we all know the enemy of your enemy is your friend but what if you have another
enemy who's the enemy of the first enemy who's now your friend why do you have so
many enemies you should try being nicer to people chip Rivals Intel and AMD have
joined forces to defend themselves against the rising threat of ARM
processors who apparently think they're good enough to power MacBooks and
Windows PCS now team red and blue announced at lenovo's Tech World
Conference that they've recruited giants like Microsoft Google and more to the x
86 Advisory Group despite those companies recently building their own
ARM server chips to get away from x86
but darling you can't decline an invitation to an Advisory Group it
simply isn't done perhaps more confusing is the addition of famous Computer Boys
Tim Sweeney and lonus tals as luminaries
on the board which means they get to wear cool robes and sit in the biggest
chairs in the boardroom I don't know what I think luminaries means they're going to set them on fire
to prove that x86 isn't dead Intel also
took the opportunity to show off the first Panther Lake sample chip built on
Intel's 18a node the one that the company said it's completely focusing on
instead of the 20a node used in its aerol Lake desktop chips launching late
next week might seem a tad early to get the Panther Lake hype started now but
it's probably in Intel's best interest as more leaked benchmarks in CPU Z and
blender show disappointing performance from the aerol lake Flagship core Ultra
9 285k thankfully Intel is going to get some emotional support from its new pal
AMD who expected to launch the ryzen 9 9800 x3d the day after the AOL Lake
launch I mean you don't want them to be lonely are they friends now standing out
there both Google and Amazon are turning
to smrs small modular nuclear reactors
which are pre-fabricated and easily assembled with an output capacity of up
to 300 megaw Google has announced an agreement to buy Power from chyos Power
a company with a yet untested SMR design
that recently began construction of an unpowered demo reactor Amazon meanwhile
is giving money to two utility companies to study the possibility of adding smrs
to their existing large non-modular reactors as well as investing in startup
X energy which has its own equally untested SMR design this sounds like a
good idea that's for the scientists we got to get these AIS going guys smrs
have been a popular idea for getting around The prohibitive Upfront costs of
old school reactors which can take decades to build but due in part to
regulatory barriers and public uncertainty they've been slow Inc coming
currently the only successful smrs in the world are in Russia and China built
in 2020 and 2021 respectively however
the new hotness in the tech World AI is
burning a hole through many companies budgets with its exorbitant energy draw
while Microsoft has jumped onto a scheme to get the old Three Mile Island reactor
up and running there aren't exactly a lot of old unused reactors just sitting
around in basically serviceable condition nuclear energy has become far
more efficient over the last few decades especially with techniques like fuel
reprocessing though that itself has raised concerns over nuclear
proliferation because fun fact it's also how you extract PL plutonium for using
nuclear weapons but if we don't build the reactors how are we going to make
the AI that will one day nuke us all think about it the only way to win is to
not play the recent roll out of Windows 11 version 24 H2 is causing its fair
share of chaos as major Windows updates are want to do users have reported
widespread connectivity issues after restarting their newly updated devices
While others have found that their mouse cursor disappears completely when they
click on text fields in chromium B based apps including Microsoft Edge another
bug causes the system file Checker to misclassify files as corrupted attempt
to fix them and rescan them only to find them corrupted yet again like an IT
sisifus Microsoft did this on purpose to punish it there's also a phantom 8.63 GB
update cache that can't be deleted which Microsoft says is actually just
reporting error all of these issues should be fixed at some point but
depending on how serious your device has been affected Ed you might just want to
roll back to version 23 H2 or maybe just
roll over and go back to bed probably the most serious bug is the one causing
some Western Digital ssds to repeatedly
crash like a narcoleptic bus driver makes sense to me the affected SSD
models are the SN 580 and the SN 770
which lack a d module and instead use a host memory buffer or hmb in the
computer's system memory to store a map of where data is Loc at on the SSD this
recent Windows 11 update changed these SSD's maximum hmb size from 64 MB to 200
megabytes causing them to freak out notably there are other vendors that
sell ssds with 64 megab hmbs and it's
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enemy they're not your friend either
kind of like Switzerland or lickstein the FTC has unveiled the final version
of its new click to cancel rule which will require subscription services to
make cancellation as easy as signing up not of the usual chicanery where you
check a box at checkout to sign up but you've got to send a 12 page form
Written in Blood to a PO Box in Bermuda to get out stop sending me Postmates the
rule applies to online companies like Amazon yes but it also applies to Brick
and Mortar businesses like gyms which are typically harder to break up with
Than Blue Beard uh he's a mythological figure who murders all his wives and
that's your Jessica fun fact for the day Adobe has unveiled its Firefly
textto video AI generation tool which distinguishes itself from its
competition with a training database that adobe says is exclusively composed
of aboveboard licensed content the tool
is still in beta but it will definitely be more appealing to large Brands who'd
rather not get their assets sued off in
response to the rise of deep fakes enabled by these kinds of easy to usee
tools startup reality Defender has developed its own tool to detect live
deep fakes NVIDIA calls one that will hopefully be ready in time for my Skype
call next week with the Pope and the dolly Lama big Tech news fans those guys
SpaceX literally caught a rocket in midair during its fifth Test Flight of
the massive Starship rocket the Rocket's first stage super heavy booster launched
the Starship essentially the upper stage that is meant to hold people to 130 Mi
above the ground then slowly descended to be caught by the mechanical arms of
the launch Tower I missed you now SpaceX
wants to move on to catching the Starship itself too we're going to be
shooting tubes of people into the sky and then catching them in a giant clamp
it's like the most high stakes game of catch you've ever seen don't drop it
that's what Elon Musk never got from his own father the Bell is now tolling for U
block origin as the extension may or may not be supported by your Chrome browser
while the extension's page in the Chrome web store says the extension May soon no
longer be supported some users have actually been told told by Chrome that
ublock origin and other extensions are definitely unsupported with the browser
explicitly turning said extensions off it's the end of an era anyway I'll see
you all on Firefox and multiple us owners of eax robot vacuums have
reported that their once faithful dustbusters started following them
around screaming slurs and obscenities
it has begun to be clear these devices were just hacked they did not suddenly
gain sentience and speedrun their way to anti-Semitism according to an
investigation by ABC a pin code is required to access these ecovac video
feeds but there's no server side validation meaning that it's easily
bypassed worse the company was warned about this issue back in 2023 and simply
told users not to worry about it in a statement to Tech crunch I mean what's
the Worst That Could Happen a tiny mobile camera could be used to
constantly monitor you in your most intimate moments yes but hey we don't
mind if you monitor us on Friday for another episode of tech news you could
even second monitor us if you have to but I feel like you're missing out on at
least 10% of the experience 2% is Riley's mustache whatever floats your
boat