Man, the GPU situation is crazy out there.
Hey, anyone know a way to play games without using a computer
that isn't that obscure board game you're reaching for right now?
Look, I'm glad you like it. Leaks concerning AMD's upcoming RX9070 series
graphics cards are rampant on the internet right now,
with the latest being Amazon listings for some of the XFX versions with prices
and a March 6th launch date. I don't know what AMD's strategy was,
unannouncing their new GPUs. At the last minute back at CES,
but the weight is now intolerable. We got GP blue balls over here.
Come on. Unfortunately, the leaks aren't inspiring confidence
that Team Red will put up a fight against NVIDIA with the cheapest RX9070 so far
listed at $650, a whole $100 more
than the RTX 5070's MSRP, which will launch on March 5th,
one day before the 9070. That may give AMD some time to adjust pricing
or, you know, what the heck, just delay it again until this whole thing blows over.
AMD wants one thing to be clear though. There's no RX9070 with 32 gigabytes of VRAM on the way.
Marketing exec Frank Azor mocked those rumors
by making up a desperately unrealistic name
for the hypothetical card, while refusing to clarify that no gaming card
with 32 Gigabyte was coming at all. So you're telling me there's a chance
and I'll take it because I want that VRAM. I also want this Gigabyte RX9070XT
that was already unboxed online, showing off its three eight pin power connectors,
which should deliver plenty of power without turning itself into fondue.
That should soon be less of a problem even for RTX 5090 owners.
As a leaker says next month, 5090 supplies will be stupidly high.
So for whatever high-end cards we burn through, we'll have replacements.
Speaking of high-end cards, Intel.
Yeah, I didn't see that coming. May base its next gen celestial graphics cards
on an architecture called XE3P, which sounds like a potential higher performance version
of the company's upcoming XE3. No P, no P at all.
Reliable leaker Raichu also expects the GPUs
to be made in-house at Intel instead of farming it out.
I don't want to make it sound like a given, but a guy can dream
because all the other Intel news is less inspiring.
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that both TSMC and Broadcom are eyeing Intel's tasty flanks,
their chip design and foundry businesses, which fair enough, do sound delicious.
Meanwhile, the US government has reportedly discussed delaying payouts to Intel and others
in the CHIPS Act program, and even suggested that TSMC run
a joint chip making venture with Intel,
although many analysts say this is an unlikely outcome.
It's so much easier to imagine high-powered Intel ArcGPUs slamming the 5090 into dust.
Eat my power connector, Jensen. Oh, careful, it's hot.
And who else but SpaceX has been handed
another US government contract to create a new air traffic control system.
After President Trump's transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, announced hundreds
of federal aviation administration employees will be fired, which is an efficient and based move,
given the country has faced air traffic controller staffing shortages for years.
Simple explanation for that, though. The ones that were there were blocking the new ones
from getting in the building. See, we're draining the swamp, figured it all out.
The news follows a Delta Airlines crash at Toronto Pearson Airport,
where miraculously, nobody died. But the plane did flip upside down,
which according to FAA regulations, is unacceptable.
Thankfully, one survivor managed to film his own rescue,
confirming an event that he may otherwise have forgotten just moments later.
Look, it's sad, but the only board game I'll ever be interested in is risk,
which can take days to get through, unlike the quick bits.
Microsoft is continuing its streak of releasing updates to completely break features
that were already not great. In this case, the company's latest Patch Tuesday update
caused other updates to get stuck and caused File Explorer to glitch out
when trying to perform advanced maneuvers, like opening a folder.
Thankfully, Microsoft made sure to fix the glitch that caused lag when dealing
with cloud-hosted OneDrive files. Why don't you just move all your files to the cloud?
Because what if your PC gets attacked by raccoons?
No raccoons in the cloud! So, Twitter, also known as X, the coolest letter,
was caught banning links to the web URL of the encrypted messaging service,
Signal, by security research group, MISC. They were met with an error message
when attempting to send a DM and make a public post containing the URL Signal.me,
with Twitter flagging it as malicious, despite links to other services like Telegram
not being affected. The reason for the issue isn't clear,
but it might have something to do with government workers using it to inform journalists about Elon
carving up agencies like a Thanksgiving turkey, but who knows?
An e-ink handheld has been making the rounds online that lets you play through
choose-your-own-adventure text-based games.
It's called the Ink Console, features a seven and a half inch e-ink screen
and will support a number of older and newer text adventures.
You can even build your own. The device will be launching a crowdfunding campaign soon,
so check it out if you like reading, but wish there was more work involved.
And a German research assistant going by J.J.
on YouTube has posted a demonstration of his project called Espargos,
a Wi-Fi sensing array that allows interesting visualization of how Wi-Fi signals
move around in 3D space. Finally, we can see Wi-Fi.
We had no idea what it looked like before, but we still are shooting it at everything.
Well, turns out it looked like a green smudge this whole time.
And you've been listening to my tech news this whole time? Wow.
Hey, tell you what. Come back on Friday for more tech news
and bring that board game. I'll take a look at the box.