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So, you clicked a tech news video, and now some smug idiot is doing a half-baked bit

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instead. Believe it or not, I get paid to do this.

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I know, I'm as confused as you are. Microsoft is turning Windows' infamous blue screen of death into the black screen of death,

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because users have become desensitized to constant issues with their operating system

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and aren't feeling nearly the level of despair that they should be.

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Microsoft isn't just changing the color, though, they're also streamlining the warning

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screen so it feels more Windows 11-y, while also removing some elements.

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While normally I love me some minimalism, there are too many things in the world.

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Windows' latest makes a good point. The new black screen doesn't have enough information on it.

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For example, the frowning face is gone, erasing any hint of how the computer feels about all

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this. Thankfully, for now, the new screen is only rolling out to Windows Insider builds with

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a green background instead of black, and who knows if Microsoft will actually go through

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with this. They did the same thing when Windows 11 first launched, but reversed the change a few months

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later. In other Windows news, the popular bypass and row method for logging in without a Microsoft

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account has been disabled, although anti-accountists have already found another workaround.

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But in an actually useful move, the company published a Windows roadmap with information

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about where upcoming features are in development and when they'll be released.

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Naturally, it doesn't show the inevitable endpoint where Windows is totally on the cloud

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and you own nothing but are happy, but it's there.

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Some game developers are now recommending that players roll back to an older version

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of NVIDIA's GPU drivers after reports of issues with RTX 50 series GPUs expanded to

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affect RTX 30 and 40 series cards as well.

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In the patch notes for recent game updates, the studios behind primarily Hot Person Generator

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Inzoi and Therapy Avoidance Simulator, the first berserker Kazan, warn that gamers using

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an RTX 40 or 30 series GPU may experience stability issues on NVIDIA's latest driver,

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572.83. Instead, they recommend sticking with version 566.36 if you want your gameplay experience

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to be more made-to-order K-pop stars and less Doki Doki Literature Club.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Ultman claimed on Twitter this morning that chatGPT added 1 million

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users in just one hour as the tool's image generator mania continues unabated.

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People just can't stop giblifying stuff, including Colton Potter.

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But he's no stranger to crossing the line, he's the most fired employee in history.

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Use and abuse of OpenAI services has gotten so bad it removed the ability for new accounts

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to generate video using Sora after adding temporary rate limits to chatGPT's image

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gen tool earlier this week. Fellow AI company Runway thought this was the perfect time to release their latest video

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generator Gen 4, which is apparently extra good at maintaining consistency between different

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iterations of the same scene. The company calls it a milestone in the development of models that actually understand and reproduce

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real-world physics instead of depicting nonsensical physics.

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And what I assume is a computer's idea of mocking the flashbags who can't stop asking

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it for pictures of themselves as a muppet. The availability of higher-fidelity AI video tools is great news for the YouTube channels,

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flooding the platform with fake AI movie trailers that clickbait you into thinking,

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What? Leo DiCaprio's in the new Squid Game?

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Deadline actually reported on how Hollywood Studios didn't force all of those trailers

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to be taken down, instead allowing them to rack up ad revenue and then claim it.

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And now, my parents think someone's making a best exotic merrygold hotel too.

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I'm too scared to tell them the truth. Quick bits, quick bits is the opposite of slow bits, quick bits is the opposite of talking a lot,

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quick bits is, this is a reference, I'm sorry if you don't get it. That's not, I shouldn't have done that to you.

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Despite ASRock addressing the issue last week, reports have continued to pile up from users

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who've experienced issues or damage with Ryzen 9000 series processors and ASRock motherboards,

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as documented by this most mega of Reddit mega threads from u slash natty overlord.

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With recent updates in the last few days, the post now catalogs a handful of affected

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Ryzen 99950X3D processors and 108 dead Ryzen 79800X3Ds with 86 of those occurring on ASRock

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motherboards. But you're right, ASRock, those people all probably gave their CPUs a dirt bath prior

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to installing or something. Ah, these damn TikTok trends.

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Lenovo has hiked the launch price of the SteamOS version of its Legion Go S,

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which will be the first official third-party SteamOS-powered gaming handheld

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when it launches on May 25th. The handheld was announced back at CES with a $500 MSRP,

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but this week, pre-orders went live, listing the device for $550,

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despite early testing indicating that the base model $400 Steam Deck may still feature better

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performance. What possible reason could there be for a tech product manufactured overseas to have a sudden

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price increase as if some kind of tax was being passed on to consume, oh man.

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German space startup ISAR Aerospace held the first test flight for its Spectrum rocket on Sunday,

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and it went pretty well. For about 40 seconds, then it experienced some good old-fashioned rapid,

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unscheduled disassembly after flopping over into the Arctic Ocean.

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As is tradition, the company claimed the destruction of their prototype is a good thing

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for the lessons they learned along the way, and I can also say that watching a rocket from a

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company that's not SpaceX explode was a nice change of pace.

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And April Fool's Day is tomorrow, at least where I am, but some companies have already

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begun cracking lies, including Razor, who unveiled the Razor Skibbity,

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a headset with a built-in, brain-wrought-to-normal translator.

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So you can stop abandoning your very online teammates to go google whether you're required

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to pay the phantom tax. Does that apply to me?

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Then there's PAL world developer PocketPair, who has apparently taken their April Fool's

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joke from last year, a PAL world dating simulator set in a high school, and made it a reality.

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PAL world, more than just PALs, is listed on Steam, promising players the ability to befriend

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the Pokemon-like PAL creatures, fall in love with them, or dismantle and eat them.

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Which is not going to be good for your relationship. PocketPair's communications director explicitly denied that this is an April Fool's joke this

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time, and I kind of want Nintendo to win their lawsuit now.

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I also kind of want you to come back on Wednesday for more tech news.

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There's going to be Switch2 news and many other tech company April Fool's jokes

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that are somehow even worse than mine.