Daily Tech News 13 November 2022

• Collapsed $32 billion Ponzi scheme FTX has totally been hacked and all the remaining money was stolen too bad so sad guess there's nothing left for the bankruptcy court. (CoinDesk)
  
  According to collapsed $32 billion Ponzi scheme FTX.

  More than $600 million was siphoned from FTX's crypto wallets late Friday. Soon after, FTX stated in its official Telegram channel that it had been compromised, instructing users not to install any new upgrades and to delete all FTX apps.
  
  "FTX has been hacked. FTX apps are malware. Delete them. Chat is open. Don't go on FTX site as it might download Trojans," wrote an account administrator in the FTX Support Telegram chat. The message was pinned by FTX General Counsel Ryne Miller.

  Sure Jan.
  
  Between $1 billion and $2 billion of customer funds are "missing". (Reuters)
  
  If you're not sure to within the nearest billion how much money you've stolen, you might be a problem.
  
  
  
• This is totally different from all the other identical Ponzi schemes and crypto is dead. (The Atlantic)
  
  Because we say so.
  
  
  
• You know what else is dead? Social media. (The Atlantic)
  
  And TV and radio. Please buy our magazine. We're dying here.

• Crypto.com accidentally sent $416 million worth of ETH to the wrong address. (Web3 Is Going Great)
  
  They got it back though.
  
  It's entirely possible to send ETH to an address that nobody has the key for and simply lose it forever, but they didn't do that.
  
  This time.
  
  
  
• Intel's 13900HX mobile CPU has the same core config as the 13900K. (WCCFTech)
  
  That is, 8 Performance cores and 16 Efficiency cores, making it easily the fastest mobile CPU right now except that it's not actually out yet. But it will likely ship before AMD's own 16 core laptop CPU - December vs. January.
  
  
  
• Facebook has pulled out of the telescreen business. (Liliputing)
  
  Abandoning the whole 1984 Is A Cookbook thing to Amazon.
  
  
  
• That's not kosher: KFC Germany has apologised for a notification inviting customers to celebrate Kristallnacht with a chicken cheeseburger. (Jerusalem Post)
  
  "Oops", said KFC.
  
  
  
• Apple has been sued for violating its own privacy policy. (Gizmodo)
  
  I've noted before that Apple doesn't give a shit about your privacy, they just can't stand for anyone else to have your data.
  
  
  
• More benchmarks of the new Epyc Genoa server CPUs, including boring stuff like databases. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Curiously, the 96 core flagship is sometimes no faster than the 64 core model. It might mean that some software needs tweaking to remove locks or other constraints that hold it back on 96 core chips. Or it may be that the higher base clock speed on the 64 core model (both chips use the same 360W) outweighs the extra cores on some workloads.
  
  
  
• How NovelAI creates a frogcat. (Novel AI)
  
  Recently some of the Hololive girls asked fans not to submit AI-generated art under their regular fanart tags. I wondered about that at the time, because if you try to generate Hololive fanart in Midjourney - the one I've been playing with - you just won't get very far. It doesn't know Hololive from a hole in the ground, so you have to specify absolute every detail and keep hitting retry... Or use an existing piece of art as a starting point, which is even more cheating than just using text prompts.
  
  NovelAI does know who the Hololive girls are... But I just paid $10 to try it out and it's dark sorcery. Unless you know all the magic words you just get trash. I'm impressed with the people who have persevered to get actual recognisable art out of it.
  
  

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