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Their managing director told Futurezone
that some of the components SanDisk used are too big for their circuit boards,
leading to unstable connections,
which caused some components to pop off the board entirely,
and not in a good way.
I would be shocked and appalled by this
if I didn't remember that SanDisk is owned by Western Digital.
And Tesla's order agreement for the Cybertruck forbids owners from selling the polygonal vehicle for one year after it's delivered,
unless you tell Tesla you want to sell it and give them a chance to buy it back from you.
If they don't want to buy it back,
they might give you written permission
to sell it to a third party,
like a hall pass,
but for basic economic rights.
If you violate this or any other provision in the agreement,
Tesla says they may locate and disable the vehicle electronically.
And really, I mean,
this should all make sense if you bought a Cybertruck.
It's not a normal truck.
It's...
It's ugly.
But you're beautiful inside and out,
and that's why I know you're gonna come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
It's just who you are, you know.
We love you for that.
Please.
Wow.
I, I'm sorry.
I love the way you do that.
It's just, just a little tap
and now we're here together.
Here, I got you some tech news.
AMD has delayed the launch of its highly anticipated Ryzen 9000 series
after discovering that the initial wave of processors
shipped to retailers did not meet their full quality expectations.
Perhaps because Intel and AMD
went to the same party
and caught something.
Was there something in the punch?
What's happening?
Instead of launching altogether on July 31st,
the chips will arrive gradually,
starting with the 9600X and 9700X on August 8th,
followed by the Ryzen 9s,
the 9900X and 9950X on the 15th.
The delay follows Intel finally identifying
a microcode error as the cause of widespread instability
in its 13th and 14th gen chips.
A patch is coming, also in mid August,
but while it will prevent future instability,
Intel has confirmed it won't repair processors already damaged by the bug.
So they've promised to replace the Borked chips for free.
They shall board the gray ships
and pass into Valinor for their time has ended.
Sorry it was so shitty.
The exact extent of the issue is hard to determine,
but an anonymous European PC parts retailer told French news site, Les Num茅riques,
that 13th gen Intel chips had a return rate
four times higher than 12th gen chips,
which would be around 4 to 5%.
And that sounds low,
but that's nearly one in 20 of these Intel CPUs being secretly Borked.
That's a gamble I'd rather not take.
So hopefully team blue and team red,
remember how to release CPUs that don't blow up.
The rumors about OpenAI working on a search engine were true.
Yesterday, the company officially announced SearchGPT,
a temporary prototype of new AI search features
that will be integrated into ChatGPT at some point.
What a terrible name.
Well, let me just SearchGPT that.
OpenAI didn't say,
but it's likely that SearchGPT hooks into Bing's search index in some way.
Although they did say the prototype prominently links to content publishers,
many of whom have made deals with OpenAI, like the Atlantic.
So now SearchGPT can avoid legal trouble
when it links to the Atlantic's article
about how SearchGPT returned inaccurate results in its demo video.
Demo errors for AI products are tradition at this point.
It's part of the charm.
These kinds of content partnership deals may be the future of how the internet works,
even if lots of AI companies haven't quite got the memo yet.
404 Media reported that Runway trained its AI video tools by scraping pirated movies,
as well as thousands of YouTube videos from popular creators,
including beardless tech gnome, Linus Tech Tip Sebastian.
Meanwhile, Anthropix Web Crawler is hitting some websites a million times a day,
according to iFixit's CEO,
and Twitter slash X just quietly opted every user in
to allowing the Grok chatbot to be trained on their posts.
You can opt out in the settings,
but Twitter might not be able to opt out
if the EU fines them for breaching their privacy laws.
We went on a bit of a tangent there.
Now I'm going to talk about motherboards.
Hundreds of computer devices sold by popular brands
like Dell, HP, Supermicro,
and Intel have had their secure boot protection compromised.
For those unaware, secure boot is meant
to prevent malware from infecting your device's BIOS
and effectively becoming undetectable and unremovable.