The Weekly Tech Rant

The Weekly Tech Rant

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  • Episode 112: It's time for the most EPYC CPUs, Google coughs up in Privacy case, Apple sued in Privacy case, Amazon layoffs, Twitter layoffs and Musk crazy actions, Google Pixel Fold leaks

    This week we covered:

    • News

      • AMD 4th Gen EPYC 9004 “Genoa Zen 4” CPUs Launched: Up To 96 Cores, 192 Threads, 384 MB L3 Cache & Crushing All Other Server Chips

      Google will pay $392 million to 40 states in largest-ever US consumer privacy settlement
      Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs
      Amazon mass layoffs will reportedly ax 10,000 people this week
      Twitter lays off 5K contractors in surprise 2nd wave of cuts, more mods lost
      Musk fires Twitter engineers for correcting, criticizing him on Twitter, Slack

      • Rumours

        • GOOGLE PIXEL FOLD - EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK! Wild design, specs, price, and more!

        As always, we'd love to hear your comments

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        1 hr
      • Episode 111: It's time for the Elon show and Twitter meltdown, EU DMA, AMD Radeon updates, PS VR2 launch and RTX 4070 or is it
        • News

          • EU could force third-party app stores on Apple after USB-C iPhone mandate

          PlayStation VR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99
          AMD Reveals Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT: First RDNA 3 Parts To Hit Shelves in December

          • Twitter

            • Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team

            Twitter delays rollout of $8/month blue checks; Musk warns of permanent bans for impersonation
            Ten days of Twitter chaos
            Elon Musk has discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall
            Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another check mark
            Musk ‘killed’ Twitter’s official checkmarks after only a few hours

            • Rumours

              • Nvidia’s 12GB RTX 4080 rumored to return as the RTX 4070 Ti

              49 min
            • Episode 110: It's time for Twilio hack reports, Tesla lawsuits, EU probes MSFT, Meta revenue drops, Arm threatens Qualcomm and iPhone 15 button(less) drama!

              This week we covered:

              • News

                • Twilio hack investigation reveals second breach, as the number of affected customers rises

                Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype
                Apple confirms it will leave Lightning behind in future iPhones
                EU is about to launch an 'advanced probe' into the Microsoft Activision deal, sources say
                Meta posts another revenue decline as investors voice metaverse concerns
                Meta Quest 3 Launches ‘Later Next Year’
                Leaked RTX 4080 12GB Benchmarks Seemingly Justify Nvidia Retreat
                Qualcomm says Arm threatens to end CPU licensing, charge device makers instead

                • Rumour

                  • iPhone 15 Pro may replace clicky volume and power buttons with solid-state buttons

                  Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro may not get this Main camera upgrade after all…

                  As always, we'd love to hear your comments

                  Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

                  1 hr
                • Episode 109: It's time for 4080 rewind, Musk in trouble (again), More fast fibre, MS+Sony spat gets nasty, Giphy off, Amazon fine and Apple tech and price rises

                  This week we covered:

                  • News

                    • Nvidia says it’s ‘unlaunching’ the 12GB RTX 4080 after backlash

                    Elon Musk is under federal investigation for merger conduct, Twitter tells judge
                    Google Fiber will offer 5Gbps and 8Gbps internet plans in early 2023
                    Brazil court orders Apple to reimburse customers for charger-less iPhones
                    Microsoft says a Sony deal with Activision stops Call of Duty coming to Game Pass
                    Meta will have to sell Giphy after losing UK appeal
                    Amazon hit with $1bn claim that secretive Buy Box algorithm screws shoppers

                    • Apple

                      • Apple launches redesigned iPad with a bigger screen and USB-C

                      Apple announces new iPad Pro with M2 chip and Wi-Fi 6E
                      Apple announces new Apple TV 4K with A15 Bionic chip and HDR10+ support
                      Apple Increasing Pricing of Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple One

                      As always, we'd love to hear your comments

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                      1 hr 15 min
                    • Episode 108: It's time for Acquisitions, Deals, Crash (detection), Intel Leaks, Meta(awful) worlds, new VR headsets and Console upgrades, and Apple VR with legs

                      This week we covered:

                      • News

                        • Thoma Bravo buys third identity company this year with $2.3B ForgeRock acquisition

                        KnowBe4 to Be Acquired for $4.6B by Private Equity Firm Vista
                        Microsoft Responds to UK Regulator’s ‘Misplaced’ Concerns Over Activision-Blizzard Megadeal; States that Sony Still Has the Ability to Adapt and Compete
                        The iPhone 14 keeps calling 911 on rollercoasters
                        Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU Source Code Reportedly Leaked Following Hack
                        Horizon Worlds metaverse app so bad that Meta has to force employees to use it

                        • Meta VR Event

                          • The Meta Quest Pro costs $1,499 and ships October 25th

                          Iron Man VR and Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming to Meta Quest, 3 Top VR Studios Bought by Meta

                          • Rumours

                            • Mid-Gen PS5/XSX Upgrades Should Be in the Hands of AAA Studios Shortly, Says GTA Leaker

