1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Disclaimer, Nicholas Ploof wrote most of this script 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,240 and I have not edited what he wrote, and here we go. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,240 Purchase. What do you mean there seems to have been an error 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,600 initializing or updating your transaction? I wanna wait one more minute 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,480 to bring you all another round of tech news. This'll make sense. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:23,040 At long last, Team Cherry has released Hollow Knight silk song on consoles 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,640 and computers around the world, or at least they tried to. 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:32,400 This is the first and maybe the only time where I'm going to advocate for pre-orders. 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,760 You son of a... I guess in the past though, because it's our... 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Because Steam was so busy with all of the purchase requests 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,960 that it completely broke down. Can we go back in time and tell people to... 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,600 A few savvy gamers managed to pick it up on Humble Bundle 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,920 and redeem the code through Steam just fine, but then they ran out of key. 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,240 How can a digital thing be out of stock? We need more materials. 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,720 GOG was relatively unaffected. If you went there first, I like you. 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:04,000 Everyone else was stuck refreshing pages and attempting purchases for at least an hour and a half 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,240 after launch. I know, because I was there too, you guys. 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:12,200 Plouf was. Where were you when silk song launched? 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,560 On the clock. Were you there on the front line, 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:21,480 helping this buggy masterpiece reach over 500,000 players on Steam just a few short hours 21 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,760 after you could actually buy it for the shockingly low price of only $20? 22 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,280 That's indie, baby. Small user base. There's like three guys made it. 23 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,040 You can do a lot in eight years. Not many people know that. Speaking of a Steam-related thing 24 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,840 that costs more than $20, Valve has filed two trademark applications 25 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,880 for Steamframe. The first one is for controllers 26 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,160 and the second one is for general computer hardware. 27 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,440 Okay. Just about covers it. Valve also released a new SteamVR beta, 28 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,720 which professional Valve watcher Brad Lynch 29 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,880 datamined and found some nuggets of gold and then their hills. 30 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:07,960 See, Brad is thinking that this Steamframe is the final product name for the rumored 31 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Deckard VR headset and SteamVR overlays 32 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:17,840 are being rebranded to frames. And Brad discovered that the Roy VR controllers 33 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,800 aren't marked as prototypes anymore. This is all coming together to make it look. 34 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,600 Oh, and Valve finished making drivers for a Steamlink VR USB dongle. 35 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:31,520 They use a six gigahertz wireless signal. I thought it was a weird job, 36 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,360 but Brad's bringing value here. The real hero of this story is Brad. 37 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,120 This is just a Brad story. And you know who else is waiting for some hot new general computer hardware? 38 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,520 China. Reuters got an exclusive interview with some Chinese tech firms 39 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,160 who wanna buy NVIDIA's H20 Enterprise AI cards. 40 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:54,240 These sources, however, prefer to remain anonymous, probably because Beijing regulators 41 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:59,320 are discouraging them from making those purchases. After the floodgates were opened back in July 42 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:04,000 when NVIDIA got permission from the US government to sell these downgraded cards in China, 43 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,800 Chinese authorities summoned companies like Tencent and ByteDance to kindly explain, 44 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,640 why do you need these, hmm? What have the US got that we don't? 45 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:18,960 After all, China has their own domestic chips now. Surely those are good enough, right? 46 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,860 Well, maybe not, because not only are H20s selling and orders are being scrutinized, 47 00:03:23,860 --> 00:03:30,100 but these same sources seem eager for the upcoming B30A Blackwell cards from NVIDIA, 48 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:34,220 assuming America approves the sales. Congress is currently considering 49 00:03:34,220 --> 00:03:41,100 forcing both NVIDIA and AMD to prioritize US customers of their GPUs first. 50 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:45,580 They won't be allowed to sell the even the China specific versions to China 51 00:03:45,580 --> 00:03:49,940 if there's anyone on US soil who wants that first. 