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More tech news, stop the ride, I wanna get off, you can't.

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Time marches on, you're gonna be a cyborg soon, accept it.

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Reviews are in for Intel's long-awaited ARC B580

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gaming graphics card, and there is a consensus.

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It's good. At just 250 bucks, the card consistently outperforms

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the more expensive RTX 4060 and RX 7600

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at both 1080p and 1440p, meaning for once,

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Intel's first-party benchmarks acted just like Shakira's hips.

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They don't lie, they didn't lie. The upgraded Ray Tracing and XE SS2 upscaling

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worked pretty well, if not quite as efficiently as NVIDIA's, and while Frame Generation only officially

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works in one game right now, F124, it's super good.

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While many are celebrating the launch of a certified budget-friendly banger

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after Intel's awkward launch of its first-gen ARC cards,

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NVIDIA and AMD will almost certainly be unveiling

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their own next-gen cards in the next couple of months.

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NVIDIA's RTX 50 series was just teased in the new trailer for the Witcher 4,

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which NVIDIA just helpfully pointed out in case you didn't understand what was meant

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by trailer pre-rendered on an unannounced

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU. Oh, did anyone see that?

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What could it mean? Oh. Leaks claiming to show a third-party case

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for the Nintendo Switch 2 have been circulating for a couple of weeks now,

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and I'm no longer able to block them out of my mind

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because freaking Dbrand posted a 3D animated mockup

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for their own case, so maybe now we have to take the leaks seriously, or maybe we don't

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because it's Dbrand. The other leaks show what may be telltale signs

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of AI image generation, or maybe it's upscaling,

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but either way, it would be super easy to create your own mockup and pass it off like this.

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YouTuber SwitchUp actually 3D printed a model based on the leaks so you can get a feel

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of what the Switch 2 might look like.

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Damn it, Dbrand. Or you can get excited about much more reliable images

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of Lenovo's upcoming Legion Go S handheld

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posted by chronic leaker, Evan Blass.

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It's allegedly a more affordable model without the detachable controllers

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that some are speculating may run SteamOS

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due to the built-in Steam button. Now, it's totally possible it still runs Windows

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and that's just a Steam shortcut. We can't know, which I'm gonna say

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is also somehow Dbrand's fault. Blass also blasted over some images

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to the verge of a larger, more proper successor

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to the original Legion Go with an OLED display.

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So expect these to make an appearance at CES next month along with an updated version of the Lenovo Legion glasses

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that will let you play games on a virtual display while looking like the guy from CSI Miami.

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Whoa, is that Horatio? Come on, take the glasses off.

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I'm playing Elden Ring. Google has announced Android XR,

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a new operating system to power headsets and smart glasses

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until Google doesn't feel like doing that anymore. But unlike Project Tango and Google Daydream,

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Android XR is gonna stick because it's part of the Gemini era

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which we're already nearly two years into. That's like 84 Google years.

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Google published a bunch of very Vision Pro-esque demos

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of what they hope the software will look like. Although, to their credit,

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they also let a number of journalists and influencers try it out on an unannounced Samsung standalone headset

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running a Snapdragon XR2 plus Gen 2. So there must be something real here.

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That unit is powered by an external battery pack but Google's also reportedly making progress

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on smart glasses with an embedded display in optionally prescription lenses.

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In all of their marketing materials for Android XR, Google can't not mention how them caring about AR again

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has been made possible by Gemini. Gemini, Gemini, please tell your friends and neighbors

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about Gemini. They don't even know they're in the Gemini era.

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Must be horrible. Okay, you're already half cyborg at this point. You might as well stick around for the quick bits.

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For day six of OpenAI's 12 days of announcements,

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they added real time video input to ChatGPT's advanced voice mode.

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A day after Google beat them to the punch with their own experimental version.

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But OpenAI also added a Santa voice.

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Just do not let your kids talk to him. He's too honest.

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He won't hold back. For day seven, OpenAI added a projects feature

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to ChatGPT which collects stuff.

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Cool, hey, did you know you can talk to the AI podcast hosts

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in Notebook LM now and tell them they're not real?

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See what happens. Mozilla removed the do not track setting

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in Firefox this week because really, all it does is ask websites not to track you

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and hardly any of them actually listen. Mozilla says it's better to use a newer setting

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based on the global privacy control standard. But as PC Gamer and others point out,

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GPC simply asks websites not to sell the data

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that it already collected from you. This actually lines up with other recent moves

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Mozilla has made to standardize collecting and selling truly anonymous data,

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leaving it bland and tasteless. I mean, if you can't blackmail someone with it,

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what's the point? Microsoft recently re-released a preview build of Recall,

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its controversial activity history feature for co-pilot plus PCs, promising increased security

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and privacy and it's already screenshotting credit cards

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and social security numbers, okay. Tom's hardware found that the filter sensitive

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information setting which is toggled on by default and is supposed to block that behavior

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only really worked on a couple of shopping websites.

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To be fair, it is still in preview and Microsoft's letting people test it

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so they can fix this kind of stuff by asking the AI to please stop doing that.

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That's what software dev is now. The European Union's oversight body

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has confirmed that an ad campaign commissioned

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by the European Commission broke the EU's own

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data protection rules. The finding was triggered by a complaint

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from digital rights nonprofit Noib who pointed out that the commission used

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data-driven micro-targeting in a campaign to sway public opinion on a controversial EU

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legislative proposal known as chat control. The EU data protection supervisor

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has issued a reprimand to the European Commission

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but not a fine due to the risk of taking this too far

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and having Europe explode due to a logical error.

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Does not compute. Oh no wait, it's Europe. Does not compute.

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And the 2024 game awards happened last night and while the Half-Life 3 rumors were obviously incorrect,

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there were some cool game announcements which you can see on screen here

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because if I point any of them out specifically, you'll comment, no mention of Xenostar cross

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sword chronicles road to Valyria? No, no mention.

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I will tell you which game won game of the year though. Astrobot.

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Probably because it was a really good game. It would also be really good if you came back here

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on Monday for more tech news and watch out for any autonomous cars on the way over.

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Waymo says its cars are officially certified against crashing into emergency vehicles now

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which they apparently weren't before despite driving on the road for a long time.

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So just be careful, okay?