[0.00] This tech news would sound a little better [2.28]
[2.28] if it had been open a few hours ago, [4.48]
[4.48] but I think it still passes the smell test. [9.08]
[9.08] Microsoft has finally completed [10.96]
[10.96] their $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard King [14.96]
[14.96] after a year and a half of being grilled [17.92]
[17.92] and harassed by the government [19.96]
[19.96] to make sure they won't set every Xbox to self-destruct. [24.08]
[24.08] Oh, exhausting. [25.76]

[25.76] The biggest buyout in gaming history [27.94]
[27.94] went ahead right after the UK's Competition [30.42]
[30.42] and Markets Authority approved an altered deal [33.34]
[33.34] that will see Ubisoft holding the cloud gaming rights [36.58]
[36.58] to current and future Activision Blizzard games [39.62]
[39.62] outside of the European economic area. [42.02]

[42.02] And if you think that sounds confusing, [44.28]
[45.70] yeah, basically if you purchase an Activision Blizzard game [49.74]
[49.74] and you live in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway, [54.20]
[54.20] you'll have a license to stream that game [56.54]
[56.54] from any cloud gaming streaming service of your choice, [60.50]
[60.50] assuming they have the game [62.48]

[62.48] on that service available to stream. [65.00]
[65.00] But if you live anywhere else, [66.90]
[66.90] it'll be up to Ubisoft to grant licenses [69.92]
[69.92] for Activision Blizzard games to cloud gaming services, [73.90]
[73.90] meaning Microsoft will have to license the games [77.02]
[77.02] owned by the companies it now owns [79.50]
[79.50] if it wants those games to be streamable [81.74]
[81.74] on Game Pass Ultimate outside of Europe, okay? [85.32]
[85.32] And you might be saying, [86.16]

[86.16] Riley, can you shut up about cloud gaming? [88.40]
[88.40] No one cares about that, [89.42]
[89.42] to which I'd say everyone said the same about mobile games, [92.32]
[92.32] and now those make the most money in the gaming industry. [95.84]
[95.84] But hey, it was all worth it for Xbox to own Call of Duty [99.00]
[99.00] and more importantly, Crash Bandicoot. [101.46]
[101.46] Meanwhile, the FTC says they're still focused [103.92]
[103.92] on stopping the deal and are preparing an argument [106.52]
[106.52] to submit to an appeals court in December. [109.24]

[109.24] Bit harder to stop something from happening [111.32]
[111.32] after it's already happened, but hey, best of luck. [114.16]
[114.16] We have to go back in time. [116.24]
[116.24] We have to go back, Marty. [117.60]
[117.60] Best Buy will no longer sell movies [119.92]
[119.92] in their physical form starting in 2024, [123.24]

[123.24] meaning you'll have to buy your DVDs or 4K Blu-rays [126.32]
[126.32] from the trunk of Paulie's car, [128.06]
[128.06] just like in the good old days. [129.88]
[129.88] The news was initially reported by The Digital Bits [132.88]
[132.88] and later confirmed by Best Buy, [134.84]
[134.84] who told Variety in a statement [136.64]
[136.64] that the way we watch movies and TV shows [139.16]
[139.16] is much different today than it was decades ago, [142.68]

[142.72] to state the obvious. [144.52]
[144.52] Oh, unless I'm mistaken, I'm not looping film reels [148.12]
[148.12] over top of my television and using the light [150.52]
[150.52] to try and see the pictures in there. [152.32]
[152.32] Okay, we have computers now. [154.46]
[154.46] Of course, while the move is bad news for preservationists, [157.44]
[157.44] it's somewhat unsurprising. [159.00]

[159.00] It's been five years since Best Buy [160.84]
[160.84] stopped selling music CDs. [162.38]
[162.38] And according to Josh Fairhurst, CEO of Limited Run Games, [166.08]
[166.08] there are rumblings of Walmart dropping sales [169.00]
[169.00] of physical games soon. [170.68]
[170.68] However, while retailers are retreating [173.00]
[173.00] from the physical world, Netflix is looking to enter it. [175.92]

