Okay, right from the jump here I want to remind you that you chose to click this video, okay?
So whatever happens after this point is at least 50% your fault. Microsoft has released yet another
update that fixes one thing and breaks something else. After last week's patch for Windows Defender
suffered installation issues that the tech giant eventually fixed, another issue causing certain
storage drives to fail during heavy writes was discovered by some kind of Japanese Twitter
cat person with an apparent drinking problem. Despite this, NekoRuCat was able to conduct further
testing along with Japanese site NichePC Gamer, identifying these drives from various brands
that exhibit issues or straight up fail when attempting file transfers larger than 50 gigabytes.
This issue hasn't gotten a ton of coverage in the West. It may be that users in Japan just have
larger collections of cat photos to deal with. On the plus side, an upcoming Windows build will
reportedly finally allow file operation dialogues to support dark mode. So you won't suddenly be
blinded just trying to copy and paste something. Microsoft hasn't added this until now because
Windows is just a really long complicated prank for them. One has to assume that we're all on
camera, being displayed on live feeds in Microsoft HQ like we're unknowingly part of a wacky Japanese
game show. With the staff there almost certainly making bets on when we'll all switch to Linux.
Guitar YouTuber Rhett Scholl's latest video goes over a concerning new phenomenon. At least to me,
YouTube appears to be automatically applying AI upscaling to shorts, making real videos
look kind of AI generated. This is super noticeable when you compare identical videos uploaded both as
a YouTube short and as an Instagram real. And this seems to be happening on all shorts uploads,
although we obviously didn't check everyone. Don't worry, I'll do that tonight instead of sleeping.
Seems like the first post about this was made on the YouTube subreddit in mid-June by Redditor
Eulinsiesis who said they had noticed the change kick in around that time. Now, why YouTube is
making every short look even more gross than they already tend to is anyone's guess. But some are
theorizing it's to get people used to AI looking videos so they'll be ready for the AI content
flood once YouTube fully adds the VO3 AI video generator into its shorts tools. But I don't
know, I feel like it's equally likely that the people at YouTube making these decisions simply
wouldn't know taste if it licked them in the face. As Schull points out in his video, one major
issue here is that viewers may think a creator is using AI when they're not. And even though the
real Riley perished some time ago, and I'm just an AI trained on his brainwaves and tattered fragments
of his mustache, we don't fake these episodes, we film them for real on location. Somewhere.
NVIDIA held a live stream to make a bunch of announcements about GeForce Now and the NVIDIA
app after someone apparently reminded them that gamers exist. NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can
now run on RTX 5080 equipped servers with DLSS4 enabling up to 120 FPS at 5K on PC and Mac and
up to 90 FPS on the Steam Deck GeForce Now app. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA app can now automatically
enable the DLSS of your choice across all your games and it adds some more settings from the
NVIDIA control panel like NVIDIA surround setup. So it can inch closer to being the control panel
replacement I thought it was supposed to be already. But back to GeForce Now, Andrew's gonna
tell us about more features. Including one that expands the GFN library instantly, right Andrew?
That's right. It is right Andrew and it's called install to play. Basically you can install games
on your cloud PC if the game dev enabled Steam cloud streaming. But what if you don't want to
install to play and also want to play inside the Discord app? I know you've been waiting for that.
The new Discord Instant Play Experience lets you click a link from a friend in that app to instantly
load in to a game. Seems like it's just Fortnite for now. Kind of like Google's original vision
of clicking right into a Stadia game from a Google search, except inside the Discord window.
As NVIDIA says, no more waiting, no more FOMO until the 30 minute trial runs out,
then you'll have to buy the free to play game. But don't worry, Xbox may be prepping a cheaper
cloud only game pass subscription along with a bunch of other stuff as discussed on the Xbox
podcast. Xbox execs said, it's the hardest they've ever seen the team working. Because apparently
there's just so much going on, or maybe the team is desperately trying not to be in the next group
of a thousand Microsoft employees to get canned. I don't know. So, have you understood the ramifications
of what you've done yet? Because there's still quick bits. Valve made some bold claims about
its Steam performance overlay, more accurately reporting GPU utilization than Windows own
task manager in the patch notes for their latest Steam client beta. But they may have gotten a
too big for their britches. Because after a couple days, Valve updated the patch notes to say their
new GPU monitoring method needs more testing. Oh, Valve. It's okay. Actually, you know what? Take
your time. Microsoft is sabotaging our SSDs at this point. PC gamers have nothing to lose.
Seagate was so fed up over the counterfeit Seagate hard drives flooding the market earlier this year,
they sent their security teams to team up with Malaysian authorities and conduct a raid on a
warehouse just outside Kuala Lumpur that was apparently churning out the doctor drives as
reported by German site Heise. Seagate provided some photos of the raid, but sadly didn't say
whether they used striping, mirroring, or some combination of the two. Also, did they watch
the movie beforehand to amp themselves up? We need the answers to these. I've never heard of a company
called Global Wafers. I'm not afraid to admit that. But now I'm aware that they have announced a
planned manufacturing facility in Texas, which will make them the first company to produce
silicon wafers on US soil, which founders like TSMC and Samsung need to make their chips. The wafers.
Not the soil. Although maybe that's why Aero Lake was so bad. The idea that AI is in a bubble has
been floated for years, even by Sam Altman now, who said as much to a group of journalists recently
over dinner. He does this just so we can tell them in person that three quarters of them will
be made obsolete in five minutes. Altman thinks the bubble thing is fine though, because open AI
will probably survive the bubble and create a slew of wonderful AI products that transform society
for the better. In fact, they have a bunch of products just like that right now, but they
can't launch them. Sorry, because each one needs like the full power of a star to operate.
What they can do is make GPT-5 warmer and friendlier. That's what you get for now. And Dutch researchers
gave 500 AI chatbots specific personas and stuck them in a simulated social network with no ads or
algorithmic feeds, just like an original Facebook style platform, and found that in five different
rounds consisting of 10,000 actions each, the bots organized themselves into bubbles based on
political beliefs, such that they primarily interacted with other bots that they agreed with.
The researchers concluded that, although toxic algorithms are often blamed as the cause of social
media's problems, their findings suggest those problems may be rooted in the structure of emotionally
reactive social media platforms themselves. We only thought social media wasn't as toxic
before algorithmic feeds were introduced because they hadn't melted our brains that much by that
point. And now it's time to go outside. Until Wednesday, when we'll have more tech news to
talk about. Don't stay out there for too long, though. There are things squirming around all
over the place, and heck, one of those might get in your brain, and that would be way worse than
doom-scrolling. Sorry.