1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,480 Well everyone, World War 3 is almost here. Or maybe we've already been in it. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:09,080 But at least I can take a Tesla RoboTaxi to the enlistment office and distract myself 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,320 with hardware news on the ride over. That's right, the RoboTaxi is alive! 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,560 Sort of. The program launched this weekend with Model Ys, 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,040 not Cybercabs, in Austin, Texas, and was limited to invitees, 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,680 many of whom were surprise surprise, pro-Tesla influencers, 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,040 in a small geofenced area to avoid construction, 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,160 major highways, and complex intersections. It's scary. 9 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,520 Tesla is allegedly using a special version of full self-driving that's not available 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:41,600 to the average Tesla owner. Of course not. It's not only people paid for full self-driving years ago. 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,200 They did. Oh, they did. Well, kind of sounds like Tesla 12 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,200 doesn't trust the technology yet. Which is even more apparent by their inclusion 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,920 of safety monitors. These are people. They're, it's like Amazon with the cameras. 14 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,860 These are people. Elon promised unsupervised trips by June. 15 00:00:57,860 --> 00:01:02,220 It is June, but this launch not only has chase cars in some instances 16 00:01:02,220 --> 00:01:06,600 following the 10 to 20 Model Ys, but each taxi also has safety monitors 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,900 in the front passenger seats with kill switches ready to end the trip. 18 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:15,180 Better than your life. Most patrons said their rides were uneventful. 19 00:01:15,180 --> 00:01:18,820 Hail the car with the RoboTaxi app. Find it at the pickup location, 20 00:01:18,820 --> 00:01:24,780 show the safety monitor to your phone, and away you go. Out into the wild blue geofenced yonder 21 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:28,780 and straight into perhaps oncoming traffic. 22 00:01:28,780 --> 00:01:34,060 Thankfully, there have been no accidents yet. Elon stated that there will be over a thousand 23 00:01:34,060 --> 00:01:38,300 driverless vehicles within a few months and rides currently only cost a flat rate 24 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:42,740 regardless of distance of $4.20. Oh, Elon, you're so quirky. 25 00:01:42,740 --> 00:01:47,060 That's the weed number, man. That's like the 69th time he said that. 26 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:52,020 Nice. Speaking of rich people stuff, soon your 5090 could pull a thousand watts. 27 00:01:52,020 --> 00:01:56,500 We've actually got a few GPU tidbits for you here, so let's start with your Bauer shunt-monning 28 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:01,100 a liquid-cooled astral card to draw a conservative 800 watts. 29 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:06,940 Definitely not the limit, but enough to outperform the super-expensive RTX Pro 6000 30 00:02:07,260 --> 00:02:11,560 in 3D Mark Speedway. It may have been only by like 0.6 FPS, 31 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,700 but hey, that card cost over $10,000. 32 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:19,540 A win's a win. Hatin' video? Dozens of Linux and Intel Arc users can rejoice. 33 00:02:19,540 --> 00:02:24,140 It's been found that disabling Intel's graphics security mitigations 34 00:02:24,140 --> 00:02:27,780 can net a nice 20% uplift in OpenCL 35 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:31,500 and level zero in Ubuntu. This can be a little risky. 36 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:36,500 Security measures are in place for a reason, but Intel seems confident that it'll be fine. 37 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:40,020 Totally fine. They're so confident you can already grab the OpenCL 38 00:02:40,020 --> 00:02:44,260 and level zero compute stacks on their GitHub pages, Sand Security. 39 00:02:44,260 --> 00:02:48,340 And for more free performance, this time for hundreds of you, J's Two Cents has pointed out 40 00:02:48,340 --> 00:02:51,940 that systems rocking 13th or 14th gen Intel chips 41 00:02:51,940 --> 00:02:55,260 and NVIDIA graphics cards might not actually 42 00:02:55,260 --> 00:02:58,740 have rebar enabled. Bio says it's enabled. 43 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:03,780 GPUZ says it's enabled, but you'll need to dig into the NVIDIA profile inspector 44 00:03:03,780 --> 00:03:08,620 to know the truth and potentially make a change. Check out J's video for more information 45 00:03:08,620 --> 00:03:13,540 and then check out our sponsor. But what about the QuickBits? 46 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:17,420 In preparation for the Xbox Ally X, Microsoft has been spotted testing out 47 00:03:17,420 --> 00:03:20,460 their consolidated game library in the Xbox app. 48 00:03:20,460 --> 00:03:23,620 Finally, an end to game segregation across platforms, 49 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:27,220 a beautiful world where Steam and Xbox games can live together in harmony. 50 00:03:27,220 --> 00:03:30,580 To try it for yourself, just download the Xbox Insider hub on PC 51 00:03:30,580 --> 00:03:35,100 and join the gaming preview, then take a look at the My Library section. 52 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:38,580 Not literally my library. You don't want to go in there. 53 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:44,700 And if you want to play those games with a Steam controller, don't because Tommy B has shown us the path to enlightenment 54 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,580 with his version of the Steam Controller 2 or Steam Deck controller. 55 00:03:48,580 --> 00:03:52,700 He used a ton of off the shelf and 3D printed parts to create a splittable unit 56 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:56,700 that features everyone's favorite trackpads. And honestly, it looks pretty sick. 57 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:00,380 Valve, please hire this man or just pay him a bunch of money and make it official. 58 00:04:00,380 --> 00:04:04,580 Either way, just let the people have it. And there's more good news. Today's just, it's just a good day. 59 00:04:04,580 --> 00:04:09,740 The Epic team working on Unreal Engine 5 updates has shown off a significant performance uplift 60 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:14,980 going from patch 5.4 to 5.6 in the Paris Tech demo from Scan's factory. 61 00:04:14,980 --> 00:04:18,140 GPU bound scenarios saw up to 25% higher framerates 62 00:04:18,140 --> 00:04:24,980 and CPU bound scenarios saw up to 35% with reduced frame time spikes and all with better visuals. 63 00:04:24,980 --> 00:04:28,900 Holy shit, actually. Yeah. UE5 is finally going to be optimized. 64 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:32,860 Incredible. R slash patient gamers, you shall be exalted. 65 00:04:32,860 --> 00:04:38,540 Something else to look forward to is this super cool real life ad block using augmented reality. 66 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:42,140 You see an ad or a product, it gives a big transparent ad block logo. 67 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:45,940 But soon thanks to Steam, Stygian, Spavenhove. 68 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:50,220 I'm so sorry, man. You too could be inundated with giant red rectangles. 69 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:54,660 It's not perfect, but it's a cool first step to an ad-free world. 70 00:04:54,660 --> 00:04:57,700 lttdstore.com. And last but not least, 71 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:00,900 yep, War Thunder forum users are at it again. 72 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:05,220 Just War Thunder forum users will be War Thunder forum users this time. 73 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:09,020 A user uploaded a section from a NAT tops manual 74 00:05:09,020 --> 00:05:12,980 for the AV8B and TAV8B Harrier. 75 00:05:12,980 --> 00:05:16,620 Clearly marked, that is, not public information. 76 00:05:16,660 --> 00:05:21,900 It's not a massive leak, but it's a leak nonetheless. So somebody set the counter back to zero for the reset. 77 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:25,100 Just like I'm resetting in a couple of days, stay tuned for Wednesday's episode, 78 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:29,300 where we'll have stories about crazy stuff like magical GPU price cuts. 79 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:31,460 Just kidding, I can't tell the future.