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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

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That's for the show. I do after this one. They're all terrible by the way on purpose

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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

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You're not supposed to eat them Anyway, Android laptops and desktop computers are indeed coming as confirmed by Google exec Rick

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Osterlo at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit event this morning after years of intense yearning for such devices by people like me

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Who know full well that it would be just like a normal PC, but worse. What's wrong with me?

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Somehow I know the Samsung DeX people are already yelling at me in the comments. I said I wanted it

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Well Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon doesn't think it would be worse

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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

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Thinks it's incredible. I trust him. Look at this bro moment between these two Rick smiling

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It's like he built Android for PC in his garage

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This official confirmation follows Google's president of the Android ecosystem Samir Samat

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Casually mentioning to tech radar earlier this year that they're combining

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Chromo as an Android. Yeah, just you know combining them, you know figured you know

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Well today Samir confirmed that this synthesis is happening next year. Yes. I mean, I don't care

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Qualcomm also announced their second gen X series laptop processors the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite

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Extreme the extreme is mostly identical to the vanilla X2 Elite minus some higher clocks

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But is significantly different than the X2 Elite the other one

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With six less cores. Are you confused by my explanation? You should tweet at Qualcomm about it because what is this?

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Having learned nothing from their previous round of obscenely over-hyped marketing for the first gen X series

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Which otherwise were pretty cool Qualcomm claims these unreleased chips are the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs period

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Fastest it I'm not gonna touch it steam briefly hosted malware earlier this week when an update to the game block blasters

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Introduced malicious code. Now. It turns out steam doesn't necessarily validate the updates to its otherwise verified games

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Though it's expected under 500 users were affected the scam made headlines after a Latvian pump dot fun

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streamer and cancer patient Rivo

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Plavniks aka Rostaland had

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$32,000 in crypto stolen after a seven-hour stream which included playing block blasters

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This isn't even the first time this year a game has been pulled from steam for hosting or redirecting to malware

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But Plavniks heart-wrenching circumstances elevated the story to mainstream media

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Fortunately that lost cryptocurrency was actually made up by donations from the community

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But for its part Valve has delisted block blasters and seems to have notified users who played while the malicious build was active

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But hasn't mentioned any plans to scan updates for malware because is that like a skin you can get in

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Counter-strike or something? I just pretty busy NVIDIA will invest up to

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$100 billion in open AI raising antitrust concerns as the biggest provider of AI accelerators

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Takes a massive stake in one of the biggest AI companies now

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Although the Trump administration's big beautiful bill took steps to limit the power of AI regulation

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The Department of Justice did say last week that protecting competition

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Supports the AI innovation it wants to encourage so it might be taken a little look see at this deal

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Open AI isn't wasting any time though in putting the promised funding to good use

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It's working with Oracle and SoftBank to build five new data centers for its Stargate initiative

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That will bring the total planned capacity to seven gigawatts

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Seven point no just seven which wired says is roughly the power consumption of seven nuclear reactors

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Well if the AI bubble isn't bursting quite yet could we at least get some AI tools that are actually useful?

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I mean at least Google is still trying to do something interesting with their new Google Labs mix board

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It's a concepting board app now in beta which is similar to Adobe's firefly boards or fig jam

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It's meant to explore visual ideas generate mood boards and apparently put googly eyes and a bunch of birds

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There is also Mindstate design Labs a company with an AI model that makes psychoactive drugs

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Without the trip that may not sound like

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Thing that psychedelic drug enjoyers would enjoy but apparently psychedelics are useful for treating severe mental health conditions like PTSD and

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Literally meeting your fears face-to-face in another dimension isn't considered productive treatment

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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

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These quick bits are made with 100% pure news. No

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They they don't have any paint thinner in them

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Which seems like an easy call to make Microsoft has introduced a micro fluidic cooling breakthrough

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They're claiming a three times improvement in pulling heat away from the package

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The chip by first cutting hair-sized channels in the silicon and then running coolant through them

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They use AI to map the hotspots and direct the fluid

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So we're officially at the point where AI is physically improving itself

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Kind of and it's only a matter of time before the missiles are launched

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But did you know that if you have the right electric vehicle soon?

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You could give back some of that sweet delicious power juice back to the grid from whence it came

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three Ford F-150 lightning owners participated in a residential vehicle to grid or

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V2g pilot program this summer offloading unused

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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

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Not bad for doing nothing but plugging in now for anyone who's privileged enough to charge their EV for free at work

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Keep your eye on this one boss makes a dollar. I make a dime

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That's why I sell my company's electricity back to the grid to help with my expensive vehicle payments

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Hey, speaking of power thanks to Logitech's new solar powered keyboard

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You don't need an electric vehicle to feel like you're helping the planet the new K980 can use the sun or

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artificial light of at least 200 lux to charge the battery for up to four months of use in

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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

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Because those are tools that use a lot of power the reason any of this matters is the predecessor of this product

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Logitech's K760 came out in

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2012 For whoever's been waiting to upgrade

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I guess it's finally time an origin code is a new player in the DDR5 game

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And they're off to a great start with the world's fastest high-capacity RAM modules

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But what really caught my eye is this wild active cooling setup that you can mount on top of the vortex modules

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Hello performance Goodbye tower cooler compatibility, but apparently it's worth it because they're claiming nearly 40% more heat dissipation

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over standard heat spreaders and now it's time for me to spread

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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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