I know that you came here for tech news. I know that you didn't come for reviews of Walmart's in-house brand baked goods
That's for the show. I do after this one. They're all terrible by the way on purpose
Even they don't want you to buy them. Why do you keep buying them? They're like the plastic food you see in Ikea
You're not supposed to eat them Anyway, Android laptops and desktop computers are indeed coming as confirmed by Google exec Rick
Osterlo at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit event this morning after years of intense yearning for such devices by people like me
Who know full well that it would be just like a normal PC, but worse. What's wrong with me?
Somehow I know the Samsung DeX people are already yelling at me in the comments. I said I wanted it
Well Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon doesn't think it would be worse
He's seen this PC version of Android and he a man with a bit of financial interest in the sale of Qualcomm powered Android devices
Thinks it's incredible. I trust him. Look at this bro moment between these two Rick smiling
It's like he built Android for PC in his garage
This official confirmation follows Google's president of the Android ecosystem Samir Samat
Casually mentioning to tech radar earlier this year that they're combining
Chromo as an Android. Yeah, just you know combining them, you know figured you know
Well today Samir confirmed that this synthesis is happening next year. Yes. I mean, I don't care
Qualcomm also announced their second gen X series laptop processors the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite
Extreme the extreme is mostly identical to the vanilla X2 Elite minus some higher clocks
But is significantly different than the X2 Elite the other one
With six less cores. Are you confused by my explanation? You should tweet at Qualcomm about it because what is this?
Having learned nothing from their previous round of obscenely over-hyped marketing for the first gen X series
Which otherwise were pretty cool Qualcomm claims these unreleased chips are the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs period
Fastest it I'm not gonna touch it steam briefly hosted malware earlier this week when an update to the game block blasters
Introduced malicious code. Now. It turns out steam doesn't necessarily validate the updates to its otherwise verified games
Though it's expected under 500 users were affected the scam made headlines after a Latvian pump dot fun
streamer and cancer patient Rivo
Plavniks aka Rostaland had
$32,000 in crypto stolen after a seven-hour stream which included playing block blasters
This isn't even the first time this year a game has been pulled from steam for hosting or redirecting to malware
But Plavniks heart-wrenching circumstances elevated the story to mainstream media
Fortunately that lost cryptocurrency was actually made up by donations from the community
But for its part Valve has delisted block blasters and seems to have notified users who played while the malicious build was active
But hasn't mentioned any plans to scan updates for malware because is that like a skin you can get in
Counter-strike or something? I just pretty busy NVIDIA will invest up to
$100 billion in open AI raising antitrust concerns as the biggest provider of AI accelerators
Takes a massive stake in one of the biggest AI companies now
Although the Trump administration's big beautiful bill took steps to limit the power of AI regulation
The Department of Justice did say last week that protecting competition
Supports the AI innovation it wants to encourage so it might be taken a little look see at this deal
Open AI isn't wasting any time though in putting the promised funding to good use
It's working with Oracle and SoftBank to build five new data centers for its Stargate initiative
That will bring the total planned capacity to seven gigawatts
Seven point no just seven which wired says is roughly the power consumption of seven nuclear reactors
Well if the AI bubble isn't bursting quite yet could we at least get some AI tools that are actually useful?
I mean at least Google is still trying to do something interesting with their new Google Labs mix board
It's a concepting board app now in beta which is similar to Adobe's firefly boards or fig jam
It's meant to explore visual ideas generate mood boards and apparently put googly eyes and a bunch of birds
There is also Mindstate design Labs a company with an AI model that makes psychoactive drugs
Without the trip that may not sound like
Thing that psychedelic drug enjoyers would enjoy but apparently psychedelics are useful for treating severe mental health conditions like PTSD and
Literally meeting your fears face-to-face in another dimension isn't considered productive treatment
So it's a good thing. It's it's good for the people Maybe not for my weekend plans, but it's good for the people unlike Walmart's house branded baked goods
These quick bits are made with 100% pure news. No
They they don't have any paint thinner in them
Which seems like an easy call to make Microsoft has introduced a micro fluidic cooling breakthrough
They're claiming a three times improvement in pulling heat away from the package
The chip by first cutting hair-sized channels in the silicon and then running coolant through them
They use AI to map the hotspots and direct the fluid
So we're officially at the point where AI is physically improving itself
Kind of and it's only a matter of time before the missiles are launched
But did you know that if you have the right electric vehicle soon?
You could give back some of that sweet delicious power juice back to the grid from whence it came
three Ford F-150 lightning owners participated in a residential vehicle to grid or
V2g pilot program this summer offloading unused
Electricity between the hours of 5 and 9 p.m. And earning participants up to a thousand dollars over the course of the multi-month trial
Not bad for doing nothing but plugging in now for anyone who's privileged enough to charge their EV for free at work
Keep your eye on this one boss makes a dollar. I make a dime
That's why I sell my company's electricity back to the grid to help with my expensive vehicle payments
Hey, speaking of power thanks to Logitech's new solar powered keyboard
You don't need an electric vehicle to feel like you're helping the planet the new K980 can use the sun or
artificial light of at least 200 lux to charge the battery for up to four months of use in
Complete darkness which should appeal to many of you It costs a hundred bucks and has an AI button that pulls up co-pilot or Gemini depending on your OS
Because those are tools that use a lot of power the reason any of this matters is the predecessor of this product
Logitech's K760 came out in
2012 For whoever's been waiting to upgrade
I guess it's finally time an origin code is a new player in the DDR5 game
And they're off to a great start with the world's fastest high-capacity RAM modules
But what really caught my eye is this wild active cooling setup that you can mount on top of the vortex modules
Hello performance Goodbye tower cooler compatibility, but apparently it's worth it because they're claiming nearly 40% more heat dissipation
over standard heat spreaders and now it's time for me to spread
My my wings this little bird's gonna fly the coop for now, but don't worry. I'll be back on Friday for more tech news
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