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Here at Techlinked, we like to think that there's an infinite number of intros that

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we can come up with, but actually, there's not. YouTube's ad block block has led to hundreds of thousands of ad block uninstalls, proving

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once again there is nothing as powerful as the Uno reverse.

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Guess you had anything? Well, I don't know why the Avengers didn't use that on day one.

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No, I didn't collide with your car. Yours hit mine.

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According to stats from ad blocking company and name for the history of spirits, Ghostery,

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90% of users who gave a reason for uninstalling their ad blocker cited YouTube's recent policy

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change. But Google's hatred for ad blockers makes the fact that they sponsored last month's

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ad filtering dev summit, a conference for ad block developers, quite confusing.

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They even gave a presentation, the sickos, about how Chrome's Manifest V3 update wouldn't

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hamper ad blockers, right before expanding the ad blockening they started in May and leading

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to a record number of ad block uninstalls. To be fair, that record was closely followed by a record number of new ad blocker installs

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as people searched for one that YouTube couldn't detect, but overall, the number of ad block

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users decreased. So why would Google co-sponsor the very thing they wish to destroy?

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Maybe they wanted to befriend their enemy, earn their trust, and wait for them to turn

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their backs so they could plunge in the knife. Or maybe they care more about you using their browser.

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They may not care about your personal privacy, but hey, they're just acting like protective

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parents. If you're going to experiment with illicit extensions, I'd rather you did it here in

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Chrome. And not at that strange Firefox's house.

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AMD has swapped some Zen 4 cores for smaller, more efficient Zen 4C cores and two new entry

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level laptop APUs, claiming that no human being would ever know the difference, which

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is both wrong and honestly pretty insulting to AMD's core customer demographic, pedantic

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nerds. You can't slip and past us! Actually, you're more of a team maroon.

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The Zen 4C cores are meant to be feature identical to Zen 4 while having a smaller footprint,

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previously being used in their epic server chips to cram unreasonable number of cores

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onto a single processor. AMD also used Zen 4C cores in the lower end Ryzen Z1 variant of the ROG Ally handheld,

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but AMD didn't advertise that right away.

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Either because they're testing if people can tell the difference, or they're just

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ashamed about how much worse the cheaper Ally is than its extreme older brother.

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Some people are drawing comparisons to the P-Core slash E-Core hybrid structure Intel

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has been using since their 12th gen chips, but it's not quite the same.

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I mean, just look at the size difference between P and E-Cores versus the difference

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between the 4 and 4C. AMD's 4C is like a Zen 4Core that got great results on a keto diet, while Intel's P-Core

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could probably eat an E-Core and still complain about the small portion size.

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Early benchmark results for Apple's M3 series of chips suggest Tim Cook wasn't pulling

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performance numbers out of his Apple at Monday's scary fast event.

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California Fruit Corporation claimed the M3 chip was 20% faster than the M2, and that

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seems to be in line with the plethora of new leaked Geekbench scores.

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Of course, there's a new ARM-based kid on the block as well in the form of Qualcomm

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Snapdragon X Elite series. While Qualcomm pitted their new little shredders against the M2 in Geekbench, since Apple hadn't

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unveiled the M3 yet, both the Orion 23W and 80W chips still outperformed the M3 in multicore

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scores. Although the M3 spanks them in single-core a little bit, no big welds, just some redness.

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As for the M3 Max, it performs comparably to the M2 Ultra, which is good news, but might

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sound confusing if you still foolishly thought that the Max chip is Apple's top-tier chip

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rather than the Ultra.

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Geekbench shows the Max scoring nearly 21,000 in multicore, nearly double the standard

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M3. Meanwhile, the M3 Pro is apparently suffering from some kind of performance anxiety because

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it didn't show up in these leaks at all. Hey, it's okay, buddy.

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We know you're gonna do great in your special spot between the M3 and the M3 Max, if that's

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where you go and the actually don't know if you... Are you an iPhone?

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Our bits have been selectively bred for quickness for over a century.

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Sadly, this had led to serious health problems and shorter lives.

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But darned aren't they so cute? Sure, they leak in front of strangers.

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Intel has once again released a driver update for its art graphics cards with speed boosts

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that would make the Sonic fan art community blush.

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DirectX 11 games got the most benefit. Intel claims average FPS uplifts of up to 750% in Halo the Master Chief Collection,

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154% in Yakuza Zero... Yakuza.

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One of those. And 113% in World War Z.

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But the driver also boosts DirectX 12 title Returnal by 53%.

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ExtremeTech notes that some DX11 titles' performances are being compared to the driver before the

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most recent one, but I don't want to split hairs. I want to talk about number go up, up, up, up where the cloud's gonna clear, as put

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so eloquently by Canadian country pop sensation Shania Twain.

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Let's f***ing go, girls. Digital Foundry's Resident Wizard...

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DIGITAL FOUNDRY'S RE... DIGITAL FOUNDRY!

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Digital Foundry's Resident Wizard Richard Ledbetter posted a deep dive on NVIDIA's

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T239, the processor heavily expected to power the Nintendo Switch 2.

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Originally leaked by lovable fan favorite leaker Copight 7 Kimmy, two years ago, details

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have slowly emerged about the chip's specs. Richard used these to guide his modifications of an RTX 2050 to simulate the T239's performance.

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And, based on his mad science and speculation, it could be that the Switch 2 could run any

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modern game just fine if you adjust settings accordingly and use DLSS, which it probably supports.

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Again, though, Richard can't say with 100% certainty that this is the Switch 2's chip,

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but it's sort of like the, are we all just brains in a vat situation, like, we can't

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know. But like, you know, we don't know, but like, BAH!

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Ad-free subscribers to streaming service Max, including grandfathered HBO Max Legacy

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subscribers, are set to lose access to 4K and HDR streaming next month.

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If they'd like to hold on to those features, they'll have to switch to the ultimate ad-free

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subscription for an additional $4 every month, a 25% increase.

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Simultaneous streaming for ad-free accounts will also drop from 3 devices to 2.

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Max is one of the few streaming services that hasn't raised prices in the last year.

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They're just, you know, slowly reducing the quality of what you get in exchange for the

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same amount of money. So it's like… I mean, they slashed the name in half.

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What'd you expect? They gotta cut corners somewhere. Sam Bankman Freed, founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has been found guilty of seven

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charges of Sam Bankman fraud.

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He potentially faces decades in jail and is unlikely to be Sam Bankman Freed.

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His lawyers claimed that he was just a hapless nerd in over his head, but it's difficult

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to argue that someone is smart enough to run a complex embezzlement and money laundering

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scheme, yet not smart enough to know running said scheme is illegal.

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In the end, the court decided it was nothing more than Sam Bankman Greed.

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And Lenovo is partnering with fashion studios to create a proof-of-concept collection of

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Lenovo Tabwear, modern and futuristic outerwear with big ol' pockets you can carry tablets

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in. Or maybe a toddler if you have a kangaroo for Sona.

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Ranra has created a light-blocking, noise-canceling hoodie for the person who hates being reminded

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that there's a world outside their jacket. Kit Wann Studio's entry is a modular techno armor, meanwhile, Mayum, designed a pastel

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pink bubble wrap poncho that is both inflatable and doubles as a hammock, probably as a wearable

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airbag to protect your precious baby, or that toddler.

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And protect yourself from the disappointment of this video ending by coming back on Monday

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for more tech news. I can't guarantee it actually, but hey, we're trying.