Daily Tech News 13 May 2023

• Twitter has a new CEO: Linda Yaccarino, previously chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships at NBC Universal. (Tech Crunch)
  
  On the one hand, hiring someone to focus on advertising while Elon himself focuses on the tech side makes sense, and he still owns the company and can override or fire the CEO if required.
  
  On the other hand, nobody from corporate America gives the slightest shit about fundamental liberties or indeed fundamental reality.
  
  On the third hand, gotta make money somehow.
  
  Cautiously pessimistic on this hire.

• Nvidia is reportedly about to announce a 16GB model of the 4060 Ti. (Videocardz)
  
  The 4060 Ti will be available with 8GB later this month. A 16GB model, and a 4060 non-Ti version with 8GB, will be available in July.
  
  If true it's a smart move by Nvidia. AMD has been needling them for not having enough VRAM on their graphics cards: At a price where AMD has 16GB, Nvidia only offers 12GB. Since the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 both have 16GB of RAM, Nvidia cards run out when playing some recent games on maxed-out settings.
  
  Reason enough to hold off on that 4070 anyway.
  
  
  
• You can now upgrade your laptop to 96GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Assuming you can upgrade it at all, and that it uses DDR5 SODIMMs. Like the desktop versions, these use Micron's new 24Gbit chips, and come in speeds up to 5600MHz.
  
  
  
• PFAs are costing society $17 trillion a year according to a report that oddly enough has not been published so it is impossible to question how it came up with this ludicrous number. (The Guardian)
  
  PFAs are used to make fabrics stain- and water-resistant.
  
  
  
• A quick look at the Asus Pro WS W790E SAGE SE motherboard for Intel's Xeon W-3400. (Serve the Home)
  
  Don't buy it.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT doesn't know what stuff isn't. (Quanta)
  
  Meaning that it's bad at negatives.
  
  This is true. It also doesn't know what stuff is. All it knows is how words fit together, and negation is a subtle concept.
  
  
  
• If your local digital bakery is still out of raspberry pies, here's an orange and a banana. (Notebook Check)
  
  Both based on the popular Rockchip RK3588 Arm CPU. This uses Arm's A76 cores, a couple of generations newer than the Raspberry Pi's A72. (There was an A73 but it doesn't count, and no A74.)
  
  They include features the Raspberry Pi currently lacks like M.2 storage, and go up the 16GB of RAM rather than being limited to 8GB.

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