Daily Tech News 14 April 2023

• Following swift and decisive action from the federal government, the American banking system is once again on a firm footing and no further troubles are anticipated well fuck. (Yahoo Finance)
  
  Shares in First Republic Bank dropped by 62% yesterday and Western Alliance shares dropped by 47%.
  
  Wall Street analyst Robert Kiyosaki, who predicted the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, said there was no reason for investors to panic but it might be time to stock up on canned food, guns, and ammo. Well, he said silver and gold, but you can't eat those, or fight off the zombie horde.

• AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7640U looks to be a great chip for thin-and-light laptops. (WCCFTech)
  
  The U series is rated at a 15W TDP, where the HS chips are 45W and HX are 55W. The 7640U manages to get within 10% of the fastest laptop chips at any power rating on single-threaded tests, and is 60% faster than the previous generation's 6600U on multi-threaded tests.
  
  It's a 6 core chip, so it's not going to match a 24 core 13980HX, but it's not going to set your pants on fire either.
  
  
  
• How to make ChatGPT provide sources and citations. (ZDNet)
  
  This is about as productive as asking a chocolate-smeared three-year-old who ate the cake you left out on the counter.
  
  
  
• Hackers stole $197 billion from crypto lender Euler Finance. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Wait, what's that? Million? With an M? Well that's hardly worth reporting, isn't it. Get back to work.
  
  
  
• Meta - the parent company of Facebook and Instagram - has said fuck NFTs, whose stupid idea was this anyway? (Tech Crunch)
  
  Facebook tried to launch its own blockchain, called Libra, but the project was torpedoed by regulatory requirements. Support for NFTs was seen as a way to funnel people onto its own blockchain, and now that's gone there's no reason to support something they can't control.
  
  
  
• It's not all bad news, though: Microsoft has laid off its entire AI "ethics and society" team. (The Verge)
  
  And replaced them with a copy of Asimov's I, Robot which is cheaper and doesn't argue as much.

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