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I got you so good Intel has called out AMD for misleading branding in an
arguably hypocritical new marketing presentation it published before swiftly
taking it down when it was spotted by Tom's Hardware and others sadly for
Intel and Barbara strand the internet never forgets the presentation deck uses
imagery to represent AMD as an untrustworthy snake oil salesman and
contains four core truths intended to help consumers see through its
competitors witchcraft the first is that current gen ryzen
processors secretly use AMD's 2019 chip
architecture unlike current gen Intel
processors which use Intel's top-of-the-line 13th gen architecture
released in 2023 and created by very slightly tweaking Intel's 12th gen
architecture from 2021 so much much different never mind in Intel's 2015 14
nanm Skylake architecture which as PC Gamers Jeremy leair points out Intel
rebadged twice and sold as 6th 7th
eighth ninth and 10th gen it's like when I was a kid my parents gave me the same
Easy Bake Oven 5 years in a row for my birthday to be fair to Intel there's
more than a little truth to some of their accusations like ryzen's naming
conventions being confusing but that's as rich as a triple thick chocolate pie
coming from Intel Intel could have also helped its own case if it didn't
cherry-pick benchmarks in its real world Performance Marketing push back in 2019
and wasn't equally guilty of oiling the old snake that's what snake oil is for
right that sounds like an innuendo thankfully AMD actually did
help Intel's case today by unveiling its ryzen 8040 series of laptop chips which
appear to be pretty much the same
hardware-wise as last year's 70/40 series but with high higher clock speeds
and other optimizations look I don't want to blame the victim here but maybe
AMD should fix their naming scheme if they don't want other companies to post
mean PDFs about them it didn't work for me but never know Google has finally
launched their new AI model Gemini which it claims beats gp4 on a wide range of
benchmarks but notably not in h swag
which is self-evidently the most important one Google describes Gemini as
natively multimodal as it was trained on images text and video itself instead of
relying on plugins to other models Gemini also comes in three versions Nano
which is more lightweight Pro which is more middleweight and Ultra which can
canonically defeat Goku it's called Gemini that's why they're three of them
yeah what as of today Gemini Pro is now
powering Google's AI chatbot Bart it's currently in English only but it will
soon be available in 170 markets around the world still not Europe or Canada
though presumably due to a fear of adequate antitrust regulations and moose
they're everywhere they're in the walls as of
December 13th Gemini Pro will be available to developers as well as
Google's Enterprise customers via Google AI Studio or Google Cloud vertex AI then
at some point in 2024 Gemini Ultra will replace Gemini Pro within Bard and will
be made available to users through a cloud API despite recent turbulence open
AI GPT 4 remains Google's and everyone else biggest rival in the llm space to
the point that chat GPT was Wikipedia's most viewed article of 2023 with over 49
million page views that's at least better than last year when the Russian
invasion of Ukraine Got beat out by Jeffrey dmer that came out of
nowhere twitch has announced that by the end of February next year it will end
all business in South Korea where it says its cost to operate is
prohibitively expensive according to Twitch CEO Dan Clancy the company has
been running at a loss in South Korea and despite reducing Source quality to a
maximum of 720p and experimenting with peer-to-peer models for Source quality
its Network fees in the country are still 10 times more expensive than most
other countries Clancy has stated that twitch will work with affected streamers
and will help them migrate to Alternative streaming platforms like
YouTube and the korean-based Africa
hm that is a name is that what it's called yes did they get licensing for
that streamers outside of South Korea with significant Korean fan bases may
also see a significant hit to revenue it's hard to understand how twitch the
world's largest live streaming platform could fail in South Korea a global
hotspot for Esports but the answer May lie in South Korea's 2016 sending party
Network pays law which requires parties sending information over the internet to
pay a fee to telecoms rather than just the receiving party which is how it
works everywhere else this effectively allows South Korean telecoms to double
charge for internet traffic it's like splitting the check on a date except
that both parties pay the full price for the entire meal no wonder it's hard to
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you consume it more than 4 days after it was prepared it'll make you sick iMessage support on Android is finally
here for for real this time thanks to messaging company beeper's new app
beeper mini unlike Sunbird which shut down after huge security concerns were
brought to light and beeper's existing service combining iMessage with other
chat apps beeper mini doesn't sign in
with your Apple ID on a Mac and a server Farm somewhere instead beeper claims to
have reverse engineered iMessage allowing Android users to sign in
directly to Apple Services it's not free though it costs two bucks a month which
should keep the ship afloat until Tim's Elite assassins extrapolate beeper's
location what they're in the House Bar
get down I and Barbara will find you
come on Barbara let's go some of the earliest videos posted to Instagram have
been losing audio and are instead displaying an error message claiming
that the video has no sound several users have reported distress after
finding that old videos of precious memories and deceased loved ones and
pets lacked all audio luckily according to the verge that audio isn't lost
forever the videos can be heard when played through a browser just not in the
app itself meta is apparently aware of the issue and working to fix it but in
the meantime consider somewhere more secure to keep your important data maybe
a hard drive and an existential despair proof bunker are you really relying on
Instagram to keep these all right a lawsuit against Amazon for selling spy
cams is going forward after the company's motion to dismiss the case was
denied the plaintive claims that the EEG giant should have foreseen that a camera
hidden in a cloth hook that won't attract attention according to its
product listing might be used to illegally record people while they're
getting undressed I just maybe just maybe confirming that
they do indeed have a brain the judge agreed this claim was credible enough
for the suit to go forward while Amazon may have put people at risk by selling
this camera if this lawsuit exposes them they will at least have the luxury of
not being filmed Microsoft has announced that individuals not just businesses
will be able to pay for Windows 10 extended security updates past the os's
scheduled expiry date of October 14th 2025 just over 10 years after it
launched it's seemingly the tech Giants latest admission that Windows users
don't actually prefer it when you make basic features
worse how could we have known Microsoft is already committed to Bringing
co-pilot and other previously Windows 11 exclusive AI features to the older OS a
year after saying Windows 10 wouldn't receive any more big feature updates
it's all a little confusing using but I understand that Microsoft has its hands
full finding more products it can slap a co-pilot sticker on it's a full-time job
and the UK is considering using face scanning Tech to ageg gate pornography
following the controversial Online safety Bill passing into law to be fair
some supermarkets in the UK allow customers to buy booze with a face scan
and self checkout but that's at a physical location with human staff there
to spot any 14-year-old wearing a fake mustache the UK wants adult websites to
estimate a a person's age from a selfie which sounds super cool but the
government does admit to one small problem quote there's little evidence
that the AI method of age estimation will be fair reliable or effective but
once they figure that out there'll be no no problem it work like a
charm once we figure out this whole it works thing just like you'll be able to
come back here on Friday for more TechLink no face scans required we trust
that you wouldn't look at anything you're not supposed to you're a good person
don't