it's not every day you get Tech
news so especially this coming Monday
it's a stat holiday so we won't be here make alternative plans AMD's ryzen 79800
x3d appears to have been sold out at retailers across North America and
Europe with even the next batch of pre-orders selling out at German Outlet
mindf Factory New Egg said their individual units of the CPU are all gone
but they dug around and managed to find some 9800 x3d plus motherboard bundles
which is not a ploy to sell more inventory it's a bundle it's it came
like that it's a bundle if you missed the boat it's okay they'll come back in
stock eventually maybe even before those new economy saving tariffs drop
hopefully they drop after AMD also drops the ryzen 9 9950 x3d because a leaked
factorio Benchmark shows it running quite a bit faster than the 9800 x3d and
and the 7950 x3d releasing processors
that are better than last gen is a winning strategy for AMD right now whose
desktop CPU market share has climbed 10% in the last year according to Mercury
research Apple appears to be trying the same approach reviews for the new
Macbook Pros Mac Mini and iMac are all focusing on features other than the M4
chip because it's just obviously slapping AMD and Intel's competitors
particularly the M4 Pro and Ma Max variants but don't worry Intel knows
they've got work to do in an interview with Hot Hardware Intel VP Robert HCK
acknowledged that their desktop AOL Lake launch didn't go as planned the company
has identified a quote series of issues at an OS and a BIOS level which meant
that the performance seen in reviews quote was not what we expected not what
we intended seemingly forgetting about Intel's own benchmarks showing the
flagship core9 Ultra 285k performing
worse than its predecessor in games I
mean okay well they didn't intend for
that to still be the case after the CPU is actually launched Intel may have seen
advice from enthusiasts to not trust first-party numbers and then applied
that to themsel AOL Lake's middling performance came after a scandal over
instability issues in the company's Raptor Lake lineup which has now earned
them a class action lawsuit morale is
probably pretty low among Intel employees right now especially after
their employer took away their free coffee and tea as a cost-saving measure
you know things are bad when Intel just brought it back which is either a sign
that things are looking up or the shot you give a dying Soldier to ease the
pain at least we have coffee now this next story has some wild turns in it so
hang on a judge has granted a motion filed by meta to dismiss a LW lawsuit
brought against them by the man who invented the popup ad Ethan
Zuckerman the judge thought a lawsuit titled Zuck V Zuck was just too silly
could one of you switch the Z for a c i mean I don't know I'm thinking any the
lawsuit wasn't about ads it was a preemptive move to block meta from suing
Zuckerman in the future if Zuckerman went through with his plan to release a
tool called unfollow everything 2.0
which would allow Facebook users to unfollow everything on the platform
twice that's why the two's there double tap make sure no it's 2.0 because there
was a 1.0 the first unfollow everything
was a browser extension released by lwis Barkley in 2021 for which meta called
Facebook at the time banned Barkley from Facebook and Instagram and threatened a
costly legal battle if he didn't take the tool down leading him to write an
article in slate titled Facebook Banned Me for life because I help people use it
less which yeah sounds like what you would
expect to happen it's not right it's just also not shocking back to Zuckerman
though his lawsuit was novel in that it relied on Section 230 of the
communications decency act legislation best known for protecting social media
platforms like meta from liability for the content posted by their users but an
obscure clause in that section arguably protects the developers of thirdparty
content curation tools like unfollow everything and zuckerman's lawyers still
believe that's true so they'll soon be back with a lawsuit to prevent meta from
suing their client to prevent him from suing meta to prevent meta from suing
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that you get quick bits they just only appear in the visible light spectrum
when they want you to see them having apparently run out of other programs to
aifi Microsoft will be adding generative features to notepad.exe and Ms paint two
programs that have been around in roughly the same form since the 1980s
notepad which got spell check autocorrect and window tabs earlier this
year will now have a feature called rewrite which surprising surprise
rewrites highlighted text similarly Ms paint will be getting generative fill
and erase features to make your Hasty re-edit of a deep fried meme from the
depths of forchan a more elegant Affair but the normies are getting even more AI
stuff Microsoft is also adding an AI support chatbot to Xbox as well as
natural language search because if there's anything Xbox users know it's
natural language as well as the very unnatural language they use to talk
about my mother which I don't appreciate even if some of it is
very clever the Canadian government has ordered Tik Tock to end operations in
the country citing unclear National Security concerns to be clear though
this isn't a ban like in the US access to the app for the rank and file isn't
going to be affected Tik Tok will have to shut down its offices in Toronto and
Vancouver but everyday Canadians will still have the right to destroy their
brains with endless Ed Ed and Eddy little Dark Age edits if they so choose
the Australian government meanwhile has proposed a blanket social media ban for
kids and teens under 16 if passed the bill could take effect as soon as late
next year which is likely because it has cross-partisan support with the
opposition Liberal Party finally something to bring us all together
Instagram sucks law enforcement in Michigan has become concerned after
multiple iPhones stored for forensic analysis have unexpectedly Rebooted
themselves and locked investigators out
this is despite the phones being disconnected from cellular networks and
in at least one case stored in a faraday
cage has Apple unlocked teleportation
what's happening rebooting an iPhone makes it harder to unlock which believe
it or not is the opposite of what the police wanted officers apparently
believe that iPhones with iOS 18.0 brought into their forensic lab may have
communicated with the other powered on iPhones and told them to reboot after a
certain period of time or maybe it was the iPhone
fairy Mich a wish Nintendo has found
their next Target for a juicy lawsuit a man who streamed pirated and emulated
games in Nintendo's defense sometimes he would stream these games before they
were even released we get it dude your uncle is hacking Nintendo Jesse Kagan
AKA every game Guru online has
particularly irked the Mario Mafia because their usual tactics of shutting
down his streams and channels didn't work instead he'd open a new channel on
another platform he'd even email Nintendo directly bragging about all his
burner accounts saying we can do this
all day we may have just discovered Nintendo's final boss but you'll never
discover more Tech news if you come back on Monday because again it's a stat we
are going to be sleeping so come back on Wednesday and you'll discover so much
more more than you would on Monday which is nothing