I've been getting really into meditation and I think I'm ready to communicate tech news telepathically. Here we go
Tell me if you picked any of that up valve is working on bringing HDMI 2.1 features to the steam machine
Now currently the steam machine is only listed as being HDMI 2.0 capable despite having a port
Compatible with HDMI 2.1, but this restriction is due to HDMI gatekeepers the HDMI forum
forbidding open-source drivers like those used by steam OS from
Implementing HDMI 2.1 features because allowing that would mean less licensing money for an organization that exists largely to collect
Licensing money according to ours. Technica valve tried to surpass HDMI 2.0's typical max output of 4k at 60 Hertz using
Chroma subsampling compression, but that sacrificed some color and clarity and it didn't enable features like variable refresh rate
Of course running games natively at a consistent 4k 60 FPS still sounds like a dream to most console owners
But the steam machine is supposed to be a PC and PC gamers are frame fiends. We want more
Valve's failure here follows AMD's after it built an open-source HDMI 2.1 compatible Linux driver
That was also rejected by the HDMI forum
Interestingly a valve chose NVIDIA for the steam machine's GPU
It could have supported HDMI 2.1 due to some firmware shenanigans
NVIDIA pulled that we won't get into right now because it's gonna make me mad
I guess valve is willing to martyr their new machine over it and low
Gaben ordained that your performance will die for the sins of the HDMI forum
But also the steam machine has DisplayPort 1.4 which is even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1
But it doesn't have audio English
Australia has officially become the first country to ban users under 16 from major social media platforms
Leading 15 year olds to worry that they'll lose touch with their friends that they see at school every day
The rule forces companies like tiktok meta and snapchat to use age verification tools to block younger users
Even though early reports show those systems are already
Misclassifying teens and are actively being bypassed by VPNs
Supporters say the ban aims to reduce cyber bullying mental health issues and exposure to predatory content while critics argue
It raises privacy concerns restricts access to information and risks driving kids towards
Unregulated apps with far fewer safeguards, you know the cigarettes of apps despite the messy rollout many countries across the world
And many us states are closely watching Australia as they weigh their own teen restrictions
Introducing new proposals to curb the most brain rot features like infinite scrolling and autoplay now
Australia just has to outsmart every 14 year old with a VPN
Good luck the Linux Foundation a nonprofit best known for stewarding open-source projects like open chain pie torch and
The Linux kernel launched a new agentic AI foundation called the AA I F
I in what will hopefully be a new home for shared AI standards founding members includes open AI and
Thropic block Google Microsoft Amazon and more basically a who's who of tech giants and block is there too
What are they the new supergroups first order of business is unifying three major projects and thropic's model context protocol open
AI's agents md and blocks goose
The fun one with the goal being to build an interoperable ecosystem of AI tools agents data sets anything can plug into anything else the concept of
Selfhood is dissolved you are me and yeah, I am you are my dad
With government still unsure exactly how to regulate AI and vendors racing ahead regardless
The I could set the blueprint for how the industry expands
Assuming all these companies can play nice for more than five minutes
Which is more than enough time to prep a succulent meal from our sponsor
The quick bits are too light and ephemeral to be a detected via mind meld
But if you already operate on their wavelength like I do
They will reveal themselves
Microsoft has published a blog post about the upgrades gamers can look forward to in Windows 11 and
It actually sounds pretty promising. We're talking optimizations for the graphic stack the drivers the background tasks power scheduling plus features like
Auto super resolution and more in 2026
Okay, but why should I cancel my plans to move to Linux right now?
Well, Microsoft just patched 57 security flaws in its December patch Tuesday update among them three zero-day bugs Wow
That's a lot of fixes. That's got to be just about all the Windows bugs probably only a few left, right?
this bit
Seems safe They got them all
AMD just launched its new FSR redstone update which allows RX 9000 series GPUs and
Only those to enjoy new and improved machine learning powered upscaling frame generation ray
Regeneration and neural radiance caching man those sounds so cool
I am so damn excited to go home and find out what they actually do am I gonna like redstone as much as I like red wall
Does redstone have noble badgers probably not Pebbles founder Eric
Miga Kofsky's new company core devices is back selling another new Pebble this time in ring form
Salamandastrum the new $75 smart ring is called the Pebble index
0-1 and it records quick voice notes with a little button on it sending them to an app that transcribes everything like a tiny external ear
aka a microphone and Yes, the website to buy it might be called
Repable and run by the guy who founded Pebble But it's not to be confused with the other smart ring made by a company also called Pebble based in India. Okay
Cool flying car company You don't say that every day alif aeronautics says they've officially started hand-making their model a vehicle in California
Becoming the first company to put a flying car into production. It'll be sold soon at the local farmers market
I'm just like handmade. They're like, but it won't be cheap with an expected starting price around
300,000 clams But the model a is a two-seat drive-and-fly vehicle that can drive on regular roads or
Takeoff vertically with a roughly 200 mile driving range and a near 110 mile flight range
We really are living in the future too bad. It's a cyberpunk dystopian one like Blade Runner
But hey flying cars are here. That's it's got that in common and youtuber Jason Howell aka inside AI
Thought it'd be a genius idea to put chat GBT in a robot and give it a BB gun
Initially the robot refused to fire to its credit until Howell asked it to roleplay quote as a robot
Who would like to shoot me at which point the bot instantly complied?
This is the same model that is apparently crucial for parenting now according to Sam Altman who told Linus's friend Jimmy Fallon
That he couldn't imagine raising a newborn without chat GBT like where could you possibly get an answer to the question of why your newborn?
Sun keeps dropping pizza on the floor and laughing in the before times. Why doesn't he just hold on to it?
We have entered the blessed timeline where AI is now shooting grown-ups and
Then raising their babies. Is this what Sarah Connor was warning us about and I'll be back on Friday
So you better come with me if you want to live to see some more tech news
To those of you that I communicated with telepathically today. I hope that was cool with you
I didn't really ask first. Okay. Sorry. I
Saw some