We've been silently working on some major content pieces and are just about done. Following popular demand from you all as you've asked us to find out more about newcomers to the RAM industry (DRAM in particular), we dug through two decades of documents to produce a new full-length documentary. Hopefully tonight if the render goes smoothly, we will be publishing our deep-dive documentary on The Rise of Chinese Memory Manufacturers. This includes CXMT, YMTC, and Fujian Jinhua, who have broken into the DDR5 DRAM and Flash NAND (SSD) industries. Commenters have been asking us about these companies since the RAM prices went ballistic recently, and we'll have more to share soon. Check back!
Our new ‪@GNCAInvestigates‬ video covers the NVIDIA x Palantir partnership. We also talk about AI and the rise of global surveillance, wrongful arrests caused by various AI facial recognition companies and software, the concept of "pre-crime" policing from AI, and more. Ran this one on GNCA since it gets into some heavy topics, but we have something big coming to GN very shortly as well. Link below if you're interested in the NVIDIA x Palantir coverage.
A little while ago, Microsoft committed to extending security updates to Windows 10 in Europe a little bit longer than the drop-dead date for Windows 10 security updates worldwide. It has not made even commitments between all areas Windows 10 is used, leaving some consumers stranded sooner than others. Be one of the thousands sending a letter to Microsoft's CEO to encourage the company to extend similar protections for its consumers to countries around the globe by filling out the below form, put together by Louis Rossmann's team. The link is at the bottom. The letter reads this:
"Dear Satya Nadella,
It was encouraging to see Microsoft do the right thing by extending free security updates with no strings attached to consumers in the European Economic Area. However, this step does not go nearly far enough to ensure that the estimated 400 million computers that do not meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements will not become cybersecurity vulnerabilities, putting people's privacy and data at risk.
There should be no reason that European consumers are protected while those around the world - particularly those in Microsoft's home country - remain insecure. Do the right thing and extend free, unconditional security updates for consumers around the globe."
Hey everyone! I'm sure you've seen the ASRock deep-dive and some of the Linux testing plans, but we also have some other huge technical pieces coming up right now. The pipeline got kind of filled with technical content after we got back from the documentary trip! We're working on a major overhaul to GPU and CPU test metrics to experiment with adding another layer beyond frametimes and framerate. Frametimes (and thus 1% lows and 0.1% lows) have been in our charts for at least 12 years now and were a great way to see past averages to get visibility into 'stutter' or 'hitching.' The step beyond that is simulation time error (also known as 'animation error'), which we've talked about a couple times the last few years, but which we haven't seen anyone figure out how to properly implement. That included us until this last month, so we'll have new benchmarking methods and ideas / chart types for you this week.
It's an extremely difficult topic to conceptualize as it requires some nuance to differentiate from other forms of stutter. The broadest definition is "game feels bad," but we had to spend some serious time the last month or two trying to quantify "game feels bad" when the answer ISN'T "because bad frametimes" and also ISN'T "bad latency." It's a rare occurrence but does happen. We think we might have an answer to that, or at least some initial exploratory findings (and explanatory animations) to put out into the community. Hopefully other reviewers can run with it, too. We created some animations in Blender and Unreal Engine to demonstrate how all of this works and what it means.
That'll go up sometime this week. We've also finalized our CPU cooler test methodology overhaul and I'm working on writing and filming that. We have around 30 coolers tested with the new AM5 platforms so far. There's actually a lot going on with the coolers, so I'll leave that for the methodology video.
Keep an eye out for these. Both of these are methodology content pieces, which we only do per test category every few years as they often involve major overhauls. These are also pretty dense, but the goal is to put a ton of our testing work out there so that there's a better community understanding of the data we publish.
Looking forward to it! It's been a crazy few months with the black market video and the Bloomberg "adventure," but while all that was going on, we were working on overhauling the test methods as well. Very excited for that. Check back regularly this week!
Microsoft is killing Window 10 soon. If you work in corporate IT, school IT, or similar and are currently tasked with processing hundreds to thousands of PCs for post-Windows 10 disposal, especially if you have physical access to a room full of them and could get us in-person access to it (or at least photos of it), we'd love to hear from you. Microsoft is forcing potentially hundreds of millions of machines into the e-waste bin prematurely as a result of its Windows 10-to-11 switchover that will happen in October. A lot of these machines are otherwise perfectly usable. Microsoft is in bed with OEMs and system integrators, and they all benefit together if organizations and consumers are forced to buy new computers with new Windows 11 licenses (running an OS with more spyware and ads). In the least, we'd like photo/video documentation of what our IT Pro viewers are processing to put it into perspective. At most, if you can do it without jeopardizing your job, we'd like to fly out and take footage. For a visit, we'd be looking for overwhelming piles of this stuff, so not just 1 or 2 pallets, but rooms full of systems/pallets. For photos, any amount would be great.
