WEBVTT 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 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 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 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:19.119 Intel just launched the Core i5 110 00:00:17.279 --> 00:00:22.640 built with the company's Comet Lake architecture from 2019 when they 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:28.000 couldn't figure out how to get past their 14 nm process. So they just kept 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:33.600 optimizing it and renaming it 14 nanmter plus and then 14 nmter plus plus 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:40.239 recycling, you know, it helps fish and and frogs. From the specs, the Core i5 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.239 110 appears to literally be a rebadged 00:00:40.239 --> 00:00:47.520 Core i510400, which is available on Amazon for 130 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:52.960 USD. But the rebadged version is priced at 200 bucks cuz it's a collector's 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:57.840 item. Honestly, you're disrespecting the hobby. This isn't the first time Intel 00:00:55.520 --> 00:01:04.960 has helped the environment. Back in July, they quietly rebadged a Core i5 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:07.280 12400 as the Core i5120F, 00:01:04.960 --> 00:01:11.920 but at least that came with a 100 MHz boost compared to the original AlderLake 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:16.000 chip from 2021, 2 years ago. I don't know. Intel might 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:20.240 be scraping the bottom of the barrel here after firing their consumer 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:24.640 products boss and the chief architect behind its Xeon CPUs, leaving the 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:29.600 remaining leadership serving the tech world equivalent of weak old donuts, 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:35.280 which for the record I would still eat. They're fine. Nepal has gone from 00:01:32.479 --> 00:01:39.280 banning social media to using Discord to elect an interim prime minister. Now, to 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:42.880 explain that, we've got a fast track through the past two weeks, so stay with 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:46.159 me. Here we go. Last month, posts on Nepali social media calling out 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:50.560 government corruption and income inequality were trending heavily. On 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:55.040 August 28th, the government gave social platforms a week to conform to new 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:59.200 monitoring requirements and then blocked the ones that didn't, including 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:03.439 Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That triggered intense protests in the 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:09.840 capital city, Kathmandu, during which police used live ammunition against 00:02:06.399 --> 00:02:12.080 protesters, killing 19. The government 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:16.879 quickly lifted the social media ban, but surprisingly that didn't really calm 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:20.879 anyone down. The protests intensified and multiple government buildings and 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:25.440 politicians homes were set on fire, including the prime ministers with his 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.760 wife still inside. Contrary to many reports, she is still alive but in 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:35.120 critical condition. according to the now XPM who resigned and fled the country. 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.519 With the government in limbo, a civic group called Hami Nepal organized a 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:43.360 discord channel that quickly amassed tens of thousands of members, including 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:47.760 the leaders of the so-called Gen Z protest movement. Incredibly, the army 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:52.000 then asked the Discord channel organizers to nominate a new leader of 00:02:50.239 --> 00:02:57.599 the country. So, they had a poll on Discord and the winner, former Chief 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.360 Justice Sushila Ki, was officially sworn 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:02.879 in as the country's interim prime minister this morning. She'll be 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:08.000 overseeing elections for everyone who missed the Discord invite, but it's nice 00:03:04.959 --> 00:03:09.920 to know the Gamer Chat app can replace a 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.680 parliament in a pinch. Nintendo announced some pretty surprising things 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:17.840 during this morning's direct live stream, including the addition of 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:22.879 Virtual Boy games to the Switch online library this coming February. To relive 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:27.599 the days when playing a VR game was like wearing a firstgen Batman suit in that 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 00:03:30.239 --> 00:03:37.840 of the original Virtual Boy hardware, which opens up so you can slot in your 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:40.239 Switch, or the $25 cardboard version, 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:45.519 which you will use exactly once. Nintendo also revealed the title of the 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:47.840 next Mario movie, the Super Mario Galaxy 00:03:45.519 --> 00:03:52.480 movie, presumably starring Princess Roselina. Roselina. It doesn't matter. 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:58.239 But she's voiced by Chris Pratt. But my favorite reveal was Pokemon Pootopia, 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:02.640 which is kind of like Pokemon meets Minecraft/Animal 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:06.560 Crossing. Oh, and also you play as a ditto who wakes up in some kind of 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:12.560 wreckage to discover its trainer is perhaps missing or worse. And then it 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:15.680 takes on human form in kind of a wiggly 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:17.280 wacky copy of its trainer. Uh, it then 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:21.440 reshapes the land with its shape-shifting abilities, morphing its 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:27.360 hands into scyther blades and hitmonchan's boxing gloves and, you 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:29.919 know, vomiting up furniture. I'm not 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:34.320 sleeping on that. But I do agree with this commenter who's unironically 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:39.600 excited to use Ditto's body horror capabilities for farming. I have so many 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:45.360 questions. Does the Ditto think it is its trainer? Is this the Ditto's way of 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:48.880 coping with the trauma of loss? 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All of the new 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:08.400 iPhone 17 models and probably the iPhone Air as well will have a setting that 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:10.000 disables pulse width modulation or PWM, 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:14.160 which should reduce the screen flickering issues experienced by some 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:19.360 iPhones and iPads at low brightness levels. Mac rumors spotted the change in 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:23.199 a pre-release version of iOS 26, which launches on Monday. But someone also 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:27.840 found a screenshot of the setting already, which is being celebrated by 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:34.000 the 17,000 people who apparently visit the subreddit r/pwmensitive 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:39.840 every week to participate in a big group cry. Well, not anymore. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:44.479 If they buy new iPhones, AI company Perplexity is being sued once again, 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:51.680 this time by Miriam Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. They are really 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:51.680 going to throw the book at them. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:01.280 Yeah, as usual, the lawsuit accuses 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:05.440 Perplexity of copyright infringement and improper attribution, which the company 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:10.720 has been weathering lawsuits over since at least early 2024 from many other 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:15.599 people. Meanwhile, the FTC has launched an investigation into the harms posed to 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:20.319 kids by chat bots from all of the other major AI companies, including Google, 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:25.440 Meta, OpenAI, and XAI. I fully expect the defense to revolve around arguing 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:29.680 that AI is basically sentient, and these chat bots are only a couple years old. 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:35.199 So, if anything, we need to defend them from the heinous prompts being slung at 00:07:32.479 --> 00:07:38.240 them by human kids. Honestly, I think the legal system might 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:42.720 be ready for this at this point. PC parts company Height has directed all 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 00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:54.879 using it and remove it from their system immediately. It's haunted by the ghost 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:56.560 of a certified baddy. 00:07:54.879 --> 00:08:00.479 No. There's apparently a fragile internal component that can cause 00:07:58.479 --> 00:08:06.639 leakage. Thankfully, the company's earlier model, the thick Q60, uses a 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:12.639 different design and is totally fine. But the thick Q80 was too thick. You 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:17.599 never go full thick. And researchers in Taiwan have managed to get plants to 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:22.080 suck up more carbon dioxide from the air by replacing the enzyme that plants 00:08:19.919 --> 00:08:26.800 normally use for that process with a more efficient one. With the new enzyme, 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:31.840 a specific weed being tested in this study, weighed two to three times more 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:36.479 as the control plants produced more seeds and had more leaves that were also 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:40.640 larger, which all mean that they sucked up more carbon. So, this could either 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:46.880 lead to a great way to mitigate climate change or dinosaurs running a mock on 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:49.680 the mainland. How 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:53.920 chaos chaos theory. It's just Yeah, sometimes dinosaurs show up. Sometimes 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:57.279 you show up back here for more tech news on Monday, too. Hey, maybe bring some 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:01.600 dinosaurs and we can play around with them. You know, my favorite is 00:08:58.959 --> 00:09:04.320 theosaurus. Just FYI. Yeah, pick.