i thought i'd never do the tech news again and then you showed up
although GPU prices are slowly getting better don't expect the world's overall
chip shortage to end anytime soon we don't want to make things too easy right
it's a challenge it's character building oh my robot vacuum
Intel ceo pat gelsinger said in an interview with cnbc that he expects
supply chains to experience issues until
2024. a big part of the issue is that the equipment needed to make the chips
is rather difficult to come by they checked all the garage sales already
everyone's out i threw mine in the garbage thought i didn't need it Intel
along with other chip makers have invested heavily in expanding fab
capacity but building out all that extra infrastructure will obviously take time
so even with the recent easing of prices we won't be seeing them drop
dramatically including in the memory and SSD space so expect the chip shortage to
continue until we all drown from flooding in a couple years or that's
what twitter makes it sound like sometimes we'll be knocked on the head with hail we're gonna have fires
volcanic rock will run you over in the street godzilla speaking of twitter
there's finally a bit of news about what elon musk is actually planning to do
with his gently used social media platform run it to the ground
you gotta refurbish and it doesn't have as much to do with free speech as it
does with giving musks some precious returns he needs to fuel those rockets
somehow he uses they run on tweets according to a
reuters report musk is considering charging sites outside of twitter for
embedding tweets in say a news article or a forum post elon is already on
record as saying that twitter's bottom line is in need of being well bigger and
as popular as tweet embeds are enough people might pony up the cash to make
the decision worth it oh no he's been defeated by quotation marks
yeah it's like what for now this is just a glint in elon's eye but hopefully it's
not a sign that the internet will start getting nickel and dime just to yell at
each other on the bird site there's also the option to
just screenshot the tweets quotation marks i'm telling you and microsoft is
the latest company to dip its toes into the vpn space in its most recent attempt
to convince you to please please use edge
we made this edge browser i mean we copied chrome but
microsoft is now including a built-in vpn called the microsoft edge secure
network cloudflare is actually running the vpn behind the scenes and they're
giving users one Gigabyte of free data each month with the browser tracking
your usage and warning you when you're getting close to the cap which will with
a one Gigabyte cap problem you're probably going to get there in like 30 seconds okay i always do
of course the vpn will only protect data that's being sent through the edge
browser and there's no way to bounce your signal through another country to
get around geography-based blocking but it should help with protecting your
browsing activity from snoops especially if you're on public wi-fi
snoops that just sounds like something microsoft made up
multiple snoopies now it's time for quick bits brought to you by the
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monitors with claimed support for variable refresh rate technology like
g-sync and freesync are everywhere nowadays but industry association vasa
is here to make everything make a bit more sense this morning they launched
the adaptive sync display compliance test specification or a sdcts
as dick which will evaluate 50 criteria to certify monitors as either a media
sync display for video playback or an adaptive sync display for gaming which
sounds cool we just need to keep the usb guys
far away from this you need some numbers on there those are
cool but you need like three point one one five five six seven eight
square enix is selling some of its major studios and game ips to swedish game
company conglomerator embracer group
that's what they're called embracer will get crystal dynamics idos montreal and
square enix montreal along with the ips
for avengers tomb raider deus ex and tons more for a paltry 300 million
dollars that's like nothing for when you're talking about game studios i can
embrace this it seems like an absolute steal but
square enix apparently couldn't find any other interested buyers uh where was
sony apple has loosened its policy on mandatory app updates just a little bit
as smaller devs now have 90 days to update their apps before they're pulled
from the app store rather than the 30 that were previously announced i wonder
if the devs could just like change one character of code would that be like
malicious compliance it's like what no you have to update this game from the
80s with new features what are you gonna do what are you an ask an apple
believe it or not overclockers have pushed their RAM to over 10 gigahertz
this was done by overclocker high cookie on behalf of hi cookie on behalf of
Gigabyte with a 4 800 megahertz stick of
ddr5 and Windows xp professional funnily
enough the top speed high cookie achieved was
ten thousand and twenty two megahertz phew that's a lot of cookies that's the
year dune takes place it might be and twitch streamer rudism
has modded a fisher-price baby's first gamepad toy into a real functioning
gamepad although in a demo he explained that since some of them buttons are
missing there's a toggle to switch between sets of commands meaning
ironically that you shouldn't give this to your baby at all they're cute
they're not smart unless your parenting plan involves sending them through the
gauntlet of elden ring early they got to learn about malicious elder gods
sometimes you want your baby to grow up to be a good tarnished
what you don't know what that means no i barely do but you'll be tarnished if you
want to be tarnished by tech news come back on wednesday for more and in the
meantime i didn't write an outro for this one so this is what is what you get
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