to celebrate movember I shaved my old mustache yesterday and then grew this
one don't worry I donated my old mustache to two kids in a trench coat
trying to get in an R-rated movie so stop cycling just helping people out
Elon Musk AKA The Ghost of Executives past lost two more high-ranking Twitter
employees with the chief security officer and the head of trust and safety
both resigning now I know that sounds bad but don't worry it gets worse the
option to sign up for Twitter blue has disappeared from the site after its blue
check mark feature enabled rampant impersonation of people and companies
like you can see here and here and here
and all over my Reddit theme ah who could have seen this coming literally
everyone other than Elon well now after launching a second gray official check
mark to do the job the first one used to do and then killing it Twitter has
brought it back but only for the real really verified Brands and companies
solving problems over there well moving on now to another story
oh there's more wow I am shocked and
surprised mosque has also decided to scrap Twitter's work from home policy
though exceptions will be made if Elon personally grants them you know Elon if
you made everyone work from home and you sold the offices you may be able to
prevent the bankruptcy you are warning your remaining workers about just a
thought but that's silly me you already have a plan for that and I must say it
is genius Twitter can't go bankrupt if Twitter is the bank and that's economics
of 101 as we learned this speaking of going bankrupt the prices of
many RTX 4080 models have been revealed and they are costly Micro Center has 13
models listed on their site and only four are at MSRP ASUS or less
no oh ASUS's Rog strix model is
1550 only 50 bucks less than a Founders
Edition 40 90. oh so that's how much the adapter costs
50 more dollars for the chance to burn down my house sign me up that could be
worse the 4080 could melt or something so that's a silver lining but it is 50
less what a steal for ASUS in the
scenario you're being robbed there are also rumors going around that NVIDIA is
going to re-unlunch the RTX 2060 and
2060 super after bringing a 12 Gigabyte version of the 2060 into stores at the
end of 2021 to profit from I mean help the GPU shortage I mean it's sad the
2060 was the best budget NVIDIA GPU at the time even beating out the 3050 in
performance and it's the second most popular card according to the steam
Hardware survey from last month now this true short King can rest in power so
NVIDIA can profit even more from overpriced 48s
true self-sacrifice
Dart the internet's home for artists and Tastefully iffing announced they are
introducing dream up an air generator powered by stable diffusion which will
also feature automatic tagging to clearly Mark AI generated art this is an
interesting move at a time when other image platforms are Banning AI art but
it's also interesting because deviantART creators will have the right to opt out
of their art being used to train dream up as well as third-party data sets for
other image generators which is good for artists and would be even more good if
all deviantART content wasn't already opted in by default thankfully there's a
super convenient Google form that will opt out your entire portfolio if you
make it past a manual human review assuring you you have followed
deviantart's best practices and then wait 10 business days oh and you better
fill it out now because the form States currently will be approving this ability
for free which is corpo speak for it's about to not be free but hey if you
don't meet the criteria or you're deathly afraid of Google forms
I have Focus I just scare me you just
need to add the no image AI tag to your submissions individually and if you've
been using deviadart for years and have thousands of submissions
one suggestion uh now it's time for
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less appetizing AMD launched their new epic Genoa server processors and there's
18 different models oh with the flagship epic 9654 supporting
96 cores AMD claimed that five servers
powered by these big boys could handle the same load as 15 servers running
Intel's last gen Platinum 8380 and use
up to 54 less power is that where the 54 comes from it's not unlimited anymore
God no meanwhile details on Intel's upcoming Sapphire rapid CPUs have leaked
indicating they might have fewer cores and lower clock speeds for more money
than AMD's Genoa so uh choke on that the
spicy meatball team
Google has stated it has evidence that three zero-day vulnerabilities found in
newer Samsung smartphones were being exploited by a commercial surveillance
vendor which allowed them to gain read and write privileges at the kernel level
which they could use to access the device's data it does sound delicious
I wish I had some kernel level exploits this isn't the only exploit to be
Unearthed on Android this week either yesterday a video was posted showing a
way to unlock a pixel in about a minute after inserting a pin locked SIM card I
guess Apple's e-sim only North American iPhone was
a good idea cook good boy uh oh wait the
exploit has been patched already so no it's it's still quite silly if you
manage to buy a PS5 at retail razer's got a great idea for how you can spend
all that money you would have ended up paying a scalper The Wolverine V2 is a
chunky PS5 controller in the style of the Xbox Elite V2 but for at least a
hundred dollars more at 250 dollars that's what you pay for the RGB baby
yeah that's worth half a console if you want the elite experience on your PS5
for Less well Sony has a first party solution for
two hundred dollars okay this seems expensive but it's a small price to pay
to find out whether your problem is the controller or you know
get good just grow you're just bad you're just there's nothing no one there's nothing
you can do the steam deck has been the new hot commodity for a while but one
company is trying to reduce the heat just a smidge unitec is launching a dock
for the steam deck featuring a Thermal electric cooler they claim can reduce
your deck's temperature by 20 degrees Celsius in five minutes plus you get a
frontside USBC connector and an RGB fan for only thirty dollars more than the
first party dock this isn't an ad or anything we just think that's pretty
cool that's it's a steam dirt pretty cool pretty cool do robots scare you are
you a stressed University student that doesn't need another source of anxiety
at this moment in time not if the University of Texas has anything to say
about it researchers at UT Austin will be sending autonomous robots across the
campus for five years from now
yes to study human robot relations a
network and smartphone app will allow students to get free supplies delivered
to them by the robot witness science in action as five people in lab coats watch
you collect your delivery of of wipes among other things from a robot dog I'm
learning and I want you to take the action of coming back on Monday for more
Tech news I'm not a robot but I can still deliver the news right to your
face without any scientist involvement at all we got rid of them a long time
ago we don't need them anymore