Windows Update Improvements, Impending Samsung Strike, AMD FSR Announcement + more!

Duration: 08:04

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:19 Windows Update Improvements

1:12 Impending Strike at Samsung

2:58 AMD FSR Announcement

4:04 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:16 ASUS ROG Branded RAM

5:03 New Study Shows AI Impacts on Education

5:48 Sony Xperia AI Camera Assistant

6:28 Stop Killing Games Updates

7:07 Instagram’s Newest Feature

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

CLOUD BASED CTRL+Z

Microsoft is developing a feature called Cloud-initiated Driver Recovery that will let them remotely roll back bad drivers to a known-good version with no user or OEM involvement needed.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-launches-cloud-initiated-driver-recovery-for-remote-rollback-of-faulty-updates-no-user-action-or-oem-intervention-will-be-needed-to-handle-broken-drivers-delivered-via-windows-update

In Microsoft’s tech community blog they outlined the problem CIDR is solving - right now, a bad driver kinda just sits on your system until the hardware partner ships a fix or you uninstall it yourself, leaving devices potentially stuck on broken drivers for weeks.

https://lmg.gg/whatchangingmicrosoft

“They’re not sure where they come from, but we’re all trying to find the guy that did this.”

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3137675/windows-11s-april-update-is-now-causing-pc-crashes-and-visual-glitches.html

In its tech community blog, Microsoft outlined how the CIDR process will work.

https://lmg.gg/howcidrwork

With rollout set starting September 2026, i’m just praying we don't end up in a situation where the cloud-initiated recovery will need its own cloud-initiated recovery.

https://lmg.gg/Timelinemicrosoftrollout

CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SAM-SING?

Samsung workers are planning on going on strike next thursday and in anticipation DDR4 prices jumped 20% in a single week - https://wccftech.com/samsungs-looming-union-strike-is-already-creating-mayhem-with-ddr4-spot-prices-jumping-20-in-a-single-week-in-the-worlds-biggest-electronics-market/

As with literally everything in the world right now it’s a result of the AI boom and the fat stacks of cash that are being generated - https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-global-ai-boom-spurred-looming-strike-deep-divisions-2026-05-15/

Samsung workers are being offered 10% of global profits and a one time payment f 370k which sounds good until you look at SK HYINX where employees are making 470k in bonuses this year going up to 900k in 2027. - https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05-13/business/industry/SK-hynix-set-a-new-bonus-standard-It-could-jeopardize-competitiveness-across-sectors/2590519

Samsung’s offer cause Labor Talks Collapse to collapse - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/samsung-fails-to-reach-labor-deal-yonhap-says-as-strike-looms

And Samsung has started winding down chip production in anticipation of the planned 18-day strike - LOSSES FROM WHICH losses could hit $2 billion DAILY

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-starts-winding-down-chip-producton-six-days-before-planned-18-day-strike

Samsung pracxtically begged the labour union to keep negotiating but the union said further talks can happen ‘after June 7’ - https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05-15/business/industry/Samsung-Electronics-labor-union-rejects-proposal-says-further-talks-can-happen-after-June-7/2593265

FINE WINE

AMD just made a huge announcement confirming that FSR Upscaling 4.1, something previously exclusive to Radeon RX 9000 series GPU’s - is finally coming to older cards.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-fsr-upscaling-4-1-officially-coming-to-radeon-rx-7000-gpus-in-july-rx-6000-in-2027

AMD’s Sr VP Jack Huynh took to twitter confirming that come this July, folks with AMD graphics cards, like the Radeon 7000 Series, are gonna be able to use FSR Upscaling 4.1 in over 300 supported games - right at launch! And RX 6000 folks haven’t been forgotten, they just have to wait until early 2027.

https://x.com/jackhuynh/status/2054904153013387273

The feature will be enabled through a driver update and While older cards will take a bigger performance hit since they use INT8 math instead of the 9000 series’s fancy FP8 accelerator, this is still a fantastic thing since at least now the option to use FSR 4 is on the table.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/fsr-4-int8.jpg

But the juiciest bit of all - since the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S use that same RDNA 2 architecture that Radeon 6000 gpu’s use, FSR 4 on consoles is suddenly on the table and conveniently the PS6 might launch around the same time.

