1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,840 Oh wow, what a sight, the face of a huge nerd 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:10,360 eager for a fresh helping of tech news. Well, I'm happy to oblige. 3 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:16,040 A Microsoft blog post published this morning made it seem like the company was announcing a time limit 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,120 on their free upgrade offer for Windows 10 users. 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,880 The blog post has now been taken down, but when it was live, it's title read, 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,720 free upgrade to Windows 11 for a limited time only. 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,920 It's a little too casual. You might be screwed, whoopsie. 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,640 It could be that Microsoft isn't planning to restrict free Windows 10 to 11 upgrades, 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,000 at least more than they already have through hardware requirements, 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,600 but setting an upgrade deadline to coincide with the end of support for Windows 10, 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:51,520 which is coming October 14th this year, would mesh with the company's plans for 2025, 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,640 which it called the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,760 in some kind of Oprah inspired manifestation exercise. 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:05,160 It also wouldn't be unprecedented. Microsoft limited free upgrades to Windows 10 15 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,480 from systems running seven and eight to one year, 16 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:14,240 but kept allowing users to activate Windows 10 using keys from those older OSes. 17 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:18,160 Interestingly, one reason Microsoft may have taken down the article 18 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,680 is that the limited time upgrade thing wasn't referenced at all in the actual text, 19 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,880 but it did mention that Office apps, which are now called Microsoft 365 apps, much simpler, 20 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,080 will also be losing support on Windows 10 devices 21 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,280 on the same day as the OS itself, October 14th, 22 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,320 which means even if you pay the 30 bucks a year for extended security updates on Windows 10, 23 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,560 the same can't be said for word and PowerPoint. 24 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:49,280 Now, Microsoft does say in a support document that the apps will keep working. 25 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,360 It's just, well, if you don't pay for protection, 26 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,520 you might encounter performance and reliability issues 27 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,240 over time, but what can you do? You know, it's a rough neighborhood. 28 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:06,480 NVIDIA has published new performance charts for their RTX 50 series GPUs 29 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,040 that shows just how important DLSS4 30 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,600 with multi-frame generation is to NVIDIA's extremely bold claims 31 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,760 of double the 40 series performance at CES last week. 32 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,760 Compared to the old charts for the 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti 33 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,400 which you can find in our new sources link in the description, the new charts 34 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:32,400 add a Resident Evil 4 benchmark that was run without DLSS. 35 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:38,360 And it looks like compared to their 40 series non-super counterparts, the 50 series shows pure 36 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:43,120 traditional rendering uplifts of around 30% for the 5090 37 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:48,120 and 15 to 20% for the others, which is not double. 38 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:53,800 And furthermore, it seems to scale linearly with the extra wattage each card is getting. 39 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,800 So you're telling me this architecture is better? 40 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,000 I could do that. In answer to complaints over their GPUs relying 41 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 on so-called fake frames to achieve high performance, 42 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,600 NVIDIA seems to be saying, yeah, so f***ing what? 43 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,040 Apparently 80% of RTX players turn on DLSS. 44 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:19,440 Sure, a lot of the time it's on by default, but the point is upscaling and frame gen 45 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:24,760 have pretty much already been normalized. So it makes total sense that NVIDIA is trying 46 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,960 to tell reviewers the right way to review their AI cards 47 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:34,800 that happen to generate pixels on your screen. Rumors are pointing to RTX 5090 reviews 48 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,960 going up on January 24th with 5080 reviews on the 30th 49 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:44,520 unless that was hallucinated by chatGPT. I mean, the biggest fake frame of them all. 50 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaking of AI, Google has dropped its separate 51 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,280 Gemini add-on for Google Workspace and will be adding Gemini-powered features 52 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:58,320 for Gmail, Docs, Meet, et cetera to existing workspace plans for free 53 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:03,600 alongside a small price increase. Microsoft answered Google by relaunching 54 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:09,640 yet another thing called Copilot. Copilot Chat is free for commercial customers 55 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:16,240 with the ability to create and work with task-specific agents on a pay-as-you-go basis. 56 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,440 Copilot is, of course, based on tech from OpenAI 57 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,520 who also just announced a couple of new agentic tools. 