Everyone, welcome back to the hardware

news recap of the week. We're probably

going to have two for you this week in

rapid succession because there is a lot

of hardware news. So, in this episode,

we're talking about Intel on a tear

right now. They have their new Arc Pro

series GPUs that just came out as well

in addition to the 200 series refresh

CPUs that were pretty good. I mean, our

review of the 270K, if you haven't seen

it, 270K Plus, was pretty positive

because that CPU is very competitive

with AMD's 9950X, and it is a lot

cheaper, like half the price. So, that

was good to see. It's unfortunate that

the RAM situation is so bad. It's it's

really putting a damper on everything

for Intel having an actual CPU that's

worth paying attention to. Uh, but

nonetheless, it was cool to see

something that actually is competitive

come out on the market and isn't

stupidly overpriced. Like some of these,

you know, the $200 CPU for the 250 KP.

That's a big change from what we've been

dealing with in the RAM and GPU

situation. Also in the news, Nvidia

wants you. Nvidia's Jensen Juan is all

in on war.

That's like what he said.

>> There's a reason we went to war and I

believe at the end of the war, Middle

East will be more stable than before.

And so if we were there, if we're

considering it before, we should

absolutely be considering it after. And

so I'm 100% in on that.

>> Jensen, that's that's what he's going to

do. He's going to export AI

with the democracy we're exporting.

Also, Nvidia has facial recognition

technology that can identify people

within milliseconds of seeing their

face, even with face coverings.

Why? Why, Jensen? Why do you make me

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This one's really quick. First item is

AMD has finally announced its 9950 X3D2

and this was just a day or so after

ASRock accidentally I think a second

time revealed that it was coming but

then they retracted that press release

but now it's here. So AMD has announced

the 9950X3D2. This is a dual CCD dual

Vcash solution. So unlike the 9950 X3D

that's currently out, this one adds the

extra cache also on top of the second

CCD. So that's even more cash and

they've also increased the TDP for it.

Uh it has a total 28 megabytes of onchip

cache and totality. AMD's official

product page lists its latest Zen 5

processor as featuring 16 cores, a 4.3

GHz base clock, up to 5.6 GHz boost, 200

watt TDP, and a 192 megaby L3 cache. So,

that's just the L3 for that number,

which improves upon the previously

released 9950X3D's

128 megabytes of L3 cache. And TDP also

increases by 30 watts, which will aid in

maintaining clocks, but of course means

it'll pull more power. Regarding its

performance, AMD had some claims for

firstparty testing. They claimed the

9950X3D2

is 5 to 10% improved against the

original 9950X3D,

not 2. The funniest part though of this

announcement is not the announcement

itself, but the fact that over 80% of

the comments are things like release the

FSR4 files, people flooding AMD and

bullying them to try and get support on

older devices, which we know is

possible. The 9950 X3D2

uh should mostly be interesting in

situations where one obviously the cache

is already beneficial. So that's going

to be gaming for the most part in our

test suite. We don't see a lot of uplift

from the extra cache on the X3D

solutions in our non-gaming tests. Not

to say it never happens, but for the

workloads we test, we just we don't

really see it. So, uh, mostly we see

that in gaming. Adding more cash. To me,

it's academically it's really

interesting. Meaning, not necessarily at

a product level, but just I I'm curious

to see which games will show a benefit

and if we're kind of at diminishing

returns at some point. It just it seems

like more cache on the chip is always

going to be better because you're just

you're reducing hits out to system

memory by that much. But probably when

you're going from something like 128 to

192 somewhere in there is going to be

diminishing returns I think. So anyway,

it'll be really interesting to test. The

performance versus the price is probably

going to be a problem because if they're

claiming 5 to 10%

the price is going to be kind of rough.

This likely was fasttracked. It seems

like maybe to try and bury Intel's

relatively successful Aerolake refresh.