52 00:03:49,940 --> 00:03:53,720 Back of the line, Xi. First dibs. NVIDIA says this doesn't make any sense 53 00:03:53,720 --> 00:04:00,180 because selling these cut down versions doesn't impact production of the big boy H200 and B300, 54 00:04:00,180 --> 00:04:03,580 but who knows what the US government will decide next? 55 00:04:04,460 --> 00:04:09,620 Not me. The quick brown bit teched over the lazy grok. 56 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:14,500 That's my new quick bit catchphrase. I hope you like it because it's never going away. 57 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:19,940 Lenovo has officially revealed that its Legion Go 2 gaming handheld will start 58 00:04:19,940 --> 00:04:23,900 at $1,100 US for the Ryzen Z2 model 59 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:27,820 and 1350 for the one with the Ryzen Z2 extreme. 60 00:04:27,820 --> 00:04:31,380 Why not? Cause the economy is so good right now. 61 00:04:31,380 --> 00:04:37,780 Lenovo didn't announce a specific release date, but did say both models will launch sometime in October, 62 00:04:37,780 --> 00:04:41,020 which will pit them directly against the ROG Xbox Ally 63 00:04:41,020 --> 00:04:44,540 and Ally X handhelds, which launch on October 16th 64 00:04:44,540 --> 00:04:49,540 with similar specs and hopefully MSRP's under $1,000. 65 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,820 Let's just say we've come a long way since the days when you could pick up a Game Boy 66 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:58,500 for a buck 50 at the corner store. Jeez. Remember when you could share earbuds 67 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:01,980 like that scene in the office where Pam listens to music with Jim 68 00:05:01,980 --> 00:05:05,520 the one time that ever happened? Well, you still can. 69 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,260 You can just give someone the other earbud. 70 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:12,540 But also, now Pixels and some other Android phones 71 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:16,060 can play audio through two sets of headphones at the same time. 72 00:05:16,060 --> 00:05:20,020 Actually lit. This is mostly thanks to Bluetooth LE, 73 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:25,420 or Low Energy Audio, using a neat low complexity communications codec, 74 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:28,780 or LC3, as well as a feature called AuraCast. 75 00:05:28,780 --> 00:05:35,140 It's super cool if you're into that kind of stuff. Please tell me just how into audio you are in the comments. 76 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:38,820 But if you gatekeep, I'm gonna ban you. 77 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,140 But I'll never ban affordable phones. That's just not who I am. 78 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:47,540 Samsung's new Galaxy S25 FE is here, 79 00:05:47,540 --> 00:05:51,220 and it's 150 bucks less than the regular S25. 80 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:55,020 Sure, the processor's not as good and it's a plastic frame, but who cares? 81 00:05:55,020 --> 00:05:58,820 It's no Legion Go. And that's what matters. 82 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:02,180 Reviews seem happy with it, and I love saving money. 83 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:06,160 If you want a bigger screen, the new Tab S11 is also here. 84 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,060 And heck, let's throw in those new Galaxy Buds 3 FE 2 85 00:06:10,060 --> 00:06:13,100 while we're at it. And if you're looking to save even more money, 86 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:16,460 just get last year's model. It's still good. 87 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:21,700 A streaming service alleged to be the largest illicit live sports streaming operation 88 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:24,780 in the world was taken down this week. That's a foul. 89 00:06:24,780 --> 00:06:27,980 The Sting operation was conducted by Egyptian authorities 90 00:06:27,980 --> 00:06:31,380 in cooperation with the Alliance for Creativity 91 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:34,700 and Entertainment, a global anti-piracy group 92 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:37,980 which includes Apple, Netflix, Disney, and Warner Brothers. 93 00:06:37,980 --> 00:06:41,300 Companies who just care about protecting civilian settlements 94 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:46,100 from being pillaged by sports pirates. However, the streaming site that was taken down 95 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:49,460 called Stream East was actually a copycat 96 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:53,500 of the original Stream East site, which is still operational. 97 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:58,180 As an ACE rep told Ars Technica, they know it's a different website. 98 00:06:58,180 --> 00:07:02,380 They totally knew that, shut up. And it only took 15 years, 99 00:07:02,380 --> 00:07:05,500 but iPads finally got Instagram, baby. 100 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:11,060 The platform announced they're launching the mode now because quote, people have asked for this for a while. 101 00:07:11,060 --> 00:07:15,140 What? I don't know if a decade and a half is a while, 102 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:20,260 but what matters is that it's here now. So instead of using the iPhone version of the app 103 00:07:20,260 --> 00:07:26,700 that blows everything up way too big on an iPad screen, Doom scrollers can now use a large screen-appropriate UI 104 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:31,500 to disassociate for hours. And it's time to disassociate from the tech news. 105 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:36,140 So you can come back on Monday to get more and not feel overwhelmed by all the wacko things 106 00:07:36,140 --> 00:07:39,780 happening on the internet. Go see some wacko things in the real world. 107 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:43,500 Like have you ever gone up really, really, really close to a tree? 108 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:47,540 They're so weird. And they're alive. 109 00:07:47,540 --> 00:07:50,580 Like what? And have you heard about funguses? 110 00:07:50,580 --> 00:07:53,660 I hate them. Like a third type of being. 111 00:07:53,660 --> 00:07:54,780 I don't like fungus.