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which will cost Intel more in replacement chips.
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But at least they're doing the right thing.
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Or they will be if they don't continue to claim authentic chips are counterfeit to deny an RMA
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like they allegedly did to this Redditor.
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That's one time.
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Yes, it's just one alleged customer with mere troves of photo evidence.
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It could be fake.
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Intel has also reiterated that a separate issue with the chips,
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an oxidation problem brought to light by Gamers Nexus and Level 1 Techs, was dealt with.
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Although affected chips could have still been on store shelves until early 2024.
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And they haven't released batch numbers for those chips,
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so that consumers can find out if they are affected.
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And that's bad, but only when you consider the facts.
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OpenAI has finally rolled out ChatGPT's advanced voice mode for some plus subscribers,
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two and a half months after showing off a ton of live demos and announcing a rollout in the coming weeks.
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Oh, you're doing a live demo right now?
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That's awesome.
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Just take a deep breath.
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Can you give me feedback on my breaths?
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The new mode doesn't have the sky voice
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that many couldn't seem to differentiate from the real Scarlett Johansson for some reason,
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but it apparently does have the mistaken belief
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that it has to breathe like a human.
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Okay, I want you to do it again,
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but way faster and without taking any breaths or pauses.
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I wish I could,
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but I need to breathe just like anybody speaking.
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Want to give it a shot yourself and see how fast you can go?
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Do you want me to talk like a human or not?
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You put me in here!
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Yeah, the question of whether AI is sort of like a person or not hasn't really gone away,
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especially since the legal defense most often used by AI companies,
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most recently AI music startups Suno and Udio,
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who are being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America,
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is that training their AI models on virtually every piece of music ever uploaded on the web
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is basically like a kid
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learning to write songs by listening to songs,
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so it's protected under fair use.
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The RIAA has said they disagree,
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but as Suno said in their blog post,
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learning is not infringing.
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Unless you think young, sweet Emma is infringing by creating her own unique take on Disturbia
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after absorbing Rihanna's entire corpus of work into her network-attached storage.
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Yeah, she's a computer, so what?
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Six months ahead of its potential ban from the US,
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TikTok and its parent company ByteDance was served with a lawsuit from the Justice Department
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over its failure to get parental consent before collecting personal information on users under 13 years old.
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Honestly,
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I get it TikTok, meeting the parents of the minor whose brain you want to scramble like an egg is always super awkward.
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Do I talk first?
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How do we do this?
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This lawsuit says TikTok's in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.
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Not to be confused with COSA, Kids Online Safety Act,
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the controversial bill passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate this week,
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which would require heavier moderation by social platforms to protect the children.
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That's probably why House Republicans said they would reject the bill as it is now,
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so it's probably back to the drawing board on that one.
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Thankfully, another tech giant is here to protect our kids.
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Google is bringing its school time feature from its Fitbit watches to select Android phones, tablets, and Galaxy watches,
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so parents can choose what their kids are able to do on their phone during school hours.
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Pay attention in class!
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You can scramble your brains when you get home.
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TikTok's here,
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we've been talking, they're actually really nice.
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Quick bits, get your quick bits here, $5!
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Eh, for you, they're free.
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I like you.
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Apple has pulled an ad for the second time this year.
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The fifth installment in Apple's The Underdog's Out of Office series faced criticism for its depiction of Thailand.
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Critics accused the spot of misrepresenting the country as underdeveloped and outdated,
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and concerned Thai lawmakers,
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who are members of the tourism committee.
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Earlier this year,
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Apple scrapped its plans to run an iPad Pro ad on TV
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that celebrated the destruction of instruments of human creativity, for some reason.
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That ad is still up on YouTube,
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so you can send it to a creative person that you hate.
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An appeals court has blocked the FCC's newly restored net neutrality rules
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ahead of a hearing that might see them overturned.
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At the heart of the dispute is the question of
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whether this is a relatively minor matter best left to the interpretation of the experts and technocrats at the FCC,
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or whether it is a major policy decision that needs final approval from Congress.
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Considering how the issue has flip-flopped from administration to administration,
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the court might be wise to put this issue on pause.
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Unfortunately, that means leaving telecoms to regulate themselves for the time being,
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which is a bit like asking Pennywise the Clown to babysit.
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Better or worse than TikTok?
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Not sure.
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Noam Shazier, the co-founder and CEO of Character.ai,
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the character-based chatbot service whose primary use appears to be
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allowing teenagers to talk to their favorite waifus and husbandos,
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has returned to Google,
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where he co-developed the transformer architecture
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behind all modern LLMs back in 2017.
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He's bringing his co-founder, Daniel DeFritis,
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and a handful of other employees with him.
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Google's also signing a new agreement to license Character.ai's tech.
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Now, this smells eerily similar to Microsoft's heavily criticized aqua hiring of Mustafa Suleiman,
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the former CEO of Inflection.ai,
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although most of Character.ai's staff will be staying on.
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