hi it's me Jake tyy and I love technology computers and hard drive so
much that if someone else says they're not really into that stuff my face gets
hot and I have to find an object and Strike It Anyways here's the news Apple
appears to be joining the AI arms race according to a Financial Times report
claiming that Apple has been steadily investing in Hardware AI startups and
key staff with the aim of getting generative AI to run locally on Apple
products Cupertino has been criticized for being slow to incorporate AI but if
these reports are accurate the company's actually targeting something far more
ambitious than what any other OEM has been able to accomplish extremely
lightweight llms along the lines of meta's llama have been demoed running on
a small device like a phone or a raspy but they don't run well less Usain
Bolton more asmatic kid with concrete sneakers which explains why the rabbit
R1 the ultra hyped pocket AI assistant
device apparently took 20 seconds to answer a prompt in a recent Tik Tok but
if anyone can smooth out that experience it's Apple an analyst project that a new
AI powered Siri will launch with iOS 18
in the meantime the most recent iOS update includes opt-in stolen device
protection that requires additional steps like face ID and touch ID to
access sensitive data on the iPhone to change their Apple ID password or remove
biometric security scans users will have to first pass those scans and then
endure a 1-hour security delay of course these steps won't apply if the user is
in a familiar location but I guess if the burglar is currently standing in
your home you've got bigger problems than just your phone pass password what
are you going to feed him gun bullets relying on biometric scans clearly isn't
the perfect security solution though because Apple required face ID in order
to pre-order A Vision Pro and the scalpers just use Bots with that data
hardcoded in how much are resellers expecting to return for this asinine bit
of Ingenuity $10,000 on eBay well you want them to do it for free no they got
to get paid for their hard work it's a market it's a free market AMD is now
shipping its new Instinct Mi 300X AI accelerator gpus to Enterprise customers
according to one of their customers lamini AI lini hopefully I said that
right previously Mi 300 series chips were reserved for supercomputer clients
but AMD is already projecting that these chips will be its fastest product to $1
billion in sales since it's founding according to AMD's benchmarks the Mi
300X outdoes NVIDIA's 80 gb h100 though
we've yet to see how it will Faire against the upcoming h200 Beyond AMD's
Underdog journey to fight NVIDIA for control over the AI chip Money Pit let's
talk about chips that normal people can actually buy leaked benchmarks for the
ryzen 7 8700g and the ryzen 58600 g apus
seem to show that the new processors are 50 to 67% faster than their direct
predecessors with particularly strong numbers shown on multi-thread tests this
would place them only just below AMD 7,000 series CPUs in terms of
performance although one caveat to these numbers is that this lineup hasn't been
updated in 2 and 1/2 years it's still impressive but it's like your grandma
seeing you for the first time in months and congratulating you on get getting so
tall I'm the same height Grandma I've been 6ot for like 10 years I swear other
Grandma better it's only Wednesday and it's already been a big week in space
not that space isn't already pretty massive Sierra space demonstrated the
strength and resilience of their new inflatable space station habitat the way
that any 8-year-old boy would by inflating it until it exploded the soft
habitat is designed to be light and compact enough to send into space but
it'll expand once it gets there allowing astronauts to live far more comfortably
aboard the ISS I thought they didn't have air in space
even aboard the ISS yeah but if you want people to feel safe living in what is
effectively a space age bouncy castle you've got to show that it's safe which
they did by inflating it to 77 PSI 500%
of its normal operating pressure before it burst like a tomato hitting a
windshield does that happen to you let me know in the comments are you a tomato
in other news NASA has managed to establish contact with its helicopter on
Mars but less happily a second moon mission has failed this week this time
without even reaching the lunar surface astrobotics unmanned paragr moonlander
experienced a post-launch propulsion malfunction that resulted in it falling
back to Earth and burning up in the atmosphere alongside a few of NASA's
little science fair projects leading the entire team to get an f and call home to
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you know what I'm kind of over this techn technology stuff just kidding I
will never ever stop loving Tech ever
I'm scared quick boo Disney park imagineers appear to have solved one of
the Holy Grails of VR by inventing an omnidirectional treadmill that looks
like it's made out of breath mints the hollow tile floor is modular expandable
and can be used by multiple people at the same time and can even be used to
move objects around using motion controls Disney's research fellow and
imagineer Lanny Smoot who's been inducted into the national inventor Hall
of Fame said You Can Dance on it without actually moving which has been a dream
of nerds for centuries finally following a non-fatal accident that saw a fuselage
panel blow off of an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight the airline's Fleet of
Boeing 737s was thoroughly inspected revealing a shocking number of loose
bolts which given that these are airplanes that could kill you is
literally any amount of loose bolts they're coming for you airplanes I hate
them in response the Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all 737 Max
99's with mid-cabin door plugs worse for Boeing an industry Insider says that the
panel was removed for repair then improperly reinstalled by Boeing's own
mechanics even worser for Boeing yesterday in Atlanta a 757 lost nose
wheel while preparing for takeoff you know what maybe I'll just walk to
Seattle I lose nose wheel all the time only a week after open AI banned using
chat GPT to impersonate political candidates the company has suspended the
account of a developer behind a bot used to impersonate US Presidential hopeful
Dean Phillips notably the bot was created by supporters but it comes with
a disclaimer that says while it was designed to sound like Phillips it's
possible that it could say things that are wrong incorrect or shouldn't be said
so perhaps this was for their own good this election season has already seen
far more malicious uses of AI such as rooc calls using the artificial voice of
Joe Biden used to tell citizens to not vote in the New Hampshire primary that
doesn't sound anything like Joe Biden where's the part where he Rambles for 10
minutes about Amtrak they there some great trades that's not my President we
live in Canada Francis find Amazon the equivalent of around 35 million us I'm
saying that with emphasis but that's really not a lot of money for Amazon for
excessively intrusive worker surveillance France's data Protection
Agency said Amazon's French ARM was tracking worker activity so precisely
that employees potentially had to justify every break they took to give
you an idea of how precisely they were being tracked Amazon could tell if
workers spent 1.25 seconds quality checking an item or not in a statement
an Amazon spokesperson wrote that the government's conclusions were factually
incorrect unfortunately the spokesperson was fired soon after because they took
an extra millisecond to finish typing 1.26 lazy slob a young British man is in
Spanish court on charges of public disorder for what Spanish authorities
are calling a bomb hoax and what the young man in question described as a
private joke between friends while boarding a flight in 2022 18-year-old
adicha Verma messaged his buddies over Snapchat quote on my way to blow up the
plane I'm a member of the Taliban it's unclear how British intelligence
intercepted the message but they alerted the Spanish military who now wants Verma
to cover the over $100,000 cost of sending a fighter jet
to respond to the incident and this is why we need to warn our children about the dangers of Snapchat there are
fighter jets on there and unencrypted Wi-Fi that's the real message here but
there's no danger in coming back on Friday for more Tech news it'll be right
here the way you remember it but a little different cuz this the news and
there'll be hard drives