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Good morning crust. It's a great day to be a bread brother. Mornings are not my jam or jelly. Oh come on, stop loafing around. I just woke up feeling hollow inside. Just grab one of the new Morning Uncrustable sandwiches like Bright eyed berry or up and apple filled with 12 grams of protein and tons of deliciousness crust.
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What are you eating?
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It's just granola.
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Not even yogurt.
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No crust, no fuss. Uncrust your mornings. The name's news. Tech news. And just like Bond's new video game, today's stories require hardware that doesn't exist. Let's get into it. In a refreshing bout of corporate honesty, Dell showed up to CES 2026 and basically said our bad first head of product Kevin Terwiggle. Kevin admitted that people don't actually care about AI PCs, stating that it's become clear that consumers are not buying based on AI. After a solid year of every tech screaming AI PC at us like a pack of seagulls fighting over french fries in a McDonald's dumpster, Dell just stopped. Their CES briefing was described as the most pleasingly un AI presentation in five years. Imagine that, a hardware company talking about actual hardware instead of chatbots. Second, remember when Dell killed the XPS brand last year and renamed everything Dell Premium? Well, everyone hated that. Sales tanked and the COO openly admitted the rebrand was a mistake. So now XPS is back with a full Redesign. The new XPS 14 and 16 are Dell's thinnest laptops to date at 14.6 millimeters, sporting the Intel Panther Lake chips. And they've gone all in on Intel Arc integrated graphics. No discrete GPU options at all. The displays can drop to 1Hz during static content, which lets them achieve a reported 27 hours of battery life. And they've shaved almost a full pound off the XPS 16. Prices for these new laptops are starting at $2,049, with the XPS 13 returning later this year at a lower price point. They also dropped a huge 52 inch 6K ultra wide monitor for $2900. For when you need to look at every single spreadsheet, all the spreadsheets. Wi Fi 8 is apparently already here. While it won't technically be fully released until 2028, companies are already showing off products using the new standard before everyone has even had the chance to adopt Wi Fi 7. Leading the charge is Asus with their new ROG Neocore router concept. This weird D20 shaped AI router will apparently improve range and latency for gamers using Wi Fi on their battle stations, and it boasts twice the data throughput recorded with Wi Fi 7. Can the AI part help me hit a NAT20 on a fumble rule? Let's hope. Meanwhile, Zyxel is already pitching Wi Fi 8 to carriers and enterprise customers with with its AI ready connectivity gear with the goal of future proofing clients years ahead of the new rollout. Even the silicon makers are getting on the train early with Mediatek revealing its new Phylogic Wi Fi 8 chips that likely will be seen in most of the networking equipment that comes out in the next few years. While the full benchmarks for these new standards haven't been fully released yet, the big thing all these companies seem to be pushing is that the new generation is not going to show a massive jump in network speeds. Instead, the focus is on the reliability benefits of the new spec. And honestly, if you're your family's resident tech expert this holiday season, you might even trade some speed for increased reliability. At this point, CES Storage News wasted zero time getting weird Goner Sorry Connor, the long forgotten 90s hard drive manufacturer showed up with products that look nothing like traditional hard drives, including a phone backup drive and a bizarre hybrid gadget that's part external drive and part 65 watt charger. And it's kind of like a second computer that plugs into your computer to make it compute better, but it's a cube and you know, not a computer. Kind of weird right next to that we get a glimpse of where modern SSD design is heading, and it's surprisingly minimal. Micron unveiled the 3610, making the industry's first PCIe 5.0 QLC SSD packing up to four terabytes of storage into a tiny single sided DRAM less M2 drive that can still somehow push about 11 gigabytes per second. It's an OEM only model for now, but hey, if it's cheaper then that's a win win in my books. That announcement pairs nicely with Fison's new DRAM less Gen 5 storage controllers, which reportedly offer big savings in power draw along with an 8 terabyte capacity. And then there's Hoem, the company best known for professional camera gimbals, casually dropping one of the most creator focused drives at the show. Their new SSD1 offers all the regular things a USB drive normally would, but comes with an expandability option that the company says marks the first time you can actually upgrade the storage on an external ssd. Another neat feature is the dedicated microphone input allowing for direct audio recording clearly. This thing is designed for people on the go.
