WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 Windows 11 is getting a new feature that will roll back bad updates 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:07.640 to a more stable version automatically, starting with driver updates, 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:11.000 with no action needed from the user or the device manufacturer. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:17.360 This is fantastic. I can't wait for my PC to roll itself back to Windows 10. 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:21.840 I'm Riley Murdock. This is TechLinked, and in a new tech community blog post, 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:26.160 Microsoft acknowledged the issues surrounding bad drivers being delivered 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.200 through Windows Update and breaking parts of your system. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:35.280 They're not sure where those drivers came from, but we're all trying to find the guy who did this. 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.920 So Microsoft is developing cloud-initiated driver recovery, 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.640 which will identify borked drivers, create a recovery request, 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.000 deliver the rollback instruction to your device through Windows Update, 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.040 and, most importantly, confirm an approved driver to install 00:00:51.040 --> 00:00:56.120 before uninstalling the bad one. So they forgot about that a couple of times. 00:00:56.120 --> 00:01:01.640 It's going through validation testing now and the official rollout is set for September, 2026. 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:05.880 Fingers crossed, we don't end up in a situation where the cloud-initiated recovery 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:09.640 will need its own cloud-initiated recovery. I hope that they've thought of this. 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.760 Don't worry, guys. Windows Update will update itself. 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.920 Thousands of Samsung workers are planning to go on strike next Thursday, 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:22.680 and, in anticipation, DDR4 prices have already jumped 20% in a single week. 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:26.880 Sorry, just a second. I just have to, just, I'll be right back, just fine. 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:30.320 Ah! Ah! 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:31.160 Ah! 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.200 Excuse me. As with literally everything bad happening in the world right now, 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:43.760 this traces back to AI and the fat stacks of cash chip makers are making 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.560 off the resulting memory demand. The workers union dispute is focused 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.640 around how Samsung is calculating employee bonuses 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:55.120 from this year's record revenue. Samsung is offering workers 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:00.800 10% of operating profits and a one-time payment of $340,000. 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:03.840 Wow! That sounds pretty good 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:09.920 until you look at SK Hynex, where employees are pulling in $470,000 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:13.600 in bonuses this year. This is chump change! Come on! 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:19.200 Samsung's offer caused negotiations to collapse on Tuesday, 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:24.000 and the company was forced to start winding down chip production ahead of the strike. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.040 This is wild. Samsung, which stands to lose $2 billion daily 00:02:30.040 --> 00:02:33.840 during the shutdown, is eager to restart negotiations. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:38.040 The union, however, is totally fine waiting until the strike ends on June 7th 00:02:38.040 --> 00:02:41.560 because, oh yeah, the SK Hynex employees, 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:46.600 analysts project that they're gonna get a $900,000 payment next year. 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:51.760 I would hold out too, I think. Riley, do you wanna move to Korea with me 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:54.800 and work for SK Hynex? 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:02.600 The food's delicious as far as I can tell. AMD just confirmed that FSR upscaling 4.1 00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:08.200 is no longer going to be reserved exclusively for Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:12.480 It's officially coming to older cards, which means you can finally stop trying 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:15.840 to sell your kidney on eBay for a 9000 series upgrade. 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:21.680 That was probably not a good idea anyway. Senior VP Jack Wynn tweeted that coming this July, 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.200 Radeon 7000 series owners will get FSR 4.1 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:28.280 in over 300 supported games right at launch. 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:34.520 And RX 6000 folks haven't been forgotten, but that rollout will occur later in early 2027. 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:40.480 Older cards will still take a bigger performance hit since they use Int8 math instead of the 9000 series 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:43.640 FP8 accelerator, but having the option on the table 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:50.320 is a huge win, especially since the PS5 and Xbox Series X slash S use the same RDNA2 architecture 00:03:50.320 --> 00:03:56.720 that Radeon 6000 series cards use. Meaning FSR 4 on console is now a possibility. 00:03:56.720 --> 00:04:00.440 You know what's better than FSR 4.1 on a seven year old GPU? 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:04.640 I can think of a lot of things, but at the top of that list are sponsor. 