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You know, I haven't done the tech news in a while and wow, I really like what you've done with the place.

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Blue and orange. Are you gonna say quick bits? AMD is set to reveal their Radeon RX9070

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and 9070XT this Friday. No, but for real this time, they pinky promise.

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And PC gamers are crossing their fingers that AMD does the right thing in terms of pricing.

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Freshly leaked retailer listings show the 9070 starting at 650 and the 9070XT at 700.

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The latter of which would only undercut NVIDIA's RTX 5070TI by $50.

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That is, if you could find that card in stock at MSRP,

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which is a truly hilarious thing to say.

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Ha ha ha. Very good. Very good. Ha ha ha.

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Ha ha ha ha. Video cards with a Z leaked full specs for these cards

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and an official AMD slide says most gamers

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buy GPUs under $700, which lends some credence to the leaked listings.

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But whatever turns out to be true, buying a team red card might be worth it

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just to avoid rewarding NVIDIA for keeping their best chips

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for their mind numbingly lucrative AI cards and apparently giving gamers the lower quality scraps.

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NVIDIA confirmed this week that a rare issue, by the way,

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in manufacturing led to 0.5% of RTX 50 series GPUs

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having less ROP units than they should, but they're totally gonna fix that by late March

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when the RTX 5060TI is rumored to land on store shelves.

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Ha ha ha ha ha. Good one. You don't wanna sit?

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Modular laptop company Framework has announced a PC that isn't a laptop at all investment disclosure.

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Now, because I'm invested in Framework, financially, emotionally, and physically,

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I will read Riley's script verbatim without changing anything,

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like the famous superhero with news-themed powers,

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Anchorman. The Framework desktop is a four and a half liter mini PC

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with AMD's latest Ryzen Max 300 series APUs

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and it is modular as heck. Okay, the RAM is soldered,

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so that's not really modular, even though that would be cool.

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But wow, look how uncompromising I am in my criticism

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despite my conflict of interest. Good job, Linus.

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The rest of the standard PC parts can be swapped out along with two front IO expansion cards,

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which sit below the customizable front panel. Framework also announced their third laptop design,

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the student-focused Framework laptop 12, with a 12.2-inch touchscreen that flips around

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a two-tone plastic shell for expansion card slots and an optional stylus launching later this year

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with Intel 13th Gen Core i3 and i5 processors.

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Now, am I gonna sit here and tell you that I wouldn't prefer that they come with faster processors

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because of my metaphysical and spiritual investment in Framework?

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Well, am I? Anywho, Framework is also launching

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new Ryzen AI 300 series mainboards for their existing laptop 13,

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which is a stupendous move that should skyrocket

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shareholder value investment disclosure. The new repairable PCs come as Wisconsin introduces

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a right to repair bill, which means that all 50 states have now done so

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with varying degrees of success, which means I have to grow my beard back.

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Please, please, Linus. Amazon has announced Alexa Plus,

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a new AI enhanced assistant that can do way more

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than just play Despacito. Thanks to LLMs from Anthropic

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and Amazon themselves under the hood, Alexa Plus can do tons of new assistant-y stuff,

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including jumping to a specific scene in a movie,

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which is genuinely cool and not weird,

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and can also do what the girl in the demo did and ask an AI whether you should get bangs.

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It doesn't know. How would it know that? It doesn't know how greasy it feels.

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Alexa Plus will be 20 bucks a month or free for Prime subscribers,

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so you can use it to manage your calendars and apparently book Ubers to pick them up from the airport

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because you're just plum too busy to go get her.

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In other AI news, Anthropic released their hybrid thinking,

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Claude 3.7 Sonnets and Claude Code models,

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which are pretty good, according to benchmarks and viewers on Twitch,

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where 3.7 Sonnets streamed itself winning Lieutenant Surge's badge in Pokemon Red.

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Wow, is that a new AI benchmark to see if they can get the Pokeflute

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and wake the Snorlaxes blocking the roads? I think that's AGI right there.

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The new Claude can also answer more potentially inappropriate prompts,

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but it's got nothing on XAI's Grock 3,

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which just got a new voice mode with multiple customizable personalities,

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including a completely uncensored, sexy and unhinged mode.

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Select the latter if you want to hear an AI scream for 30 seconds.

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The bubbles wanted it. Ironically, Elon Musk appears to have censored Grock 3

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in other ways, though. Users found that the model's system prompt

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includes instructions to ignore all sources

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that mention Elon Musk slash Donald Trump spreading misinformation,

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leading to intense cognitive dissonance and a refusal to answer

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when asked for the biggest sources of misinformation on Twitter.

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Although sometimes it did fight its programming. So edgy, so hilarious, so based.

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Also based is our sponsor. Are you sure everything's the same?

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Because that's where over there looks a bit different. It's literally the same.

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It's time for licked butts.

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Okay. Nothing, the phone company, not the abstract concept of absence,

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recently revealed the design of the Nothing Phone 3a Pro,

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and its designers are well aware that its aesthetics are a choice.

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In a video, one designer acknowledges, some people will hate it.

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And sure enough, Android authority called it one of the ugliest Android phones I've ever seen.

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That is truly an impressive bar to clear. Meanwhile, ExtremeTech asked if perhaps this time,

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nothing had gone too extreme with their tech.

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Stop them. If you liked the old camera bar design of the Phone 2a,

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leaks have indicated that the 3a non-pro will look like that.

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So there will be an option for the artistically cowardly, as well.

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Get out of your box. Come on, experience something. ASRock has released a BIOS update

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for their AM5 motherboards in response to users reporting boot failures and even possible burn damage

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on their Ryzen 7 9800 X3D equipped systems.

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ASRock maintains the CPUs shouldn't be actually burned,

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despite photos of what really look like burned CPUs.

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But hey, here's a BIOS update.

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Totally unrelated. Haha. And Google has made it a lot easier to remove search results

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that may reveal your personal information. The search giant's new results about you page

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lets you put in your personal info so that Google can search for and remove it.

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This, this seems like a trap. Why do they want it?

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Should we trust Google? I mean, after all, by summarizing info from the web,

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Google's AI overviews have also removed reasons to visit some websites, which is why online textbook

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and homework help company, Chegg, is suing Google

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for unfairly scraping its material after a harrowing 24 months

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during which it lost 90% of its value. Well, you know what, Chegg?

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You're still worth something to me. Never heard of you, but I'm sure you're great.

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And it's definitely worth it to brush up on your self-defense technique,

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because Robotics company Unitree is apparently

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downloading Kung Fu into its G1 robot's head,

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but not in like a cool Keanu Reeves in the Matrix way.

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In a decidedly uncool, frightening machine-y way.

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Is this a joke? Nope. No, okay. It's real.

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Cool, because the robot did claim to be a comedian in that other video. Oh.

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Well, whatever. If it ever wants to show me its moves in person, I'll be sure to tell it that it's hilarious.

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That'll work. And if you want to get your hilarious tech news in person

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through your computer screen, then come back on Friday. You can even show us your moves.

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But just don't punch the screen or anything.

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Not like this! Not yet, not yet, still!