Desktop GPU sales are the lowest they've been in decades.
Kids these days, they don't know how good they have it. Yet ironically, they seem to have
a great understanding of inflation. I'm Riley Murdock, this is TechLinked,
and this is where the fun begins. For nerds who love numerical facts,
get excited. According to a report from John Petty Research,
GPU sales are about 13% lower than last quarter,
and down 38% from this time last year. But according to science,
GPU manufacturers should want number go up,
not number go down. It's taken us years to find out.
And that's really where this tension is coming from. Shipments of NVIDIA cards have fallen by 15.2%,
while AMDs have decreased by 7.5%.
You dropped those shipments, pick them back up. These percentages would sound delicious
if we were discussing dairy products and not corporate profits.
So, here we are.
There seems to be a shake up in desktop GPU market share as well, milk shake.
Almighty NVIDIA has fallen from 86% to merely 84%
since the end of last year, while AMD's market share hasn't changed, but Intel's has.
They've suckled the milk from NVIDIA's 2% teat
and doubled their market share, rising to the peak of 4% of the market.
And while that's not quite in cream territory, it would make for a rich bowl of cocoa buffs.
Going to get some after this. Several popular third party Reddit apps
have announced they will be shutting down due to the site's upcoming API changes.
Christian Selig, the creator of Apollo, the iOS Reddit app,
beloved by anyone who prefers their apps to not suck,
but said he would have to pay over $20 million in API fees
under the new rules with very little notice. So, Apollo was shut down on June 30th.
The developers of Reddit is Fun and Sync echoed similar sentiments
when they announced they would shut down as well. Couldn't hold water at Sync.
Let that Sync in. On top of being exorbitantly expensive,
Reddit's new API rules prevent third party apps
from running ads or even showing not safe for work content,
which is, let's be honest, a huge part of Reddit,
r slash wolves with watermelons not included. I browse that page with my family every night.
It's fun for the whole family. Selig made a long post describing the situation
and his reasoning for shutting down Apollo, in which he also detailed how Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
had internally accused him of blackmailing the company
for $10 million. What actually happened, as evidenced by Selig's transcripts
and audio recording of his phone call with Huffman, was that Selig jokingly offered to sell his app to Reddit
for what would amount to six months of its API costs,
but Huffman misunderstood this as a threat.
He's always on edge. Selig then clarified it was a joke
and Huffman apologized profusely,
yet apparently later told others that it was blackmail.
Selig's joke wasn't very good, but if you wanna see a tremendous joke,
check out today's AMA with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman.
Someone actually asked him about the accusations and Huffman replied, saying the real problem with Selig
was how he would communicate differently, privately and publicly.
Naturally, Selig replied and asked for receipts. Huffman replied to that and said he must have left him
in his pants when he threw them in the wash. Then Selig clarified he wasn't talking
about physical paper receipts. These guys really need to learn to communicate better.
Also, those last two things we said were a joke. We're not blackmailing you.
And a leaked Tesla report shows the Cybertruck had serious design flaws,
like, for example, not releasing in 2021.
The information is brought to us by 100 Gigabyte leak given to German outlet Handelsblatt,
which contained a report dated January 25th, 2022,
that said the pre-production truck struggled with things like body sealing, handling, breaking and suspension,
which I believe are things that cars need to grow up
big and strong. The brakes were especially bad,
earning a poor rating on the Society of Automotive Engineers rating scale
instead of the fair the engineers were hoping for.
That's not a lot of hope, is it? That's a lot.
Someone call Obi-Wan. Also, the brake pedal pressure pad was still under design
at least a month after the Cybertruck was supposed to originally release.
So the Alpha model experienced excessive pedal travel
and even inconsistent stop, which is something Jacob sometimes suffers
when he starts talking. But it's all okay because Tesla says
they will have release candidates for the Cybertruck around August of this year,
and you can take that to the bank. Unlike the $100 Cybertruck deposit
you put down almost four years ago. That's gone.
Did you know quick bits were originally designed as a way to slowly build tolerance to snake venom?
Now, they're just five shorter stories, one for each failed test subject.
People died, Riley. Don't ask any more questions. The organic life form known as
Mark middle name Elliot Zuckerberg unleashed a hot new diss track about Apple's
recently announced Vision Pro headset during a company-wide meeting on Thursday.
According to Elliot, we're calling him now.
Well, it's Smell-Eat. According to said Elliot, Apple didn't demonstrate any major technical breakthrough
that Meta hasn't already explored, and that there's a real philosophical difference
in how the two companies are approaching VR because every demo that Apple showed
was a person sitting on a couch by themselves. Our vision, this is meta-talking,
for the metaverse is fundamentally social. It's about people interacting in new ways
and feeling closer in new ways, said Mark Zuckerberg,
a man who pays his employees to sit at the same table as him during lunch, a source alleged.
The source was me just now. Ha ha ha. I heard it too.
Logitech will be ending the blue brand. Double D, double dead.
The name under which it sells its extremely popular Sona, Yeti, and Snowball microphones.
It's a name that has launched a thousand two-man podcast about weed,
which is why it's strange that Logitech is axing the brand. That's a strong market.
The mics aren't going away, of course, unless you count most of them.
Blue's music and audio recording mics are absent from Logitech's site.
Seemingly only the streamer-focused Yeti, Snowball, and Blue's Sona
have been rolled under the Logitech G brand alongside Astro headsets,
which will at least retain the Astro name. Logitech G, of course, standing for Logitech Gangster.
See, it's more like, it's more like.
Thank you. Managers may be using telemetric data
from workplace software to track the productivity of remote workers.
Even though companies like Microsoft and Slack explicitly ask them not to use the data
they give your boss access to. And it may only get worse in the future.
The UK's Information Commissioner's office issued a report on neuro data
and suggests that workplaces of the future may use neuro technology to track productivity
and even as a recruitment tool. So get ready to ask your friend
to put his brain in a cup for you. It's the only way. Come on, man, I do it for you.
Will I die? No, don't worry about it.
I drank like three beers last night. I need a replacement brain.
Summer Game Fest is in full swing with the main showcase,
a Day of the Devs event, and Devolver all showing off the games you'll buy
and forget you own for three years. Just stop, why are you buying so many?
Among the hall of announcements from Summer Game Fest was Alan Wake II gameplay
and a new Star Trek game from Paradox, Star Trek Infinite.
What does it mean? It's infinitely good.
Day of the Devs showed off a bunch of titles and even some new gameplay from Hyper Light Breaker.
Harpachine, I like them. And Devolver showed off exactly four games.
One of them is the Talos Principle II, the sequel to one of my favorite games.
You're just tailoring this to me. And I can sincerely say that when this game comes out,
I will neglect my wife and child. I do not sign off on that, that's not.
It's true. And the creators of Ape Out and Getting Over It,
respectively the story of a gorilla-led prison break and a cautionary tale about the consequences
of replacing your legs with a cauldron. Don't do it. Are teaming up on a game called Baby Steps,
a very literal walking simulator with a fully dynamic onesie-soilage system,
starring Nate, a 35-year-old man who lives in his parents' basement,
but is one day magically transported to a random cavern in the middle of the woods,
barefoot, and in his pajamas. He must then embark on a journey of meaning
by waddling around through the wilderness like a baby with an overlaid and diaper.
And I think the main thing is that you control one leg at a time, and that's what makes it funny.
Finally, a character we can all relate to.
And you'll definitely be able to relate to Monday's tech news. So why not come on back and say hi?
I won't hear you, but I'll feel it in all of my bones.
So don't say it too loud. My bones will rattle.
Hi, Riley.