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Sorry, no stupid intro, not that kind of day. Nintendo has been issued a challenge

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by Brazil's official consumer protection agency over the company's recently changed user agreement,

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which now gives Nintendo the right to remotely brick your console if you muck around with it

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in a way Nintendo doesn't like. The Brazilian watchdog wants Nintendo

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to remove the relevant clause from their agreement, citing legal reasons, like not violating

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consumers' rights to access services they've paid for.

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But I just hope they know who they're dealing with here. As far as I know, every Nintendo employee

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has been to law school. But this whole Nintendo-bricking-consoles thing

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took on a new dimension this week when a redditor going by bimmy-tongue

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said they bought an open box Switch 2 from Walmart

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only to discover it was apparently pre-owned by a hooligan who got the console

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struck by Nintendo's online services ban, probably because they were trying to use it

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to hack an orphanage or something.

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Suddenly, it's hitting a lot of people, presumably, or maybe just me,

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that the second-hand Switch market is about to become a bit of a minefield.

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I mean, sure, people and retailers can learn to verify that the console isn't banned

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before buying or selling, but now that's a thing we have to do

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because Nintendo decided that there wasn't enough e-waste in the world.

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Meanwhile, over in Japan, there are numerous reports of Switch 2 consoles overheating,

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usually while playing Cyberpunk in docked mode, even with the dock fans going full blast.

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Although there have also been English-language Reddit posts about the Switch 2 getting hot while running,

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so Nintendo fans might just be learning about how consoles get hot sometimes

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once they can render big-boy games. Microsoft has announced another round of layoffs

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with around 9,000 employees, or about 4% of the company's entire workforce,

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getting chopped. A couple hundred of those cut jobs are coming from Xbox,

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despite gaming chief Phil Spencer saying the Xbox platform hardware and game roadmap

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have never looked stronger. Xbox is the mediest it's ever been,

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so it's a perfect time to slice a nice big sirloin off

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right out of there and gobble it up raw. As part of the layoff,

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some Xbox projects are being canceled, including the Perfect Dark reboot,

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developed by The Initiative, which is also being closed down, the studio,

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and Everwild, the game announced in 2019 from Rare

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that looked like it was just about chilling and doing magic with mystical beasts.

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Well, if they didn't want to get canceled, they should have made the game about lines

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and making them go up, lesson learned. OpenAI is still trying to fight a court order

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in the New York Times lawsuit, forcing them to retain and provide

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the chat GPT logs of all users,

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something the company says they don't want to do because they care so, so much about user privacy.

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You guys don't even know how much we care about user privacy. It's a big deal.

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To be clear, privacy obviously is an issue with the order,

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but though OpenAI doesn't say it, the logs could also reveal more evidence

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of copyright infringement or hallucinated nonsense

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improperly attributed to a source that didn't even say that.

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But also the logs could provide ammunition to potential plaintiffs looking to take the advice

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of the judge who recently ruled that meta and anthropic training their AI

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on copyrighted materials was fair use,

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but only because the plaintiffs in that case made the wrong arguments.

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They should have worked at Nintendo first

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and gone to law school, that was dumb. The judge said other authors or news organizations

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could make a stronger case against meta or OpenAI

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by focusing on how the use of llama or chat GPT

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has affected the market for books or news content.

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Or if you don't wanna go the legal route, you could use Cloudflare's new pay per crawl feature,

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which will let content creators charge AI companies

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to set their web crawlers loose on the creators content.

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After all, as NYT columnist Kevin Ruse said

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in response to Sam Altman lamenting the violation

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of user privacy, it must be really hard when someone does something with your data

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you don't want them to. Okay, I had a whole introduction

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for the quick bits typed out, but my dog just ate it, I swear.

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AMD has dropped new GPU drivers that boost the RX 9070 XT's gaming performance

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by up to 27%, according to extensive testing

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by hardware unboxed. The 9070 XT performed slightly worse

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than the RTX 5070 Ti when it launched, but now performs 3% better on average.

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Meanwhile, people are just trying to find out if the RTX 5050 is even launched or not.

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In a blog post published yesterday, NVIDIA said it was coming in the second half of July,

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but GPU partner, Inno3D, said their 5050s are on shelf now.

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And if you're getting deja vu, it's because this is the third eight Gigabyte card

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from NVIDIA this generation without any launch day reviews.

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I don't know, maybe they're just sparing reviewers from feeling dumb for staying up all night reviewing a card

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no one's gonna buy. Speaking of no one, nothing has fully unveiled

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what it calls its first true flagship phone, the Phone 3,

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which will actually properly launch in the US for 800 bucks on July 15th

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with four 50 megapixel cameras and a fun little Glyph display on the back.

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It's fun because it's like a normal display, but worse, that's rude.

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It's fun. Like nothing's first over ear headphones,

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the headphone one, which has buttons.

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And will also launch on July 15th for 300 bucks.

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But will you want the nothing some things or the Honor Magic V5, the thinnest foldable ever

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with a noticeable crease in the display and also it's only available in China, hard choice.

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Theater chain AMC will now advise you ahead of time

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that you'll have to sit through about 25 to 30 minutes of ads before your movie starts.

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I mean, okay, some of those are trailers. That's not fair. The change comes after AMC announced,

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they'll be following their competitors in showing more ads before films start,

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but at least they're letting you know so you don't pay the same as a month of Netflix

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to trek to the theater to sit through a TV show episodes

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worth of slot before you can see your movie. It's nice.

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And musical artist Lord with an E,

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her new album Virgin was released last week with a number of physical variants,

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including a fully transparent CD,

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which many fans discovered is not actually playable

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in many CD players with the main problem being

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because of how CDs work. See, the CD is read by a laser, which is light,

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which goes through transparent things.

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Anyway, this Redditor got it to work in a CD player with a tray.

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So I don't know, look for one of those maybe. Lord posted some fun facts about the album on Twitter,

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which I'm sure is great, but none of them say anything about whether the clear CD idea was tested beforehand.

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Like this seems like designing a cup with a hole in the bottom and then never pouring something in there

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before you sell it to me. I mean, hey, maybe it's a prank.

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It's art. Look, don't prank me. Just come back on Friday for more tech news.

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Okay, let's keep this straightforward. No funny business.