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Tech news is coming in a sec, but first, whale facts.

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Sperm whales can sleep vertically, whale facts. When I was five, I thought a whale lived in the deep end

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of the pool at the community center by my house and as a result, didn't learn to swim until I was 12.

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Whale facts, there's a whale land happening on February 21st in 20 seconds.

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So buy tickets at the link below. It's about gaming, not whales so much,

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but NVIDIA reportedly isn't releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026

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with rumored RTX 60 series now being potentially delayed

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until 2028. According to insiders who spoke to the information,

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the problem is supply constraints on VRAM,

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if you could believe it. NVIDIA says demand for GeForce cards is strong,

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but supply remains tight, forcing the company to focus on shipping existing models

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instead of launching new ones, which is funny because NVIDIA is also reportedly cutting production

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of some current GPUs by around 20%

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and prioritizing lower VRAM cards to stretch available memory.

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Even worse, delaying the refresh would mean that mass production of the RTX 60 series

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wouldn't actually start until the tail end of 2027.

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Now, considering that previous rumors had the RTX 5070 Ti Super sporting 24 gigs of GDDR7,

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I guess I can kind of see where NVIDIA is coming from.

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I mean, you know, we didn't want new GPUs anyways. We know those are only for data centers now.

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Giving gamers GPUs, that would be funny.

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There is one small silver lining here though. NVIDIA may resurrect older GPUs to help stabilize supply,

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so you don't get new GPUs. You don't even get current gen GPUs.

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You'll get an old, crusty GPU. We fished out from behind the kitchen cabinet,

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if you behave. Apple's lockdown mode is in the news this week

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after the security feature successfully kept FBI investigators from accessing data

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in a journalist's iPhone 13. After federal agents raided the home

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of Washington Post reporter Hannah Nathanson as part of a classified leaks investigation,

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the FBI forensic unit couldn't extract data from her iPhone

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because it was set to lockdown mode. Apple's extreme security setting built for people

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more likely to be targeted by digital threats, but available to anyone who turns it on in settings.

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It basically breaks a bunch of features on purpose,

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blocking unknown connections, limiting attachments, restricting web connectivity and preventing access

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by device management tools. Essentially, it turns your smartphone

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into an incredibly paranoid brick. The FBI filing notes that they could have

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disabled lockdown mode by compelling Nathanson to unlock it using Face ID,

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because fun fact, they are legally allowed to do that.

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You know, I've always liked PIN codes better anyway. But the reporter had Face ID disabled on her iPhone,

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and the FBI can't force you to disclose your PIN code

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until we all have government mandated Neuralinks. It'll happen.

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Unfortunately for Nathanson, she did have Touch ID set up on her Mac,

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so the authorities were able to access data from that.

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It's another reminder that despite a truly annoying

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elitist vibe and a lot of anti-competitive behavior,

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Apple has leaned harder into privacy features than probably any other big tech company.

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They even have a nifty shortcut, where pressing the power button five times

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on your iPhone disables biometric sign-in and requires a PIN to unlock it.

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Isn't that cool? Just don't press the power button five times on Android,

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most of the time that we'll directly call 911, which, you know, is different.

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The European Commission has preliminarily found TikTok

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in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act for its addictive nature.

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TikTok's basically in trouble for being too enjoyable.

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Better call the fun, police, lame.

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The commission says TikTok's design rewards compulsive scrolling,

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and that existing safeguards like parental controls

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aren't cutting it, especially when the vast majority of people doing that scrolling now are adults anyway.

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The commission has ruled that TikTok needs to disable infinite scroll,

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implement screen time breaks, and overhaul its recommendation system.

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So basically change everything about the app.

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This comes on the heels of a series of US lawsuits taking the big tobacco approach to social media,

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arguing these platforms are addictive products causing personal injury.

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The EU's investigation has been running since early 2024,

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and has already found TikTok guilty of insufficient advertising transparency.

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TikTok now has the chance to defend itself before the investigation concludes,

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and a spokesperson for the company told the Financial Times, they will take whatever steps are necessary

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to keep the app as it is, as addictive as possible.

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Clearly unaware of what side of history they're on there.

