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Next week is the start of ces, which used to stand for Consumer Electronics show but now stands for nothing, which sadly means it'll fall for anything. Let the Rickrolls begin the Nvidia RTX 5080 has been spotted, or at least the box of an MSI version has, confirming that the card will come with 16 gigabytes of DDR7VRAM and a 256 bit memory bus. Which is exactly what the leak said, at least the ones that weren't Rickrolls. The box images don't confirm anything else, but thankfully we've got Twitter people for that leaker Hongsheng2020 tweeted that the RTX 5090 will actually feature a 575 watt power rating instead of the 600 watts predicted by previous leaks, which was confirmed by the prominent leaker, whose name a linguistic expert has assured me is pronounced kopitae7kimi. That expert is me. Anyway, Ms. Kimmy also said the RTX 5080 will come in at 360 watts lower than previous leaks had indicated, while still higher than its predecessor. But the 5080 might as well be a plate of Spaghetti with a PCIe slot if we don't know the price. Thankfully we got a hint from a photo of a listing for a custom 5080 made by ASUS €1700. Now hey, that includes a 20% VAT tax and a custom Asus board will probably cost above MSRP, so this could equate to around 1350 USD. Oh, there's another clue. The listing says DLSS4, which Kopite showed up once more to confirm is real source. I made it up. Current rumors point to at least the RTX 5080 being actually released on January 21st. But Nvidia's CES keynote is at 6:30pm Pacific on Monday, so we may cover it on Monday's episode, even though that's when I was supposed to have dinner with my family. This is more important though. But even when it comes to official announcements, the great big giant water balloon that is Cesar just can't hold it all in sloshing around. Sorry. Oh, spilled a bit. Asus, Samsung and MSI all just announced the world's first 27 inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitor. They each have their own version, so which one was actually first? Well it looks like they're all using Samsung displays 4th gen QD OLED, so I guess it was Samsung. But what if you want high refresh rate instead? MSI just announced the world's second 600Hz monitor after Acer announced the world's first one back in September. Wowie. Zowie. Oh, that's not me reacting. Zowie is BenQ's gaming brand and they also just announced a 600Hz monitor. Yowza. That was real. Hey, look at this. Pimax announced new VR headsets with micro OLED panels and and there's even one called the Dream Air that doesn't look like a whole PC strapped to your face. Although if you prefer that look, there's also the new pimax Crystal Super. And while I'm anxious to see the new rumored SteamOS handheld at CES, I'm also intrigued by the new Atari game Station Go, which packs the company's iconic trackball paddle and keypad controllers into a gaming handheld, which will either make using it feel like you're hacking a cyberpunk system or playing Bop It. Both are valid Meta has taken down the Instagram and Facebook accounts of more than two dozen AI powered profiles after they went viral for making a mockery of the authenticity of human experience, something Meta thought was sorely lacking on the Internet. For some reason. Backlash over the AIs grew on social media this past week, with many posts saying saying Meta had just added them to their platforms. But the AI accounts were actually launched way back in 2023 and have been leaving their AI excretions all over Facebook and Instagram throughout 2024. You had fake AI people pretending to watch movies at the drive in, or sew clothes for their fake grandkids, or spend winter break at the beach with their family. Oh yeah, my children are so funny and cool. Imagined with AI. This week's backlash seemed to have been kickstarted by a Meta exec telling the Financial Times the company plans to continue rolling out these bots for a purpose that I think you can only comprehend if you've had at least one VC funding round, because I don't all 27 of these AI accounts have now been wiped, although Meta told CNN they haven't deleted the accounts, they're just taking them down temporarily to fix a bunch bug that prevented people from blocking them. So don't worry, you will be able to block them when they come back with all of their fake AI friends to take over for humans on Facebook. 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Use the link in the description or scan the QR code on screen and try Headspace for free for 60 days. Thanks to Headspace for sponsoring this video and thank you for sharing this time with me. It was special Ah, crazy. Email sender it's an initialism. It has to stand for something. You can't just call it C.E. the FCC voted to reinstate net neutrality rules in April 2020 after the rules were repealed by the Trump administration back in 2017. But a US appeals court has now blocked the FCC from restoring net neutrality, citing the Supreme Court's overturning of the Chevron doctrine last year. Without the Chevron doctrine, federal agencies have less power to make up rules, using arbitrary nonsense like expert opinion and multivariate analysis. Sounds like vibes to me. But hey, at least the US Government is getting in on the nuclear energy craze. They just announced a deal with major provider Constellation. Totally unrelated, but it's almost CES Week. This is kind of how it's gonna be. Apple has proposed paying $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit over Siri listening to private conversations, which was filed after reports in 2019 of Apple contractors listening to such recordings. Owners of Apple devices could get up to 20 bucks per device, to a maximum of five if they swear under oath that Siri was accidentally activated during a confidential or private conversation. Apple also apologized back in 2019 for this and said they wouldn't keep private recordings like that anymore without user permission. And so it hasn't happened since the end. Taiwan's foreign minister would like the world to know he absolutely did not agree with the idea of blowing up the world's foremost semiconductor manufacturer, tsmc. Okay, I don't know. Not sure where anybody got that. Well, the minister was answering a question about Donald Trump's pick for under secretary of Defense policy, Elbridge Colby, who in 2023 endorsed the idea that if China invades Taiwan, the US should not allow TSMC to fall into its hands intact, and in 2024 said destroying TSMC is table stakes in that situation. He's not alone. Rapidly disassembling TSMC is an idea shared by others since at least 2022 in US military academia, which is a thing. And Taiwan has also been saying no to the same idea for just as long. Just let us blow it up a little bit. No, stop. And it's been a while since we've seen someone run the classic shooter Doom on something wacky. So just in time. There's now a captcha that requires you to play the game to prove you're human. Just get three kills on nightmare difficulty or you're provably not a sentient being. It's simple. It was made by Guillermo Rauch, the CEO of Vercel, the company behind the V0 coding chatbot. He even shared the prompts he used to make what is actually not the world's first Doom based CAPTCHA. In 2021, Mikel Camps Orteza made one, but it was more like a 2D flash game using Doom assets. That one let so many bots through. And now we have ChatGPT. Thanks a lot. And now an unsarcastic Thanks a lot to you for watching. Tell you what, come back on Monday for more tech news and I won't even make you play Minesweeper to prove you're human like I normally do before I speak to anyone.