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one I guess we'll do Tech news telegram
CEO pav durov was arrested last weekend
on suspicion of failing to moderate criminal activity on the messaging app
but on Wednesday that suspicion was upgraded to preliminary charges as jov
was released on bail and barred from leaving France pending further
investigation the moved seemed sudden but it makes some sense given that back
in March jov told the financial times he doesn't think they should be policing
the way people Express themselves unless they cross red lines which red lines
unclear although it seems like one red line he won't cross is being a tad more
specific and the specifics matter here especially concerning telegram's
optional use of encryption which was implemented without proper declaration
according to a statement from French authorities that we translated into
English so hopefully we got that right a declaration that other encryption using
platforms like WhatsApp and Signal have apparently done properly and now they're
worried about telegram making them look bad by association debate over
encryption has been raging in the EU especially after they just passed all
these laws that let them boss Tech Giants around what are we going to let
encrypted platforms get a pass by just putting a sock on the door don't look in
here the EU is also investigating whether telegram deliberately
undercounted its users to stay under the
45 million user threshold which would subject the service to stricter
regulation so we'll see how that goes all in all this is a weird story not
just because it's complex but also because while the EU has gotten serious
about holding companies responsible for Content hosted on their platforms that
usually hasn't involved arresting the CEO Crossing red lines indeed a NCH the
website known for publishing in-depth technical reporting for 27 years is
shutting down according to a post from editor-in Chief Ryan Smith in the latest
example of written journalism just not making investors happy enough they just
see a wall of letters it means nothing to them they need Zoomin and Vine booms
keep them stimulated they're like incredibly wealthy toddlers I feel
insecure in my job a non Tech has been a
rock of the tech journalism world and one of the only reasons I had a shred of
understanding of what the hell I've been talking about for the past 10 years founder Anand L shimpy left work on
chips for apple back in 2014 but the site was left in good hands two of which
were attached to Dr Ian cutus otherwise known as te Tech potato for reasons I'll
never understand because a non-tech isn't here anymore to explain it to me
thankfully the site itself will remain up for presumably as long as publisher
future PLC decides it wants to and some
Anon Tech writers have moved moved over to their sister site named after a
different guy Tom's Hardware it's just not the same sounds
like a play You by 2x4s welcome to Tom's Hardware you want cedar or
Maple apple and NVIDIA are both in talks
to join forces with Microsoft in launching truck fulls of cash at open
aai who have apparently burned through a good chunk of their billions of dollars
of investment money it's a bit of a strange development given recent
speculation that AI hype is steadily descending from its peak into the trough
of disillusionment but it would make more sense if open AI is considering
removing its cap on investor profits as reported by the financial times but open
AI insists their for-profit company is
still controlled by the nonprofit company who will absolutely ignore their
for-profit investors and refuse to release extremely capable models that
threaten to turn the internet into a bubbling soup of AI slop yes they
released chat GPT that was one time with like four or five updates and actually
open aai is kind of backing that up with
an agreement also signed by anthropic to give the US government's artificial
intelligence safety Institute as well as the UK's equivalent organization Early
Access to both companies newest models to conduct safety testing before their
released to the public I mean sounds
pretty good and it maybe explains why Sam Alman thought it was okay to disband
open AI safety team they're just Outsourcing it to the federal government
why do the work they' got time they're watching TV shows at their desk most
days anyway they might even be watching shows that are only available in a
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computers okay here's a quick pits AMD has confirmed the existence of the long
rumored ryen 57600 x3d but you're only
allowed to be excited about it if you're American turns out the processor will be
exclusive to us retailer Micro Center which currently has 28 locations in some
of the 50 United States in a statement the chief merchandising officer for
Micro Center said the chip is a significant step forward in making high
performance cashr processors more accessible despite it being largely
inaccessible it's been 6 days since the
Port of Seattle was hit by a possible Cyber attack and the Seattle Tacoma
Airport AKA SeaTac is still mostly offline with no clear timeline for
Recovery the airport's internet baggage routing and gate updates are all down
and staff have resorted to taping paper with flight numbers on them to the blank
screens by each gate luckily the TSA and
air traffic control are on separate systems from the rest of the airport
which is great news for fans of getting groped by the government and not dying
in a ball of fire Microsoft is rebranding its remote desktop app an
eminently googleable name to Windows app
in an astounding Act of branding self-sabotage from the people who
brought you five different co-pilots the so-called Windows app was released in
preview under its stupid new name back in November of last year but yesterday
they confirmed this idiocy by adding a notification to the current APP and
their website we're just we're just being harsh we're being little
stinkers now you can say the completely true sentence the Windows app is
available for macOS iOS and iPad OS and
really confuse your grandma anyway I hope you don't run into technical
difficulties and wind up needing to Bing Windows app help anytime
soon just install the Windows app which one who's on voice scientists have
developed a chemical process to vaporize plastic that could be used to recycle
bags and Bottles indefinitely you see plastic is a polymer a substance with
very large molecules composed of repeating subunits a polymer is not and
this was news to me a fish person with multiple
partners that's a that's a polymer person polymer person by vaporizing
certain unfortunate polymers they can be reduced to their building blocks to make
new Plastics now does this solve the whole microplastics inside of us and
also the ocean and in our brains issue
probably not given that we're vaporizing them but Chinese researchers are having
success making a robust yet compostable
hard plastic out of bamboo and that
could help keep the ocean cleaner saving many non- monogamous fish people and mid
Journey the company behind AI image generator mid journey is getting into
Hardware but they haven't been very forthcoming about what kind of Hardware
uh the company did hire engineer Ahmad abas back in February who previously
helped design the Apple Vision Pro mid journey is also continuing to develop AI
models to generate video and 3D
environments maybe the hardware will be a headset that generates 3D worlds or
maybe it's an orb back in January mid
Journey CEO David Holtz replied to a pondering my orb meme on Twitter by
saying we will make the
orb we will we will make the orb what
does that mean I don't know but stay
tuned for orb the best way to stay tuned is to literally stay tuned by coming
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link it's a holiday so believe it or not we're taking a holiday we're taking a
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