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Reviews are up for Intel's new Panther Lake laptop processors aka the core ultra 300 series led by the flagship Intel core ultra
X9388H Yes, Intel complicated their naming scheme again by throwing some X's in there
But before you use that pitchfork in your hand to do something you'll regret listen to this these chips are pretty good
In single core the X9388H is at the front of the pack for Windows laptop chips only being beaten by the Apple M4 and M5
While in multicore it beats the M4 and nearly matches the M5
Which you know runs at a much lower wattage so it's got less power to work with but it looks like it's pretty
Efficient too, and we haven't even talked about the integrated Arc B390 graphics
My favorite hyper-focused youtuber the Fox found that when matched watt for watt it even beat AMD Strix Halo
aka the most powerful chip you can get in a gaming handheld in some games although
Yeah, they went back and forth, but do you under get do you understand guys?
Are you picking up? What is being placed on the ground? Intel's back as the Verge says call it a comeback
You can indeed do that now time to chill us out here for a second
Okay, because yes, these are still laptop chips, and it remains to be seen how good the desktop
Nova Lake lineup will be when it launches this fall, but Intel seems confident team blues graphics guru Tom Peterson told club
386 that they're not bothering to build their own version of Strix Halo because AMD's integrated GPUs are not that
Competitive the vast majority of gaming handhelds and consoles use AMD graphics while there's like
Two Intel ones, so I'm not sure what competition Tom is referring to here, but we love the confidence
Yes, Intel Microsoft has confirmed that it handed over bit locker encryption keys to US law enforcement during an investigation
Early last year Reopening the long-running debate over who actually controls your encrypted data
According to multiple reports the company provided a set of bit locker recovery keys to the FBI to help unlock
Suspects laptops and Microsoft has been very clear that this wasn't a one-off event
Apparently the company gets requests for keys around 20 times a year and guess what if the government asks under the right legal process
They do it again. We don't care. We're Microsoft
The key detail is how this happens Microsoft says it can only provide keys that are already stored in its servers
If you sign into Windows with a Microsoft account bit locker keys are automatically backed up linking them to every machine
You sign into from Microsoft's perspective turning those keys over is no different than responding to any other lawful data request
But it's worth pointing out that at one time it was normal and expected for companies like Apple and Google to
Fight said requests and try to protect their users privacy a little more
Microsoft may have forgotten that but privacy advocates haven't with Senator Ron Wyden saying it is simply
Irresponsible for tech companies to ship products in a way that allows them to secretly turn over users encryption keys
Say louder for the people in the back
I'll wait luckily Windows workarounds for signing in with a local account only
Seem to still work and Microsoft does say that they will delete the keys at your request
So it's not all bad Still the real alternative is to just install Linux if you don't want the big man upstairs finding your
Just enormous stash of cat photos. Yes, you have a problem
But maybe the government isn't the best entity to lead your intervention
TikTok users panicked a little bit after the US version of the app now officially controlled by the mostly American
TikTok USDS joint venture LLC prompted them to accept the new terms of service and privacy policy
Posts quickly spread online claiming there was all sorts of scary new clauses
Including one about collecting info on a user's immigration status
Gender identity or sexual orientation, but it turns out that stuff was already in there pre
Americanization and mostly lines up with the type of data collected by other social media apps. Don't worry
They collect pretty much everything about you, which is normal
However, there were three major changes that may be concerning precise GPS location is now up for grabs
If you give the tick tock app permissions for that
Interactions with AI features weren't even mentioned in the previous policy
And now those can be collected too and that data can be used to personalize ads elsewhere on the web
Not just on tick tock so concerning stuff for sure, but it's more like the bog standard privacy concerns
We've gotten used to rather than new concerns about getting disappeared by the US government
Which is very much a concern for many right now, but the stuff in this privacy policy, that's familiar
I mean this almost feels nostalgic now as if to emphasize all of this hubbub
Tiktok had a big outage today which combined with the privacy concerns may have driven tick tock alternative
Upscrolled to the number 12 spot on the iOS app store. Okay. How are those? Do those feel okay?
You don't you want to pick one of the quick bits? Maybe okay. It's just you know
It's just like beggars can't be choosers, you know, like you didn't you didn't you didn't bring any and that's fine
Microsoft is dealing with yet another patch Tuesday face-planned after admitting their latest Windows 11 security update
Left some PCs completely unable to boot sticking users with an unmountable boot volume error
The company admits it doesn't know yet what combination of hardware or settings triggers the issue
Only that reports of the bug are limited and it only seems to affect real computers not virtual machines
Because those aren't real Hey, remember back when updates actually fixed things instead of just making them worse?
And here's the part where Grayson wants me to do a very specific reference to Ford versus Arari. Can we have more of that please?
More of that old girl The good updates the team behind these stop-killing games movement in the EU announced that
1.3 million of the total 1.4 million signatures collected for the EU citizens initiative have been
Verified only 1 million were needed to ensure that the issue is discussed at the European Commission
So now it'll no doubt be discussed
0.3 million Harder the goal of stop-killing games is not to force companies to host live-service games forever
It's just to give gamers an option to keep playing whether that's locally hosted servers or a proper offline mode
Whatever just something and the country that apparently cares the most about that is Germany
Where they know that game companies waiting to fix this until after people have complained is just inefficient
It's much simpler to make it perfect the first time
Try to try it the US Department of Transportation plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations
aiming to dramatically speed up rulemaking by
Having the weird new alien robot thing make them up per internal records leadership isn't seeking perfection or even very good
Rules apparently they just want good enough considering this agency handles railways and
Frickin airplanes is good enough really the goal
Maybe Gemini can hallucinate some regulations on in-flight entertainment the last time I flew the mask of Zorro wasn't available
And to calm down in the middle of the air. I really need my Spanish sword fighting movies
man JBL's new band box speakers come with an offline AI button that can split songs into
Individual stems letting you selectively mute parts of songs such as vocals or individual instruments
The processing happens locally on the speaker not in the cloud sort of giving you the same effect as a multi-track recording
Instead of just listening to an mp3 JBL pitches it as the perfect little speaker for practice
karaoke Remixing stuff on the fly and hey if you use it to remove the guitar from AC DC songs
Maybe you'll finally unlock Angus Young's mystical powers of flight still a mystery to science and youtuber retro game addict
successfully ordered Domino's Pizza
And that's the end congrats to him Now he did it using a 20 year old Nintendo Wii
Thanks to the Wii link project Resurrecting Nintendo's long-dead online services the aptly named food channel started life as the Japan only
Deme channel back in 2006 before Nintendo shut everything down in
2017 we link a community project launched in 2020
Rebuilds those servers and pipes your orders through the modern API used by Domino's
I would never have guessed there's a secret society of
Nintendo Wii playing pizza lovers who refused to let this eccentric method of ordering die
But learning that there is makes me so happy
But it would make me even happier if you came back here for more tech news on Wednesday
And maybe you know you could bring some of your own tech news next time too
You know as was discussed at length in the email Sharon sent out multiple times
Do you need help fixing your internet because I can I just just just you know looking forward to seeing it, okay?
Okay, okay. Okay. Bye