Things get political this week on The TT Show when Jak and Kosta dig into the recent controversy surrounding Elon Musk, X, and the Australian government's attempt to censor specific content. Then, it gets even more political when the topic switches to the US government deeming Microsoft a security risk because all agencies depend on its software.

Plus, Intel partners with the Pentagon to develop microchips for what we can only assume is stuff you'd consider "not good." But hey, that's just the show's second half, as the first half is full of in-depth impressions for No Rest From the Wicked. Thel attest game from the studio behind the excellent Ori series blends Diablo with Dark Souls to deliver something special.

Jak and Kosta also talk about the upcoming rumors surrounding Ubisoft's Far Cry 7, which will feature Mr. Oppenheimer himself, Cillian Murphy, as the villain. Plus, Sony has announced a new PlayStation overlay with PSN Friends and Trophies for its PC games.

The Apple Vision Pro has now been around for a few months after it first went up for sale on the Apple website and Apple Stores across the United States in February. There's no sign of when the headset will ship globally yet, but Apple has already confirmed that it will do just that before the end of the year. We also don't know which countries the headset will arrive in, either. Now, a new report has suggested that those waiting for a new, second-gen model should probably just pull the trigger on the current model.

It already made a ton of sense that Apple would plan to launch an upgraded model with tweaks and improvements over the previous headset. But a new report suggests that it won't be ready to launch the headset any time soon. Writing in the weekly Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the Apple Vision Pro roadmap does not currently have a second-gen model ready to go and it isn't on the roadmap until the end of 2026 at the earliest. That could mean it will be 2027 before the headset will go on sale.

Long before any of that will happen, however, Apple will give current Apple Vision Pro owners something new to look forward to. The visionOS software that powers the Apple Vision Pro is set to be updated to visionOS 2 this year, and it's expected that Apple will announce it at the WWDC event on June 10. However, Gurman says that the update isn't expected to be a big one, saying that it won't be a game changer. The report goes on to say that the next big thing for Apple is the expansion of the rollout to a new country, with China thought to be on the list for a release very soon. Time will tell which other countries the Apple Vision Pro will launch in, but Apple's website simply says that a global launch will take place in 2024.

If you're an Apple TV Plus subscriber you're already very well aware of some of the top-notch TV shows, movies, and documentaries that are available for viewing on the streaming service. The streamer is well known for its awards wins, and now it's picked up four new ones alongside additional nominations.

Apple TV Plus announced the news via a press release, saying that Slow Horces and Silo had picked up four wins. Slow Horses won the Editing: Fiction category while it also picked up a win for the Sound: Fiction category. Fans of Silo will be pleased to learn that the show, based on the Wool bestseller, won the Production Design category as well as the Original Music: Fiction category.

Both Slow Horses and Silo have been well received by viewers with the former already offering multiple seasons for viewers to sink their teeth into. While Silo only has a single season available right now, more are on the way - the show has already been announced to have a further three seasons on the way with the final two set to be filmed back-to-back, likely to allow for a quicker release.

Shift Up's new PS5 hit Stellar Blade is climbing Sony's best-seller charts.

Things are looking good for Stellar Blade, the latest PS5 exclusive from Korean developer Shift Up. The game just launched yesterday, and in that time span, Stellar Blade has now broken the top 5 of the best-selling games on the PlayStation Store.

According to the listings, which are publicly available on any PlayStation 5 console that's connected to the internet, Stellar Blade is currently the #4 top best-selling game on the PlayStation Store in the United States. The game had previously been on the 25 best-sellers list, but had not previously broken the top 10. Now that Stellar Blade is out on the market--to strong reviews, no less--U.S. gamers are buying it up.

The Italian government has plans to invest around $10 billion into the semiconductor industry this year, where it plans to become one of the biggest microelectronics products in Europe.

Industry Minister Adolfo Urso told reporters in Pescara, where the ruling party Fratelli d'Italia met over the weekend: "Italy is preparing to become one of the largest microelectronics producers in Europe". Urso added: "I believe that in the coming weeks we will be in a position to make other equally significant announcements".

Urso announced a $3.4 billion investment into Singaporean startup Silicon Box, back in March 2024, which would see a new chip factory build in the north of the country. This announcement was born out of the Italian government's failure to convince Intel to invest, reports BNN Bloomberg.

TSMC is one of the biggest benefactors of the unstoppable AI market, with TSMC's AI revenue expected to exceed $10 billion for the first time this year, setting a new high and cementing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) as one of the biggest players in the AI industry.

