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Windows 11 is getting a new feature that will roll back bad updates

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to a more stable version automatically, starting with driver updates,

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with no action needed from the user or the device manufacturer.

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This is fantastic. I can't wait for my PC to roll itself back to Windows 10.

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I'm Riley Murdock. This is TechLinked, and in a new tech community blog post,

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Microsoft acknowledged the issues surrounding bad drivers being delivered

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through Windows Update and breaking parts of your system.

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They're not sure where those drivers came from, but we're all trying to find the guy who did this.

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So Microsoft is developing cloud-initiated driver recovery,

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which will identify borked drivers, create a recovery request,

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deliver the rollback instruction to your device through Windows Update,

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and, most importantly, confirm an approved driver to install

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before uninstalling the bad one. So they forgot about that a couple of times.

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It's going through validation testing now and the official rollout is set for September, 2026.

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Fingers crossed, we don't end up in a situation where the cloud-initiated recovery

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will need its own cloud-initiated recovery. I hope that they've thought of this.

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Don't worry, guys. Windows Update will update itself.

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Thousands of Samsung workers are planning to go on strike next Thursday,

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and, in anticipation, DDR4 prices have already jumped 20% in a single week.

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Sorry, just a second. I just have to, just, I'll be right back, just fine.

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Ah! Ah!

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Ah!

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Excuse me. As with literally everything bad happening in the world right now,

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this traces back to AI and the fat stacks of cash chip makers are making

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off the resulting memory demand. The workers union dispute is focused

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around how Samsung is calculating employee bonuses

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from this year's record revenue. Samsung is offering workers

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10% of operating profits and a one-time payment of $340,000.

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Wow! That sounds pretty good

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until you look at SK Hynex, where employees are pulling in $470,000

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in bonuses this year. This is chump change! Come on!

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Samsung's offer caused negotiations to collapse on Tuesday,

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and the company was forced to start winding down chip production ahead of the strike.

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This is wild. Samsung, which stands to lose $2 billion daily

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during the shutdown, is eager to restart negotiations.

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The union, however, is totally fine waiting until the strike ends on June 7th

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because, oh yeah, the SK Hynex employees,

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analysts project that they're gonna get a $900,000 payment next year.

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I would hold out too, I think. Riley, do you wanna move to Korea with me

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and work for SK Hynex?

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The food's delicious as far as I can tell. AMD just confirmed that FSR upscaling 4.1

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is no longer going to be reserved exclusively for Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs.

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It's officially coming to older cards, which means you can finally stop trying

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to sell your kidney on eBay for a 9000 series upgrade.

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That was probably not a good idea anyway. Senior VP Jack Wynn tweeted that coming this July,

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Radeon 7000 series owners will get FSR 4.1

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in over 300 supported games right at launch.

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And RX 6000 folks haven't been forgotten, but that rollout will occur later in early 2027.

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Older cards will still take a bigger performance hit since they use Int8 math instead of the 9000 series

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FP8 accelerator, but having the option on the table

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is a huge win, especially since the PS5 and Xbox Series X slash S use the same RDNA2 architecture

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that Radeon 6000 series cards use. Meaning FSR 4 on console is now a possibility.

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You know what's better than FSR 4.1 on a seven year old GPU?

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I can think of a lot of things, but at the top of that list are sponsor.

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Hey, what wouldn't it be funny if we called the equipment slow bits instead?

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What if we, what the fuck are you talking about, man?

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What the fuck could you just know? ASUS will be launching its first ROG branded RAM

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at ROG day 2026. And while it's only launching in China and Taiwan

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on June 1st, it's news because last year,

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ASUS vehemently denied rumors that they would be going into memory manufacturing.

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It still remains to be true how much they are going into manufacturing.

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This RAM module is a DDR5 48 gig kit

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and seems somewhat average until you pop it into the latest ASUS ROG motherboard

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and toggle ROG mode, which is what me and the boys call it

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when we wanna go ham on raw hot dogs

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on any day that's not ROG day. Oh, Travis is going ROG mode.

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Oh, Travis is in septic shock now.

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A new University of California study analyzing AI use among students

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at large research universities looked at 500,000 grades from 2018 to 2025

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and found a couple interesting things. First, depending on their field of study,

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about 30 to 40% of students admitted to cheating

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using generative AI on either assignments or exams.

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Second, compared to 2022's baseline, there's been a 30% increase in students receiving A grades.

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Hmm, this has been a problem for some time now

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and universities reportedly have no idea what to do about it,

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which coincidentally is also what their students said about the assignments.

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Chat GBT, what is this? Oh, that's your homework, can you do it?

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Sure. Sony's newest flagship phone, the Xperia 1-8,

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has launched with an AI camera assistant that's gone viral,

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but not in the good way like you would want it to.

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Sony's ads are getting flamed online for showing the AI blowing out brightness

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and washing out colors in their demo photos. Sony has since tweeted trying to clear up the confusion,

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saying that the assistant isn't modifying the photos,

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it's just suggesting creative settings you can use if you want to, which is Corpo speak for.

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We know the AI suggestions are bad. No one's forcing you to use them.

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Shut up, shut up, my boss is here. Please, I tried to delete the tweet, I don't know how.

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The Stop Killing Games initiative scored a big win this week

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as the California Appropriations Committee approved a bill

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requiring publishers to ensure that game developers

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provide offline solutions or issue refunds

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in the event of a service interruption. The bill still has a few more steps

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before it could become a law, but still, this is huge. The Entertainment Software Association,

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an industry lobbying group, called the bill fundamentally flawed

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because clearly gamers never buy games,

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they only license them. Yes, that's what we're trying to change,

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we don't like that. No, no, no, no, you guys don't get it.

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You don't own the games, we know. Instagram has just released a new feature called Instance

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that lets users share spontaneous unfiltered photos

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with their friends, which is a little confusing

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because that is what Instagram is.

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Yes, yes, correct. Oh, and then you keep reading and you find out that,

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oh, the photos disappear after your friends view them. So it's not just like Instagram,

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it's actually just another feature of Snapchat

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that Instagram forgot to copy. But now they got around to it, yay.

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But I know you won't forget to come back here on Wednesday

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for more tech news. That's right, Monday's a holiday here in Canada.

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It's Victoria Day, where all Canadians take the day off work

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to perform a ritual at the Prime Minister's house in Ottawa,

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where Queen Victoria's zombie bones are buried.

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Lest she rise again and usher in a new Victorian age

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of extremely strict moral standards for thousands of years.

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So it's just a fun thing we do together.