you know when you go outside on a moonless night and you look up at the
stars i don't know why people do that there's
no tech news up there it's it's boring AMD is set to officially announce its
zen 4 processors today but prices have been leaked ahead of the event and
contrary to previous rumors it looks like AMD has decided not to increase
prices like they did with the zen 3 launch that was a rare time when i was
upset with dr lisa sue she's taken such good care of me
otherwise hey riley here after the AMD event actually happened i was about to
lie to you our script was incorrect uh turns out the 7950x is 6.99 the 7700x is
399 and the 7600x is
299 okay so there actually was a price cut
that's nice sure this is disappointing for those who are wanting a price cut
but it's still welcome news during this time of aggressive inflation and not the
weird internet kind yeah see that wasn't right there was a price cut there was
the price went down a little bit okay of course this is a leak so take it with
a grain of salt but either way we'll have an official announcement from team
red soon enough i happen to know Anthony young is at the event right now probably
partying with all the new chips
until NVIDIA reveals some details about their upcoming 4000 series gpus in
september we'll have to tide ourselves over with news from a leaker who claims
to have benchmark results for the rtx 4060 and 4060 ti which are mid-tier
cards just like this joke unfortunately these aren't actual game benchmarks
rather the tests were done in time spy extreme with the 4060 ti scoring around
8 600 points and the 4060 getting about
6 000 power draw was at 280 watts for the ti card with the non-ti version
coming in at 240 watts if these vague numbers don't mean much to you they
represent about a 50 in performance boost over the current gen hopefully we
won't be paying a premium for the privilege though i don't know why john
wrote that we will and did you happen to see an incredible deal on an SSD from
walmart over the last few days a third-party seller on the walmart
website was selling an external SSD that purportedly held a whopping 30 terabytes
for just 39 bucks and of course
it was a gigantic scam it turns out that the 30 terabyte SSD actually consisted
of a couple of low capacity sd cards hot glued to a controller board or what my
weird serbian uncle calls the uncle zoran special
when you plugged it into a computer the drive's hacked firmware would report
that it indeed had a 30 terabyte capacity but if you tried to write data
that was larger than the tiny capacity of the sd cards inside the system would
just overwrite whatever existing data there was over and over again so when
you went back to find your data later it would be gone
see it's not actually a scam it's a lesson don't depend
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quick bits are the best thing i have going on right now so don't ruin this
for me although the facebook cambridge analytica scandal was four years ago now
metta has just agreed to a settlement in the related privacy lawsuit meaning zuck
won't have to testify so don't expect to find out any juicy details other than
what's already been reported this is kind of concerning but also does anyone
want to see this guy try to pretend to not be an alien again no thanks
the u.s department of justice is reportedly considering an antitrust case
against apple for its app store practices and fees that have earned the
company plenty of criticism over in the eu although companies like google and
meta have been more in the crosshairs of regulators lately the doj is apparently
miffed that they still can't install fortnite on their iphones big battle
royale fans up there in dc do you live in california you only have until 2035
to buy a gas powered car as the state has recently passed a ban on the sales
of gas cars in the state starting that year while it seems like an aggressive
target many large automakers have already set the 2030s as a timetable for
transitioning towards an all-electric manufacturing although california isn't
the first state to pass such a law it's always big news when a jurisdiction that
has more people in it than all of canada decides they're done with gasoline
because we're frickin not snowmobiles don't run on apologies
we finally have word on pricing for netflix's new ad-supported tier between
seven and nine dollars a month
big news for comparison netflix's current hd plan
is 1549 a month and netflix plans to sweeten the pot by limiting ads to only
four minutes of every hour and not showing them if a customer is watching a
netflix original so technically you could avoid ads with this tier if you
only want to watch yet another season of too hot to stay single blind lava floor
date challenge there's way too many and a google patent has been uncovered
that seemingly describes either a pixel foldable phone or the upcoming pixel
tablet featuring a tiny camera embedded in the bezel that the patent describes
as an ultra micro hole this camera hole is so small it will
barely let in any light and may not even function at all but if this hole is as
little as it sounds many whole aficionados are sure to love this ultra
micro hole because of just how teeny tiny this hole is
tech news aficionados are sure to love what they'll hear on wednesday when we
present even more tech news as part of the web video that we'll publish on
wednesday see you then