WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.960 Riley's still on vacation, but he left me this note to read for you guys. 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.280 Don't screw this up. Or else! 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:11.360 Wow, that's actually a lot less menacing than he is in person. 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:16.400 Epic Games in Fortnite might owe you money for a change, thanks to their predatory dark 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:22.520 patterns. Those include displaying confusing purchase prompts, promoting misleading offers, allowing 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:26.720 underage account holders to make purchases without parental consent, and, probably the 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:33.120 worst one to be honest, charging players unintentionally by waking the game from sleep mode during 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:38.080 the loading screen, or while customers attempted to preview an in-game item. 00:00:38.080 --> 00:00:43.840 Yeesh. Now, the full settlement happened back in 2022, but in this second phase, the FTC has 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:51.360 approved paying $126 million in refunds to about 970,000 players. 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:59.400 That works out to a whopping $130 each, so watch out for your check in the mail, although 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:06.080 it might not be that much. Apparently, it's happening on a case-by-case basis, depending on how much you spent, and 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:12.360 Elijah said one of his friends got $1200. Now that's a power user. 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:17.940 As for us, we'll be waiting for our RTX 5050 to arrive, because we're even more excited 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:24.200 to review it now that NVIDIA has given a statement on why it's using GDDR6 in the desktop version 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.160 instead of the GDDR7 that the laptop version is getting. 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:36.160 What? Laptop master rays, let's go. Apparently this has to do with thermals and battery life, and, well, GDDR7 is just so 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:40.160 much gosh darn more efficient that mobile devices just love it. 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:46.120 But then, why not just put the GDDR7 in both of them instead of saying that GDDR6 was the 00:01:46.140 --> 00:01:51.260 best choice for desktop? Yeah, best choice for your shareholders, maybe. 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:54.660 Regardless, you won't have to wait much longer as the launch is going to be in the second 00:01:54.660 --> 00:01:59.500 half of July. That is, unless you're in China, then it's just July. 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:03.840 When in July? Who knows? I know something that happened. 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:09.220 Last-generation DDR4 memory has gone from being cheap because it's old to expensive 00:02:09.220 --> 00:02:14.940 because it's really old, with DDR4 currently costing about double the price of DDR5 on 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.240 DRanExchange. YOUCH! Now you gotta be wondering, what the heck, why? 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.600 And the reason is that most companies that are still making DDR4 are manufacturing the 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:29.840 last waves of it and therefore are jacking up the prices to ensure that their supply won't 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:36.520 disappear too quickly. But the problem is, there are a ton of people and businesses out there who would rather 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:41.600 perform a simple memory upgrade instead of upgrading to an entirely new platform. 00:02:41.600 --> 00:02:45.540 So if they need it, they're basically bent over a barrel. 00:02:45.540 --> 00:02:51.460 So act fast, or you might be looking at an even higher price in the future. 00:02:51.460 --> 00:02:54.460 That is until it gets really, really, really old and then it gets cheap again. 00:02:54.460 --> 00:02:57.940 Speaking of cheap, here's a cheap transition to our sponsor. 00:02:57.940 --> 00:03:02.100 Sometimes I just want a few more speedy portions in my life. Is that too much to ask? 00:03:02.100 --> 00:03:05.100 No. No, it's not. Here's one. 00:03:05.100 --> 00:03:10.940 Shout out to China and their Luzon server processors. You guys are catching up and congratulations. 00:03:10.940 --> 00:03:15.800 Better late than never, you're only about four or five years behind Intel and AMD. 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:21.080 Seriously though, this is an impressive feat, with the 3E 6000 processor featuring a quad 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:28.240 chiplet layout with 64 cores, 128 threads, 32 megs of cache, quad-channel DDR4 support 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:32.840 — ooh, that's gonna cost them — and a max frequency of 2.2 GHz. 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:40.520 Very cool. What's not so cool is Windows changing the blue screen of death to just the sod. 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:45.780 That's right, it's 2025 and we're going from blue to black sometime this summer. 00:03:45.780 --> 00:03:52.820 The black death. I guess it's still a B sod. But it's not the kind that I grew up with and I don't like change, so I don't like 00:03:52.820 --> 00:03:56.260 it. You're still gonna get an error code at the bottom, as well as the name of the driver 00:03:56.260 --> 00:04:03.360 or other file that caused the crash. And they're saying that this is to help give users and administrators the right details 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:07.500 to troubleshoot or diagnose. What does that have to do with changing the color? 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:10.720 Don't you understand the brand recognition you're losing? 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:13.800 For your error? Oh, they do. They don't want it. 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:18.720 And Nintendo is also making some dumb changes that nobody really wanted. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.520 Updates to Mario Kart World's online modes have already annoyed players when they removed 00:04:23.520 --> 00:04:29.160 the option to vote for circuit-style three-lap tracks and limited them to the intermission 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:37.120 sprint-style races. But now, the workaround — selecting random to get a traditional race — has been squashed 00:04:37.140 --> 00:04:41.820 like a goomba because they have added the full race roster to that list, making the 00:04:41.820 --> 00:04:44.860 odds of getting a normal track slim to none. 00:04:44.860 --> 00:04:50.980 And if you've been slimming down or sizing up, maybe you can use Google's new Doppel 00:04:50.980 --> 00:04:54.100 app to update your wardrobe. It's easy. 00:04:54.100 --> 00:04:58.660 You just screenshot the outfit you want to try on, take a full-body photo of yourself 00:04:58.660 --> 00:05:02.980 in a well-lit room, and hit the Generate button. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:09.080 It's not perfect. Using mirror selfies might result in some weirdness, but hey, I can't wait to see what 00:05:09.080 --> 00:05:14.040 I'd look like in a head-to-toe leather suit. But you don't do gents on Fridays? 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:19.040 And last but not least, Apple is trying to avoid some fines in the EU by giving users 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:25.160 app store options. This comes after negotiating with the European Commission for the last two months after they 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:30.320 were fined €500 million for breaching the EU's Digital Markets Act. 00:05:30.700 --> 00:05:34.980 And of course, they're waiting until basically the last minute to make the changes. 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:40.540 You know what, Apple? For that, I'm changing the app store on my non-as-phone and my almost phone. 00:05:40.540 --> 00:05:46.660 Don't make me tell my primos. Come back Monday for more tech news, but before you go, make sure to like and subscribe on 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:48.780 this video so that Bradley doesn't beat us.