1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Look, we all go back and reuse our old work from time to time. Sometimes I'll copy and paste a 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,960 segment I did in like 2019 into a new episode and you never even notice because of how I look 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,680 the exact same. So is it really so bad that Intel just launched the Core i5-110 built with the 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:22,720 company's Comet Lake architecture from 2019 when they couldn't figure out how to get past their 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:28,400 14 nanometer process so they just kept optimizing it and renaming it 14 nanometer plus and then 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:37,440 14 nanometer plus plus? Recycling. You know, it helps fish and frogs. From the specs, the Core i5-110 7 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:45,760 appears to literally be a rebadged Core i5-10400 which is available on Amazon for 130 USD but 8 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:51,840 the rebadged version is priced at 200 bucks because it's a collector's item. Honestly, 9 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:57,280 you're disrespecting the hobby. This isn't the first time Intel has helped the environment. 10 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:06,000 Back in July, they quietly rebadged a Core i5-12400 as the Core i5-120F. But at least that came with 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:13,840 a 100MHz boost compared to the original Alder Lake chip from 2021. Two years ago. I don't know, 12 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,720 Intel might be scraping the bottom of the barrel here after firing their consumer products boss 13 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:24,240 and the chief architect behind its Xeon CPUs, leaving the remaining leadership serving the 14 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:30,080 equivalent of week old donuts. Which for the record, I would still eat. They're fine. 15 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,960 Nepal has gone from banning social media to using Discord to elect an interim Prime Minister. 16 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,960 Now to explain that, we've got a fast track through the past two weeks so stay with me. 17 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:45,680 Here we go. Last month, posts on Nepali social media calling out government corruption and 18 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,760 income inequality were trending heavily. On August 28th, the government gave social platforms a week 19 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,400 to conform to new monitoring requirements and then blocked the ones that didn't, 20 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,760 including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That triggered intense protests in the capital city, 21 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:09,040 Kathmandu, during which police used live ammunition against protesters, killing 19. 22 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:14,000 The government quickly lifted the social media ban, but surprisingly, that didn't really calm 23 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,520 anyone down. The protests intensified and multiple government buildings and politicians homes were 24 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:25,680 set on fire, including the Prime Ministers with his wife still inside. Contrary to many reports, 25 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:31,920 she is still alive, but in critical condition according to the now XPM who resigned and fled 26 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:38,080 the country. With the government in limbo, a civic group called Hami Nepal organized a Discord 27 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,640 channel that quickly amassed tens of thousands of members, including the leaders of the so-called 28 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:48,480 Gen Z protest movement. Incredibly, the army then asked the Discord Channel organizers 29 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:53,760 to nominate a new leader of the country. So they had a poll on Discord and the winner, 30 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:59,680 former Chief Justice Sushila Kharky, was officially sworn in as the country's interim Prime Minister 31 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,320 this morning. She'll be overseeing elections for everyone who missed the Discord invite, 32 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:09,200 but it's nice to know the Gamer Chat app can replace a parliament in a pinch. 33 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,080 Nintendo announced some pretty surprising things during this morning's direct live stream, 34 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,840 including the addition of Virtual Boy games to the Switch Online Library this coming February. 35 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:25,200 To relive the days when playing a VR game was like wearing a first gen Batman suit, 36 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,480 in that it didn't let you turn your head, you'll need to either purchase a $100 replica of the 37 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:36,800 original Virtual Boy hardware, which opens up so you can slot in your Switch, or the $25 38 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:42,160 cardboard version, which you will use exactly once. Nintendo also revealed the title of the 39 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:49,680 next Mario movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, presumably starring Princess Rosalina Rosalina? 