Details on NVIDIA's next generation of GPUs, codenamed Blackwell, appear to have been leaked,
raising the question of whether Team Green can pull off a better redemption than Shawshank.
Let's hope the answer isn't Z-Watt and A-No, that's a deep cut.
I'm James Schreib. This is TechLink, and this is the ChipHell forum post where Leaker, Panzerleid, posted
the numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7. Before you think Panzerleid forgot how to count, Liverpool FC fan and hardware leaker
Copight7Kimi elaborated that the upcoming Blackwell GPUs will be cut into five dies,
the GB202, 203, 5, 6, and 7.
That naming is notable for two reasons, lots of numbers today.
200 series usually represents dies that are re-spins, chips that are built again to be
better, faster, costlier. Also, there is no 4 variant, which is typically meant to be used for the best bang for the
buck GPU, I guess that doesn't exist anymore, until NVIDIA decided to prank us by giving
that designation to the die for the 4070 and 4070Ti floor tom symbol.
Now NVIDIA has replaced the X04 designation with X05, does the higher number here indicate
lower performance as usual, or did NVIDIA just want to chip that accurately reference
their favorite mambo?
Hey no lubega voice. A group of six music labels, including Sony and UMG, is suing the internet archive over
their attempt to preserve music recorded on 78RPM discs, a format that was discontinued
in 1959. Holy cow, you know you're evil, when?
The archive's great 78 project is trying to save the work of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald,
Frank Sinatra, and many other talented dead people. But the labels argue that because the preserved songs are already available to stream, there's
no chance they'll be lost, forgotten, or destroyed, which you know, press X to doubt.
You only can stream one version usually when there's a remaster, that's what you get.
According to the internet archive, the olden times recording still holds significant research
value, as artifacts and usage evidence, and that's artifacts as in unintentional sounds
and audio recording, not like the Venus of Willendorf.
This comes only four months after the internet archive lost another copyright lawsuit brought
on by a group of large publishers who sued the archive for making digital books available
without restriction during the unprecedented global pandemic when most of the world's libraries
were closed.
The archive says it plans to appeal the decision apparently unapologetic for their dastardly
crimes of enabling literacy.
Disney has decided to stop producing physical media in the entire country slash continent
of Australia because I guess not enough things regularly perish there.
The House of Mouse is instead going full throttle on Disney Plus because why charge a customer
once for something they really want, when you can charge them for one thing they want
and thousands of things they don't want every month until they die.
Obviously this isn't just about getting people to sign up for Disney Plus and then getting
to cancel their subscription, it's also because of the cost of manufacturing physical media,
which I'm sure is only near zero. Disney has also pulled physical releases from some countries in Latin America and Asia where
the sales numbers were underwhelming. Unfortunately for some, this trend extends beyond movies with upcoming games like Starfield,
not even including a physical game in their $300 constellation edition, despite including
a steel book case.
Alan Wake 2 is an example of a big budget game releasing digital only and even Alan
Wake 1 distributed to THQ Nordic is begging for discs.
Please give us the discs, they're great frisbees.
Dell was found to have misled consumers on monitor prices in June by Australian regulators
who have now issued the company a fine of $6.46 million or $10 million.
From August 2019 to December 2021, Dell's Australian website suggested that shoppers
could get the best price for monitors if they bundled them with other items.
But that best price often turned out to be a much less desirable higher price.
I totally get where Dell is coming from though, they were probably talking about the best
price for them.
In other tech companies, Badly News Apple will soon pay up to $500 million to settle
a class action lawsuit filed in 2020 accusing them of secretly throttling the performance
of older iPhone models. Dell maintains that they did nothing wrong, a claim totally consistent with paying a half
billion dollars to people complaining you did something wrong.
The 3 million claimants involved in the lawsuit could receive about $65 each once all is said
and done though, so this way everybody's happy.
In other Apple news, according to a man whose name rhymes with Dark Merman, Apple is planning
a major update for the Apple Watch's 10th anniversary, Watch X, which sounds like porn.
Despite the Roman numeral, the watch won't be a wearable, Hellenic sundial, but a rather
huge overhaul of the design, including a micro LED display, thinner watch case, magnetic band
attachment system, and a blood pressure monitor. That's gonna be weird for the 9th model of the Apple Watch, which isn't even out yet
and is by all reports an extremely minor upgrade to the standard Apple Watch formula.
Where's Windows 9? Microsoft went micro hard finding vulnerabilities in the industrial automation software Codesys,
objectively the sexiest kind of software. In both a presentation and a blog post, Microsoft stated these vulnerabilities could be used
for remote code execution and denial of service attacks.
Due to the wide use of the software, these vulnerabilities could have been used to shut
down important utilities like power plants, which provide the energy that allows you to
Google why Charona was written out in the middle of the third season of Emmy-winning
TV series, Monk starring Tony Shalu, and Netflix is rolling out public testing of its new
cloud gaming service for select subscribers in Canada and the Yo-Kai.
Netflix has had mobile games since last November, but now a random handful of Brits and Canucks
will be able to stream exactly two games on web browsers on certain TVs, notably not
including Apple TV because the Apple Store doesn't allow cloud gaming and Tim Cook hates
Joy. To be clear, this is less about exclusivity and more about making sure that the new system
doesn't crap up its own back if a million people log on simultaneously.
And you should get your friends all on simultaneously to watch this Wednesday's episode of TechLink.
You can sit all together and say nothing while you stare at your phone.
It's just like dinner at my parents' house. Except my mommy uses an iPad.