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Microsoft claims it is ending USB-C port confusion once and for all by making USB requirements
like support for power delivery and DisplayPort alt mode mandatory for laptop manufacturers
under the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program or WHCP. Previously, these requirements were
optional, which is why some laptop USB-C ports will fast charge your phone and cook you a chicken
dinner while you're waiting and others will actively spit out your cable, the sassiest ports.
It sucks, but now Microsoft is translating pain into policy, which makes it sound like they
purposefully caused suffering to use as raw material for the new good USB rules.
Microsoft is making two firm promises. One, all USB peripherals, chargers and displays
will work exactly as advertised on any USB-C port on a WHCP certified device and
other one, laptops that support 40 or 80 gigabit per second USB speeds will have full
compatibility with USB 4 and Thunderbolt 3 peripherals on every port.
Now, shopping for cables will still require sifting through a haystack of performance
rating logos that look extremely similar, but going forward, every laptop USB-C port should
just work as long as laptop manufacturers agree to it. I mean, come on, they're not Apple.
NVIDIA and MediaTek's ARM based laptop system on chip may launch in an Alienware gaming laptop
sometime around the end of 2025 or early 2026. Industry insiders reportedly told
Taiwanese outlet United Daily News. This rumor was actually first shared last week
by YouTuber MorsLawIsDead who flashed a supposed image of this SOC shared with him
by one of his insiders. Where are my insiders? Andrew leaks something to me.
The guest on that video, Wendell from Level 1 Tech, is sometimes hard to read,
but I think he liked it. Now the leaked image seems to closely resemble
NVIDIA's GB10 SOC, which powers their DGX Spark AI mini PCs, a product that led many to think
the company was going to unveil a consumer-focused, all-NVIDIA compact gaming PC at Computex.
They didn't. This PC is one that Windows Central Notes would change gaming laptop
design forever because, you may have forgotten by now, this is reportedly an ARM-based gaming
APU for laptops. While last year's Qualcomm Snapdragon X series Windows laptops were impressive
in many ways, gaming was not exactly their strong suit. NVIDIA has a chance to prove that they can
launch an efficient ARM CPU plus GPU combo with AI upscaling so you can play games on the go that
look as lifelike as a Google VO3 video. A Radeon RX 9060 XT review has leaked, or at least some
benchmark slides have leaked, after PC news site eTechnics seemed to prematurely publish their
review. These slides were captured by Dragon Rider based demon Targaryen on Reddit and beloved
comedy filmmaker John Hughes on Twitter, showing the 9060 XT, the 16GB version, getting an average
FPS just under the RTX 5060 Ti at 1440p and 1080p, although it's a big jump over the RX 7600 XT in
3DMark's time-spy benchmark, so you'll probably, the 3DMark heads love that. Depending on the real
world price, this makes the 9060 XT look not too bad. Hopefully some gamers find the funds to pick
one up, because Valve just released their Steam hardware survey, and the RX 9070 and 9070 XT
are nowhere to be found, despite AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Sue claiming that first week sales of the 9070 XT
beat previous generations of Radeon cards by 10 times. Something fishy here. NVIDIA also just
reported record gaming revenue, saying it's up 42% year over year and 48% quarter over quarter,
but it's possible that this gaming revenue is just coming from people buying gaming GPUs
to use for AI, which NVIDIA obviously cares a lot more about now that gaming represents a
paltry 8.5% of their total revenue. I mean, just look at this graph. I wish I could delete it just
like how our sponsor does it. Real shows have segments, and we have those, but they're just the
same thing, but shorter and they're called quick bits. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of Zotac
RTX 5090s were apparently removed from their boxes and replaced with three backpacks before being sold.
This is like the three kids in a trench coat thing, but it's backpacks. And to make things worse,
they were one strap backpacks, which were kind of cool at one point, but not anymore. When a victim
of this scam, Redditor James Ferg 650, told Micro Center where he bought the GPU about it,
they found 31 more non-GPUs in their inventory, which appear to have been swapped back at their
Zotac supplier. Micro Center gave James Ferg an actual 5090 and thankfully took the backpacks
off his hands. Those should not be in the wild. Elon Musk announced that Twitter, which he keeps
calling X for some reason, is continuing to morph into the everything app with the rollout
of XChat, which will feature end-to-end encryption, quote, Bitcoin style. Which is the only way I
order my pizza. Burnt to a crisp. There's just one problem. Bitcoin doesn't have encryption,
as pointed out by a number of coin bros in Elon's replies. The CEO of Airbnb just said he wants to
make an everything app and I feel like he might have a better shot. Let's let him try. Apple has
filed an appeal of the European Commission's ruling that found the company to be non-compliant
with the EU's Digital Markets Act, particularly its interoperability requirements that require
data like notification content to be shared with third-party devices. Apple says they can't trust
what those devices are going to do with sensitive data like that. And although they've asked to
talk to the EU about this, the EU is giving them the cold shoulder. But you know, maybe we should
hear Apple out here for a second because ours, Technica, just did a deep dive on why the Apple
TV is the most secure set-top box. And that's one of the only good options out there when the
NVIDIA Shields are starting to crumble into dust at this point. We need something. Ahead of everybody
actually getting their meat mittens on a Switch 2, Nintendo has issued a warning not to peel off
the protective film on the display, which I think is very proactive. This has happened many times in
the past, most notably with the first Samsung Galaxy Fold. Mark Gurman was one of the first to
take one for the team and post his embarrassing story about peeling it off by accident. But that's
okay because he became Girmicus Maximus, the prime Girmuloid, but it might not work out for you,
so leave that thing on. And Brain Computer Interface Company Paradromix has taken its
competition with Neuralink to the next level by successfully installing its Konexus implant
in a patient. Gotta be honest here though, they did put it in there and then take it back out 10
minutes later. It wasn't ready to fully commit, you know, just wanted to try it on. Plus, if you
leave it in there too long, the brain starts to taste bitter. This was a bad joke about tea.
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