WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Hoo! Well, thank goodness you can't put a tariff on tech news. Am I right? 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:16.720 The RTX 5090, a graphics card NVIDIA claims was in stock and actually launched last week, 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:21.760 is reportedly being rendered useless by a driver update, according to many people who 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:26.240 similarly claim to have purchased one, although I'm still not convinced what we're witnessing 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:31.920 isn't just a bunch of people larping a GPU release. What? It's finally here! 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:44.080 Can't wait to plug this in! Reports initially described PCs being unable to identify the China-only RTX 5090D after updating 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:48.000 it to the latest driver, but there have been some reports of the same thing happening to 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:54.160 standard 5090s as well. Thankfully, some users have apparently found that the issue can be fixed 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:59.280 by setting their motherboard's PCIe slots to use PCIe 4 instead of 5, 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:04.400 vindicating the warnings made by hardware testers like Der Bauer. But others have said 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.200 this doesn't fix it, presumably to make the whole plot a little more interesting. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.960 Others were also trying to contribute in this regard by reporting that the RTX 4090 cable 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:20.640 melting scandal was repeating itself, but turns out that was user error. So don't worry, 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:25.680 the cables probably won't melt when you pretend to plug them in to your make-believe GPU. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:31.120 It seems like anyone wanting a real RTX 50 series card will have to wait a while longer. 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:39.200 The retailer Overclockers UK says the ETA for more 5090s is 3-16 weeks. By that time, we may have 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:46.960 an RTX 5060 or 5060 Ti option, according to a supply chain source. All this for graphics cards 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:52.640 that have been heavily criticized by reviewers and famous government surveillance whistleblower 00:01:52.640 --> 00:02:00.320 Edward Snowden, who blew the whistle on NVIDIA, offering F tier value for S tier prices. Yeah, 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:05.840 he had to flee the US and live as a fugitive in Russia, but he still got that gamer in him. 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.720 I watched the Linus review, but what does Edward Snowden say? 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:16.320 On Saturday, the Trump administration officially imposed a 25% tariff on most imports from Canada 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:22.160 and Mexico, and an additional 10% on imports from China. But if you think us Canucks, we're about 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:28.000 to take that lying down. You're host for sure, bud. Canada announced they'd answer with a 25% 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:34.000 tariff on electric vehicles from the US. Premier of Ontario Doug Ford canceled the province's 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:40.320 $100 million contract with Starlink, said they'd ban American companies from any provincial contracts, 00:02:40.320 --> 00:02:45.280 and pulled American liquor from store shelves, along with other provinces, including British 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.960 Columbia, where I am. An American alcohol related joke would be great here, but I pretty much only 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:55.920 drink Guinness about three times a year, so I won't. It would have been good though. Some Canadians 00:02:55.920 --> 00:03:01.760 even floated the idea that, since it accounts for 90% of America's electricity imports, 00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:08.160 Canada could shut off the power. A pretty dumb idea, but oh, it might have worked after it was 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:12.800 announced that the Mexico tariffs would be paused for a month for entirely unrelated reasons. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:18.080 Outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada's tariffs would be delayed as well, 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:23.760 in return for Canada taking various measures to secure the border, which includes reinforcing it 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:32.800 with new choppers. Sorry, sorry. For context, the vibe of Trudeau saying choppers instead of 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.360 helicopters is like if you put a hat on backwards and try to do a kickflip with the kids at the 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:42.160 skate park. And he didn't use slang in the French version of the tweet, so why... 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:55.440 Canada will commit to deploying many more choppers. And I will commit to deploying 00:03:55.440 --> 00:04:01.760 this segue to our sponsor. You definitely can't put a tariff on the quick bits. Many have tried. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:08.480 Choppers took them out. OpenAI has answered Google's Deep Research feature for Gemini 00:04:08.480 --> 00:04:14.720 with their own version, also called Deep Research. They tried generating some other names, 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:22.640 but ChatGPT was grumpy that day. ChatGPT Deep Research uses OpenAI's top-end O3 reasoning model, 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:28.000 and, like Google's version, promises to perform multi-step, complex research on the internet 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:32.720 so you don't have to. You just have to write a prompt and then apparently answer a bunch of 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:40.240 questions ChatGPT will ask you. Hey, I asked the questions around here. The lines are beginning 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:46.800 to blur, as evidenced by Deep Research getting the highest score ever on an AI benchmark ominously 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:53.680 called Humanity's Last Exam. It's normal. What? Everything's normal. The battery performance 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:59.600 update for the Pixel 4a that Google rolled out last month is a bit of a mess, according to Hector 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:05.600 Martin, a developer that did some digging. Even if users redeem the free battery upgrade offered by 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:10.960 Google, the 4a's new firmware, which is the only firmware available now that Google wiped the older 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:16.560 versions, kills battery life anyway. And if you want the 50 bucks in cash instead, you have to 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:22.480 provide personal identification or your social security number. Want the $100 Google Store credit? 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:26.400 Sure. You just can't use it for anything that's on sale. The cherry on top is the 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:31.680 evidence that this update was thrown together by a potentially inexperienced Google engineer 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:35.600 on their personal machine. I don't see what the big deal is, guys. Just buy a new phone. There's no 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:41.360 tariffs anymore. YouTuber Emily the Engineer published a video documenting the process of 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:48.480 Jerry Rigging, a 3D printer, to print a tattoo on the leg of her friend Dan, something he apparently 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:54.080 wanted her to do, despite being advised against it by nearly everyone he asked. But they did add 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:59.840 a panic button to stop the process, just in case the machine got any crazy ideas. I really didn't 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:05.280 think that tattoo artists would be the profession that AI comes for next, but at least they'll never 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:10.960 take my job, he said, far too confidently. And remember that story about the consumer drone 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:16.240 that punched a hole in the side of a plane just trying its best to fight the California wildfires? 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:21.520 Turns out the pilot of that drone was none other than Peter Ackermann, the co-founder of 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:26.880 Treyarch, one of the game studios that spits out a Call of Duty game every couple years. 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:31.920 Ackermann pled guilty to unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft and will cover the 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:38.240 damage to the plane and complete 150 hours of community service. I never wanted to admit this, 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:44.880 but turns out video games do cause violence. But you know what doesn't? Tech news. So come back 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:49.280 here on Wednesday for more. I mean, if anything, it should make you less violent as you learn how 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:54.720 fruitless it would be in the face of the robot apocalypse. Well, see you later!