WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.720 Wait, so you're watching my video? To listen to my tech news? 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:12.280 Haha. Okay. Intel and ARM have announced a multi-generation agreement to make it easier for Intel's foundry 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:15.600 services to fabricate ARM-based chip designs. 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:19.760 It's a heartwarming story of two intense chip design rivals getting over their differences 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.600 and working together in the service of makin' more money. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.880 Indeed, Intel shares rose on the news showing that in war, there's no winners, unless your 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:34.360 side wins. Now, before the processor nerds get too excited about the possibility of Intel branded processors 00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:40.240 based on ARM technology, the deal actually involves ARM helping Intel to optimize Intel's 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:44.640 fab processes for producing ARM-based chip. Did I say chipped? 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:49.360 Chips. That should make it a lot easier for companies who do design such chips, like Qualcomm and 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:57.200 MediaTek, to hire Intel to actually make them. But if that's too boring for ya, just recall that Intel has described plans to produce 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:04.200 hybrid chips that combine x86, ARM, and RISC-5 CPU cores in a single package. 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:10.200 It may end up being the swamp water of computer processors, but it would be different and 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.560 special. Like me. 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:18.280 The RTX 4070, complete with the architecture named after Ada Lovelace, hit shelves tomorrow. 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:23.640 NVIDIA captured the innovative spirit of history's first computer programmer by releasing an arguably 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:28.880 overpriced GPU with only modest spec upgrades over the previous generation. 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:37.720 At $599, or $600 USD, NVIDIA says the card provides 1.8x the performance of the RTX 3070, 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:46.440 which launched at a price of $100 less. Oh, but that 1.8x jump only applies to games that support NVIDIA's DLSS 3 frame generation 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:51.040 feature. It's more like 1.3x in unsupported games. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:56.320 Very cool. You know that a product launch is going to go well when the company community manager 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.280 feels the need to wade into Reddit and do damage control before anyone's even bought 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.120 one. The RTX 4070 isn't bad. In fact, it's really good and decent value for the money, all things considered. 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:11.520 But that all things considered includes the fact that NVIDIA is using its dominant market 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.840 position to keep discrete GPU prices high, even though sales have been dropping since 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.080 late 2021 and hit historic lows last December. 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:27.280 Despite that, NVIDIA's revenue actually increased by 64% year over year in 2022. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:31.920 Now you, as a gamer, might feel slightly a bit ripped off by that, but think about it 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:38.240 from NVIDIA's perspective. Why produce more GPUs and sell them for a fair price when you can just sell fewer GPUs 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.240 and make that same, if not more, money? 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:44.240 Now don't you feel silly? 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:49.440 Twitter has recently purchased around 10,000 GPUs and hired talent from Google's AI-focused 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:54.720 subsidiary DeepMind to reportedly develop a new chat GPT rival. 00:02:54.720 --> 00:02:59.440 This comes shortly after Elon Musk signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:04.080 to all AI development beyond the current capacity of GPT-4, which apparently didn't stop the 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:09.040 bandwagon, so Elon had no choice but to hop on and try to catch up. 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:14.200 And can you blame him? Given recent struggles with advertiser retention, pivoting Twitter to another business model 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:20.000 isn't the worst idea. Well, I say Twitter, but Twitter Inc. as a distinct entity no longer exists, according 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.720 to a court filing in California, it has instead been folded into X-Corp, a company that has 00:03:25.720 --> 00:03:29.880 no other notable holdings, so they might as well just have changed the name and saved 00:03:29.880 --> 00:03:36.040 the paperwork. Fans of pointless trivia will note that X.com was the original domain of former Musk Project 00:03:36.040 --> 00:03:41.800 PayPal, and that X-Corp is a company run by Spider-Man villain The Hobgoblin in the Marvel 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:50.440 Trading Card game for the Nintendo DS. X is also the name of Elon Musk's proposed Everything app, and I think there's one of 00:03:50.440 --> 00:03:56.400 those letters in his kid's name too. The Everything app is a concept that does not make sense and never will, because a tool 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:00.200 that does everything is one that has been optimized to do nothing. 00:04:00.200 --> 00:04:07.040 The Swampwater concept returns once again. A quick bit is like a forehead kiss from your favorite aunt, so this next segment is like 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:10.040 five whole kisses. 00:04:10.040 --> 00:04:14.680 LinkedIn is rolling out their own verification program, but it isn't just to give subscribers 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:19.240 a pretty little button next to their name, it's to verify you are who you are and where 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:23.600 you work by submitting your government ID and verifying your work email. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.680 Think of it like verification on Tinder, except instead of preventing you from squaring with 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:32.320 a catfish, it's to prevent impersonators from screwing your entire career. 00:04:32.320 --> 00:04:36.640 And it's different from Twitter verification because it's free, like in the olden times. 00:04:36.640 --> 00:04:40.360 Your dreams are over. I mean, dreams, the game is over. 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:44.600 Sony will be ending live support for Game Making Suite Dreams this coming September, which 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.960 is kind of surprising given that Dreams was released for the PS4 only four years ago to 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:54.600 great hopes and fanfare. Dreams will still be available for purchase and entirely playable, but it will be migrating 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.680 to a new server with a per player data cap for any new content. 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:03.760 So you can still create anything you can imagine as long as your imagination is under 5GB. 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:07.520 Universal Music has apparently told streaming platforms like Apple and Spotify to block 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:13.360 AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from songs that it holds the copyright to. 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:19.200 And we do mean told, not asked. Universal Music is the second largest record label in the United States with a market share 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:25.040 of over 30%. Universal Music has also been sending out a massive number of takedown notices against 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:30.320 AI generated songs. While it's hard to sympathize with a massive faceless business conglomerate, AI companies 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:34.560 probably deserve more than a little pushback for treating the copyrighted production of 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.880 artists as a free training database. 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:42.200 But the artists signed it away anyway. 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:46.080 Monitor IO, a company that made a gadget that would continuously monitor your network speed 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:50.080 and status, announced they would be shutting down their business and monitoring service 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:56.160 this month. But in some bizarre twist, they decided that customers who bought a product for them should 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.400 still be able to use it? 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:03.760 They are providing an image that will allow the device to still be run when the company's 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:07.360 servers shut down. But April Fool's was days ago. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.800 Is this bizarre or what? Tim Allen, where are you? 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:17.360 And the FBI is cautioning against using built-in USB ports at charging stations in public 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:22.080 places like airports and hotels because bad actors have figured out ways to infect your 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:26.520 devices with malware to access them remotely, proving once again how we can't have nice 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:33.280 things or even shitty things like airports. The FCC calls this juice jacking, which is not to be confused with that one Reddit post 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:39.040 who instantly regretted reading. So stay safe out there, use your own chargers, and avoid coconuts. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:45.000 I don't get it either. I don't want to get it. But make sure you don't avoid coming back on Friday for more tech news, more ladders, 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.640 and if you do come back, we may tell you the etymological origin of the word news. 00:06:49.640 --> 00:06:54.280 We may make it up, but only if we can think of something funnier than the truth. 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:58.280 It's just new, a clerk. Where are you going, James? 00:06:58.280 --> 00:06:58.880 I'm out of here.