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You know when tech news makes you feel something you've never felt before and you ask other people if they've felt anything like that and they're like, no, that's a bit concerning. You should talk to your doctor. Yeah, that's what it's all about. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is scared that rapid development of AI could leave Microsoft itself in the dust, despite doing absolutely everything it can to shoehorn three different versions of something named Copilot into every product they make. As reported by the Verge. At a company town hall, a Microsoft employee expressed concerns about the vibe shift at the company towards the emotionally colder side. Now, what that employee doesn't understand is that Microsoft had no choice but to lay off 9,000 people despite making record profits. Because as Nadella said in his response, there's so many once great tech companies that simply vanished and every time it was because of AI and not laying off enough people. So Satya's concern that other companies will pull ahead in the AI race is understand not to mention the fact that Elon Musk explicitly claimed a month ago that he'll replace everything Microsoft does with a purely AI software company called Macro Hard. Everyone saw this tweet and was like, yeah, all right Elon, okay. But Satya saw it and was like oh, and ran off to order someone to name another thing. Copilot, the first handheld with AMD's beefy Strix Halo chip can perform nearly two times better than one of AMD's existing flagship handheld chips, according to YouTuber the Fox, who spells his name like it's his Nexopia user ID from 2005. And we love him for that. The old Foxhound also revealed that this handheld, the GPD Win five with the giant attachable battery on the back, you know the one will start at 1600 USD for the lower powered Ryzen 385, with the 395 version starting at 1850. Sure. At lower TDPS, the Strix Halo chip gets around the same performance as the Ryzen HX370, which is close to the upcoming Ryzen Z 2 Extreme. But starting around 25 watts and above, the Ryzen 395 can do a lot better. It's just, you know, is that worth like $2,000 if you're more of a desktop only person? AMD just launched the Radeon RX 7700 non XT. That's right, I said 7700. It's a new GPU based on the company's last gen rDNA 3 architecture, coming out two years after the XT version. AMD. If you're going for a nostalgia factor, I think you have to wait a bit longer. IPhone 17 owners are flooding the Internet with complaints that their new slabs are getting scratched when they throw them without a case into their pocket or purse with their keys and custom knife collection. What Apple has really dropped the ball here. Someone get to the bottom of all these reports. Thankfully, JerryRigEverything has confirmed via his professional skills and tools that scratching an iPhone 17 Pro with a razor blade will leave a mark. Okay, but seriously, the issue here has to do with the iPhone 17 Pro's anodized aluminum frame and certain decisions made by Apple about the design of the corners of the camera plateau. Zach from JerryRigEverything explained that this is why when you scratch the corner with a key, the corner will get scratched. Look, watch his video. I'm sure this is a big deal to people who love their naked phones, but I you know, other people are pointing out that previous iPhone models also used anodized aluminum and they scratched easily. But that didn't qualify for the Scandal Gate treatment apparently. So throw a case on your phone, or don't and keep scratching on and on until you get inside and scratch off the whole SSD inside the iPhone 17 Pro Max and replace it with another one, like YouTuber director Feng did here. 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So you do end up calling your doctor and he's like, you know that tech news feeling is actually totally normal. Take five quick bits and don't call me in the morning, you hypochondriac. Get some help. Not from me. The TikTok deal is real, an anonymous senior White House official told reporters today, and it will involve ByteDance Creat specific copy of the app's algorithm that a US based joint group of investors can use on a lease. One of those investors is Oracle, who will also be responsible for security on the new all American TikTok, which will only allow viral dances to country songs. None of that K pop allowed. Cause that's Chinese. While the White House is brokering the deal, they will not be taking a stake in the new venture, which is something we have to clarify now. So that's fun. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed on his joint investor call with intel last week that Nvidia's rumored N1 ARM based PC processor and the GB10 SoC powering the company's DGX Spark mini AI PCs that are already announced are actually one in the same. What now? There's still room for speculation here. Leaks have referenced both an N1 and N1X, but it's also worth pointing out that the GB10N1, whatever it is, combines Nvidia's GPU cores with MediaTek's ARM CPU cores. And will anyone care about that when Intel CPUs with integrated Nvidia GPUs exist that were just announced last week? You have to answer that on your own. Okay, my brain is busy still thinking about how people don't put cases on their phones, why Lenovo has canceled some pre orders for their upcoming Legion Go2 Windows handheld because they received way more than they expected. They thought no one liked them and it wouldn't be right to hold onto their customer's money when the shipping date is uncertain. We don't wanna do that to you. Oh, actually I speak corporate Ease. I can translate this. They're actually saying they could do without incessant emails tearing into their support staff over their order not being ready like the customers in a fast food drive thru Also, maybe just don't pre order. You know, Lenovo agrees with me. Apparently, European airports are slowly recovering after a cyber attack caused delays and cancellations in London, Brussels, Dublin, Berlin, and more. There's a lot of cities in Europe. The cause was apparently ransomware that struck Collins Aerospace, the maker of software used by many airlines worldwide. Now, some say the hackers just wanted money, but they may also have demanded an end to those incredibly annoying cookie consent popups every site had to add after the EU made it a law in 2009. Because, look, the European Commission is now considering reworking it. I'm not saying the hackers were right, but pop ups are really annoying. And Pope Leo XIV said in a recent interview covered by the Register, that Vatican staff asked him for authorization to create an AI pope that would match his personality so anyone could get a personal audience with the Pope. And Pope Leo was like, hey, that. What is this? OnlyFans? Not verbatim, but I think that was the vibe. This AI stuff is really getting out of hand. The robots are now throwing themselves around. They're not even waiting for the testers to kick them anymore. What is it even doing here? It's trying to psych us out. But don't psych me out by saying you'll come back on Wednesday for more tech news and then not coming. Please. That would. I've just. I just don't. I will believe you.