Welcome to the jungle. And by the jungle, I mean the tech news.
And by the tech news, I mean the jungle.
Intel revealed some exciting new details about its upcoming Lunar Lake laptop chips
at Computex earlier this week, including redesigned e-cores
with up to 68% higher instructions per clock.
Performance cores are up only 14%, but laptops are all about battery life now.
Ankle socks aren't cool anymore. We're back to tall socks.
Things change, keep up. Lunar Lake will likewise use integrated memory
on the package, similar to Apple's M1 and various other mobile SoCs.
Lunar Lake will also be the first product from Intel to include their new Z2 battle mage GPU architecture,
which will apparently have up to 50% of performance gains.
This bodes well for the next generation of discrete Intel graphics cards,
as well as the upcoming MSI claw eight AI plus,
because of course it's called that, and Zotac zone Windows gaming handhelds.
Altogether, the Lunar Lake platform offers a total of 120 trillions of operations per second,
AKA tops with 48 tops just from the NPU,
easily clearing Microsoft's 40 tops requirement
for next gen AI PCs. There is a slight caveat, however,
in that almost none of the Intel designed chiplets
in Lunar Lake will be manufactured by Intel's Foundry.
They'll be fabricated by TSMC. According to Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger,
of Pat Gelsinger fame, he needs no introduction.
TSMC simply had better process technology at the time that Intel was designing these chiplets.
Next year's Panther Lake, however, rar, will be largely fabricated in house.
I told you we were going in the jungle. And it's exactly that kind of grace
and self-assured humility that has made Pat Gelsinger the industry giant
and undeniable sex symbol he is today. Whistling, bat.
Google's longstanding chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, and head of competition law, Matthew By,
will be going Matthew By-By and leave in the company later this year.
Further, there doesn't seem to be any plans to replace them.
Google is reportedly restructuring its privacy and legal compliance teams
to spread privacy policy responsibility throughout the company,
rather than concentrating it in just one office.
This sounds very familiar, open AI, cough cough.
But as the DOJ just finished closing arguments in a major antitrust lawsuit against Google,
it seems like an odd time for it to replace its legal leadership
with a Nest Mini taped to a standing fan. But then it's an overall awkward time for Google.
As their recently rolled out AI overviews for search have apparently been significantly rolled back.
At one point, these overviews appeared in around 84% of searches,
but that was reduced to around 15% of queries,
even prior to the glue-based pizza sauce incident.
This lower profile for the feature is probably for the best,
both for regular users and Google's PR team.
But it's a devastating blow to fans of unhinged culinary recommendations
and dangerous medical advice. Where are they gonna get it now?
Everywhere else on the internet? We should take over.
Stick your finger in your eye. Microsoft has announced it will be testing new features
for Windows 10, despite the fact that the OS is supposed to be near the end of its life
and unpaid security updates are supposed to end
in October of next year. Microsoft has consequently reopened the Windows 10 beta channel
and will be pushing the first beta build since 2021
in the next few weeks. Any new features that pass through that beta
will then be added to 22H2, Windows 10's last major update.
Windows 10 remains more than twice as popular as Windows 11, despite Microsoft's stalwart determination
to make fetch happen in no small part
due to the company's insistence on pushing features that most users don't care about
and a large subset of users actively despise. For instance, Microsoft recently closed a Windows 11 loophole
that allowed users to use a local account and avoid signing into a Microsoft account
if they set up their PC using a blocked email. Even if you don't use Windows though,
there will be no escaping Microsoft's AI co-pilot,
which they plan to launch for customer service call centers,
which basically means you'll still be stuck talking to an unhelpful robot,
but it will now be a Microsoft branded unhelpful robot.
Quick bits are like a box of chocolates. They're quick, snacky, and loaded with calories.
NVIDIA has introduced a sizing guideline to allow consumers to more easily tell
if their graphics cards will fit into smaller form factor PC cases.
Though it doesn't bode well that the guidelines real full name is
SFF Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards and Compatible Cases.
Yet the guidelines specs allow for cards to take up two and a half PCIe slots, which is surprising.
Though not as surprising as a woman asking NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, to sign her chest.
That's not a joke. I just needed you to know that happened. That's part of my trip to Taiwan.
Google has rushed to reassure pixel owners that it won't confiscate their phones
if third party components are found inside while repairing them, which is great
because that wouldn't make any sense. Yet that very scenario was described
in Google's repair terms and conditions, as discovered by Lewis Rossman echoing
Samsung's similar policy, which was discovered a couple weeks ago.
Google says they're updating their terms to clarify this,
but it's been over 24 hours and the language is still there, which means untold numbers of pixel phones
are still being sucked up by the giant pixel vacuum
at these repair shops. Only you can save them, Google.
Multiple major hospitals in London wound up cancelling non-essential operations
and diverting emergency patients following a major cyber attack
against pathology service provider, Sinovus, that left them unable to access their mainframe.
The incident seriously disrupted delivery of medical services, in particular test results
and blood transfusions. Several patients scheduled for surgery that day
were sent home with no hint as to when their potentially urgent medical procedure
might be rescheduled. Imagine getting injected with the wrong type of blood
thanks to the work of your Xbox Live nemesis,
XXX BonkSnipe69. I'm sorry for what I said about your model, babe.
Meta is apparently both testing unskippable ads
on Instagram and collecting user data on both Facebook and Instagram for use in AI training.
If you'd like to opt out of your life being fed to Zuckerberg's pet AI,
there's a simple process that starts with immigrating to Europe.
In fact, we might not even know about this new policy if it weren't for the fact that UK and EU legislation
forces Meta to inform users over there.
America might be the land of the free, but if that's apparently in the sense of,
ooh, free data, yum, yum, yum. And the key to creating a four-day work week
is creating an AI clone that can attend meetings for you.
That's according to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom,
the meeting company. He believes that his company will eventually allow
a digital twin of yourself to attend all of your Zoom calls
and then give you the summary of those meetings. Have your deep pick, call my deep pick.
Hey, here's a thought. If your meetings are so pointless
that you can send a soulless golem that essentially rolls dice to decide what words to say,
maybe just send a fucking email instead. But no email could replace Friday's episode of TechLinked,
so be there. Your AI twin just doesn't really get it like you do.
We have something special. Also, they freak me out.