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Is coming in a sec. But first, Whale Facts Sperm whales can sleep vertically Whale Facts When I was five, I thought a whale lived in the deep end of the pool at the community center by my house and as a result didn't learn to swim until I was 12. Whale facts There's a whale land happening on February 21st and 22nd, so buy tickets at the link below. It's about gaming, not whales so much. But Nvidia reportedly isn't releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, with rumored RTX 60 series now being potentially delayed until 2028, according to insiders who spoke to the information. The problem is supply constraints on VRAM, if you could believe it. Nvidia says demand for GeForce cards is strong, but supply remains tight, forcing the company to focus on shipping existing models instead of launching new ones. Which is funny because Nvidia is also reportedly cutting production of some current GPUs by around 20% and and prioritizing lower VRAM cards to stretch available memory. Even worse, delaying the refresh would mean that mass production of the RTX 60 series wouldn't actually start until the tail end of 2027. Now, considering that previous rumors had the RTX 5070 Ti super sporting 24 gigs of GDDR7, I guess I can kind of see where Nvidia's coming from. I mean, you know, we didn't want new GPUs anyways. We know those are only for data centers now. Now giving gamers GPUs, that would be funny. There is one small silver lining here though. Nvidia may resurrect older GPUs to help stabilize supply. So you don't get new GPUs. You don't even get current gen GPUs. You'll get an old crusty GPU we fished out from behind the kitchen cabinet if you behave Apple's lockdown mode is in the news this week after the security feature successfully kept FBI investigators from accessing data in a journalist's iPhone. 13 After after federal agents raided the home of Washington Post Reporter Hannah Natenson as part of a classified leaks investigation, the FBI forensic unit couldn't extract data from her iPhone because it was set to lockdown mode. Apple's extreme security setting, built for people more likely to be targeted by digital threats, but available to anyone who turns it on in settings. It basically breaks a bunch of features on purpose, blocking unknown connections, limiting attachments, restricting web connectivity, and preventing access by device management tools. Essentially, it turns your smartphone into an incredibly paranoid brick. The FBI filing notes that they could have disabled lockdown mode by compelling Natenson to unlock it using Face ID because, fun fact, they are legally allowed to do that. You know I've always liked pin codes better anyway, but the reporter had Face ID disabled on her iPhone and the FBI can't force you to disclose your pin code. And until we all have government mandated neuralinks, it'll happen. Unfortunately for Natenson, she did have Touch ID set up on her Mac, so the authorities were able to access data from that. It's another reminder that despite a truly annoying elitist vibe and a lot of anti competitive behavior, Apple has leaned harder into privacy features than probably any other big tech company. They even have a nifty shortcut where pressing the power button five times on your iPhone disables biometric sign in and requires a pin to unlock it. Isn't that cool? Just don't press the power button five times on Android. Most of the time that will directly call 911, which, you know is different. The European Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the EU's Digital Services act for its addictive nature. TikTok's basically in trouble for being too enjoyable. Better call the fun police lame. The commission says TikTok's design rewards compulsive scrolling and that existing safeguards like parental controls aren't cutting it, especially when the vast majority of people doing that scrolling now are adults anyway. The Commission has ruled that TikTok needs to disable Infinite scroll, implement screen time breaks and overhaul its recommendation system so basically change everything about the app. This comes on the heels of a series of US lawsuits taking the big Tobacco approach to social media, arguing these platforms are addictive products causing personal injury. The EU's investigation has been running since early 2024 and has already found TikTok guilty of insufficient advertising transparency. TikTok now has the chance to defend itself before the investigation concludes, and a spokesperson for the company told the Financial Times they will take whatever steps are necessary to keep the app as it is, as addictive as possible, clearly unaware of what side of history they're there. If TikTok can't make a case for keeping the app the same and doesn't comply with the EU's requested changes, they face fines of up to 6% of total global revenue. You know, at a certain point we gotta be asking, how much are these apps really worth? At least Smoking had the benefit of making you look cool. TikTok just lets your uncle share his Big Shrimp conspiracy theory in a medium where all your friends can make fun of him. Dave, you gotta stop posting about Big Shrimp. And Kathy is worried we all are, even our sponsor hey hey man, y' all know me.
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I'm a bit of a laid back hippie type, but if I'm speaking my.
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Truth, I have a deep seated rage.
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The Quick bits Once spent three years aboard a deep sea vessel in the Pacific in an obsessive pursuit of a colossal white whale. They were never the same after that. When they returned, the sense of playfulness that danced in their eyes had fled. The Internet Archive just launched a WordPress plugin that automatically fixes link rot by redirecting dead URLs to archived versions on the Wayback Machine. Which is great because roughly 38% of links from the past decade are already broken. The new plugin scans posts in the background, creates snapshots when needed, and even restores links if pages come back online this is huge because it might finally fix all those busted Sonic fan fiction redirects on those sketchy forum sites. What does Sonic sound like? Whoa. I swear that chili dog just disappeared inside me. Amy. I don't know what happened.
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Another this is his friend. Sonic's friend. You clearly haven't read enough sonic fiction. Windows 11's latest security update is reportedly causing dropped frames and artifacting in games, and Nvidia says the fix right now is to just uninstall it. You know, the mandatory security patch. Yeah, the workaround is just not just uninstall that. Some users report major FPS drops and visual glitches until the games eventually just break. On the bright side, the latest Windows Insider build added shared Bluetooth audio. So now you and a friend can both hear people screaming in CS Go Lobbies about dropped frames. I mean, you could do that before if you were playing together, but you get it. IPhone is going to space, baby. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that astronauts on the Crew 12 and Artemis 2 missions will be allowed to bring smartphones to space for the first time, replacing the decade old Nikon DSLRs and GoPros they were stuck with. Apparently, astronauts are so addicted to TikTok that NASA decided it would be dangerous to send them up without it. There's way too many movies about people going crazy in space. Artemis 2 will be the first crewed moon mission since 1972, so we're about to get the first smartphone photos from lunar orbit, which is great for the astronauts, but if I get told one more time on a commercial flight that I can't use my phone during takeoff while we're letting people use them during space flights, I'm gonna lose it. Substack CEO Chris Best informed users on Tuesday that they had just discovered a data breach that occurred in October 2025. The hackers gained access to email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata. Luckily, credit card numbers and passwords were not compromised. It's unclear how many users were impacted, but Bleeping Computer reported that someone on Breach forums leaked a database containing almost 700,000 records of allegedly stolen substack data. So head on over there if you wanna find out which of your friends has a monthly subscription to the sonic the Hedgehog vs Minions fiction blog two sonic jokes in one video a momentous day and Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing Google for answers about Gemini's upcoming built in checkout feature, which would let users buy products directly through the AI chatbot. Using a new protocol co developed with Shopify, Walmart and Target. Warren is concerned Google could merge its massive user data with retailer data to manipulate consumers into spending more. Pointing out Google already admitted the feature will help retailers upsell users on premium products, which is pretty embarrassing for her. We're supposed to let tech companies move fast and break things, even society in general, and then talk about how it's bad. But we can't do anything about it because everyone's addicted to the bad thing that's melting our brains. Besides, Google is way smarter than us because they make $400 billion a year. How much do you make working for the Senate? Probably not even a billion. Shut up, Elizabeth Warren. Just let me give my credit card info to a chatbot that will get prompt injected into buying me 10,000 Zorb balls. It knows what I want. And what I want is for you to get some tickets to the whale land and to come back on Monday for more tech news. Of course, one more Whale factor Whale earwax can reveal their age like trees whales the trees of the water.
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