                            Apple’s Headset Reportedly Has Iris Scanning And Leg Tracking

                            As always, we'd love to hear your comments

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                            1 hr 5 min
                          • Episode 107: It's time for new Micron megafab, Twitter sale back on, Russian game engine, Tachyum processors, Binance heist and we review the Made By Google event

                            This week we covered:

                            • News

                              • Micron Has Pledged To Invest Up To $100 Billion To Establish a Gigantic Fab Unit in New York State

                              Elon Musk says he’ll buy Twitter, again, for $54.20 a share, again
                              Russian government collides with reality, rejects plans to fund a 'national game engine’
                              Tachyum Publishes Prodigy Universal Processor Whitepaper: Up To 6x Faster Than NVIDIA H100 & 30x Faster Than Intel Xeon 8380, Available In 2H 2023
                              More than half a billion dollars stolen from world's largest crypto exchange

                              • Google Event

                                • Google (finally) announces the Pixel Watch

                                Google’s Pixel 7 is official, with wider 17-country rollout (and Pro!)
                                Google’s including its VPN service with the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
                                Google offers a better look at the Pixel Tablet
                                Google once again slams Apple for not adopting RCS

                                As always, we'd love to hear your comments

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                                56 min
                              • Episode 106: It's time for new Intel CPUs, Russian propaganda, RIP Stadia, Hello 100Gpbs fibre, USB rebrand, All hail USB-C and YouTube 4k Fail, M2 Extreme on the horizon

                                This week we covered:

                                • News

                                  • Intel Raptor Lake CPUs will launch October 20 with prices largely to match 12th Gen

                                  Russian campaign spent $100,000 on anti-Ukraine propaganda, Meta says
                                  Google is shutting down Stadia
                                  Google challenges US ISPs with 100Gbps fiber broadband
                                  USB kills off SuperSpeed branding as it tries to simplify its ubiquitous connector
                                  EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
                                  YouTube has begun asking users to subscribe to Premium to watch 4K videos

                                  • Rumours

                                    • Alleged AMD Desktop CPU Roadmap Leaks Out: Ryzen 7000 3D V-Cache In Early 2023, Threadripper 7000 & Ryzen 7000G Chips In 2H 2023

                                    M2 Extreme chip in upcoming Mac Pro could get 48-core CPU, 160-core GPU, 384GB RAM

                                    As always, we'd love to hear your comments

                                    Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

                                    1 hr 8 min
                                  • Episode 105: It's time for Our Apple product mini-reviews, Nvidia 40 series news, Meta gets sued (again), SiFive, Ofcom probe and maybe no Oct Apple event

                                    This week we covered:

                                    • News

                                      • Nvidia RTX 4090 'the new heavyweight champ' launches October 12 for $1599

                                      Nvidia RTX 40-series to deliver 'up to 2–3 times increase in ray tracing' performance
                                      Nvidia unveils DLSS 3 promising 4x frame rate increases for RTX 40-series GPUs
                                      EVGA is reportedly so sick of working with Nvidia that it's going to stop making graphics cards altogether
                                      Facebook users sue Meta for bypassing beefy Apple security to spy on millions
                                      UK launches competition probe into cloud giants in digital services
                                      SiFive RISC-V cores picked for Google AI compute nodes

                                      • Rumours

                                        • We Might Not Get an October Apple Event…

                                        As always, we'd love to hear your comments

                                        Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

                                        56 min
                                      • Episode 104: It's time for breaches galore, big tech woes, fines and Nvidia 40 series and Ryzen 7000 updates, Game Pass friends and family leaks

                                        This week we covered: 

                                        A bad few weeks for big tech! 

                                        • Google fails to overturn EU Android antitrust ruling but reduces its fine by 5 percent 
                                        • Google and Meta fined over $70m for privacy violations in Korea 
                                        • Google faces fines of up to $25.4b in UK and EU ad tech case 
                                        • Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard will face ‘in-depth’ UK investigation 
                                        • ARM sues Qualcomm, alleging its subsidiary breached a licensing agreement 
                                        • The SEC revealed today that it charged VMWare with fraud . . . then settled for next to nothing 
                                        • Meta axes internal team responsible for asking ‘are we the baddies?’ 
                                        • NVIDIA reveals new US government rule restricting export of AI chips to China and Russia 

                                          • Breaches Everywhere 

                                          • LastPass Suffers Data Breach, Source Code Stolen 
                                          • Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers
                                          • Optus (Austrialian Telco) Breached 


                                            • Ryzen 7000 Series Launch AMD makes Ryzen 7000 official: Launching September 27, starting at $299 
                                            • AMD Announces B650E Chipset for Ryzen 7000: PCIe 5.0 For Mainstream 
                                            • Xbox Game Pass ‘Friends & Family’ leak suggests you can share with friends 


                                              • As always, we’d love to hear your comments 

                                              Find us on Twitter @WeeklyTechRant

                                              56 min

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