Tech news won't keep you alive in a desert island situation but it could
give you more to think about like hmm maybe Nintendo was right to dmca
everyone like that hmm and then you die
Chachi BT was all the rage but get ready to hear more about projects based on
auto GPT a GitHub project posted two
weeks ago that modifies large language models like open ai's GPT to function as
semi-autonomous agents that means when you give it a goal instead of giving you
a response and then waiting for a prompt number two like a fun chat bot it will
give itself feedback based on its own performance and continue acting in
pursuit of its goal until you shut it down like a Terminator from the movie
Terminator every time you use it you have to put it into a molten metal Auto
GPT spawned many similar projects many of which are trending on GitHub
including an official Microsoft Project called Jarvis because it was the
reference in case you didn't quite understand these AIS act more like
little humans than before which is why researchers just published a study where
25 of them were put in a video game and when one of them was given the idea to
throw a Valentine's day part the agents autonomously sent out invites met new
acquaintances asked each other on dates to the party and then actually showed up
which is frankly much better than many humans could do why did the robots get
love so that's one thing another concerning AI thing is scammers who are
currently right now tricking normal people into thinking their loved ones
have been kidnapped using voice cloning Ai and caller ID spoofing so it actually
looks almost exactly like the scene from Taken except you don't have a certain
set of skills you're just Tammy just Tammy now we can look at things like the
recently announced Dolly 2.0 an open source llam with promise as a chat GPT
competitor for the people as a cool democratization of AI Tech but given how
this Tech has gone from being future scary to scary right now it's we're
scared about it now we should be asking whether we need democratization or
regulation which is why the U.S government agency responsible for these
things is currently seeking public comments to help it put together laws to
protect us from the Eldritch Horrors literally every programmer is clicking
up on their laptops right now
I need to calm down in lighter news uh this fun leaked video has given us a
glimpse of a new Windows UI custom made for gaming handhelds like the steam deck
or Rog Ally so that's that's cool hey
this is cool now given that the handheld Windows mode is being made for an
internal hackathon project it's unclear whether Microsoft is for sure going to
release something like this I mean not
doing so would lead more people on board the Linux gaming hype train but maybe
Microsoft is fine with that you know we've got so many people using Windows
it's almost too many stop using Windows
so please but one feature that Microsoft is officially working on is a presence
sensing mode which has shown up in a Windows 11 preview build this uses
various device sensors to tell whether you're present at your PC both
physically and perhaps mentally frankly I'd love my PC to sense when I'm getting
distracted and do a little Riley are we present right now hmm
and Western Digital no sooner got their my cloud service back up and running a
week after being hacked then those same hackers demanded the company pay to
reclaim 10 terabytes of stolen data I mean you don't send a ransom note right
after you steal the thing that'd be rude TechCrunch reporters spoke to one of the
hackers and were able to confirm that at least some of the stolen data was
legitimate the hackers claimed to have personal info like email addresses phone
numbers and more of both WD staff and
customers if the company isn't willing to pay the minimum eight-figure Ransom
the hackers say they'll start posting the data on the website of alphavi
a hacking group that these hackers are not a part of but who they know to be
professional you can't just post things on like
4chan I mean as an extortionist there are just some things you don't do now
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wait till you see the quick bits which are also in that category the FBI has
arrested the 21 year old suspected of leaking a trove of classified U.S
government documents on a Discord server called
Thug Shaker Central very cool according
to the Washington Post the suspect is a member of the Massachusetts Air National
Guard who ended up posting screenshots of the documents after growing
frustrated that the members of his military-themed Discord group were
ignoring the text-based post that he had spent hours typing up it's working so
hard markings and environmental clues in the photographed printouts helped
investigators determine the man's identity but Discord has also said they
are cooperating with law enforcement so are you guys I'm trying to give you
sensitive note please pay attention so remember Gamers
don't make this guy's key mistake joining the Massachusetts Air National
Guard NVIDIA has released some helpful statistics claiming that 83 percent of
Gamers with RTX 40 series cards which is
0.68 of all steam users according to
steam survey turn Ray tracing on with 79
of the same group turning dlss on now
there's two main questions this has brought up one if you flip on Ray
tracing one time decide you don't want it and then flip it off does that count
the other question why are nearly 20 of
these Gamers buying an RTX 40 series card and not using the RTX features
what are did you put it in your mom's computer why did you do that chunky
three slot RTX 2080 TI graphics cards have been showing up dead in greater
numbers due to sagging in their PCIe slots which causes bending and uneven
thermal stress according to a video from German computer repair technician
chrisfix specifically the solder points of memory chips nearest to the PCI
socket are the most likely failure point so you might want to check in on that if
you've got a big card in your rig because look we all love a top of the
line chunky boy but that chunk comes at a price hashtag chunk awareness hashtag
save that chunk Twitter has announced a new feature where Twitter creators will
be able to offer paid subscriptions where followers can access exclusive
tweets and long form video and you might be thinking hey that just sounds like
super follows but to that we say no it
isn't it's called something different now the company hopes to include
newsletters and other Twitter features as potential bonus content later down
the line of course Twitter already had a newsletter tool but it was shut down
three months ago in what is becoming just par for the course
they had that feature and then and today
the European Space Agency launched an unmanned spacecraft on a mission to
determine whether the icy oceans of Jupiter's largest Moon moons multiple
Callisto Europa and Ganymede
it's not ganymedy whether they're able to support life not
intelligent life just a dumb kind we're insulting them already some of you may
know that Jupiter is the Roman name for Zeus while each of the moons is named
after an ancient mythological hottie that Zeus consorted with fittingly the
initial launch was delayed due to risk of lightning if the orbits Rock
the moons are busy how do you put a sock on a moon and we'll put a sock on the
channel until Monday because that's when you should come back for more a fresh
hot batcha Tech news that's the thing about news it's different every time
we're gonna figure out how to put a sock on the channel we haven't figured that
out yet also you can still watch the videos of the weekend I'm not gonna I'm not gonna