So, you clicked a tech news video and
now some smug idiot is doing a halfbaked bit
instead. Believe it or not, I get paid to do
this. I know I'm as confused as you are.
Microsoft is turning Windows infamous blue screen of death into the black
screen of death because users have become desensitized to constant issues
with their operating system and aren't feeling nearly the level of despair that
they should be. Microsoft isn't just changing the color, though. They're also
streamlining the warning screen so it feels more Windows 11y while also
removing some elements. Now, while normally I love me some minimalism,
there are too many things in the world. Windows latest makes a good point. The
new black screen doesn't have enough information on it. For example, the
frowning face is gone, erasing any hint of how the computer feels about all
this. Thankfully, for now, the new screen is only rolling out to Windows
Insider builds with a green background instead of black. And who knows if
Microsoft will actually go through with this. They did the same thing when
Windows 11 first launched, but reversed the change a few months later. In other
Windows news, the popular bypass Enrow
method for logging in without a Microsoft account has been disabled,
although anti-accountists have already found another workaround. And in an
actually useful move, the company published a Windows road map with
information about where upcoming features are in development and when
they'll be released. Naturally, it doesn't show the inevitable end point
where Windows is totally on the cloud and you own nothing but are happy, but
it's there. Some game developers are now recommending that players roll back to
an older version of NVIDIA's GPU drivers after reports of issues with RTX50
series GPUs expanded to affect RTX30 and
40 series cards as well. In the patch notes for recent game updates, the
studios behind primarily hot person generator Inzoy and therapy avoidance
simulator the first berserker Kazan warned that gamers using an RTX 40 or 30
series GPU may experience stability issues on NVIDIA's latest driver
572.83. Instead, they recommend sticking with version
566.36 if you want your gameplay experience to be more made to order
K-pop stars and less Dokyoki Literature
Club. OpenAI CEO Sam Alman claimed on Twitter this morning that ChatGpt added
1 million users in just 1 hour as the
tool's image generator mania continues unabated. People just can't stop
giblifying stuff, including Colton Potter. But he's no stranger to crossing
the line. He's the most fired employee in history. Use and abuse of OpenAI
services has gotten so bad it removed the ability for new accounts to generate
video using Sora after adding temporary rate limits to ChatBT's image gen tool
earlier this week. Fellow AI company Runway thought this was the perfect time
to release their latest video generator, Gen 4, which is apparently extra good at
maintaining consistency between different iterations of the same scene.
The company calls it a milestone in the development of models that actually
understand and reproduce real world physics instead of depicting nonsensical
physics and what I assume is a computer's idea of mocking the flashbags
who can't stop asking it for pictures of themselves as a muppet. The availability
of higher fidelity AI video tools is great news for the YouTube channels
flooding the platform with fake AI movie trailers that clickbait you into
thinking what Leo DiCaprio's in the new Squid Game. Deadline actually reported
on how Hollywood Studios didn't force all of those trailers to be taken down.
Instead, allowing them to rack up ad revenue and then claim it. And now my
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is the opposite of slow bits. Quickbits is the opposite of talking a lot. Quick
bits is this is a reference. I'm sorry if you don't get it. That's not I
shouldn't have done that to you. Despite ASRock addressing the issue last week,
reports have continued to pile up from users who've experienced issues or
damage with Ryzen 9000 series processors and ASRock motherboards. as documented
by this most mega of Reddit mega threads
from you/Natty overlord. With recent
updates in the last few days, the post now catalogs a handful of affected Ryzen
9 9950 X3D processors and 108 dead Ryzen
7 9800 X3Ds with 86 of those occurring
on ASRock motherboards. But you're right, ASRock, those people all probably
gave their CPUs a dirt bath prior to installing or something. Ah, these damn
Tik Tok trends. Lenovo has hiked the
launch price of the Steam OS version of its Legion Go S, which will be the first
official thirdparty Steam OS powered gaming handheld when it launches on May
25th. The handheld was announced back at CES with a $500 MSRP. But this week,
pre-orders went live, listing the device for $550, despite early testing
indicating that the base model $400 Steam Deck may still feature better
performance. What possible reason could there be for a tech product manufactured
overseas to have a sudden price increase as if some kind of tax was being passed
on to consumer? Oh man. German space
startup Isar Aerospace held the first test flight for its Spectrum rocket on
Sunday and it went pretty well for about
40 seconds. Then it experienced some good old-fashioned rapid unscheduled
disassembly after flopping over into the Arctic Ocean. As is tradition, the
company claimed the destruction of their prototype is a good thing for the
lessons they learned along the way. And I can also say that watching a rocket
from a company that's not SpaceX explode was a nice change of pace. And April
Fool's Day is tomorrow, at least where I am. But some companies have already
begun cracking wise, including Razer, who unveiled the Razer Skiib, a headset
with a built-in brain rot to normal translator, so you can stop abandoning
your very online teammates to go Google whether you're required to pay the
Phantom tax. Does that apply to me? Then there's PW World developer Pocket
Pair, who has apparently taken their April Fool's joke from last year, a
PWorld dating simulator set in a high
school, and made it a reality. Pow!
World: More Than Just Pals, is listed on
Steam, promising players the ability to befriend the Pokémonlike PAL creatures,
uh, fall in love with them, or dismantle
and eat them.
which is not going to be good for your relationship. Pocket Pair's
communications director explicitly denied that this is an April Fool's joke
this time, and I kind of want Nintendo to win their lawsuit. Now, I also kind
of want you to come back on Wednesday for more tech news. There's going to be
Switch 2 news and many other tech company April Fool's jokes that are
somehow even worse than mine.