Happy Valentine's Day. By clicking this video, you have become my Valentine.
What, not even a card? Melting RTX 5090 cables continue to be investigated by
the nerdiest among us. Us relative normies salute you. Meanwhile, listings
for various versions of NVIDIA's next graphics card, the RTX 5070 Ti, have
been spotted at primarily European retailers for prices well above the
card's MSRP of $750 US. Although Micro
Center has one listed for exactly 750
bucks. So, don't you move. Stay right there. A little bit. NVIDIA
has confirmed through their website that the 5070 Ti will launch on February
20th, which also reveals Team Green has delayed the launch of the RTX 5070
non-Ti to March 5th, which is also the
birthday of my brother, Barrett.
Happy birthday, bro. I mean, uh uh later. Uh anyway, AMD likewise confirmed
they'll finally reveal the RX 9070 and
9070 XT on February 28th. And they did
this the same day that some specs and performance for the 9070 XT leaked via
HKepc, pointing to both cards, once
again, featuring 16 GB of VRAM. AMD's
Frank Azor also denied rumors of a 32 GB
version of the 9070 XT, but he didn't deny a 32 GB 9070 XTX or a 9070 XTXT.
So, as far as I'm concerned, the possibilities remain endless. TikTok has
been restored to Apple and Google's respective app stores after reportedly
being assured through a nice letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi Bondi
Bondi. She's from the beach. Being assured by
her that they're safe to do so. And the letter definitely isn't a prank. For
sure, they won't get in trouble. It's fine. TikTok shot to the top of the most
downloaded charts on iOS, but not on
Android because all the talk heads already side loaded it along with every
other app they could find that seemed vaguely Chinese. So, everyone's back on
TikTok. Instagram disliked that, which they can
do now because they're currently testing a downvote button that seems similar to
the Reddit version, but without a public downvote count.
Lot of social media changes happening out there. And as laws trying to ban
kids from social media pile up, Roblox,
the platform primarily used by kids and
people interested in them, is desperately trying to convince the
government it is definitely not a social media platform. But remember, from the
Epic Games versus Apple lawsuit, Roblox is also not a game.
In fact, it doesn't even host games. It just hosts experiences that are
sometimes social media involved.
People trust AI way more in India and
China than in the US, according to new research from the Edelman Trust
Institute. I mean, maybe Americans are just wound up a bit too tight. Relax,
guys. The AI's got it. I mean, sure, recent research from Microsoft and
Carnegie Mellon indicates that increased use of AI correlates with deteriorated
critical thinking skills, leaving us atrophied and unprepared when AI
suddenly isn't available. But that's just like a calculator. Those are
everywhere, and now so are AI features with the brand name Deep Research as
Perplexity joins Google and OpenAI in launching a web search feature with the
exact same name. I have a feeling that naming three different competing AI
features the same thing won't really help the whole factual correctness
situation, which is already a big issue when it comes to news. A new BBC
investigation found that over half of news summaries generated by the top
large language models had significant issues of some kind, with 19% of AI
answers that cited BBC content containing factual errors. But hey, that
doesn't mean AI is bad. Look at this complex enzyme that can digest some
plastics, which was designed by AI.
Personally, I'm okay with fake news as long as I can keep eating plastic. I'm
also okay with our sponsor, Jawa, the marketplace for gamers. Maybe you're
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I want you to know I was thinking about you constantly as I worked on these
quick bits. And you didn't even fold a piece of
paper in half and draw some hearts on it. I mean, really. Valve has warned
users who downloaded an indie survival game called Piratefy on Steam that the
game actually contained suspected malware. Valve recommends scanning your
PC with antivirus software, looking out for suspicious new apps, and just to be
safe, maybe reformatting your whole system before burning it to ash. That'll
do it. Honestly, we've probably sanitized the idea of actual pirates a
bit too much. It's good to remember the whole pillaging part every once in a
while. So, thanks, Piratefy. The official
website of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, or DoGE, was
defaced by coders after DoGE apparently put the site together so hastily they
left a database open in the back. It's a good thing we've got top technomancers
like these guys firing most of the team of tech experts responsible for helping
the government understand financial tech products. You know, while I'm here, I
have to correct some misinformation that's sort of related. This procurement
request from the State Department for $400 million worth of armored Teslas is
not a done deal. There's no current contract, and the request actually
originated during the Biden administration, at which point it was
still a dumb idea. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed plans to introduce a
paywall feature later this year after being asked during a video AMA about
content that only paid members can see. Later, Huffman confirmed again that paid
subreddits are coming in 2025, which could potentially both open up new
revenue streams for the company and sadly reward Reddit moderators for
acting like that. And it's not exactly tech news, but it is important to take a
moment and remember the Duolingo mascot,
Duo, who the company says was horrifically run over by a Cybertruck
this week, possibly waiting for users to do their language lessons. As a sign of
respect, the company changed their profile picture to the owl's dead face,
as one does. The mascot is survived by his canonical girlfriend, pop star Dua
Lipa, who tweeted, "Till death duo
part." Which I guess already happened. So, I So, it's
That does make sense. Now, you coming back here for more tech news on Monday,
that makes all the sense in the world. It definitely makes more sense than
physicists uncovering evidence of two arrows of time emerging from the quantum
realm. Right?