Riley's still on vacation, but he left me this note to read for you guys.
Don't screw this up. Or else!
Wow, that's actually a lot less menacing than he is in person.
Epic Games in Fortnite might owe you money for a change, thanks to their predatory dark
patterns. Those include displaying confusing purchase prompts, promoting misleading offers, allowing
underage account holders to make purchases without parental consent, and, probably the
worst one to be honest, charging players unintentionally by waking the game from sleep mode during
the loading screen, or while customers attempted to preview an in-game item.
Yeesh. Now, the full settlement happened back in 2022, but in this second phase, the FTC has
approved paying $126 million in refunds to about 970,000 players.
That works out to a whopping $130 each, so watch out for your check in the mail, although
it might not be that much. Apparently, it's happening on a case-by-case basis, depending on how much you spent, and
Elijah said one of his friends got $1200. Now that's a power user.
As for us, we'll be waiting for our RTX 5050 to arrive, because we're even more excited
to review it now that NVIDIA has given a statement on why it's using GDDR6 in the desktop version
instead of the GDDR7 that the laptop version is getting.
What? Laptop master rays, let's go. Apparently this has to do with thermals and battery life, and, well, GDDR7 is just so
much gosh darn more efficient that mobile devices just love it.
But then, why not just put the GDDR7 in both of them instead of saying that GDDR6 was the
best choice for desktop? Yeah, best choice for your shareholders, maybe.
Regardless, you won't have to wait much longer as the launch is going to be in the second
half of July. That is, unless you're in China, then it's just July.
When in July? Who knows? I know something that happened.
Last-generation DDR4 memory has gone from being cheap because it's old to expensive
because it's really old, with DDR4 currently costing about double the price of DDR5 on
DRanExchange. YOUCH! Now you gotta be wondering, what the heck, why?
And the reason is that most companies that are still making DDR4 are manufacturing the
last waves of it and therefore are jacking up the prices to ensure that their supply won't
disappear too quickly. But the problem is, there are a ton of people and businesses out there who would rather
perform a simple memory upgrade instead of upgrading to an entirely new platform.
So if they need it, they're basically bent over a barrel.
So act fast, or you might be looking at an even higher price in the future.
That is until it gets really, really, really old and then it gets cheap again.
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Shout out to China and their Luzon server processors. You guys are catching up and congratulations.
Better late than never, you're only about four or five years behind Intel and AMD.
Seriously though, this is an impressive feat, with the 3E 6000 processor featuring a quad
chiplet layout with 64 cores, 128 threads, 32 megs of cache, quad-channel DDR4 support
â ooh, that's gonna cost them â and a max frequency of 2.2 GHz.
Very cool. What's not so cool is Windows changing the blue screen of death to just the sod.
That's right, it's 2025 and we're going from blue to black sometime this summer.
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
it. You're still gonna get an error code at the bottom, as well as the name of the driver
or other file that caused the crash. And they're saying that this is to help give users and administrators the right details
to troubleshoot or diagnose. What does that have to do with changing the color?
Don't you understand the brand recognition you're losing?
For your error? Oh, they do. They don't want it.
And Nintendo is also making some dumb changes that nobody really wanted.
Updates to Mario Kart World's online modes have already annoyed players when they removed
the option to vote for circuit-style three-lap tracks and limited them to the intermission
sprint-style races. But now, the workaround â selecting random to get a traditional race â has been squashed
like a goomba because they have added the full race roster to that list, making the
odds of getting a normal track slim to none.
And if you've been slimming down or sizing up, maybe you can use Google's new Doppel
app to update your wardrobe. It's easy.
You just screenshot the outfit you want to try on, take a full-body photo of yourself
in a well-lit room, and hit the Generate button.
It's not perfect. Using mirror selfies might result in some weirdness, but hey, I can't wait to see what
I'd look like in a head-to-toe leather suit. But you don't do gents on Fridays?
And last but not least, Apple is trying to avoid some fines in the EU by giving users
app store options. This comes after negotiating with the European Commission for the last two months after they
were fined â¬500 million for breaching the EU's Digital Markets Act.
And of course, they're waiting until basically the last minute to make the changes.
You know what, Apple? For that, I'm changing the app store on my non-as-phone and my almost phone.
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
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