Daily Tech News 16 January 2023

• BuzzFeed used ChatGPT to write a story about CNET using ChatGPT to write stories. (BuzzFeed)
  
  How did it go?

  Note: This article was written entirely by ChatGPT and reviewed by a human editor. (Actually, we had to rewrite the prompt a few times to get it to stop inserting factual errors.)

  So rather better than usual then.
  
  
  
• Kronii case arrived. I am slightly disappoint that it didn't come in a fabulously Kronii box the way the Bae case did.
  
  Now I have two shiny new computer cases but still zero shiny new computer parts to put in them.
  
  
  
• Happy godawful modern sculpture day!

• Why is there a global shortage of silicon chips? A global shortage of silicon potatoes. (Jabil)
  
  Basically.
  
  Pretty much everything needed to make chips is in short supply - so the chips themselves are in short supply.
  
  Thinking of making myself some dual RP2040 hobby boards. Those at least you can get.
  
  
  
• Nope, that's it. No huge security disasters today, no blockchain meltdowns. All quiet.
  
  
  
• Too quiet.

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