Daily Tech News 21 July 2023

• AI generated clickbait will lead to the demise of search and web publishing. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is so obvious that you have to wonder why anyone does it.
  
  
  
• We tried using OpenAI to generate "marketing strategies" and it worked. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Oh. That's why.

• Alleged pricing for AMD's Radeon 7700 and 7800 has leaked. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The rumour puts the 7700 at $450 and the 7800 at $550, which is probably true because both prices are $50 too high.
  
  At $400 the 7700 would compete directly against Nvidia's 8GB RTX 4060 Ti and crush it, and at $500 the 7800 would face up against the 16GB 4060 Ti model and make mincemeat out of it.
  
  It was AMD's fight to lose and they did.
  
  
  
• Solidigm has announced 60TB QLC SSDs for the datacenter. (AnandTech)
  
  Prices are not mentioned in the article, but one of the comments has the details: You can expect this to be around $4000. Which is a lot of money, but only 20% more per TB than the list price of the 4TB Team MP34.
  
  If you need over a petabyte of fast storage in a 2U server, it's now easy.
  
  
  
• At the other end of the scale you can get a 2TB WD SN850X at Best Buy for $99. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a good drive and that's a great price. If you need 2TB of storage, no reason to wait. Prices will probably continue to trend downwards, but when it's already under $100 there's only so much further it can go.
  
  
  
• Apple is threatening to remove online services from the UK if planned surveillance legislation passes. (BBC News)
  
  This isn't even a "maybe they both can lose" situation. Apple is right; the legislation is awful.
  
  It would make it legal for British police and intelligence agencies to do everything their US equivalents currently do illegally.
  
  
  

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