TSMC said during a press conference this month that the Taiwanese chip maker is optimistic about revenues contributed by AI processors to more than double this year, expected to account for a low-teens percentage of TSMC's total revenue for 2024. Within the next 5 years, however, server AI processors are expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 50%, making up over 20% of TSMC's revenue in 2028.

The company is highly optimistic about the future of AI, with TSMC president Wei Zhijia revising the AI order visibility and revenue ratio during a statement this month. Order visibility has been extended from its originally expected 2027 date to 2028, with the company emphasizing that almost all AI chip makers are working with TSMC to solve AI-related needs of the never-ending demand for energy-saving AI computing power.

According to new reports from Board Channels (via Videocardz), the GeForce RTX 40 Series of GPUs is currently experiencing shortages, with the 60-class (the GeForce RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti) being impacted the most. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is one of the most popular current-gen NVIDIA GPUs, and according to a post on Board Channels, it is facing a 'major supply problem.'

The report also indicates that GPU makers' needs for the RTX 4060 Ti, in particular, aren't being met, with companies having to deal with reduced shipments. This issue isn't limited to local suppliers (Board Channels is based in China) but also Taiwanese manufacturers like ASUS and MSI.

Videocardz, which first reported on the story, has confirmed with its own NVIDIA partner sources that the reduced supply of GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards is real. However, it might have little impact on global availability.

NVIDIA opened its first Asia-based AI R&D center in Taiwan two years ago, investing NT$24.3 billion ($715 million USD or so) and employing 400 people there. But now, the company is reportedly considering a second R&D center in Taiwan.

In a new post by the China Times, the Technology Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, said on April 26 that NVIDIA's current research and development (R&D) is "going smoothly" and it will "assist our manufacturers in AI application development". They're reportedly happy with the quality of talent in Taiwan, and are considering setting up a second R&D center in Taiwan.

The first R&D center that NVIDIA built in Taiwan mainly works on AI chip research and development, as well as GPUs. The R&D center also helped build Taiwan's biggest supercomputer -- Taipei-1 -- with the Taiwan government providing a NT$6.7 billion ($205 million USD or so) subsidy for NVIDIA's first R&D center project.

Intel 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake Core i9 processors have been making headlines recently due to widespread reports of crashing and instability, often while gaming. With CPUs drawing more and more power on the high-end, the issues are most likely related to thermal and power delivery on certain 600/700 Series motherboards - and the push to boost clock speeds, benchmark scores, and performance over stability.

ASUS has already addressed the issue with a BIOS update introducing a more sensible 'Intel Baseline Profile' for power limits using Intel's recommended settings. Other big board makers like MSI and GIGABYTE have followed suit with their own BIOS updates and revisions.

In a statement supplied to Igor's Lab, Intel blames motherboard manufacturers for disabling "thermal and power delivery safeguards designed to limit processor exposure to sustained periods of high voltage and frequency." It's a strange stance when the instability lies with the CPU.

AMD is reportedly not going to have any high-end RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs when they launch later this year, with news that the high-end Navi 4X GPU coming out recently... and it would've been great to see: with 50% more shader engines than the Navi 31 GPU inside of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

In some new patches for AMD's GFX12, leaker "Kepler_L2" spotted some of the upgrades we are missing out on with the flagship RDNA 4-based Navi 4X GPU, which would've been the successor to the Navi 31 GPU that powers the fastest Radeon GPU for gamers: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

In the patches, Kepler_L2 noticed that the GFX12 family is the codename for the RDNA 4 GPU family. The flagship Navi 4X or Navi 4C SKUs reportedly would've featured 9 Shader Engines, which would've been a 50% increase over the Navi 31 GPU, which features 6 Shader Engines.

With a steady stream of driver updates, bug fixes, and day-one game support, Intel's Arc graphics cards continue to improve. In our review of the SPARKLE Intel Arc A770 TITAN OC Edition from earlier this year, we said it was a decent mainstream option for 1080p and even 1440p gaming thanks to the top Intel Arc A770 GPU featuring 16GB of VRAM.

Regarding Intel Arc GPUs, SPARKLE is right up there regarding build quality, style, and thermal performance. Until now, each model has had a distinct look thanks to bright 'Intel blue' for the shrouds and blue-colored PCBs.

SPARKLE's latest addition to its Intel Arc lineup is the SPARKLE Intel Arc A770 ROC OC Edition 16GB, available in Black and LUNA White. Sporting a more compact twin-fan design with a 2.5-slot thickness, the new ROC OC Edition features the same out-of-the-box overclock as the triple-fan TITAN OC Edition.