we're just a bunch of tech boys making Tech noise if you don't include the
quiet Tech unenthused non booys I'm a
tech man I'm going to regret bringing these intros back NVIDIA has reportedly
been raided by French authorities and I say reportedly because the country's
competition regulator never named names in their press release only stating they
raided a company suspected of having implemented anti-competitive practices
in the graphics card sector but thankfully Geniuses at the Wall Street
Journal were able to crack that incredibly obvious mystery apparently
the surprise Wednesday morning raid was tied to a larger investigation into the
cloud computing Market published in June that concluded new companies would be
unlikely to compete with established brands that investigation didn't mention
NVIDIA focusing on Amazon Google and Microsoft but according to sources
French authorities have been interviewing Market players about NVIDIA's powerful position in the AI
accelerator Market fast forward to today and we now know the the entire EU is
beginning a probe into alleged anti-competitive abuses in that same
Market in which NVIDIA is dominating like John Cena in a cage match against a
newborn baby that's not fair I can't even see him if NVIDIA hasn't been
fighting Fair NVIDIA might have to fight that baby's mom and that baby's mom is
the EU played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson if you
smell what the EU is Reddit the site known for making
incredibly popular decisions this year has continued that winning streak by
removing users ability to block targeted ads based on their site activity on
Wednesday Reddit announced the site will make several changes to its privacy
settings over the next few weeks with head of privacy juta Williams saying
they want to improve ad performance and simplify descriptions of privacy
settings and it's true removing user
choice about whether your Reddit activity data is collected and used for
personalized ads is way simpler this
does sound a bit funny considering that when Reddit announced their
controversial API changes they Justified it by saying we have an obligation to
our communities to be responsible stewards of all the user generated data
and content on the site and what does a responsible Steward do except sell the
thing being stewarded on to other stewards who use them for advertising
stewards typical Steward stuff Steward little and this is all on top of the
content monetization contributor program Reddit announced this week that has been
criticized for incentivizing posts that generate the most reactions through
controversy although that might not actually be the case I don't think
reddit's privacy update post has made them any money at all
burn AMD has finally launched FSR 3
complete with fluid motion frames the company's more open alternative to
NVIDIA's dlss 3 frame generation technology to guarantee that many gamers
would be able to see the effects of this revolutionary technology the first game
to feature the software are two of the biggest most successful titles to come
out this year four spoken and Immortals of AVM now to explain why my previous
comment is sarcastic let's go to the data see if we look over here at
Immortals of avum we see numbers that are bad and if we look over here at the
fores spoken region of Metacritic we see even worse numbers now some of you might
take this to mean that AMD isn't confident in their product but chances
are they chose these games because they're some of the most graphically
intensive games released this year and therefore could really show off what FSR
3 can do don't worry the new version of FSR will eventually be coming to other
games too like space MMO EV on line
personally I cannot wait for it to get FSR 3 support I'll be able to fill out
the built-in Excel sheets so fast
Starfield hello hello AMD now it's time for quick bits
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bits it's terminal details of NVIDIA's nextg Blackwell gpus have been leaked by
everyone's favorite confusingly named Twitter user cop7 Kimmy co-iped I like
I'm going to say the other way Senor Kimi implies that Blackwell will have up
to 11% more Cuda Cor in its AI compute
Focus GPU and up to 33% more cores in
its consumer focused GPU as long as NVIDIA doesn't change fundamental
aspects of its GPU structure obviously take this claim with a grain of salt but
if it's true NVIDIA wouldn't have any reason to be anti-competitive because
Blackwell gpus may be powerful enough to create a hole in SpaceTime that'll suck
the money out of everyone wallets many Discord users who have tried to access
the platform have been met with a message saying they've been blocked
because they triggered the security solution alcohol is my only solution
okay but actually a Discord just goofed
up their support began to work on the issue this morning and fortunately they
appear to have now fixed the issue oh thank goodness for a second there I
thought I was going to have to go outside and miss out on all the hot Goss
on my monk server where we chat about our love for the em award-winning TV
series starring Tony shaloo you don't want to go outside it's a jungle out
there there's no Tony shales out there at all I hope he is outside the new
Raspberry Pi 5 is done but it's hot so
it's gently cooling on the ledge until October it's reportedly a significant
advancement over two to three times faster than its predecessor it also
contains the Raspberry Pi foundation's first ever chip designed inhouse in
collaboration with Brom the pie will now have double the input output performance
and it will be able to handle two 4K displays at 60 FPS it's also
significantly more power efficient meaning that the pie won't easily
overheat don't eat it though Google will be allowing us teens from 13 to 17 to
use its generative AI search because
they're going to do it anyway and Google would rather they did it at home
Google's not a regular Mom it's a cool mom Google has apparently strengthened
the guard rails on its search function as well as a feature that provides
additional context to AI generated answers sure those guard rails haven't
really helped adults cope with the reality of AI generated misinformation
but I'm sure they'll definitely work on 14-year-olds and Amazon is launching an
echo show you can finally use as a digital photo frame as long as you pay a
subscription this is so crazy the Echo
Show 8 photos Edition is functionally
identical to the Echo Show 8 but costs
$10 more for a six-month subscription to
Amazon's photos plus service which lets you look at a 30- second slideshow of
your grandkids I just love how fast technology advances after those 6 months
are over you'll have to pay two bucks a month if you ever want to see your
grandkids again or you could just open photos on your phone print out actual
pictures and frame them or tack them to a corkboard they're many less stupid
options or just buy a Google Nest Hub or
literally anything other than that but the smartest option is to come back on
Monday for a brand new talk linked this one's a long one it'll be a couple of
tech boys making Tech noise and no one
else hell yeah brother