1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,560 We've seen some comments mentioning that we talk a lot about American tech news for a Canadian show, 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:09,360 but I think that's a loud guys. We are the 51st state after all. It's official now. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,440 The NVIDIA app, which was meant to help boost the performance of gaming PCs, 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,720 has been causing significant performance drops instead, according to a number of recent reports. 5 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,240 To be fair, joining the Sith and destroying them often gets confused. 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:28,880 The reports seem to have started with Twitter user Sebastian Castellanos, 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:34,400 who claimed to see a 15% boost after uninstalling the GeForce Experience replacement app. 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,960 Followed by fellow Twitterite CompGuru910, who clocked an 11% difference. 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,120 Tom's hardware put these claims to test in five games, initially claiming they also found 10 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:48,400 up to a 50% performance reduction, before later clarifying they actually saw drops between 2 and 11 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:55,680 12%. But that, we, represents the community. We all found that 15%, and we are not happy about it. 12 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,280 Thankfully, it turns out the culprit is the NVIDIA app's game filters, 13 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,680 which have been around for a long time and let you tweak the way your game looks with AI. 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,600 Apparently toggling that off pretty much negates the performance impact. 15 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,880 Or you can just uninstall the app, if the sting of NVIDIA's portrayal still lingers. 16 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:22,000 Honestly fair, you and I didn't deserve this. TP-Link, maker of the most popular home internet routers in America, 17 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,080 there we go talking about them again, are a little too popular for their own good. 18 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,800 With criminals, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is being investigated for security 19 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,600 arrests, which may lead to a ban of the company's products by the US Departments of Commerce, 20 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:44,400 Defense, and Justice. Apparently TP-Link is just being targeted because it's a China-based company 21 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,440 with a history of unpatched security flaws, whose routers have often been exploited in cyberattacks. 22 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,280 So that checks out. An October report from Microsoft Security found that a Chinese threat 23 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:01,680 actor designated Storm 0940 used mostly TP-Link routers in its botnet operations. 24 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:07,280 But hold on guys, TP-Link just launched a holiday toy drive to help support students with special 25 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,360 needs at high schools in Tustin, California. Maybe we're jumping to conclusions here. 26 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:19,200 Tustin? It's Tustin. ARM and Qualcomm's court battle kicked off this week. It's been more than two years since ARM 27 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:24,720 first filed suit over Qualcomm's acquisition of chip startup Nuvia. Remember that? ARM says they 28 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:29,200 were supposed to buy a more expensive license, but Nuvia had already paid for a license. 29 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,680 What are you trying to rob me? I'm calling the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Justice. 30 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,440 It's a strange move. Qualcomm is arguably the most prominent company that's known primarily for 31 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:44,080 its ARM-based chips. You'd think ARM would want to protect that relationship. On the other hand, 32 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:50,880 ARM CEO Rene Haas testified that the Nuvia acquisition has deprived them of $50 million a year, 33 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,960 which is more dollars than most people have. So one of the remedies ARM is seeking in this 34 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:01,280 trial is an order for Qualcomm to destroy Nuvia's chip designs. Relax guys, they're just PDFs. 35 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,280 Just dragging to the trash. But when asked how much RMIP is used in those designs, 36 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:13,920 Nuvia's founder and CEO Gerard Williams III, that's real, answered 1% or less. And he said 37 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,880 it so regally. I almost believe he had one of his servants do the math. Before the quick bits, 38 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:24,800 I want to clarify, the intro was a joke. We love you, America. But we also love our personal space. 39 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:31,120 Lots of it. Stay down there. The RTX 50 series is coming, and Nuvia's board partners just can't 40 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:37,680 help but leak stuff about them. In marketing, their CES presence in O3D mentioned new DLSS-enabled 41 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,240 graphics cards with something called neural rendering that would revolutionize how graphics are 42 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,680 displayed. The text is gone from Inno3D's page now, so maybe Nuvia made them take it down? 43 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,080 They'd rather you focus on their new, compact computer for working with local AI, 44 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:58,240 the $250 Jetson or a Nano Super. Jetson wanted to add even more to the name, 45 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:04,560 but the engineers managed to rein it in. Nano Super Ultra, excellent. Engineers are great at 46 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:10,160 naming things. Intel has issued a field update for their Core Ultra 200S Aero Lake CPUs, 47 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,440 making a number of fixes available that improve the chip's gaming performance. 48 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,960 You may recall most reviews found the Aero Lake desktop chips to be 49 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,400 worse in gaming than their predecessors. It's interesting that predecessors and 50 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:25,680 processors have so many similar letters. Anyways, Intel says they've identified and fixed four out 51 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,560 of the five root causes for lower than expected performance, and another update in January will 52 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:36,480 fix the fifth one. And that should be all the issues in Aero Lake taken care of. It's not like 53 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:41,520 Intel didn't do any quality control before launch, but they didn't have any coffee for a while. 54 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,960 It was hard. You guys don't even know about fixes 6789. 55 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:51,040 Two days after TikTok asked for an emergency appeal on the federal law that could see the 56 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:56,800 company banned by January 19th, the Supreme Court has heard their cry. This morning, 57 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:03,280 the highest court in the U.S., agreed to hear TikTok plead their case on January 10th. Word 58 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,600 on the street is that TikTok representatives will be laying out their arguments in the form of a 59 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,640 truly fire interpretive dance. Let's hope the justices don't swipe up. 60 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:21,280 And OpenAI's latest holiday announcement was a chat GPT hotline. Users in the U.S. damn it, 61 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:27,520 can call 1-800-CHAT-GPT to talk to the chatbot for up to 15 minutes or message it on WhatsApp 62 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,480 anywhere in the world. During their live stream, the OpenAI team said you might want to use this 63 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,200 in situations where you don't have great internet connectivity, but you do have a phone signal 64 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,040 and you just have to talk to a facsimile of a thinking human. 65 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:48,000 We're trapped, chat GPT, call 911. Also, tell me I'm good inside. As for you, 66 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,040 you just have to come back here on Friday for more tech news. Sure, this moving image of me 67 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,680 may also qualify as a facsimile of a human, but can chat GPT do this? 68 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,680 Oh, that's my secret. It probably can, honestly. 69 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,120 Yeah. Well, Gemini can. It's mothimodal.