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Happy Valentine's Day. By clicking this video, you have become my Valentine.

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What, not even a card? Melting RTX 5090 cables continue to be investigated by

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the nerdiest among us. Us relative normies salute you. Meanwhile, listings

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for various versions of NVIDIA's next graphics card, the RTX 5070 Ti, have

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been spotted at primarily European retailers for prices well above the

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card's MSRP of $750 US. Although Micro

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Center has one listed for exactly 750

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bucks. So, don't you move. Stay right there. A little bit. NVIDIA

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has confirmed through their website that the 5070 Ti will launch on February

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20th, which also reveals Team Green has delayed the launch of the RTX 5070

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non-Ti to March 5th, which is also the

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birthday of my brother, Barrett.

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Happy birthday, bro. I mean, uh uh later. Uh anyway, AMD likewise confirmed

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they'll finally reveal the RX 9070 and

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9070 XT on February 28th. And they did

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this the same day that some specs and performance for the 9070 XT leaked via

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HKepc, pointing to both cards, once

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again, featuring 16 GB of VRAM. AMD's

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Frank Azor also denied rumors of a 32 GB

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version of the 9070 XT, but he didn't deny a 32 GB 9070 XTX or a 9070 XTXT.

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So, as far as I'm concerned, the possibilities remain endless. TikTok has

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been restored to Apple and Google's respective app stores after reportedly

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being assured through a nice letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi Bondi

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Bondi. She's from the beach. Being assured by

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her that they're safe to do so. And the letter definitely isn't a prank. For

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sure, they won't get in trouble. It's fine. TikTok shot to the top of the most

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downloaded charts on iOS, but not on

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Android because all the talk heads already side loaded it along with every

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other app they could find that seemed vaguely Chinese. So, everyone's back on

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TikTok. Instagram disliked that, which they can

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do now because they're currently testing a downvote button that seems similar to

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the Reddit version, but without a public downvote count.

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Lot of social media changes happening out there. And as laws trying to ban

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kids from social media pile up, Roblox,

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the platform primarily used by kids and

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people interested in them, is desperately trying to convince the

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government it is definitely not a social media platform. But remember, from the

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Epic Games versus Apple lawsuit, Roblox is also not a game.

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In fact, it doesn't even host games. It just hosts experiences that are

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sometimes social media involved.

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People trust AI way more in India and

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China than in the US, according to new research from the Edelman Trust

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Institute. I mean, maybe Americans are just wound up a bit too tight. Relax,

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guys. The AI's got it. I mean, sure, recent research from Microsoft and

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Carnegie Mellon indicates that increased use of AI correlates with deteriorated

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critical thinking skills, leaving us atrophied and unprepared when AI

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suddenly isn't available. But that's just like a calculator. Those are

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everywhere, and now so are AI features with the brand name Deep Research as

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Perplexity joins Google and OpenAI in launching a web search feature with the

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exact same name. I have a feeling that naming three different competing AI

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features the same thing won't really help the whole factual correctness

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situation, which is already a big issue when it comes to news. A new BBC

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investigation found that over half of news summaries generated by the top

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large language models had significant issues of some kind, with 19% of AI

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answers that cited BBC content containing factual errors. But hey, that

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doesn't mean AI is bad. Look at this complex enzyme that can digest some

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plastics, which was designed by AI.

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Personally, I'm okay with fake news as long as I can keep eating plastic. I'm

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also okay with our sponsor, Jawa, the marketplace for gamers. Maybe you're

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looking to score components for your next upgrade from a reliable source at a

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great price. Understandable. Or maybe you want a full custom PC assembled by

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experienced builders in Jawa's verified seller program. Yep, I I'd like that. Or

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maybe you want to list your old GPU or CPU for sale or make things simpler and

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sell it directly to Jawa and let them take care of it. These are all

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reasonable things to want. So, I totally get it if you wanted to head straight

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from here to LMG.gg/JawaTech link to buy from, sell to, or connect

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with PC gamers just like you. I won't hold it against you.

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I want you to know I was thinking about you constantly as I worked on these

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quick bits. And you didn't even fold a piece of

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paper in half and draw some hearts on it. I mean, really. Valve has warned

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users who downloaded an indie survival game called Piratefy on Steam that the

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game actually contained suspected malware. Valve recommends scanning your

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PC with antivirus software, looking out for suspicious new apps, and just to be

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safe, maybe reformatting your whole system before burning it to ash. That'll

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do it. Honestly, we've probably sanitized the idea of actual pirates a

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bit too much. It's good to remember the whole pillaging part every once in a

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while. So, thanks, Piratefy. The official

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website of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, or DoGE, was

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defaced by coders after DoGE apparently put the site together so hastily they

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left a database open in the back. It's a good thing we've got top technomancers

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like these guys firing most of the team of tech experts responsible for helping

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the government understand financial tech products. You know, while I'm here, I

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have to correct some misinformation that's sort of related. This procurement

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request from the State Department for $400 million worth of armored Teslas is

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not a done deal. There's no current contract, and the request actually

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originated during the Biden administration, at which point it was

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still a dumb idea. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed plans to introduce a

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paywall feature later this year after being asked during a video AMA about

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content that only paid members can see. Later, Huffman confirmed again that paid

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subreddits are coming in 2025, which could potentially both open up new

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revenue streams for the company and sadly reward Reddit moderators for

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acting like that. And it's not exactly tech news, but it is important to take a

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moment and remember the Duolingo mascot,

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Duo, who the company says was horrifically run over by a Cybertruck

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this week, possibly waiting for users to do their language lessons. As a sign of

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respect, the company changed their profile picture to the owl's dead face,

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as one does. The mascot is survived by his canonical girlfriend, pop star Dua

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Lipa, who tweeted, "Till death duo

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part." Which I guess already happened. So, I So, it's

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That does make sense. Now, you coming back here for more tech news on Monday,

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that makes all the sense in the world. It definitely makes more sense than

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physicists uncovering evidence of two arrows of time emerging from the quantum

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realm. Right?