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I can only assume Apple unveiled a number of new Macs

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powered by their new M3 processor today, but I can't know for sure

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because they scheduled their event to start like an hour after we finished filming this video.

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It's like I've been working on my Tim Cook impression for nothing.

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Some fresh leaks have sprung regarding NVIDIA's RTX 40 Super series of GPUs,

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specifically the RTX 4080 Super. The card's PCI-ID was found by someone,

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potentially with access to a beta driver, and added to the PCI-ID repository,

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a place where PCI-Ds are reposited.

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Except the GPU listed in the PCI-ID is the AD-103,

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the same chip that powers the non-super RTX 4080

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with pretty much its full strength. NVIDIA could enable its 512 disabled shaders,

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but that sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to the GPU's already enabled

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9,728 shaders.

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And sure, every little bit of extra performance is nice,

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unless in order to get it, you have to buy a new GPU for the same MSRP

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that the original RTX 4080 launched at, which is 1,200 bucks.

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That's what NVIDIA did with the RTX 2080 Super,

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which launched in 2019 for 800 bucks, pfft.

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How many dough? Same amount of dough. But hey, if the 4080 Super isn't doing it for you,

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there's also this RTX 4060 Ti from ASUS

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with a built-in M.2 SSD slot. If you want to remember a time

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when news about new graphics cards made you feel something other than that sour acid taste

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in the back of your throat for missing something, now I just feel dread.

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Qualcomm made some big claims about their Snapdragon X Elite laptop SOCs

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at the Snapdragon Summit last week, but like all such events,

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Qualcomm only backed up those claims with slides looking like barely modified PowerPoint templates.

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Woke up the night before in a mad panic and just slapped some photos on there.

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Should this line be blue? I don't know, it doesn't matter.

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But some outlets, including Windows Central, were able to take a closer look at detailed test results,

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and it seems like Qualcomm wasn't just blowing hot air.

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Both the 23 watt and 80 watt variant of the X Elite

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blew away Windows laptops with top-end chips

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from Intel and AMD in PCMark 10. And while the lower end variant didn't destroy

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like the higher end one did in Cinebench 2024,

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its single core performance still came out ahead. Now, as we've said before,

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whether these chips will actually be worth using with Windows depends on whether Microsoft can change

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the fact that Windows 11 on ARM is kind of but to use

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before they come out next year. But hey, you know what?

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I'm a simple man. I see big bars on a performance graph

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and it just makes me happy. I like big bars and I cannot lie.

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Of course, Qualcomm's comparison of the Snapdragon X Elite to Apple's M2

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rings pretty hollow coming the week before Apple launches

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the M3, which is probably much better because that's what they did today, right?

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I don't know if they did that or not. I hate this.

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Meta has launched a paid ad-free subscription

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for Facebook and Instagram in the European Union for 10 euros a month via desktop or 13 euros via Android or iOS.

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For all must pay Google and Apple their 30% tithe.

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They're passing around the basket. You can't ignore it. Church only takes 10%.

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Tim sees all. Ah, ah, ah, put it in.

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The subscription isn't available elsewhere, primarily because it's intended to appease

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EU regulators skeptical of Meta's ad targeting

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and data collection practices. The subscription is only available to users 18 and up

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while teenage users will temporarily stop seeing ads

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entirely until Meta comes up with some other way of profiting off damage to their underdeveloped psyches.

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They're working on it. In the meantime, Meta is apparently working on an API

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for its third social platform, Threads. But seeing as Threads, a business transcription service

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that trademarked the name in 2012, has already served Threads with a 30 day warning

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to change the name, Threads is gonna have to hurry. It was only slightly confusing.

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The quick bits aren't actually that quick, okay?

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Yeah, we know, we just want them to feel nice about themselves, okay?

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They deserve that, yeah, you're quick. ChatGPT now has an advanced data analysis feature

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that allows users to upload documents like a PDF

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and chat with it, like a spell that imbues

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an inanimate object with a living soul, but then wears off, bringing up horrible questions,

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like was that actually alive for like three minutes? Are you a monster?

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Similar functionality has already been offered by various services like ChatWithPDF,

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whose developer doesn't seem worried about losing its 400,000 users,

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probably because the users already paid the subscription fee.

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But are the PDFs alive? It's the spirit of Tim Cook, he's smiling on me.

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Shooting this video so late that the sun is setting.

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I Fix It has announced a partnership with Microsoft to provide official replacement parts

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for various Microsoft Surface devices, as well as step-by-step guides and disassembly videos

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via their dedicated Microsoft Repair Hub. Parts provided include batteries, SSDs,

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displays, keyboards, and even screws. Unprovided, however, is the answer

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to the philosophical question. If you replace every piece of your laptop one by one

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until no original piece is left, is it still the same laptop?

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And does it still belong to Theseus? The White House has issued an executive order

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on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence,

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which pushes for greater transparency of AI models and labeling of AI-created content.

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The order will require developers of AI systems with the potential to seriously disrupt public safety,

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civil rights, the economy, or national security to share critical testing information with the government.

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This would apply primarily to future models beyond a certain power level, let's say over 9,000.

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What? And would not involve restricting any AI tools

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that are currently available. It's probably the best we can hope for,

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at least when the average senator is a quarter century older than the internet itself.

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Take what you get. Google is promising a rescue patch for an Android bug

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that causes some users with multiple Android user accounts

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on their device to get locked out of the device's storage

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from the primary account upon upgrading to Android 14.

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Despite being a relatively serious bug, Google seemed to ignore the problem for 10 days,

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leaving hundreds of users in the lurch. In some ways, the bug is a lot like ransomware,

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except instead of a guy named Sergei holding my nudes hostage for money, it's Google, completely by accident.

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So it's okay. That makes it better. I'm less mad.

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Meanwhile, Google has spent time figuring out how to turn any old pair of active noise-canceling earbuds

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into heart rate monitors through a process the research team calls APG or audio plethysmography.

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Catching. I just wanted you to know that. It works by sending out an ultrasound signal

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with the earbuds speakers and picking it up with the microphones, which sounds like it lets humans

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become more like bats or dolphins. And I'm not sure that's a place we want science to go.

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Rrrrrrr. Okay. Yeah, depending on your priorities.

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I mean. Speak for yourself. Rrrrrrr. That's okay.

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The dolphin sound that people use on TV is actually sped up cocoa burrow. Really?

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Yeah, it's not a dolphin. And the eagle sound is actually a red-tailed hawk.

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Wow, I don't care at all about not knowing about the Apple stuff now. I learned, learned that.

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But I know where I want you to go. Back to your screen of choice this time on Wednesday

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for more tech news. When we will definitely know what has happened

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at Apple's event today. Time, you know.

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That's crazy.