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Oh, don't even talk to me until I've had my tech news.

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Mostly because I would have nothing to say. Without that, it's basically empty up here.

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Intel really wants you to know that they have not solved the instability issue

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with their high-end CPUs. Thank you. Last week, Igor's lab published a report

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allegedly quoting confidential Intel documents.

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Those documents said the root cause of the instability

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is a bug in the microcode for ETVB,

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which is an Intel Raptor Lake feature that overclocks processor cores

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above the maximum turbo frequency when the chip isn't facing thermal or power limits.

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These Intel documents suggest this bug may have allowed chips

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to enter high-performance states even when the chip was too hot to handle it.

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It wasn't ready. But someone had an issue with Intel's Intel, Intel.

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Team Blue later told Tom's hardware that this bug is not the only problem,

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but rather a contributing factor. This makes sense since the ETVB feature

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is exclusive to Core i9 processors and Core i7 processors have also been

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facing instability issues. But at least the company is making progress.

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Intel confirmed to Tom's hardware that they have a patch for the microcode bug

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that should at least help. But a full solution requires more investigation,

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which takes time. I mean, not everyone can crack a case

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like Detective Adrian Monk, protagonist of the Emmy-winning series Monk,

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starring Tony Shalhoub. He's the best of us. The US Department of Justice

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is filing a lawsuit against Adobe on a referral from the FTC.

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And weirdly, the fact that Premiere can't seem to go five minutes without crashing

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didn't factor into the decision at all. The lawsuit alleges that Adobe has harmed consumers

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by enrolling them in their annual, paid monthly subscription plan by default

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without adequately disclosing that customers are agreeing to a year-long commitment.

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Adobe also doesn't make it clear that, should you become concerned with said commitment

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and wanna end it early, it comes with a cancellation fee of hundreds of dollars.

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According to the FTC's filing, this early termination fee is only clearly disclosed

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once subscribers actually try to cancel, which sounds less like a service

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and more like an extortion racket. Thus, the lawsuit.

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The FTC even called out the delays and resistance consumers have reported facing

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when contacting customer service directly. So hopefully that means the next company

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to face the FTC is every other company with a customer service department,

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except ours, lttstore.com. I legally have to say that.

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AMD is getting called out for publishing incredibly misleading benchmarks

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for some of its new CPUs. Although new is a relative term,

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AMD announced new Ryzen 5000 CPUs

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alongside the arguably newer Ryzen 9000 series of chips.

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Now AMD's benchmarks showed their newly announced Ryzen 7 5800 XT

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beating Intel's last gen Core i5-13600K

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while they're similarly new with an asterisk, Ryzen 9 5900 XT was shown beating the Core i7-13700K.

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Hardware unboxed had something to say about this during a Q&A video after a fan going by Lech

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brought up that the GPU AMD used for these tests

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was a underpowered Radeon RX 6600.

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Now by doing this, AMD made the performance bottleneck the GPU, not the CPU.

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And since AMD processors work better with AMD graphics cards,

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the new Zen 3 chips looked better than Intel's more recent 13th gen.

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Now to be fair, Intel is getting a little taste of their own medicine here.

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They're also a fan of misleading benchmarks. The company famously tried to argue

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that third-party benchmarks don't represent real-world desktop usage using data

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they gathered from notebook users. More recently, Team Blue was also accused

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of artificially inflating benchmark results for its Xeon server processors.

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So moral of the story here, trust no one,

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never leave your house, or just wait for independent reviews,

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so that's better. Ah, you must be here for the quick bits.

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I just, I swear, I swear I just had them. One second.

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Oh, they're in my other pants. Proton, the company that asked the question,

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what if Google didn't wanna suck up all your data?

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Has announced it's transitioning to a non-profit foundational structure.

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This new Proton Foundation will own the pre-existing Proton AG Corporation.

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They're not the first company to do this. I mean, the most famous example is probably OpenAI,

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but Firefox developer Mozilla also has a for-profit subsidiary,

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which recently expanded with the purchase of Anonym,

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a startup apparently specializing in privacy-preserving advertising, okay?

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There aren't any plans to introduce Anonym's tech in Mozilla's web browser yet,

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but you never know what the future might hold. It's like that old proverb, inside of you,

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there are two firefoxes?

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TikTok wants to sell ads using AI-generated avatars,

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because of course they do. If that sentence was gonna be about anyone,

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of course it's TikTok. The company's symphony digital avatars

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come in two flavors, stock or custom.

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While stock avatars are based on paid actors,

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custom avatars can be used to represent a specific creator or brand spokesperson,

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or a version of them that suddenly lost the ability

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to sound enthusiastic or move like an actual human being.

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What if that happened? That's a sci-fi movie I wanna see.

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The custom avatars can even speak multiple languages,

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allowing advertisers to unsettle virtually anyone.

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Speaking of TikTok, now that the TikTok ban law has been passed,

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the US government has set its sights on another prominent Chinese company, DJI,

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maker of 70% of the world's drones.

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The House of Representatives passed the Countering CCP Drones Act on Friday.

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If also passed by the Senate, the bill would ban DJI drones

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from using FCC allotted frequencies effectively,

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making their sale and operation illegal,

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especially for filming aerial TikToks. That's not gonna fly.

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Now both companies are being targeted due to concerns they're spying on Americans for the CCP,

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and wouldn't you rather use a quality American made drone

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that'll spy on Americans for the White House? Hurrah! Researchers have created renewable energy

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using living organisms. That doesn't sound that crazy.

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Have you ever heard of a bike? What we're actually talking about here is electricity.

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Scientists in Canada were able to create cells containing algae that could capture electrons

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created during photosynthesis. Now since the tech pulls carbon dioxide out of the air,

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it's not carbon neutral, it's actually better, it's carbon negative.

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Now the maximum terminal voltage is only one volt right now,

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but the technology could be used to power ultra low power devices like IoT sensors.

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But it raises questions, like will humans eventually worry

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about whether their batteries are vegan?

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Fun fact, they already do. Big shout out to Gelatin for being in literally everything.

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And researchers at the University of Texas are making progress on technology

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that would give smartphones X-ray vision.

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At press time, it was unclear whether anyone had consulted mathematician Ian Malcolm.

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It's a real can versus should situation. Well, at least the tech isn't actually using

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biologically harmful X-rays, but rather wireless signals

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in the 200 to 400 gigahertz range.

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And so far, the most solid thing researchers were able to see through is a cardboard sheet.

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They had better luck looking through thick dust clouds and dense fog.

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And yeah, you may laugh, but Thomas Jane would have loved to have this tech

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in the 2007 horror film, The Mist.

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Too bad he missed it. Just like how I'll miss you

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if you don't come back on Wednesday for more tech news. I get lonely, okay?

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I have needs.