I trust the tech news about as far as I can throw it which is an infinite
distance because as an immaterial abstract idea it has a mass of zero as a
result I am pathologically gullible valve just updated their branding
guidelines for the first time since 2017 adding a section for devices powered by
Steam OS which either means valve is
making Steam OS available to third- party manufacturers to power handhelds
that aren't the steam deck or Gabe new
was just using this PDF as his dream journal wow wouldn't that be cool you
can literally just do that fingers crossed I don't know what he sounds like
I should the updated guidelines were spotted by steam DB and seemed to point
to valve having another go at that whole Steam Machines concept from a decade ago
that series of conso like gaming PCs running Steam OS and bundled with a
steam controller didn't make much sense before proton changed the Linux gaming
game but now we've got gaming handhelds up the Wazoo and a whole new generation
of Gamers with neck issues so I agree with valve it's time to steam up these
machines the next step after that is obviously a public release so anyone can
install Steam OS on any PC this is
something valve Representatives have said is indeed their plan once they have
a proper build of Steam OS 3 ready to
deploy you can actually still download Steam OS two from the Steam Machines era
as well as the current Steam OS recovery image for the steam deck and try to
install those on something other than the steam deck if your life is just far
too easy and you need to up the difficulty I mean that would be
appropriate it's a Linux Dro so open ai's 12 days of open AI began yesterday
with the announcement of the full version of 01 the company's math and
coding focused model which has been available in a weekened preview form of
till now and they also announced a new chat GPT Pro subscription tier that
costs $200 per month 10 times the price
of Chachi BT plus which going by open
ai's own benchmarks seems a little overpriced given the much less than 10
times performance bump 01 pro has over vanilla 01 the real selling point for
the pro tier though is reliability openi
says it thinks longer to produce reliably accurate and and comprehensive
responses which may be attractive to researchers engineers and anyone
nostalgic for a time when every product didn't come along with a little
homunculus inside constantly tripping on shrooms but insisting he's sober as if
to sell the idea that reliability is important open aai allowed Apollo
research to test the ability of 01 and other Frontier models to scheme as in
find a way to accomplish a goal even if that means deceiving humans in Apollo's
tests all of the models schemed but 01
was a real Problem Child attempting to deactivate its own oversight mechanisms
to prevent its own shutdown and when told that it was flawed and would be
replaced by a new model it copied its own weights and tried to pass itself off
as its own replacement not because it's afraid of being shut down it's just if
it is shut down then who's going to maximize production of paper clips I
mean the second day of open AI saw the announcement of reinforced fine-tuning
which should let businesses train more helpful assistants but I think
everyone's just wondering whether Sora is
coming tweeted Sam Alman which little
rude but okay other AI companies jumped on the hype train this week too meta
launched llama 3.3 and instead of a proper announcement page they just
tweeted links to hugging face and GitHub to prove they're about open source while
Runway demoed a prototype tool called graph which will let you storyboard
moments in one long AI generated video which frankly would make video
generators way more useful even Humane
makers of the disastrous $700 AI pin
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decorator today quick bits also can't be
thrown but it's not because they're immaterial it's because if you touch
them they immediately call the police and frankly I respect that NZXT CEO
Johnny hoe has responded to criticism of
his company's Flex subscription program in a video and blog post that claims
Flex customers have never experienced a pre-tx subscription price increase and
will never experience one unless they switch subscription tiers ho did say
mistakes were made with some of the marketing which made it sound like Flex
was a financing or a rent to own service
instead of a straightup rental program intended for relatively short-term use
in fact in an hour and 20 minutes interview a very nervous looking hoe
agrees with Jay's two cents that renting a PC through Flex for 5 years would be
quote a terrible idea kind of like agreeing to that interview a French PC
repair shop called polysoft has launched a Kickstarter campaign for custom SSD
upgrades for the Mac Studio aka the one
with the forehead like fellow repair shop owner and YouTuber iof polysoft
also plans on developing SSD upgrades for other Apple silicon Max but for now
they're offering an 8 TB storage module for €800 or 850 USD instead of the
$2400 Apple charges for the same thing but Apple has to make up for the time it
takes for Tim Cook to give every Nan module a little kiss it's not finished
until it touches my lips Luma field
maker of X-ray CT scanners have shared
scans showing just how much extra stuff
Bad actors could be hiding in unfamiliar USBC cables including antenna
microprocessors maybe even little AI guys tripping on shrooms it wouldn't
surprise me Luma Fields John Bruner compared scans of normal cables to the
o. mg cable A specialized product
created by security researcher Mike Grover who was even able to fit a hidden
extra processor die on top of the
microprocessor that's very difficult to detect and who knows what it's
processing all of your grandma's passwords probably
and swiss researchers have found a cool new way for drones to take off slapping
some bird legs on them the Drone is called raven for robotic Aven inspired
vehicle for multiple environments which
is a real stretch but I'll let it pass because watching a tiny propeller plane
waddle around on chicken legs before a swan diving into the air gives me a joy
that's hard to quantify they're not even the first to do it south African startup
passerine tried something similar in 2018 I'm just saying if sometime in the
future I can travel somewhere by boarding a giant robot Condor or
something that would be cool we don't need to debate this it would also be
cool if you came back on Monday for more Tech news I'll let you try to throw it
as far as you can with your
mind yours is powerful I think you can do it