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no one's in the office today because it's canadian thanksgiving so i say we

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get up to some crazy hijinks dennis

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what if we what if we did the tech news

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what if we did that oh that would be so bad even NVIDIA agrees that their launch

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of the rtx 3080 and 3090 was well it could have gone better to say

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the least so team green has announced they'll no longer be selling founders

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edition versions of those gpus through their own online store instead if you

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want the vanilla version instead of the ones made by own oem like ASUS MSI or

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evga you'll have to get it from best buy in the us no word yet on what

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alternative stores will be the go-to in other countries now to be fair there's a

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reason that so many product manufacturers don't offer their products

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on their own online store it's a lot of work to do logistics for this stuff i

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mean might be just as much work as limiting inventory to keep demand and

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prices high you know gotta keep on that grind this is just a

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joke please don't read into it too much with the u.s election coming up

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microsoft has taken it upon itself to disrupt the activity of trickbot a

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ransomware botnet that could be used to attack voting infrastructure

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interestingly microsoft obtained a government approval to take action by

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filing a legal complaint claiming the botnet was abusing microsoft's

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trademarks because many wrongs can be forgiven trademarks those are sacred the

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company was able to disable some of trickbot's command servers and suspend

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service to its operators and while the service hasn't been fully taken down its

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ability to do the bad things it does has been impaired with trickbot being one of

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the main methods used to deliver ransomware like the ryuk program the

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hope is that bad actors will be too busy finding alternatives to disrupt the

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election oh maybe they'll i don't know go find security holes in

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apple's network you know that can be pretty lucrative as we found out on

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friday also doing bad things is bad

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don't do it and the latest development in the epic games versus apple saga is

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that nothing has really changed okay well it

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has despite being told they can't remove epic's unreal engine developer accounts

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on iOS apple was still trying to do exactly that while epic was trying to

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get an injunction forcing apple to reinstate fortnite onto the app store

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while the lawsuit proceeds because according to epic their case was so good

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that they're definitely gonna win so you might as well just put you might as well

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just put it back just put it back on there well the latest ruling has denied

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both companies those requests apple can't touch unreal engine but fortnite

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will also not be reinstated at the iOS app store in its current form now here's

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the funny part guys the judge told epic if they remove the direct payment option

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that started this whole mess apple will put the game back on the app store and

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the judge will order apple's 30 cut to

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be held by a third party until the lawsuit is over with okay if epic wins

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they get that money and epic refused

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which is either stupid or

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admirable it's probably somewhere in between but i prefer black and white options it just

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makes life simpler now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by the MSI mag

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b550 tomahawk motherboard this bad boy

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supports am4 socket 3rd gen AMD ryzen processors but with a BIOS update it

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will be fully ready for those fancy new ryzen 5000 series chips everyone's

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talking about it can handle 5100 megahertz overclocked ddr4 memory and

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has a variety of creature comforts including PCIe 4.0 two m.2 slots with

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shield frozer thermal pads and onboard two and a half gig lan so get ryzen 5000

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ready and check out the tomahawk

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at the link below quick bits

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star citizen turned eight years old on sunday it launched october 10 2012 as a

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kickstarter project but fascinatingly it doesn't look like it's releasing anytime

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soon the game has raised 314 million

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dollars in that time and if you thought they gotta be running out of money sorry

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they generated over three million dollars from backers in september and

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2020 has been the biggest year in terms of revenue players and engagement even

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though the squadron 42 single player campaign is about five years late but

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guys trust me when this game comes out it'll be

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a really good game i spent 42 000 on it the european union

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is planning more regulations to rein in the massive market power of tech giants

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like facebook apple and google who could be forced to share data with rivals and

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be transparent about their data collection policies because if congress

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can't make them behave then maybe someone with a european accent will

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you've been bad boys go sit in the corner that's not a

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specific accent it's just that's just what europeans sound like more upset

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xbox one owners have joined a class-action lawsuit against microsoft

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claiming they knew about a thumbstick drift issue on their elite series

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controllers they want a settlement i'm assuming for emotional damages for all

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those missed headshots and call of duty i mean a guy can only hear so many jokes

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about his mom from 13 year olds you know it can get to you singapore airlines

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decided to turn two of its planes into impromptu restaurants since not many

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people are flying right now which is silly who would choose to sit in a tiny

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plane seat and they sold out within 30

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minutes of opening bookings i think we're starting to go insane

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uh planes suck but our last story is just

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the right amount of insane youtube channel the hacksmith has built the

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world's first retractable lightsaber with a blade made of actual plasma sure

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it's a really just it's just a really long stable flame but it looks super

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cool and it's given me hope and humanity again

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if things actually go to sh i'm heading to their studio and stealing that thing

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better end this episode before i say something i shouldn't so come back on wednesday when we'll probably go back to

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doing our normal thing on tackling which is tech news but this was fun too