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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. |