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I know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"when I say it's time for Tech news I'm not screwing around it's time right after I finish this little thing that I'm uh what what is this valve might be working on something like a Steam OS powered set toop box to compete with the NVIDIA Shield according to a Reddit post from the user cool be ho 3K featuring an impressive level of research and reasonable speculation he's a cool be ho in my book but this mysterious device is also tied to Chrome OS in some way see kolbo 3K spotted a change to the steam deck kernel made by a valve employee working on a device that includes the Chrome OS embedded controller a chip that handles some background tasks in a Chrome OS device that's making some people think that instead of a steam box running Steam OS it could be a chrome box with special steam integration after all Chrome b s already have official support for some Steam games the device is associated with a platform code named AMD lilac which geekbench listings indicate means some kind of ryzen 58540 U configuration so whatever this thing is it'll have some gaming chops leading some to speculate that maybe this device isn't a box at all it's the rumored steam VR headset code named Deckard just want to point out that would still be kind of a box you strapped your face a lot of different boxes in the world it's fine for the third day of open AI the company gave to me Sora yep open AI has officially released a public version of The mind-blowingly Realistic video generator they first showed off in February although they didn't give it to me cuz I don't have a chaty BT Plus or Pro subscription if you do then they gave it to you wow but only after they gave it to professional Ultimate Frisbee player Marquez Brown Lee who used it to fake himself making an amazing catch this guy you know he's really gone downhill you know when it comes to the to the frisbees anyway open AI says they are releasing the turbo version of Sora complete with a new interface with a variety of controls and features like remix which will let you tweak specific parts of an existing generated video and combine which can bleed two clips into each other there are a boatload of Sora Clips out there now so we can see that it's still really good at aerial landscape shots and surprisingly good at slow motion because the janky AI movements seem less alien in that Medium but of course Sora will also make videos with a bunch of Errors especially when there's lots going on and we'll definitely pop a second phone into the hand of marquez's AI clone only to vanish it a second later unless you're going to tell me he's a pro magician too which is frankly too many things to be a pro at although I guess he made up for it with the with the app thing it's better now they fixed a bunch of it stop Reddit the so-called front page of the internet is tired of living in the shadow of the Googles and the open AIS of the world so they're announcing Reddit answers a new AI powered search interface that will bring up curated summaries of relevant conversations and details from across Reddit presenting it in sort of a perplexity AI style generated report now you might say okay well I can just search Google and add Reddit to the end that's exactly the problem that was Reddit that was being in press interviews Reddit Representatives spoke about how a major way that people use the internet now is just searching for Reddit posts their massive repository of posts by real humans looking for information from other real humans has become increasingly important as large swaths of the internet slide downward in quality like loosened chunks of Earth sliding off a cliff into an ocean of AI slop of course Reddit is not immune from this announcing a number of unpopular changes in recent years but reddit's point is that maybe if you want to search Reddit you could search on Reddit and maybe if you want to keep your loved ones feet dry and cozy and stylish you 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was able to exponentially decrease the system's error rate by increasing the number of cubits involved holding Quantum information stable for an average of an hour we can only manage like 10 minutes max the second breakthrough is taking 5 minutes to run a benchmark that Google says would take one of the fastest supercomputers in the world 10 septian years to complete and by that point I think you'd be ready for an upgrade NVIDIA is now being investigated for anti-competitive Behavior by China in a move that some analysts are characterizing as retaliation for the US government imposing restrictions on the export of NVIDIA chips to the country and while the US has ramped up such restrictions recently they're also investigating NVIDIA for antitrust now both sides are going to have to put their sunglasses on and puff up their chests and say this is my investigation well I have a warrant this is not going to be pretty freaking Pat gilinger is tweeting through the pain of being ousted as Intel CEO congratulating new Intel board members once they get appointed and helping fellow Pat and Industry analyst Patrick Morehead to correct misinformation about Intel's yields on the 18a process node being horrible Pats together strong you know what they say post firing Ginger tweeted that he's very proud of The Foundry team and is even publicly praying for them to stay strong I don't know how likely this is but science says there's a slim chance Pat could actually tweet himself back into the CEO's office I mean Sam mman did it Tik Tok has filed for a temporary pause on the law that would see the company banned if its owner bite dance doesn't sell it to someone else since with just over a month left to go until the deadline and a new presidential Administration coming in we should just pause everything and you know until we figure out what the hell is going on Tik Tok seems to think president Trump might save them as he implied he will do but in a Sunday interview with Meet the Press Trump implied he might still want bite Dan to sell Tik Tok saying the government has the right to ban it quote if you can prove that the Chinese companies own it which they do I I think it's more about the Chinese government controlling things you can't have Chinese companies okay and Ubisoft has released patches for Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar frontiers of Pandora which fixed the crashing issues caused by Windows 11's 24 H2 update players might still run into some performance issues but at least they can play while Assassin's Creed Origins Odyssey and Valhalla are still properly borked while Microsoft is partially to blame for the Ubie issues ask yourself why the original AC games with Desmond weren't affected why did they drop that storyline may have helped this whole situation we can't know but I can know what would help me you coming back here on Wednesday for more Tech news that is the next time at which Tech news happens I don't know why it skips days I only know that the 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