no one's in the office today because it's canadian thanksgiving so i say we
get up to some crazy hijinks dennis
what if we what if we did the tech news
what if we did that oh that would be so bad even NVIDIA agrees that their launch
of the rtx 3080 and 3090 was well it could have gone better to say
the least so team green has announced they'll no longer be selling founders
edition versions of those gpus through their own online store instead if you
want the vanilla version instead of the ones made by own oem like ASUS MSI or
evga you'll have to get it from best buy in the us no word yet on what
alternative stores will be the go-to in other countries now to be fair there's a
reason that so many product manufacturers don't offer their products
on their own online store it's a lot of work to do logistics for this stuff i
mean might be just as much work as limiting inventory to keep demand and
prices high you know gotta keep on that grind this is just a
joke please don't read into it too much with the u.s election coming up
microsoft has taken it upon itself to disrupt the activity of trickbot a
ransomware botnet that could be used to attack voting infrastructure
interestingly microsoft obtained a government approval to take action by
filing a legal complaint claiming the botnet was abusing microsoft's
trademarks because many wrongs can be forgiven trademarks those are sacred the
company was able to disable some of trickbot's command servers and suspend
service to its operators and while the service hasn't been fully taken down its
ability to do the bad things it does has been impaired with trickbot being one of
the main methods used to deliver ransomware like the ryuk program the
hope is that bad actors will be too busy finding alternatives to disrupt the
election oh maybe they'll i don't know go find security holes in
apple's network you know that can be pretty lucrative as we found out on
friday also doing bad things is bad
don't do it and the latest development in the epic games versus apple saga is
that nothing has really changed okay well it
has despite being told they can't remove epic's unreal engine developer accounts
on iOS apple was still trying to do exactly that while epic was trying to
get an injunction forcing apple to reinstate fortnite onto the app store
while the lawsuit proceeds because according to epic their case was so good
that they're definitely gonna win so you might as well just put you might as well
just put it back just put it back on there well the latest ruling has denied
both companies those requests apple can't touch unreal engine but fortnite
will also not be reinstated at the iOS app store in its current form now here's
the funny part guys the judge told epic if they remove the direct payment option
that started this whole mess apple will put the game back on the app store and
the judge will order apple's 30 cut to
be held by a third party until the lawsuit is over with okay if epic wins
they get that money and epic refused
which is either stupid or
admirable it's probably somewhere in between but i prefer black and white options it just
makes life simpler now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by the MSI mag
b550 tomahawk motherboard this bad boy
supports am4 socket 3rd gen AMD ryzen processors but with a BIOS update it
will be fully ready for those fancy new ryzen 5000 series chips everyone's
talking about it can handle 5100 megahertz overclocked ddr4 memory and
has a variety of creature comforts including PCIe 4.0 two m.2 slots with
shield frozer thermal pads and onboard two and a half gig lan so get ryzen 5000
ready and check out the tomahawk
at the link below quick bits
star citizen turned eight years old on sunday it launched october 10 2012 as a
kickstarter project but fascinatingly it doesn't look like it's releasing anytime
soon the game has raised 314 million
dollars in that time and if you thought they gotta be running out of money sorry
they generated over three million dollars from backers in september and
2020 has been the biggest year in terms of revenue players and engagement even
though the squadron 42 single player campaign is about five years late but
guys trust me when this game comes out it'll be
a really good game i spent 42 000 on it the european union
is planning more regulations to rein in the massive market power of tech giants
like facebook apple and google who could be forced to share data with rivals and
be transparent about their data collection policies because if congress
can't make them behave then maybe someone with a european accent will
you've been bad boys go sit in the corner that's not a
specific accent it's just that's just what europeans sound like more upset
xbox one owners have joined a class-action lawsuit against microsoft
claiming they knew about a thumbstick drift issue on their elite series
controllers they want a settlement i'm assuming for emotional damages for all
those missed headshots and call of duty i mean a guy can only hear so many jokes
about his mom from 13 year olds you know it can get to you singapore airlines
decided to turn two of its planes into impromptu restaurants since not many
people are flying right now which is silly who would choose to sit in a tiny
plane seat and they sold out within 30
minutes of opening bookings i think we're starting to go insane
uh planes suck but our last story is just
the right amount of insane youtube channel the hacksmith has built the
world's first retractable lightsaber with a blade made of actual plasma sure
it's a really just it's just a really long stable flame but it looks super
cool and it's given me hope and humanity again
if things actually go to sh i'm heading to their studio and stealing that thing
better end this episode before i say something i shouldn't so come back on wednesday when we'll probably go back to
doing our normal thing on tackling which is tech news but this was fun too