**The Decision Worth It... Oh No!**

It seems like that one decision I made wasn't worth it at all. Quote me on that, because I'm starting to think that was a big mistake. But what's done is done, and now we just have to wait and see if the internet will start getting nickel and dime-ed over their tweets on the bird site. Because, you know, that's exactly what happens when people start to yell at each other online. "Quotation marks I'm telling you," it seems like some folks are already resorting to using quotation marks around their opinions. It's like they're trying to make a point, but really they're just ending up looking like a big ol' mess.

**Microsoft Joins the VPN Space**

In its latest attempt to convince users to please, please use Edge (because, you know, it's the new and improved browser that Microsoft made... copy-pasted from Chrome), the company has announced its foray into the VPN space. That's right, folks, Microsoft is now offering a built-in VPN called the "Microsoft Edge Secure Network" which, of course, will only protect data sent through the Edge browser. Because who needs to be able to bounce their signal around to get around geography-based blocking? I mean, that would be way too much like actual freedom.

**Cloudflare and Microsoft Team Up**

Behind the scenes (of sorts), Cloudflare is running the VPN for Microsoft's Edge browser, giving users a whopping one gigabyte of free data each month. Now, if you're thinking "wait, isn't that just a tiny little amount of data?" You'd be right! But hey, it's better than nothing, right? The only downside is that Cloudflare will be tracking your usage and warning you when you're getting close to the one-gigabyte cap. Which, let's be real, you'll probably hit in about 30 seconds. Because who needs to worry about data limits when you can just binge-watch cat videos on YouTube?

**Snoops and Microsoft**

Microsoft has apparently come up with a fancy term for snooping around online: "snoopies." It's like they're trying to make it sound cool or something. But let's be real, folks, we all know what's really going on here. Snoops are just people who try to spy on others when no one's looking. And Microsoft has created a whole new language around it. "Snoopy" is one thing, but "snoopie" is just a fancy way of saying "my internet company is trying to steal my data."

**Seasonic Power Supply**

For all you tech enthusiasts out there, Seasonic has released the Prime TX 1000 watt power supply, and let me tell you, it's a real doozy. With an 80 PLUS Titanium rating, this thing is like a superhero for your computer's electrical system. It's got hybrid fan control, fluid dynamic fan bearings, and even a 12-year warranty. That's right, folks, if anything goes wrong with this power supply, Seasonic will still be around in 2033 to fix it.

**VESA's Adaptive Sync Display Compliance Test Specification**

The VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has launched the Adaptive Sync Display Compliance Test Specification, or SDCTs for short. Because what every monitor user really needs is more paperwork and bureaucracy to deal with. But hey, at least they're trying to make everything make sense now. The SDCTs will evaluate 50 different criteria to certify monitors as either "Media Sync Displays" for video playback or "Adaptive Sync Displays" for gaming. It's like they're trying to create a whole new language around what we call "gaming monitors."

**Square Enix Sells Off Some of Its Studios**

In a shocking move, Square Enix has announced that it will be selling off some of its major studios and game IPs (Intellectual Properties) to Swedish conglomerate Embracer Group. That's right, folks, the company behind Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and other beloved franchises is now just a shell of its former self. For a whopping $300 million, they'll get Crystal Dynamics, IDOS Montreal, Square Enix Montreal, and all sorts of other IP goodness. It's like they're trying to make up for their lack of originality by just selling off everything.

**Apple Loosens App Update Policy**

In a surprise move, Apple has announced that it will now give developers 90 days to update their apps before they get pulled from the App Store. That's right, folks, instead of just giving them 30 days like they used to (because who needs flexibility when you're dealing with app updates?), Apple is now going to let developers take a little extra time to make sure everything is good and ready to go.

**Overclocking Ram**

In a shocking turn of events, overclockers have managed to push their RAM speeds up to an astonishing 10.22 gigahertz! That's right, folks, we're talking about the kind of speeds that will give even the most die-hard gamers nightmares. I mean, what's next? Overclocking our brains to see how many pixels we can fit in there?