Uh it seems like that got buried on its

own thanks to the RAM pricing which I

mean I don't blame anyone. But Aerake

refresh overall fairly exciting for

Intel. They had a good week where 270 KP

in particular, the 270K Plus is

competitive with the 9950X specifically

in production workloads and in gaming

workloads, but it's really the

production ones that are troubling for

AMD where it's like half the price or

pretty close to it anyway and uh very

competitive in performance. So, um this

may be AMD's way of trying to follow up,

but it's going to be a higher price

processor. I really doubt the

performance will change very much in

production applications. Obviously,

we'll test it, but it's probably not

going to move the needle a lot there.

So, it doesn't really change much the

conclusion of the 270 KP. Uh gaming,

however, will be interesting again from

an academic standpoint. So, anyway, AMD

has not yet confirmed the MSRP for the

solution. They put out a 5-minute video.

They announced it exists. That is about

all they did. And they say that this is

supposed to be coming soon in quarter 2,

2026.

Maybe Computex for the announcement.

That would be first week of June, end of

May, somewhere in there. Uh, but

obviously as soon as they actually send

out samples or we're able to buy one or

whatever the case may be, we'll do some

testing on it. Let's start with just the

computer hardware stuff today. We'll

start easy and we'll ease into the part

where Nvidia's Jensen Juan is talking

about the war in Iran and they're making

technology that would be extremely good

for domestic spying. Uh after a strong

week with the 250K Plus and 270K Plus,

Intel also launched some GPUs and the

company has most recently added the B65

and B70 to its Pro lineup. The ARC Pro

B65 spec defines 20 XE cores, 20 RT

units, 197 GPU peak tops, whatever

that's worth, and a 200 watt TVP or

total board power. While the B70 lists

32 XE cores, 32 RT units, and 367 GPU

peak tops, and a 160 to 290 watt TBP, so

a wide range here depending on board

partners. Both cards will offer 32 GB of

GDDR6 at 68 GB per second memory

bandwidth and support up to four

displays. Intel positions its ProGPUs as

what they call AI workstation cards with

its marketing claiming quote seamless

support across multiple GPUs end quote

and writing that they can quote combine

the power and memory of multiple GPUs to

execute AI models in Linux that take 100

plus GB of VRAM end quote to which

Nvidia said 100 gigabytes best I can do

is nine. The Ark Pro B70 is listed for

pre-order on Newegg listing an April

24th release date and $950 MSRP at the

time of writing. Although the B65's

launch price and date remain unclear at

the time of writing this. Our friend

Wendell over at Level One Tech has been

talking about these cards as well. So,

if you're interested in these, we'd

recommend checking out his video. It's

on his channel. Wendell always does

great work, so happy to send you his way

for more info on these cards. Possibly

do something with them at some point,

but I'm not sure yet. Uh, he definitely

is though. Up next, Nvidia's always on

facial recognition technology. Are you

ready for probably like 10 minutes of

great news about Nvidia? because we've

got it for you, but you should know

about it. Especially Jensen's feelings

on war.

While Nvidia professed its love for

surveillance company Palanteer at GTC in

March, Nvidia was already busy creating

more spy capable technologies earlier

this year. Nvidia unveiled a new facial

recognition system at an e conference in

February. According to Ile Spectrum, the

engineering outlet reported that Nvidia

has developed an always on low power

facial recognition system for use in

robotics, consumer devices, naming

laptops as one of them, autonomous

vehicles, and drones. Great

technology for drones, facial

recognition technology, no less. And

Nvidia's partnered with this guy.

>> Well, I love the idea of getting a drone

and having light fentinyl laced urine

spraying on analysts who tried to screw

us. At least now the fentinol piss will

be able to accurately hit my face. Wait,

no, that didn't that's the editor's cut.

