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Hey, America, you know, happy birthday.

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I got you some tech news, cause I don't know if you're gonna love all the other

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presents your dad's giving you. So Hell Divers 2 will officially be the first

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PlayStation exclusive game actually published by

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PlayStation to arrive on Xbox when it drops from orbit

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on August 26th. Hoorah! Is that what they, is that?

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Super Earth for the win! I haven't played the game.

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It's not the first time a PlayStation exclusive has found its way to Xbox.

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There's MLB The Show, for instance, but that game is published by MLB itself

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and it's understood they kind of forced Sony to let them do it.

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Baseball people, you know, very intimidating. They have bats.

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This appears to be the first time PlayStation has voluntarily let an exclusive cross over to Xbox.

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Perhaps giving PlayStation fans a taste of the rage

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Xbox fans have felt for years watching their precious exclusives being given away.

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Oh, seems like the vast majority of PlayStation players

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think this is good or don't really care.

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But that's not stopping gaming sites from trying to get some clicks with game rant highlighting

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negative comments made by a lot of fans on Twitter,

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Reddit, and the PlayStation blog, which has three comments, all negative,

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and also all written by the same guy. As for why this is all happening now,

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I don't know, maybe PlayStation is throwing Xbox a bone.

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After all, they just got hit by big layoffs and then Xbox exec Matt Turnbull tried to help

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by offering the best advice he can under the circumstances,

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which is ideas for prompts that you can feed an AI

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that should make you feel better about being fired from your game developer job by the company

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building AI game generators. Thank you.

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In other game type news, the Stop Killing Games Initiative in support

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of game preservation has hit the goals for its EU

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and UK petitions with more than 1.1 million

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and 150,000 signatures respectively.

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But they could still use more as officials will have to verify them.

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And a bunch of those signatures probably don't count because the people signing didn't mean it enough.

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So if you live in the EU or the UK and you wanna stop the ruthless massacre of video games,

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go on and sign the petitions. Links are with our news sources in the description.

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Now the UK government actually already responded

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to the petition in May saying there's no law requiring

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game companies to essentially support their games indefinitely.

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But one, they're not being asked to do that only to make an end of life plan that gives players

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any option to not lose the game forever. Self hosting servers, for example.

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And two, there's no law saying that

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that's why there's a petition. So now as if on cue, right as the petitions hit their goals,

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EA announced they'll be shutting down the servers for Anthem Bioware's ill-fated looter shooter from 2019

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on January 12th, 2026. The news was crushing to players in the Anthem subreddit

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because yeah, people have still consistently been playing this game because other games

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haven't quite managed to recreate that core flying around cosplaying as Iron Man mechanic,

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which was one of the things that game did right. Yes, I beat it.

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The story is bad. But the soundtrack, ooh, still gets me.

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Bum-ba-dee, oh, you gotta check, you gotta Spotify.

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After passing votes in the Senate and House, US President Donald Trump has signed his big beautiful bill

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into law, which puts some notable tech policies into place.

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The $7,500 EV tax credit is being taken away

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on September 30th, while tax credits for building new solar and wind energy infrastructure

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will be phased out by 2027, which is expected to raise the cost of electricity

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in nearly every state. The big boy bill will also require 800 megahertz

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of electromagnetic spectrum, around the six to seven gigahertz mark,

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to be auctioned off by 2034, which could make Wi-Fi slower,

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as those bands are used in the Wi-Fi 6 and 7 spec.

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But there is something good in there. The tax credit for building chip manufacturing capacity,

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in the US, is rising to 35% from 25%.

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And that follows the Trump administration lifting its restrictions on the export

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of chip design software to China. Now this will obviously help Chinese companies

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design their own chips, but it's a hopeful sign that the US's trade deal

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with China did actually go through and they'll export rare earth minerals again,

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which are vital to the production of batteries and have that satisfying crunch

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I just can't find anywhere else. The New York Times has a helpful breakdown

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of the entire bill, so check that out if you wanna find out about all the non-tech stuff.

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That's none of my business. America, guess what? I got you more gifts because I'm your best friend

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and you love QuickBit, so I got some of those for your birthday too. Happy birthday, America.

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Open them. Reviews for NVIDIA's RTX 5050 are out and,

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well, you know, it's 250 bucks,

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the same MSRP as the Intel ARC B580,

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but with four Gigabyte less VRAM, a smaller 128-bit memory bus, and worse performance.

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Once again, though, how gamers feel about this literally doesn't matter to anyone,

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least of all to NVIDIA's market cap, which almost got high enough to make NVIDIA

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the world's most valuable company in history.

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But perhaps if we yell at Jensen louder.

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Meta is working on training its chatbots to message users to follow up on previous conversations,

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unprompted, according to leaked documents seen by Business Insider,

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which was later confirmed by Meta, and will do nothing to make chatbots

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seem less desperate for your approval. They just fold, right?

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Have some backbone. Oh, maybe the messages can show up

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on this touchscreen trackpad from eInk, the company, which is apparently specifically designed

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to display AI-generated content.

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Why? So I can do this?

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I mean, it might make it easier to ignore. The archive team is recruiting PC users

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to donate internet bandwidth they're not using to the internet archive,

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which is unironically one of the most important public good projects out there right now.

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But how? Through a tool called Archive Team Warrior,

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which runs inside a lightweight virtual machine, uses almost no system resources.

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Check it out, maybe support them by getting a sticker that depicts an archive team warrior

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running away from danger. Hey, I mean, not all wars.

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Not all wars. The Fairphone 6, a phone designed specifically

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to be super repairable, came out last week and iFixit has given it a repairability score

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of 10 out of 10. Phew!

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That was a close one.

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That would have been embarrassing.

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Whoo! And a company called Black Dot has made its automatic tattooing machine,

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which they insist is not a robot, available to the public in a New York tattoo shop

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called Bang Bang. But while I was looking for info on their website,

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the thing that stuck out to me the most is this e-book written by Black Dot's founder and CEO

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about himself that you can read for free

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if you give them your email address. The text seems kind of cool,

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but that's coming from someone who doesn't have a single tattoo.

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I lost them all in the war. But tattoo enthusiasts do not seem to like it.

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I think I'd rather take my chances with Emily the Engineer's Frankenstein 3D printer

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tattoo printer thing instead.

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Looks safer. But don't take your chances on missing any tech news.

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Come back on Monday, unless you booked an appointment with the tattoo robot.

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He is famously cranky about that.