**The End**

And so, dear readers, it looks like that's all for today. Or is it? Who knows? Maybe tomorrow we'll wake up and find out that the world has gone completely mad. But until then, I'll just be over here, shaking my head at the antics of humanity. Until next time, folks!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni thought i'd never do the tech news again and then you showed up although gpu prices are slowly getting better don't expect the world's overall chip shortage to end anytime soon we don't want to make things too easy right it's a challenge it's character building oh my robot vacuum intel ceo pat gelsinger said in an interview with cnbc that he expects supply chains to experience issues until 2024. a big part of the issue is that the equipment needed to make the chips is rather difficult to come by they checked all the garage sales already everyone's out i threw mine in the garbage thought i didn't need it intel along with other chip makers have invested heavily in expanding fab capacity but building out all that extra infrastructure will obviously take time so even with the recent easing of prices we won't be seeing them drop dramatically including in the memory and ssd space so expect the chip shortage to continue until we all drown from flooding in a couple years or that's what twitter makes it sound like sometimes we'll be knocked on the head with hail we're gonna have fires volcanic rock will run you over in the street godzilla speaking of twitter there's finally a bit of news about what elon musk is actually planning to do with his gently used social media platform run it to the ground you gotta refurbish and it doesn't have as much to do with free speech as it does with giving musks some precious returns he needs to fuel those rockets somehow he uses they run on tweets according to a reuters report musk is considering charging sites outside of twitter for embedding tweets in say a news article or a forum post elon is already on record as saying that twitter's bottom line is in need of being well bigger and as popular as tweet embeds are enough people might pony up the cash to make the decision worth it oh no he's been defeated by quotation marks yeah it's like what for now this is just a glint in elon's eye but hopefully it's not a sign that the internet will start getting nickel and dime just to yell at each other on the bird site there's also the option to just screenshot the tweets quotation marks i'm telling you and microsoft is the latest company to dip its toes into the vpn space in its most recent attempt to convince you to please please use edge we made this edge browser i mean we copied chrome but microsoft is now including a built-in vpn called the microsoft edge secure network cloudflare is actually running the vpn behind the scenes and they're giving users one gigabyte of free data each month with the browser tracking your usage and warning you when you're getting close to the cap which will with a one gigabyte cap problem you're probably going to get there in like 30 seconds okay i always do of course the vpn will only protect data that's being sent through the edge browser and there's no way to bounce your signal through another country to get around geography-based blocking but it should help with protecting your browsing activity from snoops especially if you're on public wi-fi snoops that just sounds like something microsoft made up multiple snoopies now it's time for quick bits brought to you by the seasonic prime tx 1000 watt power supply a great choice if you're building a high performance system this baby's got an 80 plus titanium rating which means less power gets wasted during power conversion if you catch my drift snoops and it's fully modular features hybrid fan control to reduce overall fan noise and has fluid dynamic fan bearings plus it comes with a 12 year warranty so this is in it for the long haul learn more at seasonic.com or through the links below a sprinkle of quit bits can brighten your day but just a sprinkle i took a handful one time nearly killed me you think the cinnamon challenge is rough monitors with claimed support for variable refresh rate technology like g-sync and freesync are everywhere nowadays but industry association vasa is here to make everything make a bit more sense this morning they launched the adaptive sync display compliance test specification or a sdcts as dick which will evaluate 50 criteria to certify monitors as either a media sync display for video playback or an adaptive sync display for gaming which sounds cool we just need to keep the usb guys far away from this you need some numbers on there those are cool but you need like three point one one five five six seven eight square enix is selling some of its major studios and game ips to swedish game company conglomerator embracer group that's what they're called embracer will get crystal dynamics idos montreal and square enix montreal along with the ips for avengers tomb raider deus ex and tons more for a paltry 300 million dollars that's like nothing for when you're talking about game studios i can embrace this it seems like an absolute steal but square enix apparently couldn't find any other interested buyers uh where was sony apple has loosened its policy on mandatory app updates just a little bit as smaller devs now have 90 days to update their apps before they're pulled from the app store rather than the 30 that were previously announced i wonder if the devs could just like change one character of code would that be like malicious compliance it's like what no you have to update this game from the 80s with new features what are you gonna do what are you an ask an apple believe it or not overclockers have pushed their ram to over 10 gigahertz this was done by overclocker high cookie on behalf of hi cookie on behalf of gigabyte with a 4 800 megahertz stick of ddr5 and windows xp professional funnily enough the top speed high cookie achieved was ten thousand and twenty two megahertz phew that's a lot of cookies that's the year dune takes place it might be and twitch streamer rudism has modded a fisher-price baby's first gamepad toy into a real functioning gamepad although in a demo he explained that since some of them buttons are missing there's a toggle to switch between sets of commands meaning ironically that you shouldn't give this to your baby at all they're cute they're not smart unless your parenting plan involves sending them through the gauntlet of elden ring early they got to learn about malicious elder gods sometimes you want your baby to grow up to be a good tarnished what you don't know what