Episode 29: It's time for hacked limiters, Chrome Birthday cake, Are we off to MWC, no backdown on Huawei, welcome to our (amazon) robot overlords, and the Homepod is dead, long live the Homepod!
The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl
English - March 16, 2021 13:55 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we covered:
News
Nvidia's unhackable GeForce RTX 3060 hash rate limiter supposedly hacked in just two weeks - hahahahahahahahahahahahah (breathe Karl)
Chrome OS is getting a big redesign for its 10th birthday - Cake all round its Birthday time!
Mobile World Congress seemingly serious about in-person Barcelona event in June, shares safety plan - Maybe this could actually go ahead!
Qualcomm reportedly struggling with chip shortages - we need more silicon cap’n!
Biden Administration adds new limits to Huawei suppliers - not easing up
Amazon’s secret home robot Vesta reportedly in late-prototype stage’ of development - I for one welcome our robot overlords
Apple event rumours continue with 23rd March likely - waiting and waiting and waiting
Apple discontinues HomePod, but HomePod Mini will live on - actually not a bad idea!
Games
20 Bethesda games now available on Xbox Game Pass
As always we'd love to hear what you think!