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