Daily Tech News 18 May 2023

• There is no evidence that TikTok, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese intelligence, is being used to gather information from and about TikTok users and feed it back to China. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Yes, TikTok has been caught out repeatedly doing exactly that. Yes, TikTok has been caught spying on journalists.
  
  But that doesn't count because coloration is not casuistry.
  
  Also banned in Montana.

• Has ChatGPT been neutered? (Hacker News)
  
  Lots of people saying yes, they use ChatGPT and it gets more useless every week.
  
  Lots of other people saying they don't use ChatGPT but the above people are clearly lying.
  
  
  
• What happened with Asus routers this morning? (Downtown Doug Brown)
  
  No answer, but it looks like it automatically downloaded a file of firmware update information - even if you have automated updates turned off, it downloads that file so it can tell you an update is available - and the file was bad and the router plotzed.
  
  Fortunately a simple reboot would fix it.
  
  
  
• A review of the QNAP QSW-2104-2T switch. (Serve the Home)
  
  A very short review since it's an unmanaged switch without even POE. It's not even complicated enough for QNAP to inject security flaws. It works great because it's too dumb to fail.
  
  
  
• Mojo is Python only not.
  
  

  There's a new programming language in town - it's Mojo! I'm more than a little excited about it. It's Python, but with none of Python's problems.
  
  You can write code as fast as C, and deploy small standalone applications like C.
  
  My post is below, and a 🧵https://t.co/0IWGqcpEY7

  — Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) May 4, 2023

  
  
  Sounds great. Where can I download the source code?
  
  You can't.
  
  Binaries?
  
  Sorry.
  
  Docker container?
  
  Usually, sir, but there's been a lot of demand and we've run out.
  
  

  it sounds cool, but i've never seen a programming language with a waitlist before and it's very weird. is it actually going to be open source?

  — maddie 🌸🦜 (@0xmaddie_) May 4, 2023

  
  
  
  
• The Analogue Duo is a PC Engine / TurboGrafx hardware emulator. (Notebook Check)
  
  It uses an FPGA to precisely emulate the hardware rather than using software which would be cheaper and easier and probably off by a millisecond here or there.
  
  I want a Sharp X68000 emulator.
  
  Oh. Here's six. (Gametech Wiki)a
  
  Dragon Spirit also ran on the TurboGrafx but the X68000 port was the best.
  
  

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