China has said it released its very first homegrown open source operating system to
reduce its dependency on American tech. Which is concerning. They won't need America at all
once they develop their own way to deep fry a Snickers bar. I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked,
and this is OpenKylin 1.0, the most recent version of an operating system first launched in 2001.
According to Chinese state media, the software is based on Linux, was built by a community of
around 4,000 developers, and is used in its space program, as well as industries like finance and
energy. OpenKylin apparently gets its name from a mythical beast called the Chi Lin, meaning I've
been saying it wrong this whole time, which is fabled to appear alongside the imminent arrival
or passing of a sage. Probably passing, if that's a reference to Windows, it's so done.
And the OS gets most of its source code from the Linux distribution Ubuntu, with the register
finding hundreds of references to Ubuntu in OpenKylin's config files. So yeah, it's basically Ubuntu.
Turns out it's not as homegrown as Yiboishi would have you believe. It's made from scratch,
in the same way your mom's Bisquick pancakes are. Now I know this sounds like just another cheap
Chinese knockoff, but that's not true. 22 years of development and at least 4,000 developers
sounds pretty expensive to me. Apparently NVIDIA may have left the bag in too long,
because someone just spilled their bitter ass tea.
According to unverified claims from Russian YouTube channel ProHighTech, NVIDIA is pressuring
its board partners to stay away from Intel's battle mage cards by threatening to withhold
their own chips from any manufacturers that decide to work with Intel. What? No. NVIDIA?
The company that launched the GeForce Partner Program five years ago to force NVIDIA partners
to use different branding on AMD graphics cards? Oh, yeah, I actually wasn't shocked just now.
NVIDIA might not even need to use these underhanded tactics though, because according to YouTuber
Moore's law is dead, Battle Mage's development is having major issues and won't release this year
as planned. It's possible it won't even launch until the second half of next year. G10, the planned
flagship die for Battle Mage, has apparently been nerfed harder than a toddler playing
dart tag with John Wick. Initially, it was designed to compete with NVIDIA's 4080,
but now it may end up slower than the 4070 or even cancelled. And these rumors don't seem
that far-fetched in the wake of Intel discontinuing their first-party a770 limited edition only a
couple weeks ago. Maybe they needed to stop production to focus on working out Battle Mage's kinks.
Hot. Or maybe they felt like they had to stop production after naming it limited edition,
although the Raptor Lake CPUs look nothing like dinosaurs and do not like water. So.
Explain that science. Tried rinsing it off. It complained. And Google has been testing their
medical AI chatbot in hospitals since April, bringing us one step closer to robot doctors
and even more uncomfortable prostate checks. Metal fingers get very cold. Might be less
comfortable though, because it's not like a person doing it. Please bend over. Google apparently
believes this AI named MedPom2 could really help in countries that have limited access to doctors,
according to an internal email. Speaking of internals, MedPom2 knows a lot about yours,
because unlike general-purpose AIs like ChatGPT, MedPom2 has been inside you. All along. MedPom2
has been trained on questions and answers from medical licensing exams, and even a curated
set of medical expert demonstrations. But hasn't been trained to romance other doctors like in
the hit documentary series, Grey's Anatomy? One of the hospitals testing the chatbot is the Mayo
Clinic, which you may know as the website you use as a second opinion after WebMD says you have
cancer. The Mayo Clinic is actually a massive not-for-profit research hospital that invests the
billions it makes in revenue into cutting-edge research, making numerous medical breakthroughs
throughout its 159-year history. Donate today. And now, its renowned doctors are testing an
algorithm that is reported to include more inaccurate content in its responses when compared to human
doctors. I mean, a lot of patients lied about how they got that shampoo bottle up there. It's only
fair their robot doctor returns the favor and tells them, congratulations, you're pregnant,
and the shampoo bottle's the father. You're in big trouble. You gotta suit up for child support.
Time to make some plans. You're having a butt baby. You're gonna have to provide for the
shampoo baby, for the shampoo butt baby. Did you know the quick bits are so quick, we don't even
always get to finish the intro because a community project has restored functionality to the old
Windows Update web pages, allowing PC users who just can't move on from Windows 95 to update their
OS. Now, the project devs warn that they're really doing this for the sake of preservation,
and currently the website only supports up to Windows 98, but the group plans to add support for
Windows ME 2000 and XP. Just in FYI, these aren't new updates. They're the old ones Microsoft
released back in the day. Also, the website is not affiliated with Microsoft, and you should use the
pages at your own risk. But at least now you can relive the days you spent in the computer
lab at your underfunded elementary school. Installing Quake, even though you're not supposed to.
What are you doing over there, gaming? For me, it was math circus.
Developers Sir Mangler and TRW have made it possible to get emulators running on all Xbox
Series consoles, not just the ones in developer mode. For a $2 subscription to their Patreon,
you can get access to Dolphin, RetroArch, and other emulators. While the old method of paying $19
for developer mode has always worked, Sir Mangler points out that some international users don't
have access to the payment options needed to pay the $19. Maybe you also want to share
emulation with your kids so that they can suffer as you suffered. Adversity, in the form of being
stuck on the same level for hours, builds character. Hey, you go, son. Ninja Gaiden. Get wrecked.
Eardetto, the way that I'm going to pronounce it, the company that owns digital rights management
software DeNuvo is out to prove that it does not hinder game performance, a complaint that's been
lobbed by everyone from Tekken 7 director Katsuhiro Harada to anonymous redditors trying to justify
why pirating is totally morally permissible. While some tests have seemed to prove DeNuvo's
negative performance impact, others have not, and Eardetto's COO told Ars Technica this is because
the tests that he agrees with are good, and the ones he doesn't agree with are flawed.
If you ask me, the only thing being proved in this debate is the existence of confirmation bias,
so NASA is sending their advanced Valkyrie robot to one of the most dangerous places in the known
universe, by which we mean, Australia. It was founded by criminals. The robot is on loan to Woodside
Energy and Perth, where it will perform remote caretaking of uncrewed and offshore energy facilities.
For NASA, this is an opportunity to test Valkyrie's ability to perform routine, repetitive work
in dirty, hazardous conditions and inhospitable environments, such as the moon,
Mars, and your mama. And over the weekend, a smuggler was caught entering mainland China from
Macau with 420 hashtag blazid M.2 SSDs, which authorities estimated to represent a combined
value of $33,000. Only a few days later, another man was caught entering China from Macau with
306 Intel CPUs, but he gets no points for originality. That was justâ¦ do your own thing.
It's unclear how the first man was caught, but the second smuggler was discovered after
border officials noted that he was walking funny. Shampoo bottle? Luckily, the undeclared parts
were discovered wrapped around his waist and legs, rather than having been stored in what is
traditionally known as the prison wallet, or as we call it, the shampoo womb.
Unless you're in prison, you'll be able to come back on Wednesday for more tech news,
as agreed to on the terms of your bail.