Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #41 (10/07/2021)

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Tech

Storage study finds SSDs might not be much more reliable than HDDs after all
Apple TV+ 'Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' to air on PBS on October 24
Paddle unveils 'first alternative' to Apple's App Store In ... - 9to5Mac
A memory leak in Windows 11's File Explorer is holding users' RAM hostage
Windows 11 Killer networking bug may slow connection speeds in some games
Google turning on 2-step verification (2SV) for 150 million more accounts by the end of 2021
Facebook outage caused by a single mistake; has huge implications
Google’s 8.8.8.8 DNS service slows down amid massive Facebook outage
4 takeaways from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony
Facebook runs the coward’s playbook to smear the whistleblower

Gaming

Windows 11 will hobble gaming performance by default on some prebuilt PCs
New Seagate 512 GB Xbox Series X|S storage cards leak via US retail promos
Sony is halting card and PayPal payments on the PS3 and Vita stores later this month

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Software/Hardware Updates

Apple Releases iOS 15.0.1 With Fix for Apple Watch Unlocking Bug on iPhone 13 Models
AMD's new GPU driver promises big gains in Far Cry 6
Windows 11 is out now and ready for you to download
New PS5 firmware update does the you know what | VG247

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