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:10.040 Hey, what wouldn't it be funny if we called the equipment slow bits instead? 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:14.200 What if we, what the fuck are you talking about, man? 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:19.160 What the fuck could you just know? ASUS will be launching its first ROG branded RAM 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:24.800 at ROG day 2026. And while it's only launching in China and Taiwan 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.920 on June 1st, it's news because last year, 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:33.720 ASUS vehemently denied rumors that they would be going into memory manufacturing. 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.000 It still remains to be true how much they are going into manufacturing. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.920 This RAM module is a DDR5 48 gig kit 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:48.040 and seems somewhat average until you pop it into the latest ASUS ROG motherboard 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:51.680 and toggle ROG mode, which is what me and the boys call it 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:54.680 when we wanna go ham on raw hot dogs 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.960 on any day that's not ROG day. Oh, Travis is going ROG mode. 00:04:58.960 --> 00:05:03.360 Oh, Travis is in septic shock now. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:07.800 A new University of California study analyzing AI use among students 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:14.360 at large research universities looked at 500,000 grades from 2018 to 2025 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.440 and found a couple interesting things. First, depending on their field of study, 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:21.900 about 30 to 40% of students admitted to cheating 00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:26.240 using generative AI on either assignments or exams. 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:33.600 Second, compared to 2022's baseline, there's been a 30% increase in students receiving A grades. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.800 Hmm, this has been a problem for some time now 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.280 and universities reportedly have no idea what to do about it, 00:05:40.280 --> 00:05:43.760 which coincidentally is also what their students said about the assignments. 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:46.880 Chat GBT, what is this? Oh, that's your homework, can you do it? 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:51.960 Sure. Sony's newest flagship phone, the Xperia 1-8, 00:05:51.960 --> 00:05:55.720 has launched with an AI camera assistant that's gone viral, 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.080 but not in the good way like you would want it to. 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:04.060 Sony's ads are getting flamed online for showing the AI blowing out brightness 00:06:04.060 --> 00:06:10.960 and washing out colors in their demo photos. Sony has since tweeted trying to clear up the confusion, 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:14.040 saying that the assistant isn't modifying the photos, 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:19.960 it's just suggesting creative settings you can use if you want to, which is Corpo speak for. 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:23.320 We know the AI suggestions are bad. No one's forcing you to use them. 00:06:23.320 --> 00:06:28.080 Shut up, shut up, my boss is here. Please, I tried to delete the tweet, I don't know how. 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:31.280 The Stop Killing Games initiative scored a big win this week 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:35.080 as the California Appropriations Committee approved a bill 00:06:35.080 --> 00:06:38.200 requiring publishers to ensure that game developers 00:06:38.200 --> 00:06:41.320 provide offline solutions or issue refunds 00:06:41.320 --> 00:06:45.060 in the event of a service interruption. The bill still has a few more steps 00:06:45.060 --> 00:06:49.600 before it could become a law, but still, this is huge. The Entertainment Software Association, 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.520 an industry lobbying group, called the bill fundamentally flawed 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:56.520 because clearly gamers never buy games, 00:06:56.520 --> 00:07:01.320 they only license them. Yes, that's what we're trying to change, 00:07:01.320 --> 00:07:04.840 we don't like that. No, no, no, no, you guys don't get it. 00:07:04.840 --> 00:07:10.280 You don't own the games, we know. Instagram has just released a new feature called Instance 00:07:10.280 --> 00:07:13.840 that lets users share spontaneous unfiltered photos 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:17.000 with their friends, which is a little confusing 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.560 because that is what Instagram is. 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.200 Yes, yes, correct. Oh, and then you keep reading and you find out that, 00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:30.000 oh, the photos disappear after your friends view them. So it's not just like Instagram, 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.240 it's actually just another feature of Snapchat 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:36.760 that Instagram forgot to copy. But now they got around to it, yay. 00:07:36.760 --> 00:07:40.080 But I know you won't forget to come back here on Wednesday 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:44.120 for more tech news. That's right, Monday's a holiday here in Canada. 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.320 It's Victoria Day, where all Canadians take the day off work 00:07:47.320 --> 00:07:50.640 to perform a ritual at the Prime Minister's house in Ottawa, 00:07:50.640 --> 00:07:53.780 where Queen Victoria's zombie bones are buried. 00:07:53.780 --> 00:07:57.720 Lest she rise again and usher in a new Victorian age 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:01.360 of extremely strict moral standards for thousands of years. 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.760 So it's just a fun thing we do together.