40 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,480 It doesn't matter, but she's voiced by Chris Pratt. But my favorite reveal was Pokemon 41 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:01,840 Pokopia, which is kind of like Pokemon meets Minecraft slash Animal Crossing. Oh, and also 42 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:07,680 you play as a ditto who wakes up in some kind of wreckage to discover its trainer is perhaps missing 43 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:14,080 or worse, and then it takes on human form in kind of a wiggly wacky copy of its trainer. 44 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:21,040 It then reshapes the land with its shape-shifting abilities, morphing its hands into cipher blades 45 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:28,640 and hitmonchans, boxing gloves, and, you know, vomiting up furniture. I'm not sleeping on that, 46 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,840 but I do agree with this commenter who's unironically excited to use ditto's body 47 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:40,560 horror capabilities for farming. I have so many questions. Does the ditto think it is its trainer? 48 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,960 Is this the ditto's way of coping with the trauma of loss? Along with the usual questions about the 49 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,160 morality of enslaving and forcing sentient beings to battle, I had to stop playing Pokemon 50 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:57,760 because I just start spiraling. Look, we all go back and reuse our old work from time to time. 51 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:03,440 Sometimes I'll copy and paste a segment I did in like 2019 into a new episode, and you never 52 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:09,680 even notice because of how I look the exact same. Quick bits! Yeah, yeah, that'll work. 53 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,600 All of the new iPhone 17 models, and probably the iPhone Air as well, will have a setting that 54 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,760 disables pulse width modulation, or PWM, which should reduce these screen flickering issues 55 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,360 experienced by some iPhones and iPads at low brightness levels. Mac rumors spotted the change 56 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:33,200 in a pre-release version of iOS 26 which launches on Monday, but someone also found a screenshot 57 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:38,800 of the setting already, which is being celebrated by the 17,000 people who apparently visit the 58 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:47,120 subreddit rslashpwmsensitive every week to participate in a big group cry. Well, not anymore 59 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,120 if they buy new iPhones. AI company Perplexity is being sued once again, 60 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:59,920 this time by Miriam Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. They are really gonna throw the book out. 61 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:13,760 As usual, the lawsuit accuses perplexity of copyright infringement and improper attribution, 62 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:19,200 which the company has been weathering lawsuits over since at least early 2024 from many other 63 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:24,320 people. Meanwhile, the FTC has launched an investigation into the harms posed to kids by 64 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:30,880 chatbots from all of the other major AI companies, including Google, Meta, OpenAI, and XAI. I fully 65 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:36,960 expect the defense to revolve around arguing that AI is basically sentient, and these chatbots 66 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,720 are only a couple years old, so if anything, we need to defend them from the heinous prompts being 67 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,640 slung at them by human kids. Honestly, I think the legal system might be ready for this at this point. 68 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:54,880 PC parts company Height has directed all owners of its all-in-one liquid cooler, the THICC with 69 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:01,920 2C's Q80 Trio, to stop using it and remove it from their system immediately. It's haunted 70 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:08,640 by the ghost of a certified baddie. No, there's apparently a fragile internal component that 71 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:15,200 can cause leakage. Thankfully, the company's earlier model, the THICC Q60, uses a different 72 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:22,320 design and is totally fine, but the THICC Q80 was too thick. You never go full thick. 73 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:28,400 And researchers in Taiwan have managed to get plants to suck up more carbon dioxide from the air 74 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,920 by replacing the enzyme that plants normally use for that process with a more efficient one. 75 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:40,960 With the new enzyme, a specific weed being tested in this study weighed two to three times more as 76 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:46,400 the control plants produced more seeds and had more leaves that were also larger, which all 77 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,440 mean that they sucked up more carbon. So this could either lead to a great way to mitigate climate 78 00:07:51,440 --> 00:08:00,480 change or dinosaurs running amok on the mainland. How? Chaos. Chaos theory. It's just, yeah. 79 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,680 Sometimes dinosaurs show up. Sometimes you show up back here for more tech news on Monday too. 80 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,760 Hey, maybe bring some dinosaurs and we can play around with them, you know? My favorite is 81 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,360 Thrysinosaurus. Just FYI. Yeah, big claw.