You know when tech news makes you feel something you've never felt before and
you ask other people if they've felt anything like that and they're like no
that's a bit concerning. You should talk to your doctor. Yeah, that's what it's
all about. Microsoft CEO Satia Nadella
is scared that rapid development of AI could leave Microsoft itself in the dust
despite doing absolutely everything it can to shoehorn three different versions
of something named C-Pilot into every product they make. As reported by The
Verge at a company town hall, a Microsoft employee expressed concerns
about the vibe shift at the company towards the emotionally colder side.
Now, what that employee doesn't understand is that Microsoft had no
choice but to lay off 9,000 people despite making record profits because,
as Nadella said in his response, there's so many once great tech companies that
simply vanished. And every time it was
because of AI and not laying off enough people. So, Satia's concern that other
companies will pull ahead in the AI race is understandable. Not to mention the
fact that Elon Musk explicitly claimed a month ago that he'll replace everything
Microsoft does with a purely AI software
company called Macrohard. Everyone saw this tweet and was like,
"All right, Elon. Okay." But Satia saw it and was like, "Oh, and ran off to
order someone to name another thing Copilot." The first handheld with AMD's
beefy stricks Halo chip can perform nearly two times better than one of
AMD's existing flagship handheld chips. According to YouTuber the Fox, who
spells his name like it's his Nexopia user ID from 2005, and we love him for
that. The old Foxhound also revealed that this handheld, the GPD Win 5 with
the giant attachable battery on the back, you know the one, will start at
1,600 USD for the lower powered Ryzen
385 with the 395 version starting at
$1,850. Sure, at lower TDPs, the Stricks Halo
chip gets around the same performance as the Ryzen HX 370, which is close to the
upcoming Ryzen Z2 Extreme, but starting around 25 watts and above, the Ryzen 395
can do a lot better. It's just, you know, is that worth like $2,000? If
you're more of a desktop only person, AMD just launched the Radeon RX700
nonXT. That's right, I said 7700. It's a
new GPU based on the company's last gen RDNA3 architecture coming out 2 years
after the X-T version. AMD, if you're
going for a nostalgia factor, I think you have to wait a bit longer. iPhone 17
owners are flooding the internet with complaints that their new slabs are
getting scratched when they throw them without a case into their pocket or
purse with their keys and custom knife collection. What? Apple has really
dropped the ball here. Someone get to the bottom of all these reports.
Thankfully, JerryRig Everything is confirmed via his professional skills
and tools that scratching an iPhone 17 Pro with a razor blade will leave a
mark. Okay, but seriously, the issue here has to do with the iPhone 17 Pro's
anodized aluminum frame and certain
decisions made by Apple about the design of the corners of the camera plateau.
Zach from JerryRriig Everything explains that this is why when you scratch the
corner with a key, the corner will get scratched. Look, watch his video. I'm
sure this is a big deal to people who love their naked phones, but I, you
know, other people are pointing out that previous iPhone models also used
anodized aluminum and they scratched easily, but that didn't qualify for the
Scandalgate uh treatment apparently. So, throw a case on your phone or don't and
keep scratching on and on until you get inside and scratch off the whole SSD uh
inside the iPhone 17 Pro Max and replace it with another one like YouTuber
Director Fang did here. You don't have to make it an ASMR video, though.
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and he's like, "You know, that tech news feeling is actually totally normal. Take
five quick bits and don't call me in the morning, you hypocchondric. You get some
help. Not from me." The Tik Tok deal is
real, an anonymous senior White House official told reporters today. And it
will involve Bite Dance creating a US-specific copy of the app's algorithm
that a US-based joint group of investors can use on a lease. One of those
investors is Oracle, who will also be responsible for security on the new
all-American Tik Tok, which will only allow viral dances to country songs.
None of that K-pop allowed cuz that's that's Chinese. While the
While the White House is brokering the deal, they will not be taking a stake in
the new venture, which is something we have to clarify now. So, that's fun.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Hang confirmed on his joint investor call with Intel last week
that NVIDIA's rumored N1 ARMbased PC
processor and the GB10 SOC powering the
company's DGX Spark MiniAI PCs that are already announced are actually one and
the same. What? Now, there's still room for speculation here. Leaks have
referenced both an N1 and N1X variant,
but it's also worth pointing out that the GB10/N1,
whatever it is, combines NVIDIA's GPU cores with MediaTek's ARM CPU cores. And
will anyone care about that when Intel CPUs with integrated NVIDIA GPUs exist
that were just announced last week? You have to answer that on your own. Okay,
my brain is busy still thinking about how people don't put cases on their
phones. Why Lenovo has canled some pre-orders for their upcoming Legion
Goto 2 Windows handheld because they received way more than they expected.
They thought no one liked them and it wouldn't be right to hold on to their
customers money when the shipping date is uncertain. We don't want to do that
to you. Oh, actually, I speak corporate ease. Uh, I can translate this. They're
actually saying they could do without incessant emails tearing into their
support staff over their order not being ready like the customers in a fast food
drive-thru. Also, maybe just don't pre-order. You know, Lenovo agrees with
me. Apparently, European airports are slowly recovering after a cyber attack
caused delays and cancellations in London, Brussels, Dublin, Berlin, and
more. There's a lot of cities in Europe. The
cause was apparently ransomware that struck Collins Aerospace, the maker of
software used by many airlines worldwide. Now, some say the hackers
just wanted money. But they may also have demanded an end to those incredibly
annoying cookie consent pop-ups every site had to add after the EU made it a
law in 2009. Because look, the European Commission is now considering reworking
it. I'm not saying the hackers were right, but
the pop-ups are really annoying. And Pope Leo I 14th said in a recent
interview covered by the register that Vatican staff asked him for
authorization to create an AI pope that
would match his personality so anyone could get a personal audience with the
pope and Pope Leo was like hey uh that
what is this only fans? Not verbatim but
I think that was the vibe. This AI stuff is really getting out of hand. The
robots are now throwing themselves around. They're not even waiting for the
testers to kick them anymore. What is it even doing here? It's trying to psych us
out. But don't psych me out by saying you'll come back on Wednesday for more
tech news and then not coming. Please.
Now what? I've just I just don't I will
believe