We've seen some comments mentioning that we talk a lot about American tech news for a Canadian show,
but I think that's a loud guys. We are the 51st state after all. It's official now.
The NVIDIA app, which was meant to help boost the performance of gaming PCs,
has been causing significant performance drops instead, according to a number of recent reports.
To be fair, joining the Sith and destroying them often gets confused.
The reports seem to have started with Twitter user Sebastian Castellanos,
who claimed to see a 15% boost after uninstalling the GeForce Experience replacement app.
Followed by fellow Twitterite CompGuru910, who clocked an 11% difference.
Tom's hardware put these claims to test in five games, initially claiming they also found
up to a 50% performance reduction, before later clarifying they actually saw drops between 2 and
12%. But that, we, represents the community. We all found that 15%, and we are not happy about it.
Thankfully, it turns out the culprit is the NVIDIA app's game filters,
which have been around for a long time and let you tweak the way your game looks with AI.
Apparently toggling that off pretty much negates the performance impact.
Or you can just uninstall the app, if the sting of NVIDIA's portrayal still lingers.
Honestly fair, you and I didn't deserve this. TP-Link, maker of the most popular home internet routers in America,
there we go talking about them again, are a little too popular for their own good.
With criminals, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is being investigated for security
arrests, which may lead to a ban of the company's products by the US Departments of Commerce,
Defense, and Justice. Apparently TP-Link is just being targeted because it's a China-based company
with a history of unpatched security flaws, whose routers have often been exploited in cyberattacks.
So that checks out. An October report from Microsoft Security found that a Chinese threat
actor designated Storm 0940 used mostly TP-Link routers in its botnet operations.
But hold on guys, TP-Link just launched a holiday toy drive to help support students with special
needs at high schools in Tustin, California. Maybe we're jumping to conclusions here.
Tustin? It's Tustin. ARM and Qualcomm's court battle kicked off this week. It's been more than two years since ARM
first filed suit over Qualcomm's acquisition of chip startup Nuvia. Remember that? ARM says they
were supposed to buy a more expensive license, but Nuvia had already paid for a license.
What are you trying to rob me? I'm calling the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Justice.
It's a strange move. Qualcomm is arguably the most prominent company that's known primarily for
its ARM-based chips. You'd think ARM would want to protect that relationship. On the other hand,
ARM CEO Rene Haas testified that the Nuvia acquisition has deprived them of $50 million a year,
which is more dollars than most people have. So one of the remedies ARM is seeking in this
trial is an order for Qualcomm to destroy Nuvia's chip designs. Relax guys, they're just PDFs.
Just dragging to the trash. But when asked how much RMIP is used in those designs,
Nuvia's founder and CEO Gerard Williams III, that's real, answered 1% or less. And he said
it so regally. I almost believe he had one of his servants do the math. Before the quick bits,
I want to clarify, the intro was a joke. We love you, America. But we also love our personal space.
Lots of it. Stay down there. The RTX 50 series is coming, and Nuvia's board partners just can't
help but leak stuff about them. In marketing, their CES presence in O3D mentioned new DLSS-enabled
graphics cards with something called neural rendering that would revolutionize how graphics are
displayed. The text is gone from Inno3D's page now, so maybe Nuvia made them take it down?
They'd rather you focus on their new, compact computer for working with local AI,
the $250 Jetson or a Nano Super. Jetson wanted to add even more to the name,
but the engineers managed to rein it in. Nano Super Ultra, excellent. Engineers are great at
naming things. Intel has issued a field update for their Core Ultra 200S Aero Lake CPUs,
making a number of fixes available that improve the chip's gaming performance.
You may recall most reviews found the Aero Lake desktop chips to be
worse in gaming than their predecessors. It's interesting that predecessors and
processors have so many similar letters. Anyways, Intel says they've identified and fixed four out
of the five root causes for lower than expected performance, and another update in January will
fix the fifth one. And that should be all the issues in Aero Lake taken care of. It's not like
Intel didn't do any quality control before launch, but they didn't have any coffee for a while.
It was hard. You guys don't even know about fixes 6789.
Two days after TikTok asked for an emergency appeal on the federal law that could see the
company banned by January 19th, the Supreme Court has heard their cry. This morning,
the highest court in the U.S., agreed to hear TikTok plead their case on January 10th. Word
on the street is that TikTok representatives will be laying out their arguments in the form of a
truly fire interpretive dance. Let's hope the justices don't swipe up.
And OpenAI's latest holiday announcement was a chat GPT hotline. Users in the U.S. damn it,
can call 1-800-CHAT-GPT to talk to the chatbot for up to 15 minutes or message it on WhatsApp
anywhere in the world. During their live stream, the OpenAI team said you might want to use this
in situations where you don't have great internet connectivity, but you do have a phone signal
and you just have to talk to a facsimile of a thinking human.
We're trapped, chat GPT, call 911. Also, tell me I'm good inside. As for you,
you just have to come back here on Friday for more tech news. Sure, this moving image of me
may also qualify as a facsimile of a human, but can chat GPT do this?
Oh, that's my secret. It probably can, honestly.
Yeah. Well, Gemini can. It's mothimodal.