1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,880 We don't normally do serious intros here at TechLink, but it sounds like a ton of people 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,260 are about to lose their jobs and that really sucks. 3 00:00:07,260 --> 00:00:10,260 What happened, Intel? You used to be cool, man. You used to be cool. 4 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:14,760 Effective July 15th, the first phase of Intel's plan to reduce their workforce by 20% that 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:20,080 they announced earlier this year will commence with 107 jobs eliminated across four facilities 6 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:24,720 in Santa Clara. These are related to their automotive business. Wait, Intel has an automotive business? 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,800 Had. Had an automotive business. 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,240 And it's getting shut down. But don't worry, it gets worse. 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,440 Xbox is also laying people off next week, according to Jason Schreier. 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,320 This was originally supposed to be thousands of Microsoft employees, but apparently these 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,480 jobs are going to come almost entirely from the Xbox team. 12 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:45,680 Wow. Windows search team dodging a bullet again. But three's the magic number, right? 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,840 Well, dating app Bumble is empowering management to make the first move in laying off 30% of 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,920 their workforce because business is down as people have slowly realized that dating apps 15 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,880 suck for all genders. Of course, all of these terminations from all three companies have been in the name 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:04,160 of profits because capitalism demands that you must be over six feet. 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,200 And regular LTT sponsored D brand is facing their own capitalistic crisis after telling 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,120 their customers whose joy cons were detaching that they were just holding their kill switch 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:17,400 too wrong. The company issued a massive first response to users complaining about the switch to accessory, 20 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,840 explaining why and how the issue is clearly just user error. 21 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,680 Only to receive backlash from the community, part of which included a screenshot of our 22 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:31,560 own line of Sebastian holding it the same wrong way. Now this might be victim blaming, but don't base your model of how you hold things on 23 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,400 the guy who has half a dozen dropping compilations, okay? 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,900 Just think for a second. However, it seems that the you're holding it wrong strategy is working about as well 25 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:46,480 for D brand as it did for Apple 15 years ago. And D brand has since done a 180 and issued an apology statement with a better plan to 26 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,360 properly fix the kill switch too, with another update coming on July 10th. 27 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,120 But don't expect any apologies from AI companies anytime soon because US district judge William 28 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:01,680 Alsup, Alsup, Alsup, Alsup has ruled that yes, you can train large language models on 29 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,800 copyrighted works as long as those works were purchased. 30 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:10,080 And I don't mean purchasing the rights. I mean, you literally have to buy a copy of the book. 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:16,680 It's definitely better than them just pirating everything. At least for now, they've got to pay hundreds or, or no, thousands of dollars to acquire 32 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,240 training material. But that seems like a pittance compared to the potential revenue they'll earn from the 33 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,040 trained models. The law is murky, and Judge Alsup came to this copyright conclusion, at least partially 34 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:31,240 because authors admitted that training these LLMs didn't result in direct copies or infringing 35 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,320 knockoffs. Officer, I'm just buying a lot of guns, but I'm not going to use them. 36 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:42,080 Come on. Yet. Anthropic, the company being sued in this case, is happy with this result, no doubt, 37 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,320 but will be back in court to fight the accusation that they pirated 7 million books to build 38 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,320 a research library. There it is. There's the piracy. 39 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:56,760 Oh, sorry. I was just trying to finish off these quick bits. 40 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,680 NVIDIA has announced another card that's dead on arrival, the RTX 5050. 41 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,440 It's only going to be $50 cheaper than the 5060 while offering way fewer CUDA cores, 42 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,640 and based on what we can glean from the spec sheet, way fewer frames per second. 43 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:12,040 Now NVIDIA isn't planning on sending any of these out for review, but I will still provide 44 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,120 you with my preliminary review. F*** you, NVIDIA. 45 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,880 And if you want a purchasing decision, do yourself a favor and pretend the 5050 doesn't 46 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,200 exist. Maybe? The all-black iPhone 17 Pro. 47 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,920 ImagineBoo himself has leaked images of the upcoming devices and the design is, uh, well, 48 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,560 it's another iPhone. But there's now another bump below the camera bump. 49 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:36,080 That is the innovation we like to see. We'll just have to wait to see how annoying it's going to be when the camera bar gets 50 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:42,680 caught sliding under your pocket like a pixel or something. Speaking of minor design improvements for expensive hardware, Noctua put out a 9 and 51 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:50,400 a half minute video explaining the new NF-A12X25G2 120mm fan is about 9% better than the last 52 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,280 one. Now, it comes with a progressive bend impeller. You know what else has a progressive bend? 53 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:59,160 What I don't have, though, is a centrifugal-turbulator hub, an ETA perf motor, or super torque. 54 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,320 What? How's a guy supposed to compete in this market? 55 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:07,240 Come on! And when I say come on, I mean tell me more about those HDMI 2.2 specifications that are 56 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:12,800 getting into the hands of manufacturers. Who knows when consumers will be able to get the cables, and who knows how long the cables 57 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,480 will be when they have to support 96 gigabits per second of bandwidth, but I look forward 58 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,280 to when I can game at 16K at 60fps when I'm 80. 59 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:26,440 Honestly, while I can't get anywhere close to saturating all of that bandwidth, maybe 60 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:35,760 ASUS China's general manager can. Tony Yu managed to pull about 1900 watts of power through an RTX 5090 with BTF connectors. 61 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:42,080 You know, the ones that are on the back. To accomplish this feat, the Mad Lad used two power supplies, and both the 16-pin connector, 62 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,560 as well as the GCH power connector that ASUS has been working on. 63 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,760 And magically, none of the cables melted yet. 64 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,400 But I'm starting to melt under these blazing hot studio lights, so come back next time for 65 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,400 more tech news. I'm melting! Oh, I'm melting! 66 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,040 Oh, I'm melting!