This video is about inviting 50 strangers to try and stay inside a giant Jell-O cube
the longest and the winner gets $100. You thought it was about tech news, but I tricked you.
But really, it is about tech news, and I've just tricked you again.
Almost too easy. China is upping their gaming GPU game with the Leesuan 7G106 announced this weekend alongside
the professional focused 7G105.
And it seems like it can indeed play games.
That's number one. You gotta get that down first. Now last week, an OpenCL geek bench result for the 7G106 was spotted by BenchLeaks, and
in a rare occurrence, that exact score from the result was cited in Leesuan's official
presentation. The 7G106 is notable for being the first 6nm gaming GPU from a Chinese company, and while
it's no RTX 5090, it was shown pushing more than 70 FPS in the fairly demanding Black
Myth Wukong at 4K, potentially due to the company's NRSS upscaling tech and giving
the RTX 4060 and 5060 a run for their money in a few mostly synthetic benchmarks.
It's actually a similar story for another Chinese GPU, the More Threads MTTS90, which
just had some of its benchmarks spread around Chinese social media, despite actually being
announced quite some time ago. Now there's very little information about price or release date for either of these
GPUs, but the Trump administration did just temporarily drop some trade restrictions for
semiconductors to make China happy, so maybe there's hope that US gamers could have another
alternative to buying NVIDIA graphics cards, since AMD also seems distracted, like NVIDIA,
by the AI hardware market, and Intel, I mean, well, they're just trying to stay alive.
It's like they got Thanos snapped, but they're like holding onto their physical form for
a bit longer, it's like Peter did, well he stopped, I'm gonna cry.
Google pushed out a mandatory update for Pixel 6a phones earlier this month, nerfing
their battery performance, because if they didn't, the phone's batteries might explode.
Except for at least one phone, it apparently didn't work.
Reddit user footymanageraddict posted on the Google Pixel sub that despite applying
the firmware update, his 6a still caught fire while he was asleep, rude, it ignited his
sheets but he managed to throw it onto the floor so he could take some frankly, kind
of artsy pictures of it. A testament to Google's treachery.
They got rid of the don't be evil slogan and look what happened.
While there were a handful of notable reports of Pixel 6a's blowing up before the update,
this is the first one to reportedly occur post update.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a recall for the phones on Friday but
surprisingly there hasn't been much reporting on this issue overall.
It's possible people just thought this was normal behavior for Pixels.
UKIE, a major games industry trade association in the UK, has released a statement in support
of platforms like Steam having creative freedom in what games they can host as long as it's
properly classified by rating systems like Peggy.
The statement follows Steam taking down dozens of adult games and indie game store itch.io
following suit by de-indexing not-safe-for-work titles after pressure from payment processors,
who were themselves being pressured by an activist group called Collective Shout, a name that
won the group's name competition after just barely edging out Bellow Together and United
Squeal. They're very literal. Despite making it their mission to protect women by banning adult games from platforms,
indie developers seem to largely disagree and the whole episode has really just motivated
the public to ask why we're giving moral authority to the people who make money off of missed
credit card payments again? Maybe we should be asking about today's sponsor.
I'm sorry for tricking you earlier. The following quick bits are about the people in Jell-O thing.
Except they're not. It's more tech news. Calm down.
It's just a prank. You don't have to get weird about it.
Following GPD's announcement, I and Neo have announced they're building their own handheld
powered by AMD's beastly Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka Strix Halo.
And unlike GPD's version, it's got a built-in battery.
Ooh, like most handhelds.
This unit, called the I and Neo Next 2, was announced at the end of a nearly five-hour
two-part live stream as the second One More Thing bonus announcement.
Then as the One More Thing 3, they announced they're making an I and Neo phone with a slider
design. I don't think you can keep doing more things and calling it One More Thing.
I'm never going to trust you again if you do that. But you can release a new line of budget handhelds and call it Conquer.
Conquer. Conquer. Conquer.
We used to call it Conquer.
Alalauai. Another geekbench result for NVIDIA's mysterious upcoming N1X processor has made it somewhat
less mysterious. The result lists the chip's specs, including 20 CPU cores and 48 compute units, which should
give it some decent gaming chops. But the specs also seem to match up almost exactly with NVIDIA's GB10 Super Chip, which
powers the DGX Spark line of many AI PCs.
I mean, I don't know why I was expecting something new. This is NVIDIA.
They'll probably just release a new upscaler and claim the new one 69 times better.
Yeah, I said 69. Laugh.
Laugh. Meta is fielding yet another copyright infringement lawsuit over AI training, this time from adult
film production studios, Strike 3 Holdings, and Counter Life Media.
The names today. The lawsuit alleges Meta has been continually torrenting and, crucially, seeding the studio's
copyrighted smut since 2018, and thus affected the studio's ability to compete in the market
for their own content. Now, you may remember, this is the exact type of argument that the judge in Meta's last
copyright lawsuit recommended that future plaintiffs use if they actually want to win.
Meaning, porn studios might just be about to take Meta down.
Wait, why was Meta torrenting so much porn? And researchers at Columbia University have developed robots that they say can consume
other robots to get bigger and stronger.
Like what your grandma promised would happen if you ate your oatmeal.
And I don't know if you look at the paper, it's kind of misleading. It's more like the robots, which are little six inch rods, and they're not really consuming
each other. They're squirming around and combining with other robots to form structures that themselves
squirm around. They actually kind of remind me of the microbots from Big Hero 6, except those didn't make
me extremely uncomfortable. What is the goal in this shot?
What are they trying? I want to tell these bots to get a room.
And I want to tell you to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news, or hey, whatever
else we might make a video about. We might throw you another curveball and it'll be about tech news.