The new computer vision system can quote

detect human faces in less than a

millisecond. End quote. After which

point, their partner Palunteer can spray

piss with fentinol in it on them. This

saves power by storing data locally,

too. Nvidia engineer Ben Keller

presented this new system on behalf of

the company. ILE E Spectrum summarized

Nvidia's technical presentation,

writing, quote, according to the

researchers, this kind of vision

processing typically requires about 10

watts, but that's too much power to

leave a face detection system on

continuously. The Nvidia system on chip

uses less than 5 matt with a frame rate

of 60 fps. The system refreshes to

process a new image every 16.7

milliseconds and is only fully powered

on for 5% of that time with E Spectrum

citing Keller for that. The quote

continues, quote, within 787

milliseconds, the SOC calls on a deep

learning accelerator to determine

whether or not a human face is present

with about 99% accuracy. End quote. Just

a note, but processing 16.67

milliseconds for each image is the same

as the 60 fps rate. Says the same thing.

Nvidia is currently working on major

laptop engineering efforts. These

include their new ARM CPUs that aren't

announced yet, but are supposed to be

probably called the N1X, and that'll

likely be launched uh or announced at

least at Computex more formally. And

Nvidia's also with its 4% stake in Intel

got the RTX chiplet laptop solutions

coming out in addition to whatever

networking solutions it's doing and

enterprise solutions. So they are like

the war in Iran all in on laptops right

now and uh this is the perfect time to

roll out a facial recognition technology

that can go into them. Much of the SOC

is powered off by default in Nvidia's

new system except for a subsystem called

Alpha Vision. In an abstract from the

research paper, Nvidia said that Alpha

Vision is quote always on low power

subsystem for DNN inference-based vision

tasks and edge SOC's end quote. And the

subsystem also doesn't allow external

access to memory. An Nvidia graphic

shows that Alpha Vision remains on in

sleep mode before powering the rest of

the SOC when it detects a face in active

mode. Ile E Spectrum said the required

data is stored locally on the SRAMM and

that the quote face recognition system

rushes through its work and then quickly

puts the SRAMM into a low power sleep

mode end quote which Nvidia refers to as

race to sleep. This is also what I

called the end of my Crimson Desert

benchmarking process. Nvidia's

investment in facial recognition

technology isn't new. Back in 2012 or

2013 they were already moving on it. In

fact, I remember going to Nvidia's then

HQ probably about 2012 or 13 and uh they

gleefully showed us their facial

recognition technology where I think the

demo was showing people walking through

an airport with a camera system

autographing and identifying faces and

that was over a decade ago. Now in July

2013, Nvidia launched the GeoInt

Accelerator which the company called the

quote world's first GPU accelerated

geospatial intelligence platform end

quote. In a blog post, Nvidia said the

platform quote provides defense and

homeland security analysts with tools

that enable faster processing of facial

recognition and surveillance video. End

quote. And that was 2013. Additionally,

in April 2016, Hera Security, a company

specializing in facial recognition,

talked about how Nvidia GPUs accelerated

their solutions on the NVIDIA developer

YouTube channel.

>> We are focused in law enforcement

projects. We have to be able to detect

faces in crowds and we have to solve the

problem of uh very uh large resolutions.

Let's say we're talking about 4K

resolutions. We make use of u GPUs uh to

go very fast to be able to detect faces

very fast and to be able to process

images coming especially from video

streaming and you have to scan these

faces and uh in real time.

>> In a related blog post, Nvidia said her

securityurities technologies quote make

it possible to record subjects

automatically through on the-fly video

capture and works correctly even when

the subject is wearing glasses, a hat or

their face is partially concealed. It

even works with changes in facial

expression, difficult lighting

conditions, and slight rotations of the

face. End quote. Nvidia announced more

surveillance company partnerships for

its AI city initiative later in 2016. In

a now deleted blog post that we

recovered via the way back machine,

Nvidia said its highkey vision, Dahua,

and Univ partners are quote the top

three market share leaders for video

surveillance products. End quote. Nvidia

also partnered with Sense Time, which it

described as a quote leader in facial

and object recognition end quote. The

type of recognition that these companies

are leaders in include patents for

ethnic profiling via facial recognition

technology.

