1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,720 Look, we all go back and reuse our old work from time to time. Sometimes I'll 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:11,440 copy and paste a segment I did in like 2019 into a new episode and you never 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:17,279 even notice because of how I look the exact same. So, is it really so bad that 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:19,119 Intel just launched the Core i5 110 5 00:00:17,279 --> 00:00:22,640 built with the company's Comet Lake architecture from 2019 when they 6 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:28,000 couldn't figure out how to get past their 14 nm process. So they just kept 7 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:33,600 optimizing it and renaming it 14 nanmter plus and then 14 nmter plus plus 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:40,239 recycling, you know, it helps fish and and frogs. From the specs, the Core i5 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,239 110 appears to literally be a rebadged 10 00:00:40,239 --> 00:00:47,520 Core i510400, which is available on Amazon for 130 11 00:00:44,879 --> 00:00:52,960 USD. But the rebadged version is priced at 200 bucks cuz it's a collector's 12 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:57,840 item. Honestly, you're disrespecting the hobby. This isn't the first time Intel 13 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:04,960 has helped the environment. Back in July, they quietly rebadged a Core i5 14 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:07,280 12400 as the Core i5120F, 15 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:11,920 but at least that came with a 100 MHz boost compared to the original AlderLake 16 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:16,000 chip from 2021, 2 years ago. I don't know. Intel might 17 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,240 be scraping the bottom of the barrel here after firing their consumer 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,640 products boss and the chief architect behind its Xeon CPUs, leaving the 19 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:29,600 remaining leadership serving the tech world equivalent of weak old donuts, 20 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:35,280 which for the record I would still eat. They're fine. Nepal has gone from 21 00:01:32,479 --> 00:01:39,280 banning social media to using Discord to elect an interim prime minister. Now, to 22 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,880 explain that, we've got a fast track through the past two weeks, so stay with 23 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:46,159 me. Here we go. Last month, posts on Nepali social media calling out 24 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:50,560 government corruption and income inequality were trending heavily. On 25 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:55,040 August 28th, the government gave social platforms a week to conform to new 26 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:59,200 monitoring requirements and then blocked the ones that didn't, including 27 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:03,439 Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That triggered intense protests in the 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:09,840 capital city, Kathmandu, during which police used live ammunition against 29 00:02:06,399 --> 00:02:12,080 protesters, killing 19. The government 30 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:16,879 quickly lifted the social media ban, but surprisingly that didn't really calm 31 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:20,879 anyone down. The protests intensified and multiple government buildings and 32 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:25,440 politicians homes were set on fire, including the prime ministers with his 33 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:29,760 wife still inside. Contrary to many reports, she is still alive but in 34 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:35,120 critical condition. according to the now XPM who resigned and fled the country. 35 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:39,519 With the government in limbo, a civic group called Hami Nepal organized a 36 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:43,360 discord channel that quickly amassed tens of thousands of members, including 37 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,760 the leaders of the so-called Gen Z protest movement. Incredibly, the army 38 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 then asked the Discord channel organizers to nominate a new leader of 39 00:02:50,239 --> 00:02:57,599 the country. So, they had a poll on Discord and the winner, former Chief 40 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,360 Justice Sushila Ki, was officially sworn 41 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:02,879 in as the country's interim prime minister this morning. She'll be 42 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:08,000 overseeing elections for everyone who missed the Discord invite, but it's nice 43 00:03:04,959 --> 00:03:09,920 to know the Gamer Chat app can replace a 44 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,680 parliament in a pinch. Nintendo announced some pretty surprising things 45 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,840 during this morning's direct live stream, including the addition of 46 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:22,879 Virtual Boy games to the Switch online library this coming February. To relive 47 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:27,599 the days when playing a VR game was like wearing a firstgen Batman suit in that 48 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:32,319 it didn't let you turn your head, you'll need to either purchase a $100 replica 49 00:03:30,239 --> 00:03:37,840 of the original Virtual Boy hardware, which opens up so you can slot in your 50 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:40,239 Switch, or the $25 cardboard version, 51 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:45,519 which you will use exactly once. Nintendo also revealed the title of the 52 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:47,840 next Mario movie, the Super Mario Galaxy 53 00:03:45,519 --> 00:03:52,480 movie, presumably starring Princess Roselina. Roselina. It doesn't matter. 