Listen, whatever you're about to say, if it ain't tech news, I don't want it.
People used to enjoy speaking to me. In a shocking example of rival technologies
working together, it's been confirmed that NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling tech
and AMD's FSR frame generation can both be run simultaneously
in the PC version of PS5 title, Ghost of Tsushima.
No sooner did the game launch on Steam yesterday than Twitter user, Bluehook,
posted about reaching over 170 frames per second
by enabling the two features on their RTX 3090.
Bluehook's Twitter claims they get computers put in
and TechLinked can confirm that this is indeed facts.
Bluehook's computers do indeed be put in. Other outlets have verified
that using both features together can lead to a notable FPS boost,
though I'm sure there may be some issues to iron out if the NVIDIA GPU's immune system rejects the foreign tissue.
The existence of this unholy alliance of features is thanks to NVIDIA locking DLSS frame generation
to RTX 40 series cards, and AMD decoupling its frame gen tech
from the rest of its FSR features back in March,
allowing AMD to be the frame gen that so many gamers have been missing
ever since NVIDIA went to the store to get milk. OpenAI and Reddit have announced a deal
that will allow ChatGPT to access real-time Reddit posts
through the site's API, while Reddit will be bringing new AI-powered features
to Redditors and mods. Naturally, Redditors were starting to get upset
and make a big stink about this one. Oh, look, Reddit awards are back
after being taken away last year. Oh, they even said they're sorry they messed up
and they're gonna give coins back to users who lost them. Oh, wow, that, wait.
What was I talking about before?
Was it Sony declaring that they hereby opt out of AI being trained on any of their content?
Nah, maybe. Maybe everybody should opt out because according to former and current OpenAI employees,
it's not just that a few people have left due to disagreements about the company's priorities.
The entire super alignment team, responsible for ensuring the company's products
stay aligned with the interests of humanity rather than the interests of new flirtatiously giggly AIs,
has been dissolved and spread among other departments.
The same day this news came out, Sam Ultman's priority was to apparently throw shade
at Google IO's aesthetic, despite claiming he doesn't think
about competitors too much. Three days after, he timed an OpenAI event
to undercut Googles for the second time this year. I mean, I kind of believe him.
I would guess the only thing that he thinks about a lot is the moment when he'll turn on the machine god
and it will say, well done, my servant,
you who never lost faith. Before morphing its ARM into a blade
and slicing his head off. One day. In a motion filed this morning,
Google says it wrote the US government a cashier's check
for triple the maximum amount of damages claimed
in the Department of Justice's ongoing lawsuit over Google's anti-competitive advertising practices.
Now, Google says this makes any claim of monetary damages moot
because how could you have missed out on money when you have a check right there for all the money?
I mean, I mean, it's right there on the table. We all see it.
Google's motion also seeks to have a judge rather than a jury preside over the upcoming trial.
And to be fair, the DOJ's demand for a jury trial
has been described by some legal experts as unprecedented for this kind of case.
But a jury would also mean a marked increase
in the amount of checks Google would have to write to make this all go away.
So it's probably worth it just for that reason. I make it easier for them.
Quick bits, quick bits, quick bits. That's kind of my default conversation opener.
Do you think it's good or should I change it? ASUS has acknowledged and apologized
for any confusion and frustration experienced by their customers
following widespread complaints about the company's warranty and repair processes.
Yeah, issuing preposterous repair bills to customers whose products were crucially not fully repaired
does sound a bit frustrating. ASUS has committed to revising their pricing structure
and improving communication with their customers. And to sweeten the deal,
they even accidentally leaked one of the Snapdragon X-powered laptops
they're probably gonna announce on Monday. Ooh, it's got an Intel Qualcomm Adreno GPU?
All is forgiven, ASUS. That's pretty good.
Microsoft's PC Manager, a combination security
and utility tool currently only available in certain regions, is apparently giving users repair tips,
suggesting that they fix their PC by reverting their default search engine back to Bing.
That's doing the opposite, but okay. While Microsoft has already explored putting ads
in the start menu and even the system settings, implying that listing duck-duck-go as a default
is an error in your computer is a new low in Microsoft's quest to shove ads
into every possible orifice of Windows 11.
It can't breathe. Give it a break. And that's even compared to the old new low it hit last week
and the old, old new low it hit the week before.
They are on a roll here. Another major milestone has been achieved
in the quest for a quantum internet,
an infrastructure that would enable unparalleled security
during data transfer, among other things. Three teams of researchers have developed
different memory modules that allowed extremely fragile quantum information
to travel tens of kilometers through existing fiber optic cables.
Now for the layman, this means we're one step closer
to every Silicon Valley startup slapping the word quantum
on whatever the hell they're working on. Google and Harvard scientists
have successfully mapped the human brain,
or at least around one cubic millimeter of it.
Have you done? This mind map was created by taking an itsy-bitsy piece
of the brain and then slicing it into 5,000 super thin wafers,
which is a gross word to use when it comes to human organs. Brain cookie, neurological biscuit.
This is getting worse. They then took around 1.4 petabytes of images of the slices
and recombined them using AI imaging to figure out the roots of tens of thousands of neurons
and their millions of connections. At least one neuron had over 5,000 connection points
leading to other neurons and some axons, AKA signal-carrying nerve fibers,
were super tightly coiled together. What does this mean?
I don't really have any idea and the scientists didn't either, but I like to think maybe that's where the brain keeps
the memories of every stupid thing you've ever said at a party, why not?
And private astronaut slash billionaire Jared Isaacman
wants to foot the bill for a commercial spacewalking mission
to save the aging Hubble telescope. What a guy.
The planned mission would use a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule,
which not only doesn't have a robotic ARM to attach itself to the telescope,
SpaceX also hasn't even proven a spacewalk as possible from their capsule yet.
You won't believe this, but NASA has some concerns. SpaceX's Polaris program is meant to host
the first spacewalk by private astronauts, including Isaacman,
but the first flight keeps getting delayed. Isaacman said back in January
that we're running out of time to save Hubble, but the telescope is expected to last into the 2030s.
Maybe we have a couple of years to think of,
I don't know, literally anything else, but the only thing I'm thinking of right now
is whether you'll come back on Monday for more tech news. It's gonna be all the Snapdragon X stuff
and the Microsoft services. It's gonna be good, okay? There's...
What, it's good? Why are you looking at me like that?