Nvidia partnered with a company that

filed a patent that explicitly named it

is capable of identifying people by

ethnicity which only has good uses.

There's no reason that would ever be

abused. Notably, Nvidia partner Daha has

been federally restricted in the past

due to quote involvement in human rights

abuses and persistent cyber security

vulnerabilities and quote per Nebraska's

attorney general. We also recognized

sense time from the past Silverlake

investment prior to its divevestature

which we covered in our story about

Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia investing

in EA games by which we mean buying it.

The US government sanctioned Sensime in

2021 for its connections to quote human

rights abuse and repression and quote a

press release from the Treasury

Department said Sensime quote has

developed facial recognition programs

that can determine a target's ethnicity

with particular focus on identifying

ethnic Uggers when applying for patent

applications. Shenzhen Sensime

Technology Co- Limited has highlighted

its ability to identify Ueagers wearing

beards, sunglasses, and masks. End

quote. The sanctions prevented US

citizens and companies from investing in

sensime and required their

divevestature. Gee, I wonder why Nvidia

seemingly deleted the blog posts. It

really has nothing to do with any of

this. The reason we had to dig it up

through archive.org because the internet

never forgets. But anyway, two for two

on partnering with companies accused of

human rights abuses specifically through

surveillance and facial recognition

technology which Nvidia is accelerating

the development of per these

announcements. So, uh, Nvidia openly

showcases partnerships with companies

like Palanteer. Now,

>> Palanteer, Palanteer, Palanteer.

>> And if you want to learn more about this

stuff, we have a deep dive video on

allegations that Palanteer has enabled

predictive policing in the past, aka

pre-rime arrests, some minority report

[ __ ] and also generally what we think

is war profitering from the company.

Now, Nvidia has repeatedly emphasized

its love of Palunteer, and Jensen Juan

has turned into a a bit of a war pig as

he's further embedded himself with

companies like Palanteer and the

government. And decision to support

surveillance companies and invest in

facial recognition technology isn't new.

Obviously, that's why we went back to

2013 to tell you about it. Uh this is

despite clear dangers or maybe because

of clear dangers that are created by

this type of technology deployed

indiscriminately or in some cases

discriminately on mass. Wrongful arrests

done through facial recognition happen

all the time now. And facial recognition

can be prone to biases like racial

biases and otherwise. Nvidia was right

when it said it's not a gaming graphics

company anymore because apparently now

it's a surveillance state company. You

got to keep the bubble inflated somehow.

I guess there's the quote QuiGon Jen.

There's always a bigger fish and in this

case that fish is the government and

they need to keep the bubble inflated.

The second of the two major Nvidia

stories before we get back to other

stuff is Nvidia CEO Jensen Juan

indicated he sees opportunity in the

Middle East for AI market opportunity

there and uh he thinks that war will

bring and this is not me editorializing

it. This is what he said. thinks war

will bring stability in the Middle East

and which I think I I'm pretty sure that

George Orwell literally wrote those

words when he said quote war is peace

end quote in 1984 but okay sure after

his GTC keynote Nvidia CEO and man who

personally wrestled a crocodile for this

leather jacket Jensen Juan had some more

to say and he returned to one of his

beloved pastimes which is rejoicing with

podcasters fashion episode this week.

We've preempted the weekly show. And

there's only three people we preempt the

show for. President Trump, Jesus, and

Jensen.

>> I

What even What even What is this? What

What are we doing? Jensen joined the

All-In podcast to discuss everything

under the AI umbrella, including Nvidia

strategy, robotics, open source,

geopolitics, data centers, and global

supply chains. Jensen ran through many

of his favorite talking points. I can

prove it that the $50 billion factory

will generate for you the lowest cost

tokens. We call that omniverse. It

wasn't until chat GPT put a user

interface around it, made it easy for us

to use that generative AI took off. Yes,

every job will be will be transformed.

