Daily Tech News 19 March 2023

• If you use AI to generate text or art it's not copyrighted in the US. (The Register)
  
  If you use AI to generate text or art and then edit it - for example using Midjourney's AI to generate the initial image and then a Photoshop AI filter to modify it - then you can copyright it.
  
  No, that doesn't make sense. It's not supposed to.

• The 2023 Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 also doesn't have the four essential keys. (NotebookCheck)
  
  This is partly a downgrade from the 2022 model, as they've replace the 4k main screen with a 2560x1600 240Hz model, while keeping the second screen at 4k width. To be fair, 2560x1600 is pretty good at 16", but it's actually lower resolution than the 14" model's 2880x1800.
  
  While it doesn't have the 4EK, what it does have is a 16 core Ryzen 7945HX, Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics (though the laptop version, which is equivalent to a desktop 4080), two DDR5 SODIMM slots for up to 64GB of RAM (and up to 96GB in the near future), two M.2 slots for up to 16TB of storage, two USB-C 3.2 ports (though not USB 4 / Thunderbolt), two USB-A ports, HDMI 2.1, 2.5Gbps wired Ethernet, a headphone jack, and a full-size SD card slot.
  
  Personally I'd rather have a lower-powered graphics solution - a 4060 would be fine - and a 4k 60Hz main screen, but since I'm not going to buy one that doesn't really matter.
  
  
  
• Codon is a compiler that takes Python code and turns it into binaries that run as fast as C unless you use Unicode in which case it collapses into a screaming heap. (Exaloop)
  
  I hate it when that happens.
  
  
  
• AMD is testing its own big/little CPU design. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  As seen in mobile chips - which now often have three levels of CPU core - and on Intel's 12th and 13th generation, these designs have a small number of full-sized cores - high performance, high power - and a larger number of slower but more efficient cores. In Intel's case, the E cores are half the speed of the P cores but a quarter the size.
  
  AMD seems to be taking a more moderate approach, because the low-power cores are still based on Zen 4. These are aimed at smaller devices - ultralight laptops, for example, and portable gaming consoles like the Steam Deck (which uses an earlier custom AMD chip).

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