Tech news isn't just information. It's also a state of mind.
But tech news isn't just a state of mind. It's also information. Write that down.
Details about Intel's upcoming Aero Lake S platform have leaked,
lending credence to rumors that Team Blue plans to kill Hyperthreading,
which allows two threads to run on a single core. Reliable hardware leaker Yuki Yens, on Twitter, initially published excerpts from an alleged
Intel document before removing the tweet. So, unfortunately, only 90% of the internet was
able to get screenshots. According to these documents, Aero Lake S processors will feature the
same core count as the current 14th gen Raptor Lake refresh tips, and will have Hyperthreading
disabled on performance cores. Rumors have been swirling since at least July of last year
that Aero Lake would ditch Hyperthreading in favor of something called rentable units.
Allegedly, Intel's plans here are influenced by the Royal Core project, thought up by legendary
CPU architect Jim Keller during his brief stint at Intel. A potential replacement for
Hyperthreading has been detailed in a patent filed by Intel about a year ago,
but nothing is definitive at this point. And the documents leaked on Twitter specifically
reference a pre-alpha Aero Lake S CPU, so maybe take all of this with some salt. And
not just because tech news is always a little tastier, properly seasoned.
How could you not eat me? I'm delicious! Even though HP is facing a class-action lawsuit for
forcing printer owners to use first-party ink cartridges, the company's CEO seemed pretty
relaxed during a CNBC interview, showing off his yoga skills by repeatedly putting his foot in his
mouth. Big Cheese Enrique Lorrez said that when someone buys a printer from HP, the company is
investing in that customer. If that customer doesn't print enough or use enough supplies,
they are a bad investment. Lorrez also said that the company's long-term strategy is to
make printing a subscription, saying it reduces the barriers to print. And that's true. If you
give HP enough money each month, they'll reduce the number of barriers stopping you from using
your own printer. But to be fair to Enrique Lorrez, blocking HP printer owners from using
third-party ink cartridges protects them from being hacked, at least according to a cybersecurity
expert Enrique Lorrez. In another memorable quote, Lorrez states viruses can be embedded in third-party
cartridges to infect your network through your printer. Somewhat backing up this claim is research
firm Actionable Intelligence, who showed this type of attack was possible in 2022, as a response
to a bug bounty put out by HP. Of course, the paper detailing that attack came out six years
after HP started blocking third-party ink. They were probably just being safe. But that's the
type of forward thinking that Hewlett Packard is best known for. The G4's RTX 4070 Super's launch
sales are a disappointment, at least according to YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead and several other
outlets that are quoting Moore's Law is Dead. We don't want to be hard on these rumors, but what
they're saying feels kind of counterintuitive based on how well the card has been reviewed.
However, most reviewers only discussed the Founders Edition version sold straight from NVIDIA. Moore's
Law is Dead sources claim the sale of partner cards was struggling because most are priced
over MSRP. MLID claims an add-in board partner called sales a disaster and he allegedly talked to
a small U.S. retailer who claimed they rejected a supply of about 200 add-in board cards because
most were priced between $620 and $650 and they felt it would be nearly impossible to sell a 12
GB GPU for over 600 bucks. Get your grains of salt ready though because Moore's Law further
claimed he spoke with a GPU scalping collective that said they are canceling the orders their bots
made after seeing the bad sales. NVIDIA themselves has claimed these leaks don't represent the full
picture, of course they would, and at least one retailer, Scan Computers in the UK, said they had
great success with the 4070 Superlaunch. Okay, but like maybe shut up before the scalpers hear you,
you know, just trying to help. Oh man, these brand cards suck so much. Horrible launch.
Tech news isn't just information and a state of mind. It's also occasionally quick bits,
but tech news isn't just quick bits. It's also NVIDIA's RTX Remix software is now in open beta,
allowing almost any modder to remaster old games with AI upskilled features, ray tracing,
and even DLSS compatibility. It's so easy yet Bethesda couldn't figure it out for Starfield at
Lodge. The tech is built on Team Green's omniverse 3D graphics platform and should work for nearly
any DirectX 8 or 9 game. NVIDIA even partnered with mod info site ModDB, the DB of mods,
to make it the de facto DB for RTX Remix compatible games and community made mods.
Finally, all your favorite classic games can catch up to modern standards by also being too
graphically demanding for your PC. I really feel like they're part of the club. Last Friday,
Japan successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of the moon,
making them only the fifth nation to do so. But that success comes with an asterisk.
We didn't make an asteroid pun there. Could've. Moving on.
After landing, the smart lander for investigating moon, or slim, is that real?
Was unable to generate power using its solar array. After its battery dipped down to 12%,
slim shut down in order to reserve what little power it had left in hopes of a recovery effort,
rather than ritually disemboweling itself as is the custom.
As for the realistic odds that the craft will ever be retrieved, they're currently slim to none.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that Apple sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 160,000
to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets during the pre-order weekend.
It was already predicted that the demand would be so high that the stock available for the official
February 2nd launch would sell out, but now the shipping times for all models have been pushed by
five to seven weeks. However, since the shipping times haven't changed since then, it looks like
demand for the product has cooled off. I guess Apple will have to settle for a mere $560 million
in revenue. I know it sounds like a lot, but that's a trillion-dollar company, F.
They're getting detention from the EU. Meta has confirmed that users in the European Economic
Area and Switzerland will be able to unlink their Facebook accounts from Instagram and,
interestingly, from Messenger, which will have its own separate accounts.
But if you thought the Zuck is making this move out of the goodness of the bionic pump that serves
his heart, nope, the change is meant to ensure Meta complies with the EU's Digital Markets Act,
because the EU isn't only gunning for Apple, it's coming for all the tech giants. You guys are so
dead. And I'm fine with that as long as they don't classify me as a gatekeeper next,
unless they add gaslight girlboss to the end. And SpaceX is pulling its ambitions back down to
Earth by allegedly planning to open a restaurant and shopping center near its launch testing
facility in Texas. According to filings with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation,
the two projects will cost the rocket company $15 million, or exactly the amount of money Elon
Musk found in an old pair of jeans. The kind of food the restaurant will serve is still unknown,
but we all know the starter section is going to have something called X, the everything appetizer.
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