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It's tech news time, a sacred tradition where we take a quiet moment to huddle around the screens

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and reflect on the fact that computers, oh, computers are crazy, man. And he says I can't wear this.

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That's more like it. AMD today announced the newest Threadripper CPU family packing all the

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cores a growing desktop needs to get big and strong. The top-of-the-line Threadripper Pro 7995WX

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features double the core and Thread count that the last generation's 5995WX had because

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bigger is better and we won't apologize for that. It's in our nature. We love them huge.

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Perhaps even more exciting, at least for prosumers, is unlike the last generation,

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there is a non-pro lineup meant for high-end desktop PCs for people that don't really need

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eight channels of DDR5 memory or 128 PCIe5 lanes. People who settle for a measly four channels

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and a paltry 48 PCIe5 lanes plus 32 lanes of PCI4. A 64-core Threadripper non-pro 7980X is a

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veritable steal at $5,000. That's less than one and a half Apple headsets. Going back to the pro

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for a second, Dell actually let PCMag remotely test one of their new towers equipped with the 7995WX

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and it managed to score over $100,000 in Cinebench, a 56% improvement over the 5995WX,

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and nearly double what Intel's Xeon W9 3495 managed to cough up.

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And that's perhaps the problem with AMD's Threadripper Pro. Intel can't compete at all,

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so instead AMD is competing with little-known competitor AMD and their epic CPUs. Time will

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tell if AMD can rise to AMD's challenge. Speaking of new chips, another company known as AMD just

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announced a flagship mobile GPU, the RX 7900M, that holds both the title of world's first

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chip that designed GPU for mobile platforms and product with the most specific world's first

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achievement claim. The 7900M features a 180W power limit and 16GB of memory on a 256-bit bus

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and can boost beyond 2GHz, which is a lot. This card is a big deal since we haven't heard much of

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anything from AMD about mobile graphics since they announced the RX 7600M XT and others back in January.

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The 7900M is debuting on the Alienware M18 laptop and AMD is sending it to battle

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against NVIDIA's mobile 4080. Unlike most of AMD's first-party benchmarks where the company

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seems to stick their fingers in the ears and shout, la la la la, whenever ray tracing comes up,

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they actually brought receipts this time. According to their specs, AMD's 7900M has a 2-6%

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lead over the 4080 in certain games like Resident Evil 4 and the Dead Space remake with ray tracing

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enabled. Having said that, AMD may have used an inferior 4080 laptop, which is kind of like

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winning a 100-meter dash against someone you love tapped with a steel pipe before the starting gun.

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And even if the 7900M is the be-all and-all, the only laptop that currently features it is a $2,800

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Alienware laptop. Personally, I'm trying to save up for the Vision Pro here. That's like 0.96 Vision

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Pros. TSMC had some fighting words for Intel during the company's earnings call when CEO C.C. Way

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claimed the current 3-nanometer chip is way better than Intel's planned 1.8-nanometer tech,

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which definitely shouldn't be the case according to the number laws, but TSMC might be right here

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because the nanometer amounts don't actually mean anything. They used to, but now manufacturers just

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use them to refer to a chip's generation rather than transistor density or chip size. Because

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why should engineers care about units of measurement when they're working with small and delicate

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components? Well, welcome to chip manufacturing where Moore's law is dead and the numbers don't

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matter. Brief tangent aside, it's quite bold of TSMC to predict this seeing as Intel's 1.8-nanometer

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tech won't be available until 2025. Perhaps TSMC used vast sums of money and resources to make

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a time machine? That would explain why the time when he's found you is currently experiencing

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its largest profit drop in five years. The poor company only managed to make a mere 17.28 billion

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in the third quarter, a number so small it caused the entire country of Canada to laugh so hard it

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almost forgot about what studio apartments cost up here just almost. Fortunately, the good sports

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at TSMC say they're preparing for an upswing with CEO Way claiming there are early signs of

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improvement in the smartphone and PC sectors. I know we're all rooting for them from the comfort

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of our parents' basements. Not too loud, my mom complains. Hey, this is a garden suite. Fun fact,

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before TechLinked, the record for quickest bit was set by Jerry Seinfeld in the late 80s

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when he said, what's the deal with airplane food? It's over 300 years old. Google has updated its

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Play Protect features on Android to conduct real-time scans of side-loaded apps at the code level

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instead of the service level scans they were doing before. Previously, Play Protect would check the

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app you're trying to smuggle into your phone like some kind of delinquent against the existing list

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of problematic apps. Then, based on that threat level, Google either warns the user, blocks the

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installation, or disables the app. Real-time scanning will help detect apps that haven't been

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put on the no-fly list yet and improve the experience for users who only side-loaded apps for the

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thrill of getting these warnings. Ooh, I'm so nutty, they don't want me to use it. But at least you

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can, Apple. Google's threat analysis group on Wednesday revealed details of a vulnerability in

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Winrar being exploited by government actors to attack their enemies and, even worse,

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being used by cybercriminals to target crypto bros trading Bitcoin. According to Google,

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the exploit was used by Russian-backed groups targeting Ukraine and Chinese state hackers

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targeting Papua New Guinea for some reason. Or maybe this has all been a ruse and Winrar is

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taking revenge on users who never paid for it after the free trial. God, no one's safe.

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Even more Google news, the tech giant's mobile version of the video chat app Meet

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will now give you a touch-up by smoothing complexion, lightening those unsightly

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dark bags under your eyes, and whitening your teeth just in time for Halloween.

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But like the advanced editing features offered in Google Photos,

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looking presentable will only be available to Google One subscribers, as well as various

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workspace account holders. Because people don't love having video meetings with a troll.

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On the other hand, that might be a good reason to leave it turned off?

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Shorter meetings. Put your troll on the table.

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A new startup, Coop, is releasing a smart home for chickens for the kind of family that is sick

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of spending $6 a week on eggs, but can also afford a $2,000 high-tech chicken palace and a $20

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monthly app subscription. Geez. The CyberCoop comes with pre-installed smart Wi-Fi cameras,

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an automatic door, and an AI Guardian named Albert Eggstein, that's real, that will count

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eggs and monitor the environment for potential predators like hawks or raccoons, rats, the

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eggs, or children. According to Coop, they spent four weeks designing a compostable

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custom-fit poop tray because market research indicates that cleaning the coop is one of the

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biggest barriers for people who want to chickens. Which, yeah, no shit. No clucking. There's a lot

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And the hip new drink available now on Amazon is Release, which allegedly contains the discarded

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urine of Amazon drivers collected from the side of the highway. The new beverage, which

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reached number one bestseller in Amazon's bitter lemon soda category, is the brainchild

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of journalist Uba Butler, who created it for The Great Amazon Heist, a documentary exposing

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the company's working conditions. In addition to Amazon failing to flag and prevent bottles of

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barely disguised human piss from being sold on its platform, Butler had two little girls,

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ages four and six, order knives, saws, and rat poison, buy a Alexa for a knife party.

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And it's always knife when you come back on money for more tech news. Stay safe and don't

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let Jeff Bezos send your children bladed weapons. That's the Amazon Base Six butterfly shank.