WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.840 Oh wow, what a sight, the face of a huge nerd 00:00:04.840 --> 00:00:10.360 eager for a fresh helping of tech news. Well, I'm happy to oblige. 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 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:19.120 on their free upgrade offer for Windows 10 users. 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, 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:27.720 free upgrade to Windows 11 for a limited time only. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:32.920 It's a little too casual. You might be screwed, whoopsie. 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:37.640 It could be that Microsoft isn't planning to restrict free Windows 10 to 11 upgrades, 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:41.000 at least more than they already have through hardware requirements, 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.600 but setting an upgrade deadline to coincide with the end of support for Windows 10, 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:51.520 which is coming October 14th this year, would mesh with the company's plans for 2025, 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:55.640 which it called the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh 00:00:55.720 --> 00:00:59.760 in some kind of Oprah inspired manifestation exercise. 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:05.160 It also wouldn't be unprecedented. Microsoft limited free upgrades to Windows 10 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:08.480 from systems running seven and eight to one year, 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.240 but kept allowing users to activate Windows 10 using keys from those older OSes. 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:18.160 Interestingly, one reason Microsoft may have taken down the article 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:23.680 is that the limited time upgrade thing wasn't referenced at all in the actual text, 00:01:23.720 --> 00:01:29.880 but it did mention that Office apps, which are now called Microsoft 365 apps, much simpler, 00:01:29.880 --> 00:01:33.080 will also be losing support on Windows 10 devices 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:36.280 on the same day as the OS itself, October 14th, 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, 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:44.560 the same can't be said for word and PowerPoint. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.280 Now, Microsoft does say in a support document that the apps will keep working. 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.360 It's just, well, if you don't pay for protection, 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:57.520 you might encounter performance and reliability issues 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:01.240 over time, but what can you do? You know, it's a rough neighborhood. 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:06.480 NVIDIA has published new performance charts for their RTX 50 series GPUs 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:10.040 that shows just how important DLSS4 00:02:10.040 --> 00:02:14.600 with multi-frame generation is to NVIDIA's extremely bold claims 00:02:14.600 --> 00:02:18.760 of double the 40 series performance at CES last week. 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:22.760 Compared to the old charts for the 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:27.400 which you can find in our new sources link in the description, the new charts 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:32.400 add a Resident Evil 4 benchmark that was run without DLSS. 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 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:43.120 traditional rendering uplifts of around 30% for the 5090 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.120 and 15 to 20% for the others, which is not double. 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:53.800 And furthermore, it seems to scale linearly with the extra wattage each card is getting. 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:56.800 So you're telling me this architecture is better? 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:01.000 I could do that. In answer to complaints over their GPUs relying 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:05.000 on so-called fake frames to achieve high performance, 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.600 NVIDIA seems to be saying, yeah, so f***ing what? 00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:14.040 Apparently 80% of RTX players turn on DLSS. 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 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:24.760 have pretty much already been normalized. So it makes total sense that NVIDIA is trying 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:28.960 to tell reviewers the right way to review their AI cards 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:34.800 that happen to generate pixels on your screen. Rumors are pointing to RTX 5090 reviews 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.960 going up on January 24th with 5080 reviews on the 30th 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.520 unless that was hallucinated by chatGPT. I mean, the biggest fake frame of them all. 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.720 Speaking of AI, Google has dropped its separate 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:52.280 Gemini add-on for Google Workspace and will be adding Gemini-powered features 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:58.320 for Gmail, Docs, Meet, et cetera to existing workspace plans for free 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:03.600 alongside a small price increase. Microsoft answered Google by relaunching 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:09.640 yet another thing called Copilot. Copilot Chat is free for commercial customers 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. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.440 Copilot is, of course, based on tech from OpenAI 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:22.520 who also just announced a couple of new agentic tools. 00:04:22.520 --> 00:04:26.680 Paying chatGPT users can now ask it to track tasks 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.560 and set reminders to, say, give me a daily weather update. 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.640 Just make sure you set another reminder to ask chatGPT if that update was a hallucination. 00:04:35.640 --> 00:04:40.720 It's going to rain today. Is it though? Thinking, oh, nah, it won't. 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.960 You're the best. If you're not stoked on all of this AI stuff, 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:48.480 I guess you must hate local news because OpenAI also just announced 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:54.560 their funding news outlet Axios to develop local newsrooms in four new locations in the US. 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.280 And Google just made a deal with the Associated Press to swap content and tools. 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:03.720 Sure, it just came out that Metta and probably every other AI company 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:09.160 intentionally trained models on pirated books and probably pirated everything else. 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.400 But what, you hate local news? Ah, come on. 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:17.520 Still hungry, hmm? What's the tech news without a quick bits dessert? 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:21.520 I'm, this is weird, I'm sorry. The FBI says they had no choice 00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:26.440 but to hack thousands of computers in the US to remove malware planted there 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:29.800 by a China-backed hacking group, which is almost a shame 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.680 because their name is Mustang Panda. 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 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.560 were typically unaware of the infection. 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.920 So stands to reason they wouldn't be aware of the FBI 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:48.440 breaking into their computer to fix it for them. You're welcome. 00:05:48.440 --> 00:05:52.600 Although they did apparently tell internet service providers of affected IP addresses 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:56.880 that they should inform their customers. The disclosure of the operation comes a year 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. 00:06:02.440 --> 00:06:06.960 The FBI's just hacking stuff all the time. For good, for good reasons. 00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:13.920 Samsung is apparently pre-empting Apple's iPhone 17 Air with their own Galaxy S25 Slim, 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.720 as detailed by reputable leaker OnLeaks and news site SmartPrix. 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.840 They showed renders of the phone, which will reportedly launch in May 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:25.080 at a thickness of just 6.4 millimeters, 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:27.240 which will enable owners to, 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 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:38.160 with the restrictions on China before President Biden leaves office, 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.400 adding more companies to a list of entities affected by trade restrictions. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:45.840 The Biden administration also finalized its proposed rule 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:51.240 that will effectively ban Chinese cars and Chinese car components from the US. 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:56.080 In what I have to assume is a fit of rage, Chinese drone company, DJI, 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 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:07.360 from flying in no-fly zones. The week after one of them crashed into a plane 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:09.320 fighting the California wildfires. 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.400 So that's where international politics are at right now. 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:18.920 The FTC, Illinois and Minnesota have sued John Deere 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:22.120 over the company's anti-consumer repair practices, 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:27.040 alleging the tractor manufacturer has monopoly power over the repair market. 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? 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.160 I can understand artsy baristas using the genius bar, 00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:38.200 but you're gonna tell farmers they can't fix stuff? 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:42.640 You make tractors! And a coder going by a ding, 2210, 00:07:42.640 --> 00:07:47.640 has baked a playable instance of Doom 1993 into a PDF file. 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:53.880 Yeah, they apparently did this thanks to the JavaScript support in PDFium, 00:07:53.880 --> 00:07:57.440 the engine that renders PDFs in chromium-based browsers. 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:01.160 It supports WASD movement and other keyboard controls. 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 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.560 in perhaps the worst way imaginable. But the best way to get more tech news 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. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.800 Nintendo did not reveal the reveal for the Switch 2 today, 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! 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.080 It always comes right for me. 00:08:28.320 --> 00:08:30.000 Just settle down.