happy Christmas Eve to our differently time zone friends and also anytime
Travelers please don't give out any next week's spoilers in the comments I've
been waiting years to live through this there's a whole backstory to this
AMD's RX 7900 XTX reference cards are
really hot oh yeah not not like that some AMD reference models of the
flagship GPU are experiencing hot spots of 110 degrees Celsius causing
throttling when the average temperature of the GPU is over 50 degrees lower
importantly partner cards don't have this issue so the fault seems to fall
squarely on AMD and they just patched an
issue with both the 7900 XTX and XT that
caused massive power draw when watching videos or idling with a multi-monitor
setup or hell even just moving Windows around just want to use my computer
hey AMD uh when we said we wanted your cars to be more like in videos we did
mean we wanted them to melt because the other thing's happening they're too hot
according to Hardware Lux who originally broke the story the issue may be uneven
contact pressure between the board and cooler which could be exacerbated by the
chiplet design of the GPU since each chiplet needs its own contact Point AMD
has confirmed they are investigating the issue and they don't have the best
reputation for implementing quick fixes but you can expect findings
Kickstarter has suspended the successful fundraiser for an AI art Enthusiast
group unstable diffusion
a group promising AI art powered by the
crowd now has no way of accessing the 56
thousand dollars they raised in under 24 hours okay that sounds kind of
impressive Until you realize they were just trying to make an ai-powered porn
generator yeah yeah unstable diffusion States they just
want to create a reversal of the censorship of stable diffusion what that
means in practice according to their Kickstarter page is a promise of an
expressive and dynamic AI model that can better handle human anatomy and that
don't worry they'll exclude all children from their data sets to prevent abuse
that's so big of them nice job guys
you know we didn't have to do it yeah yeah you did actually in a statement
Kickstarter said that they suspended the fundraiser due to concerns the project
would use others work without consent unstable diffusion CEO has claimed
they've been targeted by false reports to silence them probably complaining
about their Kickstarter blatantly stating that they would be using other
people's work or something I might have something to do with that
how dare people lie about them by stating exactly what they said that's
cheating yeah hey I can't use my own words against me
and Europe might just bring back user replaceable batteries a regulatory
proposal which has reached provisional agreement in the EU would require all
batteries sold in the EU to be easier to remove and replace this would include
not just phone batteries but even electric vehicle batteries among others
yes they really mean all batteries but
no assaults no laugh laugh now
not only that but they want to increase collection of
portable batteries to 73 percent by 2030 and that many batteries such as EV
batteries or batteries for starting lighting or the ignition of vehicles
inside the engine I'm only that I'm assuming must be collected free of
charge for end users regardless of the nature condition chemical composition or
origin of them and the European commission wishes to assess whether
non-rechargeable portable batteries should be phased out of General use
within the next decade man why does Europe get all the best stuff they have
chocolate
they have Central regulations to fight for consumers while also reducing
E-Waste and they have waffles seriously though if this agreement is formally
approved by the European Parliament and Council this could be a massive win not
just for consumers but also the planet maybe we won't need Mars So Much Anymore
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renders alleged to be of an upcoming RTX Titan graphics card have been leaked by
YouTube channel Moore's Law is dead the renders show a card that has two 12 volt
high power connectors and would take up a full four PCIe slots now the most
shocking fact about these renders is that I'm considering believing them just
because of the 4090s size but Moore's Law is dead claims the renders are
actually photographs of products in the YouTuber's possession but then why show
the renders he could just be shy I feel like it's
not real the art platform art station is
starting to remove anti-ai art images from its home page art station users
have been protesting the recent appearance of AI generated art on the
platform by posting images and art station is now hiding these images
claiming they violate the terms of service but the AI generated images
those don't at all how well they haven't
been specific they could be enforcing the spam and other bulk messages claws
or maybe they haven't come up with the right as opposed to Mr Claus
meta will pay 725 million dollars to U.S
users an amount agreed upon during settlement for the Cambridge analytica
Scandal for background Cambridge analytica was allowed to access 87
million Facebook users data without their consent in 2018. the class action
covers 280 million users of the platform so get ready to take your share of the
settlement and get yourself a nice big gumball you earned it sport France has
hit Microsoft with a 60 million euro fine for placing ad cookies on users
devices without consent specifically French Regulators said that these
cookies were deposited on the machines when consumers visited the search engine
Bing and the French really care about health
they didn't even put milk in no cookies
no no cookies man that one French person who accidentally clicked on edge instead
of Chrome must have been really upset
and Elon jet has made a triumphant return to Twitter sort of Jack Sweeney
the creator of the original jet tracking bot is now manually running the Elon jet
next day Twitter account where he posts the comings and goings of elon's jet
with a 24-hour DeLay So as so as not to
break the real-time doxing rule
we're almost one step behind 120 000 IQ
now if that isn't fast enough for you you can always head over to Mastodon and
enjoy the taste of Elon jet classic Twitter just can't compete anymore but
at least it's not on Twitter and you can enjoy more Tech news on Monday when we
drop our Christmas special there will be dancing and singing and actually no that
won't be it won't be any of that it'll just be Tech news but I'll be there see
you later