WEBVTT 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:51.840 the rebadged version is priced at 200 bucks because it's a collector's item. Honestly, 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.280 you're disrespecting the hobby. This isn't the first time Intel has helped the environment. 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 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, 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:18.720 Intel might be scraping the bottom of the barrel here after firing their consumer products boss 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:24.240 and the chief architect behind its Xeon CPUs, leaving the remaining leadership serving the 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:30.080 equivalent of week old donuts. Which for the record, I would still eat. They're fine. 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:36.960 Nepal has gone from banning social media to using Discord to elect an interim Prime Minister. 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. 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:45.680 Here we go. Last month, posts on Nepali social media calling out government corruption and 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:51.760 income inequality were trending heavily. On August 28th, the government gave social platforms a week 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:56.400 to conform to new monitoring requirements and then blocked the ones that didn't, 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:01.760 including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That triggered intense protests in the capital city, 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:09.040 Kathmandu, during which police used live ammunition against protesters, killing 19. 00:02:09.040 --> 00:02:14.000 The government quickly lifted the social media ban, but surprisingly, that didn't really calm 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:19.520 anyone down. The protests intensified and multiple government buildings and politicians homes were 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.680 set on fire, including the Prime Ministers with his wife still inside. Contrary to many reports, 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 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:38.080 the country. With the government in limbo, a civic group called Hami Nepal organized a Discord 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.640 channel that quickly amassed tens of thousands of members, including the leaders of the so-called 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:48.480 Gen Z protest movement. Incredibly, the army then asked the Discord Channel organizers 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, 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:59.680 former Chief Justice Sushila Kharky, was officially sworn in as the country's interim Prime Minister 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:04.320 this morning. She'll be overseeing elections for everyone who missed the Discord invite, 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. 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:14.080 Nintendo announced some pretty surprising things during this morning's direct live stream, 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:19.840 including the addition of Virtual Boy games to the Switch Online Library this coming February. 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, 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 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 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:42.160 cardboard version, which you will use exactly once. Nintendo also revealed the title of the 00:03:42.160 --> 00:03:49.680 next Mario movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, presumably starring Princess Rosalina Rosalina? 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 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:01.840 Pokopia, which is kind of like Pokemon meets Minecraft slash Animal Crossing. Oh, and also 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 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. 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:21.040 It then reshapes the land with its shape-shifting abilities, morphing its hands into cipher blades 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:28.640 and hitmonchans, boxing gloves, and, you know, vomiting up furniture. I'm not sleeping on that, 00:04:28.640 --> 00:04:33.840 but I do agree with this commenter who's unironically excited to use ditto's body 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? 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 00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:52.160 morality of enslaving and forcing sentient beings to battle, I had to stop playing Pokemon 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. 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 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. 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 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.760 disables pulse width modulation, or PWM, which should reduce these screen flickering issues 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:27.360 experienced by some iPhones and iPads at low brightness levels. Mac rumors spotted the change 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 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 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:47.120 subreddit rslashpwmsensitive every week to participate in a big group cry. Well, not anymore 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:53.120 if they buy new iPhones. AI company Perplexity is being sued once again, 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:59.920 this time by Miriam Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. They are really gonna throw the book out. 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:13.760 As usual, the lawsuit accuses perplexity of copyright infringement and improper attribution, 00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:19.200 which the company has been weathering lawsuits over since at least early 2024 from many other 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:24.320 people. Meanwhile, the FTC has launched an investigation into the harms posed to kids by 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 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:36.960 expect the defense to revolve around arguing that AI is basically sentient, and these chatbots 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 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. 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 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 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:08.640 by the ghost of a certified baddie. No, there's apparently a fragile internal component that 00:07:08.640 --> 00:07:15.200 can cause leakage. Thankfully, the company's earlier model, the THICC Q60, uses a different 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. 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 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:33.920 by replacing the enzyme that plants normally use for that process with a more efficient one. 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 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:46.400 the control plants produced more seeds and had more leaves that were also larger, which all 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 00:07:51.440 --> 00:08:00.480 change or dinosaurs running amok on the mainland. How? Chaos. Chaos theory. It's just, yeah. 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. 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 00:08:09.760 --> 00:08:13.360 Thrysinosaurus. Just FYI. Yeah, big claw.