I knew you'd come back you love the tech
news you always have something about you AMD's making some
major moves in Apple's general direction by releasing the specs for its new ryzen
740u Phoenix series mobile processors
the name is a reference to the majesty and renewal of the mythological Phoenix
and not the whole thing where some of the processors person deflamed last week
got some hot new hardware according to AMD their new lightweight
chips are ready to go head-to-head with Apple's M2 processors for example the
ryzen 7 7840u supposedly performs 75
better than the M2 in pass Mark 10. when's the last time you performed 75
better than anyone at anything God AMD
is also boasting a Major Performance lead over Intel's integrated Graphics
probably because bragging about beating Apple at gaming is like expecting a
medal for whipping a six-year-old in an ARM wrestling competition I mean I'll do
it but I'm not gonna brag
the other major team red news is not an official announcement but a leak of
several Radeon rx7000 series gpus including the RX 7950 XT these names man
it's exciting news especially for AMD who much like apple and Intel is in
desperate need of a win the entire PC industry is in a slump seeing shipments
drop by 30 in the first quarter of this year AMD also reported a 9 drop in
earnings better than expected but still kind of scary like a theme park ride
that makes you convinced of your impending demise for about half a second
and then your butthole relaxes and you get some donuts this weekend AI
apocalypse but boring news IBM plans to
pause hiring for around 7 800 jobs that
could eventually but be replaced by AI the idea seems to be to take the human
out of Human Resources by gradually phasing out back office roles with at
least 30 percent of such jobs being automated over the next five years I
always thought Chachi but he would be good at restocking teepee meanwhile a
German stock photographer sent a cease and desist request to AI training
database Leon
Leon and was met not just with a refusal
but with a counter claim of nearly a thousand dollars in legal fees does Leon
use his copyrighted photographs yes they
absolutely do but they didn't store those images they just linked to them
you see I didn't inhale so they can't delete them he can't tell them to stop
using them and he should pay the damages for even having asked the question the
system is working and a U.S congresswoman introduced a bill
requiring disclosure of AI generated content in political ads because yes of
course that's happening please keep up on the one hand this may mean the end of
democracy as we know it big whoop on the other hand I'm excited
to see an ad for a local school board election where the candidate phases
through the podium punches a baby into the sun with one of her 12 fingered
hands then devolves into a sentient mass of bees we've all been there
it happens to the best and live streaming on YouTube just got an upgrade
thanks to the newly released OBS Studio 29.1 which now supports streaming to
YouTube using the av1 encoder for those of you whose ears didn't just perk up
when I said av1 encoder it's okay you're
actually the more normal people in the room streaming with ab1 results in
boosted image quality and a bit rate that can be reduced by up to 40 without
sacrificing image quality especially if you're using an NVIDIA GPU at least
according to NVIDIA the company famous for marketing and selling NVIDIA gpus to
back up their claim that their av1 encoder leads to better streaming
quality than AMD or Intel's encoders NVIDIA provided this graph which is
actually just three screen caps from fortnite with green squares all over it
as far as I'm concerned the case is closed but even if NVIDIA is Right more
av-1 out there in the wild is a better thing for really anyone who watches
internet videos especially now that NVIDIA AMD and Intel gpus all supported
in response to the news of YouTube streaming getting a huge upgrade twitch
which does not support any of you on loser had this to say
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the blue check mark Menace as Gmail has announced companies can apply for free
to its new verification program according why is this contagious
according to Google the feature is intended to help users
distinguish between legitimate sources and scam artists so Gmail users can rest
easy with the knowledge that the constant browser of emails demanding
their time and money are coming from The Trusted Brands you know and tolerate a
judge has ruled to protect the anonymity of eight redditors who commented on
piracy related posts a group of film studios were trying to prove that
internet service provider RCN was turning a blind eye to piracy committed
by its customers to prove this their lawyers served Reddit with a subpoena
but fortunately for us all that won't happen if those redditors were unmasked
we all know that Yar har fiddly D won't be the only sin to see the light of the
fiddly D-Day the horror researchers are using AI to translate
the brain activity of mice into a 95 accurate reconstruction of what the
mouse was watching when the data was taken in its little mouse Mind's Eye
finally what we always wanted from the Sci-Fi future rodents specific telepathy
this likewise raises the Specter of animal assisted copyright infringement
as wannabe Pirates sneak into movie theaters with a mouse in their pocket
like Stuart Little to record the latest Disney feature or Hollywood Blockbuster
Mickey how could you it responds to a
bill that allows pornographic websites to be sued if a minor accesses their
content PornHub has blocked the entire state of Utah
and they're good Mormons so they don't care Louisiana passed a similar law
requiring age verification to access sexually explicit sites but it has a
state-run digital wallet that allows websites to check a user's official age
Utah has no such system taking the surprising position
position that Utah citizens should just trust the average online smut Peddler
with a photo of their government ID in unrelated news Google search data shows
a substantial spike in searches for VPN in Utah they're not all good Mormons and
the Jupiter icy moons explore or juice
wait wouldn't it be John anyway Europe's
Jupiter moon probe is suffering from a stuck antenna on one of its instruments
and the European Space Agency is exploring options to rectify the problem
the probe one idea being initiating a
rocket burn to shake the craft and just just jiggle it a little bit I mean juice
is in ice cold space and now everyone's watching it and you expect a probe to
fully extend under those circumstances I can't even pee when there's someone in
the neighboring urinal just stop pressuring juice so much you're only
making it worse it retracts and I don't want to pressure you but if you came
back on Friday for some more Tech news that'd probably be the best
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