Where am I? Well, how did I get here? What? Oh, well, I guess we'll never know it's heck news time
Sony and Microsoft are continuing the most high-stakes tug-of-war match since squid game and well
Things are starting to get weird like the show squid game or just a squid
Sony's latest attempt to gain back some ground is to accuse team Xbox of
Future sabotage the PlayStation manufacturer claims that if the merger goes through
Microsoft might release a PlayStation version of Call of Duty where bugs and errors emerge only on the game's final level or
After later updates the first off that's an extremely specific hypothetical scenario
Why wouldn't they sabotage it earlier in the game and second levels call of duty is like pornography very little of the audience cares about the
Meanwhile, Activision executive Lulu Cheng meservay has claimed on Twitter that when the publisher offered Sony
Guaranteed long-term access to Call of Duty in a closed-door meeting the CEO of Sony interactive entertainment Jim Ryan replied
I don't want a new Call of Duty deal. I just want to block your merger
It's pretty good, but we take this quote with a grain of salt
Mezzervay previously argued that the success of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation meant Microsoft should be allowed to buy Activision
because acquiring one of gaming's biggest publishers and
Producing a TV show based on one of your games are comparable somehow on the other hand Sony's sabotage claims are also pretty wacky
So maybe she is telling the truth and the fact that this deal is taking so long is kind of starting to mess with people's heads
Epic Games have officially launched self-publishing tools on the epic game store after a year and a half in closed beta in their latest attempt
To compete with Steam if you didn't know literally every detail epic CEO Tim Sweeney has you covered by tweeting all of it
Hey, Tim, that's our job Of course steams offered self-publishing for some time
But there are some nice benefits to self-publishing on epic rather than steam for starters
Epic takes a fixed 12% commission on game sales while steams commission starts at 30% and
Decreases at certain sales milestones Publishers on epic can also keep a hundred percent of the money earned from in-game purchases if they use their own payment system on the flip side
This probably means a lot of free-to-play live service games will be seen on the epic game store rather than where I
Personally would like them tied to a wooden stake being engulfed by flames, right?
But all the things I don't like which there is a big caveat though unlike steam epic doesn't allow porn
I guess you'll have to go literally anywhere else on the internet for that
Such a hassle Just ask Bing and Discord has decided that it too will be adding AI features
First the platform's resident robot Clyde will be given a chat GPT upgrade so that users can talk to Clyde by asking questions
Or even include Clyde in group conversations with you and anyone else on your server
Finally, I made my first Discord friend
Discord is also using AI to power up their auto mod feature
Which will be able to find and alert a server's moderator when a rule is broken while keeping in mind
The context of a conversation, which I'm sure will come in handy whenever the topic of 1930s Germany
Innocently pops up Discord will incorporate an AI powered
Conversation summaries feature that will sort a server's messages into summarized topics to allow users to catch up on the conversation more easily
After being away doing other things like you know talking to their family touching grass other cliches
In other news Discord voice chat is now officially available on ps5 after being in beta for over a year
Finally ps5 users can natively hear from all the Xbox users that have slept with their moms moms
Okay, it's time for another quick bits intro
I guess that was it Alright Meta is looking to compete with Twitter in a way that's different than the way it already competes with Twitter by making their
Very own Twitter the decentralized text-based social network is codenamed
p92 not to be confused with p90x the horrible
Torture session led by Skeletor as I call it stay away from it
It's easy to remember the difference though p92 is a social media platform while p90x is meant to make you feel better about yourself
Opposite so Have you been on Twitter?
Scientists claim to have discovered a room temperature superconductor a material that can conduct electricity without resistance and would
revolutionize modern electrical systems Ironically the paper detailing this material is facing a lot of resistance since one of the authors of the paper claimed the same thing
two years ago in another paper and That paper was retracted for misleading data, but he's probably not lying this time
He wouldn't You got you got caught already. Why would you he's a bit of a fixer-upper a new retail motherboard from ASUS has all of its
Connectors on the back to help aesthetically-minded PC builders hide their cables
The board is called BTF which apparently stands for back to the future a name that may rub both acronym and
80s movie enthusiasts the wrong way what the announced board supports Intel CPUs as of now
But we don't yet know if AMD will get it back to the future part, too
SSD manufacturer Sabrin has teamed up with SSD controller maker faizan
What a great pair to develop a PCIe Gen 5 SSD that could potentially reach read speeds of
14,000 megabytes per second so far the pair have reached a speed of
12,398 megabytes per second which experts are calling pretty fast
The SSD is still under development, but Sabrin appears confident
They will eventually reach their target speed and when they do I probably won't buy it
It sounds very expensive and the hot new trend among car manufacturers is removing AM radios from their electric vehicles
But Ford is being even more brave and removing it from their gas-powered
2024 Mustang now they had already removed it from the electric f-150 lightning claiming as other automakers have that electric engines generate
electromagnetic noise that interferes with an AM radio
So I guess the excuse this time will be that the internal combustion engine
Generate sound noise that makes it harder to hear the radio for
Listen, just just say no one uses AM radio. You want to cut costs?
It's not that it's not that hard to say use your words Just like how it's not that hard to come back on Monday for more news of the tech variety
Man, you're gonna have a great weekend, and then you get more tech news. I'm so jealous of you right now
Linus, what are you doing here? I didn't know you worked here