that means no i barely do but you'll be tarnished if you want to be tarnished by tech news come back on wednesday for more and in the meantime i didn't write an outro for this one so this is what is what you get love youi thought i'd never do the tech news again and then you showed up although gpu prices are slowly getting better don't expect the world's overall chip shortage to end anytime soon we don't want to make things too easy right it's a challenge it's character building oh my robot vacuum intel ceo pat gelsinger said in an interview with cnbc that he expects supply chains to experience issues until 2024. a big part of the issue is that the equipment needed to make the chips is rather difficult to come by they checked all the garage sales already everyone's out i threw mine in the garbage thought i didn't need it intel along with other chip makers have invested heavily in expanding fab capacity but building out all that extra infrastructure will obviously take time so even with the recent easing of prices we won't be seeing them drop dramatically including in the memory and ssd space so expect the chip shortage to continue until we all drown from flooding in a couple years or that's what twitter makes it sound like sometimes we'll be knocked on the head with hail we're gonna have fires volcanic rock will run you over in the street godzilla speaking of twitter there's finally a bit of news about what elon musk is actually planning to do with his gently used social media platform run it to the ground you gotta refurbish and it doesn't have as much to do with free speech as it does with giving musks some precious returns he needs to fuel those rockets somehow he uses they run on tweets according to a reuters report musk is considering charging sites outside of twitter for embedding tweets in say a news article or a forum post elon is already on record as saying that twitter's bottom line is in need of being well bigger and as popular as tweet embeds are enough people might pony up the cash to make the decision worth it oh no he's been defeated by quotation marks yeah it's like what for now this is just a glint in elon's eye but hopefully it's not a sign that the internet will start getting nickel and dime just to yell at each other on the bird site there's also the option to just screenshot the tweets quotation marks i'm telling you and microsoft is the latest company to dip its toes into the vpn space in its most recent attempt to convince you to please please use edge we made this edge browser i mean we copied chrome but microsoft is now including a built-in vpn called the microsoft edge secure network cloudflare is actually running the vpn behind the scenes and they're giving users one gigabyte of free data each month with the browser tracking your usage and warning you when you're getting close to the cap which will with a one gigabyte cap problem you're probably going to get there in like 30 seconds okay i always do of course the vpn will only protect data that's being sent through the edge browser and there's no way to bounce your signal through another country to get around geography-based blocking but it should help with protecting your browsing activity from snoops especially if you're on public wi-fi snoops that just sounds like something microsoft made up multiple snoopies now it's time for quick bits brought to you by the seasonic prime tx 1000 watt power supply a great choice if you're building a high performance system this baby's got an 80 plus titanium rating which means less power gets wasted during power conversion if you catch my drift snoops and it's fully modular features hybrid fan control to reduce overall fan noise and has fluid dynamic fan bearings plus it comes with a 12 year warranty so this is in it for the long haul learn more at seasonic.com or through the links below a sprinkle of quit bits can brighten your day but just a sprinkle i took a handful one time nearly killed me you think the cinnamon challenge is rough monitors with claimed support for variable refresh rate technology like g-sync and freesync are everywhere nowadays but industry association vasa is here to make everything make a bit more sense this morning they launched the adaptive sync display compliance test specification or a sdcts as dick which will evaluate 50 criteria to certify monitors as either a media sync display for video playback or an adaptive sync display for gaming which sounds cool we just need to keep the usb guys far away from this you need some numbers on there those are cool but you need like three point one one five five six seven eight square enix is selling some of its major studios and game ips to swedish game company conglomerator embracer group that's what they're called embracer will get crystal dynamics idos montreal and square enix montreal along with the ips for avengers tomb raider deus ex and tons more for a paltry 300 million dollars that's like nothing for when you're talking about game studios i can embrace this it seems like an absolute steal but square enix apparently couldn't find any other interested buyers uh where was sony apple has loosened its policy on mandatory app updates just a little bit as smaller devs now have 90 days to update their apps before they're pulled from the app store rather than the 30 that were previously announced i wonder if the devs could just like change one character of code would that be like malicious compliance it's like what no you have to update this game from the 80s with new features what are you gonna do what are you an ask an apple believe it or not overclockers have pushed their ram to over 10 gigahertz this was done by overclocker high cookie on behalf of hi cookie on behalf of gigabyte with a 4 800 megahertz stick of ddr5 and windows xp professional funnily enough the top speed high cookie achieved was ten thousand and twenty two megahertz phew that's a lot of cookies that's the year dune takes place it might be and twitch streamer rudism has modded a fisher-price baby's first gamepad toy into a real functioning gamepad although in a demo he explained that since some of them buttons are missing there's a toggle to switch between sets of commands meaning ironically that you shouldn't give this to your baby at all they're cute they're not smart unless your parenting plan involves sending them through the gauntlet of elden ring early they got to learn about malicious elder gods sometimes you want your baby to grow up to be a good tarnished what you don't know what that means no i barely do but you'll be tarnished if you want to be tarnished by tech news come back on wednesday