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Their managing director told Futurezone
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that some of the components SanDisk used are too big for their circuit boards,
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leading to unstable connections,
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which caused some components to pop off the board entirely,
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and not in a good way.
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I would be shocked and appalled by this
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if I didn't remember that SanDisk is owned by Western Digital.
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And Tesla's order agreement for the Cybertruck forbids owners from selling the polygonal vehicle for one year after it's delivered,
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unless you tell Tesla you want to sell it and give them a chance to buy it back from you.
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If they don't want to buy it back,
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they might give you written permission
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to sell it to a third party,
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like a hall pass,
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but for basic economic rights.
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If you violate this or any other provision in the agreement,
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Tesla says they may locate and disable the vehicle electronically.
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And really, I mean,
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this should all make sense if you bought a Cybertruck.
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It's not a normal truck.
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It's...
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It's ugly.
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But you're beautiful inside and out,
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and that's why I know you're gonna come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
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It's just who you are, you know.
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We love you for that.
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Please.
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Wow.
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I, I'm sorry.
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I love the way you do that.
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It's just, just a little tap
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and now we're here together.
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Here, I got you some tech news.
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AMD has delayed the launch of its highly anticipated Ryzen 9000 series
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after discovering that the initial wave of processors
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shipped to retailers did not meet their full quality expectations.
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Perhaps because Intel and AMD
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went to the same party
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and caught something.
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Was there something in the punch?
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What's happening?
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Instead of launching altogether on July 31st,
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the chips will arrive gradually,
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starting with the 9600X and 9700X on August 8th,
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followed by the Ryzen 9s,
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the 9900X and 9950X on the 15th.
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The delay follows Intel finally identifying
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a microcode error as the cause of widespread instability
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in its 13th and 14th gen chips.
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A patch is coming, also in mid August,
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but while it will prevent future instability,
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Intel has confirmed it won't repair processors already damaged by the bug.
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So they've promised to replace the Borked chips for free.
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They shall board the gray ships
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and pass into Valinor for their time has ended.
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Sorry it was so shitty.
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The exact extent of the issue is hard to determine,
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but an anonymous European PC parts retailer told French news site, Les Numériques,
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that 13th gen Intel chips had a return rate
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four times higher than 12th gen chips,
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which would be around 4 to 5%.
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And that sounds low,
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but that's nearly one in 20 of these Intel CPUs being secretly Borked.
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That's a gamble I'd rather not take.
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So hopefully team blue and team red,
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remember how to release CPUs that don't blow up.
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The rumors about OpenAI working on a search engine were true.
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Yesterday, the company officially announced SearchGPT,
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a temporary prototype of new AI search features
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that will be integrated into ChatGPT at some point.
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What a terrible name.
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Well, let me just SearchGPT that.
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OpenAI didn't say,
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but it's likely that SearchGPT hooks into Bing's search index in some way.
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Although they did say the prototype prominently links to content publishers,
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many of whom have made deals with OpenAI, like the Atlantic.
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So now SearchGPT can avoid legal trouble
|
when it links to the Atlantic's article
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about how SearchGPT returned inaccurate results in its demo video.
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Demo errors for AI products are tradition at this point.
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It's part of the charm.
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These kinds of content partnership deals may be the future of how the internet works,
|
even if lots of AI companies haven't quite got the memo yet.
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404 Media reported that Runway trained its AI video tools by scraping pirated movies,
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as well as thousands of YouTube videos from popular creators,
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including beardless tech gnome, Linus Tech Tip Sebastian.
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Meanwhile, Anthropix Web Crawler is hitting some websites a million times a day,
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according to iFixit's CEO,
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and Twitter slash X just quietly opted every user in
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to allowing the Grok chatbot to be trained on their posts.
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You can opt out in the settings,
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but Twitter might not be able to opt out
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if the EU fines them for breaching their privacy laws.
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We went on a bit of a tangent there.
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Now I'm going to talk about motherboards.
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Hundreds of computer devices sold by popular brands
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like Dell, HP, Supermicro,
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and Intel have had their secure boot protection compromised.
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For those unaware, secure boot is meant
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to prevent malware from infecting your device's BIOS
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and effectively becoming undetectable and unremovable.
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