Where's our Switch 2 Nintendo? We tried asking nicely.
We tried asking not so nicely. The Switch 2 is coming out tomorrow,
and I still haven't played on it yet. How am I supposed to wait any longer?
Anyway, welcome to TechLinked. People worldwide are posting unboxing videos
of their Nintendo Switch 2s and content creators like Sirloin and All Out Gaming
are live streaming games on Nintendo's hot new handheld.
All I've seen so far is Cyberpunk 2077 and Mario Kart World,
but with the console launching tomorrow, there's going to be a lot more coming.
And for all of us who can look but not yet touch,
here are some morsels to get you through the next couple of days or months as you fail to beat online scalpers.
There's this expanded list of games that will receive free performance boosting updates,
thanks Nintendo, and this nugget that Fortnite will in fact
support game chat and mouse controls.
Also the tidbit that Switch 2 can store up to 30,000 screenshots.
30,000 you say, wow, that's going to be enough for me because the only time I ever take those
when I accidentally hit the button. But if you want to know my favorite part,
that Switch 2 welcome tour that you have to pay for, it's only 100% able if you're playing on a 4K display
and also pay for the Switch 2's USB camera and either a pro controller or Joy-Con 2 charging grip.
At least you've probably already got a 4K TV if you can afford to switch to.
But what you probably don't have yet is AMD's RX9060XT.
Reviews are out and the news is mostly good.
The 16 gig card is solid and offers a reasonable uplift in performance
over its predecessor. But it looks like AMD has been trying to avoid comparisons
to their 8 gig variant by not ceding it to most reviewers.
You can check out our full review on LTT of the 16 gig card after complaining to Team Red.
We did manage to get an 8 gig card, but it arrived less than 24 hours before the embargo lift.
So we can't tell you just how much performance is hindered
even at 1080p due to the memory being cut in half.
We feel that may have been AMD's plan all along. So if you're shopping for one of these soon,
maybe check out Brazilian reviews. They didn't have any trouble getting their hands
on the 9060XT 8 gig. Also, be sure not to spend a lot more than MSRP on this thing.
We had no idea how to evaluate the value of it. So good luck everybody.
Speaking of things that kind of suck, if you're still using Meta or Facebook,
your privacy might as well be non-existent.
Okay, bear with me here. Yandex, a sanctioned technology company from Russia,
started embedding a tracking code into millions of websites that de-anonymizes visitors
by bypassing core security and privacy protections on both the Android OS and web browser.
Think of your phone like a sandbox. You know, everything you do within that sandbox is private.
Maybe you build a cool sandcastle. Maybe you pooped in it. I don't know, because normally what happens in the sandbox
stays in the sandbox. But this new bypass that, coming back to Facebook now,
Meta adopted back in September, allows the companies to pass cookies and other identifiers
from Firefox and Chromium-based browsers
to native Android apps for Facebook, Instagram,
and various Yandex apps.
Can we just all throw our phones in the ocean?
Don't worry, I have a D-brand skin, it's fine. Speaking of destroying things,
why can't the internet just be cool like today's sponsor?
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What's rapid today is how rapidly CD Projekt Red
have gotten a working Witcher 4 gameplay tech demo up and running.
I mean, the last game came out only 10 years ago,
but they've allegedly been in full production for like seven months, really.
Yesterday at Unreal Fest, they teased us all with Siri, Kelpie, and a brief look at Kovir.
It was allegedly running at 4K 60fps with ray tracing enabled,
thanks to new tech like multi-character motion matching, Nanite foliage, and a new Unreal animation framework.
But remember, no pre-orders, not even once, even if it's really tempting!
No clicking weird links either, because a new malware named Crocodilus
is so good that it can change contacts in your phone.
So if you're infected, oh my god, the next spam call you get could actually display the name
of someone you might actually answer, like bank support, or a funeral home, or your mom.
It can also monitor what you're doing and create a fraudulent login overlay
when you go to access something like a banking app. The scammers just keep getting more and more sophisticated.
This is the problem is there's more money in ripping people off
than defending people. Something nobody expected to get any better though
is the now ancient GTX 960. And yet, YouTuber Trashbench has proven
that you can turn trash into better trash.
They grabbed a CPU tower cooler, 3D-printed amount, and stuck it directly to the GPU die to improve temps,
and even rack up a cool 184 extra points in 3DMark Firestrike setting a new record.
Heck yeah, bring on the eight-slot cards, I say! You aren't gonna use that space anyway.
What are you gonna do? Put a sound card in there? Speaking of space, it turns out you maybe don't need to worry
about the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding in the future.
I don't know about you guys, but ever since hearing that was gonna happen, 10 billion years from now,
crippling anxiety gripped me. I just couldn't let it go.
That is until now. Scientists have run about 100,000 simulations,
and it turns out it's more like only a 50-50 chance that our theoretical, multi-planetary descendants
face certain doom. That's right, friends. The fate of our galaxy hinges on a coin flip.
Let's see, call it.
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