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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.