Enjoy this podcast, recorded on July 17 - you know, before the CloudStrike thing happened. Don't worry, we will talk about that next week.

There is so much "air" in this show, you'll know it when you feel it.  Game servers switching away from Intel now, the Xbox has the cheekiest controller going.  So much more below, enjoy!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:34 Food with...Jeremy?
05:57 Kent's big air cooler roundup
31:38 Intel's growing instability problem
44:56 Snapdragon X Elite really wants to be Windows Only
47:43 Seasonic lists unreleased Radeon GPUs including 7990 XTX
49:29 ...and apparently lists RTX 50 Series wattage as well
51:39 Hello Windows Checkpoint
56:09 (in)Security Corner
1:07:55 Gaming Quick Hits
1:12:20 Picks of the Week
1:17:22 Outro

This show is one hour.

Wait. That should say "this show is one hour THAT YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS".
We've got all kinds of things, check out the topics below!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Food with Josh
03:25 HP gives up - might actually want to sell printers
05:23 AMD NTBC
08:21 AMD now has better brand recognition than Intel?
10:02 Everything is bigger on the Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED
16:16 Ryzen keyboard PC!
20:13 Google's free VPN is gone but anyone can use their dark web monitoring
22:11 Better battery life (not AI) driving Copilot+ PC sales
26:00 Endgame Gear OP1 8K mouse
29:33 Mac shipments grew 6 percent year-on-year
30:52 (in)Security Corner
40:48 Gaming Quick Hits
46:30 Picks of the Week
59:42 Outro

It took a couple of days to get to the editing and posting (due to the July 4 holiday) but the wait will be 100% worth it, we assure you. Josh even had a burger.  Including Z890, Gigabit forever, Win10 death and all your content belong to AI now.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:35 Food with Josh
03:51 Intel Z890 chipset leak
05:21 When will the industry stop using Gigabit?
09:38 More on the upcoming Intel parts
13:23 New Breaking Limit GPU benchmark is out
15:13 NVIDIA 72-core Grace CPU gets close to 96-core Threadripper
18:02 Will death of Win10 ignite PC market?
20:05 Microsoft CEO of AI says anything published online is free to use
24:38 AMD Ryzen 8000G processors discounted
29:41 Podcast sponsor - Green Chef
31:11 (in)Security Corner
47:44 Gaming Quick Hits
56:09 Picks of the Week
1:12:24 Outro

You will be pleased to learn that we did indeed get together on Wednesday night (at 10 Eastern) to podcast this week. Here is the edited version of that podcast recording session.  Within you find side-quests, insights, food, camera lens talk - and tech.  Lots of tech talk on such things like Microsoft making terrible decisions, bad security theater, and idle data.  Join us.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Food with Josh
03:29 XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air (false start)
06:08 The review actually begins here
17:21 Boring camera lens talk
19:31 Microsoft makes OneDrive backups automatic
22:40 Microsoft hides the local account option even more
23:31 PSA: you don't actually have to use Windows
26:46 The great Optane 905P fire sale of 2024
30:30 Amazon moves Alexa to a subscription model
33:19 Seagate opens official eBay store for refurb HDDs
37:26 Most stored data is never accessed again
41:28 (in)Security Corner
44:33 We interrupt (in)Security Corner to talk about seamless integration
46:12 Back to (in)Security Corner
54:27 Gaming Quick Hits
1:03:08 Picks of the Week
1:18:16 Outro

Five of us entered, but only one survived. This is one episode you won't want to miss!

In addition to all that, we discussed SFF specs, Copilot updates, the Fractal Mood, ARM speculative execution, and Intel CPU stability!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:34 Food with Josh
03:00 We react to Snapdragon X Elite reviews
10:17 Intel issues microcode fix for 13th/14th Gen stability issues
16:02 NVIDIA's new SFF-Ready GPU standard
18:37 An ITX-sized RTX 4070 with a pink PCB
19:54 Windows 10 update brings "Open With" dialog box bug
21:23 ID-Cooling has a 360mm AiO with no RGB for only 60 bucks
24:48 (in)Security Corner begins
33:00 AMD data breach
35:41 Gaming Quick Hits
42:10 Fractal Mood mITX case review
59:12 Picks of the Week
1:11:07 Outro

Brett was absent this week, but we found a way to podcast anyway. And what a memorable podcast it was. How many times can we celebrate lucky number 777? Just once, it seems. And that is undeniable - like the Billy Dee Williams (by Avon) fragrance for men, "Undeniable".

