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Surprise, I got you tech news.

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You knew that? That's why you clicked the video?

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You want me to just get to it? Oh, I knew this was stupid.

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An Xbox gaming handheld is being planned by Microsoft

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to launch later this very year. According to fairly reliable Xbox Insider,

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and no big deal if you say his name with a Southern accent, Giz Corden.

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It's Giz Corden. According to Corden's sources,

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the handheld will be an Xbox branded device made by a manufacturing partner.

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Kind of like how Lenovo made an officially licensed SteamOS device, the Legion Go S.

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That handheld was apparently so good it made this laptop mag writer

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want to buy Valve's first party Steam Deck instead.

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Which is maybe Microsoft's end game. Giz also says the company plans to launch

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a proper first party Xbox handheld in 2027,

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along with a premium Series X console successor.

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Corden elaborated on the Xbox two podcast,

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saying that there may not be any developer kits for this round of consoles.

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Game devs will just need a set of specs to target

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because this Xbox will essentially just be a PC

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in a TV friendly shell, as opposed to normal PCs,

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which when placed near a television can erupt into hissing and growling.

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The news of upcoming Xbox hardware could reassure some fans worried

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about former Xbox exclusives being published on other platforms,

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like Forza Horizon 5, which will launch in April on PlayStation 5

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with a Microsoft account login requirement,

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because that went so well for Sony's PC games. That'll show them,

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that'll show those dirty PlayStation fans that their parents should have bought an Xbox instead

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when they were children, so they'd form a ridiculous social attachment to the brand I like.

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Speaking of branding, specs and images have leaked

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of NVIDIA's Blackwell powered pro workstation card

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called the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell.

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As with the card's predecessor, the RTX 6000 ADA generation,

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the 6000 means this is NVIDIA's flagship pro model,

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but this time they threw a pro in there too, in all caps, just to be sure.

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It's only for pros, stop looking. Video cards found the images after Twitter leaker

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Harukaze leaked specs, which led Mark Brown to find a listing

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from card manufacturer, LeadTech. Great job everybody,

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but gamers are probably more interested in the leaked specs

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for the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti,

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which were posted by other Twitter leaker, whose name I will always pronounce as Copete 7 Kimmy,

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because it pleases me. Unfortunately, these specs for these low to mid rangers

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likely won't please low to mid gamers,

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which is a half hearted diss I already regret. We're talking specs that barely improve

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on their predecessors, if at all. But with a launch expected sometime in the next few months,

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NVIDIA still has time to add a qualifier to the name,

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RTX Fun 5050, don't take it too seriously.

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Following reports that Apple has delayed its LLM powered Siri upgrade indefinitely,

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some, like Mac rumors contributor, Aaron Parris,

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wondered if Apple would pull ads that specifically advertise the feature,

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since it's not a thing.

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Turns out Apple would, they took down the ad shortly after Parris tweeted about it,

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leaving no evidence of any false advertising.

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Except for, as pointed out by Snazzy Labs, aka Quinn Nelson,

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this whole section of Apple's iPhone 16 Pro page

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full of false advertising. Yeah, the text there makes it sound like Siri

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can do advanced AI assistant stuff right now,

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instead of saying that at some future point, she'll be able to do them about two thirds of the time.

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And the remaining 33% she'll hallucinate and book your grandma a flight to Siberia.

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But those two thirds times, what the fuck, magical.

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A magic you could also feel through our sponsor.

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I put the hat back on for the quick bits, because it was, I mean, it was just sitting there and I was like, stick to the bit.

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And so I, you know what, it's fine, it's okay.

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Scammers selling fake hardware online is nothing new,

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but the problem seems to be affecting seemingly legit listings on Amazon even more these days.

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As evidenced by this supposed Ryzen 7 9800 X3D

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purchased by YouTube channel Hardware Busters, that turned out to be a 14 year old AMD FX4100

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with a sticker on it. That sticker was really on there though, so.

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So be careful out there. If you're shopping for the Ryzen 99950 X3D,

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which will supposedly launch this Wednesday for 700 bucks,

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maybe, who knows. Turns out that battery demolishing update

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for the Pixel 4a was pushed by Google to prevent battery overheating risk,

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which was bad enough that Australia issued a formal recall of the devices.

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Although in the age of software updates, a recall often just means an urgent notice to update,

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which is the case here. But all Google said when they first issued the update

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was that it was necessary to improve the stability of the battery's performance,

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which doesn't sound nearly as dire as phone could explode.

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But hey, why do we need to know why a tech giant is fundamentally altering something

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about a device's performance? It's their phone, we just gave them some money to use it.

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Speaking of borked Google things, owners quote unquote of second gen Chromecast

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and Chromecast audio devices were frustrated to be met

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with untrusted device errors this week, leading some to worry the Google graveyard

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had come for their dongles as it shall for us all.

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But nope, it was just a glitch and Google's working on a fix.

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Just be glad the issues weren't the result of a massive cyber attack,

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like the one Elon Musk said was responsible for stability issues experienced by ex-users this morning.

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They don't want you to tweet. Better tweet even harder

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and Grock writes the funniest best tweets ever,

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so subscribe to that. Some DVDs released by Warner Brothers

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from the years 2006 to 2008 have been found to go bad

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due to a manufacturing defect known as disk rot,

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which is way more biologically related terms

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than I'm used to using when speaking about optical disks, which I do each morning when I wake up.

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The issue was investigated by Chris Bumbray

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of movie news site Joe Blow and Warner Bros has now stated they're working

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with consumers to replace defective disks. So you might wanna check your DVDs

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if you have any of that released from 2006 to 2008,

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especially because you probably got some good ones in there. The prestige, the departed, children of men,

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the devil wears Prada, pans labyrinth, step up,

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that's all one year because movies used to be good. And the Compal Infinite is a laptop with a screen

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that rolls outward to expand itself horizontally,

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as opposed to vertically, like the Lenovo Thinkbook plus Gen 6.

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The Infinite even won an IF design award,

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which doesn't mean much because they've gotten the same award

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for a number of other cool products that never came to market. You want a real innovative screen type product?

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ASUS just launched monitors with built-in air purifiers

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so you don't actually have to go touch grass to get fresh air.

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Take that, mom. Here's something else you can touch, your mouse or phone or whatever

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to click the next tech news video when it comes out on Wednesday.

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Grass? Tech news is just as helpful.