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