woo well thank goodness you can't put a
tariff on Tech news am I
right the RTX 590 a graphics card NVIDIA
claims was in stock and actually launched last week is reportedly being
rendered useless by a driver update according to many people who similarly
claim to have purchased one although I'm still not convinced what we're
witnessing isn't just a bunch of people LARPing a GPU release look
it's finally here can't wait to plug this in reports
initially described PCS being unable to identify the China only RTX
90d after updating it to the latest driver but there have been some reports
of the same thing happening to standard 90s as well thankfully some users have
apparently found that the issue can be fixed by setting their motherboard's
PCIe slots to use PCIe 4 instead of five
vindicating the warnings made by Hardware testers like derbauer but
others have said this doesn't fix it presumably to make the whole plot a
little more interesting others were also trying to contribute in this regard by
reporting that the RTX 490 cable melting
Scandal was repeating itself but turns out that was user error so don't worry
the cables probably won't melt when you pretend to plug them in to your makeb
GPU it seems like anyone wanting a real RTX 50 Series card will have to wait a
while longer the retailer overclockers UK says the ETA for more 90s is 3 to 16
weeks by that time we may have an RTX 5060 or 5060 TI option according to a
supply chain Source all this for graphics cards that have been heavily
criticized by reviewers and famous government surveillance whistleblower
Edward Snowden who blew the whistle on NVIDIA offering f-tier value for S tier
prices yeah he had to flee the US and
live as a fugitive in Russia but he still got that gamer in him I watched
the lonus review but what is Edward Snowden say on Saturday the Trump
Administration officially imposed a 25%
tariff on most imports from Canada and Mexico and an additional 10% on imports
from China but if you think us Canucks were about to take that lion down your
host for sure Bud Canada announced they'd answer with a 25% tariff on
electric vehicles from the US premier of Ontario Doug Ford canell the province's
$100 million contract with starlink said
they'd ban American companies from any provincial contracts and pulled American
liquor from store shelves along with other provinces including British
Columbia where I am an American alcohol related joke would be great here but I
pretty much only drink Guinness about three times a year so I won't it would
have been good though some Canadians even floated the idea that since it
accounts for 90% of of America's electricity Imports Canada could shut
off the power a pretty dumb idea but oh
it might have worked after it was announced that the Mexico tariffs would
be paused for a month for entirely unrelated reasons outgoing prime
minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada's tariffs would be delayed as
well in return for Canada taking various measures to secure the border which
includes reinforcing it with new
Choppers okay sorry sorry for context
the Vibe of Trudeau saying Choppers instead of helicopters is like if you
put a hat on backwards and try to do a kickflip with the kids at the skate park
and he didn't use slang in the French version of the Tweet so
why Canada will commit to deploying many
more choppers and I will commit to deploying
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put a tariff on the quick bits many have tried Choppers took him out open AI has
answered Google's deep research feature for Gemini with their own version also
called Deep research they tried generating some
other names but chat GPT was grumpy that day chat GPT deep research uses open
ai's top end three reasoning model and
like Google's version promises to perform multi-step complex research on
the internet so you don't have to you just have to write a prompt and then
apparently answer a bunch of questions chachy PT will ask you hey I ask the
questions around here the lines are beginning to blur as evidenced by Deep
research getting the highest score ever on an AI Benchmark ominously called
Humanity's last exam it's normal what
everything's normal the battery performance update for the pixel 4A that
Google rolled out last month is a bit of a mess according to Hector Martin a
developer that did some digging even if users redeem the free battery upgrade
offered by Google the 4a's new firmware which is the only firmware available now
that Google wiped the older versions kills battery life anyway and if you
want the 50 bucks in cash instead you have to provide personal identification
or your social security number want the $100 Google store credit sure you just
can't use it for anything that's on sale the cherry on top is the evidence that
this update was thrown together by a potentially inexperienced Google
engineer on their personal machine I don't see what the big deal is guys just
buy a new phone there's no tariffs anymore YouTuber Emily the engineer
published a video documenting the process of Jerry rigging a 3D printer to
print a tattoo on the leg of her friend Dan something he apparently wanted her
to do despite being advised again it by nearly everyone he asked but they did
add a panic button to stop the process just in case the machine got any crazy
ideas I really didn't think that tattoo artists would be the profession that AI
comes for next but at least they'll never take my job he said far too
confidently and remember that story about the consumer drone that punched a
hole in the side of a plane just trying its best to fight the California
wildfires turns out the pilot of that drone was none other than Peter aaman
the co co-founder of Treyarch one of the game studios that spits out a Call of
Duty game every couple years aaman pled guilty to unsafe operation of an
unmanned aircraft and will cover the damage to the plane and complete 150
hours of community service I never wanted to admit this but turns out video
games do cause violence but you know what doesn't Tech news so come back here
on Wednesday for more I mean if anything it should make you less violent as you
learn how fruitless it would be in the the face of the robot
apocalypse well see you later