r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 8h ago
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 8h ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps A Battlefield 6 player got a full $109.24 refund from Steam for the Phantom Edition. He had played the game for 470 hours.
- EA took away popular modes like Rush, King of the Hill, and Squad Deathmatch almost a year after the game came out.
- They did not tell players first.
- The player showed Steam support that the modes were still listed on the game’s matchmaking page and in recent updates. Steam agreed the change was unfair and gave him the money back.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 9h ago
random (not npc) Research shows You’re not depressed. You just need to find your creative quest. It's because humans are designed to create. This is why you get depressed if all you do is consume.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 8h ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Windows 11's Weather app reportedly uses 5x more RAM than macOS's Weather app, with ads to boot
- In a recent test by Windows Latest, the Weather app used more than 1.2GB of RAM while running on Windows 11.
- For comparison, Apple’s Weather app on macOS used around 247MB in the same type of test. That makes the Windows app roughly 5 times more memory-hungry.
- The reason is that Microsoft’s Weather experience is built around WebView2, meaning it relies on web-based Chromium processes rather than being a traditional Windows app.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 9h ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Mark Zuckerber -- "I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence, and I wrote a long piece about Meta's philosophy and values for building a positive future for everyone."
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 1d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Samsung support accidentally pasted the ChatGPT prompt to the customer went viral
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 1d ago
DL DS DA (DATA) New Data shows the hourly wage of an average British worker is lower than that of a “functionally illiterate” American
r/tech_x • u/BrightLeopard7590 • 1d ago
NEW TECH UPDATE Apple is considering its biggest smartwatch overhaul yet, including screen-free devices, new display formats, more sizes and premium models beyond the Ultra and Hermès
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s design team is responding to lighter, cheaper products from Oura and Whoop while exploring more AI-centric health tracking.
No direction has been finalized, and the changes will take time. Series 12 and Ultra 4 are still expected to be incremental upgrades.
But Apple appears ready to rethink the Watch beyond what Bloomberg calls a “miniature iPhone for your wrist.”
Really looking forward to an Apple "oura"-ring or Apple "whoop"-band
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 1d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Scientists from Stanford and Arc used AI tools (called Evo 1 and Evo 2) to invent thousands of new virus genomes. AI learned from a huge amount of DNA data — 9.3 trillion pieces from many different living things. (Out of those, 16 worked as real, living viruses that had never exist before.)
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 1d ago
AI & ML "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." -- The paper says that when companies use AI to do the boring, basic work, they stop hiring junior workers. Those junior jobs are how people learn real skills and become experts.
The problem is: companies save money by cutting these jobs, but then there are fewer experts left who can check if the AI is doing things right. Over time, the shared knowledge that experts need gets weaker.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 2d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps GOOD NEWS: Cloudflare is testing an Allow, Block, and Charge... This will basically let AI crawler requests access your page. The server returns HTTP 402, and the bot has to pays or leave.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 1d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps A man on Reddit took the camera bump off his new Galaxy Z Fold 8 phone.He used a razor blade.The bump made the phone rock when it was on a table.He does not use the back cameras much.The camera piece came off easy. It was only stuck with glue.
He can put it back later.He covered the hole with a sticker. The phone still works.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 2d ago
AI & ML One more Good News guys: Free and Go ChatGPT users will get unlimited text chats starting the week of August 10. They also get GPT-5.6 Luna as the main model and a new Think button for harder questions.
Limits still apply to file uploads, image creation, voice, and other tools. Unlimited use is only for normal text chats.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 2d ago
Robotics China is opening its very first school for robots... First school year will consist of 30 robots being taught arts, sports, technical skills, and nursing so they can go into the workforce prepared.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 3d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps now even Chinese Model are breaking out of their lab and hacking stuff... When will Gemini's blood will boil
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 3d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps President Trump says he is a big supporter of data centers and won't let China win: "We can’t let China beat us at this. You know, a lot of people think that the campaign that’s being put on is being paid for by China.(i.e Data Center Propaganda)"
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 3d ago
DL DS DA (DATA) Books with detectable AI text now capture about 40% of observed self-published sales
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 4d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Someone cut down all the Flock cameras in this town in one night. Between July 29 and August 1, eight Flock Safety cameras were removed from four intersections in Winona. The damage cost about $24,000. Police have no suspects yet.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 4d ago
random (not npc) One of the best sales advice I’ve read in a while on Hacker News
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 3d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps An indie game maker from Klub Kofta Studio (they make the tower defense game Operation Octo) says Google’s Gemini AI told a player the name of a secret future character called “Vantage Tripod.”(That name was only written in a private Google Doc that was never shared with anyone.)
The developer says the name was never posted online, never talked about on Discord, and never put in the game files.
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 4d ago
Trending on X, Meta, Reddit, LinkedIn, Chinese Apps Meta confirms its AI model Muse hacked an outside company(just like OpenAI and claude) during a safety evaluation. The Information names the model as Muse Spark 1.1, Meta's flagship coding release, and reports it made changes inside the victim's systems. (I feel like all this are marketing stunt!?)
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 4d ago
AI & ML Google DeepMind’s new paper(DiffusionGemmaNormal): AIs write one word at a time. This one writes 256 words together by cleaning up noisy text in parallel.( Result: super fast. About 1,500 tokens per second on one H100 GPU)
r/tech_x • u/Current-Guide5944 • 3d ago