oh don't even talk to me until I've had my tech news mostly because I would have
nothing to say without that it's basically empty up here Intel really
wants you to know that they have not solved the instability issue with their
high-end CPUs oh thank you last week Igor's lab published a report allegedly
quoting confidential Intel documents those documents said the root cause of
the instability is a bug in the micro code for ETB which is an Intel Raptor
Lake feature that over clock's processor cores above the maximum turbo frequency
when the chip isn't facing thermal or power limits these Intel documents
suggest this bug may have allowed chips to enter high performance States even
when the chip was too hot to handle it it wasn't ready but someone had an issue
with Intel's Intel Intel team blue later told Tom's
Hardware that this bug is not the only problem but rather a contributing factor
now this makes sense since the ETB feature is exclusive to core I9
processors and core i7 processors have also been facing instability issues but
at least the company is making progress Intel confirmed to Tom's Hardware that
they have a patch for the micro code bug that should at least help but a full
solution requires more investigation which takes time I mean not everyone can
crack a case like detective Adrien monk protagonist of the Emy winning series
monk starring Tony shaloo he's the best of us the US Department of Justice is
filing a lawsuit against Adobe on a referral from the FTC and weirdly the
fact that Premier can't seem to go 5 minutes without crashing didn't factor
into the decision at all the lawsuit alleges that adobe has harmed consumers
by enrolling them in their annual paid monthly subscription plan by default
without adequately disclosing that customers are agreeing to a year-long
commitment Adobe also doesn't make it clear that should you become concerned
with said commitment and want to end it early it comes with a cancellation fee
of hundreds of dollars according to the ftc's filing this early termination fee
is only clearly disclosed once subscribers actually try to cancel which
sounds less like a service and more like an extortion racket thus uh the lawsuit
the FTC even called out the delays and resistance consumers have reported
facing when contacting customer service directly so hopefully that means the
next company to face the FTC is every other company with the customer service
department except ours LTD st.com I
legally have to say that AMD is getting called out for publishing incredibly
misleading benchmarks for some of its new CPUs although new is a relative term
AMD announced new ryzen 5000 CPUs
alongside the arguably newer ryzen 9000
series of chips now AMD's benchmarks showed their newly announced ryzen 75800
XT beating Intel's last gen Core i5
13600 K while they're similarly new with
an asterisk ryzen 95900 XT was shown
beating the core i7 13700 K Hardware
unboxed had something to say about this during a Q&A video after a fan going by
Le brought up that the GPU AMD used for
these tests was a underpowered Radeon RX
6600 Now by doing this AMD made the performance bottleneck the GPU not the
CPU and since AMD processors work better with AMD graphics cards the new zen3
iips looked better than Intel's more recent 13th gen now to be fair Intel is
getting a little taste of their own medicine here they're also a fan of
misleading benchmarks the company famously tried to argue that thirdparty
benchmarks don't represent real world desktop usage using data they gathered
from notebook users more recently team blue was also accused of artificially
inflating Benchmark results for its Zeon server processors so moral of the story
here trust no one never leave your house
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for the quick pits um I just I swear I
swear I just had them one second oh they're in my other pants proton the
company that asked the question what if Google didn't want to suck up all your
data M has announced it's transitioning to a non nonprofit foundational
structure this new proton foundation will own the pre-existing proton AG
Corporation they're not the first company to do this I mean the most
famous example is probably open AI but Firefox developer Mozilla also has a
for-profit subsidiary which recently expanded with the purchase of anonym a
startup apparently specializing in privacy preserving advertising okay
there aren't any plans to introduce anonyms Tech in mozilla's web browser
yet but you never know what the future might hold it's like that old proverb
inside of you there are two firef foxes
Tik Tok wants to sell ads using AI generated avatars because of course they
do what if that sentence was going to be about anyone of course it's Tik Tok the
company's Symphony digital avatars come in two flavors stock or custom while
stock avatars are based on paid actors custom avatars can be used to to
represent a specific Creator or brand spokesperson or a version of them that
suddenly lost the ability to sound enthusiastic or move like an actual
human being what if that happened that's a sci-fi movie I want to see the custom
avatars can even speak multiple languages allowing advertisers to
unsettle virtually anyone speaking of Tik Tok now that the Tik Tok ban law has
been passed the US government has set its sights on another prominent Chinese
company DJI maker of 70% of the world's
drones the House of Representatives passed the countering CCP drones act on
Friday if also passed by the Senate the bill would ban DJI drones from using FCC
allotted frequencies effectively making their sale and operation illegal
especially for filming aerial Tik toks that's not that's not going to fly now
both companies are being targeted due to concerns they spying on Americans for
the CCP and wouldn't you rather use a quality American M drum that will spy on
Americans for the White House hurah researchers have created renewable
energy using living organisms that
doesn't sound that crazy heard of a bike uh what we're actually talking about
here is electricity scientists in Canada were able to create cells containing
algae that could capture electrons created during photosynthesis now since
the tech pulls carbon dioxide out of the air it's not carbon neutral it's
actually better it's carbon negative now the maximum terminal voltage is only one
volt right now but the technology could be used to power ultra low power devices
like iot sensors but it raises questions like will humans eventually worry about
whether their batteries are vegan a fun
fact they already do big shout out to gelatin for being in literally
everything and researchers at the University of Texas are making progress
on technology that would give smartphones x-ray vision at press time
it was unclear whether anyone had consulted mathematician Ian Malcolm it's
a real can versus should situation well at least the tech isn't actually using
biologically harmful x-rays but rather Wireless signals in the 200 to 400 GHz
range and so far the most solid thing researchers were able to see through is
a cardboard sheet uh they had better luck looking through thick dust clouds
and dense fog and yeah you may laugh but
Thomas Jane would have loved to have this Tech in the 2007 horror film The
Mist too bad he missed it just like how
I'll miss you if you don't come back on Wednesday for more Tech news I get
lonely okay I have needs