58 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,680 Paying chatGPT users can now ask it to track tasks 59 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,560 and set reminders to, say, give me a daily weather update. 60 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:35,640 Just make sure you set another reminder to ask chatGPT if that update was a hallucination. 61 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,720 It's going to rain today. Is it though? Thinking, oh, nah, it won't. 62 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,960 You're the best. If you're not stoked on all of this AI stuff, 63 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,480 I guess you must hate local news because OpenAI also just announced 64 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:54,560 their funding news outlet Axios to develop local newsrooms in four new locations in the US. 65 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,280 And Google just made a deal with the Associated Press to swap content and tools. 66 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:03,720 Sure, it just came out that Metta and probably every other AI company 67 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:09,160 intentionally trained models on pirated books and probably pirated everything else. 68 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,400 But what, you hate local news? Ah, come on. 69 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,520 Still hungry, hmm? What's the tech news without a quick bits dessert? 70 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,520 I'm, this is weird, I'm sorry. The FBI says they had no choice 71 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:26,440 but to hack thousands of computers in the US to remove malware planted there 72 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,800 by a China-backed hacking group, which is almost a shame 73 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,680 because their name is Mustang Panda. 74 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,600 I feel like they should get some leeway for that. The Fed said that owners of infected PCs 75 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,560 were typically unaware of the infection. 76 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,920 So stands to reason they wouldn't be aware of the FBI 77 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,440 breaking into their computer to fix it for them. You're welcome. 78 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:52,600 Although they did apparently tell internet service providers of affected IP addresses 79 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,880 that they should inform their customers. The disclosure of the operation comes a year 80 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:02,440 after the FBI did something similar to de-infect routers being used as part of a botnet. 81 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,960 The FBI's just hacking stuff all the time. For good, for good reasons. 82 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:13,920 Samsung is apparently pre-empting Apple's iPhone 17 Air with their own Galaxy S25 Slim, 83 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,720 as detailed by reputable leaker OnLeaks and news site SmartPrix. 84 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,840 They showed renders of the phone, which will reportedly launch in May 85 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,080 at a thickness of just 6.4 millimeters, 86 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,240 which will enable owners to, 87 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,640 what, Jimmy Alok with it? Why do we want this? The White House is continuing to go ham 88 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,160 with the restrictions on China before President Biden leaves office, 89 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,400 adding more companies to a list of entities affected by trade restrictions. 90 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,840 The Biden administration also finalized its proposed rule 91 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:51,240 that will effectively ban Chinese cars and Chinese car components from the US. 92 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:56,080 In what I have to assume is a fit of rage, Chinese drone company, DJI, 93 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,560 which could be facing its own ban at some point, removed its geofencing feature that stops drones 94 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:07,360 from flying in no-fly zones. The week after one of them crashed into a plane 95 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,320 fighting the California wildfires. 96 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,400 So that's where international politics are at right now. 97 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,920 The FTC, Illinois and Minnesota have sued John Deere 98 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,120 over the company's anti-consumer repair practices, 99 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:27,040 alleging the tractor manufacturer has monopoly power over the repair market. 100 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,680 And I really hope this is a wake-up call for John Deere because what, they think they're Apple? 101 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,160 I can understand artsy baristas using the genius bar, 102 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,200 but you're gonna tell farmers they can't fix stuff? 103 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,640 You make tractors! And a coder going by a ding, 2210, 104 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:47,640 has baked a playable instance of Doom 1993 into a PDF file. 105 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,880 Yeah, they apparently did this thanks to the JavaScript support in PDFium, 106 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,440 the engine that renders PDFs in chromium-based browsers. 107 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,160 It supports WASD movement and other keyboard controls. 108 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,560 You just have to click the text box first, and then you're free to play Doom 109 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,560 in perhaps the worst way imaginable. But the best way to get more tech news 110 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:15,360 is to come back here on Friday, when we'll probably have news about the Switch 2. 111 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,800 Nintendo did not reveal the reveal for the Switch 2 today, 112 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,640 probably because everyone talked about it so much and they're shy, so damn it, shh, shh, shh! 113 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,080 It always comes right for me. 114 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,000 Just settle down.