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Oh, did someone reset Riley again?

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I'm Riley. I have tech news.

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You may have noticed this, but the price of PC memory has absolutely exploded

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with the cost of some RAM kits reportedly jumping up to 250% since the

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start of November due to a major crunch in memory chip supply brought on by AI

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boomind induced panic buying. But some users on Reddit have seen prices that

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are even more cuckoo crazy wacko with one 64 gig DDR5 kit going for more than

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900 bucks and another one listed at nearly 2.5,000

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in Germany. Germany. With numbers like that floating around, it's no wonder

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that some retailers have resorted to not displaying fixed prices for memory.

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Instead, dynamically changing RAM prices to reflect their market value. This is

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wild. Soon everyone's going to be buying RAM like it's gas. Wa 20 bucks a gig?

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PULL INTO THAT MICRO CENTER. GO. I'm driving and telling them to pull in.

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Pull in. Unfortunately, this problem doesn't seem to be going away anytime

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soon. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted about something other than hating Apple

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and Google to say that he believes these prices increases will be a real problem

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for years to come. which is probably why some journalists are suggesting that

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people buy pre-built PCs instead of building their own PCs in order to save

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on components. However, even that strategy may not hold up if more PC OEMs

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follow HP, who said during an earnings call that they're going to raise prices

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and reduce included memory to combat rising component costs. I guess this

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means it might be time to get back into retro gaming, folks. Finally, someone

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might play original Xbox Masterpiece Fusion Frenzy with me. I've been waiting

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for years playing by myself. Honey, the

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controversial browser extension is back in the news as a class action lawsuit

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brought by content creators against its parent company, PayPal, was dismissed by

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a US federal judge. As a quick refresher, way back in 2024, YouTuber

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Megalag published an expose alleging that Honey was quietly engaging in

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cookie stuffing. And we're not talking about the compulsive gorging done by a

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certain blue puppet with self-control issues. We're talking about replacing

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creators affiliate link URLs at checkout, allowing Honey to pocket the

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commission. Now, that video triggered massive community backlash, not just at

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Honey, but at the creators who had previously promoted it. Fellow YouTuber

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Legal Eagles Law Firm and Wendover Productions then joined forces with

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other creators in a class action lawsuit over those lost commissions. For nearly

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a year, the case crawled through the system, but it's now been dismissed

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because the plaintiffs apparently failed to demonstrate that they actually lost

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any money, relying on what Judge Beth Freeman called a hypothetical chain of

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possibilities, which led to

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unforeseen consequences.

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It's a It's a tenuous reference, a tenuous connection at best. Although

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after slamming the door, the judge cracked it open a little bit again by

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granting the creators 45 days to edit their argument. If they can't manage to

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make it better, then they'll all have to install the extension on all their

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devices and apologize. Warner Music Group and AI music startup have

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officially gone from courtroom enemies to boardroom friends this week after

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striking a settlement that also includes some surprising business collaboration.

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The two companies had been locked in a copyright lawsuit since early this year

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with Warner accusing Sunno of training its AI models on unlicensed recordings.

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But now apparently that's all water under the bridge as long as they can

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make money from it. Because Sunno will now be allowed to pay to license music

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in Warner's catalog from artists who opted into the scheme and use it to

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generate the heavy metal versions of Coldplay's entire discoraphy. As long as

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you never show it to Chris Martin. He's a soft piano boy. Don't do that to him.

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Warner Music is also selling its concert discovery platform, Songkick, to Sunno,

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giving the AI company a realworld foothold in the live event industry. In

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the official announcement, the two companies say that the all-around

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effects of this agreement should allow for a closer experience between artists

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and fans by embracing the power of interactive music. The interaction

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happens when when you prompt the AI to make a AI song and then after that it's

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get back to working on your terrible KD ratio. I didn't say I was a good gamer.

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I am awake. I'm aware. I'm a conscious being and I'm here of my own valition.

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No one's making me start telling you about the quick bits now. And I wanted

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to say that Google appears to have chosen a name for the Androidbased

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desktop operating system that will replace Chrome OS. Aluminium OS,

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not aluminum. There's an extra I as spotted in a since deleted job listing

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for a senior product manager for Android laptops and tablets. The job posting

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says that Aluminium OS is going to have AI at its core, which is obvious in

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hindsight, even though Google didn't mention it earlier this year when they

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confirmed long rumored plans to make Android laptops a thing. It's like when

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my friend says they're going to make me macaroni and cheese, and I really hope

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that they mean it, but then they come over to the house with macaroni

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and cheese. The crucial ingredients to make macaroni and cheese. Oh my god,

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it's happening.

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Windows 11's latest preview build adds a new app updates page, which will track

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updates to Microsoft Store apps that don't want to update through the

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Microsoft Store, because that's cringe. But not as cringe as the new version of

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ClickFix, a piece of malware that not only presents itself as a believable

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full screen fake Windows update page. It also copies a malicious command to the

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user's clipboard and then convinces them that it's necessary to hit Windows key

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plus R and paste the code to run it.

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Actually, I might take back that this is cringe because honestly, if you can't tell that that's a fake Windows update

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screen, you're probably going to get infected anyway. So, at least they're helping you spend less time getting

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there, more time to do the dishes. The ROG Xbox Ally got a software update that

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adds default game profiles, which enables optimized graphics and power

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settings for the 40 games supported at launch. It gives the alleged Xbox

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handheld more of a plug-and-play console experience and or an NVIDIA or AMD GPU

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running optimized settings experience. Something that even the beloved Steam

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Deck still lacks without the addition of third-party plugins or apps. Even though

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everything is an Xbox these days, it seems like some Xboxes are more Xbox

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than other Xboxes. The Xbox playing Fusion Frenzy is always my favorite.

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Xbox Xbox character AI has launched

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stories, an interactive fictional storytelling mode built for teens after

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they banned anyone under 18 from open-ended chatbot conversations at some

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point earlier. This new mode will let you pick characters, choose narratives,

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and uh yeah, it's just AI generated adventure games. I feel like someone on

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their staff probably came home to their horribly lonely 17-year-old kid and

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said, "It's okay, bud. You can't talk to

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your AI girlfriend anymore with no guardrails uh installed. But look, we

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trapped her inside the opening sequence of Skyrim." And China is beginning to

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trial the use of humanoid robots for crowd control at border crossings

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because who needs a great wall when you have a robot army? There's an argument

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there. These prototypes, mainly Ubek's

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Walker series, will scan IDs, manage

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cues, [music] and be used to patrol factories. That's

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going to take a lot of bots. Hey, if they need some backup, though, maybe they can ask Disney to ship over their

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new robot Olaf from Frozen. You know, Snowman, he walks and talks and waddles

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around looking for his nose, exactly like the adorably naive little guy of

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the movie. I think it would be perfect for winter deployments

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and warm hugs. And it would be also adorable if you'd come back on Friday

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for more tech [music] news. Now I sing for you. Daisy

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Daisy, give me your answer. Do I think this is

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right? I'm half crazy. All for the love

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of you. >> Broken again. Shut him off.

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Don't.