Ah that's good CES is over thank God and
that Vegas strip smell is gone I don't know how it gets up there even when we
don't physically go it's strong I don't like it that prodigious provider of
Apple related prophecies Mark German has analyzed the usual animal entrails and
published another set of predictions about what 2023 will look like The Germ
terms The Germ terms says Apple's mixed
reality headset will finally launch this year but while fellow far-seeing Oracle
Ming Chi kuo said it'd be out by Spring we should actually expect an unveiling
by WWDC in June with an actual launch in
the fall according to gurmonopolis at which time Apple devotees will finally
be able to live in that brushed aluminum Fantasyland they try to create in real
life where iPhones will always use lightning ports
it escaped to the iverse part of the
reason the headset has been delayed is its failure to perform well in drop
tests but apple is so focused on refining the product that will see
barely any other major product updates in 2023 a new Apple silicon Mac Pro is
slated to launch this year but German says it'll probably feature an M2
version of the M1 Ultra SOC found in
last year's Mac Studio instead of like an M2 extreme which is even better than
the M2 Ultra or M2 Max or M2 Pro or an
M3 or an M2 anything else but then maybe
B w'd get upset I'm hoping that's because even Apple was like okay these
names are a little much we should have stopped at Max I mean that's the top
they could call it M2 a little much the right to repair movement got a big win
on Sunday when John Deere and the American Farm Bureau Federation signed
an agreement that will allow the repair of John Deere tractors by independent
third parties or Farmers themselves or any anyone that owns a tractor or
Nicholas Sparks wait no that was Dear John he has one for sure that's
different Dear John Deere please let me repair my tractor that's the whole book
I know you're warned but please the two parties signed a hilariously named
memorandum of understanding designed to make sure John understands how wrong it
was to strip customers of the right to repair their own purchased products when
it changed a license agreement in 2016. John do you understand hmm sign the
paper the agreement follows you as President Biden's executive order last
year telling John Deere and other companies to quit the Malarkey and get
their keisters in order with the I mean just stop with that they want to fix
things did that make you think of Biden at all yes all of it okay and Seattle
public schools has filed a lawsuit against basically every major social
media platform for exploiting the neurophysiology of kids brains which
they definitely do but couldn't that also be said for like I don't know toys
and candy like anything marketed towards
anyone cocoa melon don't get me started
on Coco melon the makers of YouTube Tick Tock snip snip Chad that's the other one
snip snap we don't call talk about it Instagram and Facebook so that would be
Google bite dance snap Inc and meta were named as defendants in the lawsuit which
seeks financial damages and other remedies like presumably changing said
platforms so kids aren't hooked into feedback loops of excessive use where
they're exposed to damaging trends like disordered eating self-harm and
cyberbullying it's simple and though this is very much
a think of the children thing the lawsuit cites Recent research linking
teen use of social media to those Trends so it's a good thing Instagram is going
to get rid of the shopping tab that's step one and snapheart's getting rid of
the snap camera Snapchat's getting rid of the snap now
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video and I wish I could say vice versa but the quick bids aren't sentient yet
thank God reviews of the non-x variants
of AMD's ryzen 7000 desktop chips are up
and reception seems to be pretty positive which you wouldn't expect due
to these processors not having an x on the end of their name usually things are
way worse when you take the X off NCI SE
rated not only are they cheap the new chips
are super power efficient and can be overclocked within a hair's breath of
their exified siblings plus with a non-x chip maybe you can avoid this bug that
disabled cores on the 7600x full disclosure that bug could very well
still affect the 7600 non-x this is not investment advice in other AMD news one
thing that we glossed over last week was team Red's unveiling of the new Instinct
Mi 300 data center processor because it's not just a processor it's an APU
the First Data Center chip to combine a CPU GPU and memory on a single package
it's like an apple M1 or M2 but with 24
Zen 4 cores and 128 gigabytes of a hbm3
memory I mean good luck shoving this thing in a laptop but if nothing else
it's an achievement in making computer hardware cuter just don't call it that
to its face you know it's got all those cores the barks has bite so NVIDIA is
reportedly working on having AI optimize their Graphics drivers instead of only
humans which could lead to anywhere from 10 to 30 percent more performance more
quicklier if a tweet from capframe X is anything to go by that is I mean human
workers will probably still be required to make those optimizations work so
while I'm excited for faster optimizations I'm also excited to see
how the AI and human optimizers work together most of it will probably be
fine but there's always that one AI in the office once by the book and one's a
wild card well watch out for this video These the AI you call when things get
rough the developer of MSI's popular afterburner overclocking utility has
said that the project is semi-abandoned by the company who hasn't paid him for
nearly a year MSI says that's because the dev is Russian national Alexei
nicoletchuk AKA unwinder and paying him
wasn't possible due to the situation in Ukraine even though MSI Hardware has
continued being sold in Russia MSI says the project isn't dead and they're
figuring out how to solve the issue using some method did other than the
Myriad legal ways that you can still use to pay people in Russia that you can
find with a simple Google search Bitcoin that's one MSI is all about Innovation
they want to come up with their own thing you know and get ready for chat
GPT powered stuff to show up in more than just Bing customer service provider
Ada has made a deal with open AI to roll out support chat Bots using the
company's large language model meanwhile researchers at checkpoint security have
reported chat gbt being used by cyber criminals with little or no coding
experience to write functional malware and phishing material what's next kids
using it to generate new playground insults you think Tick-Tock slang is
confusing now wait until every bully has a unique hurtful poem for each of his
victims that was a real chumba thing to say Riley it's a hellscape what is a chamber
you wouldn't know you don't go on Tick Tock and make sure you come back on
Wednesday for more unique Tech news yes still written by humans we think
honestly some of these scripts make me question everything