for more and in the meantime i didn't write an outro for this one so this is what is what you get love youi thought i'd never do the tech news again and then you showed up although gpu prices are slowly getting better don't expect the world's overall chip shortage to end anytime soon we don't want to make things too easy right it's a challenge it's character building oh my robot vacuum intel ceo pat gelsinger said in an interview with cnbc that he expects supply chains to experience issues until 2024. a big part of the issue is that the equipment needed to make the chips is rather difficult to come by they checked all the garage sales already everyone's out i threw mine in the garbage thought i didn't need it intel along with other chip makers have invested heavily in expanding fab capacity but building out all that extra infrastructure will obviously take time so even with the recent easing of prices we won't be seeing them drop dramatically including in the memory and ssd space so expect the chip shortage to continue until we all drown from flooding in a couple years or that's what twitter makes it sound like sometimes we'll be knocked on the head with hail we're gonna have fires volcanic rock will run you over in the street godzilla speaking of twitter there's finally a bit of news about what elon musk is actually planning to do with his gently used social media platform run it to the ground you gotta refurbish and it doesn't have as much to do with free speech as it does with giving musks some precious returns he needs to fuel those rockets somehow he uses they run on tweets according to a reuters report musk is considering charging sites outside of twitter for embedding tweets in say a news article or a forum post elon is already on record as saying that twitter's bottom line is in need of being well bigger and as popular as tweet embeds are enough people might pony up the cash to make the decision worth it oh no he's been defeated by quotation marks yeah it's like what for now this is just a glint in elon's eye but hopefully it's not a sign that the internet will start getting nickel and dime just to yell at each other on the bird site there's also the option to just screenshot the tweets quotation marks i'm telling you and microsoft is the latest company to dip its toes into the vpn space in its most recent attempt to convince you to please please use edge we made this edge browser i mean we copied chrome but microsoft is now including a built-in vpn called the microsoft edge secure network cloudflare is actually running the vpn behind the scenes and they're giving users one gigabyte of free data each month with the browser tracking your usage and warning you when you're getting close to the cap which will with a one gigabyte cap problem you're probably going to get there in like 30 seconds okay i always do of course the vpn will only protect data that's being sent through the edge browser and there's no way to bounce your signal through another country to get around geography-based blocking but it should help with protecting your browsing activity from snoops especially if you're on public wi-fi snoops that just sounds like something microsoft made up multiple snoopies now it's time for quick bits brought to you by the seasonic prime tx 1000 watt power supply a great choice if you're building a high performance system this baby's got an 80 plus titanium rating which means less power gets wasted during power conversion if you catch my drift snoops and it's fully modular features hybrid fan control to reduce overall fan noise and has fluid dynamic fan bearings plus it comes with a 12 year warranty so this is in it for the long haul learn more at seasonic.com or through the links below a sprinkle of quit bits can brighten your day but just a sprinkle i took a handful one time nearly killed me you think the cinnamon challenge is rough monitors with claimed support for variable refresh rate technology like g-sync and freesync are everywhere nowadays but industry association vasa is here to make everything make a bit more sense this morning they launched the adaptive sync display compliance test specification or a sdcts as dick which will evaluate 50 criteria to certify monitors as either a media sync display for video playback or an adaptive sync display for gaming which sounds cool we just need to keep the usb guys far away from this you need some numbers on there those are cool but you need like three point one one five five six seven eight square enix is selling some of its major studios and game ips to swedish game company conglomerator embracer group that's what they're called embracer will get crystal dynamics idos montreal and square enix montreal along with the ips for avengers tomb raider deus ex and tons more for a paltry 300 million dollars that's like nothing for when you're talking about game studios i can embrace this it seems like an absolute steal but square enix apparently couldn't find any other interested buyers uh where was sony apple has loosened its policy on mandatory app updates just a little bit as smaller devs now have 90 days to update their apps before they're pulled from the app store rather than the 30 that were previously announced i wonder if the devs could just like change one character of code would that be like malicious compliance it's like what no you have to update this game from the 80s with new features what are you gonna do what are you an ask an apple believe it or not overclockers have pushed their ram to over 10 gigahertz this was done by overclocker high cookie on behalf of hi cookie on behalf of gigabyte with a 4 800 megahertz stick of ddr5 and windows xp professional funnily enough the top speed high cookie achieved was ten thousand and twenty two megahertz phew that's a lot of cookies that's the year dune takes place it might be and twitch streamer rudism has modded a fisher-price baby's first gamepad toy into a real functioning gamepad although in a demo he explained that since some of them buttons are missing there's a toggle to switch between sets of commands meaning ironically that you shouldn't give this to your baby at all they're cute they're not smart unless your parenting plan involves sending them through the gauntlet of elden ring early they got to learn about malicious elder gods sometimes you want your baby to grow up to be a good tarnished what you don't know what that means no i barely do but you'll be tarnished if you want to be tarnished by tech news come back on wednesday for more and in the meantime i didn't write an outro for this one so this is what is what you get love you\n"