Um, some jobs will be eliminated.

President Trump wants American industry

to lead. I would love that the American

tech stack is 90% of the world. It's

very likely that you're going to have a

lot of pain and suffering. So, you

better enjoy it.

>> Nvidia CEO parided his usual AI

propaganda. And in one notable segment,

an interviewer who just finished dining

on a most exquisite boot at the Jensen

restaurant asked Jensen about money and

specifically how much Nvidia is spending

on tokens for its engineering teams. In

response, Jensen Juan said that

engineers should be spending a token

budget worth approximately half of their

base pay. So, are you spending in Nvidia

a billion2 billion dollars on tokens

from your engineering team right now?

>> We're trying to Let me give you the

thought experiment. Let's say you have a

software engineer or AI researcher and

you pay them $500,000 a year. We do that

all the time.

>> Yeah.

>> Okay. This is happening all over the

time. Um, that $500,000 engineer at the

end of the year, I'm going to ask them

how many token how much did you spend in

tokens? And that person said, $5,000, I

will go ape something else.

>> Yes.

>> Right. If that if that $500,000 engineer

did not consume at least $250,000 worth

of tokens, I am going to be deeply

alarmed.

>> In other words, man selling shovels says

you need more shovels. News at 11. But

Jensen keeps making loftier promises

about how AI will drive growth. He's

even equating GPU compute power to GDP

these days as at a Morgan Stanley event.

So the first thought is that compute

equals revenues. Now the big idea of

course compute equals GDP that we also

know. Compute equals a country's GDP.

>> But talking about how they think you

need to spend half of a base salary on

tokens and talking about developing

things that have potential for global

surveillance applications. It's it's

kind of dark. Let's move into a a

lighter topic. I was also asked you know

given what's happening in the Middle

East is that an area where we believe

that we can expand artificial

intelligence too. Um I believe that

there there's a reason we went to war

and I believe at the end of the war

Middle East will be more stable than

before and so if we were there if we're

considering it before we should

absolutely be considering it after and

so I'm 100% in on that.

>> Okay. All right.

not a lighter topic. To be clear, Jensen

Juan says he's all in on war in Iran. He

thinks, but did not specify that there's

a reason for it. We assume the reason is

I like money,

>> maybe selling weapons, things of that

nature. A lot of money to be made in

war, but he also sees opportunity there,

he says. Best of all, though, was when

he said that he thinks this will bring

stability to the Middle East. Yes. Yes.

Jensen, tell us more about your

opinions, please, on war, so that you

put all the rest of us into a position

where we also have to comment on your

opinions on them. Uh, clearly, this is

the time that it'll work. War is, in

fact, peace. This follows Iran

reportedly declaring Nvidia a legitimate

military target in the region alongside

other companies fueling AI. Nvidia's

been pro-war for a while now, we think.

In fact, we've got a montage for you

showing just how desperately they're

trying to integrate with the

military-industrial complex.

>> The wealthier our nation,

the more we can fund the mightiest

military on the planet.

>> I'm happy that that uh our military is

going to use AI technology for defense.

>> One of the things that that we just

always have to remember is that the

world's mightiest military uh is

supported by the world's mightiest me

economy. And so the wealth that we

generate um brings jobs home, creates

prosperity in the United States, um

provides for tax revenues, and

ultimately funds the mightiest military

on the planet.

>> That we want America to be the

wealthiest country so that we can fund

the mightiest military. And I I think

that that is our way of contributing to

national security.

>> And now with Iran reportedly declaring

Nvidia, I can't believe I'm even saying

these words. This is like

should be should be talking about gaming

GPUs. Anyway, with Iran reportedly

declaring Nvidia a legitimate military

target, Jensen, it seems you've gotten

your wish. Good job. You're finally a

real boy. Now you're part of the

military-industrial complex.

Congratulations. I'm sure all your

employees in the region are thrilled.

