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ASUS scandal deepens
Warranty scandal of 2023 that's what I'm
calling it has gotten a little more
interesting Hardware Busters have
alleged that Asus isn't the only am5
motherboard manufacturer exceeding the
1.3 volt SOC voltage limit meant to
protect ryzen 7000 x3d series CPUs from
sploding after testing a gigabyte auras
Master x670e board Hardware Busters
found that the soc voltage exceeded 1.36
volts after updating the BIOS that
supposedly applied the voltage safety
cap not so much vindicating Asus as
implying gigabyte and potentially other
motherboard makers need to step up in
the making sure your products don't blow
up Department
like none of us did let's do it now
after this analysis went up buildzoid
went to Twitter to claim that Gamer's
Nexus was measuring the voltages wrong
in their investigation of asus's
motherboards and GN destroyed them with
facts by just politely disagreeing and
stating how they measured their results
nerds are discussing methodology and it
is getting
on Friday Hardware unboxed went off on a
fan for suggesting they needed to keep
their credibility stating they weren't
going to stop reviewing Asus products
because a reviewing their products is
one way to call them out and B Because
finding tech companies that haven't done
a ton of anti-consumer crap is like
finding a milkshake in a ton of crap
like cool you found a milkshake but
are you sure it's chocolate it's a poop
joke to be fair to Asus they did just
publish an update clarifying that
installing beta bioses to fix this
problem does not void your warranty
that's right faced with a sizable
controversy over their lack of concern
for their customers the company thought
wow we should definitely address this
after the weekend you coming to beers
tonight
that's what they say in Taiwan right man
when we did our Asus poetry slam on
Friday we had no idea it would generate
so much drama so many feelings clearly
about us people were crying

  
Apple testing M3 chips
audience apple is prepping for a win by
ramping up testing of their next gen M3
chips according to German Sermon
Apple's been squirming to remove the
worm in their Mac sales figures Jacob
isn't here but he's here in spirit their
sales figures which were down 31 last
quarter sure they could reduce MacBook
prices and make it more affordable to
buy one of their great products but what
if instead of that they use the more
expensive three nanometer process for
their M3 chips so they can add more
cores and more memory
based indeed German says the Baseline M3
Pro will have two more CPU and GPU cores
than the M2 Pro which itself had two
more CPU and GPU cores than the M1 Pro
sensing a pattern every day there will
be another core until something changes
we're going to add cores however German
determined that the M3 Pro currently
being tested has 36 gigabytes of memory
which is four more than the highest spec
of the M2 Pro MacBooks so like two 18
gigabyte sticks in dual Channel this
makes me physically uncomfortable
it would be so cool oh just so I can
think of something else Mark German said
the long-awaited 15-inch MacBook Air
will come out equipped with an M2 Chip
just in time for summer so get ready for
that macbook's announcement to be
overshadowed by the announcement of
Apple's VR headset at WWDC you can go
live in Apple's world
Tim Cook will sing you to sleep

  
 The EU approves Microsoft Activision deal
European Union has given their blessing
for Microsoft's acquisition of
Activision Blizzard the company that had
a dream of being judged not by its
Leader's history of sexual harassment
allegations but by the content of its
game Library
yeah
gonna leave that alone sometimes you
just make a Martin Luther King joke for
no reason and the EU didn't do this for
nothing the merger approval is subject
to conditions that Microsoft suggested
to assuage concerns that this would
affect the cloud gaming slash cloud game
streaming Market which a lot of people
care about the European commission's
concerns were that since cloud gaming is
still a young Market the availability of
games like Call of Duty could affect it
if Microsoft were to make Cod exclusive
to Game Pass ultimate the company would
be able to virtually monopolize the
pre-teens who just learned a new slur
demographic a key segment for
advertisers in fact the UK's competition
and markets Authority blocked the merger
because of similar concerns about the
cloud gaming Market as a compromise
Microsoft offered a 10-year plan to
provide licenses to consumers in the
European economic area that would allow
them to stream any Activision Blizzard
PC games they own using any streaming
service and a corresponding license to
any streaming service platforms to
provide that capability
so what happens when that license
agreement is up who cares we'll probably
all be killed by self-aware AI by that
so I'm looking forward to it live for
now

  
Pixel phones overheating
hottest phone a sentence that will make
sense once I let you know that pixel 6
and 7 users have reported as sudden
unexplained bug that's causing their
phones to overheat the apparent cause is
a recent app update that's causing the
Google app to suck up battery life like
a wild cherry Capri Sun
in some cases these issues have cut
usable screen time in half the phones
are likewise charging slower and running
dangerously hot prompting some users to
turn their pixels into popsicles by
sticking them in the freezer nutritious
and delicious and they take great photos
a great summer treat users have tried
rolling back to a previous update and
even full Factory resets neither of
which seem to work all there's left to
do is wait for Google to hurry up and
fix their 600 butt warmers which is of
little Comfort

  
A Telly TV with 2nd screen for ads
A startup called Telly wants to give you a
TV for free all it costs is everything
the television comes with a second
banner-like screen which will be fully
or partially taken out by ads pretty
much at all times and the TV May collect
information about the content you watch
and may also track the physical presence
of you and any other individuals using
the TV at any time now as we mentioned
you can get the TV for free or you can
opt out of sharing all your data and pay
500 to keep it if you are okay with
installing a billboard in your living
room
 
The dystopia is here
I've always wanted cyberpunk 2077 to be
plan to rescue Spitzer space telescope
real a private company called Reya space
activity has received funding from the
U.S space force to rescue the Spitzer
Space Telescope The Observatory was
launched 20 years ago and remained
mostly operational until three years ago
when communication stopped working I'm
not saying it's aliens
but in a plan backed by multiple groups
including Lockheed Martin a small craft
would be sent to act as a relay between
Spitzer and Earth within spitzing
distance you could say the eventual hope
is to use the telescope as an early
warning system for Dangerous asteroids
because if we have enough time we won't
have to send Bruce Willis and Ben
Affleck again they are so tired of this
Zelda ToTK machine abominations
Zelda tears of the Kingdom players are
getting creative by using the in-game
mechanics to build tanks planes and even
mechs but also many many many
lots of penises there's just so many you
can build anything more like tears of
the schwingdom am I right okay can make
anything you can imagine which is mostly
Nintendo severely overestimated my
imagination perhaps as revenge for the
golden turd players received for
rescuing all 900 koroks in breath of the
wild a lot of Creative Energy has gone
towards torturing the annoying creatures
in different ways involving crucifixions
and I have to assume penises as well as
we've never said the word this many
times in the show oh wow everyone is
freaking out about the era of 100
gigabyte games meanwhile Nintendo fit an
open world war crime simulator into 16.3
gigs
Palmer Luckey thinks Apple headset good
The creator of the Oculus,
Palmer Luckey tweeted "the Apple headset is so good"
What else did he say? Nothing. Did he go
into more detail? No. Are we sure he's
actually touched an apple headset? Not
really. Is this the real Palmer Luckey?
Well there's a blue check mark next to
his name, but what does that even mean
anymore