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