WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 You know, I haven't done the tech news in a while and wow, I really like what you've done with the place. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.920 Blue and orange. Are you gonna say quick bits? AMD is set to reveal their Radeon RX9070 00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:16.960 and 9070XT this Friday. No, but for real this time, they pinky promise. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:22.200 And PC gamers are crossing their fingers that AMD does the right thing in terms of pricing. 00:00:22.200 --> 00:00:29.800 Freshly leaked retailer listings show the 9070 starting at 650 and the 9070XT at 700. 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:35.480 The latter of which would only undercut NVIDIA's RTX 5070TI by $50. 00:00:35.480 --> 00:00:39.400 That is, if you could find that card in stock at MSRP, 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:42.880 which is a truly hilarious thing to say. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.240 Ha ha ha. Very good. Very good. Ha ha ha. 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:52.560 Ha ha ha ha. Video cards with a Z leaked full specs for these cards 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.000 and an official AMD slide says most gamers 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.680 buy GPUs under $700, which lends some credence to the leaked listings. 00:01:00.680 --> 00:01:04.520 But whatever turns out to be true, buying a team red card might be worth it 00:01:04.520 --> 00:01:08.640 just to avoid rewarding NVIDIA for keeping their best chips 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:15.280 for their mind numbingly lucrative AI cards and apparently giving gamers the lower quality scraps. 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:18.680 NVIDIA confirmed this week that a rare issue, by the way, 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:23.280 in manufacturing led to 0.5% of RTX 50 series GPUs 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:28.240 having less ROP units than they should, but they're totally gonna fix that by late March 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:32.840 when the RTX 5060TI is rumored to land on store shelves. 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.280 Ha ha ha ha ha. Good one. You don't wanna sit? 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:42.840 Modular laptop company Framework has announced a PC that isn't a laptop at all investment disclosure. 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:48.520 Now, because I'm invested in Framework, financially, emotionally, and physically, 00:01:48.520 --> 00:01:51.960 I will read Riley's script verbatim without changing anything, 00:01:51.960 --> 00:01:55.720 like the famous superhero with news-themed powers, 00:01:55.720 --> 00:02:00.880 Anchorman. The Framework desktop is a four and a half liter mini PC 00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:04.000 with AMD's latest Ryzen Max 300 series APUs 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.840 and it is modular as heck. Okay, the RAM is soldered, 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.800 so that's not really modular, even though that would be cool. 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.480 But wow, look how uncompromising I am in my criticism 00:02:15.480 --> 00:02:18.680 despite my conflict of interest. Good job, Linus. 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:23.600 The rest of the standard PC parts can be swapped out along with two front IO expansion cards, 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:28.840 which sit below the customizable front panel. Framework also announced their third laptop design, 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:34.040 the student-focused Framework laptop 12, with a 12.2-inch touchscreen that flips around 00:02:34.040 --> 00:02:39.120 a two-tone plastic shell for expansion card slots and an optional stylus launching later this year 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.640 with Intel 13th Gen Core i3 and i5 processors. 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:46.880 Now, am I gonna sit here and tell you that I wouldn't prefer that they come with faster processors 00:02:46.880 --> 00:02:50.200 because of my metaphysical and spiritual investment in Framework? 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:54.640 Well, am I? Anywho, Framework is also launching 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:58.960 new Ryzen AI 300 series mainboards for their existing laptop 13, 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.960 which is a stupendous move that should skyrocket 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:07.400 shareholder value investment disclosure. The new repairable PCs come as Wisconsin introduces 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.800 a right to repair bill, which means that all 50 states have now done so 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:17.000 with varying degrees of success, which means I have to grow my beard back. 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:21.560 Please, please, Linus. Amazon has announced Alexa Plus, 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.680 a new AI enhanced assistant that can do way more 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:29.400 than just play Despacito. Thanks to LLMs from Anthropic 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:34.280 and Amazon themselves under the hood, Alexa Plus can do tons of new assistant-y stuff, 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:37.280 including jumping to a specific scene in a movie, 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.480 which is genuinely cool and not weird, 00:03:40.640 --> 00:03:46.680 and can also do what the girl in the demo did and ask an AI whether you should get bangs. 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.320 It doesn't know. How would it know that? It doesn't know how greasy it feels. 00:03:50.320 --> 00:03:54.280 Alexa Plus will be 20 bucks a month or free for Prime subscribers, 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.320 so you can use it to manage your calendars and apparently book Ubers to pick them up from the airport 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:01.480 because you're just plum too busy to go get her. 00:04:01.480 --> 00:04:05.040 In other AI news, Anthropic released their hybrid thinking, 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:08.840 Claude 3.7 Sonnets and Claude Code models, 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.960 which are pretty good, according to benchmarks and viewers on Twitch, 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:18.880 where 3.7 Sonnets streamed itself winning Lieutenant Surge's badge in Pokemon Red. 