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Quick Bits is that you're not allowed to talk about quick bits. The second rule of Quick Bits is do not talk about quick bits. But here's the Quick bits New rumors suggest Nvidia is prepping to bring the RTX 3060 back into production in Q1 of 2026 as memory shortages and sky high prices refuse to calm down, adding credence to earlier bored Channel's claims that the company's supply of factory new 3060s were running low. Funnily enough, this lines up nicely with what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said when asked by analysts about pricing pressure floating the idea of resurrecting older GPUs and maybe even backporting newer AI features to them instead of waiting on bleeding edge silicon. AMD isn't immune either. During a CES Q and A, ryzen chief David McAfee was asked directly about soaring RAM costs and replied that reintroducing products back into the AM4 ecosystem is something AMD is very actively working on, so if you missed buying those parts during the 2021 chip shortage, now's your chance. IO Interactive has unveiled the PC system requirements for their upcoming James Bond game 007 first light. The intro makes sense now, and fans were shaken, not stirred, to discover some of the listed hardware just doesn't exist. The minimum specs called for an Intel Core i5 9500K, which intel just never made. There is an i5 9500, sure, but there's no K variant. Meanwhile, the recommended spec demanded a RTX 3060 Ti with 12 gigabytes of VRAM, except that card only came with 8 gigs. Even setting aside the Phantom parts, these specs are pretty brutal. 32 gigabytes of RAM and 12 gigabytes of VRAM just to hit 1080p 60fps. But at this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if you need to get one of Nvidia's new Ruben supercomputers with some of those goo pods from the Matrix as a power supply. Luckily, the game doesn't launch until May 27, and at the rate that Tesla Unitree and Nvidia are hurtling us towards Matrix Dystopia territory, we might be getting those pods sooner than you think. Elon Musk's X AI is having a bit of a week Governments across the uk, eu, France, India, Brazil and Malaysia have all launched investigations after researchers found Grok was generating thousands of deepfakes an hour, including images of miners. These governments stated that it was illegal, appalling and disgusting, calling for immediate action with regards to improving safeguards on the Chatbot X's response it was to threaten their users. The company released a statement saying that anyone prompting illegal content will face consequences, without giving any details on how they plan to improve safeguards. As this rolling train wreck continues, Musk announced that Tesla will build its own 2 nanometer chip fab, claiming that wafer isolation meant traditional clean rooms were unnecessary and and promising to eat a cheeseburger and smoke a cigar inside of their new facility. We here at TechLink looked forward to witnessing him destroy a $60 billion machine the same way I destroyed my 1997 Honda Civic back in high school by hotboxing it and dropping a Big Mac into the transmission. Samsung is in hot water after a Texas court issued a restraining order blocking the company from allegedly using automated content recognition to capture screenshots from smart TVs without proper consent. The lawsuit claims Samsung TVs could grab screenshots multiple times per second and monetize viewing habits through ads. This comes after a string of lawsuits towards other major TV brands for spying on Texans, although those lawsuits didn't end up with restraining orders except for hisense they got one. Samsung hearing is on the 9th, with the actual order expiring on the 19th, meaning that the company has only two days to giddy on up over to Texas and lawyer up to explain why their TVs are seemingly watching themselves. It's the year of the keyboard turducken at CES because these kees are stuffed. Corsair unveiled the Galleon 100 SD Edition, a mechanical keyboard with a full 5 inch stream deck LCD built right in, plus 8K polling and dual rotary dials. Keychron also dropped their Q Ultra series with 660 hours of battery life and and also 8K polling because you know you need a keyboard to be able to play your nine or ten consecutive playthroughs of Baldur's Gate 3. HP responded with the Elite 4G 1A, a full Windows 11 PC crammed into a keyboard. It's got an AMD Ryzen AI 300 chip, 50 plus tops of MPU performance, upgradable RAM and storage, and Wi Fi 7. CES gave it an Innovation award for finally making computers portable. Let's ignore the laptops, of course, and mini PCs. And you know what? Ignore the Raspberry PIs too. And that's the tech news. If you need me, I'm going to be hunting down an RTX 3060 Ti with 12 gigs of vram. Dr. No and Goldfinger must have teamed up to steal the world supply. Moneypenny, start my 1997 Honda Civic and get me my Big Mac.