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Windows Update Improvements, Impending Samsung Strike, AMD FSR Announcement + more!
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From origin to legend. I need to become a symbol. I need to become Batman. Become the hero. Someone's gotta step up, build a legacy. Let's get to work. You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts. I'm allergic to nuts. Lego Batman. Legacy of the Dark Knight. This is my favorite part. Available May 22 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series XS and PC. Rated E10 for ages 10 and up. Windows 11 is getting a new feature that will roll back bad updates to a more stable version automatically, starting with driver updates with no action needed from the user or the device manufacturer. This is fantastic. I can't wait for my PC to roll itself back to Windows 10. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked. And in a new tech community blog post, Microsoft acknowledged the issues surrounding bad drivers being delivered through Windows Update and and bricking parts of your system. They're not sure where those drivers came from, but we're all trying to find the guy who did this. So Microsoft is developing cloud initiated driver recovery which will identify borked drivers, create a recovery request, deliver the rollback instruction to your device through Windows Update, and most importantly, confirm an approved driver to install before uninstalling the bad one. So they forgot about that a couple times. It's going through validation testing now and the official rollout is set for September 2026. Fingers crossed we don't end up in a situation where the cloud initiated recovery. Will need its own cloud initiated recovery. I hope that they've thought of this. Don't worry guys. Windows Update will update itself. Thousands of Samsung workers are planning to go on strike next Thursday and in anticipation, DDR4 prices have already jumped 20% in a single week. Sorry, just a second. I just have to just. I'll be right back. Just fine. Excuse me. As with literally everything bad happening in the world right now, this traces back to AI and the fat stacks of cash chip makers are making off the resulting memory demand. The workers union dispute is focused around how Samsung is calculating employee bonuses from this year's revenue record. Revenue? Samsung is offering workers 10% of operating profits and a one time payment of $340,000. Wow. Hey, that sounds pretty good until you look at SK Hynix, where employees are pulling in $470,000 in bonuses this year. This is chump change. Come on. Samsung's offer caused negotiations to collapse on Tuesday and the company was forced to start winding down chip production ahead of the strike. This is wild. Samsung, which stands to lose $2 billion daily during the shutdown, is eager to restart negotiations the union, however, is totally fine waiting until the strike ends on June 7th because oh yeah, the SK Hynix employees analysts project that they're gonna get a $900,000 payment next year. I would hold out too, I think. Riley, do you wanna move to Korea with me and work for SK Hyex? The food's delicious as far as I can tell. AMD just confirmed that FSR upscaling 4.1 is no longer going to be reserved exclusively for Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. It's officially coming to older cards, which means you can finally stop trying to sell your kidney on ebay for a 9000 series upgrade. That was probably not a good idea anyway. Senior VP Jack Nguyen tweeted that coming this July, Radeon 7000 series owners will get FSR 4.1 in over 300 supported games right at launch. And RX6000 folks haven't been forgotten, but that rollout will occur later in early 2027. Older cards will still take a bigger performance hit since they use int8 math instead of the 9000 series FP8 accelerator, but having the option on the table is a huge win, especially since the PS5 and Xbox Series X S use the same RDNA 2 architecture that Radeon 6000 series cards use, meaning FSR4 on console is now a possibility. You know what's better than FSR 4.1 on a 7 year old GPU? I can think of a lot of things, but at the top of that list our sponsor, Saily. Woo Spring Break. Oh, me and the boys just hit Berlin Ibiza, Bangkok and we gotta be in Tulum by Saturday for the Dead Mile 5 concert. I'm both too fated and too hyped to coordinate the process of gripping and ripping that many regional SIM cards. Luckily, my tight crew showed me Saily. I downloaded the app once, installed an esim, and got affordable plans in more countries than you can visit. Which is part of the ad copy. But also me and the boys have taken it as a personal challenge. Airport sim line skipped Scammer with a sock full of fake sims Dodged wandering Bangkok at 4am for a wi fi password. Nope, I'm wandering Bangkok at 4am for completely different reasons. It's Banh Mi and with support for both iOS and Android, the whole crew's covered. Download Saily and use code Techlink for exclusive 15% off ESIM data plans oh hey, hey, Wouldn't it be funny if we called the quick bits Slowbits instead? What if we what the Are you talking about Riley? What the. You know Asus will be launching its first Rog branded RAM at Rag Day 2026. And while it's only launching in China and Taiwan on June 1, it's news because last year ASUS vehemently denied rumors that they would be going into memory manufacturing. It still remains to be true how much they are going into manufacturing. This RAM module is a DDR5 48 gig kit and seem somewhat average until you pop it into the latest Asus ROG motherboard and toggle ROG mode, which is what me and the boys call it when we wanna go ham on raw hot dogs on any day that's not Rog day. Oh, Travis is going Rog mode. Oh, Travis is in septic shock now. A new University of California study analyzing AI use among students at large research universities looked at 500,000 grades from 2018 to 2025 and found a couple interesting things. First, depending on their field of study, about 30 to 40% of students admitted to cheating using generative AI on either assignments or exams. Second, compared to 2022's baseline, there's been a 30% increase in students receiving A grades. Hmm. This has been a problem for some time now, and universities reportedly have no idea what to do about it. Which, coincidentally, is also what their students said about the assignments. ChatGPT what is this? Oh, that's your homework. Can you do it? Sure. Sony's newest flagship phone, the Xperia 1 8, has launched with an AI camera assistant that's gone viral, but not in the good way like you would want it to. Sony's ads are getting flamed online for showing the AI blowing out brightness and washing out colors in their demo photos. Sony has since tweeted, trying to clear up the confusion, saying that the assistant isn't modifying the photos, it's just suggesting creative settings you can use if you want to. Which is corpo speak for we know the AI suggestions are bad. No one's forcing you to use them. Shut up. Shut up. My boss is here. Please. I tried to delete the tweet. I don't know how. The Stop Killing Games initiative scored a big win this week, as the California Appropriations Committee approved a bill requiring publishers to ensure that game developers provide offline solutions or issue refunds in the event of a service interruption. The bill still has a few more steps before it could become a law, but still, this is huge. The Entertainment Software association, an industry lobbying group, called the bill fundamentally flawed because clearly, gamers never buy games, they only license them. Yes, that's what we're trying to change. We don't like that. No, no, no, no. You guys don't get it. You don't own the games. We know Instagram has just released a new feature called Instance that lets users share spontaneous, unfiltered photos with their friends, which is a little confusing, because that is what. That is what Instagram is. Yes, yes, correct. Oh. And then you keep reading and you find out that, oh, the photos disappear after your friends view them. So it's not just like Instagram. It's actually just another feature of Snapchat that Instagram forgot to copy. But now they got around to it. Yay. But I know you won't forget to come back here on Wednesday for more tech news. That's right. Monday's a holiday here in Canada. It's Victoria Day, where all Canadians take the day off work to perform a ritual at the Prime Minister's house in Ottawa, where Queen Victoria's zombie bones are buried, lest she rise again and usher in a new Victorian age of extremely strict moral standards for thousands of years. So it's just a fun thing we do together.