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If this was a potluck, and my name was Jeremy, I'd bring my famous Jeremasu dessert. But my name's not Jeremy, it's Riley. So, I guess this tech news will have to do. Nvidia finally revealed its long-rumored consumer CPU for laptops and desktops at Computex yesterday. The new RTX Spark superchip sports 20 arm CPU cores, 6,144 Blackwell GPU cores, and 128 gigs of LPDDR5X memory. It's essentially the same GP10 chip that powers the DGX Spark AI-focused mini PC Nvidia launched last year. The difference is that this one is showing up a year late. But it will still try to compete with Qualcomm Snapdragon X-series chips inside actual laptops and desktops coming this fall
with Microsoft, Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, and MSI all lining up systems. And it's nice to see all of Nvidia's sycophants line up and follow their orders, but the more interesting part is what this means for gaming. Windows on arm runs most games through Prism emulation, which has traditionally made anti-cheat and DRM software a huge pain. Nvidia says it's finally fixing that with native support for easy anti-cheat, BattleEye, and Denuvo. The exact kind of thing Linux gamers have begged for since forever, but sure, Windows first. It was nice to hear about that all from Jensen, but the best part of the keynote was having him cap it all off by dancing on stage with friends who definitely aren't on his
payroll. It was either that or the ear-splitting AI music video at the end depicting the decline of humanity and the rise of like robotic supremacy. I don't know who is this for. Yeah, everyone's clapping. Why? Anthropic, maker of the Claude family of large language models, has submitted its proposed IPO filing to the SEC, opening itself up to public investment if they're approved. It's a move heavily anticipated by the financial world since Anthropic is one of three companies expected to do something no company has done before, enter the market with valuations over $1 trillion.
Uh-oh. Yes, SpaceX recently filed its IPO, while OpenAI is seemingly waiting for just the right moment. Because while these IPOs could make investors and employees with equity very wealthy, many fear, thanks to recently changed Nasdaq rules, that it could also drastically shift the balance of stocks in the index funds that are relied upon by normie investors who will be left holding the bag when the AI bubble pops, if it pops. Sorry. Well, we don't know, but don't worry, you can totally hedge your bets with some action on Polymarket or something. This is not financial advice, very obviously. Or is it? Or the No, AMD is extending socket AM5 support all the way to 2029,
which means people already on the platform can keep upgrading without ripping out their whole motherboard. And even AM4 isn't dead yet. To celebrate that socket turning 10, AMD is bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a drop-in upgrade for older boards, giving DDR4 holdouts one more escape hatch from today's unhinged RAM prices. AMD also announced the Ryzen 7 7700X3D, which will become the cheapest way into AM5 X3D gaming yet. It sits just under the beloved 7800X3D with eight cores, a big pile of cash, and a suspiciously familiar Zen 4 skeleton underneath. But that is the world that we live in now. So AMD news seemed surprisingly consumer-friendly until they announced that they would be launching the formerly
China-exclusive Radeon RX 7970 GRE into global markets for 550 bucks, the same price they originally launched the faster RX 7970 non-GRE at before immediately giving it a price bump. That was just a trial run. This is the real GPU. Unfortunately, the GRE is cut down with less VRAM and fewer cores, making it less golden rabbit edition and more generally reduced everything. But you'll be genuinely really excited about our sponsor, Ugreen. Do you love how itty-bitty the M4 Mac mini is, but hate how few ports there are? Well, good news. Ugreen has a little dock that sits right under your mini and gives you 10 extra ports. You got your USB A and C ports, SD card slot, an audio jack,
display port, and a built-in SSD enclosure that gets you up to 8 TB of extra storage. Oh, man, Apple would love to charge you more for that stuff, but now they can't. And the 10 gigabit per second USB ports can rip through like 3,000 high-res photos in a minute. I don't even know if there's that many pictures in the world. Also, the display port drives dual screens at up to 4K at 240 Hz on the M4 Pro version. So, if you want to soup up your M4 or M4 Pro Mac mini, then grab yours at the link below. The Quick Bits love hors d'oeuvres cuz well, cuz you know, if you just add a E on there, then they it says Quick Bites. So, that's why. Nvidia is finally upgrading DLSS Ray Reconstruction, its
AI ray-tracing de-noiser tech, to the same second-gen transformer approach the rest of DLSS 4.5 started getting after CES. Until now, RTX owners could use the newer upscaler, but Ray Reconstruction was still stuck on the older model. The August update should mean cleaner upscaling and ray-tracing at the same time across every RTX card. With the AI handling that much of the rendering, no wonder Jensen still had the energy to dance. Usually they sap the rest from him. Computex also brought a fresh wave of gaming handhelds. ASUS refreshed the ROG Ally Xbox Ally with an X20 model. It's got a 7.4 inch OLED and AMD's Z2 Extreme inside, while MSI's Claw 8 EX AI Plus and Acer's Predator Atlas 8 both lean on Intel's new Arc G3
handheld chips. Acer also made the Nitro Blaze Link, a Linux handheld that only streams games from your PC over Wi-Fi. And I believe it's also got 1 GB of RAM. It's all you need. So it's a handheld gaming PC minus the gaming PC part, which traditionally has been kind of important, but not anymore. You know, if you use your imagination, you need 0 GB of RAM. Come on, kids. Stop being lazy. Meta says it's patched a flaw that allowed attackers to use prompt injection to trick Meta's AI-powered support bot, or Meta bot as I call it, into sending
Instagram password reset links without two-factor authentication. Effectively, the hack allowed the hackers to completely take over people's accounts, but it's been patched. So there goes my dream of hacking Jeremy Renner's Instagram account and finally launching my famous Jeremasu desserts. Man, this sucks. Sony shared details on its upcoming PlayStation accessories, including the Flex Strike wireless fight stick, a new PlayStation branded monitor, and the Pulse Elevate speakers. The wireless fight stick uses Sony's low-latency PlayStation Link, and the 27-inch 1440p monitor supports up to a 240 Hz refresh rate. Both those items launch in August. However, CNET says the release date for the wireless speakers
are still shrouded in mystery, the Batman of PlayStation peripherals, if you will. And Paint.net finally got its own clean, official Paint.net domain after over two decades of using the older Getpaint.net address, making a long overdue upgrade for the popular image editor. Is this okay? Rick Brewster, Paint.net's author, is hyped about it. Speaking of painting, MSI is releasing a pair of limited edition laptops covered in Van Gogh art. It's hard to imagine the Dutch artist would have been excited about this development, but from what I understand of Van Gogh's life, he wasn't excited about much, chronically depressed. It's a sad story, you should look it up.
I'm also Van Gogh-ing to be sad if you're not back here on Wednesday for more tech news. Can you think of any other names that fit nicely into dessert names? I'm not sure I want to become Jeremy Murdock, but I definitely want a dessert pun name. It's so hard. I have to think about it.
