WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 Disclaimer, Nicholas Ploof wrote most of this script 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:06.240 and I have not edited what he wrote, and here we go. 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:09.240 Purchase. What do you mean there seems to have been an error 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:13.600 initializing or updating your transaction? I wanna wait one more minute 00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:17.480 to bring you all another round of tech news. This'll make sense. 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:23.040 At long last, Team Cherry has released Hollow Knight silk song on consoles 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:26.640 and computers around the world, or at least they tried to. 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. 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:35.760 You son of a... I guess in the past though, because it's our... 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:39.400 Because Steam was so busy with all of the purchase requests 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:42.960 that it completely broke down. Can we go back in time and tell people to... 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.600 A few savvy gamers managed to pick it up on Humble Bundle 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.920 and redeem the code through Steam just fine, but then they ran out of key. 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:54.240 How can a digital thing be out of stock? We need more materials. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:58.720 GOG was relatively unaffected. If you went there first, I like you. 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 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.240 after launch. I know, because I was there too, you guys. 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:12.200 Plouf was. Where were you when silk song launched? 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.560 On the clock. Were you there on the front line, 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:21.480 helping this buggy masterpiece reach over 500,000 players on Steam just a few short hours 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.760 after you could actually buy it for the shockingly low price of only $20? 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:30.280 That's indie, baby. Small user base. There's like three guys made it. 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 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:40.840 that costs more than $20, Valve has filed two trademark applications 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:45.880 for Steamframe. The first one is for controllers 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:50.160 and the second one is for general computer hardware. 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.440 Okay. Just about covers it. Valve also released a new SteamVR beta, 00:01:54.440 --> 00:01:57.720 which professional Valve watcher Brad Lynch 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:01.880 datamined and found some nuggets of gold and then their hills. 00:02:01.880 --> 00:02:07.960 See, Brad is thinking that this Steamframe is the final product name for the rumored 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:11.680 Deckard VR headset and SteamVR overlays 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:17.840 are being rebranded to frames. And Brad discovered that the Roy VR controllers 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.800 aren't marked as prototypes anymore. This is all coming together to make it look. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.600 Oh, and Valve finished making drivers for a Steamlink VR USB dongle. 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:31.520 They use a six gigahertz wireless signal. I thought it was a weird job, 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.360 but Brad's bringing value here. The real hero of this story is Brad. 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? 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.520 China. Reuters got an exclusive interview with some Chinese tech firms 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.160 who wanna buy NVIDIA's H20 Enterprise AI cards. 00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:54.240 These sources, however, prefer to remain anonymous, probably because Beijing regulators 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:59.320 are discouraging them from making those purchases. After the floodgates were opened back in July 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:04.000 when NVIDIA got permission from the US government to sell these downgraded cards in China, 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:09.800 Chinese authorities summoned companies like Tencent and ByteDance to kindly explain, 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:13.640 why do you need these, hmm? What have the US got that we don't? 00:03:13.640 --> 00:03:18.960 After all, China has their own domestic chips now. Surely those are good enough, right? 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.860 Well, maybe not, because not only are H20s selling and orders are being scrutinized, 00:03:23.860 --> 00:03:30.100 but these same sources seem eager for the upcoming B30A Blackwell cards from NVIDIA, 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:34.220 assuming America approves the sales. Congress is currently considering 00:03:34.220 --> 00:03:41.100 forcing both NVIDIA and AMD to prioritize US customers of their GPUs first. 