Riley's still on vacation, but he left me this note to read for you guys. Don't
screw this up. Or else. Wow, that's actually a lot less menacing
than he is in person. Epic Games in Fortnite might owe you money for a
change thanks to their predatory dark patterns. Those include displaying
confusing purchase prompts, promoting misleading offers, allowing underage
account holders to make purchases without parental consent, and probably
the worst one, to be honest, charging players unintentionally by waking the
game from sleep mode during the loading screen or while customers attempted to
preview an in-game item. Yesesh. Now,
the full settlement happened back in 2022, but in this second phase, the FTC
has approved paying $126 million in refunds to about $970,000
players. That works out to uh a whopping
$130 each. So, uh it's actually not bad.
Watch out for your check in the mail, although it might not be that much.
Apparently, it's happening on a case-byase basis, depending on how much
you spent. And Elijah said one of his friends got $1,200.
Now that's a power user. As for us, we'll be waiting for our RTX50 to arrive
because we're even more excited to review it now that NVIDIA has given a
statement on why it's using GDDR6 in the
desktop version instead of the GDDR7
that the laptop version is getting. What? Laptop master race. Let's go.
Apparently, this has to do with thermals and battery life. And well, GDDR7 is
just so much gosh darn more efficient that mobile devices just love it. But
then why not just put the GDDR7 in both of them instead of saying that GDDR6 was
the best choice for desktop? Not enough margin. Yeah, best choice for your
shareholders maybe. Regardless, you won't have to wait much longer as the
launch is going to be in the second half of July. That is unless you're in China.
Then it's just July. When? In July? Who
knows? I know something that happened. Last generation DDR4 memory has gone
from being cheap because it's old to expensive because it's really old. With
DDR4 currently costing about double the price of DDR5 on DRAM exchange. Ouch.
Now, you got to be wondering what the heck, why? And the reason is that most
companies that are still making DDR4 are manufacturing the last waves of it and
therefore are jacking up the prices to ensure that their supply won't disappear
too quickly. But the problem is there are a ton of people and businesses out
there who would rather perform a simple memory upgrade instead of upgrading to
an entirely new platform. So if they need it, they're basically bent over a
barrel. So, um, act fast or you might be
looking at an even higher price in the future. That is until it gets really,
really, really old and then it gets cheap again. Speaking of cheap, here's a
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No, no, it's not. Here's one. Shout out to China and their Loomson server
processors. You guys are catching up and congratulations. Better late than never.
You're only about four, 5 years behind Intel and AMD. Seriously though, this is
an impressive feat with the 36000 processor featuring a quad chiplet
layout with 64 cores, 128 threads, 32
megs of cache, quad channel DDR4 support. Oo, that's going to cost them.
and a max frequency of 2.2 GHz. Very cool. What's not so cool is Windows
changing the blue screen of death to just the sod. That's right. It's 2025
and we are going from blue to black sometime this summer. The black dad. I
guess it's still a bod, but it's not the kind that I grew up with and I don't
like change so I don't like it. You're still going to get an error code at the
bottom as well as the name of the driver or other file that caused the crash. Um,
and they're saying that this is to help give users and administrators the right
details to troubleshoot or diagnose. What does that have to do with changing
the color? Don't you understand the brand recognition you're losing for your
error? Oh, they do. They don't want it. And Nintendo is also making some dumb
changes that nobody really wanted. Updates to Mario Kart World's online
modes have already annoyed players when they removed the option to vote for
circuit style threelap tracks and limited them to the intermission sprint
style races. I thought this is democracy. But now the workaround
selecting random to get a traditional race has been squashed like a gloomba
because they have added the full race roster to that list making the odds of
getting a normal track slim to none. What is this a communist country? And if
you've been slimming down or sizing up, maybe you can use Google's new Doppel
app to update your wardrobe. It's easy. You just screenshot the outfit you want
to try on, take a full body photo of yourself in a well-lit room, and hit the
generate button. It's not perfect. Uh,
using mirror selfies might result in some weirdness, but hey, I can't wait to
see what I'd look like in a headtotoe leather suit. What? You don't do Jensen
Fridays? And last but not least, Apple is trying to avoid some fines in the EU
by giving users app store options. This
comes after negotiating with the European Commission for the last 2
months after they were fined€500 million
euro for breaching the EU's digital markets act. And of course, they're
waiting until basically the last minute to make the changes. You know what,
Apple? For that, I'm changing the app store on my Nana's phone and my phone.
Don't make me tell my Primos. Come back Monday for more tech news. But before
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