https://lmg.gg/fsr4onps5andxbox

QUICKBITS

PHANTOM BLADE

ASUS will be launching its first ROG-branded RAM at ROG Day 2026 in China and Taiwan. The RAM is codenamed "Phantom Blade" and is a DDR5 48-gig Hynix M-die kit running at 6000 MT/s which is a pretty average.

https://wccftech.com/asus-launches-first-rog-ddr5-memory-modules-48-gb-capacity-rog-mode-6000-cl26-8000-cl36/

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ASUS-ROG-DDR5-Memory-Module-_1-scaled.jpg

Average until you pop it into the latest ASUS ROG motherboards and toggle the ROG Mode that pushes it to a tighter 8k CL36.

https://lmg.gg/quoteaboutmt-sram

While only launching in China and Taiwan on June 1st this is news because last year Asus said they wouldn’t be going into memory manufacturing, so best guesses as to what comes next, but possibly Corsair is gonna have some major competition.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/no-asus-isnt-going-into-memory-manufacturing-taiwanese-tech-giant-issues-statement-smashing-rumor

AI BRAINROT FR

A new study from the University of California has shown that AI use among students is leading to a rise in grade inflation, and universities don’t really know what to do about it.

https://gizmodo.com/students-are-learning-less-and-getting-higher-grades-because-of-ai-study-finds-2000758844

The study analyzed 500,000 grades from large research universities over the period from 2018 to 2025. They focused on courses that focused on coding and writing - exactly where students tend to use AI.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80x8d3qd

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ai-driven-cheating-widespread-even-at-elite-schools-like-princeton/

CAMERA ASS-ISTANT

Sony’s Xperia 1 has launched with an AI camera assistant that has gone VIRAL but not in the good way like you want - https://9to5google.com/2026/05/14/sony-ai-camera-assistant-problem/

Evidently the assistant is so shitty that Xperia’s Ads Are Getting absolutely flamed online - https://petapixel.com/2026/05/15/sony-xperia-ai-camera-assistant-ads-are-getting-ripped-apart/

With the CEO of the Nothing Phone saying that it’s so bad it has to be engagement farming - https://www.techradar.com/phones/sony-xperia-phones/this-must-be-engagement-farming-nothing-ceo-pokes-fun-at-sony-for-awful-xperia-1-viii-social-post-showing-its-ai-camera-assistant-tool-making-photos-look-worse

In an attempt to “clear things up” Sony tweeted that the camera assistant isn’t MODIFYING photos it’s just suggesting different creative settings and that. You can choose any option or use your own settings.

https://x.com/sonyxperia/status/2055252170056868001

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

The Stop Killing Games initiative has gotten a big win when California bill AB 1921 passed the legislature and is going to congress. This bill protects digital assets such as games by requiring publishers to either provide an offline solution or issue refunds in the event of server outages -

https://playfront.de/en/stop-killing-games-kaliforniens-gesetz-gegen-server-abschaltungen-nimmt-wichtige-huerde/

Detractors tried saying that people who purchase games are actually just liscencing them. Calling the concept of ownership a “false premise”- https://www.gamesradar.com/games/industry-lobbyists-ridicule-false-premise-that-consumers-own-digital-games-amid-stop-killing-games-fight/

They also tried to claim that the requirement to continue to service older games was somehow keeping new games were getting made - https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/game-industry-lobby-group-that-argued-against-preservation-efforts-from-libraries-is-now-pushing-back-on-stop-killing-games-saying-it-could-prevent-new-games-features-and-technology/

TAUTOLOGICAL APP DESIGN

Instagram has just released a new feature called “instants” that allows users to share spontaneous unfiltered photos with your friends. AKA instagram. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/how-to-turn-of-instagrams-new-instants-feature-and-retract-photos-you-accidentally-shared/

One of the writers that works on the show tried to explain to us that it’s different from instagram because the photos disappear after your friends view them. https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-instants-for-sharing-in-the-moment

SO ACTUALLY it’s snapchat. And People are calling it a snapchat clone for thirst traps - https://www.wired.com/story/instagrams-new-instants-app-is-a-snapchat-clone-for-thirst-traps/