PNY and Coolermaster have decided the RTX 4090 wasn't big enough,
sort of like what my ex decided about me, the size of my ego.
I'm James Stryve, this is Tech Lead, and this GPU is thicker than your cousin,
who thinks that Flat Earth Society makes some good boys.
PNY and Coolermaster collaborated on a card that takes up four and a half freaking PCIe slots,
because apparently everyone is a size queen these days. It's okay, James, don't get over it.
Intel's Pontavecchio data center GPU was finally revealed a momentous day
for the average Joe cloud service provider who couldn't pinch enough pennies for NVIDIA's H100.
A data unveiled a 1600 watt power supply that can power four 450 watt RTX 4090s
because the laws of physics are for virgins. Meanwhile, FSP debuted a 2500 watt power supply
that can still only power four 4090s, because they believe in stupid things like math and logic.
It was also a big day for cases. Inwin debuted the Mod Free,
which is a confusing name for a completely modular case,
but go off, King, while Strycom's SG10 passive cooling case
can cool a 4080 for the low, low price of $1,000.
But wait, there's more! MSI solved the problem of improperly plugged
in 12-volt high-power cables.
It's so many letters. By painting the connectors yellow,
now you can actually tell if the cable isn't fully plugged in.
Always remember, if you see yellow when you look, your GPU will cook.
If it's yellow, let it mellow. But don't.
Meta, the company that specializes in brainwashing moms and giving children depression,
announced the Quest 3 VR headset. The base 128 Gigabyte model will be $500,
and while they don't reveal a price for the higher storage version, quote,
for those who want more space, end quote, it sounds like something my ex would love.
The Quest 3 is apparently 40% slimmer with double the GPU processing power
and full color pass-through cameras, so users will no longer need to take the headset off
to check for blood in their stool, at the mall.
On top of this, the company announced they'd be lowering the price for the 128 Gigabyte model of the Quest 2
and giving it a software update that they say will increase CPU performance
by up to 26% and GPU speed by up to 19%.
Meta also wrapped up their Quest gaming showcase where the company announced over 20 new games,
including a VR version of the Kill It Your Way bullet storm,
a remake of the seventh guest and adventure game from 30 years ago
that I haven't heard of, and another vampire, the Masquerade game
that is still not bloodlines too. How long am I supposed to wait you guys?
I'm gonna die someday, you guys. I don't have a blood boy, I need bloodlines.
Do I have to become an actual vampire to live long enough for your game's release?
Believe me, I've tried. Kindreds, hit me up. Women who sleep in dresses on couches
beside large open Windows, hit me up.
And Gmail's new blue verification check that was meant to prevent scams
have had the exact opposite effect. Why not?
After ripping off Elon in early May, enterprising scammers have found a way
to get a check mark on their email, making them look like a legitimate sender
and defeating the entire purpose of verification processes on Gmail.
Cybersecurity engineer Chris Plummer, not an actor,
found a scam email posing as UPS, it's always UPS, that was marked as verified in Gmail.
After he submitted a bug report to Google pointing out that UPS probably doesn't employ someone
named Riverge5, Google closed Plummer's report
responding by saying, won't fix intended behavior.
I mean, it makes sense. Blue check marks were always intended to rip people off.
Just joking, that's new on Twitter. Speaking of, apparently Plummer made enough of a stink
on the platform for someone at Google to realize, hey, maybe the system meant to verify emails
as trustworthy should actually do that.
And then they decided to reopen the investigation into the issue. Personally, I think we should all praise Google
for doing the absolute bare minimum. You can't always expect that today.
The crowd goes mild. Hey Gabe, there's something I have to tell you.
I need you to know that the QuickBits are after this intro.
Is this an intro? Yes, it is now. To the QuickBits. Motorola, of all people, just announced the Razer Plus
and Razer 2023, parenthetical. Though if you live in certain markets,
they're instead called the Razer 40 Ultra and the Razer 40, for reasons no one bothered to tell me.
The biggest difference between the Razer and the Razer Plus are the processor speed
and the external screen real estate, the best kind of estate.
The Plus has a 3.6 inch external screen while the non-plus Razer has but a 1.5 inch screen.
Two inches might not sound like a lot, but I have it on good authority that a difference in length of that magnitude
has ended several relationships. Mary, please call me back.
The US Air Force Colonel in charge of testing AI systems
has walked back comments he made at a military summit where he claimed that an AI drone
killed its human operator in a simulation.
It wasn't real, it was the new SIMS DLC, Drones and Bones.
In fact, it was so not real that according to Colonel Tucker Cinco Hamilton,
they never even ran the simulation. He clearly said that they ran.
Cinco now claims the SIM was just a thought experiment
and that the USAF has not tested any weaponized AI,
real or simulated, which puts us well behind China.
The chief of AI testing doesn't actually do anything when he comes into work and he wishes everyone
just stop talking about this so he can go back to pretending to sign forms
at his pretend desk. Amazon has been ordered to pay $25 million
for violating child privacy. The company was accused of not deleting children's Alexa
recordings and location information at the request of parents
and instead holding onto the data for years. Those kids are probably teens now.
Also, Amazon's ringing subsidiary will have to pay $5.8 million in customer refunds
after allegedly granting employees and contractors access
to users' private videos. Reports say Amazon wasn't sure
they could scrape together the 30 million for the fines but they checked between the couch cushions
and Andy Jassy came up with something. Kepersky, Kaspersky, Kaspersky,
the Russian cybersecurity company says that several dozens of its employees' iPhones
have been affected with spyware for years in an attempt to reduce the stigma around getting hacked.
Hey James, what's the company's name again? Her name's Kat Kaspersky, Kat Burtzby's.
Just kidding, Russia's Federal Security Service or FSB says the malware-dubbed operation triangulation
is part of a larger espionage operation by the US National Security Agency
that infected thousands of Russian iPhones. They even accused Apple of installing a backdoor
to help the operation, which Apple denies. Perhaps the scariest part of the whole thing
is the fact that the malware installs itself via an invisible eye message attachment
and requires no action from the user. I actually think I might be a victim.
I haven't gotten an eye message for a while. And developer Enias Kayo built software
to make an AI clone of absolutely anyone starting with his girlfriend.
Wait, you can start with his girlfriend and get anyone? No. The AI can send voice messages, texts,
and even selfies through Telegram and apparently the dev's girlfriend was all for it.
I'm glad she's enthusiastic because Kayo made the software open source
including Sasha GPT, the AI version of his girlfriend.
According to AI researchers, Kayo could be the first person that used AI to get cocked.
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