Early RTX 5090 Launch BAD - Tech News April 21
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► TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - April 21, 2024
1:30 RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Could Launch in Q4, or Even Q3 2024
4:36 Der8auer uncovers Lamptron’s Shady Business
6:14 Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
7:21 Breakneck pace of AI advancement difficult to grasp, vaguely ominous
TECH BRIEFS
10:04 New Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot, can’t tell if cool or scary
10:35 “DiskMantler” Hard drive destroyer vibrates HDDs to death in 90 seconds
11:18 High-end AMD RDNA 2 GPUs almost gone, but there are other good deals
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RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Could Launch in Q4, or Even Q3 2024
www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/nvidia-rtx-5090-and-5080-gpus-could-be-here-in-less-than-half-a-year-but-scalpers-might-ruin-this-early-launch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwyOWGHZf0o
videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-board-partners-expect-geforce-rtx-5090-and-rtx-5080-to-launch-in-fourth-quarter
wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-rtx-5080-blackwell-gpus-launch-q4-2024-rumor/
Der8auer uncovers Lamptron’s Shady Business
youtu.be/he4mmxC6C0k
www.lamptron.com/
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsofts-vasa-1-can-deepfake-a-person-with-one-photo-and-one-audio-track/
www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
Breakneck pace of AI advancement difficult to grasp, vaguely ominous
www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsofts-upcoming-windows-11-ai-explorer-update-might-be-exclusive-to-arm-pcs
wccftech.com/intel-ready-meta-llama-3-genai-workloads-optimized-xeon-core-ultra-cpus-arc-gpus-gaudi/
wccftech.com/nvidia-gpus-power-meta-next-gen-llama-3-model-optimized-ai-all-platforms-rtx/
wccftech.com/google-merging-various-teams-into-single-unit-called-platforms-and-devices/
TECH BRIEFS
New Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot, can’t tell if cool or scary
overclock3d.net/news/misc/boston-dynamics-reveals-their-new-atlas-robot-and-it-is-more-than-a-little-creepy/
youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M
“DiskMantler” Hard drive destroyer vibrates HDDs to death in 90 seconds
www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hard-drive-destroyer-vibrates-hard-drives-to-death-in-90-seconds
garnerproducts.com/products/hard-drive-destroyers-solid-state-destroyers/diskmantler
High-end AMD RDNA 2 supply is dwindling — RX 6950 XT, RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT virtually out of stock
www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/high-end-amd-rdna-2-supply-is-dwindling-rx-6950-xt-rx-6900-xt-rx-6800-xt-virtually-out-of-stock
videocardz.com/newz/forget-msrp-multiple-radeon-rx-7700-xt-cards-now-available-at-399
www.dell.com/en-us/shop/pny-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-16gb-verto-overclocked-edition-dlss-3/apd/ac892281/parts-batteries-upgrades
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