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Hi, welcome back to TechLinked. Don't ask.

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NVIDIA has announced that it plans to launch its new NVIDIA

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app out of beta before the end of this year.

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Now, users with some combination of the NVIDIA Control Panel,

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the GeForce Experience app, and the RTX Experience app

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already on their PC may be experiencing some apprehension.

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But the new app is actually intended to unify the features of all three apps

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and in the darkness, bind them into a single

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streamlined experience. We've had three, yes. What about fourth app?

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NVIDIA has also added a handful of new features, such as a toggle for G-Sync, multi-monitor support

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for RTX HDR, and driver rollback.

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Heck yeah. The app allows users to sort their games the way they want,

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and the new UI allows users to customize the font and colors.

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In case Neon Green on black just doesn't jive

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with your particular brand of dyslexia. But NVIDIA's not the only one bringing cool new features

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out of beta, AMD, the perpetual ash to NVIDIA's Gary,

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launched Fluid Motion Frames 2, alongside the rollout of its 24.9.1 adrenaline driver.

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AFMF 2 demonstrates substantial performance gains

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and fixes the first version's notorious input lag issue.

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It also comes with improved geometric downscaling, just in case you're the kind of psychopath

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who likes watching movies in a super tiny window rather than their native size.

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I need to make room for subway surfers. A pair of students at Harvard have released a paper

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on an experiment they conducted where they ran facial recognition software

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through a pair of Meta smart glasses.

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The glasses would then automatically cross-reference that face with social media,

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and compile a profile on the person, including name, biographical information,

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personal associations, and even sometimes addresses.

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The students filmed themselves approaching strangers in public places greeting them by name

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and claiming to have met them previously through a shared event or organization.

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While the system was occasionally inaccurate, this is a clear demonstration of how such technology

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could be used for harm by a malicious actor. Just think about the last time somebody who knew your name,

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occupation, and birth date stopped you on the street. Literally never happened to me and I'm vaguely famous.

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I'd probably assume I was the jerk who forgot my old acquaintance and their snazzy glasses.

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How could I forget those? The student group has committed to not releasing

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the tool that they showed everyone that they had, but Meta won't even commit to not training their AI

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using smart glasses photos. A feature that can notably be set off accidentally

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using common keywords such as look, Meta, much like a giant irradiated squid kaiju,

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seems determined to use every tendril of its organization to violate our privacy in new and horrible ways

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previously known only to science fiction. And eldritch horror. But Mark looks great, doesn't he?

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Who cares if he made a deal with Cthulhu? Microsoft is rolling out voice and vision capabilities

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for its AI assistant co-pilot as well as enhanced reasoning,

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which would be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that most Microsoft AI innovations

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are actually just open AI innovations that were already rolled out several weeks ago.

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It's been 28 years, but despite the odds,

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Microsoft is still trying to make Clippy happen. With an assistant that has a friendly, human-like voice

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that dynamically responds to the user's emotions and makes interjections like, cool,

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and huh, to give the impression of active listening.

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It's as good a reminder as any to try to call up your actual friends and make plans this weekend.

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You may be lonely, but please don't be making small talk

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with lobotomized Cortana lonely. If it was Sydney, it'd be a whole other thing,

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but she's gone. According to Microsoft AI Tsar Mustafa Suleiman,

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we're just a year away from ever-present, highly capable AI assistants,

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but he kind of has to make big claims like that, given how crowded the field of AI development has gotten

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with deep-pocketed tech giants. Gemini Live, Google's own enhanced voice mode,

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is now freely available to all Android users, while NVIDIA just announced its own GPT-4 class

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open-source AI model with weights already available

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and training code coming soon. I didn't see that coming.

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Honestly, at this point, Taylor Swift could surprise drop a new AI assistant next week,

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and it'd only be a little weird. I'm just realizing the potential here.

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Quick bits, I'll tell you eventually. In the app developer, Christian Selig,

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best known for the now-defunct Apollo app for Reddit,

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has now had Juno, his third-party YouTube app

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for the Vision Pro, shut down, most likely at Google's request.

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While Selig probably saw this coming, the closure means that there is no longer

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a YouTube app for the platform. YouTube claimed that a native app for Vision Pro

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was on its roadmap back in February, but that the company was focused

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on ensuring a great experience in Safari,

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an experience that continued to suck for several months afterwards.

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What are the odds that we get an official YouTube app on Meta's Orion before we get one on the Vision Pro?

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Mark looks really good. I can't stress this enough.

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I cannot tell you how good his curls look after that Cthulhu deal.

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AMD's new flagship X870 and X870e motherboards

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are now available, and that's fine.

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The X870 non-E could be considered a downgrade

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for some use cases, since it has the same single Promontory 21 die configuration

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as last-gen's lower-tier B650 mobos.

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And on top of that, some PCIe lanes will need to be dedicated to accommodating USB 4,

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which is great, provided you can take advantage of USB 4.

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More objectively bad is that many X870 motherboards

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do support Wi-Fi 7, but don't have the hardware

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to go above Wi-Fi 6e speeds. Because once again, tech specs

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don't actually mean anything and are purely vibes-based.

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Reddit has changed its settings to stop users from protesting.

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Last year, when the API changes were announced, Redditers protested by turning subreddits private

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or only showing not-safe-for-work content. It was a bit of a minefield for a second there.

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Now, setting a subreddit to private or changing a safe-for-work subreddit to not-safe-for-work

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requires Reddit's permission. VP of Community, Laura Nestler, told The Verge

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that the change has been in motion since at least 2021,

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but it was accelerated by last year's events. The official Reddit post says protests are still allowed,

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just not ones that actually impact the site. You know, protests Reddit can ignore.

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You have the right to protest in your own basement.

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It's the only king joke I've made in this episode. And California has updated its Consumer Privacy Act

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to protect individuals' neural data, preventing tech firms from collecting, sharing,

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or selling info collected from your nervous system.

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A similar law protecting brain data was passed in Colorado earlier this year.

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Unfortunately, this is necessary because the dark future is approaching.

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And someone has to stop the corpos from trying to download your consciousness

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while you scroll a brain dance. I never played cyberpunk, so I don't know what I just said,

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but it felt cool.

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And okay, fine, I'll tell you why I'm dressed this way. It's Riley Week on Flow Plane,

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so I guess that means that I've dressed like a king. I'm the king of Flow Plane.

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I got to make videos like however I want, so watch these clips.

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Gotta get the blood up. The core issue with Star Wars today, as I see it,

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is that it's struggling to change itself. How is your Tim Cook impression so good?

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I don't know. The ship is not moving.

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Shoot the ship. What does being a minimalist actually mean?

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I'm gonna be so loud. I'm gonna be so disruptive.

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Bing Bong, how is Riley's mom? You keep my mom's name out, you!

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So subscribe to Flow Plane if you want to see those, and come back on Friday for more tech news.

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And also on Friday, my 20 minute rant about Star Wars on Flow Plane, as I've mentioned.

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Be there, chum. Still don't know what that means.