technology is the story of parents saying if it ain't broke don't fix it
and then their kids going no you don't understand me Dad and then invent to the
microwave just to unpack there
AMD has released a firmware update that fixes an issue caused by a previous
firmware update which disabled cores on a couple of ryzen 7000 CPUs that was a
rogue update that escaped from the lab the affected CPUs were the six Core
ryzen 5 7 600x and the high-end 12 core
ryzen 9 7 900x both of whom weren't
available for comment which is fair enough it's an embarrassing situation
and they don't have mouths the buggy firmware also caused other
problems namely creating a situation where systems with the 7600x simply
refused to boot we've all been there thankfully motherboard makers including
MSI are already releasing BIOS updates containing the new firmware just in time
for AMD to announce that it found 31 different vulnerabilities in various
processors from the threadripper and ryzen 2000 to 6000 series disease ah but
don't worry team red has issued new firmware updates to oems to address
these holes so update if you can and hopefully these are the types of updates
that we'll also need updates to fix but hey that's the game
we'll keep you updated dueling stories out of the western U.S today as the
nation keeps moving forward getting more electric vehicles on the roads and off
the couch they're lazy the federal department of
energy I don't understand what this is the federal department of energy announced that it'll be providing a 700
million dollar loan for a mining project in Nevada to extract lithium a crucial
material for Ev batteries but a couple of States over legislators in Wyoming
have drafted a resolution calling for EVS to be phased out by 2035.
they're such early adopters over there
it was laggards in California basically the politicians that came up with the
resolution are just trying to pull a pretty stunt aimed at States like
California who are trying to phase out gas cars with the Bill's sponsor citing
the importance of Wyoming's oil and gas industry as impetus for this bit of
political theater and to be clear the resolution would be entirely symbolic if
passed so the states won't impound your Tesla simply for being a Tesla would
have gone with hydrogen but Elon says your Tesla will be able to impound
Itself by 2036. you can't sue a robot not yet anyway but
you can sue its creators and this is exactly what's happening to stable
diffusion mid-journey and deviantART famous about creators but not open AI
there's there's Rock Solid these services are all being taken to court
over alleged copyright infringement while the images that these art AIS spit
out are Originals they're only created after the AIS have analyzed billions of
pieces of art created by humans employed in content Minds
the AIS use the knowledge they gain to imitate existing styles of art a fact a
group of artists are now using to claim their intellectual property rights are
being violated at the core of the matter are two issues number one whether the
AIS negatively affect the artist's ability to sell their works and whether
the AI art changes enough from the original pieces for them to be
considered entirely new works of art rather than derivatives which would
infringe upon copyrights I expect mid-journey's core defense to rest upon
the fact that they don't even know what's going on inside the ai's demented
little metal heads is
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that's your apparel YouTube has heard the cacophony of creators bashing the
platform's latest update to its ad-friendly guidelines and has decided
to take another look at it they guess the new guidelines led to videos that
have swearing in the first two seconds being demonetized which was the harsh
change from the previous policy allowing swearing within the first 30 seconds
however YouTube have not yet disclosed
exactly what the new policy will be so it's probably best to wait a bit longer
before trying to make a living off profanity field tirade
they saw that coming you may have noticed that third party Twitter clients
haven't been working correctly lately don't worry it looks like this was
probably on purpose because it's Elon internal Twitter messages have
reportedly revealed that the company cut off access from outside apps because
insert a reason here that would make sense to Elon Musk and his fans
but some have speculated it's due to Lost ad revenue from people not using
the official app Elon needs that money they have a lot of
clients to have access to the API again so I guess Elon figured that it's
probably better to have people tweet than not tweet what will they do with no
tweet he likes money but he needs tweets it looks like a new Apple product
announcement is imminent as rumors have been swirling that the company will
finally unveil its M2 Max and or M2 Pro
powered MacBook Pro lineup possibly alongside a new Mac Mini that is not a
pro that features the same Pro chips or non-pro chips
I added in a lot of a few more Pros there I wanted to judge up the pros
this is real a new Macbook Pro model has
also popped up in a Canadian government database we have those so it looks like
this rumor may actually have some moose legs
really we got those ones Google Stadium may be shutting down but don't throw
away your controller all six of you Google has confirmed that they'll be
enabling Bluetooth through a self-serve tool next week meaning that you'll be
able to use it as a generic Gamepad for other PC games without it the controller
would have become an expensive paper rate or a prop for your next twitch
stream
and if you purchased one of those big 86
inch LG TVs last year there's a good chance it's not subject to recall it's
not LG has recalled over 50 000 of the sets because they're vulnerable to
tipping over due to the stand being excessively stressed under the TVs
weight however LG also clarified that the hazard only exists when the stands
aren't installed correctly so make sure you read the manual and don't leave your
TV out in the field Hooligans about and wind it just it's a sale
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