Look, we all go back and reuse our old work from time to time. Sometimes I'll
copy and paste a segment I did in like 2019 into a new episode and you never
even notice because of how I look the exact same. So, is it really so bad that
Intel just launched the Core i5 110
built with the company's Comet Lake architecture from 2019 when they
couldn't figure out how to get past their 14 nm process. So they just kept
optimizing it and renaming it 14 nanmter plus and then 14 nmter plus plus
recycling, you know, it helps fish and and frogs. From the specs, the Core i5
110 appears to literally be a rebadged
Core i510400, which is available on Amazon for 130
USD. But the rebadged version is priced at 200 bucks cuz it's a collector's
item. Honestly, you're disrespecting the hobby. This isn't the first time Intel
has helped the environment. Back in July, they quietly rebadged a Core i5
12400 as the Core i5120F,
but at least that came with a 100 MHz boost compared to the original AlderLake
chip from 2021, 2 years ago. I don't know. Intel might
be scraping the bottom of the barrel here after firing their consumer
products boss and the chief architect behind its Xeon CPUs, leaving the
remaining leadership serving the tech world equivalent of weak old donuts,
which for the record I would still eat. They're fine. Nepal has gone from
banning social media to using Discord to elect an interim prime minister. Now, to
explain that, we've got a fast track through the past two weeks, so stay with
me. Here we go. Last month, posts on Nepali social media calling out
government corruption and income inequality were trending heavily. On
August 28th, the government gave social platforms a week to conform to new
monitoring requirements and then blocked the ones that didn't, including
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That triggered intense protests in the
capital city, Kathmandu, during which police used live ammunition against
protesters, killing 19. The government
quickly lifted the social media ban, but surprisingly that didn't really calm
anyone down. The protests intensified and multiple government buildings and
politicians homes were set on fire, including the prime ministers with his
wife still inside. Contrary to many reports, she is still alive but in
critical condition. according to the now XPM who resigned and fled the country.
With the government in limbo, a civic group called Hami Nepal organized a
discord channel that quickly amassed tens of thousands of members, including
the leaders of the so-called Gen Z protest movement. Incredibly, the army
then asked the Discord channel organizers to nominate a new leader of
the country. So, they had a poll on Discord and the winner, former Chief
Justice Sushila Ki, was officially sworn
in as the country's interim prime minister this morning. She'll be
overseeing elections for everyone who missed the Discord invite, but it's nice
to know the Gamer Chat app can replace a
parliament in a pinch. Nintendo announced some pretty surprising things
during this morning's direct live stream, including the addition of
Virtual Boy games to the Switch online library this coming February. To relive
the days when playing a VR game was like wearing a firstgen Batman suit in that
it didn't let you turn your head, you'll need to either purchase a $100 replica
of the original Virtual Boy hardware, which opens up so you can slot in your
Switch, or the $25 cardboard version,
which you will use exactly once. Nintendo also revealed the title of the
next Mario movie, the Super Mario Galaxy
movie, presumably starring Princess Roselina. Roselina. It doesn't matter.
But she's voiced by Chris Pratt. But my favorite reveal was Pokemon Pootopia,
which is kind of like Pokemon meets Minecraft/Animal
Crossing. Oh, and also you play as a ditto who wakes up in some kind of
wreckage to discover its trainer is perhaps missing or worse. And then it
takes on human form in kind of a wiggly
wacky copy of its trainer. Uh, it then
reshapes the land with its shape-shifting abilities, morphing its
hands into scyther blades and hitmonchan's boxing gloves and, you
know, vomiting up furniture. I'm not
sleeping on that. But I do agree with this commenter who's unironically
excited to use Ditto's body horror capabilities for farming. I have so many
questions. Does the Ditto think it is its trainer? Is this the Ditto's way of
coping with the trauma of loss? Along with the usual questions about the
morality of enslaving and forcing sentient beings to battle, I had to stop
playing Pokémon because I just start spiraling. And the only thing that ever
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Look, we all go back and reuse our old work from time to time. Sometimes I'll
copy and paste a segment I did in like 2019 into a new episode and you never
even notice because of how I look the exact same. Quick bits.
Yeah. Yeah, that'll work. All of the new
iPhone 17 models and probably the iPhone Air as well will have a setting that
disables pulse width modulation or PWM,
which should reduce the screen flickering issues experienced by some
iPhones and iPads at low brightness levels. Mac rumors spotted the change in
a pre-release version of iOS 26, which launches on Monday. But someone also
found a screenshot of the setting already, which is being celebrated by
the 17,000 people who apparently visit the subreddit r/pwmensitive
every week to participate in a big group cry. Well, not anymore.
If they buy new iPhones, AI company Perplexity is being sued once again,
this time by Miriam Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. They are really
going to throw the book at them.
Yeah, as usual, the lawsuit accuses
Perplexity of copyright infringement and improper attribution, which the company
has been weathering lawsuits over since at least early 2024 from many other
people. Meanwhile, the FTC has launched an investigation into the harms posed to
kids by chat bots from all of the other major AI companies, including Google,
Meta, OpenAI, and XAI. I fully expect the defense to revolve around arguing
that AI is basically sentient, and these chat bots are only a couple years old.
So, if anything, we need to defend them from the heinous prompts being slung at
them by human kids. Honestly, I think the legal system might
be ready for this at this point. PC parts company Height has directed all
owners of its all-in-one liquid cooler, the thick with 2C's Q80 Trio, to stop
using it and remove it from their system immediately. It's haunted by the ghost
of a certified baddy.
No. There's apparently a fragile internal component that can cause
leakage. Thankfully, the company's earlier model, the thick Q60, uses a
different design and is totally fine. But the thick Q80 was too thick. You
never go full thick. And researchers in Taiwan have managed to get plants to
suck up more carbon dioxide from the air by replacing the enzyme that plants
normally use for that process with a more efficient one. With the new enzyme,
a specific weed being tested in this study, weighed two to three times more
as the control plants produced more seeds and had more leaves that were also
larger, which all mean that they sucked up more carbon. So, this could either
lead to a great way to mitigate climate change or dinosaurs running a mock on
the mainland. How
chaos chaos theory. It's just Yeah, sometimes dinosaurs show up. Sometimes
you show up back here for more tech news on Monday, too. Hey, maybe bring some
dinosaurs and we can play around with them. You know, my favorite is
theosaurus. Just FYI. Yeah, pick.