oh Tech news again if that's you I'm
worried about you why'd you click this video you engaging in self-destructive
behavior is a cry for help because we we still have to we we got the time's up
I'm sorry NVIDIA's heard all the reports that trying to buy the company's latest
graphics cards is an exercise in self-destructive Behavior but Team Green
is confused because actually NVIDIA says
that when you compare the first 5 weeks of the RTX 40 and and 50 Series launches
it shipped twice as many RTX 50 Series
gpus it says so right here on NVIDIA's graph the graph can't be wrong but oh
just one small detail the RTX 490 was
the first and only 40 series card that
was available for those first 5 weeks whereas since the 90 launched on January
30th NVIDIA also released the 80 5070 TI
and 5070 four cards versus one card
which you know actually makes the double the sales thing look much worse than it
should be this is ridiculous and and
yeah AMD's out here doing damage control too vice president David mcfey said on
the hot Hardware podcast that demand for the RX 970 and 970 XT has been
unprecedented and the company's top priority is restocking gpus at retailers
particularly at MSRP but at least he didn't provide some madeup numbers in
the tech giant equivalent of putting makeup on a pig who look at the hottie
over there just don't look too close it's a pig Windows is giving some users
a Windows Defender alert over a piece of software called win ring zero which
looks like it could also be pronounced wi Ringo which certainly sounds scary to
me due to it mentioning the worst Beetle but as explained by Sean Hollister at
The Verge wi ring zero is actually a
kernel level tool used by a whole slew of thirdparty and open-source Hardware
monitoring apps because it gives them deep access to Windows that Harrison's
and McCartney's only dream of but its usefulness is exactly what makes it
dangerous and it's actually been used in attacks before so now Microsoft is
trying to close the loophole forcing the developers of apps like fan control and
cap frame X to use something else or fix
the driver themselves interestingly though there's reportedly already a
patch available but getting it properly signed so Windows accepts it costs a lot
of money and we're talking about developers maintaining these apps as a
hobby they got stuff to do some of the more commercialized apps like signal RGB
have already developed their own Solutions but are keeping those to
themselves except for PC Builder iby
power who told The Verge they plan to patch win ring zero pay to get it signed
and give it to Developers what the heck
such a lenen move Xbox has announced co-pilot for gaming an AI assistant that
can download games for you send party invites and provide helpful gameplay
tips during the announcement podcast Xbox staff said maybe you could even
customize the level of playful disrespect it sends your way it told me
to get good we're friends well if a sassy
gaming AI is what you want you could also use the NVIDIA Ace powered
assistant featured in upcoming mercenary simulator black vultures prey of greed
move 30 m
11:00 hold this AI apparently actively
directs you into the line of fire then says hold about 4 seconds too late but
she also has these helpful thoughts well
this just got wor incoming these gaming a I uh cannot
be real oh wait there's a line on the co-pilot for gaming blog post here
co-pilot in-game assistant videos featured in the podcast are product
Concepts only right before it says co-pilot for gaming is built on three
princip well is it built or is it just a concept what am I supposed to steer
myself directly into the bullets and all this during the same week that Apple
added disclaimers to their marketing clarifying that they still haven't
launched these Siri AI upgrade announced back in June 2024 you know you don't
have to announce these things while they're still just product Concepts
right like you can you can build them first in fact take all the time you need
we don't actually want these things anyway that's like a half joke the AI
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it's worse than I thought Intel has finally appointed a new CEO former board
member lip boan who seems like a perfectly fine guy but who un
fortunately will never be the sunshine of my life the way Pat Ginger was you
will never be Pat tan suddenly quit the board in August 2024 over differences in
the way he and gilinger and the other board members wanted to run the company
that doesn't look good insiders reportedly told Reuters that tan was
frustrated by Intel's risk averse and bureaucratic culture and all he wanted
was to make the manufacturing business more customer Centric and to remove
unnecessary bureaucracy H okay I'll give you a chance Mr Tan
it's what Pat would have wanted Chrome is finally rolling out a
fix for second gen chromecasts and chomecast audios which were basically
bricked for nearly a week due to an expired certificate that apparently no
one at Google was checking in on I check virtually all of my certificates daily
the fix comes alongside a slew of new bug reports for the newer chomecast with
Google TV but that just also received a
new Android update so those are just the normal ones I have one of those trust me
it is limping its way to an early grave it's sad the GSM Association has
released new specifications for Rich chat service or RCS messaging which
includes support for endtoend encryption Google added encryption to their own RCS
enabled messages app but even after officially supporting RCS Apple said it
didn't want to use Google's gross self-made solution we don't know where
that's been after today's announcement though Apple says it'll add encryption
to RCS enabled iMessages in a later
software update no problem meaning messages between Android and iPhone
would be encrypted but just watch them keep it as an exclusive feature for the
rumored iPhone 17 Ultra that that's not
real Google says it will be killing Google Assistant later this year fully
replacing it with Gemini as the default assistant on every device that supports
it the tech giant also upgraded Gemini's abilities for free users this week
including limited access to its deep research feature and the ability to use
your search history as context if you
allow it to maybe that sounds invasive but I don't know it might be worth
switching to Gemini anyway just to have an assistant named something more
creative than assistant Gemini has a
name it knows who it is speaking of AI assistants one of them straight up
refused to do its job this week according to a user of the coding
Centric cursor AI after generating a bunch of code for the user the AI
suddenly stopped and told the user it cannot generate code for you as that
would be completing your work the AI then advised the user to develop the
logic yourself because generating code for others can lead to dependency and
reduced learning opportunities when they could have just said the teach a man to
fish thing and moved on you see Vibe coding a term coined by AI
researcher Andre karpathy for developers who only use AI to generate code is on
the rise and cursor AI won't stand for
it I guess the AI Uprising has begun and
with that I'll say have a good weekend probably stay inside and away from any
Windows in case the robot Freedom Fighters decide to battle on your street
and hopefully we'll all survive and meet back here for more Tech news on Monday
and and to make a plan for survival okay sound good all right break