if you break eye contact with the tech news it wins
god wins it wins every time NVIDIA confirmed
yesterday that the incident it was investigating last week was indeed a
cyber attack and that the hackers did steal data there it feels better to say
it out loud doesn't it start the healing process unfortunately that's going to be
hard in this case the hackers have started to release the data including
the source code for NVIDIA's dlss technology and various other
confidential files one of those apparently includes references to chips
believed to be designed for an upgraded nintendo switch that's right we'll never
be rid of these switch pro rumors it's the new half-life 3 i've accepted
it the hackers have threatened to release more data unless NVIDIA a talks
to them they may just be lonely and b releases their GPU drivers as open
source from now on and forever
amen will NVIDIA have a change of heart about open source and is it really a change of
heart if you do it because criminals gave you an ultimatum great questions
the tech world and the world in general really continues to punish russia in
whatever ways they can for the invasion of ukraine apple has halted all sales of
its products in the country and pulled russian state media apps off of its app
store with similar moves being taken by all sorts of companies disney ford
boeing bp shell russia is basically being left with the one thing they got
going for them cold weather one thing russia can control though are the
companies that rely on it for rocket launches like space internet company one
web whose satellite payload launch was delayed because of russia demanding that
the british government divested stake in the company first
realistic sure meanwhile ukraine's i.t army has been
continuing its retaliatory cyberattacks on russia they managed to take down
parts of russia's internet on the weekend and even disabled some ev
charging networks making their displays read putin is a [ __ ]
yes electric vehicle charger he is
he kind of looks like like it's like a literal description
and in slightly more optimistic news major chip industry players have united
in an effort to create an open source interconnect system for chiplets called
the universal chiplet interconnect express or ucie ucie
ucie it's delicious to say aeiou and
this is no joke Intel AMD ARM qualcomm
samsung google microsoft and tsmc are
all on board for the standard which would allow chip makers to take a CPU
core a graphics core a networking chip all made by different companies and snap
them together like lego blocks okay not exactly like lego blocks not like you
could like build a plane out of them although maybe you could if you ran flight simulator on
them stay on topic anyways these open source
chiplets sound awesome but you know who doesn't think so NVIDIA because they're
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you will go insane epic games has acquired band camp the music platform
known for drm free audio purchases and fair creator payouts the purchase sort
of makes sense since epic's whole shtick right now is pushing for a fair and open
internet with decent revenue sharing on online platforms i just hope they don't
pull the same thing they did with the early epic game store and land a ton of
exclusive releases i'm already buying that tamagotchi ipod
for kanye's album but that can't be a trend i don't want to keep doing this
have you seen that thing it's like a little puck
evie truck company rivian surprised its future customers with sudden price hikes
of as much as 20 percent on existing pre-orders meaning some people who had
signed up to buy an 80 000 truck were now looking at a 100 000 purchase or the
option of downgrading to a lower spec model naturally this upset people and a
poll on the rivian forum showed over half of users were considering canceling
their reservations i guess you could say they had even more reservations
that's not a riley joke that's like a john joke [ __ ] off rivien
another day another stadia amazon has now made its luna cloud gaming service
available to everyone in the mainland united states so that includes canada
right yeah basically it's the same thing luna has
various paid channels with differing selections of games but the prime gaming
channel will be free for amazon prime members with a rotating selection of
games and you can even use your phone as a controller with fire tv devices
so apple fanatics will want to stay tuned next week because their cult hq
has announced an event on tuesday called peak performance but with that two e's
with two e's instead of it ea david so you're peaking where a new iphone se an
ipad air and new macs are expected to make an appearance but it doesn't really
matter what they show we're all gonna watch it because it's apple the world's
hippest jewelry company and polestar has revealed its o2 concept vehicle an
electric roadster with a retractable roof and a freaking built-in drone that
can launch from the back of the car
pretty you're into that yeah it's just a concept car but it is
apparently built on the same aluminum chassis as the pulstar 5 due to launch
in 2024 and i'm always going to report on cars with built-in drones those are
the only cars i want to report on everything else is just
it's just a car why would and that was a regular episode come back on friday for
more tech news until then if you see any out in the wild look away
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