The Windows Update We All Wanted
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Windows 11 is getting a new feature that will roll back bad updates to a more
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stable version automatically, starting with driver updates with no action
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needed from the user or the device manufacturer. This is fantastic. I can't
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wait for my PC to roll itself back to Windows 10. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is
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TechLink. And in a new tech community blog post, Microsoft acknowledged the
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issues surrounding bad drivers being delivered through Windows Update and
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bricking parts of your system. They're not sure where those drivers came from,
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but we're all trying to find the guy who did this. So, Microsoft is developing
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cloud initiated driver recovery, which will identify borked drivers, create a
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recovery request, deliver the roll back instruction to your device through
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Windows Update, and most importantly, confirm an approved driver to install
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before uninstalling the bad one. So, they forgot about that a couple times.
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It's going through validation testing now and the official rollout is set for
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September 2026. Fingers crossed we don't end up in a situation where the cloud
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initiated recovery will need its own cloud initiated recovery. I hope that
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they've thought of this. Don't worry guys, Windows update will update itself.
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Thousands of Samsung workers are planning to go on strike next Thursday
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and in anticipation DDR4 prices have
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already jumped 20% in a single week. Sorry, just a second. I just have to
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just I'll be right back. EXCUSE
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ME. As with literally everything bad happening in the world right now, this
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traces back to AI and the fat stacks of
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cash chip makers are making off the resulting memory demand. The workers
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union dispute is focused around how Samsung is calculating employee bonuses
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from this year's record revenue. Samsung is offering workers 10% of operating
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profits and a one-time payment of $340,000.
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>> Wow. Wait, >> that sounds pretty good. Until you look
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at SKH Heinix, where employees are pulling in $470,000
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in bonuses this year. This is chump change. Come on.
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Samsung's offer caused negotiations to collapse on Tuesday, and the company was
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forced to start winding down chip production ahead of the strike. This is
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wild. Samsung, which stands to lose $2
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billion daily during the shutdown, is
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eager to restart negotiations. The union, however, is totally fine waiting
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until the strike ends on June 7th because, oh yeah, the SKH employees,
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analysts project that they're going to get a $900,000 payment next year. I
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would hold out too, I think. >> Riley, do you want to move to Korea with
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me and work for for SK Hires?
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>> The food's delicious, as far as I can tell. AMD just confirmed that FSR
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upscaling 4.1 is no longer going to be reserved exclusively for Radeon RX 9000
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series GPUs. It's officially coming to older cards, which means you can finally
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stop trying to sell your kidney on eBay for a 9000 series upgrade. That was
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probably not a good idea anyway. Senior VP Jack Quinn tweeted that coming this
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July, Radeon 7000 series owners will get FSR 4.1 and over 300 supported games
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right at launch and RX6000 folks haven't been forgotten, but that roll out will
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occur later in early 2027. Older cards
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will still take a bigger performance hit since they use INT8 math instead of the
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9000 series FP8 accelerator, but having
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the option on the table is a huge win, especially since the PS5 and Xbox Series
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X/S use the same RDNA2 architecture that
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Radeon 6000 series cards use. Meaning
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FSR4 on console is now a possibility.
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You know what's better than FSR 4.1 on a 7-year-old GPU? I can think of a lot of
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Spring Break. Oh, me and the boys just hit Berliniza,
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Bangkok, and we got to be in Tulum by Saturday for the Dead Mouth 5 concert.
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the boys have taken it as a personal challenge.
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Airport SIM line skipped. Scammer with a
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sock full of fake Sims dodged. Wandering
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Bangkok at 4:00 a.m. for a Wi-Fi password. No, I'm wandering Bangkok at
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plans. Oh, hey. Uh hey, what would
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Wouldn't it be funny if we called the the the quick bits slow bits instead?
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What if we what the I'm talking about, Ryan? What
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the you know ASUS will be launching its first ROG branded RAM at ROG day 2026
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and while it's only launching in China and Taiwan on June 1st, it's news
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because last year ASUS vehemently denied
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rumors that they would be going into memory manufacturing. It still remains
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to be true how much they are going into manufacturing. This RAM module is a DDR5
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48 gig kit and seems uh somewhat average
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until you pop it into the latest ASUS ROG motherboard and toggle ROG mode,
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which is what me and the boys call it when we want to go ham on raw hot dogs
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on any day that's not ROG day. Oh, Travis is going rag mode. Oh, Travis is
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in septic shock now. A new University of
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California study analyzing AI use among students at large research universities
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looked at 500,000 grades from 2018 to
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2025 and found a couple interesting things. First, depending on their field
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of study, about 30 to 40% of students admitted to cheating using generative AI
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on either assignments or exams. Second,
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compared to 2022's baseline, there's been a 30% increase in students
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receiving A grades. Hm. This has been a
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problem for some time now, and universities reportedly have no idea
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what to do about it, which coincidentally is also what their students said about the assignments.
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JGBT, what is this? Oh, that's your homework. Can you do it? Sure. Sony's
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newest flagship phone, the Xperia 1 8,
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has launched with an AI camera assistant that's gone viral, but not in the good
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way like you would want it to. Sony's ads are getting flamed online for
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showing the AI blowing out brightness and washing out colors in their demo
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photos. Sony has since tweeted trying to clear up the confusion, uh, saying that
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the assistant isn't modifying the photos. is just suggesting creative
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settings you can use if you want to, which is which is corpo speak for. WE
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KNOW THE AI SUGGESTIONS ARE BAD. NO ONE'S FORCING YOU TO USE THEM. SHUT UP.
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SHUT UP. MY BOSS IS HERE. PLEASE. I tried to delete the tweet. I don't know
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how. The Stop Killing Games initiative scored a big win this week as the
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California Appropriations Committee approved a bill requiring publishers to
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ensure that game developers provide offline solutions or issue refunds in
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the event of a service interruption. The bill still has a few more steps before
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it could become a law, but still, this is huge. The Entertainment Software
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Association, an industry lobbying group, called the bill fundamentally flawed
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because clearly gamers never buy games. They only license them. Yes, that's what
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we're trying to change. We don't like that. No, no, no, no, no. You guys don't
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get it. You don't own the games. We know. Instagram has just released a new
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feature called instance that lets users share spontaneous unfiltered photos with
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their friends, which is a little confusing because that is what that is
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what Instagram is. >> Yes. >> Yes. Correct. Oh, and then you keep
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reading and you find out that oh, the photos disappear after your friends view
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them. So, it's not just like Instagram. It's actually just another feature of
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Snapchat that Instagram forgot to copy, but now they got around to it. Yay. But
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I know you won't forget to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news.
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That's right. Monday's a holiday here in Canada. It's Victoria Day where all
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Canadians take the day off work to perform a ritual at the Prime Minister's
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House in Ottawa where Queen Victoria's zombie bones are buried, lest she rise
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again and usher in a new Victorian age
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of extremely strict moral standards for thousands of years. So, it's just a fun
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thing we do together.