i had a really weird dream last night
but i'm not going to tell you what it was about let's do some tech news
what was it there was a twitch leak yesterday oh what was it
twitch twitch did yes the whole
thing yesterday an anonymous 4chan user posted
a torrent for a 125 Gigabyte file
containing the entire source code for the twitch website its various apps and
sdks and internal red teaming tools
designed to test hacking defenses which i guess
didn't work twitch confirmed that the breach took
place but didn't confirm the legitimacy of its contents which also included
payout information for literally thousands of streamers showing that top
creators were earning many millions of dollars per year which may actually be
an underestimate since it doesn't include income from multi-million dollar
exclusivity agreements and this is leaving viewers who thought that their
favorite streamer was you know also a member of the proletariat absolutely
shook who's gonna be in the revolution but perhaps the most interesting part of
the leak is an unannounced game store intended to compete with steam codenamed
vapor get it cause it never came out anyway
change your twitch password everyone hey
but also vaporware Intel ceo pat gelsinger has
declared that AMD's win streak is over
okay he didn't quite say it like that because pat's a nice man he wouldn't
throw that kind of shade but he did let loose some flanders ask
fighting words in an interview with crn gelsinger says that Intel won't dismiss
them of the good work that they've done but that's over with alder lake and
sapphire rapids won't dismiss
anyway these code names refer to Intel's upcoming mainstream and xeon cpus
gelsinger also besmirched ARM's progress in the server processor space saying
that Intel is going to make sure that ARM's roll there stays minimal dang it's
more like pat gelt zinger
the comments from team blue's leader hit the web along with a social experiment
video where Intel tricks mac lovers into loving Intel pcs instead which
to be fair is pretty easy to do when you're paying them for it
and yes microsoft officially launched
Windows 11 yesterday beginning a new era
for the pc one that seems to be defined more by hardware requirements rather
than major software features that is unless you count the myriad bugs and
performance issues that many users are running into AMD has said that they're
working on a fix for a bug that is causing their cpus to run slower systems
with Intel's killer networking are experiencing drops in speed and failure
to load for some websites and games a memory leak bug seen in the pre-release
builds has apparently survived the launch process it's like a it's like a
memory leak cockroach
and we're still waiting to see whether that nasty vbs feature is going to cause
massive performance drops in game performance on pre-built computers
of course many users are also reporting that their new Windows 11 installations
are running fine just fine and we're as happy for them as we are for
the surviving members of the squid game spoilers the how is that a spoiler
everybody did people die or survive oh my god
you know what it doesn't matter the point is it's probably going to get better and if it
doesn't what are you going to do switch to Linux yes
yes let's switch to the riley
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below could you have ever imagined there'd be this many short news items
valve has released a video telling people they definitely should not
open up their steam deck and replace components themselves because they could
break their device or even die
then they show them how to do exactly that not the die part the open it up
part it's kind of the best of both worlds really you know now i just want
an apple video doing the same thing except it would just stop after the
first part don't open it that's it cineverse a company that
routes sms text messages for hundreds of carriers worldwide has said that
somebody had unauthorized access to its database from may 2016 to
may 2021 for five years
you us-based carriers have so far said
that there is no indication the breach led to messages
or personal details being compromised but wow
five years is a long time to just not do
anything with access to that kind of sensitive information
but hey we're not just telling you this to raise your anxiety we're telling you
this to let this be your semi-regular reminder to
not use sms for anything but especially two-factor
authentication it's it's bad but don't
but also don't don't panic trust facebook google has proved once again
that they are serious about making youtube music a good music app and have
finally added background listening for non-premium users five years wow we got
a theme today five years after they launched it and a whole year after they
killed its predecessor google play music which had the same feature that they're
now just adding back into youtube music but wait it's only in canada wait what
wow we got something first nice all is forgiven google actually not all is
forgiven pl go play music had a feature to just
natively cast my sonos stuff and and google and sonos they're feuding and
they won't fix it so i'm to i'm going to spotify
samsung's upcoming mobile processor with AMD's rd and a2 graphics will reportedly
support ray tracing according to a post on china's weibo social media platform
we can't imagine what mobile game would warrant taking a frame rate dip like
that in order to have fancier reflections but hey we said the same
thing about pc games and now basically every gaming pc in the world has ray
tracing on oh 100 of the time now it's
it's a paradigm shift and nintendo revealed the final character joining the
roster of super smash bros ultimate it's
waluigi is who it should have been ha
got you but instead it's actually sora the keyblade wielder from the kingdom
hearts franchise which is really sort of
relevant right now uh i can't say i've ever played a
kingdom hearts game but i yeah it's still cool sora's in there
but what's next spongebob and that was the final story so come back on friday
for more tech news you wanna know what my dream was by the way oh what it was
that i was not gonna do the tech news today but now
i was afraid of telling you about it in case it didn't come true but then
it didn't come true did i say dream i meant nightmare i love
doing the tech news