Iran has previously targeted AWS data

centers in the UAE and Bahrain with

drone strikes causing cloud service

disruptions in the region. AWS said the

strikes have quote caused structural

damage, disrupted power delivery to our

infrastructure, and in some cases

required fire suppression activities

that resulted in additional water

damage. End quote. We emailed Nvidia's

Matt Webblin, who previously refused to

get on a recorded call to talk about how

they were uh attempting, we thought, to

change our editorial direction on the

LSS, and asked him about specifically

what Jensen Juan meant when he said he

thinks there's a reason for war, and

specifically what that reason was. We

also asked them uh why it would bring

stability this time and more

specifically and pointedly if Nvidia is

selling any military of any nation

technologies and AI services that would

be applicable in this war and they did

not respond. So

I'm going to go with yes. I don't know.

I think they didn't respond. I just

that's I just have to I just have to

assume. But we don't need NVIDIA PR and

communications to confirm that Nvidia

has interest in the Middle East because

NVIDIA has sold thousands of data center

GPUs in the region. Last May, Nvidia

announced several AI initiatives with

the Saudi Arabian government, including

a partnership with Humane to deploy

18,000 GB300 chips. Humane is also owned

by Saudi Arabia's public investment

fund, which is the same fund that

partnered with Jared Kushner, who is the

son-in-law to Donald Trump and married

to Ivanka Trump, to purchase EA games.

Further, in November 2025, Microsoft

said it had received export licenses

from the Commerce Department from both

the Biden and Trump administrations to

ship thousands of NVIDIA GPUs to the

UAE, including the A100, H100, H200, and

GB300. The point is, Nvidia is expanding

its presence in the region. The

company's planning to build new research

and development campuses in Israel.

According to the Times of Israel, the

outlet said, quote, "The campus is

expected to accommodate up to 8,000

employees and will significantly expand

Nvidia's presence in northern Israel."

End quote. Nvidia understandably wants

to protect its assets and hopefully its

people. Maybe not other people, but at

least its people, I would hope.

But it is uncommon I I can't say I've

ever heard it in this industry for a

tech CEO, at least a computer tech CEO

who I would be familiar with, to

explicitly say that they support war.

That was I mean that's there's not

really a lot of ways to read what he

said and uh that's the way we're reading

it. This is it's abnormal for someone

for a tech CEO to just straight up be

like, "Yep, we support that." And no

further elaboration on it whatsoever. Uh

but militarism is not new to Jensen

Juan. He's ratcheted up his military

interest for a while now and he is uh

dragging everyone else with him. But

let's get on to some actually lighter

hardware topics like um

a laptop scam. That's a that's actually

that's a big relief. That's just a

simple scam, you know, just like the the

old stuff, the good old days when you

got ripped off for buying something.