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:45.580 They won't be allowed to sell the even the China specific versions to China 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:49.940 if there's anyone on US soil who wants that first. 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:53.720 Back of the line, Xi. First dibs. NVIDIA says this doesn't make any sense 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, 00:04:00.180 --> 00:04:03.580 but who knows what the US government will decide next? 00:04:04.460 --> 00:04:09.620 Not me. The quick brown bit teched over the lazy grok. 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. 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:19.940 Lenovo has officially revealed that its Legion Go 2 gaming handheld will start 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:23.900 at $1,100 US for the Ryzen Z2 model 00:04:23.940 --> 00:04:27.820 and 1350 for the one with the Ryzen Z2 extreme. 00:04:27.820 --> 00:04:31.380 Why not? Cause the economy is so good right now. 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, 00:04:37.780 --> 00:04:41.020 which will pit them directly against the ROG Xbox Ally 00:04:41.020 --> 00:04:44.540 and Ally X handhelds, which launch on October 16th 00:04:44.540 --> 00:04:49.540 with similar specs and hopefully MSRP's under $1,000. 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 00:04:53.820 --> 00:04:58.500 for a buck 50 at the corner store. Jeez. Remember when you could share earbuds 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:01.980 like that scene in the office where Pam listens to music with Jim 00:05:01.980 --> 00:05:05.520 the one time that ever happened? Well, you still can. 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:08.260 You can just give someone the other earbud. 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:12.540 But also, now Pixels and some other Android phones 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:16.060 can play audio through two sets of headphones at the same time. 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:20.020 Actually lit. This is mostly thanks to Bluetooth LE, 00:05:20.020 --> 00:05:25.420 or Low Energy Audio, using a neat low complexity communications codec, 00:05:25.420 --> 00:05:28.780 or LC3, as well as a feature called AuraCast. 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. 00:05:35.140 --> 00:05:38.820 But if you gatekeep, I'm gonna ban you. 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:44.140 But I'll never ban affordable phones. That's just not who I am. 00:05:44.140 --> 00:05:47.540 Samsung's new Galaxy S25 FE is here, 00:05:47.540 --> 00:05:51.220 and it's 150 bucks less than the regular S25. 00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:55.020 Sure, the processor's not as good and it's a plastic frame, but who cares? 00:05:55.020 --> 00:05:58.820 It's no Legion Go. And that's what matters. 00:05:58.820 --> 00:06:02.180 Reviews seem happy with it, and I love saving money. 00:06:02.180 --> 00:06:06.160 If you want a bigger screen, the new Tab S11 is also here. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:10.060 And heck, let's throw in those new Galaxy Buds 3 FE 2 00:06:10.060 --> 00:06:13.100 while we're at it. And if you're looking to save even more money, 00:06:13.100 --> 00:06:16.460 just get last year's model. It's still good. 00:06:16.460 --> 00:06:21.700 A streaming service alleged to be the largest illicit live sports streaming operation 00:06:21.700 --> 00:06:24.780 in the world was taken down this week. That's a foul. 00:06:24.780 --> 00:06:27.980 The Sting operation was conducted by Egyptian authorities 00:06:27.980 --> 00:06:31.380 in cooperation with the Alliance for Creativity 00:06:31.380 --> 00:06:34.700 and Entertainment, a global anti-piracy group 00:06:34.700 --> 00:06:37.980 which includes Apple, Netflix, Disney, and Warner Brothers. 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:41.300 Companies who just care about protecting civilian settlements 00:06:41.300 --> 00:06:46.100 from being pillaged by sports pirates. However, the streaming site that was taken down 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:49.460 called Stream East was actually a copycat 00:06:49.460 --> 00:06:53.500 of the original Stream East site, which is still operational. 00:06:53.500 --> 00:06:58.180 As an ACE rep told Ars Technica, they know it's a different website. 00:06:58.180 --> 00:07:02.380 They totally knew that, shut up. And it only took 15 years, 00:07:02.380 --> 00:07:05.500 but iPads finally got Instagram, baby. 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. 00:07:11.060 --> 00:07:15.140 What? I don't know if a decade and a half is a while, 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 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 00:07:26.700 --> 00:07:31.500 to disassociate for hours. And it's time to disassociate from the tech news. 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 00:07:36.140 --> 00:07:39.780 happening on the internet. Go see some wacko things in the real world. 00:07:39.780 --> 00:07:43.500 Like have you ever gone up really, really, really close to a tree? 00:07:43.500 --> 00:07:47.540 They're so weird. And they're alive. 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:50.580 Like what? And have you heard about funguses? 00:07:50.580 --> 00:07:53.660 I hate them. Like a third type of being. 00:07:53.660 --> 00:07:54.780 I don't like fungus.