nine out of 10 doctors recommend you sit down while listening to the tech news in case you pass out from shock the 10th doctor bit of a jerk to be honest Audio company DCS has been forced to respond to allegations they've threatened to sue a YouTuber for giving a bad review three years ago according to Cameron Oley AKA golden sound a DCS representative contacted him in October 2023 to express concern about a remark he had made that was taken out of context Representatives then brought up alleged inaccuracies in O's 2021 review of one of their products oie claims that he had asked for detail so he could correct the factual errors yet he never received them until May of this year from lawyers threatening litigation if they weren't fixed in 10 days according to Oley however none of the complaints given are actually errors David Stevens managing director of DCs refutes some of this in a response he claims o was provided a list of inac in 2022 but Oley never followed up this refuting has itself been refuted by headphones.com who Ole has worked for since 2022 Stevens also said there was no threat of litigation but his argument seems to be predicated on the word litigation not being used I guess the threats of real and special damages impu of Damages was referring to Ole being beaten up by a team of paralegals there's much more to this story but we didn't have room for everything we'll try to provide updates on future episodes and line us will probably mention this on this week's Wan show on Friday so stay tuned for that AMD has confirmed that the ryzen 9000 series of CPUs will launch at the end of this month but they didn't tell us how much we'll have to Shell out to get our grubby little hands on them but don't worry they gave us a bunch of pretty graphs that they definitely maybe definitely cherry-pick to make themselves look good AMD claims that while they've lowered the TDP of three of of the four SKS all 9000 Series chips will see a performance uplift when compared to their current gen ryzen 7,000 counterparts a huge part of that performance uplift are the architectural tweaks AMD has made to the Zen 5 cores powering these little processor puppies at the same time the company has allegedly made changes to the thermal material between the silicon and the heat spreader allowing the flagship ryzen 9 950x to run 7° cooler than the 795x even though both have the same TDP according to earlier leaked benchmarks of the 950x engineering sample there's also strong efficiency improvements over the 7950 X this is great news for people who want to save on their energy bills but terrible news for enthusiasts who have been using their PCS as Insite heating can't win them all I know unless there's no Seasons where you live apologies to all Tech lovers in Oslo according to wired us Telecom giant AT&T paid hackers $370,000 to delete customer data stolen in the breach we reported on last week for that fee AT&T also got a video recording of the data being deleted but it's still possible some of the data is out there this really ATD also did a fine job of negotiating as they talked the hackers down from a million dollars now AT&T is in a fight with fellow telecoms T-Mobile and Verizon over 5G service for emergency responders back in 2017 AT&T won a contract to help the US government build first net a dedicated Network for First Responders as part of the deal AT&T can sell exess capacity to AT&T's commercial customers now AT&T has asked the FCC to assign the 4.9 GHz band to First net especially since the band is already considered a public safety Spectrum Verizon and T-Mobile don't want firstnet to get that band because they see it as A14 billion gift to AT&T that or maybe Verizon wants to be able to go back to the good old days when they could throttle firefighters unlimited data plans during dangerous wildfires in their defense think of the savings they got better yet think of the savings you could get thanks to our sponsor Newegg their fantas teex sale is going on right now it's time to think about you whether that's GPU CPU or even PSU cuz PSU can get some good deals if you're tired of buying your PCS piece by piece you can save $500 on a 4070 powered Acer gaming PC you can also save on that new ktc gaming monitor we both know is just sitting in your cart if anyone deserves savings it's you wonderful Majestic fantastic you treat yourself to fantas Tech things by visiting a link in the description below wait quick bits are on their way but I'm underdressed does my hair look okay sh quiet they're coming be cool at least two game studios are calling out Intel over instability issues on their high-end 13th and 14th gen CPUs path of Titans developer aldron games rake them over the Death Star laser with their scathing write up apptly titled Intel is selling defective 13th 14th gen CPUs citing crashes and memory corruption Warframe developer digital extreme says their user base is experiencing an MV GPU comp 64.dll error and the Crash logs are overwhelmingly from Intel CPUs don't believe me believe the almighty pie chart Google's Gemini AI platform has been accused of scanning Google drive files without user permission by Kevin Bankston the senior adviser on AI governments for the nonprofit Center for democracy and technology and I almost want to call him Kevin Bacon Bankston tweeted that his tax return in Google Docs was summarized by Gemini without his consent having said that Google has made a statement clarifying that workspace data isn't used to train Ai and so bankston's data is safe the company also says that all Bankston had to do was close the Gemini side panel and it would stop giving summaries proving once again that maybe having a fancy title doesn't mean you always know what you're talking about last year open AI pledged that it would rigorously test new versions of its AI to ensure that it wouldn't help dangerous actors by developing tools for cyber attacks or a bioweapon that makes lupus go Airborne however according to Washington Post Open aai Leadership pressured its safety team to speedrun their new testing protocol likewise company insiders claimed that employees were required to sign ndas requiring them to ask permission before talking to Regulators openai reportedly scheduled the Afterparty for the launch of GPD 4 Omni even before it was confirmed to be safe which is like sending invites for a baby shower before you've even missed a period collaps human civilization any% SE Sonic's wattage calculator has leaked the power requirements for the upcoming RTX 50 series graphics cards the 5050 and 30 watt increases on the 5090 and 80 aren't shocking but 60 class cards are getting Juiced if the calculator is correct we're talking upwards of 170 watt or almost 50% more power compared to the current generation maybe you're lucky Nvidia will start bundling power supplies with their gpus instead of games what would you rather have Diablo 4 or a working computer and the world AI Creator awards has crowned its first Miss AI Kenza leele or more realistically Phoenix AI the company that made her bizarrely two of the competition's four judges are also AI generated influencers who exist entirely as Instagram feed thirst bait some commentators of the beauty pageant including many so-called real women were skeptical of the competition and the unrealistic beauty standards it presents of soulless brainless homunculi with poess skin and zero opinions but if you want our opinion you should come back on Wednesday for more Tech news how could you say no it's Tech news