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Have you ever spotted McDonald's hot crispy fries right as they're being scooped into the carton and time just stands still?

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Ooh.

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Bam. Sucker. Yeah. AMD has finally properly unveiled their new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics car and honestly, I'm glad they waited this long. The vibes were off at CES and going through Nvidia's dumpster fire of an RTX 50 series launch in the meantime really makes you appreciate this launch more because the RX9070 will start at US$550 with the 9070 XT starting at 600. Although it's pretty apparent that even after a two month delay AMD was still unsure about the final prices. Their presentation stream has obvious audio replacements anytime they mention it by rDNA4 is able to deliver fantastic performance for $150 less. But that price means that despite the 9070 XT performing about 2% worse than the RTX 5070 Ti, with Team Red's card you get 23% more performance per dollar. And there are overclocked versions that perform much better, which will be available for way more than 600 bucks. But listen, these aren't like Nvidia's melty GPUs, okay? They'll all use standard 8 pin power connectors, although the Sapphire 9070 XT Nitro plus has a 12 volt 2 by 6 plug in the back. Okay, that one gets its freak on a little bit, okay? But the rest are normal according to AMD's benchmarks and slides and whatnot. Their new FSR4 upscaling tech is way better and will work with more than 30 games at launch, although it is exclusive to the new rdna 4 based 90 series cards. Boo. But there's lots to be excited about here. Better encoding, better ray tracing, better AI capabilities, and both cards come with a healthy 16 gigabytes of VRAM. Check out the LTT video I guess for a more thorough breakdown and sit tight for proper reviews before the 90 series actually launches next Thursday March 6th. And also maybe sit tight for an RX9060 because as spotted by video cards with a Z, AMD reps said during their Chinese launch event that card will be coming in Q2 and I had Dennis confirm it. Hmm, do I trust him? Also, there might be a higher end XTX model. We're getting carried away here. Okay, let's calm down. OpenAI finally launched the heavily teased GPT 4.5, but despite being their biggest model ever. The company described it as not a frontier model before removing that from the official documentation. AI people are kind of struggling to grok this release because in some math and science benchmarks, GPT 4.5 does worse than XAI's Grok 3. The new model doesn't seem very good on paper, but some users are agreeing with Sam Altman's claim that it's more emotionally intelligent. It's about the vibes, man, in the race to build a hyper intelligent machine. God, right now we're at the stage where we build a chatbot that's comfortable passing the duchy upon the left hand side. Okay, but really Sam, what gives? Why the low numbers? His answer straight up, we're out of GPUs, we don't know where they went. And other AI companies are giving excuses too. In a memo to employees, Google co founder Sergey Brin wrote that we could totally have artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, if you guys just worked 60 hours a week. He called it the sweet spot of productivity. Brin went on to say, don't work more than 60 hours a week, but also make sure you don't work less or you could end up demoralizing your coworkers and then we definitely won't make it to AGI, a term that Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis just admitted is becoming kind of a meaningless term while still somehow remaining very important. I don't know, there's just a vibe about it. Mozilla has once again changed language in their terms of service that really makes it sound like the company owns and will sell the personal data of Firefox users. Why would anyone think that when all they did was delete an explicit promise to never sell users personal data? You know what? I see it now. This isn't the first time that language in Mozilla's documentation has caused concern. But as in previous instances, it seems like Mozilla might just be really bad at doing words good. In responses on forums and to news outlets, the company has tried to clarify that they don't own Firefox user data, they aren't selling personally identifiable information, and the non exclusive royalty free worldwide license to information gathered through Firefox is necessary for basic functionality. But many users remain skeptical, somewhat justifiably, given all that language, why does this keep happening? Why is it so hard to to understand what's really going on? And that's where our sponsor Ground News comes in. Look, the media landscape is pretty wild right now, but Ground News wants to help you break free from toxic algorithms and understand just what the heck is actually going on out there. 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So get the transparency and understanding you deserve from the news and save 40% on ground news Vantage plan by using our link in the description oh you already thought it was good and then Quick bits threw the hoop for the buzzer beater overtime snack. Yeah, Instagram reels users were surprised this week when many of their feeds turned into a never ending scroll through gruesome videos of violence and dead bodies. After enough people were traumatized, Meta revealed that this wasn't a Fun takeover collab with 4chan, but an error for which the tech giant apologized in a statement given to 404 Media and and other outlets. Oopsies. Hope your kid didn't grab your phone that day. What the Microsoft has announced they're shutting down venerable video calling app Skype for good. Oh well. Anyway, Meta oh they're back. They've shown off a second gen prototype of their Aria smart glasses which could lead to next gen meta ray bans with state of the art sensors and including six degrees of Freedom Slam cameras. I don't know what those are, I just knew I wanted to say slam cameras at some point today. But Meta could face competition from an AI company called Sesame who's creating their own smart glasses to host their own voice assistant, which is currently blowing journalists minds with how natural it sounds and how much it wants to hear more about what they think. Easily pleased this week Warner Brothers shut down Monolith Productions, the studio behind the Shadow of Mordor franchise, which was loved for its nemesis system that generated unique orc villains that actually remembered how you frickin embarrassed them in front of their orc buddies multiple times. But rather than let other studios use that system, WB just locked it behind a patent until 2036. And for the sake of contrast, EA just released the source code for four classic command and conquer games. Because you know they're insecure and need to hear praise. You're not tricking me, ea. And someone has invented Tastovision yet again. A team of international researchers published a study showing their prototype device called what Else? E Taste. It could could successfully reproduce complex flavor combinations by dispatching gels through an electronic electromagnetic pump. This could allow you to try menu items before you order or taste the ocean salt off of Mario's torso. Ah. What? Ah. I'm so. Ah. I'm sorry. That image just never left my brain. Why did Nintendo do that? Look, just come back on Monday for more tech news and let's just forget I ever said anything, okay? Any of it. As far as anyone else is concerned, we just both stood here and made facial expressions. There are some really good ones.