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When I say it's time for tech news, I'm not screwing around. It's time.

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Right after I finish this little thing that I'm...uh, what? What is this?

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Valve might be working on something like a SteamOS-powered set-top box to compete with the

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NVIDIA Shield, according to a Reddit post from the user CoolBeho3k, featuring an impressive

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level of research and reasonable speculation. He's a CoolBeho in my book.

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But this mysterious device is also tied to ChromeOS in some way.

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See, CoolBeho3k spotted a change to the Steam Deck kernel made by a Valve employee

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working on a device that includes the ChromeOS-embedded controller,

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a chip that handles some background tasks in a ChromeOS device.

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That's making some people think that instead of a SteamBox running SteamOS,

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it could be a ChromeBox with special Steam integration,

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after all Chromebooks already have official support for some Steam games.

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The device is associated with a platform codenamed AMD Lilac, which Geekbench listings

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indicate means some kind of Ryzen 5 8540U configuration, so whatever this thing is,

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it'll have some gaming chops, leading some to speculate that maybe this device isn't a box at

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It's the rumored SteamVR headset codenamed Deckard.

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Just want to point out that would still be kind of a box, you strapped your face, a lot of different boxes in the world, it's fine.

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For the third day of OpenAI, the company gave to me,

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Sora. Yep, OpenAI has officially released a public version of the mind-blowingly

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realistic video generator they first showed off in February.

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Although they didn't give it to me, because I don't have a chat GPT+,

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or pro subscription, if you do, then they gave it to you.

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But only after they gave it to professional ultimate Frisbee player,

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Marques Brownlee, who used it to fake himself making an amazing catch, this guy.

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You know, he's really gone downhill. You know, when it comes to the Frisbees.

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Anyway, OpenAI says they are releasing the turbo version of Sora,

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complete with a new interface with a variety of controls and features like

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remix, which will let you tweak specific parts of an existing generated video,

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and combine, which can bleed two clips into each other.

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There are a boatload of Sora clips out there now, so we can see that it's still really good at aerial landscape shots,

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and surprisingly good at slow motion, because the janky AI movements seem less alien in that medium.

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But of course, Sora will also make videos with a bunch of errors,

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especially when there's lots going on, and will definitely pop a second phone into the hand of Marques's AI clone,

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only to vanish it a second later.

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Unless you're going to tell me he's a pro magician too, which is frankly too many things to be a pro at.

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Although I guess he made up for it with the app thing. It's better now, they fixed a bunch of it, stop.

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Reddit, the so-called front page of the internet,

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is tired of living in the shadow of the Googles and the open AIs of the world,

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so they're announcing Reddit Answers, a new AI-powered search interface that will bring up curated summaries of

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relevant conversations and details from across Reddit,

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presenting it in sort of a perplexity AI style generated report.

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Now you might say, okay well I can just search Google and add Reddit to the end.

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That's exactly the problem!

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That was Reddit, that was being right. In press interviews Reddit representatives spoke about how a major way that people use the internet now

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is just searching for Reddit posts. Their massive repository of posts by real humans looking for information from other real humans

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has become increasingly important as large swaths of the internet

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slide downward in quality, like loosened chunks of earth sliding off a cliff into an ocean of AI slop.

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Of course Reddit is not immune from this, announcing a number of unpopular changes in recent years,

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but Reddit's point is that maybe if you want to search Reddit,

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you could search on Reddit, and now it's time for quick bits.

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But first I have to tell you that it's time, but do I have to?

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Google has apparently achieved two significant breakthroughs in quantum computing,

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which the tech giant shared while unveiling their new quantum processor Willow this morning.

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The first breakthrough is that Willow broke the quantum error connection threshold.

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Google was able to exponentially decrease the system's error rate

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by increasing the number of qubits involved, holding quantum information stable for an average of an hour.

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We can only manage like 10 minutes max. The second breakthrough is taking five minutes to run a benchmark

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that Google says would take one of the fastest supercomputers in the world

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10 septillion years to complete.

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And by that point, I think you'd be ready for an upgrade.

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NVIDIA is now being investigated for anti-competitive behavior by China

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in a move that some analysts are characterizing as retaliation for the US government imposing restrictions

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on the export of NVIDIA chips to the country. And while the US has ramped up such restrictions recently,

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they're also investigating NVIDIA for antitrust.

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Now both sides are going to have to put their sunglasses on puff up their chests and say, this is my investigation.

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Well, I have a warrant. This is not going to be pretty.

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Freakin' Pat Gelsinger is tweeting through the pain of being ousted as Intel CEO,

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congratulating new Intel board members once they get appointed,

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and helping fellow Pat, an industry analyst, Patrick Morehead,

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to correct misinformation about Intel's yields on the 18a process node being horrible.

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Pat's together strong. You know what they say.

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Post-firing, Gelsinger's tweeted that he's very proud of the Foundry team

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and is even publicly praying for them to stay strong.

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I don't know how likely this is, but science says there's a slim chance Pat could actually tweet himself back into the CEO's office.

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I mean, Sam Altman did it. TikTok has filed for a temporary pause on the law that would see the company banned

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if its owner ByteDance doesn't sell it to someone else,

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since, with just over a month left to go until the deadline

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and a new presidential administration coming in, we should just pause everything and, you know, until we figure out what the hell is going on.

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TikTok seems to think President Trump might save them, as he implied he will do,

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but in a Sunday interview with Meet the Press, Trump implied he might still want ByteDance to sell TikTok,

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saying the government has the right to ban it, quote, if you can prove that the Chinese companies own it.

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Which they do. I think it's more about the Chinese government controlling things.

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You can't have Chinese companies. Okay. And Ubisoft has released patches for Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora,

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which fix the crashing issues caused by Windows 11's 24H2 update.

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Players might still run into some performance issues, but at least they can play, while Assassin's Creed Origins,

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Odyssey, and Valhalla are still properly borked.

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While Microsoft is partially to blame for the Ubi issues,

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ask yourself why the original AC games with Desmond weren't affected.

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Why did they drop that storyline? May have helped this whole situation, we can't know.

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But I can know what would help me, you coming back here on Wednesday for more tech news.

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That is the next time at which tech news happens. I don't know why it skips days.

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I only know that the Desmond Modern Day storyline gave me a greater context

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that made those games more interesting. That's all I know.