You know when tech news makes you feel something you've never felt before and you ask other
people if they've felt anything like that and they're like, no, that's a bit concerning.
You should talk to your doctor. Yeah, that's what it's all about.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is scared that rapid development of AI could leave Microsoft
itself in the dust, despite doing absolutely everything it can to shoehorn three different
versions of something named Copilot into every product they make.
As reported by The Verge at a company town hall, a Microsoft employee expressed concerns
about the vibe shift of the company towards the emotionally colder side.
What that employee doesn't understand is that Microsoft had no choice but to lay off
9,000 people despite making record profits because, as Nadella said in his response,
there's so many once great tech companies that simply vanished and every time it was
because of AI and not laying off enough people. So Satya's concern that other companies will pull ahead in the AI race is understandable,
not to mention the fact that Elon Musk explicitly claimed a month ago that he'll replace everything
Microsoft does with a purely AI software company called Macro Hard.
Everyone saw this tweet and was like, yeah, alright, Elon, okay, but Satya saw it and
was like, oh, shit, and ran off to order someone to name another thing Copilot.
The first handheld with AMD's beefy Strix Halo chip can perform nearly two times better
than one of AMD's existing flagship handheld chips, according to YouTuber TheFox, who spells
his name like it's his Nexopia user ID from 2005, and we love him for that.
The old Foxhound also revealed that this handheld, the GPD Win 5 with the giant attachable battery
on the back, you know the one, will start at 1600 USD for the lower powered Ryzen 385
with the 395s version starting at 1850.
Sure at lower TDPs, the Strix Halo chip gets around the same performance as the Ryzen HX370,
which is close to the upcoming Ryzen Z2 Extreme, but starting around 25 watts and above the
Ryzen 395 can do a lot better. It's just, you know, is that worth like $2,000?
If you're more of a desktop only person, AMD just launched the Radeon RX 7700 non-XT,
that's right, I said 7700. It's a new GPU based on the company's last gen RDNA3 architecture coming out two years
after the XT version. AMD, if you're going for a nostalgia factor, I think you have to wait a bit longer.
iPhone 17 owners are flooding the internet with complaints that their new slabs are getting
scratched when they throw them without a case into their pocket or purse with their keys
and custom knife collection. Wah!
Apple has really dropped the ball here. Someone get to the bottom of all these reports.
Thankfully, JerryRigEverything is confirmed via his professional skills and tools that
scratching an iPhone 17 Pro with a razor blade will leave a mark.
Okay, but seriously, the issue here has to do with the iPhone 17 Pro's anodized aluminum
frame and certain decisions made by Apple about the design of the corners of the camera
plateau. Zach from JerryRigEverything explains that this is why when you scratch the corner with
a key, the corner will get scratched. Look, watch his video.
I'm sure this is a big deal to people who love their naked phones, but I, you know, other
people are pointing out that previous iPhone models also used anodized aluminum and they
scratched easily, but that didn't qualify for the scandal gate treatment apparently.
So throw a case on your phone, or don't, and keep scratching on and on until you get
inside and scratch off the whole SSD inside the iPhone 17 Pro Max and replace it with
another one like YouTuber Director Fang did here.
You don't have to make it an ASMR video, though.
Ugh. So you do end up calling your doctor and he's like, you know, that tech news feeling is
actually totally normal. Take five quick bits and don't call me in the morning, you hypochondriac.
You get some help. Not from me. The TikTok deal is real, an anonymous senior White House official told reporters today
and it will involve ByteDance creating a US specific copy of the app's algorithm that
a US-based joint group of investors can use on a lease.
One of those investors is Oracle, who will also be responsible for security on the new
All-American TikTok, which will only allow viral dances to country songs.
None of that K-pop allowed, because that's Chinese.
While the White House is brokering the deal, they will not be taking a stake in the new
venture, which is something we have to clarify now. So that's fun.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed on his joint investor call with Intel last week that NVIDIA
's rumored N1 ARM-based PC processor and the GB10 SoC powering the company's DGX Spark
Mini AI PCs that are already announced are actually one and the same.
What? Now, there's still room for speculation here.
Leaks have referenced both an N1 and N1X variant, but it's also worth pointing out
that the GB10 slash N1, whatever it is, combines NVIDIA's GPU cores with MediaTek's ARM CPU
cores. Will anyone care about that when Intel CPUs with integrated NVIDIA GPUs exist that were
just announced last week? You have to answer that on your own.
My brain is busy still thinking about how people don't put cases on their phones.
Why? Lenovo has canceled some pre-orders for their upcoming Legion Go 2 Windows handheld because
they received way more than they expected. They thought no one liked them and it wouldn't be right to hold on to their customer's money
when the shipping date is uncertain. We don't want to do that to you.
Oh, actually, I speak corporate ease. I can translate this.
They're actually saying they could do without incessant emails tearing into their support
staff over their order not being ready, like the customers in a fast food drive-through.
Also, maybe just don't pre-order. Lenovo agrees with me, apparently.
European airports are slowly recovering after a cyberattack caused delays and cancellations
in London, Brussels, Dublin, Berlin, and more.
There's a lot of cities in Europe. The cause was apparently ransomware that struck Collins Aerospace, the maker of software used
by many airlines worldwide. Some say the hackers just wanted money, but they may also have demanded an end to those
incredibly annoying cookie consent pop-ups every site had to add after the EU made it
a law in 2009 because look, the European Commission is now considering reworking it.
I'm not saying the hackers were right, but the pop-ups are really annoying.
And Pope Leo XIV said in a recent interview covered by the Register that Vatican staff
asked him for authorization to create an AI Pope that would match his personality so anyone
could get a personal audience with the Pope.
And Pope Leo was like, hey, f*** that.
What is this? Only fans? Not verbatim.
But I think that was the vibe. This AI stuff is really getting out of hand.
The robots are now throwing themselves around, they're not even waiting for the testers
to kick them anymore. What is it even doing here?
It's trying to psych us out. But don't psych me out by saying you'll come back on Wednesday for more tech news and then
not coming. Please. I just don't.
I will believe you.