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Okay, right from the jump here I want to remind you that you chose to click this video, okay?

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So whatever happens after this point is at least 50% your fault. Microsoft has released yet another

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update that fixes one thing and breaks something else. After last week's patch for Windows Defender

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suffered installation issues that the tech giant eventually fixed, another issue causing certain

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storage drives to fail during heavy writes was discovered by some kind of Japanese Twitter

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cat person with an apparent drinking problem. Despite this, NekoRuCat was able to conduct further

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testing along with Japanese site NichePC Gamer, identifying these drives from various brands

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that exhibit issues or straight up fail when attempting file transfers larger than 50 gigabytes.

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This issue hasn't gotten a ton of coverage in the West. It may be that users in Japan just have

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larger collections of cat photos to deal with. On the plus side, an upcoming Windows build will

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reportedly finally allow file operation dialogues to support dark mode. So you won't suddenly be

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blinded just trying to copy and paste something. Microsoft hasn't added this until now because

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Windows is just a really long complicated prank for them. One has to assume that we're all on

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camera, being displayed on live feeds in Microsoft HQ like we're unknowingly part of a wacky Japanese

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game show. With the staff there almost certainly making bets on when we'll all switch to Linux.

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Guitar YouTuber Rhett Scholl's latest video goes over a concerning new phenomenon. At least to me,

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YouTube appears to be automatically applying AI upscaling to shorts, making real videos

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look kind of AI generated. This is super noticeable when you compare identical videos uploaded both as

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a YouTube short and as an Instagram real. And this seems to be happening on all shorts uploads,

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although we obviously didn't check everyone. Don't worry, I'll do that tonight instead of sleeping.

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Seems like the first post about this was made on the YouTube subreddit in mid-June by Redditor

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Eulinsiesis who said they had noticed the change kick in around that time. Now, why YouTube is

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making every short look even more gross than they already tend to is anyone's guess. But some are

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theorizing it's to get people used to AI looking videos so they'll be ready for the AI content

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flood once YouTube fully adds the VO3 AI video generator into its shorts tools. But I don't

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know, I feel like it's equally likely that the people at YouTube making these decisions simply

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wouldn't know taste if it licked them in the face. As Schull points out in his video, one major

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issue here is that viewers may think a creator is using AI when they're not. And even though the

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real Riley perished some time ago, and I'm just an AI trained on his brainwaves and tattered fragments

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of his mustache, we don't fake these episodes, we film them for real on location. Somewhere.

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NVIDIA held a live stream to make a bunch of announcements about GeForce Now and the NVIDIA

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app after someone apparently reminded them that gamers exist. NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can

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now run on RTX 5080 equipped servers with DLSS4 enabling up to 120 FPS at 5K on PC and Mac and

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up to 90 FPS on the Steam Deck GeForce Now app. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA app can now automatically

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enable the DLSS of your choice across all your games and it adds some more settings from the

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NVIDIA control panel like NVIDIA surround setup. So it can inch closer to being the control panel

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replacement I thought it was supposed to be already. But back to GeForce Now, Andrew's gonna

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tell us about more features. Including one that expands the GFN library instantly, right Andrew?

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That's right. It is right Andrew and it's called install to play. Basically you can install games

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on your cloud PC if the game dev enabled Steam cloud streaming. But what if you don't want to

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install to play and also want to play inside the Discord app? I know you've been waiting for that.

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The new Discord Instant Play Experience lets you click a link from a friend in that app to instantly

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load in to a game. Seems like it's just Fortnite for now. Kind of like Google's original vision

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of clicking right into a Stadia game from a Google search, except inside the Discord window.

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As NVIDIA says, no more waiting, no more FOMO until the 30 minute trial runs out,

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then you'll have to buy the free to play game. But don't worry, Xbox may be prepping a cheaper

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cloud only game pass subscription along with a bunch of other stuff as discussed on the Xbox

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podcast. Xbox execs said, it's the hardest they've ever seen the team working. Because apparently

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there's just so much going on, or maybe the team is desperately trying not to be in the next group

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of a thousand Microsoft employees to get canned. I don't know. So, have you understood the ramifications

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of what you've done yet? Because there's still quick bits. Valve made some bold claims about

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its Steam performance overlay, more accurately reporting GPU utilization than Windows own

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task manager in the patch notes for their latest Steam client beta. But they may have gotten a

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too big for their britches. Because after a couple days, Valve updated the patch notes to say their

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new GPU monitoring method needs more testing. Oh, Valve. It's okay. Actually, you know what? Take

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your time. Microsoft is sabotaging our SSDs at this point. PC gamers have nothing to lose.

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Seagate was so fed up over the counterfeit Seagate hard drives flooding the market earlier this year,

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they sent their security teams to team up with Malaysian authorities and conduct a raid on a

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warehouse just outside Kuala Lumpur that was apparently churning out the doctor drives as

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reported by German site Heise. Seagate provided some photos of the raid, but sadly didn't say

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whether they used striping, mirroring, or some combination of the two. Also, did they watch

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the movie beforehand to amp themselves up? We need the answers to these. I've never heard of a company

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called Global Wafers. I'm not afraid to admit that. But now I'm aware that they have announced a

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planned manufacturing facility in Texas, which will make them the first company to produce

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silicon wafers on US soil, which founders like TSMC and Samsung need to make their chips. The wafers.

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Not the soil. Although maybe that's why Aero Lake was so bad. The idea that AI is in a bubble has

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been floated for years, even by Sam Altman now, who said as much to a group of journalists recently

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over dinner. He does this just so we can tell them in person that three quarters of them will

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be made obsolete in five minutes. Altman thinks the bubble thing is fine though, because open AI

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will probably survive the bubble and create a slew of wonderful AI products that transform society

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for the better. In fact, they have a bunch of products just like that right now, but they

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can't launch them. Sorry, because each one needs like the full power of a star to operate.

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What they can do is make GPT-5 warmer and friendlier. That's what you get for now. And Dutch researchers

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gave 500 AI chatbots specific personas and stuck them in a simulated social network with no ads or

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algorithmic feeds, just like an original Facebook style platform, and found that in five different

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rounds consisting of 10,000 actions each, the bots organized themselves into bubbles based on

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political beliefs, such that they primarily interacted with other bots that they agreed with.

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The researchers concluded that, although toxic algorithms are often blamed as the cause of social

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media's problems, their findings suggest those problems may be rooted in the structure of emotionally

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reactive social media platforms themselves. We only thought social media wasn't as toxic

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before algorithmic feeds were introduced because they hadn't melted our brains that much by that

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point. And now it's time to go outside. Until Wednesday, when we'll have more tech news to

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talk about. Don't stay out there for too long, though. There are things squirming around all

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over the place, and heck, one of those might get in your brain, and that would be way worse than

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doom-scrolling. Sorry.