Aw, look at you with your little mobile device or computer and your cute hairdo coming in
here to get caught up with the tech news, that's um...that's adorable.
Apple's recent troubles with selling Macs are even worse than everyone thought.
An IDC report claims that Mac shipments in the first three months of this year were down
40% compared to Q1 last year, and that's even worse than PC shipments overall, which were
down by about 30%. As analysts, they're trying to determine a possible cause for the dip, occurring at
a time when breakfast cereal costs more than your hourly wage, but so far, nothing checks
out. Apple admitted to investors last week that its overall revenue had dropped 5% compared
to this time last year, which isn't much, but hear me out, it might be time for Microsoft
to strike, because according to people on Reddit, Windows on ARM runs kind of well now.
I haven't paid attention to it since 2021, when an M1 MacBook ran Windows 10 in a virtual
machine better than the flagship ARM-powered Surface, but now Windows 11 apparently has
great ARM support, to the point where processor maker Ampere's new 128-core Ultra Dev Kit
supports Windows. It might need all 128 of those cores to keep up with the MacBook, but do we want to buy
the $2,000 Dev Kit, or wait until MacBook Airs are more expensive than that?
We want to wait? Yeah, okay, I'll drop it.
One of YouTube's wacky experiments from last year has actually come to fruition with enhanced
bitrate 1080p for YouTube Premium members rolling out first on iOS.
And while this might seem lame to non-Premesters, would you rather have the 20 ads in front
of a video? We should be thanking YouTube for enacting one of the less garbage ones.
Furthermore, the premium 1080p experience apparently is in fact being enhanced over and above
the non-Premium peasant, stinky, normal 1080p quality, which is not being degraded.
YouTube found a way to make their platform better, but only for those willing to pay
a monthly subscription. Hm? What?
What? Oh, so I thought I heard someone say Twitter. Actually, if YouTube's following Elon's lead, here's an idea, let YouTube Premium
subscribers see dislike counts again. Would make bullying people easier, but you paid for the privilege, so.
And MSI has confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack last week.
Ransomware Group Money Message claimed responsibility and said it was able to steal source code
and BIOS firmware for which it wants MSI to pay $4 million to recover.
So they figured, after we do a hack, we send a message asking for money, so we thought,
hey, the money message made sense.
It's unclear whether the hackers thought about their plan as much as their name, though,
because even if MSI did pay the ransom, there's no way to ensure the hackers don't copy
the data and exploit it, so MSI still has to invalidate a bunch of certificates and rewrite
stuff anyway. It should have gone with inconvenience message.
MSI is urging users to only download firmware slash BIOS updates from its official website,
but maybe hold off updating your BIOS for a little bit just to make sure you're getting
the good one and not the one made to look legit by the guys who apparently also took
advice from Elon's revamped plan for blue checkmarks. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
Once again, I would like to clarify that the following five shorter stories are what we
call the quick bits. Some leaks about NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 4070 have come up, including images of the card's
dual slot design, its reported release date of April 13th, and its reported MSRP of 599
USD. As some fans are pointing out, though, the expected performance gains over previous generations
are not that impressive for the price, unless you saw Digital Foundry's recent demo of
the new ray tracing overdrive mode in Cyberpunk 2077 and thought, I would pay any price to
see the makeshift boroughs constructed by the disadvantaged street people of a future
dystopia illuminated with greater fidelity.
Tesla is facing a class action complaint triggered by the news last week that the company's
employees shared customers' private sensitive videos using an internal messaging system
and even made memes out of the footage. The lawsuit is being filed in California by the law firms Fitzgerald, Joseph, and Bloodhurst
and O'Rearden. Is Bloodhurst with Fitzgerald or the other one?
Hopefully this suit goes somewhere, because at this point we've seen enough examples
of companies telling you that they don't look at your private stuff and then it coming
out that, oh yes, actually they totally do, should probably lead to something other than
us making jokes about it. Nintendo is still pushing hard for that worst gaming company trophy.
Their latest effort involves subpoenaing Discord for the personal information of the user who
leaked images from the art book for the upcoming Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom.
Nintendo has demanded any info that could identify the user name, phone number, email
address, regular hair salon, mother's place of work, because they'd like to, you know,
give her a gift. The subpoena comes right after the company DMCA videos from YouTuber PointCrow about
cool Nintendo related stuff like the Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod that just released.
Look, Nintendo is just worried about you liking their games too much.
Just play the normal games on the normal Switch, okay?
That way, you can't get hurt like they did.
Amazon has banned the Flipper Zero, a gadget used by tinkerers to hack garage doors, computers
or basically anything from sale on its marketplace, because according to Amazon, it's a card
skimming device. Which is not true, unless you do use it for that, because you probably could.
To be fair to Amazon, the device's aesthetics are a bit baby's first hacking tool, so they're
probably worried kids might order it with their parents' credit card, and they ain't
going anywhere near that. You can still get the Flipper Zero on its website, or enjoy it vicariously through
LTT's recent video. And Discord is in even more trouble, because it turns out government documents that detailed
the US and NATO's plans for a Ukrainian counter-offensive leaked first in an unofficial Minecraft Discord
server. The documents then showed up on 4chan, being posted by users trying to win an argument.
Yeah, it's okay War Thunder forums, this one isn't on you.
It's on other people that apparently don't understand that posting classified documents
to own the other guy is maybe not worth it just for the internet cloud.
I mean you did get them though, definitely won that back and forth, that was nice.
And you could win a whole new set of tech news if you come back on Wednesday.
It takes some time to parse through what the government says we're allowed to tell you
and what we're not, so we just need a few days.