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Tech news, you better believe we got some of that.

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We've got all of it. In fact, please take some on your way out.

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We're running out of space. Apple has been the most valuable publicly traded company

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since 2011 when it usurped the oil giant ExxonMobil.

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But Cupertino might be in for some usurping themselves

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by their long time rival and overall nerdy company, Microsoft.

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After chasing Apple's lead for over a decade, the tech giant's market cap crossed the $3 trillion mark

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twice this month. And right now it's sitting at 3.01 trillion

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compared to Apple's paltry, 2.9 trillion.

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The week that Satya Nadella celebrates his 10-year

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anniversary as CEO of Microsoft. And that's apparently for a good reason.

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The milestone is being treated by the tech media as an opportunity to ask how Nadella was able

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to stay winning. A big part of the answer is continual investment

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into cloud infrastructure, as that tech was taking off, and having quick enough feet to sidestep

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the type of scandals and controversies that plagued Microsoft's tech giant, brethren.

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Cambridge Analytica, I've never heard of a.

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Microsoft has obviously invested heavily in AI

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while Apple has taken things a lot slower. But could Apple catch up later this year

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when they've said they'll reveal some big AI news?

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I don't know, Microsoft has a pretty big lead and they continue to push into the AI sphere.

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Just today they announced an AI-infused partnership with Semaphore, a news website founded by veterans

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of BuzzFeed News, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Media Group in 2022,

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which kind of makes sense because I've never heard of it. The partnership will see Semaphore journalists

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using AI tools to search news sources across multiple languages,

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but still write the articles themselves, which sounds like a much better use of Microsoft AI

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than a poll in the sidebar, asking readers to vote on the woman

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in the story's cause of death. See, Satya wasn't involved with that at all.

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The demand for RTX 4090 GPUs in China

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is driving up prices in other Asian countries.

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Despite NVIDIA releasing the Chinese exclusive 4090D variant

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to comply with US export regulations, a black market has grown for the original full-fat non-D.

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It probably tastes like the delicious milk I love.

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It's gotten so bad that retailers in places like Taiwan,

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Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam have stopped selling the graphics cards individually

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and are putting them inside of pre-built systems in an attempt to stop scalpers.

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But someone in Taipei allegedly still made a profit

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spending $91,000 US dollars on 20 pre-builds

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and selling their GPUs to China's AI segment,

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where the 4090s are being used as alternatives to NVIDIA's more expensive

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and also more heavily regulated A100 and H100 cards.

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Allegedly, the 4090 black market is so efficient, Chinese AI startups can reportedly receive product

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in just three to four days. And that makes sense.

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A consumer card like the 4090 is much easier to get ahold of than one of NVIDIA's enterprise AI cards,

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especially with how serious the US has been about controlling their export.

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Just last week, the United States blocked a shipment of 24 A100s to the Australian subsidiary

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of a Chinese company. Out of fear, the cards would end up in China.

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Now the Aussies have to gerry-rig their own AI using chicken salt, fairy bread, and huntsman spiders.

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Ah, it's the same as my grandma Ma's old recipe.

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For... Vigemite?

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The Vision Pro has now been thoroughly analyzed by the revered knowledge keepers of our time.

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In a post, one redditor was disappointed by the small field of view and reflections in the lenses,

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which are both apparently normal, according to Apple. A true being of culture decided to comment

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on that same post lamenting the lack of support for the thinking man stimulation.

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3D porn. Now, for some reason, that comment was deleted,

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but not before we learned in the replies that you can disable one of your hands

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in the Vision Pro's accessibility settings. Let me know in the comments if that makes sense to you,

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because I don't get it. At least for the field of view issue,

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there may be a solution, using the headset without its light seal.

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According to some users, this increases the FOV by 15 degrees at the expense of making Tim Cook cry.

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That is not right. No.

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That's especially cruel when the poor man is still dealing

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with part one of iFixit's Vision Pro teardown,

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where they detail the tech that makes the weird eyesight feature on the outside of the headset work.

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Not only is it apparently a repair nightmare, but removing a certain component

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will squish together the eyes on the external display.

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And after seeing that, I may never sleep again. But it's not all bad news for the Vision Pro.

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The platform may inspire devs to make more interesting

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AR apps that could even benefit Meta's quest headsets.

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Imagine watching Formula One races from every angle,

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or even motivating yourself to finally vacuum your disgusting floor, just to get all

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the imaginary gold coins down there. You won't ever see it because you'll live inside

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the headset, but at least you know then that it's okay.

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Quick bits are notoriously hard to quantify, but thankfully we've come up with a formula.

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Unfortunately, I can't tell you what it is. Samsung's head of customer experience,

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Patrick Chomey, has claimed there's no such thing

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as a real picture to defend the Samsung Galaxy's

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generative edit feature. In an interview with TechRadar, Chomey states that

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since you're reproducing what you're seeing with sensors,

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it doesn't mean anything, end quote. And if you used AI to even optimize the zoom,

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quote, there is no real picture, full stop.

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Chomey also compared the generative edit feature to adding filters to photos on Instagram.

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If I'm following here, that means my mom may be an AI.

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But we're still working through what he said. Honestly, wouldn't be that surprising.

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A first of its kind AI heist cost a multinational company

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$25 million using sophisticated deep fake technology.

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Yeah, it's pretty wild. After sending a phishing message to the company's

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Hong Kong branch, scammers were able to convince a worker

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to give up the funds by jumping on a video conference call

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featuring the company's chief financial officer and other employees.

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Except the only real person in that call was the victim,

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who then transferred large sums of money to five different local bank accounts.

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The scam was uncovered a week later, likely when the CFO never showed up to the employee's house

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after promising a rousing game of catch.

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Bamboo Lab has removed their A1 3D printer from sale

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and issued a recall due to issues with the heatbed cables.

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Apparently less than 0.1% of printers sold

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have the problem, but the company doesn't know why

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the problem exists, which isn't a great situation to be in.

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Bamboo Lab is recommending people stop using their printers

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until they can figure out the cause. They tried to consult an expert detective,

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but unfortunately, Mr. Monk, as played by Tony Shalhoub,

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has solved his last case in the TV movie, Mr. Monk's Last Case,

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and he's tired of telling people he's retired. Japan's slim moon lander is still technically alive,

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but might not be for much longer. The spacecraft's solar panels caught some rays

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during the tail end of the lunar day, but it must now survive a full lunar night,

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which lasts for 14 Earth days and features temperatures as low

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as negative 208 degrees Fahrenheit or negative 130 degrees Celsius.

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But even if slim can't survive, it may live on in spirit.

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Its precision landing technology will be used in future lunar missions.

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Hopefully that will be some comfort to slim as it spends two weeks rattling its little jimmies

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in the moon cold. And a YouTuber has managed to build

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a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel

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complete with its own memory, output, and a custom assembly language.

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Computer enthusiast Inkbox posted a video detailing how they made this Excel processor

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with a blazing fast clock speed of three hertz,

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128 kilobytes of RAM, and a 16 color output display.

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It's a gamer's dream. Inkbox's CPU also doesn't use any visual basic scripts

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or plugins. It is pure Excel, the way nature intended.

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Now, Inkbox can get any desk job he wants.

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And you should want to come back on Wednesday for more tech news.

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We don't know what we'll report on yet, but oh boy, it's gonna be good.