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Better than in, I always say. And unfortunately for everyone involved,

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that includes today's tech news. That was barely Shrek.

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>> That was good. I honestly I heard Shrek, but I also heard a crazy guy would

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>> China has quietly made progress on one of the hardest problems in modern chipm,

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extreme ultraviolet lithography. According to a Reuters investigation,

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researchers at a high security lab in Shenzhen have built a prototype EUV

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lithography machine, a device essential for producing advanced semiconductors

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and long monopolized by the Dutch company ASML. They love monopolies.

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These are massive, delicate, wildly expensive systems, and no company

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outside of the Netherlands has successfully built one until now. Kind

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of, and maybe not really. China's prototype already generates EUV light

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and reportedly fills nearly an entire factory floor, although it has not yet

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produced working chips. To make this happen, China recruited former ASML

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engineers, many of them Chinese-born and recently retired, offering them massive

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signing bonuses and housing incentives. One engineer reportedly arrived on his

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first day of work and was handed a fake ID with a new false name on it. And when

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he went in the doors, he discovered a bunch of his old co-workers, all with

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snazzy new names, too. Bill, it's Jeremy

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now. Me, too. We're all Jeremy. Apparently, everyone was instructed to

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go by their new aliases and to never acknowledge the project outside of the

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compound. To make things even more interesting, it kind of sounds like this

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is a skunk works project with China buying up parts from older ASML machines

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in used markets to get around all those pesky export controls. Now, this scheme

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works out. It would be kind of wild because it's basically the plot of the

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Red movies. The retired black ops agents replaced by semiconductor equipment

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engineers. The only thing these operatives are assassinating is the US

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hegemony. Okay. Yeah, that works. The global RAM shortage being driven largely

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by AI companies buying up massive amounts of memory is about to push PC

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and smartphone prices higher. and it doesn't look like it's going to stop

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anytime soon. An IDC market analysis warns that the crunch could last well

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into 2027 and that major PC and phone makers are already preparing further

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price increases as the memory supply tightens. Apparently, Apple and Samsung

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are a bit insulated from all this because they secure their RAM 12 to 24

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months in advance. So, they probably won't increase their prices because they

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would have no reason to do that just because every other company in the market is doing that, right? All this

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pressure to get RAM is causing some wacky behavior in enthusiast spaces as

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older CPUs like AMD's Ryzen 7 5800 X3D

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are now selling on eBay for way more than newer chips simply because they let

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people use the only slightly cheaper DDR4 memory. Yet, this memory shortage

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hasn't stopped NVIDIA from releasing its RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell GPU with a

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massive 72 gigabytes of GGDDR7,

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targeting AI developers, data scientists, and creative professionals.

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On Monday, we covered rumors that NVIDIA was slowing production of its lower to

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mid-tier 5000 series gaming GPUs. And we

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kind of joked that it was because they were moving the GDDR 7 RAM from those

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cards into more expensive products. Well, I guess we now know where all the

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RAM went. I'm over here. [clears throat] Can't

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catch me. Apple has announced sweeping changes to iOS that are legitimately big

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in Japan. As of this week, iPhone users in Japan can officially sideloadad apps,

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meaning developers can distribute apps outside the App Store using alternative

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marketplaces like Alt Store. This comes as part of Apple's effort to comply with

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Japan's new competition rules and is only the latest example of regulators

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forcing a crack into Apple's famously locked down ecosystem. That said, this

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is still Apple, so the freedom comes with fine print. Apple will continue

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collecting fees on third-party in-app payments and even on web purchases tied

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to iOS apps. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has of course already criticized the

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changes, arguing that Apple is still taxing developers even when it is no

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longer providing distribution or payment processing. An accusation Apple is happy

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to lean into. The tech giant's updated developer agreement gives the company

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new powers to recover unpaid fees owed by devs who had the gall to conduct

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their business outside of Apple's holy dominion. I see what you have hidden.

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Your every atom cries out for penitence. So, while this is ultimately progress,

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it's a little bit more of a sour apple than a sweet one, if you know what I'm

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and so are the quick bits. They have layers and sometimes they make you want

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to cry. [laughter] Uh, Riot Games has discovered a critical motherboard flaw

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that lets hardware level cheats slip in and activate before anti-cheat software

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even wakes up. The bump in the night was real. The issue affects boards from

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ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock, where a security feature called OMMU isn't fully

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initializing at boot despite looking like it is. Riot worked with

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manufacturers to push BIOS updates and now Valerant players who don't update

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their systems will be blocked with a VAN restriction, meaning that your account

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will be flagged for using cheater adjacent hardware. Oh yeah, what about

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innocent UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY? HUH? SOME LEGAL SYSTEM. SIR, this is a hero

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shooter. LG has backed down after TV owners freaked out when a Microsoft

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Copilot app suddenly appeared on their home screens and could not be

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uninstalled. Well, LG has heard their cries and says it will allow users to

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delete Copilot if they want. Although, they also clarified that it was only a

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browser shortcut, not a built-in app.

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All this fuss over a little shortcut. Don't you feel silly? No, actually.

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Turns out quietly injecting an AI chatbot into a device people use to

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watch movies was not the vibe. Several popular browser extensions with more

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than 8 million installs have been quietly harvesting users full AI

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conversations and selling them for marketing purposes. Security researchers

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found the extensions inject scripts directly into sites like ChatGpt, Claude

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from Anthropic, Gemini, Copilot, and

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those other ones and record everything that gets said. Even worse, many of

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these extensions were labeled featured in Chrome and Edge stores. So yeah, that

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random free VPN you were using for therapy time with your AI girlfriend

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might have actually been recording the whole time. Maybe you can ask them to send it to you. You remember the good

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times. Amazon caught a North Korean infiltrator working in its IT systems

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thanks to something almost invisible. Typing lag. Security teams noticed

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keystrokes from a supposedly US-based worker were taking over 110 milliseconds

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to reach Seattle. way longer than expected and definitely something that

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would show up in their performance review. But really, that tiny delay

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suggested the laptop was being controlled from halfway across the

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world. Amazon traced the activity, confirmed it was part of a North Korean

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remote work scheme, and kicked the contractor out within days. I knew some

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companies were tracking their employees, but this is ridiculous.

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And a Chinese tech company called Limx

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Dynamics just showed off Tron 2, a robot

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that appears to consist of a waist torso module thing with two limbs that can be

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swapped between having legs or arms depending on the job, but not both. Full

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robot bodies are so 2025. The launch video shows the robot lifting stuff and

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doing a variety of tasks. But despite its cool and original Tron name, there's

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no daft punk or 9-in nails score. Unfortunately, it doesn't even leave a

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neon solid light trail behind it wherever it goes, even when the

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disembodied robot hips are clearly in its weird doing the splits on

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rollerblades light cycle mode. But if none of that has you sold, wait till you

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see this halfh humanoid perform some very inhumanoid

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uh rollerblade somersaults. Is is this like is this

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like it's mating ritual or something? What even? Whatever it is, IT'S WORKING.

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HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP? YOU

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CAN'T ROLLERBLADE HERE. That's it for today's tech news. Now get out of here

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and we'll see. Oh, I think I was still supposed to be doing the accent there,

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but it's