WEBVTT 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, 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. 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:15.440 The NVIDIA app, which was meant to help boost the performance of gaming PCs, 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:20.720 has been causing significant performance drops instead, according to a number of recent reports. 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:24.240 To be fair, joining the Sith and destroying them often gets confused. 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:28.880 The reports seem to have started with Twitter user Sebastian Castellanos, 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:34.400 who claimed to see a 15% boost after uninstalling the GeForce Experience replacement app. 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:38.960 Followed by fellow Twitterite CompGuru910, who clocked an 11% difference. 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:43.120 Tom's hardware put these claims to test in five games, initially claiming they also found 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:48.400 up to a 50% performance reduction, before later clarifying they actually saw drops between 2 and 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. 00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:59.280 Thankfully, it turns out the culprit is the NVIDIA app's game filters, 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. 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.600 Apparently toggling that off pretty much negates the performance impact. 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:14.880 Or you can just uninstall the app, if the sting of NVIDIA's portrayal still lingers. 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, 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:26.080 there we go talking about them again, are a little too popular for their own good. 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:30.800 With criminals, the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is being investigated for security 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, 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 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.440 with a history of unpatched security flaws, whose routers have often been exploited in cyberattacks. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:55.280 So that checks out. An October report from Microsoft Security found that a Chinese threat 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:01.680 actor designated Storm 0940 used mostly TP-Link routers in its botnet operations. 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 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.360 needs at high schools in Tustin, California. Maybe we're jumping to conclusions here. 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 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:24.720 first filed suit over Qualcomm's acquisition of chip startup Nuvia. Remember that? ARM says they 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:29.200 were supposed to buy a more expensive license, but Nuvia had already paid for a license. 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. 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 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, 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, 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 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. 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:07.280 Just dragging to the trash. But when asked how much RMIP is used in those designs, 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 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, 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. 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 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 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:42.240 graphics cards with something called neural rendering that would revolutionize how graphics are 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? 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.080 They'd rather you focus on their new, compact computer for working with local AI, 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:58.240 the $250 Jetson or a Nano Super. Jetson wanted to add even more to the name, 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:04.560 but the engineers managed to rein it in. Nano Super Ultra, excellent. Engineers are great at 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.160 naming things. Intel has issued a field update for their Core Ultra 200S Aero Lake CPUs, 00:04:10.160 --> 00:04:13.440 making a number of fixes available that improve the chip's gaming performance. 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:16.960 You may recall most reviews found the Aero Lake desktop chips to be 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:20.400 worse in gaming than their predecessors. It's interesting that predecessors and 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:25.680 processors have so many similar letters. Anyways, Intel says they've identified and fixed four out 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.560 of the five root causes for lower than expected performance, and another update in January will 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 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. 00:04:41.520 --> 00:04:44.960 It was hard. You guys don't even know about fixes 6789. 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 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.800 company banned by January 19th, the Supreme Court has heard their cry. This morning, 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 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 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.640 truly fire interpretive dance. Let's hope the justices don't swipe up. 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, 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 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 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 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:41.040 and you just have to talk to a facsimile of a thinking human. 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, 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 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:57.680 may also qualify as a facsimile of a human, but can chat GPT do this? 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:01.680 Oh, that's my secret. It probably can, honestly. 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:05.120 Yeah. Well, Gemini can. It's mothimodal.