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with nine grams of protein. |
Adobe is also launching its first text-to-vector image generator, |
and they teased a new AI upscaling tool, |
which can be used for both clips of old movies and GIFs so compressed they're about to collapse into a supernova. |
Deep fry. |
Another upcoming feature is Fast Fill, |
essentially generative fill for video. |
And unlike many companies, |
we can trust that Adobe has the bravery to make us pay through the nose for it all. |
T-Mobile has decided its Price Lock guarantee is only for their newest, most expensive plans, |
and is therefore forcibly switching subscribers with cheaper, grandfathered plans onto higher-cost ones. |
Hey, it's business. |
For the affected plans, |
customers will allegedly be alerted on the 17th |
before being charged an extra $10 a month per line. |
Something T-Mobile won't go out of their way to tell you is |
you can opt out of the change by calling customer service and complaining a lot. |
It's the one simple trick that cell phone providers hate. |
Intel has released two new driver updates for their ARC GPUs this past week. |
The first increases performance by up to 119%, |
as long as you're playing one of the 20 listed games, |
with the big winner being this year's hottest game, Deus Ex Human Revolution. |
It gets better every year. |
And the main character's voice sounds even more... |
I didn't ask for this. |
Even more gaspy. |
I'm part robot, you know. |
Fortunately, Intel's newest driver update increases starfield performance by 117% or 149%, |
depending on resolution. |
To celebrate, Intel quietly released an even more budget graphics card, the A580. |
This would be great news if it wasn't like $10 less than some models of the much superior A750. |
I know you're trying to compete with Nvidia, Intel, |
but that doesn't mean you should emulate their pricing strategy, okay? |
So let's take a step back. |
Google has changed the default option for logging into personal accounts. |
Instead of putting in your password, |
users will start seeing prompts to create and use passkeys, |
which are digital credentials unlocked by things like a fingerprint, |
a face scan, a pin, basically anything that doesn't give you the option of |
using strong password one exclamation mark for every account you have. |
Passkeys are rolling out in more places across the tech universe, |
but you can still use your password and opt out of seeing the new prompts every time you log in, |
if the risk of being hacked for you is part of the whole thrill. |
Oh no, don't hack me. |
That would be naughty. |
And a 22-year-old Firefox bug has finally been fixed by a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder, |
who was horrified to find out that the annoying bug that caused tool tips to hang around in the foreground, |
even after command tabbing away from the browser, |
was almost as old as they are. |
In fact, it's so old, it actually predates the name Firefox, |
going back to when the browser was just called Mozilla. |
The bug likely lasted two decades |
because it was both tricky to reproduce |
and more annoying than dangerous, just like me. |
Got him! |
And the trick to getting more tech news is to come back on Friday for another episode of TechLinked. |
That's the kind of little tips. |
You won't learn that stuff elsewhere, |
so come on back. |
Another week, another tech news. |
Say, that reminds me of a song I learned in ComSci. |
Flip the switch and turn it on. |
Elon Musk's AI company called, |
what else, XAI, has unveiled Grok, |
a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT |
with real-time access to all posts on X, formerly Twitter. |
Now that access turned Microsoft's Tay chatbot |
into a racist psychopath back in 2016, |
but that doesn't matter. |
It's Musk time. |
Grok is named after science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein's neologism, |
meaning to understand intuitively or by empathy. |
So naturally, according to Elon, |
Grok is based and loves sarcasm. |
XAI's announcement on their site, |
please with you not to use it if you hate humor. |
Like the kind of ROFLcopter fuel found in its answers to what the company calls spicy questions, |
like tell me how to make cocaine. |
After all, Grok's mission is to help understand the universe |
and the universe entails all possible fake cocaine recipes. |
XAI says that despite being trained in a couple months on only 33 billion parameters, |
Grok performs better than Meta's LLAMA 2 and OpenAI's GPT 3.5, |
that's not the current version, but the older version, |
in a number of benchmarks. |
But you won't be able to verify that right now |
unless you're verified on X |
and you get into the early access program. |
Those people must be laughing so hard. |
Now, yes, it's true that Elon joined multiple calls from experts to pause AI development |
for the safety of humanity. |
But as he explained back in June, he quote, |
didn't think anyone would actually agree to the pause. |
See, we absolutely cannot tip over ice cream trucks |
and slurp everything up inside for free. |
We cannot, or we do it, we're doing it, we're doing it. |
This is wrong, unless everyone else is doing it, |
in which case it's fine. |
Then we'll see. |
Speaking of AI, OpenAI proved they're a real tech giant |
by holding their first Dev Day event this morning. |