Sure Halloween's Michael Myers wordlessly standing is big-ass in your yard staring at you is pretty scary
But not nearly as scary as me silently standing here not telling you the tech news
Well, that's too freaky I gotta tell you some tech news YouTube will begin automatically upscaling all videos under 1080p from SD to HD
The company announced this morning with plans to support upscaling to 4k in the future
But unlike their experiment earlier this year sharpening YouTube shorts to an uncomfortably fine edge
YouTube is graciously allowing creators to opt out of having their content upscaled as well as letting viewers toggle between
Original resolution and the new Super resolution today YouTube also announced a few policy changes for one
They'll soon expand their prohibitions on content that directs viewers to online gambling sites before doing this was okay
If the stuff being gambled was digital like video game skins cosmetics and NFTs
Under the new rules that will not be allowed and neither will be watching video game content with lifelike human characters
Committing large-scale violence against unarmed people or torturing someone
if you're under 18 that That's just standard adult stuff. Finally, it seems like YouTube will definitively solve the debate over whether Kratos or a
Transhuman 40k space marine can really be called a human YouTube's also age restricting content that depicts casino style games
Unfortunately, that means if you've got a hankering for social gambling content
You're gonna have to go to a sporting event turn on the TV or visit any other website. Hey
Hey, you want to bet you can find a gambling ad in under a minute
Please bet me. I Need this NVIDIA hit a massive milestone today by becoming the first company ever to reach a five
Trillion dollar market valuation last I remember they hit three trillion. Do they skip four and went right?
That's what anyway It's a figure roughly on par with the entire German economy
This historic jump followed a series of announcements at the company's GTC conference where CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the new
IGX Thor processor meant to help power a
Physical AI platform which is doing absolutely nothing to help my personal fear of terminators years of therapy
Wasted the company then revealed a plan to deploy a fleet of robo taxis with uber by
2027 and a one billion dollar investment in Nokia to integrate AI into 6g networking
Whatever that means they also announced a collaborative effort with Oracle and the US Department of Energy to build what will be
America's largest super computer now still feeling the need to pack in even more announcements that aren't about gaming
NVIDIA introduced and VQ link which is like their GPU interconnection system and V link but with a Q in it
Because that's just a little quirky, but also because it lets classical computer servers talk good with quantum computers
So I guess it's really a bit quirky
Open AI has officially completed its long-awaited evolution from cap profit to just profit
The company says that its new for-profit public benefit corporation will still be guided by its
Non-profit board, you know like how a parent guides their kid who just bought a mid 80s GMC Jimmy with their allowance
Do any of you know what that is? What is a GMC Jimmy?
I think it's just a weird little car Apparently we're a channel that makes a good amount of obscure car jokes now
I'll allow it as part of the shake-up Microsoft trimmed its ownership stake in open AI to 27%
while open AI themselves pledged a casual
250 billion dollars in extra Azure cloud spending both sites have taken to calling this development a
Natural evolution, which is probably their way of telling us that they they're still best friends
This is how it always goes with most friendships
This will ensure that companies can keep using chat GBT to replace humans whose jobs were as Sam Alton said in a recent interview
Not real work. That's all right though because at least with their new PayPal integration
These now jobless people will have an even easier time
Spending their last remaining dollars to buy furniture through chat GPT's instant checkout feature
The Halloween franchises had reboots remakes and alternate timelines all of varying quality, but with the quick bits
You know, they're always gonna kick some ass
Amazon says they're keeping their company nimble and strong by firing 14,000 people
Well, it appears one thing these massive job cuts aren't keeping nimble and strong is Amazon's MMO new world
Which appears to be dead Amazon game studios informed fans that the games recently launched season 10 and night Haven updates would be the game's final content releases
That night Haven is now free and that they are committed to keeping the game's servers going through
2026 Amazon's Beth Galletti says that with these layoffs Amazon is making exciting bold bets
And you know I can get behind that. I love a good bet. Please make a bet with me Amazon. I need this
Don't go away. Where are you going? One X technologies is now taking pre-orders for a humanoid home robot called Neo
Shipping in 2026 and priced at twenty thousand dollars or five hundred dollars a month with a subscription very affordable
Neo is designed to tackle chores like folding laundry tidying rooms fetching items and turning lights on and off with
basic autonomy up front and more complex tasks handled via expert mode
Which means a human teleoperator from one X takes over the robot remotely with your permission
So the so it can learn It needs to learn aside from the weirdness of allowing some stranger to remotely get inside your space
You'll also be sharing data from your home So Neo's AI real-world training can improve still it's hard to be mad at this button-eyed little weirdo
Just look at the stepbrothers poster style portrait of Neo on one X's website
Grandpa befriending turtle neck sweater wearing mother f***ers already got me by the heartstrings
500 bucks bucks a month is nothing DRAM prices are set to soar by as much as 50% and according to a report from DigiTimes
Major data center customers in the US and China are only receiving about 70% of their memory orders
Apparently this issue is being driven by booming AI workloads that are diverting RAM production capacity towards more advanced
Memory production leaving conventional DDR5 supplies tight
similarly according to Korea's new daily Samsung electronics SK Hynex and
Kyoksia are running their SSD production lines at full capacity yet high capacity SSDs of 8 terabytes and higher are
Facing delivery delays of over a year now
I'm not saying you should switch your Tesla into Mad Max mode and rip over to your nearest PC shop to scoop up RAM and SSDs
Like they're 3,000 liters of the crucial resource guzzling
But maybe China has officially launched the world's first wind-powered
Undersea data center combining renewable energy with deep-sea cooling to reduce emissions and power costs
The facility is located off the coast of the Hainan Province where it has easy access to a set of offshore wind turbines
To supply electricity to the center and it allows the ocean to be used as its giant heat sink
It's all for us Developers say the setup could cut energy use by 40% compared to land-based centers and plans are already in motion for more
Data centers of this type kind of makes you wonder though one wrong cable tug and someone might be getting a seriously wet tech support ticket
and XAI has launched Grockipedia fulfilling Elon Musk's dream of replacing Wikipedia by apparently
copying huge chunks of Wikipedia Reports show the site replicates text from Wikipedia nearly word-for-word in some instances
But guys Wikipedia isn't trustworthy. Okay instead
We should trust a chatbot that recently mistook a US border patrol chief for the artist Cindy Sherman
It doesn't know between plagiarism and identity crises Grock's looking less like Wikipedia 2.0 and more like clippy with confidence issues
I'm so confident. We'll be seeing you on Friday for more tech news. I'm gonna bet on it
Please take it also. Here's a fun fact about John Carpenter's Halloween
Despite being set during fall in Illinois. The film was actually shot during springtime in
California Wow must have been warm in that costume. Okay. Bye now