1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,600 Reviews are out for AMD's RX 7700 XT and the 7800 XT, and these cards are a triumph, 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:15,120 kind of. Maybe sort of, I guess. This 7700 XT is a decent jump from the last gen 6700 XT, 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:22,640 but it's also competing with the RX 6800, which has more memory, a better bus width, and cost less. 4 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:28,640 And it's not just its predecessors the 7700 XT has to worry about. The 7800 XT has 16 5 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:35,040 gigabytes of VRAM, rather than 12, and is up to 20% faster for only 50 bucks more, 6 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:40,960 making the 7700 XT redundant before it even comes out, like me, compared to my older siblings. 7 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:47,040 AMD isn't even making their own version of the 7700 XT, leaving that up to their board partners, 8 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:52,320 if they even care enough to bother. The RX 7800 XT itself is a solid, though not spectacular, 9 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:58,640 improvement over the last gen that's $150 less at launch, but notably the RX 6800 XT 10 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:05,760 launched smack dab in the middle of a global GPU shortage. The new cards come with DisplayPort 2.1 11 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:10,400 and AV1 support if you really need them, but otherwise, you're not missing much. AMD's pricing, 12 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,600 however, is at least aggressive enough that NVIDIA has climbed out of their Scrooge McDuck money 13 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:24,080 to reduce the price of the poorly reviewed RTX 4060 Ti by another 50 bucks to match the RX 7700 XT. 14 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:37,440 Microsoft will finally respect Windows 11 users' default browser choice and stop forcing them to 15 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:44,000 use Edge like a pushy stage parent. Don't get too excited, that's only if the user happens to live 16 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,080 in Europe. They get everything. It's unclear why Microsoft has had this strange geographically 17 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:55,920 specific change of heart, but the likely answer is to avoid further regulatory scrutiny. Of course, 18 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,200 in July, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Microsoft's practice 19 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:06,880 of bundling teams and allegedly forcing installation and blocking removal of the software for millions 20 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,600 of users. This week, Microsoft announced that they would no longer be bundling teams with the 21 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:17,440 rest of their productivity suite in the European market for no particular reason. Zoom, obviously an 22 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:22,640 entirely disinterested party, has suggested that the FTC should open a similar investigation in the 23 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:28,320 United States. Zoom also announced its new AI smart assistant and generative tools similar to 24 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:33,680 Microsoft's own co-pilot smart assistant and refused to answer follow-up questions as to why it now 25 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,160 had the same haircut as Microsoft and what it was doing with so many pictures of Sacha Nadella and 26 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:47,040 Bill Gates. Huawei's latest Mate 60 Pro flagship smartphone seems to be powered by a homegrown 27 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:52,640 Chinese chip despite international attempts to slow Chinese chipmaking down. 28 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:59,760 The Kira 9000SSOC is suspected to have been created by China-based SMIC using its second-gen 29 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:05,680 7nm process, according to semiconductor researchers at Tech Insights, who performed a teardown of 30 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,920 the Mate 60 Pro. Little is officially known about the Kira 9000S in part because it's shy, 31 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:17,680 but also because it was made in defiance of US sanctions. The US government blacklisted Huawei 32 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,160 in 2019 over espionage concerns and levied export controls to prevent Chinese companies from acquiring 33 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:29,600 advanced chip fabricating equipment late last year. It's not clear that these attempts to curb 34 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,920 Chinese production of high-end chips have been entirely ineffective. It's more likely that the 35 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:39,040 Chinese government and industry have been putting a massive amount of resources into 36 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:44,640 overcoming them. If the Cold War proved anything, it's that a nation with enough money and determination 37 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,960 can accomplish amazing things, like Jell-O made of boiled eggs or shooting a dog into space, 38 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,440 or pretending to be first to the moon. 39 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,840 Stanley Kubrick? Wait, when are the quick bits happening? After this intro, 40 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,600 I already knew that, but I'm playing along with what the script says. 41 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,920 The Museum of Classic Chicago Television nearly lost its 60-year-old YouTube channel dedicated 42 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:20,480 to preserving TV history after posted episodes of Bewitched, a 60-year-old series owned by 43 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,240 Sony Pictures Entertainment. The copyright strikes were actually 44 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,240 sent by a firm hired by Sony, so the museum was unable to discuss the matter with Sony directly. 45 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,000 Fortunately, Sony eventually offered to get the channel back up, 46 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,200 and all it took was the story being picked up by a publication with enough clout to contact Sony 47 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:45,280 and receive a response. The system works. Geo-media owners of Gizmodo have laid off the 48 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:51,840 small editorial team of Gizmodo en Español, which will from now on publish machine-translated 49 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:57,280 articles from the English site. The transition has been less than seamless with readers complaining 50 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:02,560 that some articles will start and smash only to switch to English halfway through. Geo-media, 51 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:08,240 which also owns The Onion and Jezbel, has been experimenting with AI-generated articles since 52 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,960 at least July, raising the possibility that we might soon see articles that are written, 53 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,520 then translated into another language entirely without human intervention. 54 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,800 If Geo thinks that won't cause problems, then all I can say is, 55 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,960 estoy muy embarazada para ti. 56 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,760 Apple has signed a new long-standing deal with ARM, according to initial public offering documents 57 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:38,160 filed by ARM on Tuesday. The deal extends beyond 2040, meaning corporations have 58 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,640 beat humanity again. You'll never see a human worth billions of dollars staying in a marriage for 59 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:51,920 20 years, but Apple still hasn't escaped their last relationship because Intel Foundry Services 60 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:56,640 has decided to invest in ARM, possibly to give them an excuse to text their ex. 61 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,720 It's like a love triangle, but between faceless and emotionless corporations. 62 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,320 Apple also might launch low-cost MacBooks to compete with Chromebooks in the education sector, 63 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,800 according to a questionable rumor from allegedly bad guesser Digitimes. 64 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,520 They claim industry sources say the new laptops will differ from MacBook Pros and Airs 65 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:20,960 by having a shell made from different material and have cheaper components. 66 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,800 If true, Apple will finally take a break from making the world's most premium 67 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,520 future e-waste for the elite to make cheap future e-waste for the people. 68 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:36,080 And a new study of 25 car makers by the Mozilla Foundation found that every car brand they looked 69 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:42,000 at had massive privacy concerns. There are some standouts though. Tesla failed every single one 70 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,120 of Mozilla's privacy criteria. Nissan and Kia both say they can collect data on your sex life 71 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:54,160 for targeted ad purposes in their privacy policies. And six of the car companies say they can collect 72 00:06:54,160 --> 00:07:00,000 your genetic information or genetic characteristics. So whatever you do, don't have sex with your car 73 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,560 again. But you should definitely come back on Friday for more TechLinked. We won't collect 74 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,520 your genetic information, but not for lack of trying.