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even though there's been lots of Buzz around new GPU offerings from both AMD
and NVIDIA recently is anyone actually buying graphics cards right now I'm in
debt no I mean during the third quarter of this year so July August and
September GPU sales hit their lowest point in 10 years but there are plenty
of factors that make this headline not super surprising outside of inflation
and an overall economic slowdown there was obviously a huge rush to buy Cards
during the pandemic with the end of lockdowns as well as the end of crypto
mining lots of people are either actively trying to get rid of their old
gpus or don't see much of a reason to upgrade when they already have a good
piece of Hardware that they just bought a year or two ago picture the GPU we
have at home with me you know the meme of course
NVIDIA has only released the very upper end of their RTX 4000 series so far and
the rx7000 series from Radeon is yet to hit shelves in the meantime Tom's
Hardware has crowned team red the value king of gpus at least for those who
aren't looking for the very newest GPU and whose wallets are already empty from
Black Friday and compared to the 4090 it's also the short king of gpus to get
you a short King stop me if you've heard this one before meta has been fined what
anyone who isn't a tech giant would call a huge amount of money the Irish data
protection commission has slapped Zach's company with a 265 million euro fine
over data production violations causing meta to go yeah ooh you naughty country
we have fun spank ooh it doesn't hurt me
though specifically the penalty was levied over an incident last year in
which over a half a billion users had their data exposed to this one before
every almost every day including birth dates email addresses and phone numbers
all of which could be very valuable to attackers seeking to carry out fishing
or social engineering attacks yes although meta has been doing horribly
lately they are still very wealthy but
these scandals add up combined with other penalties meta is on the hook for
nearly a billion euros in fines issued over the past year and a half maybe Zuck
can find a way to print money in the metaverse I mean other than the rather
than the opposite of that which is what he's doing now printing friends no
and of course Twitter is still in the news but this time it's not over sassy
tweets from the man treating the MMO of life as if it were Grand Theft Auto it's
over a data breach back in July the Bird app confirmed that over 5 million users
had their data stolen but that data hadn't been exposed anywhere until now
as a report from over the weekend indicated that it popped up on a hockey
Forum completely for free and the hackers completely avoided The Penalty
Box I hated that everyone hated that the data consists of
phone numbers email addresses and locations all of which the users had set
to private as a joke on top of that an even bigger
data dump data this time sure has also
been circulating privately and Twitter has been accused of not reporting it so
if you're on Twitter be on the lookout for weird messages I mean in addition to
the to the other ones yeah paino mind Elon putting his fingers together in
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Frontier Airlines has become the first major U.S airline to completely ditch
phone-based customer service transitioning entirely to using online
chat because we all want to be aggravated by a plane service
unsurprisingly cost was cited as a major reason for the decision especially as
Frontier is already a low-cost carrier that has low base fares but charges
extra for nearly anything you could think of hopefully the cost cutting on
phone support will save us from having to pay a fee for oxygen masks honestly
that seems like where it's going hey you can get the oxygen mask for 16 but for
eight nitrogen masks we're in trouble it's good oh whoops I didn't pay some
better news from the skies the European commission has set aside Spectrum for
in-flight 5G anyone who's been on a plane knows that it's nearly impossible
to get a cell connection at 35 000 feet even if you do step outside and say can
you hear me now but the hope is that European airlines
will start offering cell service as a perk soon in-flight 5G also shouldn't
compromise safety as Pilots use different frequencies for communications
but do expect flights to be slightly more annoying if the person next to you
doesn't remember to use their airplane voice will stumble phone is that the
airplane voice it's my airplane voice
I don't know I'm flying right now luxury
another crypto business is in Dire Straits after the collapse of FTX
blockfy a major crypto lender has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy with FTX going
downsided as a main reason as FTX lent
blockfy a rather large line of credit oh
no anyway I think it was called the blockchain chapter 11 filing means that
the company will be reorganized instead of just straight up liquidated but it's
clear that this isn't a great time to sync tons of money into a really
speculative idea if you want to do that there's always Twitter
her I was gonna say the casino but yes we shouldn't be far off from the release
of the RTX 4070 TI and the RX 7900 at
least not if the new listings from Gigabyte are accurate both cards were
very recently spotted in an eec database though it looks like the 4070 TI will
have more variants at launch look for the 7900 on the 13th of next month and
the 4070 TI sometime in January just as
those bills from crystals are rolling in but you can look at them and remember oh
that was there were chestnuts involved laughter and tears and mostly tears
roasting your bank account and if you just don't have enough room in your case
to cool your components how about a huge block of three 360 millimeter radiators
that sit outside your case you know why why not this is just what bixky has
released you get a 3X3 array of 120 millimeter fans with a pump reservoir
and radiator built into the unit though you'll have to provide the block tubing
fittings and liquid yourself although external coolers aren't new it's the
first time we've seen something this big marketed at Gamers and I always say
bigger is better that's why I have as many muscles as I do can you see all my
can you see all of them hold on let me get a do you see a mini electron
microscope first properly they're everywhere Only the
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