Tech news isn't out there it's not some
abstract concept it's in here in this
building there's way too much of it we're waiting around in it all day my
legs are tired NVIDIA will finally let the RTX 5090 80 and 5070 see the light
of day at CES in January 2025 according
to sources who spoke to wccftech which I just learned stands for
where consumers come first huh well I
hope so wccf tech specs for the top two
cards match up with the specs posted by prolific leaker copy 7 Kimmy we're
talking a whopping 600 watt power rating and 32 GB of vram on the 5090
unfortunately people are less jazzed about the 5080 allegedly having less
than half the 509s GPU cores and the
5070 only having 12 GB of vram some
games already use more than that to push ultra settings at 4K and it's also the
same amount of vram as the RTX 480 that
NVIDIA eventually unlaunched due to backlash that almost immediately
dissipated thanks to NVIDIA giving us a fun new word unlaunch didn't know you
could do that if you are mad about the 12 GB thing well PC Gamer points out
that NVIDIA has said they're more into GPU cach than memory capacity right now
since if the cash is big and fast enough you have to dip into the vram less so
maybe consider being mad at NVIDIA for any of the many other good reasons
they're overpriced Linux drivers suck Jensen cornered the leather jacket
market and now I can't find affordable options all equally valid he's paid off
all the Tanners the Full House family yesterday Intel officially
unveiled aerol Lake aka the Intel Core
Ultra 200s series of desktop processors and true to the leaks from earlier this
week the Chip's shining achievement is using about half the power of their
Raptor Lake for gen predecessors to achieve similar performance Intel is
being very upfront about their goal being to maintain gaming performance
because what Gamers want most of all is a steady hand to guide the ship a
massive jump in performance oh no no I'm
good where I'm at thank you kindly the same word for Less now that we have
those previously leaked slides in English we can see Intel's own graphs
ostensibly meant to convince people to buy these processors sh the flagship
core I9 Ultra 285k losing to not only an
Intel Core I9 14900 K but also a ryzen 9
950x and 7950 X 3D on the plus side
obviously greater power efficiency could lead to more powerful chips down the
line AOL Lake seems to be a bit cheaper than AMD's direct competitors right now
and at least Intel isn't lying through their teeth inflating their numbers like
they used to I'm hoping that's true and there totally won't be a micro code
issue this time after all amds got their own eggs in the oven they just launched
fifth gen epic churin data center chips which look pretty good as well as the
Instinct Mi 325x AI accelerator which is
not an NVIDIA chip and and that's good plus the ryzen 9 9800 x3d was just
spotted in cinebench meaning AMD is still aware that sometimes people play
games on a computer well you guys don't have ps5s at tla's we robot event
yesterday the company finally unveiled their long hyped robotaxi prototype
apparently using an online synonym generator to come up with the car's
actual name cyber cab why not Compu car
techno Rickshaw anyways it'll cost $30,000 and launch in the next 2 years
since it doesn't have a steering wheel or pedals and so will rely entirely on
Tesla's full self-driving technology which science has proven is all always 2
years away at any point on the time space continuum Tesla showed the Cyber
cab pulling into a specialized station to charge via inductive charging which
it uses exclusively and have specialized robots clean its two seats because yeah
despite being about the same size as other cabs with four or more seats this
thing seats two people three if you squish maybe you cut one and a half
making it a great example of a company challenging themselves to make their own
product again but worse also I'm sorry
Tesla themselves seem confused about what this thing is called they're still
referring to the robo taxi and Robo van
because oh yeah there's a robo van too you get two seats or 20 there's no in
between honestly the more interesting part of the event for me were the
Optimus robots which the Tesla website calls Tesla bot is it like a naming
free-for-all at Tesla HQ what's happening Elon paraded the Bots out
during the event describing them as R2-D2 or c 3PO but better better at what
R2-D2 can fly Elon goes on to say
Optimus will do anything you want it can be a teacher babysit your kids and of
course babysitting was the second thing that Elon thought of he's trying to
spread his genes over the planet like a virus and yet avoid all his kids
entirely and I I I think this will be
the biggest product ever of any kind
very big very good what he didn't actually say was whether these robots
were operating autonomously or being controlled remotely as in many of the
company's previous demos hear me out strings Tech evangelist Robert scoble
asked one of the robots how much of you is AI some or none to which the
obviously human voice replied it might be
some okay but but the robots themselves
were pretty impressive at translating the human operator's motions so the
bodies themselves do look kind of impressive not enough to impress
investors though since Tesla shares tumbled nearly 8% after the show just
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God I feel them coming internet archives
the Wayback machines suffered a data breach this week affecting 31 million
users visitors to the site were cleverly able to piece this information together
thanks to a JavaScript alert created by the hacker directing 31 million people
to have I been pwned a site specifically designed for checking if your email
address was in a data breach are they detectives while this is terrible news
for the internet archive and also millions of people it's pretty great
news for Fidelity Investments it reported a much smaller data breach the
same day the internet archive one broke the best way to hide corporate
incompetence is comparison Instagram and threads moderation has started driving
away users due to multiple baffling decisions deleting or restricting
accounts for linking to articles with controversial topics locking accounts
for joking about wanting to die and instantly removing posts mentioning
Saltines or Cracker Jacks Instagram and
thread's boss Adam masseri has addressed the issues claiming that human
moderators were responsible for the takedowns not AI are they though it's
multiple people's Instagram accounts were deleted for being under 13 Even
when those people uploaded IDs proving otherwise and that sounds like some
robot to me a software engineer learned he was being dumped from an AI
text summary Nick spren was using the
Apple intelligence beta on his iPhone 15 Pro when it summarized a breakup text
from his now act as no longer in relationship wants belongings from the
apartment it was also his birthday but that's not really the ai's fault just
sucks spren told ARS techa that he didn't hate the level of distance the
summary created and think of the time savings too instead of agonizing over
every word written by the person he thought he was building a life with he
could go straight to crying in the bathtub much more efficient sounds like
a software engineer scientists think they can fix serious medical issues
by injecting little discs in your brain
it's Science deep brain stimulation is an established treatment for conditions
like Parkinson's epilepsy and even obsessive compulsive disorder
unfortunately DBS requires invasive and risky surgeries researchers believe
these new Nano discs can be injected into precise regions of the brain and
activated with an external electromagnet extra special bonus now your cranial
microplastics will have a friend let's hope they don't team up and startup vast
has released mock-ups for the world's first commercial space station that it
plans to potentially launch next year and honestly it
looks good the design features soft and
padded interior walls that are occasionally broken up by wooden
paneling basically it looks like someone asked Ikea to design an extraterrestrial
insane asylum though I will say this the sleeping Arrangements look comfy I'd
sleep on that wall for sure which I don't get to to say that often when a
shape-shifting alien breaks in they are going to have the best time I swear I'm
the real Captain this is nice you shouldn't sleep on more Tech news though
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