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:23.240 Wow, is that a new AI benchmark to see if they can get the Pokeflute 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.880 and wake the Snorlaxes blocking the roads? I think that's AGI right there. 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:30.600 The new Claude can also answer more potentially inappropriate prompts, 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:34.000 but it's got nothing on XAI's Grock 3, 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:38.160 which just got a new voice mode with multiple customizable personalities, 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:43.160 including a completely uncensored, sexy and unhinged mode. 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:47.120 Select the latter if you want to hear an AI scream for 30 seconds. 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:53.520 The bubbles wanted it. Ironically, Elon Musk appears to have censored Grock 3 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:57.320 in other ways, though. Users found that the model's system prompt 00:04:57.320 --> 00:05:00.480 includes instructions to ignore all sources 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.080 that mention Elon Musk slash Donald Trump spreading misinformation, 00:05:05.080 --> 00:05:09.680 leading to intense cognitive dissonance and a refusal to answer 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:13.480 when asked for the biggest sources of misinformation on Twitter. 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:19.920 Although sometimes it did fight its programming. So edgy, so hilarious, so based. 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.400 Also based is our sponsor. Are you sure everything's the same? 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:27.240 Because that's where over there looks a bit different. It's literally the same. 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.280 It's time for licked butts. 00:05:30.280 --> 00:05:34.720 Okay. Nothing, the phone company, not the abstract concept of absence, 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:38.760 recently revealed the design of the Nothing Phone 3a Pro, 00:05:38.760 --> 00:05:43.880 and its designers are well aware that its aesthetics are a choice. 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:48.000 In a video, one designer acknowledges, some people will hate it. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.000 And sure enough, Android authority called it one of the ugliest Android phones I've ever seen. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:59.640 That is truly an impressive bar to clear. Meanwhile, ExtremeTech asked if perhaps this time, 00:05:59.640 --> 00:06:03.440 nothing had gone too extreme with their tech. 00:06:03.440 --> 00:06:08.000 Stop them. If you liked the old camera bar design of the Phone 2a, 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.040 leaks have indicated that the 3a non-pro will look like that. 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.520 So there will be an option for the artistically cowardly, as well. 00:06:14.520 --> 00:06:19.120 Get out of your box. Come on, experience something. ASRock has released a BIOS update 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:25.160 for their AM5 motherboards in response to users reporting boot failures and even possible burn damage 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:28.680 on their Ryzen 7 9800 X3D equipped systems. 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:32.240 ASRock maintains the CPUs shouldn't be actually burned, 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.760 despite photos of what really look like burned CPUs. 00:06:35.760 --> 00:06:38.800 But hey, here's a BIOS update. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:44.240 Totally unrelated. Haha. And Google has made it a lot easier to remove search results 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:49.280 that may reveal your personal information. The search giant's new results about you page 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:53.640 lets you put in your personal info so that Google can search for and remove it. 00:06:53.640 --> 00:06:57.080 This, this seems like a trap. Why do they want it? 00:06:57.080 --> 00:07:00.760 Should we trust Google? I mean, after all, by summarizing info from the web, 00:07:00.760 --> 00:07:05.720 Google's AI overviews have also removed reasons to visit some websites, which is why online textbook 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.200 and homework help company, Chegg, is suing Google 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:13.160 for unfairly scraping its material after a harrowing 24 months 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.280 during which it lost 90% of its value. Well, you know what, Chegg? 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:21.000 You're still worth something to me. Never heard of you, but I'm sure you're great. 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.120 And it's definitely worth it to brush up on your self-defense technique, 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.160 because Robotics company Unitree is apparently 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.680 downloading Kung Fu into its G1 robot's head, 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.760 but not in like a cool Keanu Reeves in the Matrix way. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.800 In a decidedly uncool, frightening machine-y way. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.280 Is this a joke? Nope. No, okay. It's real. 00:07:42.280 --> 00:07:46.120 Cool, because the robot did claim to be a comedian in that other video. Oh. 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:51.120 Well, whatever. If it ever wants to show me its moves in person, I'll be sure to tell it that it's hilarious. 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.960 That'll work. And if you want to get your hilarious tech news in person 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:59.320 through your computer screen, then come back on Friday. You can even show us your moves. 00:07:59.320 --> 00:08:02.720 But just don't punch the screen or anything. 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.400 Not like this! Not yet, not yet, still!