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Riley Murdoch covers the latest tech news, from NVIDIA's collectible trading cards and debunked RTX 5090 SE rumors to the EU's controversial Chat Control law surviving a parliamentary vote. The episode explores AI developments including Anthropic's mindfulness dashboard and OpenAI shuttering its Atlas browser, along with stories about Patreon blocking AI crawlers, John Deere's right-to-repair settlement, and Meta's always-recording smart glasses in development.
NVIDIA's Trading Cards and RTX 5090 SE Rumors
NVIDIA has launched a series of collectible GeForce trading cards celebrating their gaming history, but they're not available for purchase—only through giveaways and convention booths. Meanwhile, rumors about an RTX 5090 SE with 32GB VRAM have been debunked as incompatible specifications from an unreliable source. The segment highlights the frustration of GPU pricing in today's market while poking fun at cryptocurrency-style speculation.
- NVIDIA released 14 GeForce trading cards celebrating gaming history from the 1999 GeForce 256 to RTX 2080 Ti
- Cards can only be obtained through Summer of RTX giveaways or at events like QuakeCon and Gamescom
- RTX 5090 SE rumors claiming 32GB VRAM with 384-bit bus are false—the combination is incompatible
- The rumor source GameGPU is banned from NVIDIA subreddit for being unreliable
" You know, that joyous period before they abandoned us to a wretched economy where a new GPU cost more than a used Honda Civic. "
EU Chat Control Law Survives Parliamentary Vote
The European Parliament voted on the controversial Chat Control 1.0 mass message scanning law, and despite a simple majority voting to kill it, the law survived due to EU requirements for an absolute majority. The law allows scanning of private messages for child harm material, though an amendment was passed to exclude end-to-end encrypted apps like WhatsApp. The legislation now goes to the EU Council for final review.
- Chat Control 1.0 survived because it needed an absolute majority (more than half of total parliamentarians), not just a simple majority
- The provisional law allows mass scanning of private messages for material that could harm children
- Parliament passed an amendment excluding end-to-end encrypted apps like WhatsApp from the law's scope
- The EU Council has three months to approve, reject, or modify the law
" It's the classic conundrum of trying to do a good thing by doing maybe a bad thing. "
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