Daily Tech News 13 December 2022

• Sam Bankman-Fried has unfortunately been forced to decline Maxine Waters' kind invitation to give testimony before Congress today due to (checks notes) having been arrested on charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, money laundering, breaking ranks while in formation, felonious assault, indiscriminate behavior, mopery, high treason, provoking, being a smart-guy, and listening to classical music. (WCCFTech)
  
  He spent his last day in freedom as he has been spending every day these past few weeks: Further incriminating himself.
  
  

  Q: In your opinion, does allowing users and all accounts to withdraw funds that may not have been theirs but another’s customers constitute a problem?
  
  SBF: Uh...It's a good question.

  — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 12, 2022

  
  
  How was this clown ever allowed outside without a leash?
  
  
  

• This is real:
  
  

  Q: Sam, are you playing videogames right now?
  
  SBF: *clicks* yes.
  
  Q: I find it incredibly disrespectful that you are playing videogames while talking to us...
  
  SBF: ... do you have a question?

  — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 12, 2022

  
  
  
  
• AMD's Radeon 7900 XTX, XTXX, and XXTX are here. (Ars Technica)
  
  They're pretty good, though certainly not cheap. Except for ray tracing, the 7900 XTX consistently outruns the RTX 4080 for $200 less. And has 50% more RAM.
  
  But at $200 less than the 4080 it will still set you back $1000.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix has showed off 8GHz server RAM, using two interleaved sets of DDR5 chips. (AnandTech)
  
  That's quite fast. Particularly considering something like the latest Epyc Genoa servers have 24 memory channels across two CPUs.
  
  These particular modules look like they're Intel-only initially, but that will change.
  
  
  
• Next year's Meteor Lake chips from Intel will use a new socket - LGA 1851 - and despite the headline will most definitely not support LPDDR5X-7500. (WCCFTech)
  
  Because socket LGA 1851 is for desktops and LPDDR5X is for laptops.
  
  And allegedly will have a maximum of 6 P cores, which is a step backwards. Doesn't matter for the average user, but if true there won't be a new high-end chip from Intel until 2024.
  
  
  
• AI is crap because researchers spend all their time teaching it not to ever offend people who are actively seeking to be offender rather than to do anything remotely useful. (Astral Codex Ten)
  
  Also, ChatGPT is a wonderful front-end to a universal search engine except that if ever it cannot find an answer to your question it will make something up rather than risk disappointing you.
  
  
  
• You might be able to buy a Raspberry Pi next year. (Liliputing)
  
  Also, the people running Mastodon nodes are all insane. That might seem unrelated, but read the article.

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