you say you love the tech news but if you really loved the tech news you'd
marry it what eu lawmakers have agreed on new rules that would take closed
ecosystems operated by tech giants like apple and in layman's terms
come up real good
the digital markets act or dma has been making its way through the branches of
the eu's government but this agreement means it could actually pass into law
very soon and force apple facebook or
any company providing so-called core platform services to allow
interoperability between messaging services meaning that users on whatsapp
or imessage or telegram could all
message each other i mean you've seen blue bubbles and green bubbles get ready
for a whole spectrum of color
you're gonna see who apple really hates when they assign the brown bubble
the dma would also force apple to allow side loading of iOS apps something that
epic has spent the past year and a half trying to achieve in court obviously big
tech isn't super into the idea with apple saying it'll be bad for security
and google saying that it could reduce innovation
although google did just begin a pilot program with spotify to try out
third-party billing in the play store obviously epic ceo tim sweeney would
love to see the dma become law mostly because it'll be like nitrous fuel for
his twitter feed oh he's a real sassy man he feels very loves burritos
burritos team green may be turning over a new leaf in how they deal with
competitors NVIDIA has traditionally tried to keep things proprietary to a
very significant degree but at gdc this
week the company announced that it is in talks with Intel to potentially produce
chips using team blues fancy new foundries instead of their usual buddies
tsmc and samsung i mean you can't have
too many friends right but that's not all NVIDIA also announced
streamline a software framework that would make it easier for developers to
integrate not just dlss but any super
resolution technology and it's open source
Intel is already preparing plugins for xcss and AMD could do the same for fsr
2.0 if they so choose in fact technically anyone could do that for fsr
because it's open source as well maybe those hackers that demanded NVIDIA
open source their drivers actually achieved something called xcss that's
probably not what happened not says those hackers by the way may
not achieve anything like that again because london police have reportedly
arrested a 16 year old believed to be the mastermind of the lapsis hacking
group that group claimed responsibility for recent high-profile cyber attacks
against NVIDIA samsung ubisoft microsoft and octa leaking compromise to data and
even making that famous demand to which NVIDIA did not exceed because they don't
negotiate with terrorists when they're still in high school head of the hacking
club six other teens have also been arrested in connection with lapses
although no charges have yet been filed the teams have been released under
investigation well wait did did they give them cell phones what no did you
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brace yourself because there are some heavyweight gpus on the horizon images
have leaked of MSI's rtx 3090ti supreme
x indicating that NVIDIA may finally release this card or even maybe talk
about it it's been kind of awkward since the end of february when we were
supposed to hear more about it meanwhile other leaks have indicated
that the rtx 4080 which is expected this year could have a TDP of
600 watts for context the 30 90 TDP is 350 watts
and that's already crazy in a nutshell if you're gonna buy one of these you're
also buying a new power supply it's in the purchase agreement lawyers are
involved maybe it's nothing to fret over though because that 600 watt number
might have something to do with the new power supply specifications that Intel
just released which should lead to more powerful and efficient psus and the
proliferation of a 12 plus 4 pin PCIe
power connector that can deliver up to 600 watts
over a single cable coincidence i think not
apple is developing a hardware subscription service for iphones
according to a bloomberg report citing insiders with knowledge of matter that's
always those guys such a service may look a lot like
microsoft's xbox all access plan which gives customers the ability to pay a
monthly subscription for access to a console and 24 months of game pass
ultimate so you get a new iphone every year and access to apple's award-winning
apple tv plus streaming exclusive content that has just so many
celebrities in it and denzel wow tom hey they have so many celebrities they have
so many in there they got the cards with microsoft having released direct storage
into the wild many are hoping we'll see better load times in games and although
a gdc demo shows a scene from the upcoming game for spoken loading in just
1.9 seconds
that's down from just 2.1 seconds oh what seems like the
kind of drive you're using actually has a way bigger impact on load times than
the tech itself for that particular game i mean i'm not complaining faster is
more better generally generally especially for drive thumb throughs yeah
and fortnite battle royale may be permanently getting rid of one of its
most distinctive features fort building what are they gonna call it
open field combat night night the game
tested out the change this week and while the most elite players complained
about it many of the more casual fans celebrated not having to literally tag
their fingers and knots in order to win a battle but code leaks make it look like there
may be building and non-building modes so don't worry you can still show off
your knowledge of architecture while engaging in deadly firefights uh but
just try to get out of your neoclassical box every once in a while bye
changing modes and try to come back on monday for more
attack news if you do really love tech news i mean
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