it's Black Friday week which means you sacrifice your bank account balance to
improve the health of the economy and and you get airpods for it I guess
Apple's going to be making some sacrifices to achieve a thinner body for
the iPhone 17 air rumor to launch next
year which I'm planning on buying just so I can reassure it that it'll always
be beautiful no matter what you counter that programming an Insider report by
the information claims the iPhone Air will be between 5 and 6 mm thin compared
to the 7.8 and 8.25 mm thicknesses of
the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro Models respectively to hit that thinness Target
the report says apple is degrading some iPhone functionality the air will sport
a single speaker in the earpiece dropping the one usually located on the
bottom while the phone will be the first to sport Apple's in-house 5G modem
that'll come at the cost of not supporting faster millimeter wave 5G and
of course it'll have a smaller and thinner battery but who needs to last
longer when you look this
good did did that did that look good
interestingly the report says that the thinner design may not stop Apple from
adding a physical SIM card tray which has been phased out of North American
iPhones for a while to its Chinese models it also claims the camera bump
will be large and centered on the back you can offset that extra thickness by
slapping a big old case on it rumors of an impending launch for Intel's nextg
battle mage Arc gaming gpus had some fuel added to the fire this weekend when
Amazon listings for ASRock versions of the Ark b580 were spotted by video cards
with a z a letter I often wish I could add to my own name the listings revealed
a steel Legend 12 GB OC so we can
thankfully avoid the whole is 8 GB enough vram debate and argue about 12 GB
instead and there was also a listing for another model called Challenger 12 gig
OC the b580 predecessor The Alchemist
powered a580 is a roughly RTX 360 level
card that launched for just $179 about a year ago so hopefully the
b580 has something to say to NVIDIA's RTX 5060 which is expected sometime next
spring because I don't know how much releasing a good graphics card would
actually help Intel's bottom line but they could sure use a pickme up right
now the delay of their Ohio chip manufacturing plant has led the US
Commerce Department to downgrade the company's chips act funding from 8.5
billion to less than 8 billion which would mean a bit more if any of that
money had actually reached Intel 2 years
after having been promised CEO Pat Ginger usually a paragon of positivity
in the tech World spoke to Bloomberg regarding how long this process is
taking we are disappointed he said
somehow still smiling just keep smiling Pat open AI has blamed the New York
Times for that accidentally deleted evidence meant to be used in the
newspaper's copyright lawsuit against the tech giant but open AI might be sort
of right see the nyt legal team was given access to look through openai
servers as part of the evidence Discovery process but according to open
aai the team was storing some of their search results on a drive that was meant
to be used as a temporary cache the nyt
team requested a configuration change
which resulted in removing the folder structure and some file names
effectively tossing the data that had been found back into the Hy stack
probably shouldn't have put that particular needle in the temporary
needle tray why do we have that no one knows open aai offered multiple times to
perform searches for the New York Times who nevertheless insist on what open
ai's Team calls inefficient boil the
ocean searches using up the AI company's precious Hardware performance now
Discovery for both this case and another one filed by book authors have been
Complicated by an open AI policy that provides plaintiffs with
$115,000 worth of credits to prompt open
ai's llms to try and get the evidence and then charges them half the retail
cost once they they use those credits up I mean what you expect open AI to just
let the lawyers bother chat GPT all day it's got stuff to do the Internet isn't
going to slop ay itself instead of dealing with that they should check out
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that's a lie because the next day is always just another weekday and you know
who does doesn't lie quick bits asterisk Sony is working on a proper handheld
device that can play PS5 games although it's a few years away according to a
Bloomberg report citing Anonymous sources apparently Sony just realized
the Nintendo switch exists and maybe there's a market for a handheld product
like the PS portal but which appeals to someone other than dads who have to
constantly let their family use the TV the sacrifice of a father the report
comes a couple weeks after Phil Spencer confirmed that an Xbox handheld is in
development and is also a few years away also reported by Bloomberg wow how does
it feel to break all the handheld news Bloomberg they just all want to talk to
me I don't know Microsoft blocked Windows updates from systems which a had
already updated to Windows 11 24 H2 and
B had certain Ubisoft games installed including Star Wars Outlaws the avatar
game and a trio of Assassin's Creed titles apparently something in the 24 H2
update caused these games to crash and experience various glitches according to
reports on Reddit and the Microsoft forums while Ubisoft delivered a
temporary fix for Star Wars outlaws some games may still be affected so
installing them is one way to prevent
Microsoft from slamming an update down your throat I mean not sure if Ubisoft
games taste any better but I a 7 billion
pound class action lawsuit will proceed against Google in the UK for
anti-competitive Behavior despite the tech giant trying to appeal presumably
using the same effective arguments that led to them losing a similar lawsuit in
the US but they think differently over there though they talk like this it
could work the lawsuit concerns the usual Google stuff they control the
search engine and the browser and the mobile OS used by the most people and
it's all tied together and they pay billions of dollars to have other companies use search but Google keeps
getting sued because they're weird about it just admit you want a monopoly look
what Apple says we're better than you see just be honest a company called
ubium ubium says they're developing a
universal processor that can perform the functions of a CPU GPU DSP
fpga other other acronyms and more using
a single workload agnostic microarchitecture that architecture is
based on risk 5 a rising star in the
chip World which I think might be going to its head a little bit the idea sounds
awesome but ubium seed funding round just raised $3.7 million which doesn't
exactly scream investor confidence
probably because they didn't talk about AI nearly enough oh oh yeah and sentient
robots are going to help design it oh oh well why didn't you say so here and hey
if you want sentient robots to give you the tech news on Wednesday I can make
that happen you know we'll have to have
to solve the hard problem of Consciousness but I got a couple days it'll be fine