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Somebody got the PlayStation 5's operating system running on a PC, which honestly is kind of Sony's fault. They've spent a year telling everyone they want everything digital. And apparently hackers figured that included the console. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLink, and the emulator behind all this is RPCSX. And the team behind it says this has been technically possible since early this year, but a video that went around this week is the first time anyone's shown it actually working. Now the menu boots, but games don't launch from it yet. For that, there's any PS5, a separate project from a developer called Boycopar that skips emulation entirely and translates PS5 games into native Windows code. Last week, it could
handle about half of the PS5's 1,166 GPU shader instructions, but as of today, it can do all of them. And it's already running the PS5 versions of two small indie games on a GTX 1050Ti. That card is from 2016, but it can run Dreaming Sarah at a steady 60fps, which is all I've wanted. A third project called Sharp Emu got Demon Souls and Astrobot into actual gameplay this week and it rates 12 games as playable. So between all of that, the recent breakthroughs with the Kite Thai PS5 project and the jailbreak we talked about last week, Sony is getting its all digital future. It just assumed it would be the one selling it. SpaceX announced this week that it is now on the spectrum and not in the way that I tricked you
into thinking by how I worded that. What that actually means is that it's agreed to buy the rights to part of the 800 MHz band of the radio frequency spectrum that's usually allocated to telecom companies. The frequency band that SpaceX is buying is specifically low band spectrum, meaning that it'll penetrate walls easier and is meant to fix a coverage gap where SpaceX's satellite signals can't provide reliable signal to indoor devices. According to the company, this will allow them to become a major cell phone carrier in the US. While the traditional telecom companies responded with hard copes, like Verizon saying that Spectrum without a network behind it is just quote empty airwaves, the market reacted differently with shares in Verizon,
T-Mobile, and AT&T dropping by between 9 and 13%. Verizon's worst single day drop in 24 years. There's still a ways to go for SpaceX's Spectrum deal to become a full-fledged mobile service as it still needs FCC approval. But that seems like it won't be an issue for SpaceX because FCC chair and former Witch King of Angmar Brendan Carr called SpaceX's entry into the market quote really good news for American consumers. He went on to state that the FCC doesn't choose winners and losers, at least not in telecom, just late night comedy. Apparently, industry analysts at IDC just published a report that worldwide PC shipments for Q3 2026 fell 20% compared to the previous year. And it's all because, you guessed it,
the memory crisis. So, as we approach the somber season of All Hallow's Eve, when the ghosts and ghouls of the tech industry are exumed in Q3 shareholder calls and earnings reports, we remember all the volume we lost this year. Lenovo down 23%. HP down 31, Dell down 25%. Apple down 11, and ASUS fine, dependable ASUS down 9%. I mean, all these companies are doing fine because prices are way up, which does somewhat undercut the whole inmemoriam thing we had going there. But the thing that we're mourning here is consumer computing. And the mobile industry is also seeing drops in demand with Nicay Asia reporting that Apple cut iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max component orders by at least 15% and Samsung
reportedly cut Galaxy production by up to 30%. Fear not though, for a hero rises from the fray. Intel what is reportedly planning to make new Intel CPUs compatible with the old LG700 socket so people can build computers with their old DDR4 RAM editor Q Nickelback's hero from Spider-Man and they see that a hero will save us and this is [screaming] a sponsor segway Ukraine. All right, I hunt aliens, so I'm pretty convinced other forms of intelligence exist. Heck, they might even exist in OUR OWN HOMES. I MEAN, LOOK AT THIS THING. UG GREEN HOME AGENT is a local AI hub that brings storage, computing, security, and smart home controls together. You can talk to it naturally. Search camera FOOTAGE BY THINGS LIKE DOG, BLUE SHIRT, OR ALIEN.
WHAT? WHERE? Get alerts about unusual activity and control supported devices, all while keeping your data and AI PROCESSING LOCAL WITH NO MONTHLY STORAGE FEES. THERE'S ALSO the Singare series, including security cameras for indoor and outdoor use, so you can catch UFO flybys, too. Now, I'm not saying this is extraterrestrial intelligence, but I'm keeping an open mind. Check out you green in the LINK BELOW. IS THAT A LITTLE GREEN MAN? There's five members of the Ginyu force and there's five Quickbits. Huh? If those guys met in a dark alley, the Quickbits would beat the living out of the Ginyu Force. Eat it, raccoon. A 54year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, has been sentenced
to 18 months in federal prison after uploading a butt ton of AI generated songs and then using a botnet to rack up artificial plays on them, netting him $8 million. Over 7 years, he streamed hundreds of thousands of AI songs, outstreaming Taylor Swift IN 2023. NO, NOT TAYLOR. We all unanimously love her for some reason, involving a football player, I think. While Smith definitely did break the law, it's worth pointing out that Spotify has been accused of doing basically the same thing by stuffing playlists full of fake artists that are actually all tracks it commissioned at a discount. But, you know, Spotify is rich, so we're not going to prosecute them. They're Are you crazy? I don't want to lose my
subscription. A developer going by Nullmoth released a homemade Mac OS driver for GeForce GTX 16 series cards and newer. In his testing, running an old version of Mac OS on a custom PC equipped with an RTX 5060, he was able to run apps and even games through, this is the important part, Metal, Apple's graphics API. Nvidia hasn't shipped a Mac driver since Mac OS High Sierra back in 2017, and Apple killed Intel chip support in the newest Mac OS version. So, it makes sense that one of the people that both companies abandoned took matters into his own hands. It's a real theme right now. Get out there, break some stuff, and then try and make it work. Sony has signed 419 virtual reality patents over
to Meta, and neither company will say why. The deal was agreed upon in December, and 43 of the patents have shown up in US records so far, covering VR, AR, and headset designs. It comes after months of PSVR 2 stock shortages, and not a single first party game since the headset launched in 2023. So, PlayStation VR is probably dead, which means it's time for the old Yeller treatment. I'm sorry. Out behind the barn with the Connect and the Power Glove. Honestly, sounds like a good time. Zohar Pinhasi, CEO of ransomware recovery company Monstercloud, has been charged with wire fraud for secretly paying the hackers ransoms instead of actually decrypting his client's files.
What? It's quicker. Evidently, Pinhasi, also known as Zach Silver, big red flag right there. Anyway, this guy was claiming he had proprietary tools that could decrypt the ransomware files, but in actuality, he was paying the hackers for decryption keys and charging his clients a hefty markup. Between 2018 and 2023, he reportedly paid more than $8 million in ransoms and build clients more than $19 million in fees. Unrelated, I'm starting my own business called Riley Silver's totally legit ransomware recovery depot and skate sharpening service. Satisfaction not guaranteed. Do not come here. And California has ordered a startup to stop putting humans in cage matches with
robots. God. Robot Entertainment Combat or REK, very rationally named, [clears throat] hosted what it called the first human onrot fight in September. And the human YouTuber Frankie Lepenna took a kick to the face from a teaoperated humanoid. I can't wait till my child reads about this in the textbook. The state athletic commission sent a cease and desist on the 30th and REK founder 6 Live posted the season desist with a caption, "We made it, boys." I don't know where we made it to, but we're here. And I hope you make it back here on Wednesday for more tech news because Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving. The right Thanksgiving. Hey, well, I got to go.
The Quickbits and I are headed to the planet Namek to collect the Nomekian Dragon Balls. Is that those are the ones that grant you three wishes. What? Oh, that sounds awesome. Let's go.
