I was a little worried, but on my drive into work, Harry Nilsson's 1971 hit Coconut came
on and I knew that today was going to be okay.
Put the tech in the news and drink a boat together.
Later, Cisco's thong song came on.
Sony PlayStation and AMD wanted to give a glimpse at the next-gen tech that will power
the PlayStation 6, so who better to awkwardly read a script about that off a teleprompter?
Then AMD exec Jack Hoon and Dana Carvey from SNL playing PS5 lead architect Mark Cerny.
The update on the two companies' Project Amethyst collaboration detailed three apparently
important technologies shaping its next-gen RDNA GPUs, with top-tier technobabble names
like neural arrays, radiance cores, and universal compression.
These technologies will provide scalability as workloads grow and unified light transport,
which are cool, but unfortunately the extremely hyped symbiotic frame reintegration was not
mentioned. Why did I even come to this TED Talk?
And besides, when is the PS6 even coming out? Well, according to one of our favorite leakers, Kepler, Sony is planning to launch the PS6
in 2027. So for now, you're going to have to just let all those cool buzzwords rattle around in
your head until you can envision just how totally gnarly this beast is going to be.
I think Intel has unveiled their next-gen Panther Lake processors.
The company says Panther Lake is going to launch by the end of this year, on paper at
least, and it's going to fix everything after this smooth sailing.
While Intel's previous laptop chips were divided into Lunar Lake and Aero Lake families, this
laptop generation will be Panther Lake all the way down and will apparently leverage
the best parts of its predecessors, Lunar Lake's power efficiency and Aero Lake's compatibility
with Skyrim memes. I think that was the best thing going for it.
Intel didn't reveal model numbers, but did specify three distinct package configurations,
an 8-core and a 16-core, each with four new XE3 GPU cores and another 16-core with 12
GPU cores. Wait, XE3? XE2 used Intel's Battle Mage GPU architecture, so that means XE3 is still Battle Mage.
Of course, of course it is. Intel's Tom Peterson confirmed to PCWorld that the Battle Mage follow-up Celestial won't
arrive until we get next-next-gen XE3P cores, which Tom is already starting to hype up.
XE3P coming up. Ooh, chills. That got me going.
But to compensate for the disappointment, Intel also announced their new upscaling tech,
XESS3, which will support multi-frame generation, beating AMD to the punch already thrown by
NVIDIA. But unlike Team Green, Intel will let all ARC GPUs use their new fake-frames tech, even
older A-series gaming cards, like Intel's the cool older brother who will let his younger
sibling play with his action figures. NVIDIA's like, no, you'll break it, no.
You'll decrease the resale value. Discord is calling out the hackers who breached the chat platform's third-party service provider.
Not for the actual hack, they already did that. But for lying, too.
What's next? Parking in the handicap spot? On the internet?
The hackers claim they've swiped the data of five and a half million unique users, including
nearly 2.2 million photos of government IDs.
Well, in an updated press release, Discord says actually they've only identified 70,000
users whose government ID photos have been swiped, which is barely any, and told the
Verge that the hackers are circulating incorrect information as a way to extort payment from
Discord. Now, we actually edited our story on this data breach in Monday's episode and pinned
a comment with a correction because we initially implied the breach was connected to this year's
wave of age verification rollouts across platforms.
But it appears the IDs in question were collected before Discord's new age verification measures,
which apparently don't store photos of IDs, were ever put in place.
Discord updated their press release again to underline this fact by naming the customer
service provider that was breached. It's called 5CA.
Because people keep being weird in saying this is a Discord breach, except it literally
has nothing to do with Discord other than all the Discord user data that was breached.
Just drop it, okay? And then check out our sponsor.
The QuickBits are actually ageless. They used to party with Harry Nilsson.
The QuickBits remember the last weekend with Harry and John Lennon, but they don't talk
about it. Apple is making some tweaks to how their accounts work in Texas.
Starting in January, Texas's new age verification law will require app stores and developers
to check users' ages before letting them download apps.
Apple says that if you're in Texas and create an Apple account, you will have to verify
you're over 18. Otherwise, you'll need to join a family sharing group, and a guardian will have to approve
all your downloads and purchases, so make good choices.
Developers will also need to adjust their apps to follow the rules, but Apple's releasing
tools to help them with age checks and getting parental consent.
Google also announced they're doing something similar, letting apps access info like users'
age range, verification status, and whether an account is supervised.
Apple companies are also laying out plans for what to do when the age verification government
IDs inevitably get hacked. Step one, wasn't me?
California has been on a consumer rights kick. Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a law that will force browsers to provide a simple portal
that will allow users to opt out of third-party data collection across all websites.
Whether the browser companies actually add it is a remains to be seen, but California
also tightened rules on streaming platforms by banning jarringly loud ad spots from playing
during streaming. It's almost like the state that houses many of the world's biggest tech companies has
a better understanding of how obnoxious online data collection and advertising efforts have
become. Maybe. That's their home advantage.
California knows the call is coming from inside the house, and now we just need to follow
their lead to get away from these monsters. Ah!
A loud ad! Battlefield 6 just launched, but not all its new players are actually getting to, uh,
you know, play the game. According to the Battlefield comms Twitter account, some players are having issues with
accessing the game at all, while others are just getting stuck in old-fashioned queues.
I mean, it's kind of nostalgic. Based on what I've learned about war from TV, getting into the military isn't always
that easy, and soldiers do end up sitting around a lot between episodes of horrifying,
uh, conflicts. So maybe Battlefield 6 is just striving to be more realistic.
Good job! South Korea's online government services are reeling after a giant fire at a state data
center. The blaze caused the suspension of 70 online government services and destroyed 858 terabytes
of data, which was, thoughtfully, reported to be equivalent to 449.5 billion sheets of
A4 sized paper. Very helpful. Thank you so much.
First of all, apparently the G drive system, no relation to Google, it's government drive,
uh, it was completely destroyed in the fire, and they couldn't have backed it up, according
to an unnamed official, because it was so big.
Too big to back up. Sorry. Although the incident is being reported as a battery fire, inspired by K-pop demon hunters,
I did some quick research about Korean fire demons, and I'm almost certain these fires
were caused by the dastardly Do-K-B, and likely not the fire goddess, Jo-Ang-Shin.
Unless a housewife did something bad to a fireplace's hearth, wow.
That's something to Google. And Figure claims that its new Figure 3 robot can wash dishes, clean floors, and handle
other chores. Great. Good enough.
I'm a tired dad. I've seen the Jetsons bring on the snarky robot maids.
In a video released by Figure, we get to see the Figure 3 doing all sorts of jobs, and
it all looks pretty cool, and potentially even useful.
However, at around the last minute of the video, the music takes on a more sinister
tone, and we see the robots doing, uh, people's jobs.
Hmm. Probably nothing. Figure's CEO, Brett Adcock, posted on LinkedIn that nothing in the film was teleoperated,
which made me say, film, what are you from Europe?
No, he's from Illinois. Anyway, if you thought I was being glib about these robots stealing your jobs, Figure has
already had robots working on a BMW production line for five months.
Alright, all this automation better bring about that universal basic income everyone's been
talking about. Or otherwise, why did Bernie Sanders just post a 10 minute video talking about how dangerous
the robots are? What are we going to do about these robots? Hey, you know what?
Let's all just relax. Okay? I hope you enjoyed today's show.
We won't be back until next Wednesday, Monday is a holiday, but please do come back.
I found a wiki page for something called a novelty song, which includes mentions of
Weird Out, Randy Newman, and Frank Zappa, so obviously I have a long weekend of research
ahead of me.