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I will continue writing the tech news in English, but I could switch to another language at

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any time. Not saying which one, just stand your toes.

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NVIDIA's rumored ARM-based laptop chip may be arriving this year, if details from multiple

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data miners, leakers, and scoundrels are to be believed.

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Not like bad scoundrels, like hand solo types, like, ah, use scamp.

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Lenovo laptop model names and job listings were spotted by Walking Cat and Huang Anfu

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on Twitter that included references to a chipset codenamed N1X, which doesn't match any of

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the usual suspects in terms of CPU manufacturers.

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Lenovo's platform codes use I for Intel, A for AMD, and Q for Qualcomm, so it makes

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sense that N would be NVIDIA, unless Lenovo's also working on another version of its Steam

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OS handheld that runs Nintendo software, but that's silly.

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Even if it was officially licensed, Nintendo might sue anyway, it's an addiction.

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They need help. Leaker QQ Timmy further shared supply chain info pointing to two chip variants, a high

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end N1X and a mid-range N1, which could break cover at Computex.

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And in case you think this is coming out of left field, Jensen pretty much said they're

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working with ARM CPU maker MediaTek to launch mainstream products for end users, which I

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think is NVIDIA's term for users who will end soon, because why do we need people when

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we have robots? TikTok's hearing with the US Supreme Court last week reportedly didn't go super well,

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so faced with their favorite app probably being banned on suspicion of ties to the Chinese

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government, TikTokers have flocked to the even more Chinese social media app, Xiaohang

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Xu aka Red Note, catapulting it to the top downloaded spot on Apple's US App Store.

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The second most downloaded app? Lemon8, an Instagram competitor also owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, who has

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been pushing TikTokers to migrate to Lemon8 with sponsored posts.

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This account is almost entirely videos of other creators sending people to the other

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app. This is bad. Meta should stick to American platforms like Facebook, where Meta began blocking any posts

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linking to pixel fed, another Instagram type platform.

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Meta said the post removals were a mistake, but it echoed Elon Musk's blocking of Twitter

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posts linking to Substack and Mastodon last year.

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The creator and CEO of Mastodon, Oigen Rockko, doesn't want any single person to have that

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kind of control, so he's transferring management of the decentralized social network to a

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non-profit. Meanwhile, the FreeRFeeds project aims to raise billions to create more easily switchable

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alternative social platforms built on Blue Sky's AT protocol, which has received some

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criticism for not being decentralized enough.

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But if this project is excellent enough for Alex Winter aka Bill from Bill and Ted's

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excellent venture who co-signed the project, then it's excellent enough for me.

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The outgoing Biden administration has just announced new restrictions on exports of AI

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chips that more or less divides the world into three tiers of access based on whether

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you replied to Joe's Christmas card. He spends a lot of time on those.

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China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea will still be essentially banned from buying American

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AI chips. About 120 other countries will have quotas of some kind, while 18 close US allies can

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gorge themselves on AI chips. The White House confusingly called the order a rule on AI diffusion, which sounds like

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they're trying to address the internet's infestation by growing hordes of stable diffusion

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generated waifus. But the chip industry isn't confused about this.

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The semiconductor industry association called the rules onerous and rushed, while NVIDIA

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labeled it sweeping overreach. The tech giant went on to say that America wins by sharing our technologies with the

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world, not by retreating behind a wall, and then went on to announce that they would open

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source their GPU drivers and CUDA, because otherwise that would sound a little hypocritical.

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Qwikas Bitus is actually the Latin name for when you're running so fast in the Circus

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Maximus that you trip and skid over the finish line on your butt, so you didn't know that.

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It looks like the Nintendo Switch 2 may be revealed this Thursday, January 16th.

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That info was first shared on the Nate the Hate podcast, and then corroborated by Tom

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Warren and Video Games Chronicle and Eurogamer and the Verge ads.

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They think there will be an announcement of the reveal the day before on Wednesday.

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You know, a reveal of a reveal is somehow perfect for a console that was pre-announced

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this many times. The madness can finally end!

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TSMC's chip making facility near Phoenix, Arizona has started producing 4nm chips that

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are on par with those produced in Taiwan in terms of quality, according to US Commerce

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Secretary Gina Raimondo, as reported by Reuters.

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It's the first time a process node that cutting edge has been manufactured on American soil.

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In Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday that TSMC could go ahead with

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their plans to bring production of more advanced 2nm chips overseas as well.

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Did the Ministry also say anything about bringing more bubble tea franchises to North America?

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No, which is a shame because that shit's delicious.

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Sonos announced this morning that their CEO of 8 years, Patrick Spence, is stepping down.

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Probably because the last one of those years was a freaking gong show.

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Sonos rolled out an app update that users said wasn't just poorly designed.

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It was riddled with bugs that rendered some systems unusable.

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I bet Spence is hoping to find ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the bar to bond over their

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shared pain. But he'll be disappointed because Pat will be at home making Bible verse inspired TikToks

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with his loving family. He's busy, Spence! And a Sony patent spotted by techforgamers.com describes a system that could predict and

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execute player inputs using a camera to watch the player's hands, detecting a thumb moving

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towards a button, and triggering that button to press before the player does.

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The system could also apparently detect incomplete controller actions and surmise what the player

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was trying to do and then do that.

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Now you might feel like, pfft, what's the point of playing a game when it can just predict

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how I'll play it and take the reins from there.

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Exactly. I get home from work and I'm tired. This is going to make button mashing 10 times more effective.

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PS5, take the wheel.

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I'm playing right now. And you should wheel yourself back here on Wednesday for more tech news.

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Or maybe we can predict what the news is going to be and put out an early episode on Tuesday.

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No thanks.