WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.160 Okay, it's time for serious tech news. 00:00:04.300 --> 00:00:09.040 It's serious! Stop! 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:14.200 An Intel press release dropped this morning, suddenly announcing CEO Pat Gelsinger's 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:18.400 retirement after less than four years in the position with some real 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:25.400 mafia energy. Mr. Gelsinger is currently resting, but he sends his regards. No for the questions. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.480 Insider sources told Bloomberg and Reuters that Intel's board of directors 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 00:00:37.680 --> 00:00:42.160 continually breaking off the rudder. So they gave him a choice to step down or 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 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 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 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. 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:19.760 Eastern to officially divulge whether all of those leaks were real, 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.240 including the one from the weekend where the funky kit show 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. 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. 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.960 I was this close to making him my other dad. 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 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:53.160 manipulative bait-and-switch tactics by YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, who I've never heard of. 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 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 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. 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:20.240 Our tech-linked analysts have assured me that I probably would though. 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.120 NZXT is also accused of changing subscription prices, 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 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:36.000 aware of the recent claims made against us and are actively reviewing the situation. 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. 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. 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 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? 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:14.920 Well, GOG says one reason is that you'll get an offline installer, 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. 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:26.760 GOGs also tweaked the code themselves, improving performance and adding support for high resolutions and upscaling. 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 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. 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. 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.760 Quick bits, though, are no joke. I tried to make them laugh once. I barely escaped. 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:56.560 Leaks for new Radeon GPUs from AMD are also starting to pop up. 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, 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.760 the Radeon 8800XT is about to enter mass production, 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 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:15.960 and better than the RX 7900X, while using 25% less power. 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 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.960 and WJM47196, Titans in the industry. 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. 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.560 Tweaking a help page for Surface devices and updating hundreds of other support documents 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. 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, 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, 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. 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:09.160 Open Source Router Project OpenWRT has offered custom firmware for ages, 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:15.360 but now they'll be offering their own hardware in collaboration with the Software Freedom Conservancy, 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, 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. 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:34.560 And you can get it as just a board or with a case and everything. 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.560 I'm guessing it's the best thing you can buy on AliExpress. 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, 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.560 for spying on its staff through work-related and personal devices. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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, 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:45.160 they're predicting an actual depth map of a 3D space. 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:49.160 Is this just procedural generation? Is this just No Man's Sky again? 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. 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. 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:10.160 After all, brain rot is apparently the Oxford word of the year for 2024. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:11.360 We can do better.