WEBVTT 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, 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, 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. 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 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, 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. 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, 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, 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 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 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, 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:15.600 however, is at least aggressive enough that NVIDIA has climbed out of their Scrooge McDuck money 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. 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:37.440 Microsoft will finally respect Windows 11 users' default browser choice and stop forcing them to 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 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:50.080 in Europe. They get everything. It's unclear why Microsoft has had this strange geographically 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:55.920 specific change of heart, but the likely answer is to avoid further regulatory scrutiny. Of course, 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:01.200 in July, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Microsoft's practice 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.880 of bundling teams and allegedly forcing installation and blocking removal of the software for millions 00:02:06.880 --> 00:02:11.600 of users. This week, Microsoft announced that they would no longer be bundling teams with the 00:02:11.600 --> 00:02:17.440 rest of their productivity suite in the European market for no particular reason. Zoom, obviously an 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:22.640 entirely disinterested party, has suggested that the FTC should open a similar investigation in the 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:28.320 United States. Zoom also announced its new AI smart assistant and generative tools similar to 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 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 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 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:52.640 Chinese chip despite international attempts to slow Chinese chipmaking down. 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 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:05.680 7nm process, according to semiconductor researchers at Tech Insights, who performed a teardown of 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, 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:17.680 but also because it was made in defiance of US sanctions. The US government blacklisted Huawei 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:24.160 in 2019 over espionage concerns and levied export controls to prevent Chinese companies from acquiring 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:29.600 advanced chip fabricating equipment late last year. It's not clear that these attempts to curb 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:33.920 Chinese production of high-end chips have been entirely ineffective. It's more likely that the 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:39.040 Chinese government and industry have been putting a massive amount of resources into 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 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, 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:57.440 or pretending to be first to the moon. 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.840 Stanley Kubrick? Wait, when are the quick bits happening? After this intro, 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:05.600 I already knew that, but I'm playing along with what the script says. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:13.920 The Museum of Classic Chicago Television nearly lost its 60-year-old YouTube channel dedicated 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:20.480 to preserving TV history after posted episodes of Bewitched, a 60-year-old series owned by 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.240 Sony Pictures Entertainment. The copyright strikes were actually 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. 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.000 Fortunately, Sony eventually offered to get the channel back up, 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 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:45.280 and receive a response. The system works. Geo-media owners of Gizmodo have laid off the 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:51.840 small editorial team of Gizmodo en Español, which will from now on publish machine-translated 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:57.280 articles from the English site. The transition has been less than seamless with readers complaining 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:02.560 that some articles will start and smash only to switch to English halfway through. Geo-media, 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:08.240 which also owns The Onion and Jezbel, has been experimenting with AI-generated articles since 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.960 at least July, raising the possibility that we might soon see articles that are written, 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:17.520 then translated into another language entirely without human intervention. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.800 If Geo thinks that won't cause problems, then all I can say is, 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:22.960 estoy muy embarazada para ti. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:31.760 Apple has signed a new long-standing deal with ARM, according to initial public offering documents 00:05:31.760 --> 00:05:38.160 filed by ARM on Tuesday. The deal extends beyond 2040, meaning corporations have 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 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:51.920 20 years, but Apple still hasn't escaped their last relationship because Intel Foundry Services 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:56.640 has decided to invest in ARM, possibly to give them an excuse to text their ex. 00:05:56.640 --> 00:06:00.720 It's like a love triangle, but between faceless and emotionless corporations. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:06.320 Apple also might launch low-cost MacBooks to compete with Chromebooks in the education sector, 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:10.800 according to a questionable rumor from allegedly bad guesser Digitimes. 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.520 They claim industry sources say the new laptops will differ from MacBook Pros and Airs 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:20.960 by having a shell made from different material and have cheaper components. 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:24.800 If true, Apple will finally take a break from making the world's most premium 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.520 future e-waste for the elite to make cheap future e-waste for the people. 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 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:42.000 at had massive privacy concerns. There are some standouts though. Tesla failed every single one 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 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 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 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.560 again. But you should definitely come back on Friday for more TechLinked. We won't collect 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.520 your genetic information, but not for lack of trying.