1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,160 Okay, it's time for serious tech news. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:09,040 It's serious! Stop! 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,200 An Intel press release dropped this morning, suddenly announcing CEO Pat Gelsinger's 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,400 retirement after less than four years in the position with some real 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:25,400 mafia energy. Mr. Gelsinger is currently resting, but he sends his regards. No for the questions. 6 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,480 Insider sources told Bloomberg and Reuters that Intel's board of directors 7 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:37,440 weren't happy it was taking so long for Gelsinger to turn the ship around after years of previous executives 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,160 continually breaking off the rudder. So they gave him a choice to step down or 9 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:48,720 be forced out. So it makes sense why Gelsinger is also stepping down from the board. The vibe would be 10 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:58,660 super awkward according to an insider source I just made up. Some are theorizing Pat was spending too much money to fix the company's issues, which angered 11 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:05,320 shareholders. The board would prefer to hire a new guy to try and fix things in less than four years. Maybe try 12 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:15,960 taking away free coffee again? I don't know. Or maybe Intel's upcoming Arc Gen 2 gaming GPUs will help. The company confirmed a reveal tomorrow at 9 a.m. 13 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,760 Eastern to officially divulge whether all of those leaks were real, 14 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,240 including the one from the weekend where the funky kit show 15 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:31,640 casually broke embargo to show off an Arc B580 and this other one showing the B570 with 10 gigabytes of VRAM. 16 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,280 I hope old Pat took the new GPUs home with him. He's got a lot of time to game now. 17 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,960 I was this close to making him my other dad. 18 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:47,320 NZXT's flex program, which rents out PCs for a monthly subscription, has been called a scam for engaging in 19 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:53,160 manipulative bait-and-switch tactics by YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, who I've never heard of. 20 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:01,580 It's more than flex just being a bad deal though. GN's hour-long video highlights things like NZXT offering a named build, like the 21 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:08,360 Player 3 PC, which has an RTX 4070 Ti Super if you buy it, but an RTX 4070 22 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:16,400 non-super if you rent it. Yet the performance of the two configurations is presented as the same, so many people wouldn't catch this. 23 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,240 Our tech-linked analysts have assured me that I probably would though. 24 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,120 NZXT is also accused of changing subscription prices, 25 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:31,000 sometimes every day and jacking up prices for customers a few months in. NZXT has responded, saying they are 26 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:36,000 aware of the recent claims made against us and are actively reviewing the situation. 27 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:44,160 Although I hope that the fact that you can build your own PC with less than a year's worth of flex monthly payments isn't a recent claim. 28 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:50,280 What? Well, that's news to me. I mean, why are we doing this? That's NZXT, by the way. 29 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:59,160 Blizzard is forcing Game Store GOG to delist the original versions of Warcraft 1 and 2, because Blizzard just launched 30 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:09,960 remastered versions of those on Battle.net. So why would you ever need to buy both originals for 15 bucks or 13 bucks with the discount code MakeWarcraftLiveForever? 31 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:14,920 Well, GOG says one reason is that you'll get an offline installer, 32 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:19,920 so you don't have to wake up one day to find a Blizzard exec, took away your game because he doesn't like you. 33 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:26,760 GOGs also tweaked the code themselves, improving performance and adding support for high resolutions and upscaling. 34 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:33,160 And they added Warcraft 1 and 2 to their GOG preservation program, promising to update the game 35 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:39,760 so it stays compatible with modern and future systems, even after it's delisted on December 13th. 36 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:46,360 They're fixing other people's games. Now, if that's not in the spirit of ZUGZUG, I don't know what is. 37 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:51,760 Quick bits, though, are no joke. I tried to make them laugh once. I barely escaped. 38 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,560 Leaks for new Radeon GPUs from AMD are also starting to pop up. 39 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,560 In case you thought they were gonna let Intel and NVIDIA have all the fun for the next few months, 40 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,760 the Radeon 8800XT is about to enter mass production, 41 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:10,560 so it's expected to launch in early 2025, with ray tracing performance similar to the RTX 4080 42 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:15,960 and better than the RX 7900X, while using 25% less power. 43 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:22,360 That's all according to a couple of reliable leakers on the ChipHell forums named Zhang Zhanghao 44 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,960 and WJM47196, Titans in the industry. 45 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:34,360 Microsoft is getting real serious about making you Windows 10 using motherf***ers upgrade to Windows 11 already. 46 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,560 Tweaking a help page for Surface devices and updating hundreds of other support documents 47 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:45,960 with banners and notices saying essentially, Hey, you got less than a year until Windows 10 loses support. 48 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:52,760 Quit screwing around. No doubt Microsoft is aware that market share for Windows 11 actually dipped this month, 49 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:59,160 losing some ground to Windows 10. I don't know. It's like throwing an ad in people's faces when they start up their PC, 50 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,760 makes them not want to listen to it. I know Microsoft. I'm as confused as you are. 51 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:09,160 Open Source Router Project OpenWRT has offered custom firmware for ages, 52 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:15,360 but now they'll be offering their own hardware in collaboration with the Software Freedom Conservancy, 53 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:22,560 an organization that may not actually let deprecated apps like Notepad roam free on a big stretch of grassy land somewhere, 54 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:30,960 but I'm gonna imagine they do. Anyway, the OpenWRT router and its specs were actually announced back in January with an almost unbrickable design. 55 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,560 And you can get it as just a board or with a case and everything. 56 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,560 I'm guessing it's the best thing you can buy on AliExpress. 57 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:45,160 That's the only place you can get it. I don't know why. Apple is being sued by Amar Bhakta, a current Apple employee of four years, 58 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,560 for spying on its staff through work-related and personal devices. 59 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:54,760 It's not the first time an employee has expressed concern over Apple's surveillance of its own workers. 60 00:05:54,760 --> 00:06:03,760 In 2021, Jacob Preston took issue with Apple requiring him to sign into certain work-related services using his personal Apple ID. 61 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:11,560 It comes across a bit hypocritical when Apple touts their commitment to privacy as a differentiator compared to other tech giants. 62 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:19,960 But it makes more sense when you think about it like this. Consumer privacy just depends on employees not having any, is that hard to understand? 63 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:30,560 And an AI startup called World Labs has released demos of 3D worlds it says can be generated from a single image and navigated like a video game. 64 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,960 It's just a video game where you can only move about two feet in any direction. 65 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:41,360 But that's just the prototype. World Labs says things will get more immersive since instead of using generative AI to predict pixels, 66 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,160 they're predicting an actual depth map of a 3D space. 67 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,160 Is this just procedural generation? Is this just No Man's Sky again? 68 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:58,360 Oh man, I can't wait to jump into some AI-generated 3D worlds and explore every nook and cranny to find all the fun things the developers left for me. 69 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:04,960 Oh, I'll leave you with a reminder to come on back on Wednesday for more tech news so you can keep your mind sharp. 70 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:10,160 After all, brain rot is apparently the Oxford word of the year for 2024. 71 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,360 We can do better.