[175.92] CEO Ted Sarandos announced plans to open something called [180.02]
[180.02] a Netflix house in two locations. [182.92]
[182.92] And I don't know what that sounds like, [184.76]
[184.76] except something I wouldn't let my daughter visit. [187.36]
[187.36] The houses will have merch, food, and fan experiences, [191.08]
[191.08] but unlike Disneyland, Sarandos says you might visit [195.28]
[195.28] a couple times a month, not just once every couple of years. [199.20]
[199.20] You know, like getting beers with the boys, [201.80]

[201.80] but instead of wings, you order the Demogorgon roast. [205.32]
[205.32] I have no context for what this place is gonna be. [207.80]
[207.80] I just, what is it? [209.40]
[209.40] And the CEO of RISC-V International, [212.10]
[212.10] which oversees the open source chip architecture, [214.76]
[214.76] has written in opposition to the idea [216.90]
[216.90] that the US should block China's access to technology [219.84]
[219.84] based on RISC-V because it's an open source standard. [224.16]

[224.16] And that's not how they work. [227.34]
[227.34] Last week, a group of US lawmakers [229.34]
[229.34] petitioned the Biden administration [231.20]
[231.20] to cut China off from RISC-V, an idea that, [235.22]
[235.22] I mean, doesn't seem particularly concerning [237.24]
[237.24] to the Chinese members of RISC-V International, [239.98]
[239.98] including Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, ZTE, and Tencent, [243.58]

[243.58] who haven't commented one way or the other. [245.82]
[245.82] The CEO of a leading Chinese RISC-V chip company [248.86]
[248.86] told the South China Morning Post that since RISC-V is, [252.78]
[252.78] again, an open standard, the US could only block exports [256.82]
[257.18] from US companies to China, [259.26]
[259.26] but they wouldn't be able to block China [261.14]
[261.14] from building their own products with RISC-V, [263.52]

[263.52] which they have been doing already for quite a while. [267.00]
[267.00] I don't know, maybe the US government [268.34]
[268.34] should be worried less about China [269.94]
[269.94] and more about the chair of RISC-V International, [272.62]
[272.62] who recently said he wanted every chip in the world [275.86]
[275.86] to be RISC-V, showing a slide titled, [278.74]
[278.74] "'All Your Cores Are Belonged to Us.' [282.34]
[282.34] Terrifying. [283.54]

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[327.02] Wait, what do you think they are? [329.46]
[329.46] What the f***? [330.30]

[330.30] No, you're way off. [332.50]
[332.50] OnePlus will be launching its first foldable, [335.10]
[335.10] the OnePlus Open, on October 19th. [337.98]
[337.98] It's not clear yet how much the phone will cost, [340.30]
[340.30] but OnePlus is offering $200 off for pre-orders [343.34]
[343.34] and up to $1,000 in trade and credit. [346.20]
[346.20] So it's definitely way more than that. [348.74]

[348.74] Despite the air of mystery, [350.22]
[350.22] the device is essentially a rebadged version [352.98]
[352.98] of the Find N3 from Oppo, [355.78]
[355.78] who've already allowed YouTuber, Jaggot Review, [358.02]
[358.02] to post a hands-on with the device, [359.90]
[359.90] where he compares it to the Galaxy Z Fold 5. [362.46]
[362.46] The Open seems to have a wider inside and outside display [365.74]
[365.74] and a far more subtle hinge crease in the screen, [368.66]

[368.66] like somebody airbrushed a butt crack, [370.66]
[370.70] leaving only a single shiny mono cheek. [374.38]
[374.38] What a glorious image. [375.78]
[375.78] A judge has thrown out a 2022 decision [378.42]
[378.42] that found Google had infringed five of Sonos' patents [382.46]
[382.46] because two out of five were filed in 2019, [385.86]
[385.86] not 2006, as Sonos claimed. [388.68]

