Tech News Highlights

Legal Controversy

Allegations: DCS allegedly threatened to sue YouTuber Cameron Oley (GoldenSound) for a negative review from 2021.
DCS Claims:
- Contacted Oley in Oct 2023 about a remark seen as out of context.
- Alleged inaccuracies in 2021 review; Oley asked for details but didn’t receive them until lawyers threatened litigation in 2023.
- DCS Managing Director David Stevens said Oley was given a list of inaccuracies in 2022.
- Conflict with headphones.com representation refuting these claims.
- Litigation threat debated on semantics around the term 'litigation.'

Launch Date: End of this month.
Performance Claims:
- Lowered TDP for 3 out of 4 SKUs.
- Performance uplift due to Zen 5 architectural tweaks.
- Changes in thermal material improve cooling.
- Ryzen 9 950X runs 7°C cooler than 795X; better efficiency.
- Leaked benchmarks show efficiency improvements.

Ransom Payment: Paid hackers $370,000 to delete stolen customer data.
Negotiation: Originally demanded $1 million; received video of data deletion.
Data Safety: Some data may still be out there.

FirstNet: AT&T asks FCC for 4.9 GHz band for FirstNet (emergency responders’ network).
Rivals’ Opposition: Verizon and T-Mobile see this as a $14 billion gift to AT&T.

Alderon Games: Issues with 13th and 14th gen CPUs causing instability in Path of Titans.
Digital Extreme: Similar complaints for Warframe; cited memory corruption and crashes.

Unauthorized Data Scanning: Allegedly scanned files in Google Drive without permission.
Google’s Response: Clarified workspace data not used for AI training.

Washington Post Report: Claimed OpenAI rushed safety testing for new AI versions.
Employee NDAs: Required to ask permission before discussing with regulators.

Wattage Calculator Leak: RTX 50 series GPUs show higher power needs.
- 5050 and 30W increases for 5090 and 80.
- Significant increase for 60 class cards (~170W).