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Today in tech news, events occurred and Person Slash Group is responsible.

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Others say Person Slash Group has been making the events occur for a long time period.

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More on that right now. The great ASUS warranty scandal of 2023,

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that's what I'm calling it, has gotten a little more interesting.

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Hardware busters have alleged that ASUS isn't the only AM5 motherboard manufacturer

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exceeding the 1.3 volt SOC voltage limit

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meant to protect Ryzen 7000 X3D series CPUs

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from exploding. After testing a Gigabyte Aorus Master X670E board,

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hardware busters found that the SOC voltage exceeded 1.36 volts after updating the BIOS

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that supposedly applied the voltage safety cap.

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Not so much vindicating ASUS as implying Gigabyte

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and potentially other motherboard makers need to step up

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in the making sure your products don't blow up department.

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If we all explode, isn't it like none of us did?

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Let's do it. After this analysis went up, Bilzoid went to Twitter to claim that Gamer's Nexus

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was measuring the voltages wrong in their investigation of ASUS' motherboards

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and GN destroyed them with facts

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by just politely disagreeing and stating how they measured their results.

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Wasted. Nerds are discussing methodology and it is getting spicy.

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On Friday, hardware unboxed went off on a fan for suggesting they needed to keep their credibility

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stating they weren't going to stop reviewing ASUS products

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because A, reviewing their products is one way to call them out and B,

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because finding tech companies that haven't done a ton of anti-consumer crap

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is like finding a milkshake in a ton of crap. Like, cool, you found a milkshake,

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but are you sure it's chocolate? It's a poop joke.

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To be fair to ASUS, they did just publish an update clarifying

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that installing beta BIOSes to fix this problem

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does not void your warranty. That's right.

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Faced with a sizable controversy over their lack of concern for their customers,

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the company thought, wow, we should definitely address this.

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After the weekend, you coming to beers tonight? DJIF, bro.

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That's what they say in Taiwan, right? Man, when we did our ASUS poetry slam on Friday,

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we had no idea it would generate so much drama.

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So many feelings. This is clearly about us. People were crying in the audience.

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Apple is prepping for a win by ramping up testing of their next-gen M3 chips.

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According to German Sermon, Apple's been squirming to remove the worm

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in their Mac sales figures. Jacob isn't here, but he's here in spirit.

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They're sales figures which were down 31% last quarter.

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Sure, they could reduce MacBook prices and make it more affordable to buy one

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of their great products, but what if instead of that,

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they used the more expensive three-nanometer process for their M3 chips

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so they can add more cores and more memory? More high end, less low end.

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That's Apple's problem. Based. Indeed, German says the baseline M3 Pro

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will have two more CPU and GPU cores than the M2 Pro,

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which itself had two more CPU and GPU cores than the M1 Pro.

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Sets like a pattern. Every day, there will be another core.

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Until something changes. We're going to add cores.

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However, German determined that the M3 Pro currently being tested

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has 36 gigabytes of memory, which is four more than the highest spec

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of the M2 Pro MacBooks. So like two 18 Gigabyte sticks in dual channel,

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this makes me physically uncomfortable. It would be so cool.

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Oh, just so I can think of something else, Mark German said the long-awaited 15-inch MacBook Air

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will come out equipped with an M2 chip just in time for summer.

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So get ready for that MacBook's announcement to be overshadowed by the announcement

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of Apple's VR headset at WWDC. You can go live in Apple's world.

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Tim Cook will send you to sleep. And the European Union has given their blessing

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for Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard,

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the company that had a dream of being judged not by its leader's history of sexual harassment allegations,

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but by the content of its game library. I ain't gonna rip on that.

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We're gonna leave that alone. Sometimes you just make a Martin Luther King joke

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for no reason. Now the EU didn't do this for nothing. The merger approval is subject to conditions

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that Microsoft suggested to assuage concerns

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that this would affect the cloud gaming slash cloud game streaming market,

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which a lot of people care about. The European Commission's concerns were that

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since cloud gaming is still a young market, the availability of games like Call of Duty could affect it.

