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Man, the GPU situation is crazy out there.

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Hey, anyone know a way to play games without using a computer

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that isn't that obscure board game you're reaching for right now?

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Look, I'm glad you like it. Leaks concerning AMD's upcoming RX9070 series

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graphics cards are rampant on the internet right now,

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with the latest being Amazon listings for some of the XFX versions with prices

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and a March 6th launch date. I don't know what AMD's strategy was,

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unannouncing their new GPUs. At the last minute back at CES,

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but the weight is now intolerable. We got GP blue balls over here.

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Come on. Unfortunately, the leaks aren't inspiring confidence

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that Team Red will put up a fight against NVIDIA with the cheapest RX9070 so far

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listed at $650, a whole $100 more

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than the RTX 5070's MSRP, which will launch on March 5th,

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one day before the 9070. That may give AMD some time to adjust pricing

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or, you know, what the heck, just delay it again until this whole thing blows over.

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AMD wants one thing to be clear though. There's no RX9070 with 32 gigabytes of VRAM on the way.

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Marketing exec Frank Azor mocked those rumors

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by making up a desperately unrealistic name

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for the hypothetical card, while refusing to clarify that no gaming card

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with 32 Gigabyte was coming at all. So you're telling me there's a chance

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and I'll take it because I want that VRAM. I also want this Gigabyte RX9070XT

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that was already unboxed online, showing off its three eight pin power connectors,

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which should deliver plenty of power without turning itself into fondue.

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That should soon be less of a problem even for RTX 5090 owners.

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As a leaker says next month, 5090 supplies will be stupidly high.

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So for whatever high-end cards we burn through, we'll have replacements.

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Speaking of high-end cards, Intel.

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Yeah, I didn't see that coming. May base its next gen celestial graphics cards

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on an architecture called XE3P, which sounds like a potential higher performance version

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of the company's upcoming XE3. No P, no P at all.

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Reliable leaker Raichu also expects the GPUs

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to be made in-house at Intel instead of farming it out.

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I don't want to make it sound like a given, but a guy can dream

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because all the other Intel news is less inspiring.

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This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that both TSMC and Broadcom are eyeing Intel's tasty flanks,

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their chip design and foundry businesses, which fair enough, do sound delicious.

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Meanwhile, the US government has reportedly discussed delaying payouts to Intel and others

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in the CHIPS Act program, and even suggested that TSMC run

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a joint chip making venture with Intel,

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although many analysts say this is an unlikely outcome.

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It's so much easier to imagine high-powered Intel ArcGPUs slamming the 5090 into dust.

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Eat my power connector, Jensen. Oh, careful, it's hot.

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And who else but SpaceX has been handed

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another US government contract to create a new air traffic control system.

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After President Trump's transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, announced hundreds

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of federal aviation administration employees will be fired, which is an efficient and based move,

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given the country has faced air traffic controller staffing shortages for years.

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Simple explanation for that, though. The ones that were there were blocking the new ones

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from getting in the building. See, we're draining the swamp, figured it all out.

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The news follows a Delta Airlines crash at Toronto Pearson Airport,

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where miraculously, nobody died. But the plane did flip upside down,

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which according to FAA regulations, is unacceptable.

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Thankfully, one survivor managed to film his own rescue,

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confirming an event that he may otherwise have forgotten just moments later.

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Look, it's sad, but the only board game I'll ever be interested in is risk,

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which can take days to get through, unlike the quick bits.

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Microsoft is continuing its streak of releasing updates to completely break features

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that were already not great. In this case, the company's latest Patch Tuesday update

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caused other updates to get stuck and caused File Explorer to glitch out

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when trying to perform advanced maneuvers, like opening a folder.

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Thankfully, Microsoft made sure to fix the glitch that caused lag when dealing

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with cloud-hosted OneDrive files. Why don't you just move all your files to the cloud?

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Because what if your PC gets attacked by raccoons?

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No raccoons in the cloud! So, Twitter, also known as X, the coolest letter,

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was caught banning links to the web URL of the encrypted messaging service,

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Signal, by security research group, MISC. They were met with an error message

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when attempting to send a DM and make a public post containing the URL Signal.me,

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with Twitter flagging it as malicious, despite links to other services like Telegram

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not being affected. The reason for the issue isn't clear,

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but it might have something to do with government workers using it to inform journalists about Elon

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carving up agencies like a Thanksgiving turkey, but who knows?

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An e-ink handheld has been making the rounds online that lets you play through

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choose-your-own-adventure text-based games.

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It's called the Ink Console, features a seven and a half inch e-ink screen

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and will support a number of older and newer text adventures.

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You can even build your own. The device will be launching a crowdfunding campaign soon,

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so check it out if you like reading, but wish there was more work involved.

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And a German research assistant going by J.J.

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on YouTube has posted a demonstration of his project called Espargos,

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a Wi-Fi sensing array that allows interesting visualization of how Wi-Fi signals

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move around in 3D space. Finally, we can see Wi-Fi.

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We had no idea what it looked like before, but we still are shooting it at everything.

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Well, turns out it looked like a green smudge this whole time.

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And you've been listening to my tech news this whole time? Wow.

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Hey, tell you what. Come back on Friday for more tech news

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and bring that board game. I'll take a look at the box.