So, you clicked a tech news video, and now some smug idiot is doing a half-baked bit
instead. Believe it or not, I get paid to do this.
I know, I'm as confused as you are. Microsoft is turning Windows' infamous blue screen of death into the black screen of death,
because users have become desensitized to constant issues with their operating system
and aren't feeling nearly the level of despair that they should be.
Microsoft isn't just changing the color, though, they're also streamlining the warning
screen so it feels more Windows 11-y, while also removing some elements.
While normally I love me some minimalism, there are too many things in the world.
Windows' latest makes a good point. The new black screen doesn't have enough information on it.
For example, the frowning face is gone, erasing any hint of how the computer feels about all
this. Thankfully, for now, the new screen is only rolling out to Windows Insider builds with
a green background instead of black, and who knows if Microsoft will actually go through
with this. They did the same thing when Windows 11 first launched, but reversed the change a few months
later. In other Windows news, the popular bypass and row method for logging in without a Microsoft
account has been disabled, although anti-accountists have already found another workaround.
But in an actually useful move, the company published a Windows roadmap with information
about where upcoming features are in development and when they'll be released.
Naturally, it doesn't show the inevitable endpoint where Windows is totally on the cloud
and you own nothing but are happy, but it's there.
Some game developers are now recommending that players roll back to an older version
of NVIDIA's GPU drivers after reports of issues with RTX 50 series GPUs expanded to
affect RTX 30 and 40 series cards as well.
In the patch notes for recent game updates, the studios behind primarily Hot Person Generator
Inzoi and Therapy Avoidance Simulator, the first berserker Kazan, warn that gamers using
an RTX 40 or 30 series GPU may experience stability issues on NVIDIA's latest driver,
572.83. Instead, they recommend sticking with version 566.36 if you want your gameplay experience
to be more made-to-order K-pop stars and less Doki Doki Literature Club.
OpenAI CEO Sam Ultman claimed on Twitter this morning that chatGPT added 1 million
users in just one hour as the tool's image generator mania continues unabated.
People just can't stop giblifying stuff, including Colton Potter.
But he's no stranger to crossing the line, he's the most fired employee in history.
Use and abuse of OpenAI services has gotten so bad it removed the ability for new accounts
to generate video using Sora after adding temporary rate limits to chatGPT's image
gen tool earlier this week. Fellow AI company Runway thought this was the perfect time to release their latest video
generator Gen 4, which is apparently extra good at maintaining consistency between different
iterations of the same scene. The company calls it a milestone in the development of models that actually understand and reproduce
real-world physics instead of depicting nonsensical physics.
And what I assume is a computer's idea of mocking the flashbags who can't stop asking
it for pictures of themselves as a muppet. The availability of higher-fidelity AI video tools is great news for the YouTube channels,
flooding the platform with fake AI movie trailers that clickbait you into thinking,
What? Leo DiCaprio's in the new Squid Game?
Deadline actually reported on how Hollywood Studios didn't force all of those trailers
to be taken down, instead allowing them to rack up ad revenue and then claim it.
And now, my parents think someone's making a best exotic merrygold hotel too.
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,
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.
Despite ASRock addressing the issue last week, reports have continued to pile up from users
who've experienced issues or damage with Ryzen 9000 series processors and ASRock motherboards,
as documented by this most mega of Reddit mega threads from u slash natty overlord.
With recent updates in the last few days, the post now catalogs a handful of affected
Ryzen 99950X3D processors and 108 dead Ryzen 79800X3Ds with 86 of those occurring on ASRock
motherboards. But you're right, ASRock, those people all probably gave their CPUs a dirt bath prior
to installing or something. Ah, these damn TikTok trends.
Lenovo has hiked the launch price of the SteamOS version of its Legion Go S,
which will be the first official third-party SteamOS-powered gaming handheld
when it launches on May 25th. The handheld was announced back at CES with a $500 MSRP,
but this week, pre-orders went live, listing the device for $550,
despite early testing indicating that the base model $400 Steam Deck may still feature better
performance. What possible reason could there be for a tech product manufactured overseas to have a sudden
price increase as if some kind of tax was being passed on to consume, oh man.
German space startup ISAR Aerospace held the first test flight for its Spectrum rocket on Sunday,
and it went pretty well. For about 40 seconds, then it experienced some good old-fashioned rapid,
unscheduled disassembly after flopping over into the Arctic Ocean.
As is tradition, the company claimed the destruction of their prototype is a good thing
for the lessons they learned along the way, and I can also say that watching a rocket from a
company that's not SpaceX explode was a nice change of pace.
And April Fool's Day is tomorrow, at least where I am, but some companies have already
begun cracking lies, including Razor, who unveiled the Razor Skibbity,
a headset with a built-in, brain-wrought-to-normal translator.
So you can stop abandoning your very online teammates to go google whether you're required
to pay the phantom tax. Does that apply to me?
Then there's PAL world developer PocketPair, who has apparently taken their April Fool's
joke from last year, a PAL world dating simulator set in a high school, and made it a reality.
PAL world, more than just PALs, is listed on Steam, promising players the ability to befriend
the Pokemon-like PAL creatures, fall in love with them, or dismantle and eat them.
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
time, and I kind of want Nintendo to win their lawsuit now.
I also kind of want you to come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
There's going to be Switch2 news and many other tech company April Fool's jokes
that are somehow even worse than mine.