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 GROC, 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 GROC chat
allows it to be indexed by Google. But this is a bit different
because unlike chat GBT, GROC's whole thing is being unrestricted.
So these leaks 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 chat GBT's shared chats
being searchable, open AI disabled chat GBT's Google indexing feature
pretty quickly. But as of now, the GROC chats are still up on Google
and they apparently have been since at least January
as pointed out by Gagangotra 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 GBT story a few weeks ago,
one of Twitter's many genius investigators
asked GROC about it, which is what you do. GROC claimed it had no such sharing feature,
which was retweeted by Elon with GROC for the win.
And yet another example of why asking chatbots about how they work is about as useful
as asking dogs why they chase squirrels.
As soon as you say the word squirrel, look, 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,
they 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.
You know, they can try using a Nokia phone,
but it just doesn't give you that buzz.
They outlawed setting your phone to vibrate in the EU.
Don't go outside for real yet. You're gonna want to hear these quick bits first.
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 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 pic of the gold iPhone.
And why does this guy look like he wants to eat me?
The 12-volt 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.
Well, the cable melted. Now this was one of the very few AMD cards
that uses this connector. It was an ASRock Tai Chi RX9070XT.
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 butterfingers
and accidentally posted the entire source code for FSR4 up on GitHub.
FSR4 or FidelityFX 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 ageism.
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 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 Christofell, Christofell,
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 eight megabytes of SD RAM and 16 megabytes of external flash,
proving that your overpowered gaming PC is entirely unnecessary.
People are out gaming in caves with a box of scraps.
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, okay.