I know that you came here for tech news. I know that you didn't come for reviews
of Walmart's in-house brand baked goods. That's for the show I do after this one.
They're all terrible, by the way, on purpose. Even they don't want you to buy
them. Why do you keep buying them? They're like the plastic food you see in IKEA. You're not supposed to eat them.
Anyway, Android laptops and desktop computers are indeed coming, as
confirmed by Google exec Rick Austerlo at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit event this
morning. After years of intense yearning for such devices by people like me who
know full well that it would be just like a normal PC but worse. What's wrong
with me? Somehow I know the Samsung Dex people are already yelling at me in the
comments. I said I wanted it. Well, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amone doesn't
think it would be worse. He's seen this PC version of Android and he a man with
a bit of financial interest in the sale of Qualcomed Android devices thinks it's
incredible. I trust him. Look at this bro moment between these two. Rick
smiling. It's like he built Android for PC in his garage. This official
confirmation follows Google's president of the Android ecosystem, Samir Samat,
casually mentioning to Techraar earlier this year that they're combining Chrome
OS and Android. Yep. Just, you know, combining them, you know, figured, you
know. Well, today Samir confirmed that
this synthesis is happening next year.
Yes. I mean, I don't care. Qualcomm also
announced their second gen X series laptop processors, the Snapdragon X2
Elite and X2 Elite Extreme. The Extreme
is mostly identical to the vanilla X2
Elite minus some higher clocks, but is significantly different than the X2
Elite, the other one with six less cores. Are you confused by my
explanation? you should tweet at Qualcomm about it because what the
is this? Having learned nothing from their previous round of obscenely
overhyped marketing for the first gen X series which otherwise were pretty cool,
Qualcomm claims these unreleased chips are the fastest and most efficient
processors for Windows PCs. Period.
Fastest. It I'm not going to touch it. Steam briefly hosted malware earlier
this week when an update to the game Block Blasters introduced malicious
code. Now, it turns out Steam doesn't necessarily validate the updates to its
otherwise verified games. Though, it's expected under 500 users were affected.
The scam made headlines after a Latvian Pump.fun fun streamer and cancer patient
Rivo Plavnik aka Rostaland had $32,000
in crypto stolen after a 7-hour stream
which included playing Blockb Blasters. This isn't even the first time this year
a game has been pulled from Steam for hosting or redirecting to malware, but
Plavnik's heart-wrenching circumstances elevated the story to mainstream media.
Fortunately, that lost cryptocurrency was actually made up by donations from
the community. But for its part, Valve has delisted Block Blasters and seems to
have notified users who played while the malicious build was active, but hasn't
mentioned any plans to scan updates for malware because uh is that like a skin
you can get in Counterstrike or something? I um they're pretty busy.
NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion dollars in OpenAI, raising antirust
concerns as the biggest provider of AI accelerators takes a massive stake in
one of the biggest AI companies. Now, although the Trump administration's big
beautiful bill took steps to limit the power of AI regulation, the Department
of Justice did say last week that protecting competition supports the AI
innovation it wants to encourage. So, it might be taking a little lookie at this
deal. OpenAI isn't wasting any time though in putting the promised funding
to good use. It's working with Oracle and SoftBank to build five new data
centers for its Stargate initiative that will bring the total planned capacity to
7 gawatt. 7? No, just seven, which Wired
says is roughly the power consumption of seven nuclear reactors. Well, uh, if the
AI bubble isn't bursting quite yet, could we at least get some AI tools that
are actually useful? I mean, at least Google is still trying to do something
interesting with their new Google Labs Mix Board. It's a concepting board app
now in beta, which is similar to Adobe's Firefly boards or Fig Jam. It's meant to
explore visual ideas, generate mood boards, and apparently put googly eyes
in a bunch of birds. There is also Mind
State Design Labs, a company with an AI model that makes psychoactive drugs
without the trip. That may not sound like a thing that psychedelic drug
enjoyers would enjoy, but apparently psychedelics are useful for treating
severe mental health conditions like PTSD. And literally meeting your fears
face to face in another dimension isn't considered productive treatment. So,
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branded baked goods, these quick bits are made with 100% pure news. No. Uh
they they don't have any paint thinner in them. Uh which seems like an easy
call to make. Microsoft has introduced a micro fluidic cooling breakthrough.
They're claiming a three times improvement in pulling heat away from
the package, the chip, by first cutting
hairsized channels in the silicon, and then running coolant through them. They
use AI to map the hotspots and direct
the fluid. So, we're officially at the point where AI is physically improving
itself, kind of, and it's only a matter of time before the missiles are
launched. But did you know that if you have the right electric vehicle, soon
you could give back some of that sweet, delicious power juice back to the grid
from whence it came. Three Ford F-150
Lightning owners participated in a residential vehicle to grid or V2G pilot
program this summer, offloading unused electricity between the hours of 5 and
9:00 p.m. and earning participants up to $1,000 over the course of the
multi-month trial. Not bad for doing nothing but plugging in. Now, for anyone
who's privileged enough to charge their EV for free at work, keep your eye on
this one. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I sell my company's
electricity back to the grid to help with my expensive vehicle payments. Hey,
speaking of power, thanks to Logitech's new solar powered keyboard, you don't
need an electric vehicle to feel like you're helping the planet. The new K980
can use the sun or artificial light of
at least 200 lux to charge the battery for up to four months of use in complete
darkness, which should appeal to many of you. It costs a h 100red bucks and has
an AI button that pulls up C-Pilot or Gemini depending on your OS because
those are tools that use a lot of power. Uh, the reason any of this matters is
the predecessor of this product, Logitech's K760, came out in 2012. For
whoever's been waiting to upgrade, I guess it's finally time. And Origin Code
is a new player in the DDR5 game, and they're off to a great start with the
world's fastest highcapacity RAM modules. But what really caught my eye
is this wild active cooling setup that you can mount on top of the Vortex
modules. Hello performance. Goodbye
tower cooler compatibility. But apparently it's worth it because they're
claiming nearly 40% more heat dissipation over standard heat
spreaders. And now it's time for me to spread my my wings. This little bird's
going to fly the coupe for now. But don't worry, I'll be back on Friday for
more tech news.