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
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now it's time for quick bits but first I have to tell you that it's but do I have
to Google has apparently achieved two significant breakthroughs in Quantum
Computing which the tech giant shared while unveiling their new Quantum
processor Willow this morning the first breakthrough is that Willow broke the
quantum error connection threshold Google 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 Desmond modern
day storyline gave me a greater context that made those games more interesting
that's all I know