Okay, right from the jump here, I want to remind you that you chose to click
this video. Okay, so whatever happens
after this point is at least 50% your fault. Microsoft has released yet
another update that fixes one thing and breaks something else. After last week's
patch for Windows Defender suffered installation issues that the tech giant
eventually fixed, another issue causing certain storage drives to fail during
heavy writes was discovered by some kind of Japanese Twitter cat person with an
apparent drinking problem. Despite this, Necoroo Cat was able to conduct further
testing along with Japanese site Niche
PC Gamer, identifying these drives from various brands that exhibit issues or
straight up fail when attempting file transfers larger than 50 GB. This issue
hasn't gotten a ton of coverage in the West. It may be that users in Japan just
have larger collections of cat photos to
deal with. Huh. On the plus side, an upcoming Windows build will reportedly
finally allow file operation dialogues to support dark mode, so you won't
suddenly be blinded just trying to copy and paste something. Microsoft hasn't
added this until now because Windows is just a really long, complicated prank
for them. One has to assume that we're all on camera being displayed on live
feeds in Microsoft HQ like we're unknowingly part of a wacky Japanese
game show with the staff there almost certainly making bets on when we'll all
switch to Linux. This was part of the report. Guitar YouTuber Rhett Scholes
latest video goes over a concerning new phenomenon, at least to me. YouTube
appears to be automatically applying AI upscaling to shorts, making real videos
look kind of AI generated. This is super noticeable when you compare identical
videos uploaded both as a YouTube short and as an Instagram reel. And this seems
to be happening on all shorts uploads, although we obviously didn't check
everyone. Don't worry, I'll do that tonight instead of sleeping. Seems like
the first post about this was made on the YouTube subreddit in mid June by
Redditor Ulins Cesis, who said they had
noticed the change kick in around that time. Now, why YouTube is making every
short look even more gross than they already tend to is anyone's guess, but
some are theorizing it's to get people used to AI looking videos so they'll be
ready for the AI content flood once YouTube fully adds the V3 AI video
generator into its shorts tools. But, I don't know. I feel like it's equally
likely that the people at YouTube making these decisions simply wouldn't know
taste if it licked them in the face. As Schul points out in his video, one major
issue here is that viewers may think a creator is using AI when they're not.
And even though the real Riley perished some time ago and I'm just an AI trained
on his brain waves and tattered fragments of his mustache, we don't fake
these episodes. We film them for real on location
somewhere. NVIDIA held a live stream to make a bunch of announcements about
GeForce Now and the NVIDIA app after someone apparently reminded them that
gamers exist. NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can now run on RTX 5080 equipped
servers with DLSS4 enabling up to 120
FPS at 5K on PC and Mac and up to 90 FPS
on the Steam Deck GeForce Now app. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA app can now
automatically enable the DLSS of your choice across all your games. And it
adds some more settings from the NVIDIA control panel, like NVIDIA surround
setup, so it can inch closer to being the control panel replacement I thought
it was supposed to be already. But back to GeForce Now, Andrew is going to tell
us about more features, >> including one that expands the GFN
library instantly. Right, Andrew? >> That's right. >> It is right, Andrew. And it's called
Install to Play. Basically, you can install games on your cloud PC if the
game dev enabled SteamCloud streaming. But what if you don't want to install to
play and also want to play inside the Discord app?
I know you've been waiting for that. The new Discord instant play experience lets
you click a link from a friend in that app to instantly load in to a game.
Seems like it's just Fortnite for now. kind of like Google's original vision of
clicking right into a Stadia game from a Google search except inside a Discord
window. Uh so as NVIDIA says, no more
waiting, no more FOMO uh until the 30-minute trial runs out. Then you'll
have to buy the the free-to-play game. But don't worry, Xbox may be prepping a
cheaper cloudonly Game Pass subscription along with a bunch of other stuff as
discussed on the Xbox podcast. Xbox exec
said it's the hardest they've ever seen the team working because apparently
there's just so much going on. Or maybe the team is desperately trying not to be
in the next group of a thousand Microsoft employees to get canned. I
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So, hm, have you understood the ramifications of what you've done yet?
Because there's still quick bits. Valve made some bold claims about its Steam
performance overlay more accurately reporting GPU utilization than Windows
own task manager in the patch notes for their latest Steam client beta. But they
may have gotten it too big for their britches because after a couple days,
Valve updated the patch notes to say their new GPU monitoring method needs
more testing. Valve, it's okay. Actually, you know
what? Take your time. Microsoft is sabotaging our SSDs at this point. PC
gamers have nothing to lose. Seagate was so fed up over the counterfeit Seagate
hard drives flooding the market earlier this year, they sent their security
teams to team up with Malaysian authorities and conduct a raid on a
warehouse just outside Koala Lumpur that was apparently churning out the doctor
drives as reported by German site Heisen. Seagate provided some photos of
the raid but sadly didn't say whether they used striping, mirroring, or some
combination of the two. Also, did they watch the movie beforehand to amp
themselves up? We need the answers to these. I've never heard of a company
called Global Wafers. I'm not afraid to admit that. But now, I'm aware that
they've announced a planned manufacturing facility in Texas, which
will make them the first company to produce silicon wafers on US soil, which
foundaries like TSMC and Samsung need to
make their chips. The wafers, uh, not the soil, although maybe that's why
Aerrol Lake was so bad. The idea that AI is in a bubble has been floated for
years, even by Sam Alman now, who said
as much to a group of journalists recently over dinner. He does this just
so he can tell them in person that 3/4ers of them will be made obsolete in
5 minutes. Altman thinks the bubble thing is fine, though, because OpenAI
will probably survive the bubble and create a slew of wonderful AI products
that transform society for the better. In fact, they have a bunch of products
just like that right now, but they can't launch them. Uh, sorry, because each one
needs like the full power of a star to operate. What they can do is make GPT5
warmer and friendlier. That's what you get for now. And Dutch researchers gave
500 AI chatbots specific personas and
stuck them in a simulated social network with no ads or algorithmic feeds just
like an original Facebook style platform and found that in five different rounds
consisting of 10,000 actions each. The bots organized themselves into bubbles
based on political beliefs such that they primarily interacted with other
bots that they agreed with. The researchers concluded that although
toxic algorithms are often blamed as the cause of social media's problems, their
findings suggest those problems may be rooted in the structure of emotionally
reactive social media platforms themselves. We only thought social media
wasn't as toxic before algorithmic feeds were introduced because they hadn't
melted our brains that much by that point. And now it's time to go outside
until Wednesday when we'll have more tech news to talk about. Don't stay out
there for too long, though. There are things squirming around all over the
place. And heck, one of those might get in your brain. And that would be way
worse than doom scrolling.