hey I want my news what's taken so
long I'm going home NVIDIA's RTX 5090
and 80 graphics cards are real and they
are spectacular specs for both cards
were tweeted out by venerable leaker copy 7 Kimmy without even acknowledging
how Bonkers some of them are the 590 apparently takes the 490s 24 GB of vram
and slides it up to 32 GB the largest
amount of vram in a gaming GPU ever the RTX 580 is being held back at the same
16 gigs though presumably to aone for the RTX 4070 TI disguising itself as an
RTX 480 at launch the sins of the father
going back to the 5090 kopite says it'll need 600 watts of power compared to the
490s 450 watt requirement that would max
out a 12v 2x6 connector so it's a good
thing that new MSI power supply was recently spotted with two of them we're
going to call that whole connector melting thing a learning experience but
even if there is still a melting risk the 590 also apparently has 33% more
Cuda cor and isn't that worth it according to a report from bench life
the two gpus are expected to debut at CES in January for $440,000 and a
breeding pair of goats must be good goat reviews for laptops powered by Intel's
new core 200 series AKA lunar Lake hit
the web this week and unlike the launch of qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series laptop
chips there is a consensus here uh yeah
they're good lunar Lake battery life is generally on par or better than the
Snapdragon X Series and the upgraded art Graphics seem to trade blows with AMD's
mobile competitors but to make the comparison even worse for Qualcomm
Intel's new notebooks have full native x86 app support which wouldn't even have
been a thing to mention this time last year but now Intel gets a free win
because arms only fluent at best versus native all right I'm going
home which is great because Intel really
needs wins right now The Foundry division quit developing their 20a node
to focus on the more advanced 18a node which will show up for the first time in
Intel's Clearwater Forest xon processors
they better be good or someone's going to buy you that's how it works following
qualcomm's advances ARM also apparently shot their shot but Intel's staying
strong she's independent she don't need no fellow Tech Corporation and to prove
how much they care Intel took another look at that instability issue in their
13th and 14th gen desktop processors and are releasing another micr code update
to fix what they now say is the real root cause and I'm happy to believe them
until they find the next one turns out they were haunted sorry open AI is
planning to restructure itself so that the for-profit company would no longer
be controlled by its nonprofit board according to a Reuters report the report
also says the plan would see CEO Sam Alman receiving equity for the first
time worth an estimated 150 billion
which would pay for him more than enough clone bodies he goes through them like
that he's like twink Palpatine however at a company all hands this week ultman
denied any plan to get him a giant Equity stake in the company although
it's unclear what might qualify as a giant amount to Sam already a
billionaire Alman his parents named him ambitiously actually Sam is short for S
ambitiously stitious also this week open
AI CTO Mira M of face Fame as well as the chief
research officer and VP of research all left the company seems related to the
whole changing two for profit thing but
not to Sam Alman who tweeted that leadership changes are a natural part of
companies and while this one was abrupt they are not a normal company and he's
right they have this whole convoluted nonprofit controlling a for-profit
structure to protect Humanity from AI oh right they're getting rid of that to
become more normal something Sam has
strived for all his life he may have been pleased to hear then that while
touring the globe trying to gather 7 trillion doar to build dozens of new
chipm plants the New York Times says that TS SMC Executives dismissed Elman
as a podcasting bro which is about as
basic as it gets good job Sam one day he
won't be an ALT man he'll be a normal man if he wants to move up to Advanced
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quick bits usually are yeah that's we're about to happen I don't see them
anywhere Microsoft is once again trying to make fetch happen with an adjusted
version of its controversial recall feature it's back it's that classic
Microsoft wisdom if you announce something enough times eventually the
public will be too exhausted to get angry the company says the feature will
be opt in by default and its locally stored files will be encrypted and
require reauthentication to access the new and
improved recall will operate inside a
VBS enclave and will only operate when bit locker and device encryption is
fully enabled but most importantly it can also now be uninstalled hallelujah
amen when Zuck announced at meta connect that Facebook and Instagram would start
serving users AI generated content based on their interests he didn't mention
that the content may also contain your face any users that have onboarded to
meta's imagine me feature which allows the creation of AI selfies based on
users photos may see AI images of
themselves in their feeds that's not dystopian at all this
is quite similar to the story we covered last week about Snapchat where the
company was able to use AI generated images of users faces in ads that only
the user sees however this story is scarier because people actually use
Instagram ooh got them apparently people
use Snapchat I don't know who researchers revealed they could hack
into millions of vehicles thanks to a bug in automaker Kia's website the
vulnerability allowed them to gain access to back-end dealer apis that's a
problem because Kia apparently gives their dealers the ability to assign
control of the Internet connected features of any car to any customer
account with just a license plate number this bypass could unlock a vehicle's
doors and start its engine even worse
the vehicle could be remotely located and any installed 360 degre cameras
could also be accessed also the attack takes like 30 seconds oh you know I'm
starting to think that turning every into a computer was a bad idea maybe we
draw the line at plants thought they hacked my vikus a
paap poic man who relies on a $100,000 exoskeleton was left unable to walk for
2 months after the manufacturer rewalk
refused to fix a wiring issue with the watch he uses to control the device when
the man former jockey Michael Strait contacted the company they told him they
no longer work on devices older than 5 years hope you had fun straight got his
a decade ago so I guess instead of fixing his $20 watch battery he should
just drop Porsche money on a whole new device and hope insurance will cover it
of course Mr straight story hit the local news and rewok mysteriously found
their soldering kit between the couch cushions and fixed his watch a few days
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don't join with us on Monday for more Tech news because it's what the
government calls a statutory holiday despite presenting no evidence that they
exist in the wild which means they probably just made it up just like
birds okay whatever man right Wednesday
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