Daily Tech News 19 November 2022

• Twitter is dead. (Ars Technica)
  
  
  
• Seriously, Twitter is dead. (WCCFTech)
  
  
  
• Twitter is dead, no really you guys, follow us on Twitter for updates on this and other breaking stories. (Unusual Whales)
  
  
  
• Wait, was this Musk's plan all along, to rid the company of thousands of expensive but useless employees? (Tech Crunch)
  
  Well, someone wins a kewpie doll.
  
  
  
• Previously banned Twitter accounts are being reinstated. (The Verge)
  
  Including the Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson, who were both silenced for correctly identifying the sex of mental patients.

• Yoel Roth, former head of Twitter's Censorship and Intimidation department, should have been fired on Day One. (New York Times)
  
  I was prepared to give him a chance - one chance. I was wrong.
  
  Here he discusses why he quit after Musk also gave him a chance. Short version: He loathes freedom of speech and wants to see it eradicated everywhere, because someone might say something bad.
  
  
  
• China's new home-grown CPUs could soon offer the same IPC (instructions per cycle) as AMD's Zen 3. (WCCFTech)
  
  Missing from the story is the number of cycles per second, which is kind of important here. You can get any IPC number you want if you can slow down the clock speed. At its simplest, you can can internally double the clock speed - feed in a 1GHz clock and run the chip at 2Ghz - and sell it as a 1GHz part with amazing IPC.
  
  
  
• Good news: There's no shortage of the RTX 4080. (WCCFTech)
  
  Bad news: That's because it's overpriced and nobody wants it.
  
  
  
• Google's new AI is racist. (Ars Technica)
  
  Because of course it is.
  
  

  I entered "Estimating realistic 3D human avatars in clothing from a single image or video". In this case, it made up a fictitious paper and associated GitHub repo. The author is a real person (@AlbertPumarola) but the reference is bogus. (2/9) pic.twitter.com/N4i0BX27Yf

  — Michael Black (@Michael_J_Black) November 17, 2022

  
  
  Yeah, that's exactly what these language models do. (And the AI image generation models as well.) They don't understand anything. They don't reason. They just break down words (or images) to mathematics and recombine them in new ways.
  
  

  Galactica demo is off line for now.
  It's no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it.
  Happy? https://t.co/K56r2LpvFD

  — Yann LeCun (@ylecun) November 17, 2022

  
  
  
  
• Twitter is dead, by the way. AI researchers are definitely not active there.
  
  
  
• Robot delivery service Nuro is laying off 20% of its staff. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They build robots to deliver stuff; they don't deliver robots. Or maybe they do.
  
  
  
• Was the FTX "hack" actually the Bahamian government freezing their assets as part of a criminal investigation? (MarketWatch)
  
  Maybe. The appointed administrator says he has evidence that this is the case. And he's the guy brought in to liquidate Enron so he knows a thing or two about reading cooked books.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:04 AM

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