There's you know, it's we should just

let the scammers do it at this point for

entertainment. I think Notebook Check

called out laptop manufacturer Chewy for

selling devices with older, worse

performing CPUs than advertised. I mean,

seriously, actually, what a relief this

story is. All right, let's get into our

uh our icebreaker story. Our our relief

story. It's like comedic relief, except

it's not funny really, but it's okay,

let's continue. Despite Chewy marketing

its Corebook X and Corebook Plus as

powered with the Ryzen 5 7430U, it

actually shipped them with a 2 years

older Ryzen 5 5500U, which notebook

check claims has an up to 20% worse and

quote performance in its benchmarking

tests. Oddly, the publication also found

that the 5500U presents as a 7430U in

BIOS and software. So, it's

misrepresenting itself. Notebook check

noticed an inconsistent L3 cache, boost

clock, and code name, which helped tip

them off to the scam. The only way to

truly identify the CPU would be to tear

down the laptop, which of course they

did next. AMD commented on the situation

posted via HKC in Hong Kong and machine

translated. We'll paraphrase sections of

the auto translation that are machine

errors to make it clearer. They said

quote with some paraphrasing recently

Chewy has come to our attention which

has misrepresented AMD Ryzen 55500U

products as Ryzen 57430U AMD has never

authorized confirmed or acquiesed to

this behavior in any way nor has it

participated in the labeling or

promotional decisions of related

products and is completely unaware of

this matter. AMD has always placed great

importance on the accuracy and

transparency of product information and

is committed to maintaining a fair and

orderly market environment and

protecting the legitimate rights and

interests of our users. Our company has

taken this matter very seriously and

reserves the right to pursue legal

action against the relevant parties. End

quote. Interestingly, Chewy has since

edited its Corebook Plus and Corebook X

listings to replace any mentions of the

Ryzen 57430U with instead Ryzen 5

processor 5 days after AMD's response.

Chewy released its first statement

claiming, quote, "Due to a production

error, a limited number of CoreBook X

and Corebook Plus units were assembled

with incorrect processors." Got to

interrupt the quote here for a second,

but to also misrepresent those

processors in software seems

intentional. There's not really a lot of

ways that can accidentally happen, but

let's continue. Quote, "If you have

received a device that does not match

the specifications you ordered, please

return it for a full refund. You may

initiate the return through your

original purchase channel or contact our

official support team." They give an

email address for assistance. End quote.

Chewy's return guidelines we looked up.

note, quote, "Please ensure the device

is in original condition with all

accessories included." End quote. With

the return period ending May 31st, 2026.

Now, to jump it again, that's not how it

works. It's one thing to have a return

window for a product you bought and then

you decide you don't want it or

whatever. Uh, but

you can't just you can't scam someone

and be like, "There's a limited window

where you can return." Like, that's not

how that works. The window is called the

statute of limitations and it's for

scamming them. So I it would be better

to just extend the window into uh I

don't know if you bought it and we lied

or misrepresented it then you get your

money back because please don't sue us.

Thank you. That seems more reasonable

but okay sure May 31st. Chewy statement

doesn't mention the Ubox 7430U mini PC

that HKPC claimed was also affected. It

doesn't explain why or how the CPU was

mislabeled in BIOS and software. It

doesn't describe how to identify the

processor, which is especially rich

considering it allegedly threatened

notebook check legally for telling

people how to identify the scam. And it

only gives affected customers about two

months to return the device for a

refund. Good company. But speaking of

good companies,

Meta and YouTube. Now, California jurors

ordered Meta and Google to pay a woman

$3 million in compensation after

establishing that quote, "Meta and

Google's YouTube were to blame for the

depression and anxiety of a woman who

compulsively used social media as a

small child." End quote. As reported via

NPR. In the hearing, which CNN notes is

quote, "The first of more than 1500

similar cases," end quote, making the

verdict especially noteworthy as a

precedent, the plaintiff cited numerous

mental health issues caused by the

platforms. Regarding the ruling, NPR

explains, quote, "The jury was not

tasked with deciding whether Meta and

Google had created Kayle's mental health

wos, but rather if her compulsive social

media use was a substantial factor in

her struggles, and if the defective

design of the platforms was the direct

cause of the distress," end quote. Now,

to us, the design is not defective. That

is what I mean, they're they know what

they're doing. They're building social

media platforms to cause people to get

the quick hits. The game is to keep

people on the platforms as long as

possible. Look, we're uploading to

YouTube. I know that how this [ __ ]

works. Like, it's pretty transparent. I

think everyone watching knows how these

social media platforms work at this

point. Uh, and it's the same for

Facebook and Instagram and Tik Tok and

everything else where regardless of who

uploads what, the platforms are built

specifically to trap people in a loop

and some of them put them in an echo

chamber to help perpetuate that loop.

And seeing a a case about this is big.

