You aren't going to believe this, but there's been some tech news recently.
Don't worry. We plan for this. It's just like the simulations.
This is a simulation. Google seems to have a monster under its bed named ChatGPT.
The recent launch of the popular AI chatbot has set off alarms at Google, causing the
company to call in its dads for help. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google and controlling shareholders of the
parent company Alphabet, have come back to the company after having left their daily
roles back in 2019, also known as the Before Times.
To do whatever men under 50 with unlimited money can do, which is literally anything.
The pair were invited by current CEO Sundar Pichai last month to offer advice and pitch
ideas. Google plans to launch over 20 AI products by the end of the year, including a demo version
of its search engine with chatbot features.
This is very exciting news for the company's AI division, and everyone but the 12,000 people
in other departments who are being laid off by Google do allegedly two economic downturn.
It's robots. The company is also facing several antitrust lawsuits, which is the opposite of trust from
Epic and Match LLC, as well as the US Department of Justice.
All this pressure could end up hurting Google bad, especially if Bing can implement chatbot
features first, and someone notices.
DuckDuckGo has when it just says, turn off your computer.
Twitter has officially banned third-party clients, but why should we care about third?
Bronze is a subpar metal that went out of style 3,000 years ago.
And yet, while that is completely true, Twitter may have not been super upfront about how
or why they were doing this. The official Twitter dev account said that the platform was enforcing its long-standing
API rules, and then neglected to, you know, name a rule.
Then yesterday, Engadget noticed that Twitter had added a clause to the developer agreement
that banned the ability to use or access the licensed materials to create or attempt to
create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter applications.
The company that made Twitter-ific, the third-party client that actually coined the term tweet,
released a blog post saying that the social platform has become a Twitter that we no
longer recognize as trustworthy, or worth coming up with fun colloquialisms for.
That's not part of the quota. In a fun coincidence, that same Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, also known as Buffalo
Bill Dodger, is being sued for refusing to pay the consulting firm that assisted in the
lawsuit the company launched against Musk when he tried to back out of buying it.
That is amazing. I tried coming up with an analogy for the situation, but it's just too wacky.
The situation is the joke itself. It befuddles analogies.
And the Secure Boot feature on at least 300 MSI motherboards is not working as intended,
depending on who's doing the intending. For the uninitiated, I almost said unintended, Secure Boot is a feature in motherboard firmware
that ensures PC's only boot software that is trusted by the motherboard manufacturer.
However, security researcher David Putaki discovered hundreds of MSI motherboards would
let just any old software boot. Motherboards have no standard these days, but don't worry, MSI has responded to the
findings and according to them, it's working flawlessly.
The manufacturer said they added a second setting called Image Execution Policy that
is set to always execute software by default, even though Secure Boot is enabled.
They said the default always execute setting is to offer a user-friendly environment, which
makes perfect sense. Think of how user-friendly it would be to not have a front door.
You could just walk right into your house and not have to lock anything when you leave
and when you're really mad, no one knows.
And your counters are super clean because everyone stole your stuff? You got nothing to apologize for.
Minimalism. According to WCCF Tech, this behavior may not be isolated to MSI.
They claim that ASUS and Gigabyte boards may also have issues with securing their boot.
I guess no one knows how to tie their shoes anymore. Might as well be slip-ons!
That never made it in frame, but I almost hit the camera. Now I'm taller on one side.
Fails all around when nerds try to throw.
Our quick bits are guaranteed to get right through your defenses and attack your funny
bones. Before you poop and melt. How humorous is that?
U.S. mobile provider T-Mobile has admitted they were hacked.
Well, they admitted some of it to some people.
In a press release, the company stated the breach was shut down within 24 hours of being
detected. What they didn't mention there, but they did mention in an SEC filing was that the data
of 37 million customers was hacked and that the breach wasn't detected for over a month.
But once they detected it, now you have a reason to switch to AT&T that doesn't involve
an unhealthy obsession with the women from their ads. Leave Lily alone, guys.
It's worth getting a VPN in Canada for. Speaking of SEC filings, Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, and other
toilet runers, admitted they also had data stolen.
They suffered an attack from a ransomware gang so bad over 300 locations in the UK were
forced to shut down. Thankfully, all locations are back up and running, so you can panic eat fried chicken
as you wait for something to hack you.
Chris Fix, a German repair service that was sent 48 Radeon RX 6000 cards with cracked GPUs
in a matter of weeks, thinks they may have figured out just what happened.
After determining most of the cards were bought second hand, the repair shop posted a video
explaining that they believe the cards were sold by crypto miners and somehow water got
trapped under the chip and that expanded when the card got hot.
Chris Fix thinks they were stored in a human environment while Reddit thinks they were
hosed down by miners before sale like in that viral clip.
Some Vietnamese miners have cleaned up their old graphics cards after Ethereum merged by
bathing them with extremely high risk. You gotta ask yourself what's more important, a clean card or a card that doesn't explode?
That's a tough one. It's like free fireworks. Gotta keep it clean.
Explosions, though. Back on the menu, baby.
Melting 4090s are back in the news because Cablemod's 12 volt high power cable has now
gotten a little extra kishby. Reddit user HumbleBrilliant654 posted pictures of the cable on the site and thankfully Cablemod
has promised to replace the product.
Humble swore that he inserted the cable into the GPU properly and that he had been using
it for two months. Or you know, someone's lying on Reddit.
So that's crazy. They would get downvoted.
As a 16 year old girl, I can tell you Reddit's honest.
16F Kali. And Wizards of the Coast have finally apologized for trying to release a new, worse version
of the current open gaming license, which allows creators to make and publish content
for the Dungeons and Dragons RPG. Just after Pathfinder publisher Pezzo announced 1500 companies have pledged their support
for the OGL alternative, the open RPG Creative License, or ORC, we're calling it ORC, Wizards
of the Coast said that they would no longer deauthorize the earlier version of the open
gaming license, except that they still are just not for content already published under
the earlier version. I guess that's a half lie, which is only half as bad as their last statement.
So at least they're improving. Half elf, half orc, half ling.
Half ling. Half demigod. Demi-more.
And our tech news coverage is improving every episode, so make sure you come back on Monday.
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Just corkins? Durable, brutish kittens. They're so cute and strong.
The time of the kitten has ended. The time of the orc is now. Me, meow.
Now it's the time of the orc.