores were leaked by hxl on Twitter but they seem like they might be
real because they line up pretty well with AMD's own claims or well they line
up with the claims that it's faster not the massive 15% that they mentioned at their recent
two-day event in Los Angeles they're also bragging that the HX 370 can run up
to four displays that it can play AAA games in full HD on integrated graphics
and that its neural processing unit unit can manage 50 trillion floating Point
operations per second to prove all of that they well they didn't prove it um
most of the AI demos actually weren't running on the npu and the games that
AMD said ran faster on the new integrated Graphics weren't available
for testing at the event in fact the beefiest laptop that was showcased was
running games on NVIDIA graphics with NVIDIA's dlss upscaling AMD reps
provided various excuses for this like that the laptop hardware and firmware
isn't final okay fair enough and also that the Wi-Fi is too slow at the hotel
to download different games it's not like they existed somewhere did you
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now the new meta Quest 4 has got a tentative release date with two versions
of the headset launching in 2026 and a premium version planned for the
following year code named laola laa I
think La Hoya cool and if you don't like bulky headsets you're in luck because
kmeta is also launching a pair of 70 G
augmented reality glasses for reference a typical pair of glasses is a little
less than 40 G so still heavier but a lot lighter than
a quest Intel is making it harder to Thermal throttle their upcoming aerol
Lake CPUs not by making them run cooler
mind you but by raising the temperature at which they will throttle according to
the schematics published by leaker Jakin
Jakin cool that is exact L what they plan to do just increase the TJ Maxx
from 100° to 105° C meaning that they
will definitely have hotter threads than the real TJ Maxx that's a good one now
this isn't necessarily a bad thing if the CPU is designed for it and operates
reliably at that temperature but since currently their 13th and 14th gen
processors seem to be designed around a philosophy of crashing more than the
competition even at a TJ Maxx of 100° I
can't say that I'm feeling to Hopeful back in 2018 Google announced the
deprecation of their URL shortener and just wanted to give you a reminder that
yes that's still happening while they stopped generating shortened links in
2019 they transferred those links to Firebase Dynamic links but now that
they're shutting that down too when you click through a
goo. link you'll be directed to a page informing you that that link will soon
be dead boy oh boy Google killing even
more of the internet that's my favorite thing in the words of my boy Axel Rose
nothing lasts forever even cold November rain it lasts only as long as November
yeah and then it's over Dyson the market leader in moving air very expensively is
making a second attempt at headphones oh are they really after the hilarious
Dyson Zone the newly announced Dyson onrack headphones will have customizable
ear pads and outer caps and 55 hours of battery life with their best-in-class
noise cancelling on and with a price of
500 big ones they are undercutting the airpods Max and not much else they must
be mad that Apple got their air branding out before they did but hey at least if
they're bunk then we can say they blow without anyone getting upset and Toyota
marai owners speaking of being upset are launching a class action lawsuit
accusing Toyota of misleading consumers into thinking that buying a brand new
car based on hardly supported hydrogen fuel cell technology was a good decision
what the lawsuit focuses on Toyota not disclosing lower than advertised driving
range the difficulty of finding functioning fuel pumps and the fact that hydrogen is twice as expensive as it
once was meaning the $155,000 fuel card
that the company gave as an incentive is not going to last for the promised 5
years then there's the issue of the fuel pumps freezing to the car requiring a 30
minute wait for the pump to warm up the last one is really a flaw with Hydro
Tech in general so get perver pvnr get
pvnr nerds neat and speaking of nerds
you nerds need to tune back in on Monday for more Tech news and maybe spend your
weekend learning thermodynamics to better appreciate the beauty of the
ideal gas law PV they're not going to do that they should I believe in you guys