Hey, congratulations. You've made the right decision to stay up to date with
the tech news instead of going outside
and ignoring all the important stuff that's happening online. Hundreds of
thousands of user chats with Grock Xai's
chatbot are publicly searchable on Google as reported by Forbes. Because as
many people discovered when a similar story about chat GBT blew up less than a
month ago, clicking share in a Grock chat allows it to be indexed by Google.
But this is a bit different because unlike Chat GPT, Grock's whole thing is
being unrestricted. So these leaked chats show users generating everything
from instructions on how to make restricted substances to plans for
taking down Elon Musk. And I'm sure some of the Japanese language chats are
totally normal and not concerning, but not the ones I happen to click on. When
the story broke about ChatGpt's shared chats being searchable, OpenAI disabled
ChatgBT's Google indexing feature pretty quickly. But as of now, the Gro chats
are still up on Google and they apparently have been since at least
January, as pointed out by Gagan Gotra
on Twitter. He also spotted Gemini, which was then called Bard, doing the
same thing in 2023, shortly before Google turned that off. Meanwhile, Meta
continues to allow Meta AI chats to be indexed. They're fine with it. Also,
following the Chat GPT story a few weeks ago, one of Twitter's many genius
investigators asked Grock about it, which is what you do. Grock claimed it
had no such sharing feature, which was retweeted by Elon with Grock for the
win. And yet another example of why asking chat bots about how they work is
about as useful as asking dogs why they chase squirrels. As soon as you say the
word squirrel, the interaction's over. The batteries in
all Pixel 10 series phones will have their effective capacities reduced after
just 200 charging cycles as a safety measure. as confirmed to Android
authority by Google, who refuses to build batteries containing anything
other than Coke, Mentos, and lava harnessed from an active volcano. It's a
matter of principle. The battery nerf is managed by Google's battery health
assistance feature, which gradually reduces maximum voltage to prevent the
exploding battery debacles that plagued the Pixel 4a and 6A. The feature can be
turned off on most Pixel devices, but that's not the case for the Pixel 9a and
now the Pixel 10 series as well, because there's just no way to figure out how
Samsung devices are able to survive 2,000 charging cycles just fine, which
we know about thanks to the EU's European Product Registry for Energy
Labeling, a title that, you know, in German is all one word. NVIDIA has
halted production of its China specific H20 AI data center GPUs because China
it don't want them no more. Insider sources told the information that NVIDIA
has instructed component suppliers for H20 GPUs to hold off after China told
the country's tech companies that buying NVIDIA chips is now a no no. As the
Financial Times reports, this shift in attitude followed directly from a CNBC
interview with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik in which he made comments
that Chinese leadership found insulting.
Lutnik said he wants Chinese developers to get addicted to American technology.
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They'll help. Trump Mobile has posted a new T1 phone image. Not another image of
the same T1 phone. It's a different T1
phone image, which really seems like a
photoshopped Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
with a Spigen case on it. The tweet is
somehow still up despite the attached community note and a tweet from Spigen
promising a lawsuit, but of of course the tweet's still up. Trump mobile
obviously has a plan here, which appears to be post a new image of a random phone
every couple months. Their website still has the old pick of the gold iPhone. And
why does this guy look like he wants to eat me?
The 12volt high power connector strikes again, but this time taking down its
first AMD victim. A user called Savings
Opportunity 3 posted last month on Reddit asking if they should be
concerned about melting and showed off a picture of their cable. One month after
a user responded saying AMD cards don't have a melting problem. Uh well uh well
the cable melted. Now this was one of the very few AMD cards that uses this
connector. It was an ASRock Taichi RX970
XT, so most Radeon users should be safe.
And this guy says his GPU still works
until it doesn't. Speaking of AMD, it seems like someone over there had some
butter fingers and accidentally posted the entire source code for FSR4 up on
GitHub. FSR4 or Fidelity FX Super
Resolution 4 is AMD's resolution upscaling and frame generation
technology. And in this source code, it seems to suggest that AMD had at least
tried to get it working on some older RDNA3 GPUs, not just the newest ones.
The GitHub page was pulled down almost immediately, but that didn't stop people
from getting at least some screenshots and maybe even some downloads of the
repo, but until someone does something with it, we can only dream of GPU makers
being generous and giving our older cards new features. Stop the agism. AI
startup Dynamics Lab has released Mirage
2, which looks essentially like Google's recently unveiled world model Genie 3,
but with less limits. And this one's actually playable. You can generate a
world based off any image. And like Genie 3, you can add additional prompts
while playing through it. So you can seamlessly bring Red Dead Redemption 2's
Arthur Morgan into a cyberpunk city or an alien planet, which Rockstar didn't
include in the real game. probably because they didn't have this tool. So,
someone get Rockstar on the phone. They need to see this. They They need our
help. And to the surprise of no one, someone managed to get Doom running on a
random piece of tech that has a screen. YouTuber Aaron Kristoffell Christophel
showed off his modded Anchor Prime charging station and even uses the
little dial on the side to control the game in perhaps the jankiest way
possible. As for specs, the charging station has 8 MGB of SD RAM and 16 MGB
of external flash, proving that your overpowered gaming PC is entirely
unnecessary. People are out gaming in caves with a box of scraps. Um, it's a
lesson for all of us, which is that now it's time to go outside. Not before, now
or go to bed, depending on where you are. Regardless, just come back on
Monday for more tech news. And I want you outside until then. It's cold. wear
a coat. I'm just kidding. You can do whatever you want.