Daily Tech News 7 April 2023

• Artificial Defamation: How ChatGPT libeled law professor Jonathan Turley. (Jonathan Turley)
  
  Libeling lawyers is not notably a successful business model.
  
  
  
• Libeling lawyers and then citing imaginary articles from real newspapers is not an improvement. (Washington Post)
  
  This time not just from ChatGPT but from Microsoft's ChatGPT-infused version of its Bing search engine.
  
  
  
• So naturally Google is all-in on further destroying its own search in the same way. (WSJ)
  
  Let a thousand lawsuits bloom.

• AMD's new Ryzen 7800X3D not only outperforms Intel's 13900K in gaming, it does so at about one third the power consumption. (Tech Powerup)
  
  The 7800X3D averages 49W in gaming benchmarks; the 13900K averages 143W.
  
  And the AMD chip is cheaper.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the 7950X3D and 7900X3D have received price cuts. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 7950X3D is now $599, matching the regular 7950X, while the 7900X3D is $549 and at that price dead in the water.
  
  If you care mostly about games, get a 7800X3D.
  
  If you care about heavy productivity tasks, get the 7950X.
  
  If you want a powerful but cool and quiet workstation, get the 7900.
  
  And if you have one computer for work and games, maybe consider the 7950X3D.
  
  The low-end chips - the 7600 and 7700 - are also quite good, now that cheaper motherboards are coming out.
  
  
  
• Jim Keller, who led the original Ryzen design effort for AMD and now heads design of a new RISC chip at startup Tenstorrent, estimates that next year's Zen 5 chips from AMD will be 30% faster than Zen 4. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Single-threaded.
  
  That's a lot for a single generation.
  
  Not clear exactly how much information Keller has access to, but he's one of the leaders in the field so he might have a good idea.
  
  
  
• The Beelink EQ12 is a mini PC - a NUC - with an Intel N100 CPU. (Liliputing)
  
  The N series chips have only the low-power E cores from Alder Lake. But that lets us clearly see exactly how fast those E cores are, and the answer is fast enough. Single-threaded it's as fast as the Ryzen 1700 I was using up until this time last year.
  
  On the other hand it's only available with 16GB of RAM. On the third hand it has a DIMM slot so you can upgrade that to at least 32GB. On the fourth hand it costs just $259 including 16GB RAM, a 500GB SSD, and allegedly Windows 11 Pro.
  
  On the fifth hand it's a lot slower than a 13900K. On the sixth hand, it uses just 6W of power.
  
  
  
• Which used to be a lot, but that was long ago and in another country.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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