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that usually hasn't involved arresting the ceo
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crossing red lines indeed.
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Anandtech, the website known for publishing in-depth technical reporting for 27 years,
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is shutting down, according to a post from editor-in-chief Ryan Smith.
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In the latest example of written journalism just not making investors happy enough.
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They just see a wall of letters.
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It means nothing to them.
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They need zoom-ins and vine booms.
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Keep them stimulated.
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They're like incredibly wealthy toddlers.
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Anandtech has been a rock of the tech journalism world,
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and one of the only reasons I had a shred of understanding
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of what the hell I've been talking about for the past 10 years.
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Founder Anand Lal Shimpi left work on chips for Apple back in 2014,
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but the site was left in good hands,
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two of which were attached to Dr. Ian Cutress,
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otherwise known as Tech Tech Potato,
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for reasons I'll never understand,
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because Anandtech isn't here anymore to explain it to me.
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Thankfully, the site itself will remain up for presumably as long as publisher future PLC decides it wants to.
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And some Anandtech writers have moved over to their sister site,
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named after a different guy,
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Tom's Hardware.
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It's just not the same.
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Sounds like a place you buy two by fours.
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Apple and Nvidia are both in talks to join forces with Microsoft in launching truckfuls of cash at OpenAI,
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who have apparently burned through a good chunk of their billions of dollars of investment money.
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it's a bit of a strange development,
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given recent speculation that AI hype is
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steadily descending from its peak into the trough of disillusionment,
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but it would make more sense
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if OpenAI is considering removing its cap on investor profits, as reported by the Financial Times.
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But OpenAI insists their for-profit company is still controlled by the non-profit company,
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who will absolutely ignore their for-profit investors
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and refuse to release extremely capable models that threaten to turn the internet into a bubbling soup of AI slop.
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Yes, they released ChatGPT,
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that was one time!
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And actually, OpenAI is kind of backing that up with an agreement,
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also signed by Anthropic,
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to give the US government's Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute,
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as well as the UK's equivalent organization,
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early access to both companies' newest models
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to conduct safety testing before they're released to the public.
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I mean, sounds pretty good,
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and it maybe explains why Sam Altman thought it was okay to disband OpenAI's safety team.
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They're just outsourcing it to the federal government.
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Why do the work?
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They've got time.
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They're watching TV shows at their desk most days anyway.
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They might even be watching shows that are only available in a different country
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Okay, I thought of something.
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You kind of like computers.
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Okay, here's a quick bit.
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AMD has confirmed the existence of the long rumored Ryzen 5 7600X 3D,
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but you're only allowed to be excited about it if you're American.
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Turns out the processor will be exclusive to U.S. retailer Micro Center,
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which currently has 28 locations in some of the 50 United States.
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In a statement, the chief merchandising officer for Micro Center said,
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the chip is a significant step forward in making high-performance, cache-rich processors more accessible,
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despite it being largely inaccessible
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It's been six days since the Port of Seattle was hit by a possible cyber attack,
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and the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, aka SeaTac,
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is still mostly offline,
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with no clear timeline for recovery.
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The airport's internet, baggage routing, and gate updates are all down,
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and staff have resorted to taping paper with flight numbers on them to the blank screens by each gate.
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Luckily, the TSA and air traffic control are on separate systems from the rest of the airport,
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which is great news for fans of getting groped by the government and not dying in a ball of fire.
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Microsoft is rebranding its remote desktop app,
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an eminently Google-able name,
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to Windows App,
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in an astounding act of branding self-sabotage.
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The so-called Windows App was released in preview
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under its stupid new name back in November of last year.
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But yesterday, they confirmed this idiocy by adding a notification to the current app and their website.
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We're just, we're just being harsh.
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Now, you can say the completely true sentence,
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the Windows App is available for Mac OS, iOS, and iPad OS,
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and really confuse your grandma.
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Anyway, I hope you don't run into technical difficulties
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and wind up needing to Bing Windows App help anytime soon.
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Just install the Windows App.
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Which one?
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Who's unvoiced?
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Scientists have developed a chemical process to vaporize plastic
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that could be used to recycle bags and bottles indefinitely.
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You see, plastic is a polymer,
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a substance with very large molecules composed of repeating subunits.
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A polymer is not, and this was news to me,
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a fish person with multiple partners.
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A polymer person.
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By vaporizing certain unfortunate polymers,
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they can be reduced to their building blocks to make new plastics.
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Now, does this solve the whole microplastics inside of us and also the ocean and in our brains issue?
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Probably not, given that we're vaporizing them.
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But Chinese researchers are having success making a robust yet compostable hard plastic out of bamboo.
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and that could help keep the ocean cleaner
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saving many non-monogamous fish people.
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And Midjourney, the company behind AI image generator Midjourney,
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is getting into hardware.
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