WEBVTT 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 00:00:03.880 --> 00:00:07.260 are about to lose their jobs and that really sucks. 00:00:07.260 --> 00:00:10.260 What happened, Intel? You used to be cool, man. You used to be cool. 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 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:20.080 they announced earlier this year will commence with 107 jobs eliminated across four facilities 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:24.720 in Santa Clara. These are related to their automotive business. Wait, Intel has an automotive business? 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:27.800 Had. Had an automotive business. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.240 And it's getting shut down. But don't worry, it gets worse. 00:00:31.240 --> 00:00:34.440 Xbox is also laying people off next week, according to Jason Schreier. 00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:38.320 This was originally supposed to be thousands of Microsoft employees, but apparently these 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:41.480 jobs are going to come almost entirely from the Xbox team. 00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:45.680 Wow. Windows search team dodging a bullet again. But three's the magic number, right? 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 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.920 their workforce because business is down as people have slowly realized that dating apps 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 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:04.160 of profits because capitalism demands that you must be over six feet. 00:01:04.160 --> 00:01:08.200 And regular LTT sponsored D brand is facing their own capitalistic crisis after telling 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.120 their customers whose joy cons were detaching that they were just holding their kill switch 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, 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:21.840 explaining why and how the issue is clearly just user error. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.680 Only to receive backlash from the community, part of which included a screenshot of our 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 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:35.400 the guy who has half a dozen dropping compilations, okay? 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 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 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:50.360 properly fix the kill switch too, with another update coming on July 10th. 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:55.120 But don't expect any apologies from AI companies anytime soon because US district judge William 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:01.680 Alsup, Alsup, Alsup, Alsup has ruled that yes, you can train large language models on 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.800 copyrighted works as long as those works were purchased. 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. 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 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 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 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:31.240 because authors admitted that training these LLMs didn't result in direct copies or infringing 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. 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, 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 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:49.320 a research library. There it is. There's the piracy. 00:02:49.320 --> 00:02:56.760 Oh, sorry. I was just trying to finish off these quick bits. 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:00.680 NVIDIA has announced another card that's dead on arrival, the RTX 5050. 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, 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:08.640 and based on what we can glean from the spec sheet, way fewer frames per second. 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 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:15.120 you with my preliminary review. F*** you, NVIDIA. 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 00:03:18.880 --> 00:03:23.200 exist. Maybe? The all-black iPhone 17 Pro. 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:27.920 ImagineBoo himself has leaked images of the upcoming devices and the design is, uh, well, 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:31.560 it's another iPhone. But there's now another bump below the camera bump. 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 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 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 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? 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. 00:03:59.160 --> 00:04:02.320 What? How's a guy supposed to compete in this market? 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 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 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 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.280 to when I can game at 16K at 60fps when I'm 80. 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:26.440 Honestly, while I can't get anywhere close to saturating all of that bandwidth, maybe 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. 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, 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:45.560 as well as the GCH power connector that ASUS has been working on. 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.760 And magically, none of the cables melted yet. 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 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:55.400 more tech news. I'm melting! Oh, I'm melting! 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:57.040 Oh, I'm melting!