sometimes technology can seem a bit dystopian and sad but it it also gives
us little gadgets with switches and clicky buttons and those those are fun
to you know so as long as those are around I
think we'll be fine deep seek R1 the Chinese AI model
that matches open AI 01 for a fraction of the cost has the entire AI World
panicking partially because it costs a fraction of what it takes to run 01 and
it's open weights so you can run it locally but investors really started to
freak out when deep seek surged to the top of the free apps list on the iOS app
store passing chat GPT threads and even
block blast as a Victory lap deep seek also dropped a multimodal model this
morning called mtown nope just just
wanted to keep the m going it's called Janice Pro which they say beats open AI
doll 3 on a couple of benchmarks that apparently still mean something the
whole thing has investors shook leading to massive drops in tech stocks across
the board even NVIDIA dropped by a whopping 16% as confused non- Tey
investors struggle to figure out whether this means companies still need literal
shiploads worth of gpus from Team Green I we NVIDIA tried to explain through
Bloomberg that AI models are still going to have to run on something although
it's unclear whether it's going to be deep seek R1 for much longer the company
says it's weathering a cyber attack so it's limiting new signups which were
apparently only being allowed for users with a Chinese phone number but that
notice is now gone whether it comes back or not deep seek has given American AI
companies a kick in the pants with meta reportedly setting up War rooms to
analyze deep seeks Tech Zuck needs to know how they did this did they learn
jiujitsu and try to make Joe Rogan like them what's their secret Intel has
released their highly anticipated second field update for their core Ultra 200s
desktop processors which the company promised would deliver a massive
performance boost to the troubled aerrow Lake lineup to get the fix you have to
update to both a BIOS with Intel's new fixes as well as update Windows 11 to
the correct version making me wonder who really did all the work here it's fine
thankfully kit Guru has already tested it out and they first asked us to check
ourselves because in cinebench multicore the core 9 Ultra 285k is right where it
always was at the top of the chart and I didn't know that it also got a massive
boost in cyberpunk 2077 where it's actually better than its 14th gen
predecessor now wow it just goes to show
that oh but it barely got better in other games and in some of them the
older chips actually improved more
well good news for everyone then GPL a
Bulgarian PC retailer has revealed some interesting details about the mystery of
AMD's Radeon RX 970 pseudo launch uh
gplay confirmed they do have RX 970 XTS
in stock despite AMD recently saying the cards would launch in March they also
hinted at the original pricing which when translated and calculated by vide
cards.com with a z indicates the RX 970
XT had an original MSRP of around
$900 while the RX 97 nonex would have
been around 750 with an originally planned launch date of January 23rd
before Intel and then NVIDIA came with low priced competitor cards and just
fcked it all up it's kind of what we all expected but it just hits different
being calmly explained by a Bulgarian in plaid here's a bone for the AMD Fanboys
though team red says the integrated GPU in their ryzen AI Max 395 laptop apus
demolish the mobile versions of NVIDIA's
rtx4 70 by up to 68% awesome can I plug it into my PC
though cuz no so that's fine cuz the
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button oh meta says there meta AI
chatbot will now personalize its responses using users Facebook and
Instagram account data so it'll be able to give you activity recommendations
based on things like the home City listed in your profile and photos that
you've uploaded whether you want it to or not yeah meta told Tech crunch that
users won't be able to opt out of giving their AI a more personal touch but meta
AI can also now remember things that you've explicitly told it in messages
and you can ask it to forget those things like say you've already told meta
AI that you're vegan you can delete that because it's so fun to keep reminding
people Google has taken down almost 3 years worth of firmware images for the
pixel 4A previously hosted on a support page only providing the most recent
firmware which many 4A users say has
tanked their devic's batteries Google did announce earlier this month that the
update which is required to improve stability basically kills the battery so
they offered free battery Replacements or a payment of 50 bucks USD or a $100
discount on the purchase of another pixel phone which is fine
I would just love to know what horrible risk Google is mitigating through
basically forcing people to stop using a lot of otherwise perfectly good
phones all they have to say is that it's haunted and I'll be fine Michigan has
officially passed a bill into law requiring the American states high
schools to offer at least one in-person computer science class it's a great step
forward for technological literacy it's just you know maybe a bit late given
that soon we're not going to have to use computer at all because open source
Chinese AI is going to do all of our work for us as long as we don't ask it
about tianan Square I good job Michigan and a hardware modder going by
crastinators pro has shown off his custom steam brick
so-called because it's a steam Deck with everything except the internals removed
he says he did this because a the steam deck didn't fit in his backpack and B he
is not a smart man his words not mine the real reason is this guy only ever
used a device made for handheld gaming by plugging it into a TV or his smart
glasses now if you have any suggestions for stuff he should add to the brick I'm
going to stop you right there he says it's not about adding it's about
removing but he is considering giving it an assortment of hats and I hope you
wear the TechLink viewer hat once again on Wednesday because you'll come back
for more Tech news and you're not allowed to watch unless you wear the hat
what do you mean you haven't been wearing it this whole time what what are
we doing