Apple is already testing an M3 Max chip
according to Mark Gurman, the worm squirming to unravel Tim Cook's Apple
for inside the fruit he finds the seed stirring and learning everything he
needs for the sermon he turns in.
Thank you, Jacob. I'm Riley Murdoch. This is TechLinked poetry jam and this
newsletter from the Germ suggests a Mac equipped with a new chip could come as
early as October, potentially setting a Halloween record for the world's worst
Apple to candy to candy-fy. According to
an App Store developer that spoke to Gurman, the M3 Max will have 16 CPU
cores, four more high-performance cores than the M2 Max, and 40 graphics cores,
meaning any children who try to eat this All Hallows' Eve treat are at risk for
severe cyanide poisoning. The test chip in question also had 48 GB
of memory, a config that wasn't available in the M2 Max, and may
indicate larger RAM options across the board. Besides that, Apple may also be
testing an M3 Mac mini, which is great news for mini fans who want number go
up. Stonks. SanDisk SSDs are under the
microscope again after The Verge published an article as a creative way
to release their frustration over losing 3 TB of data because their cat has been
kicked enough. Give them a break. Vjeran Pavic, incredibly a producer for The
Verge and not Ian from Smosh, although I'm still not sure.
Ian? Put up a picture. Experienced the data loss on the brand new replacement
Extreme Pro SSD SanDisk sent to them
after the first one failed earlier this year during a wave of similar drive
failure reports. Third time's the charm. Despite releasing a firmware fix back in
May, reports of failed SanDisk Extreme drives have continued to pop up leading
many to ask, rightly, why these drives are still on sale except as a reminder
that life is suffering, yet we trudge on through mire and muck yearning for but a
fleeting glimpse of a bright sky before it is submerged again above the
encompassing Tartarean barrier.
This is a poetry It's a poetry episode. Do you need a hug? You sound like you
need a hug. But as PC World notes, every drive is at
some risk of failure, so important data should always be backed up somewhere
else. Thankfully, Vjeran had most of his data backed up and didn't even lose that
much, so I don't see what he's whining about. This doesn't seem like a big deal. New research indicates that some
bots have surpassed human beings at solving CAPTCHAs both in terms of speed
and accuracy, which isn't ideal given that the whole purpose
of the completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans
apart is to tell computers and humans apart. And be completely automated. As
bots have become more sophisticated over the last two decades, CAPTCHAs have had
to become trickier and trickier to keep them out, but much like trying to design
a raccoon-proof garbage can, there's a limit to how complicated they can get
before humans can't get in them either. And then nobody gets garbage. Is that
what we want? We We call it the smart raccoon dumb human barrier.
The research may imply that current CAPTCHAs are probably just a waste of
time, time that you could spend scratching your nose or thinking about
Trailer Howard, co-star of the Emmy Award-winning television show Monk. Wow,
we're branching out now. There are possible alternatives. For one, sites
can look for cues that indicate a computer is being controlled by a human
such as how a user fiddles with the mouse or navigates using a touchscreen.
Of course, now it's only a matter of time before the robots learn our nervous
tics, too. And then what will we do? Then Sweet
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A cyberattack that saw hackers access the data of 40 million UK voters went
undetected for a year. Thankfully, it was finally discovered last October
except no one bothered to tell the public until yesterday, which is which
which I I'm looking correctly at my
late. The Electoral Commission apologized but not really, minimizing
the situation by claiming that much of the data was already in the public
domain while also admitting it was not able to know conclusively what
information was accessed. Don't worry, citizens. Whatever information we lost,
you already had it. Sony has started rolling out a cloud streaming beta to PS
Plus Premium subscribers that finally add support for streaming PS5 titles
from the cloud. Allegedly, the feature will support PS Plus catalog titles,
game trials, and supported digital PS5 titles that players own at up to 4K
resolution. Since Xbox Game Pass only offers 1080p at 60 FPS, this could give
PS5 the console cloud gaming crown and
also might explain Sony's Project Q. We assumed the Q stood for question and
that question was, why does this exist?
It does like one thing. NVIDIA has announced a new variant of their GH200
AI superchip coming in the second quarter of next year. The new variant
will be the first with HBM3E memory as opposed to HBM3 no E memory, leading to
a 50% increase in GPU memory and a jump from 4 TB a second to 5 TB a second of
GPU memory bandwidth. This will be a welcome addition to the AI market where
memory is a serious bottleneck. Man, we should add more E to everything. This is
what a a great letter. It's got It's like a It's got the things on it on the
side. All the great things start with E. According to a new study, AI can
identify keystrokes by sound alone with 95% accuracy, potentially allowing for
theft of passwords and other sensitive information. But before you decide to
burn your keyboard and live in the woods, the AI needs to be trained on the
sound of the keyboard in question and the recording would need to be
reasonably clear. Also, burning a keyboard is not a good
campfire. It also typically can't tell when the shift key is released, making
it hard to discern between capital and lowercase letters or a string of numbers
and a cartoon swear. Which is basically all I ever type. Just dolphin
noises. And a Detroit woman is suing the city after she was falsely arrested for
robbery and carjacking due to flawed facial recognition technology. Perhaps
the first discrepancy that should have caught police's attention was the fact
that she was 8 months pregnant while the suspect in the surveillance video very
much was not. Frankly, if a woman that pregnant manages to steal your car, I
think she gets to keep it. You You deserve to be bum-rushed by a
pregnant woman. Honestly, impressive. This is the third
incident where Detroit police have made a false arrest based on algorithmic
facial recognition, having apparently forgotten that they, too, have eyes.
They could just use those. When will Detroit learn Androids aren't
the option? They became human already.
And you should point your eyes toward more tech news this Friday when we
launch another episode of TechLinked. The news pops when it drops and it never
stops. Oh, that was more poetry. I was like, is
this a is this Am I supposed to dance? Dance, monkey.
Cuz I will.