Email tips at gamersnexus dot net to send information related to this. Please title the email "Windows 10" so that we can filter for it. Even better if you work at e-waste centers, as presumably these groups would not need to fear for their jobs in the same way a corporate IT worker might.
Please post in the comments below with your experiences also!
If you try to buy a 128GB USB drive from Micro Center this week and they don't have it, I'm sorry. We may have bought all of them that they have in the country.
In theory, based on counting the days from when our AI GPU Black Market movie was illegitimately taken down by Bloomberg, it should go back up either on Friday (end of this week) or on next Monday (a week from now). We don't have a hard date and it depends on how YouTube counts the first day of accepting our counterclaim. We'll let you all know as soon as it's up. If you see it go back live, please check out our version of the video to help recover its performance since it will be algorithmically wrekt by Bloomberg's invalid takedown. In the meantime, the support has been incredible on our backer tiers for the movie and we are working on making all the USB keys, the bonus backer videos, and everything else. We'll be sending out an email to those who've supported to let you know about timelines (and let Kingpin tier backers know about timing for the Q&A sessions) sometime in the next few days. There are a lot more USB devices to write to than expected!
We're looking forward to the movie going back up on our channel. In theory, it should be at the same URL it was before it was taken down. We're not really sure how it'll all work. Looks like either Friday or Monday next week, though!
Thanks again everyone for supporting us with this. We're excited for where this will take us next, too, as it's certainly opened some pretty interesting doors. But the most technologically interesting one is writing to this many USB devices!
Bloomberg filed an illegitimate copyright strike against our 3.5-hour movie for a clip we used of the US President speaking. This was especially bizarre since their copyright claim timestamp includes our scripting and voice over recorded in our studio while we show screenshots of websites.
Turns out, it's easy to do a day trip to New York.
It was amusing to hear a rank-and-file Bloomberg employee express an opinion that we were within fair use.
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We've been silently working on some major content pieces and are just about done. Following popular demand from you all as you've asked us to find out more about newcomers to the RAM industry (DRAM in particular), we dug through two decades of documents to produce a new full-length documentary. Hopefully tonight if the render goes smoothly, we will be publishing our deep-dive documentary on The Rise of Chinese Memory Manufacturers. This includes CXMT, YMTC, and Fujian Jinhua, who have broken into the DDR5 DRAM and Flash NAND (SSD) industries. Commenters have been asking us about these companies since the RAM prices went ballistic recently, and we'll have more to share soon. Check back!
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Our new ‪@GNCAInvestigates‬ video covers the NVIDIA x Palantir partnership. We also talk about AI and the rise of global surveillance, wrongful arrests caused by various AI facial recognition companies and software, the concept of "pre-crime" policing from AI, and more. Ran this one on GNCA since it gets into some heavy topics, but we have something big coming to GN very shortly as well. Link below if you're interested in the NVIDIA x Palantir coverage.
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Download our next GNCA video when it posts. If it's taken down, you can re-upload it (please wait though if and until it's taken down).
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I'm cookin'
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POV: The mob boss just found out you're personally responsible for the increase in RAM prices.
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A little while ago, Microsoft committed to extending security updates to Windows 10 in Europe a little bit longer than the drop-dead date for Windows 10 security updates worldwide. It has not made even commitments between all areas Windows 10 is used, leaving some consumers stranded sooner than others. Be one of the thousands sending a letter to Microsoft's CEO to encourage the company to extend similar protections for its consumers to countries around the globe by filling out the below form, put together by Louis Rossmann's team. The link is at the bottom. The letter reads this:
"Dear Satya Nadella,
It was encouraging to see Microsoft do the right thing by extending free security updates with no strings attached to consumers in the European Economic Area. However, this step does not go nearly far enough to ensure that the estimated 400 million computers that do not meet the Windows 11 hardware requirements will not become cybersecurity vulnerabilities, putting people's privacy and data at risk.
There should be no reason that European consumers are protected while those around the world - particularly those in Microsoft's home country - remain insecure. Do the right thing and extend free, unconditional security updates for consumers around the globe."
