as you can see uh it is a new year uh
one that we can now verify contains some
Bonkers Tech news right off the bat uh so uh here's here's some of it the
Nintendo switch 2's motherboard has leaked in photos posted on Reddit and
while normally I'd sprinkle in some allegedly in here the sheer quantity of
switch to leaks in recent months is making it pretty easy to see which ones
overlap this motherboard not only has USBC ports in the right place on the top
and bottom but it matches up with a previous leak showing the other side of
the PCB attached to what is certainly
the switch 2 panel and I've never been more sure of anything in my life do we
live in a simulation I don't know but that's the switch to one image shows the
NVIDIA processor with text indicating it was built on a slightly older Samsung 8
nanometer node leading some to express concerns that the console's graphics
won't be able to render Mario's nipples at the 4K and 60 FPS they deserve others
like YouTuber the Wolf Den aren't as worried LOL
ratio in fact Nintendo just filed a patent yesterday spotted by Laura Kate
Dale on Blue Sky that describes upscaling techniques and since NVIDIA's
dlss is the best in the game I'm sure the switch 2 will do justice to whatever
nips May slide on to its display sounds
painful so when the heck is Nintendo going to speak up about this console
well they're going to talk about it sometime in the next 3 months according
to the game awards Twitter account for some reason look Jeff Key's just
protecting his shy Japanese Mega Corporation
friend see they're just not ready yet
that was Jeff Keeley ien I haven't worked on it in other leaks that seem
surprisingly legit news halflife
three um it seems like it's happening YouTuber
and data Miner Gabe follower who's been responsible for some reliable info in
the past claims his sources say valve has begun friends and family play
testing for the project code named hlx
which is strongly believed to be Half-Life 3 his video goes through many
more breadcrumbs but speculation was truly set Ablaze when Mike Shapiro the
voice actor for Half-Life characters Gman and Barney tweeted a video speaking
in a Gman ask voice and teasing
unexpected surpris in the New Year
unexpected surprises the last time Shapiro did
something like this was back in 2020 during the launch of valve's VR title
halflife Alex now this may be solid
proof that we can soon expect at least
another Half-Life game it may also be a
promo for Shapiro's own music given that the painting shown in the video is the
art from the two week old Mike Shapiro single best long
dog in
world if that's the case I will be disappointed but happy for Mike and his
reportedly very good and lengthy pet California's ban on what it calls
addictive feeds for minors on social platforms was approved by a federal
judge on New Year's Eve in the world's latest attempt to stop whatever is
happening to gen Alpha we don't understand it but we know its Aura is
highkey Ohio which is not goals at all
did you understand that highkey Ohio yes
why Ohio just you got to look it up the ruling means companies like meta snap
and bite dance will be forced to make significant changes to their social apps
to prevent miners from accessing algorithmic feeds fed by their personal
data why don't those companies Sue to stop this well they did after Bill SB
976 was signed into law in September
Industry Group net Choice sued to block it from taking effect and indeed judge
Edward J dilla did block many of the Bill's key elements but upheld the ban
on addictive feeds social platforms will also not be able to send minor
notifications from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from midnight to 6:00 a.m. go
to sleep kids you can have brain rot for breakfast even better you could wake up
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which I honestly I wasn't expecting but
okay honey the scam posing as a coupon
finding service has been hit by a class action lawsuit filed by a group of
lawyers and YouTubers including Wendover Productions and legal eagle AKA Devin
Stone who says after watching YouTuber Mega lag's recently posted expose he was
Furious presumably because he found out about honey stealing influencers
affiliate link commissions and not because he couldn't understand megal
leg's kiwi accent whoa what I understood
him fine I just thought isn't it cool that people talk
differently PornHub parent company ISO has blocked access to its network of
adults websites in Florida and South Carolina who just joined a list of 16
other US states who have passed age verification laws to prevent minors from
accessing adult content it was 17 other
states but a judge blocked the law in Tennessee and an investigative redditor
from the state confirmed they can still access the site doing the hard work so
you don't have to or in case you can't that was a pun a map from 44 media shows
that ISO sites are now blocked across nearly half the country if you're going
by a land mass which I don't know why you would the US
Treasury Department says that Chinese hackers broke into several workstations
and accessed classified documents and what the agency called a major cyber
security incident as opposed to the normal ones that happen every Tuesday
the breach comes as US government officials are still trying to get
hackers out of the country's telecoms networks which is hard when they can
squeeze through gaps the width of a pencil or the length of a human hair or
something they squish their bones flat or something I don't get it and a
software engineer helping to maintain the diaspora Federated social network
said that while investigating load spikes in the Project's infrastructure
he discovered that around 70% % of requests received by those websites are
sent by Bots collecting data to train
large language models Bots from open AI
Amazon and anthropic apparently come back to crawl the same web page every 6
hours and manage to evade every attempt
to block them unlike the Crawlers from Google and Bing which still remember how
to behave decently these younger Bots
though they're skibby rizing all over the place I never did that but I did ask
you to come back for Tech news and so I shall again Friday is when there will be
more so see you
then what why are you still looking at
me well this is awkward