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If Microsoft were to make Codd exclusive to Game Pass Ultimate,

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the company would be able to virtually monopolize the preteens who just learned a new slur demographic.

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A key segment for advertisers. In fact, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority

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blocked the merger because of similar concerns about the cloud gaming market.

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As a compromise, Microsoft offered a 10-year plan

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to provide licenses to consumers in the European economic area

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that would allow them to stream any Activision Blizzard PC games they own

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using any streaming service and a corresponding license

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to any streaming service platforms to provide that capability.

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So what happens when that license agreement is up?

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Who cares? We'll probably all be killed by self-aware AI by then. And I'm looking forward to it.

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Live for now. I bribed the mayor so we could include all five quick bits.

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Just don't tell anyone. The Pixel 7 is this summer's hottest phone,

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a sentence that will make sense once I let you know that Pixel 6 and 7 users have reported

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a sudden unexplained bug that's causing their phones to overheat.

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The apparent cause is a recent app update that's causing the Google app to suck up battery life

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like a wild cherry Capri sun.

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In some cases, these issues have cut usable screen time

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in half. Phones are likewise charging slower and running dangerously hot,

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prompting some users to turn their pixels into popsicles

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by sticking them in the freezer. Nutritious and delicious. And they take great photos.

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A great summer treat. Users have tried rolling back to a previous update

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and even full factor resets, neither of which seemed to work.

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All there's left to do is wait for Google to hurry up and fix their $600 butt warmers,

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which is of little comfort here in Western Canada where the country is literally on fire.

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A startup called Telly wants to give you a TV for free.

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All it costs is everything. The television comes with a second banner like screen

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which will be fully or partially taken up by ads,

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pretty much at all times. And the TV may collect information

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about the content you watch and may also track the physical presence of you

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and any other individuals using the TV at any time.

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Now, as we mentioned, you can get the TV for free or you can opt out of sharing all your data

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and pay $500 to keep it if you are okay

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with installing a billboard in your living room.

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If I let them install a probe in my head, they pay me. The dystopia is here.

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I've always wanted Cyberpunk 2077 to be real. A private company called Rea Space Activity

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has received funding from the US Space Force to rescue the Spitzer Space Telescope.

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The observatory was launched 20 years ago and remained mostly operational until three years ago

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when communication stopped working. I'm not saying it's aliens,

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but in a plan backed by multiple groups, including Lockheed Martin,

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a small craft would be sent to act as a relay between Spitzer and Earth,

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within spits in distance, you could say. The eventual hope is to use the telescope

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as an early warning system for dangerous asteroids because if we have enough time,

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we won't have to send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.

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Again, they are so tired of this. Zelda, tears of the kingdom players are getting creative

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by using the in-game mechanics to build tanks, planes, and even mechs.

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But also, many, many, many, lots of penises.

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There's just so many. You can build anything. More like tears of the schwingdom, am I right?

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Okay. You can make anything you can imagine, which is mostly f***ing you.

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Nintendo severely overestimated my imagination. Perhaps as revenge for the golden turd players received

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for rescuing all 900 Koroks in Breath of the Wild,

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a lot of creative energy has gone towards torturing the annoying creatures in different ways,

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involving crucifixions. And I have to assume penises as well.

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We've never said the word this many times in a show. Oh, wow.

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Everyone is freaking out about the era of 100 Gigabyte games.

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Meanwhile, Nintendo fit an open world war crime simulator

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into 16.3 gigs. What about penis crucifixes?

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We'll get there. And the creator of the Oculus, Palmer Lucky, tweeted,

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quote, the apple headset is so good.

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End quote. What else did he say? Nothing.

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Did he go into more detail? No. Are we sure he's actually touched an apple headset?

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Not really. Is this the real Palmer Lucky? Well, there's a blue check mark next to his name,

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but what does that even mean anymore? Anyway, the headset's going to be announced

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June 5th probably, but will it be expensive? Almost certainly.

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But it will cost you nothing to come back on Wednesday. And why wouldn't you?

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Don't you like us? We're cool.

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We're cool people, right? Not just my mom thinks so.

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She doesn't watch the show.