54 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:58,239 But she's voiced by Chris Pratt. But my favorite reveal was Pokemon Pootopia, 55 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:02,640 which is kind of like Pokemon meets Minecraft/Animal 56 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:06,560 Crossing. Oh, and also you play as a ditto who wakes up in some kind of 57 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:12,560 wreckage to discover its trainer is perhaps missing or worse. And then it 58 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,680 takes on human form in kind of a wiggly 59 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,280 wacky copy of its trainer. Uh, it then 60 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:21,440 reshapes the land with its shape-shifting abilities, morphing its 61 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:27,360 hands into scyther blades and hitmonchan's boxing gloves and, you 62 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,919 know, vomiting up furniture. I'm not 63 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:34,320 sleeping on that. But I do agree with this commenter who's unironically 64 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:39,600 excited to use Ditto's body horror capabilities for farming. I have so many 65 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:45,360 questions. Does the Ditto think it is its trainer? Is this the Ditto's way of 66 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,880 coping with the trauma of loss? Along with the usual questions about the 67 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:53,199 morality of enslaving and forcing sentient beings to battle, I had to stop 68 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:57,280 playing Pokémon because I just start spiraling. 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All of the new 83 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:08,400 iPhone 17 models and probably the iPhone Air as well will have a setting that 84 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:10,000 disables pulse width modulation or PWM, 85 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:14,160 which should reduce the screen flickering issues experienced by some 86 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:19,360 iPhones and iPads at low brightness levels. Mac rumors spotted the change in 87 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:23,199 a pre-release version of iOS 26, which launches on Monday. But someone also 88 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:27,840 found a screenshot of the setting already, which is being celebrated by 89 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:34,000 the 17,000 people who apparently visit the subreddit r/pwmensitive 90 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:39,840 every week to participate in a big group cry. Well, not anymore. 91 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:44,479 If they buy new iPhones, AI company Perplexity is being sued once again, 92 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:51,680 this time by Miriam Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. They are really 93 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:51,680 going to throw the book at them. 94 00:06:55,759 --> 00:07:01,280 Yeah, as usual, the lawsuit accuses 95 00:06:59,039 --> 00:07:05,440 Perplexity of copyright infringement and improper attribution, which the company 96 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:10,720 has been weathering lawsuits over since at least early 2024 from many other 97 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:15,599 people. Meanwhile, the FTC has launched an investigation into the harms posed to 98 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:20,319 kids by chat bots from all of the other major AI companies, including Google, 99 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:25,440 Meta, OpenAI, and XAI. I fully expect the defense to revolve around arguing 100 00:07:22,639 --> 00:07:29,680 that AI is basically sentient, and these chat bots are only a couple years old. 101 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:35,199 So, if anything, we need to defend them from the heinous prompts being slung at 102 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:38,240 them by human kids. Honestly, I think the legal system might 103 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:42,720 be ready for this at this point. PC parts company Height has directed all 104 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:49,039 owners of its all-in-one liquid cooler, the thick with 2C's Q80 Trio, to stop 105 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:54,879 using it and remove it from their system immediately. It's haunted by the ghost 106 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,560 of a certified baddy. 107 00:07:54,879 --> 00:08:00,479 No. There's apparently a fragile internal component that can cause 108 00:07:58,479 --> 00:08:06,639 leakage. Thankfully, the company's earlier model, the thick Q60, uses a 109 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:12,639 different design and is totally fine. But the thick Q80 was too thick. You 110 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:17,599 never go full thick. And researchers in Taiwan have managed to get plants to 111 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:22,080 suck up more carbon dioxide from the air by replacing the enzyme that plants 112 00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:26,800 normally use for that process with a more efficient one. With the new enzyme, 113 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:31,840 a specific weed being tested in this study, weighed two to three times more 114 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:36,479 as the control plants produced more seeds and had more leaves that were also 115 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:40,640 larger, which all mean that they sucked up more carbon. So, this could either 116 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:46,880 lead to a great way to mitigate climate change or dinosaurs running a mock on 117 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:49,680 the mainland. How 118 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:53,920 chaos chaos theory. It's just Yeah, sometimes dinosaurs show up. Sometimes 119 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:57,279 you show up back here for more tech news on Monday, too. Hey, maybe bring some 120 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,600 dinosaurs and we can play around with them. You know, my favorite is 121 00:08:58,959 --> 00:09:04,320 theosaurus. Just FYI. Yeah, pick.