{"video_id":"_cQa78bMaKA","title":"You don't Own Ubisoft Games.","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2023-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":454,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":5.04,"text":"hey hey you you get into this tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.76,"end_s":9.28,"text":"that i collected for today's video because it took me a while and yeah i was thinking about you the whole time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.6,"end_s":12.96,"text":"that's not that weird ubisoft has announced that the online services for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.12,"end_s":17.6,"text":"15 of the publishers games will experience a decommissioning it's a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.759,"end_s":21.6,"text":"symptom of being a digital only gamer in the year 2022 and it's actually quite","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.279,"end_s":26.96,"text":"normal the affected games will no longer be able to access 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games including the excellent ac2 and prince of persia the forgotten sands but space junkies is a multiplayer only vr game from 2019 which will be completely unplayable after september 1st and to make matters worse assassin's creed 3 and far cry 3 are losing access to dlc but only the original versions if you bought the remastered copy you will continue to have permission to download and play the content you paid for that's so nice now let's not bash on ubisoft's leadership too hard after all ceo yves guimo voluntarily only took half of his 650 000 bonus this year because the company isn't doing as well as it hoped so ubisoft could either cut off gamer's access to game content they bought or what continue reducing their executives bonus payments dip into their salaries that's really that's really funny links about upcoming pc hardware including NVIDIA's rtx 40 series gpus are flowing copiously as the summer goes on with industry leaker whose name i don't know how to say kopit seven kimi kapitay claiming some wild numbers for the rtx 4090's clock speeds in addition to benefiting from the new ada lovelace architecture dr kimi says the rtx 4090 has a base clock of 2235 megahertz with a 2520 mhz boost clock which is 50 to 60 percent higher than the rtx 3090 amateur analysts doing some back of the napkin math have also calculated that this means the 4090 will be capable of over 90 teraflops of compute horsepower almost twice the teraflop ability of the rtx 3090 ti oh man i cannot wait for these super powered graphics cards to launch so i can intentionally ignore them and buy an older GPU because GPU prices being 200 above msrp was not a good place to be we can't go back there you can't make me go back and in other NVIDIA news the company seems to be aware that demand for their probably way too expensive gpus isn't going to be as high as they thought it would be back when they put these things into production so they're reportedly asking chip manufacturer tsmc to cut NVIDIA's orders of 5 nanometer wafers designed for the rtx 40 series now AMD and apple two of tsmc's other big customers are also cutting orders but it seems like NVIDIA may be the biggest offender here as tsmc is reportedly only agreeing to delay the orders not cut them and is also demanding NVIDIA find replacement customers so tsmc isn't left holding the bag i mean you gotta feel for NVIDIA here demand is down for these overpriced gpus among gamers because they're actually able to buy them again and also among crypto miners leaving no one to buy new gpus from poor NVIDIA i hope they'll be okay dennis don't worry they're it's NVIDIA now it's time for quick bits brought to you by ifixit mahi driver kit or as the ifixit team calls it in the office the beast i just made that up but i have a gut feeling it's accurate because the mahi includes ifixit's quarter inch aluminum screwdriver handle with a magnetic bit socket knurled grip and swivel top which can deliver powerful repairing force using the 48 steel driver bits included in the kit from phillips and flathead to spanner squares and splines these are individually selected using data from thousands of repair guides to find the most helpful ones they just want to help so help yourself at ifixit.com techlink and upgrade your toolbox with ifixit's mahi driver kit for just 34.99 well quick bits are the future all the kids are going to be doing it soon watch out on tick tock speaking of tick tock china may have just experienced the largest cyber security breach in the country's history after unidentified hackers claimed to steal more than 23 terabytes of data from a shanghai police database and tried to sell it online the data reportedly includes names addresses national ids and phone numbers of a billion chinese residents as well as criminal case information who knows maybe the hackers are trying to even things out since bite dance apparently has the personal information of every tick-tocker and the top executives go through it for fun every night before they go to sleep i don't like that they do that well-known leaker greymond55 maybe they're buddies with copitae who knows has added fuel to rumors that AMD will be releasing more 3d v cache equipped processors for the current gen am4 socket team red's existing ryzen 7 5800 x3d could be joined by a ryzen 950 3d or horizon 5 5600 x3d which could provide a tasty upgrade for anyone still lukewarm on the idea of AMD's upcoming am5 socket which will have pins on the motherboard Intel style instead of a bunch of holes for the pins on the ryzen CPU to drop into it was so satisfying putting things in holes it just always feels good chinese company xiaomi has unveiled their new flagship smartphone the me 12s ultra which comes with a big old one-inch sensor on its main camera it's not the first phone to incorporate a sensor size more commonly found on dedicated point-and-shoot cameras but it is one of the more mainstream models to actually use the full sensor instead of just part of it like sony's xperia pro i one do i think you should get this phone no i just thought you should want to know about it because of our conversation last week meta is finally drawing the torturous saga of the company's doomed libra cryptocurrency project to a close with the announcement that their digital wallet novi will shut down on september 1st users are being asked to withdraw their funds asap but don't think that this means meta is out of the crypto game they literally changed their name because they're full on into the metaverse which will sadly go hand in hand with crypto web 3 synergistic transmogrification of e-commerce and let's not forget digital cyber presence to phase shift analog identity into the virtual sorry i just had a stroke and once they were mocked but now m.2 SSD coolers are definitely a thing as you can see by looking at this tower style SSD heatsink with an included 60 millimeter fan from chinese component maker joeshark and while this kind of cooling might still be overkill SSD coolers might actually be necessary soon with PCIe 5.0 drives on the up and up so don't make fun of your pc gaming brethren for making sure their components are nice and comfortable that tower cooler might be the difference between losing the match and losing it by slightly less you're the problem and our problem is that we're out of tech news so come back on wednesday for more i'm going to go start working on that one because if i know you you're going to want a bunch and there's so much out there i just want you to be happy"}