people ask me hey how do you come up with all those wacky stories for
techlink there's some weird words you say like google and microsoft how do you
come up with those and i don't know i was just always i was just always
creative but if you think you can do better TechLinked is hiring writers
check the link in the descript to apply you gotta use a semicolon
it's important valve steam deck has brought pc gamers a level of handheld
gaming joy that they weren't sure they'd ever get and that joy is only expected
to increase if the company isn't lying in their newly released booklet the pdf
goes over valve's company history and why they even bothered to make the steam
deck in the first place which could be beneficial to partners about to sell the
console in asia but the real beneficial parts for us were the passages
referencing new versions of the steam deck and calling the deck and steam os a
multi-generational product line double decker boom they release it it's just a big mac
that makes it sound like a steam deck 2 is definitely in the works although
knowing valve there absolutely will not be a steam deck 3 so they should
probably just put two generational in there instead you know what i mean
it's never going to happen hey and another fun thing valve included a
reference to Linus and alex slapping a heatsink on the back of the deck but
then say they don't recommend it rude
NVIDIA's leather-loving ceo jensen wang
told investors during the company's latest earnings call that team green is
dealing with excess inventory of rtx
3000 gpus that sounds horrible it's like scrooge mcduck's money pool but with
graphics cards it just hurts so NVIDIA will be cutting prices of current gen
cards to make way for the rtx 40 series which jensen said he'd be revealing some
details about at gtc in december
this could be good news for pc gamers if retailers decide to pass on the savings
but anyone hoping to pick up a ps5 outside of the us isn't going to be so
lucky as sony announced they're raising the price of their consoles in
non-american markets why inflation it's an economic force you
just you can't do anything about it it just happens
except microsoft can do something apparently they said prices of xbox
consoles will not be rising and nintendo
also said they wouldn't be raising the price of the switch because that would
be insane the console is five years old
nintendo you didn't need a press release for that one what is wrong with this
company don't worry don't worry you're safe we
won't sue you and a recent cyber attack is drawing interest not because of the
amount of credentials compromised but because of the amount of companies
targeted although it's not a competition put that laptop away james is a secret
hacker what's your handle i'm a russian asset
more than 135 organizations including doordash signal and cloudflare were
attacked by the campaign dubbed octopus
by security research firm group ib because of its connection with octa the
single sign-on service used by the campaign's first victims login
credentials for nearly 10 000 individuals were stolen by the hackers
who used relatively simple phishing tactics to compromise users two-factor
authentication using what say it with me text message based 2fa use an
authenticator app or a usb key and these hacks are a lot harder to do which is
why cloudflare in particular did not have any credentials compromised
confiscate your parents phones and get them up to speed it's okay to reverse
the power dynamic in this situation i'm the boss now mom
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the wacky thing i just said very wacky spacex has announced a
partnership with t-mobile to bring starlink satellite internet connectivity
directly to cell phones next year without requiring a dedicated dish
okay that's right internet beamed right from space to your phone and tesla
vehicles later on at the blazing speed of two to four megabits per second
shared with anyone else in your cell zone that might be just enough bandwidth
to check elon's twitter to see what sick meme he just reposted from reddit
and when you're out in the boonies with no coverage that could be just what you
need to carry on despite the dehydration what did he tweet
yeah speaking of people who have been on joe rogan mark zuckerberg casually mentioned
to joe that meta's next vr headset will be launching in october other rumors
point to said headset almost certainly being project cambria a model that's
geared more towards professional work use cases than gaming and that makes
sense given just how unfun meta's virtual worlds are looking right now
there's no slaying dragons at work unless the dragon is the drop in our q3
numbers carl you don't need good graphics at the office 1v1 me and
beatsaber now or you're fired google's brilliant plan to merge its duo and meet
chat apps into one has had a very expected hiccup people don't understand
what's happening so after rebranding duo as meat and adding an original label to
the original meat google has re-added the duo app as a shortcut to the new
meat which could sit beside the actual app icon for new meat and the old meat
bracket original i get it
james is like oh finally it makes sense nice one google this sucks you suck how
long have you had to figure this out like a decade what is this do better you
suck google prides themselves on finding and notifying other big tech companies
have security flaws in their products but well well who just waltzed in but
microsoft who found a flaw in chrome os
which could be remotely exploited by messing with audio metadata google has
already fixed the exploit which was actually reported months ago but man
they were probably so embarrassed when they did that on our job
and Corsair is contributing to the whole weird monitor trend that's going on
right now with the launch of the xenion flex a 45 inch 21x9 ultra wide OLED
gaming monitor that can bend its display to transform from a flat screen to a
curved screen pluth did this on ShortCircuit i touched it too how did it feel
wrong curvy you can even grab the sides and pull it
in yourself to customize the amount of curvature up to an 800 r curve they
couldn't let it go any more than that though or you'd be sucked into the game
world and trust me you don't want to get stuck in there with mark zuckerberg
finally a friend and monday is not like friday which is why you should come back
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