Daily Tech News 11 June 2023

• Musicians have no need to worry: MusicGen is ChatGPT for music. (Honu)
  
  It's terrible.
  
  Not even amateurish. The page presents dozens of examples of different categories of music created by different software. None of the ones I listened to show any sign that the software has picked up on what makes music, music.
  
  Sony used to have a software package called Cinescore, that let you pick a theme and basically paint music with it. You'd say I want three minutes and twenty seconds of surf rock, and it would give it to you. You could then say, I want a transition here and the bridge here, and it would do that.
  
  Not high art, no, but great if you wanted to create original background music for videos or games. And infinitely better than this drivel.
  
  
  

• 8GB of GDDR6 RAM costs $25. (WCCFTech)
  
  Worth asking why Nvidia charges $100.
  
  
  
• A blog that loads in 1 second around the world. (SwitchupCB)
  
  It's self-promotion, yes, but that site does load fast. I'll take a look.
  
  Update: Never mind, it's rubbish.
  
  
  
• The Surgeon General has issued a warning about the dangers of government education to teenage minds. (CNN)
  
  Just kidding. The chief blitherer is blathering about social media. Which sucks, yes, but relatively speaking is a tuna in a school of whales.
  
  
  
• Shove it, Clippy: Microsoft's Bing is inserting polls into search results. (Torrent Freak)
  
  Always vote for ancient aliens.
  
  
  
• The FBI says that renewing FISA Section 702 is absolutely critical to allow them to continue their job of legally spying on American citizens. (The Register)
  
  Without it, they might be forced to go back to doing it illegally.
  
  
  
• I rewatched Good Omens season one. I stand by my earlier assessment that it is one of the best TV series of the past five years.
  
  Which admittedly is like being one of the most honest Democrats in Congress, but still. Hoping they don't shit all over season two.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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