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Hey everyone! I'm sure you've seen the ASRock deep-dive and some of the Linux testing plans, but we also have some other huge technical pieces coming up right now. The pipeline got kind of filled with technical content after we got back from the documentary trip! We're working on a major overhaul to GPU and CPU test metrics to experiment with adding another layer beyond frametimes and framerate. Frametimes (and thus 1% lows and 0.1% lows) have been in our charts for at least 12 years now and were a great way to see past averages to get visibility into 'stutter' or 'hitching.' The step beyond that is simulation time error (also known as 'animation error'), which we've talked about a couple times the last few years, but which we haven't seen anyone figure out how to properly implement. That included us until this last month, so we'll have new benchmarking methods and ideas / chart types for you this week.
It's an extremely difficult topic to conceptualize as it requires some nuance to differentiate from other forms of stutter. The broadest definition is "game feels bad," but we had to spend some serious time the last month or two trying to quantify "game feels bad" when the answer ISN'T "because bad frametimes" and also ISN'T "bad latency." It's a rare occurrence but does happen. We think we might have an answer to that, or at least some initial exploratory findings (and explanatory animations) to put out into the community. Hopefully other reviewers can run with it, too. We created some animations in Blender and Unreal Engine to demonstrate how all of this works and what it means.
That'll go up sometime this week. We've also finalized our CPU cooler test methodology overhaul and I'm working on writing and filming that. We have around 30 coolers tested with the new AM5 platforms so far. There's actually a lot going on with the coolers, so I'll leave that for the methodology video.
Keep an eye out for these. Both of these are methodology content pieces, which we only do per test category every few years as they often involve major overhauls. These are also pretty dense, but the goal is to put a ton of our testing work out there so that there's a better community understanding of the data we publish.
Looking forward to it! It's been a crazy few months with the black market video and the Bloomberg "adventure," but while all that was going on, we were working on overhauling the test methods as well. Very excited for that. Check back regularly this week!
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Microsoft is killing Window 10 soon. If you work in corporate IT, school IT, or similar and are currently tasked with processing hundreds to thousands of PCs for post-Windows 10 disposal, especially if you have physical access to a room full of them and could get us in-person access to it (or at least photos of it), we'd love to hear from you. Microsoft is forcing potentially hundreds of millions of machines into the e-waste bin prematurely as a result of its Windows 10-to-11 switchover that will happen in October. A lot of these machines are otherwise perfectly usable. Microsoft is in bed with OEMs and system integrators, and they all benefit together if organizations and consumers are forced to buy new computers with new Windows 11 licenses (running an OS with more spyware and ads). In the least, we'd like photo/video documentation of what our IT Pro viewers are processing to put it into perspective. At most, if you can do it without jeopardizing your job, we'd like to fly out and take footage. For a visit, we'd be looking for overwhelming piles of this stuff, so not just 1 or 2 pallets, but rooms full of systems/pallets. For photos, any amount would be great.
Email tips at gamersnexus dot net to send information related to this. Please title the email "Windows 10" so that we can filter for it. Even better if you work at e-waste centers, as presumably these groups would not need to fear for their jobs in the same way a corporate IT worker might.
Please post in the comments below with your experiences also!
We can redact and obfuscate info, as always.
Thanks!
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If you try to buy a 128GB USB drive from Micro Center this week and they don't have it, I'm sorry. We may have bought all of them that they have in the country.
In theory, based on counting the days from when our AI GPU Black Market movie was illegitimately taken down by Bloomberg, it should go back up either on Friday (end of this week) or on next Monday (a week from now). We don't have a hard date and it depends on how YouTube counts the first day of accepting our counterclaim. We'll let you all know as soon as it's up. If you see it go back live, please check out our version of the video to help recover its performance since it will be algorithmically wrekt by Bloomberg's invalid takedown. In the meantime, the support has been incredible on our backer tiers for the movie and we are working on making all the USB keys, the bonus backer videos, and everything else. We'll be sending out an email to those who've supported to let you know about timelines (and let Kingpin tier backers know about timing for the Q&A sessions) sometime in the next few days. There are a lot more USB devices to write to than expected!
We're looking forward to the movie going back up on our channel. In theory, it should be at the same URL it was before it was taken down. We're not really sure how it'll all work. Looks like either Friday or Monday next week, though!
Thanks again everyone for supporting us with this. We're excited for where this will take us next, too, as it's certainly opened some pretty interesting doors. But the most technologically interesting one is writing to this many USB devices!
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Bloomberg filed an illegitimate copyright strike against our 3.5-hour movie for a clip we used of the US President speaking. This was especially bizarre since their copyright claim timestamp includes our scripting and voice over recorded in our studio while we show screenshots of websites.
Turns out, it's easy to do a day trip to New York.
It was amusing to hear a rank-and-file Bloomberg employee express an opinion that we were within fair use.
Video soon.
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