Please find the usual Windows security scares, thoughts on Starfield, Adobe finally makes users upset, RTX50 rumors and so much more!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:54 Food with Josh
04:51 AMD says Ryzen 9000 Series won't beat 7000X3D at gaming
07:17 Ryzen 9000 X3D parts rumored to arrive in September
09:46 RTX 50 Series rumors
13:04 RTX 2070 SUPER vs. RTX 4070 SUPER
18:07 People are getting upset about Adobe terms of use
22:06 HP BIOS update bricks some laptops
23:53 Another look at the Crucial T705
27:10 Josh randomly decides to offer his thoughts on Starfield
28:36 (in)Security Corner
37:49 Gaming Quick Hits
45:03 We talk about the Beeline SER8 Ryzen mini PC review video for a while
51:57 Picks of the Week
57:57 Outro

This week we have a positive attitude, Josh had a burger, and everyone is happy (and other lies). 
Watch to catch up on CoPilot issues (we told you so!), Intel and AMD socket longevity, Windows 10 won't die and we miss Napster.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:36 Food with Josh
03:09 AMD Ryzen 9000 Series announcement
10:55 New X870 and X870E chipsets
17:18 Socket AM5 longevity
19:56 AMD also introduced MI325X
22:01 Josh tells his pineapple squeeze toy story
23:13 Intel Lunar Lake discussion
28:17 Kent begins to wonder how much NVIDIA cares about gamers
34:28 Josh points out the inconvenient truth about the AI boom
40:36 Jeremy decides to return to Lunar Lake discussion
41:10 Using Kapton tape to defeat Intel chipset limitations
42:55 Micron GDDR7 is coming soon
46:58 Windows 10 is getting "new features, and more" (be afraid)
51:19 Nano11 for lightweight Windows 11 24H2
53:07 Happy 25th birthday to Napster (and audio digression)
1:01:18 (in)Security Corner
1:09:05 Gaming Quick Hits
1:13:35 Picks of the Week
1:24:02 Outro

Josh OLED wipe included at no extra charge.  So much Arm coverage, even with Nvidia.  There's even some good Security news!

00:00 Intro
01:41 Josh's home office update
02:50 Burger of the Week
04:40 Arm Tech Days coverage from Josh
26:12 NVIDIA reportedly prepping an Arm PC chip
29:35 A long response to a viewer question about OLED monitor burn-in
39:51 Microsoft DirectSR is here - if you have Windows on Arm
42:54 PayPal mines your order history to serve targeted ads
45:17 ICQ is gone
47:22 How to stop AI search boxes appearing Google searches with Chrome
50:21 iFixit and Samsung break up
53:21 Cooler Master says AI thermal paste was just a translation issue
57:20 (in)Security Corner
1:06:39 Gaming Quick Hits (you can't take it with you)
1:15:10 Picks of the Week
1:22:55 Outro

Josh returns this week, and of course there are financials to discuss (NVIDIA is making insane money right now), plus Josh's latest burger, Josh's renovated home office, and other Josh-related content.  Where are Josh's boxes, what's in Josh's closet, what are Josh's floors made of, and who handled his 49" monitor while he was away.

Oh, and we also did a show about this week in tech ... those topics are below.

00:00 Intro
01:35 Food with Josh
03:25 Josh's office update
05:06 NVIDIA is making an insane amount of money
12:55 Dan Cases and Lian Li make a micro-ATX case
14:44 Is Noctua becoming a lifestyle brand?
18:00 Big brother is watching - with the new built-in Windows screen logger
25:21 Cooler Master offers "ai" thermal paste for streamers
27:28 The demand for HBM could cause DRAMa
29:29 RescueZilla 2.5 released
31:03 (in)Security Corner
38:13 Gaming Quick Hits
45:59 Corsair 6500X case review
49:29 Picks of the Week
56:43 Outro

While Josh might not have been with us, we certainly did mention him.  In mostly good ways.  All this while we discussed the latest AMD 8000 F-Series, Dell XPS with AMD and Snapdragon CPUs, zero day exploits for DLink routers, and even self driving vehicle hacks.  More in the list below.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:25 AMD launches Ryzen 8000 F-Series processors
06:05 AMD Ryzen coming to Dell XPS laptops (in 2027, maybe)
07:01 Qualcomm's Snapdragon X is coming to XPS laptops
11:46 Snapdragon X Elite will offer native Linux support
14:00 VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are now FREE
15:23 AMD reportedly ends Windows 10 support beginning with Strix Point
20:54 (in)Security Corner
32:00 Gaming Quick Hits
41:12 Picks of the Week
54:28 Outro