It's tech news time, a sacred tradition where we take a quiet moment to huddle around the screens
and reflect on the fact that computers, oh, computers are crazy, man. And he says I can't wear this.
That's more like it. AMD today announced the newest Threadripper CPU family packing all the
cores a growing desktop needs to get big and strong. The top-of-the-line Threadripper Pro 7995WX
features double the core and Thread count that the last generation's 5995WX had because
bigger is better and we won't apologize for that. It's in our nature. We love them huge.
Perhaps even more exciting, at least for prosumers, is unlike the last generation,
there is a non-pro lineup meant for high-end desktop PCs for people that don't really need
eight channels of DDR5 memory or 128 PCIe5 lanes. People who settle for a measly four channels
and a paltry 48 PCIe5 lanes plus 32 lanes of PCI4. A 64-core Threadripper non-pro 7980X is a
veritable steal at $5,000. That's less than one and a half Apple headsets. Going back to the pro
for a second, Dell actually let PCMag remotely test one of their new towers equipped with the 7995WX
and it managed to score over $100,000 in Cinebench, a 56% improvement over the 5995WX,
and nearly double what Intel's Xeon W9 3495 managed to cough up.
And that's perhaps the problem with AMD's Threadripper Pro. Intel can't compete at all,
so instead AMD is competing with little-known competitor AMD and their epic CPUs. Time will
tell if AMD can rise to AMD's challenge. Speaking of new chips, another company known as AMD just
announced a flagship mobile GPU, the RX 7900M, that holds both the title of world's first
chip that designed GPU for mobile platforms and product with the most specific world's first
achievement claim. The 7900M features a 180W power limit and 16GB of memory on a 256-bit bus
and can boost beyond 2GHz, which is a lot. This card is a big deal since we haven't heard much of
anything from AMD about mobile graphics since they announced the RX 7600M XT and others back in January.
The 7900M is debuting on the Alienware M18 laptop and AMD is sending it to battle
against NVIDIA's mobile 4080. Unlike most of AMD's first-party benchmarks where the company
seems to stick their fingers in the ears and shout, la la la la, whenever ray tracing comes up,
they actually brought receipts this time. According to their specs, AMD's 7900M has a 2-6%
lead over the 4080 in certain games like Resident Evil 4 and the Dead Space remake with ray tracing
enabled. Having said that, AMD may have used an inferior 4080 laptop, which is kind of like
winning a 100-meter dash against someone you love tapped with a steel pipe before the starting gun.
And even if the 7900M is the be-all and-all, the only laptop that currently features it is a $2,800
Alienware laptop. Personally, I'm trying to save up for the Vision Pro here. That's like 0.96 Vision
Pros. TSMC had some fighting words for Intel during the company's earnings call when CEO C.C. Way
claimed the current 3-nanometer chip is way better than Intel's planned 1.8-nanometer tech,
which definitely shouldn't be the case according to the number laws, but TSMC might be right here
because the nanometer amounts don't actually mean anything. They used to, but now manufacturers just
use them to refer to a chip's generation rather than transistor density or chip size. Because
why should engineers care about units of measurement when they're working with small and delicate
components? Well, welcome to chip manufacturing where Moore's law is dead and the numbers don't
matter. Brief tangent aside, it's quite bold of TSMC to predict this seeing as Intel's 1.8-nanometer
tech won't be available until 2025. Perhaps TSMC used vast sums of money and resources to make
a time machine? That would explain why the time when he's found you is currently experiencing
its largest profit drop in five years. The poor company only managed to make a mere 17.28 billion
in the third quarter, a number so small it caused the entire country of Canada to laugh so hard it
almost forgot about what studio apartments cost up here just almost. Fortunately, the good sports
at TSMC say they're preparing for an upswing with CEO Way claiming there are early signs of
improvement in the smartphone and PC sectors. I know we're all rooting for them from the comfort
of our parents' basements. Not too loud, my mom complains. Hey, this is a garden suite. Fun fact,
before TechLinked, the record for quickest bit was set by Jerry Seinfeld in the late 80s
when he said, what's the deal with airplane food? It's over 300 years old. Google has updated its
Play Protect features on Android to conduct real-time scans of side-loaded apps at the code level
instead of the service level scans they were doing before. Previously, Play Protect would check the
app you're trying to smuggle into your phone like some kind of delinquent against the existing list
of problematic apps. Then, based on that threat level, Google either warns the user, blocks the
installation, or disables the app. Real-time scanning will help detect apps that haven't been
put on the no-fly list yet and improve the experience for users who only side-loaded apps for the
thrill of getting these warnings. Ooh, I'm so nutty, they don't want me to use it. But at least you
can, Apple. Google's threat analysis group on Wednesday revealed details of a vulnerability in
Winrar being exploited by government actors to attack their enemies and, even worse,
being used by cybercriminals to target crypto bros trading Bitcoin. According to Google,
the exploit was used by Russian-backed groups targeting Ukraine and Chinese state hackers
targeting Papua New Guinea for some reason. Or maybe this has all been a ruse and Winrar is
taking revenge on users who never paid for it after the free trial. God, no one's safe.
Even more Google news, the tech giant's mobile version of the video chat app Meet
will now give you a touch-up by smoothing complexion, lightening those unsightly
dark bags under your eyes, and whitening your teeth just in time for Halloween.
But like the advanced editing features offered in Google Photos,
looking presentable will only be available to Google One subscribers, as well as various
workspace account holders. Because people don't love having video meetings with a troll.
On the other hand, that might be a good reason to leave it turned off?
Shorter meetings. Put your troll on the table.
A new startup, Coop, is releasing a smart home for chickens for the kind of family that is sick
of spending $6 a week on eggs, but can also afford a $2,000 high-tech chicken palace and a $20
monthly app subscription. Geez. The CyberCoop comes with pre-installed smart Wi-Fi cameras,
an automatic door, and an AI Guardian named Albert Eggstein, that's real, that will count
eggs and monitor the environment for potential predators like hawks or raccoons, rats, the
eggs, or children. According to Coop, they spent four weeks designing a compostable
custom-fit poop tray because market research indicates that cleaning the coop is one of the
biggest barriers for people who want to chickens. Which, yeah, no shit. No clucking. There's a lot
And the hip new drink available now on Amazon is Release, which allegedly contains the discarded
urine of Amazon drivers collected from the side of the highway. The new beverage, which
reached number one bestseller in Amazon's bitter lemon soda category, is the brainchild
of journalist Uba Butler, who created it for The Great Amazon Heist, a documentary exposing
the company's working conditions. In addition to Amazon failing to flag and prevent bottles of
barely disguised human piss from being sold on its platform, Butler had two little girls,
ages four and six, order knives, saws, and rat poison, buy a Alexa for a knife party.
And it's always knife when you come back on money for more tech news. Stay safe and don't
let Jeff Bezos send your children bladed weapons. That's the Amazon Base Six butterfly shank.