[388.68] Bad billion dollar company, bad! [391.90]
[391.90] The original decision granted Sonos [393.78]
[393.78] 32 and a half million dollars in damages, [396.08]
[396.08] but rather than pay licensing fees for the features, [399.70]
[399.70] Google pushed a software update [401.30]
[401.30] that removed the group speaker features [403.38]
[403.38] from devices that paying customers had already bought. [406.54]
[406.54] Consumers are basically babies. [408.10]

[408.10] They lack object permanence. [409.74]
[412.74] Google, of course, celebrated the recent decision [415.18]
[415.18] by immediately pushing another software update, [418.00]
[418.00] restoring the features they had previously taken away, [420.76]
[420.76] presumably causing users to clap their hands [423.14]
[423.14] and drool in delight like a game of peekaboo. [425.58]
[425.58] There's the features! [427.42]

[427.42] There's the features! [428.26]
[428.38] It's back! It's back! [429.74]
[430.66] Nvidia's Jensen Huang has topped a recent [433.50]
[433.50] most popular CEO survey, [435.86]
[435.86] no doubt due to that sexy leather jacket. [438.66]
[440.22] Can't stay mad at him. [441.90]
[441.90] Based on a survey conducted [443.36]

[443.36] by the professional social network Blind, [445.74]
[445.74] over 96% of the 13,000 verified Nvidia employees there [450.22]
[450.22] said they approved of Huang's leadership, [452.96]
[452.96] numbers rarely seen outside of North Korea. [456.02]
[456.02] Tim Apple, CEO of Cook, [457.94]
[457.94] also came in the top five with 83%, [461.20]
[461.20] while the average was only 32%, [463.46]
[463.46] with at least two CEOs landing at zero. [466.82]

[466.82] I don't know exactly what's going on [468.34]
[468.34] at Western Digital and Nordstrom, but it's not good. [471.80]
[471.80] It involves lying, I think. [474.26]
[474.26] Speaking of CEOs, Google's current leader, Sundar Pichai, [477.70]
[477.70] had a fairly reasonable take on the issue [479.82]
[479.82] of the search engine being set as the default in Safari [482.98]
[482.98] back in 2007, according to emails revealed [485.70]
[486.26] during the ongoing USV Google trial. [488.50]

[488.50] Pichai, who was part of the search team back then, [490.62]
[490.62] thought that Apple's idea of offering [492.42]
[492.42] two separate versions of Safari, [494.52]
[494.52] one for Google and one for Yahoo, [496.50]
[496.50] was maybe not as good as just adding a dropdown menu [499.62]
[499.62] allowing users to switch search engines. [502.54]
[502.54] It's nice to see a tech executive [503.98]

[503.98] thinking about the end user experience [505.70]
[505.70] while coordinating massive payments [507.48]
[507.48] to have their product presented as the default. [509.74]
[509.74] And after many Counter-Strike 2 players [511.98]
[511.98] were inexplicably banned, [513.96]
[513.96] Valve has warned anyone playing on AMD GPUs [517.60]
[517.60] to switch off Team Red's anti-lag plus feature, [521.08]
[521.08] which arrived earlier this week in a driver update [523.52]

[523.52] until Valve can fix the issue. [525.74]
[525.74] The feature minimizes input lag, [527.92]
[527.92] but it does so by injecting itself into the game's code, [531.20]
[531.20] making it look like unauthorized tampering is occurring [534.24]
[534.24] and leading to a VAC ban. [536.48]
[536.48] You can hardly blame players [537.76]
[537.76] for trying to make the game smoother, [539.28]

[539.28] although along with the lag issues, [541.50]
[541.50] it's also brought some hidden treasures. [543.76]
[544.52] I mean, teabagging has got nothing on tea twerking. [546.88]
[546.88] And I would certainly be reading a segue about twerking [549.58]
[549.58] if Jacob was here, but he's off today. [551.54]
[551.54] So I'll simply tell you to please return on Monday [553.96]
[553.96] for more tech news, please. [555.76]
[555.76] Thank you. [556.60]