This is good news. If any of these

companies do anything to try to change

how they operate for fear of fines,

unfortunately, it seems unlikely. the

money you make is going to likely be a

lot larger than the fines. But still,

one can hope that the system works as it

should, uh, just like these platforms

are working as they were designed to

work. According to PBS, quote, Meta

consistently argued that Kaye had

struggled with mental health separate

from her social media use, often

pointing to her turbulent home life and

quote, "Google argued that quote, this

case misunderstands YouTube, which is a

responsibly built streaming platform,

not a social media site." End quote.

That's right. They're arguing semantics.

The best possible argument when you have

no other arguments to argue. Google is

saying, "Nuhuh. You're social media." I

like, "What's the play here?" Like, it's

no, no, no. It's what? We did all of

that stuff. Okay. But we're not a social

media platform. We're a responsibly

built streaming service. Go [ __ ]

yourself, YouTube. It's a social media

platform. I mean, come on. You know,

like you got posts. They have community

things now. You can create like a forum

basically on your YouTube channel. Hey,

come on. It's the same thing. The ruling

was in favor of the plaintiff with NBC

reporting that Meta's assessing its

legal options while Google is already

planning to appeal. There's a lot of

other stories, too. So, we have a second

hardware news episode coming up. Um,

we've got some more. I mean, AMD Lisa

Sue is talking about how she's joined

the, as I'm calling it, the Council of

Corruption. We'll talk about that. Uh,

Epic Games had massive layoffs. We're g

to find a bunch more hardware news as

well. I'll put it at the front of the

episode, just like we did with this one

as the as the icebreaker. Um, you know,

I don't know. It's

It's a mess. This industry is is [ __ ]

Like, it's just in terms of the

corruption and uh it's really the Nvidia

stuff. And now, you know, we'll talk

about Lisa Sue in the next one like we

did recently in the her special video,

but in this episode specifically, SIN

video stuff where I just read it in the

news. I'm like, what the [ __ ] happened?

Like, what is this? It's just I remember

doing hardware news at the house before

we moved to the first office and then

moved here where uh the topics it's like

you would never talk about this stuff

with Nvidia. It was whatever gaming GPU,

whatever driver they launched. They

weren't even [ __ ] them up yet. That

came later. That was a new innovation.

uh updates to things. This was pre-RTX

as well. So there's updates to things

like I think it was GameWorks at the

time, stuff like that. AMD with shitty

drivers and now that's turned around. So

that's at least good news. Intel's

turned around. That's good news for CPUs

that is. I mean, but you know, it's just

I don't understand

how we got here as an industry where now

you have the gaming GPU guy who one

describes GeForce as his greatest

marketing campaign ever and says that

now GeForce gamers can be proper

customers by being customers for data

center products. Something he actually

said, by the way, that's not I'm not

editorial. That's in the GTC keto. Go

watch it if you want. But he's saying

that and then he's turning around and

he's talking about war and his belief in

it and it's just like what what

happened.

I don't It's I don't I don't get it. I I

mean well I get it conceptually I can

follow it. Logically I can follow it

exactly. I've been here so like I get

it. I just I don't understand.

I don't know man. All right. Okay. We'll

close this one out. Uh we had a lot of

reviews this past week. So there's some

good stuff. We got the two CPU reviews

up. Really interesting stuff. Clean of

all the [ __ ] It's just straight up

benchmarks. It's fun. You'll like it.

It's like the old times before the

companies did all this other BS. Uh 270

KP in particular was an interesting one

because that one I think super

competitive with AMD. The Nocta case

review we did a I think about 10 days

ago or something. That's super

interesting as well because that's got

some of our fan testing charts in it. So

if you've been looking for those, really

interesting stuff. And then our Crimson

Desert benchmarks had our first sort of

real animation error, as we're renaming

it, simulation time error charts with

actual like head-to-head comparisons of

GPS. It is awesome. So, if you want just

technical stuff, you got plenty of it on

the channel. Go check it out. And we'll

have another hardware news coming up

shortly with some hardware news that is

pure hardware and some hardware news

that is these companies doing the stuff

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