Bent CPU = Good? -- July 23, 2021

[RILEYISMYNAME]

Welcome! I'll be posting the Techlinked news sources here from now on, so I don't have to paste a million links on each platform we publish to  

 

NEWS SOURCES:

 

WILL IT BEND? …YES

Bendy Arm CPU

https://hexus.net/tech/news/industry/148133-arm-shows-non-silicon-plasticarm-processor/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/23/22590001/arm-plasticarm-cheap-flexible-plastic-microchip-internet-of-everything

https://community.arm.com/developer/research/b/articles/posts/plasticarm-realising-the-full-potential-of-the-internet-of-things?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16837/plasticarm-get-your-next-cpu-without-silicon

 

NEW GPU, NEW WORLD

EVGA replacing 3090s bricked by New World

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/evga-will-replace-rtx-3090-graphics-cards-fried-by-new-world/1100-6494329/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evga-replacing-all-dead-rtx-3090s-from-new-world

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-21-amazon-responds-after-reports-its-mmo-new-world-is-bricking-pricey-rtx-3090-cards

RX 6600 XT spotted

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/powercolor-radeon-rx-6600-xt-graphics-cards-spotted-at-retail/

 

FTC FTW

FTC backs Right to Repair

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1358712-right-to-repair-gaining-steam/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/consumers-right-repair-merger-rules-clothing-tags-set-ftc-vote-2021-07-21/

https://www.gsmarena.com/us_ftc_votes_to_enact_new_policies_to_restore_right_to_repair_-news-50169.php

https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup

QUICK BITS

 

GAMER RAGE OVER 9000

Game platforms went down

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/22/major-website-outage-akamai/

gamers https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/22/dns-outage-akamai-steam-chase-and-more/

briefly down, back up https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/several-major-websites-go-down-in-widespread-internet-outage.html
 

…AND ANOTHER THING!
Epic files new complaint against Google, jumps on US States lawsuit

https://www.androidcentral.com/fortnite-maker-epic-games-turns-heat-google-amended-lawsuit

https://hothardware.com/news/epic-games-files-ammended-complaint-against-google-in-ongoing-antitrust-lawsuit

 

THE BAD DOCTOR

Bill would strip Section 230 immunity for health misinfo

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/22/section-230-health-misinformation-act/

exception https://www.engadget.com/health-misinformation-act-2021-204010072.html

 

THE HACKER’S MACGUFFIN

Kaseya gets third-party ransomware decryptor

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/kaseya-gets-master-decryptor-to-help-customers-still-suffering-from-revil-attack/

https://threatpost.com/kaseya-universal-decryptor-revil-ransomware/168070/

 

GAMER NATION
Tokyo Olympics kicked off with video game music but no Nintendo

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-tokyo-olympics-kicked-off-with-a-load-of-videogame-bangers/

https://twitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1418538349313155073

[Guest]

Good idea! What is next, a thread for the news covered on the WAN show?

[Video Beagle]

Don't know the feasability with the timeline of you posting, but a perma-link to the video would be a nice feature too.

[Video Beagle]