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Riley's still on vacation, but he left me this note to read for you guys. Don't

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screw this up. Or else. Wow, that's actually a lot less menacing

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than he is in person. Epic Games in Fortnite might owe you money for a

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change thanks to their predatory dark patterns. Those include displaying

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confusing purchase prompts, promoting misleading offers, allowing underage

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account holders to make purchases without parental consent, and probably

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the worst one, to be honest, charging players unintentionally by waking the

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game from sleep mode during the loading screen or while customers attempted to

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preview an in-game item. Yesesh. Now,

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the full settlement happened back in 2022, but in this second phase, the FTC

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has approved paying $126 million in refunds to about $970,000

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players. That works out to uh a whopping

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$130 each. So, uh it's actually not bad.

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Watch out for your check in the mail, although it might not be that much.

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Apparently, it's happening on a case-byase basis, depending on how much

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you spent. And Elijah said one of his friends got $1,200.

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Now that's a power user. As for us, we'll be waiting for our RTX50 to arrive

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because we're even more excited to review it now that NVIDIA has given a

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statement on why it's using GDDR6 in the

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desktop version instead of the GDDR7

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that the laptop version is getting. What? Laptop master race. Let's go.

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Apparently, this has to do with thermals and battery life. And well, GDDR7 is

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just so much gosh darn more efficient that mobile devices just love it. But

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then why not just put the GDDR7 in both of them instead of saying that GDDR6 was

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the best choice for desktop? Not enough margin. Yeah, best choice for your

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shareholders maybe. Regardless, you won't have to wait much longer as the

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launch is going to be in the second half of July. That is unless you're in China.

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Then it's just July. When? In July? Who

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knows? I know something that happened. Last generation DDR4 memory has gone

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from being cheap because it's old to expensive because it's really old. With

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DDR4 currently costing about double the price of DDR5 on DRAM exchange. Ouch.

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Now, you got to be wondering what the heck, why? And the reason is that most

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companies that are still making DDR4 are manufacturing the last waves of it and

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therefore are jacking up the prices to ensure that their supply won't disappear

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too quickly. But the problem is there are a ton of people and businesses out

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there who would rather perform a simple memory upgrade instead of upgrading to

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an entirely new platform. So if they need it, they're basically bent over a

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barrel. So, um, act fast or you might be

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looking at an even higher price in the future. That is until it gets really,

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No, no, it's not. Here's one. Shout out to China and their Loomson server

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processors. You guys are catching up and congratulations. Better late than never.

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You're only about four, 5 years behind Intel and AMD. Seriously though, this is

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an impressive feat with the 36000 processor featuring a quad chiplet

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layout with 64 cores, 128 threads, 32

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megs of cache, quad channel DDR4 support. Oo, that's going to cost them.

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and a max frequency of 2.2 GHz. Very cool. What's not so cool is Windows

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changing the blue screen of death to just the sod. That's right. It's 2025

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and we are going from blue to black sometime this summer. The black dad. I

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guess it's still a bod, but it's not the kind that I grew up with and I don't

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like change so I don't like it. You're still going to get an error code at the

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bottom as well as the name of the driver or other file that caused the crash. Um,

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and they're saying that this is to help give users and administrators the right

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details to troubleshoot or diagnose. What does that have to do with changing

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the color? Don't you understand the brand recognition you're losing for your

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error? Oh, they do. They don't want it. And Nintendo is also making some dumb

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changes that nobody really wanted. Updates to Mario Kart World's online

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modes have already annoyed players when they removed the option to vote for

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circuit style threelap tracks and limited them to the intermission sprint

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style races. I thought this is democracy. But now the workaround

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selecting random to get a traditional race has been squashed like a gloomba

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because they have added the full race roster to that list making the odds of

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getting a normal track slim to none. What is this a communist country? And if

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you've been slimming down or sizing up, maybe you can use Google's new Doppel

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app to update your wardrobe. It's easy. You just screenshot the outfit you want

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to try on, take a full body photo of yourself in a well-lit room, and hit the

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generate button. It's not perfect. Uh,

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using mirror selfies might result in some weirdness, but hey, I can't wait to

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see what I'd look like in a headtotoe leather suit. What? You don't do Jensen

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Fridays? And last but not least, Apple is trying to avoid some fines in the EU

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by giving users app store options. This

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comes after negotiating with the European Commission for the last 2

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months after they were fined€500 million

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euro for breaching the EU's digital markets act. And of course, they're

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waiting until basically the last minute to make the changes. You know what,

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Apple? For that, I'm changing the app store on my Nana's phone and my phone.

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Don't make me tell my Primos. Come back Monday for more tech news. But before

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you go, make sure to like and subscribe on this video so that Riley doesn't beat

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us.