1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,760 Where's our Switch 2 Nintendo? We tried asking nicely. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,960 We tried asking not so nicely. The Switch 2 is coming out tomorrow, 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,040 and I still haven't played on it yet. How am I supposed to wait any longer? 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:15,040 Anyway, welcome to TechLinked. People worldwide are posting unboxing videos 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,520 of their Nintendo Switch 2s and content creators like Sirloin and All Out Gaming 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,880 are live streaming games on Nintendo's hot new handheld. 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,640 All I've seen so far is Cyberpunk 2077 and Mario Kart World, 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,560 but with the console launching tomorrow, there's going to be a lot more coming. 9 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,080 And for all of us who can look but not yet touch, 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:40,560 here are some morsels to get you through the next couple of days or months as you fail to beat online scalpers. 11 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:45,520 There's this expanded list of games that will receive free performance boosting updates, 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,520 thanks Nintendo, and this nugget that Fortnite will in fact 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,240 support game chat and mouse controls. 14 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:58,320 Also the tidbit that Switch 2 can store up to 30,000 screenshots. 15 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,560 30,000 you say, wow, that's going to be enough for me because the only time I ever take those 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,840 when I accidentally hit the button. But if you want to know my favorite part, 17 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:12,080 that Switch 2 welcome tour that you have to pay for, it's only 100% able if you're playing on a 4K display 18 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:18,240 and also pay for the Switch 2's USB camera and either a pro controller or Joy-Con 2 charging grip. 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,720 At least you've probably already got a 4K TV if you can afford to switch to. 20 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,680 But what you probably don't have yet is AMD's RX9060XT. 21 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,880 Reviews are out and the news is mostly good. 22 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,960 The 16 gig card is solid and offers a reasonable uplift in performance 23 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:40,800 over its predecessor. But it looks like AMD has been trying to avoid comparisons 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,720 to their 8 gig variant by not ceding it to most reviewers. 25 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:50,400 You can check out our full review on LTT of the 16 gig card after complaining to Team Red. 26 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:56,400 We did manage to get an 8 gig card, but it arrived less than 24 hours before the embargo lift. 27 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,840 So we can't tell you just how much performance is hindered 28 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,200 even at 1080p due to the memory being cut in half. 29 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,200 We feel that may have been AMD's plan all along. So if you're shopping for one of these soon, 30 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,200 maybe check out Brazilian reviews. They didn't have any trouble getting their hands 31 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,600 on the 9060XT 8 gig. Also, be sure not to spend a lot more than MSRP on this thing. 32 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:22,080 We had no idea how to evaluate the value of it. So good luck everybody. 33 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaking of things that kind of suck, if you're still using Meta or Facebook, 34 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,200 your privacy might as well be non-existent. 35 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:34,400 Okay, bear with me here. Yandex, a sanctioned technology company from Russia, 36 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,200 started embedding a tracking code into millions of websites that de-anonymizes visitors 37 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:45,360 by bypassing core security and privacy protections on both the Android OS and web browser. 38 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,720 Think of your phone like a sandbox. You know, everything you do within that sandbox is private. 39 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:55,840 Maybe you build a cool sandcastle. Maybe you pooped in it. I don't know, because normally what happens in the sandbox 40 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,920 stays in the sandbox. But this new bypass that, coming back to Facebook now, 41 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:08,640 Meta adopted back in September, allows the companies to pass cookies and other identifiers 42 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,680 from Firefox and Chromium-based browsers 43 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,880 to native Android apps for Facebook, Instagram, 44 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,280 and various Yandex apps. 45 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,960 Can we just all throw our phones in the ocean? 46 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:26,320 Don't worry, I have a D-brand skin, it's fine. Speaking of destroying things, 47 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,360 why can't the internet just be cool like today's sponsor? 48 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:36,080 Rapid morsels, rapid morsels, rapid morsels, rapid morsels. 49 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,440 What's rapid today is how rapidly CD Projekt Red 50 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,200 have gotten a working Witcher 4 gameplay tech demo up and running. 51 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,880 I mean, the last game came out only 10 years ago, 52 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,520 but they've allegedly been in full production for like seven months, really. 53 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,800 Yesterday at Unreal Fest, they teased us all with Siri, Kelpie, and a brief look at Kovir. 54 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,560 It was allegedly running at 4K 60fps with ray tracing enabled, 55 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:06,800 thanks to new tech like multi-character motion matching, Nanite foliage, and a new Unreal animation framework. 56 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,440 But remember, no pre-orders, not even once, even if it's really tempting! 57 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,360 No clicking weird links either, because a new malware named Crocodilus 58 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,040 is so good that it can change contacts in your phone. 59 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,880 So if you're infected, oh my god, the next spam call you get could actually display the name 60 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,000 of someone you might actually answer, like bank support, or a funeral home, or your mom. 61 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,320 It can also monitor what you're doing and create a fraudulent login overlay 62 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,600 when you go to access something like a banking app. The scammers just keep getting more and more sophisticated. 63 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,880 This is the problem is there's more money in ripping people off 64 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,520 than defending people. Something nobody expected to get any better though 65 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:53,440 is the now ancient GTX 960. And yet, YouTuber Trashbench has proven 66 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,040 that you can turn trash into better trash. 67 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:03,040 They grabbed a CPU tower cooler, 3D-printed amount, and stuck it directly to the GPU die to improve temps, 68 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,560 and even rack up a cool 184 extra points in 3DMark Firestrike setting a new record. 69 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,960 Heck yeah, bring on the eight-slot cards, I say! You aren't gonna use that space anyway. 70 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,920 What are you gonna do? Put a sound card in there? Speaking of space, it turns out you maybe don't need to worry 71 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,360 about the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding in the future. 72 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,840 I don't know about you guys, but ever since hearing that was gonna happen, 10 billion years from now, 73 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,880 crippling anxiety gripped me. I just couldn't let it go. 74 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,560 That is until now. Scientists have run about 100,000 simulations, 75 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:37,680 and it turns out it's more like only a 50-50 chance that our theoretical, multi-planetary descendants 76 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:44,240 face certain doom. That's right, friends. The fate of our galaxy hinges on a coin flip. 77 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:45,120 Let's see, call it. 78 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:53,200 We die. Subscribe to TechLink, see you later!