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If TikTok can't make a case for keeping the app the same

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and doesn't comply with the EU's requested changes, they face fines of up to 6% of total global revenue.

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You know, at a certain point we gotta be asking how much are these apps really worth?

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At least smoking had the benefit of making you look cool.

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TikTok just lets your uncle share his big shrimp conspiracy theory

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in a medium where all your friends can make fun of him. Dave, you gotta stop posting about big shrimp

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and Kathy is worried. We all are, even our sponsor.

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The QuickBits once spent three years aboard a deep sea vessel in the Pacific

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in an obsessive pursuit of a colossal white whale.

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They were never the same after that. When they returned, the sense of playfulness

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that danced in their eyes had fled.

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The Internet Archive just launched a WordPress plugin

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that automatically fixes Linkrot by redirecting dead URLs to archived versions

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on the Wayback machine, which is great because roughly 38% of links from the past decade

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are already broken. The new plugin scans posts in the background,

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creates snapshots when needed, and even restores links if pages come back online.

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This is huge because it might finally fix all those busted Sonic fan fiction redirects

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on those sketchy forum sites. What does Sonic sound like?

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Whoa, I swear that chili dog just disappeared inside me, Amy.

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I don't know what happened.

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It's another, this is his friend, Sonic's friend. You clearly haven't read enough Sonic fiction.

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Windows 11's latest security update is reportedly causing dropped frames

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and artifacting in games. And NVIDIA says the fix right now

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is to just uninstall it. You know the mandatory security patch?

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Yeah, the workaround is just not just uninstall that. Some users report major FPS drops and visual glitches

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until the games eventually just break. On the bright side,

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the latest Windows Insider build added shared Bluetooth audio.

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So now you and a friend can both hear people screaming

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in CSGO lobbies about dropped frames. I mean, you could do that before,

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if you were playing together, but you get it. iPhone is going to space, baby.

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NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that astronauts

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on the Crew 12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to bring smartphones to space

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for the first time, replacing the decade old Nikon DSLRs

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and GoPros they were stuck with. Apparently, astronauts are so addicted to TikTok

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that NASA decided it would be dangerous to set them up without it.

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There's way too many movies about people going crazy in space. Artemis II will be the first crewed moon mission since 1972.

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So we're about to get the first smartphone photos from Lunar Orbit, which is great for the astronauts.

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But if I get told one more time on a commercial flight that I can't use my phone during takeoff

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while we're letting people use them during space flights,

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I'm gonna lose it. Substax CEO Chris Best informed users on Tuesday

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that they had just discovered a data breach that occurred in October, 2025.

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The hackers gained access to email addresses, phone numbers and internal metadata.

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Luckily, credit card numbers and passwords were not compromised.

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It's unclear how many users were impacted, but Bleeping Computer reported

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that someone on breach forums leaked a database containing almost 700,000 records

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of allegedly stolen Substax data. So head on over there if you wanna find out

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which of your friends has a monthly subscription to the Sonic the Hedgehog versus Minion slash fiction blog.

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Two Sonic jokes in one video?

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A momentous day. And Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing Google

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for answers about Gemini's upcoming built-in checkout feature,

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which would let users buy products directly through the AI chatbot

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using a new protocol co-developed with Shopify, Walmart and Target.

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Warren is concerned Google could merge its massive user data

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with retailer data to manipulate consumers into spending more.

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Pointing out Google already admitted the feature will help retailers upsell users on premium products,

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which is pretty embarrassing for her. We're supposed to let tech companies move fast

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and break things, even society in general and then talk about how it's bad,

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but we can't do anything about it because everyone's addicted to the bad thing that's melting our brains.

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Besides, Google is way smarter than us

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because they make $400 billion a year. How much do you make working for the Senate?

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Probably not even a billion. Shut up, Elizabeth Warren.

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Just let me give my credit card info to a chatbot that will get prompt injected into buying me 10,000 Zorb balls.

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It knows what I want. And what I want is for you to get some tickets

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to the whale land and to come back on Monday for more tech news, of course.

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One more whale fact. Whale earwax can reveal their age, like trees.

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Whales, the trees of the water.