Daily Tech News 12 August 2023

• Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced head of failed crypto Ponzi scheme FTX, has had his $250 million bail revoked and been sent to jail to await trial, under new charges of witness tampering. (CNBC)
  
  Because he spoke to the press.
  
  Bankman-Fried is a fool and a phony and I'm almost starting to believe he's innocent of the specific charges. Not that I would ever let him within a dozen firewalls of my digital funds.

• Google wants content scraping by AI tools to be considered fair use. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Of course they do.
  
  But... Why shouldn't it be?
  
  I can read whatever I like on the internet, and express my opinions here. Well, not if Prime Minister Albonazi manages to shove his godforsaken misinformation bill through Parliament but until then we have the tacit assumption of freedom of speech down here, even if it is not specifically protected under our constitution because nothing else is either.
  
  And not that those specific protections are worth much in the US anymore.
  
  Anyway.
  
  Why shouldn't training AIs on public material be fair use under the First Amendment? How can we have free speech if we don't have free listening?
  
  
  
• Disabling the Efficiency cores on Intel CPUs nets a 50% performance boost on new game Atlas Fallen. (WCCFTech)
  
  Which is apparently not an unauthorised sequel to Shrugged.
  
  I'm not sure who exactly screwed this up, but the article points the finger at the game developer and not Microsoft.
  
  
  
• Use text-to-speech to instantly create your own podcast. (Hacker News)
  
  No.
  
  
  
• The You Can't Just Say That S25-0801 offers eight 2.5Gb ports and one 10Gb port, but the 10Gb port is SFP so it goes straight onto the trash pile. (Serve the Home)
  
  Around $100. Shame about, uh, that.

  The bottom of the switch has two mounting points. It also has a You Can't Just Say That product label. We will just quickly note that the "You Can't Just Say That" name was one of the most frequent points that commenters focused on in the YouTube video.

  You don't say.
  
  Probably because you can't.
  
  
  
• Austria's telecommunications regulator has ruled that courts can order DNS blocks for various nefarious activities, but cannot require ISPs to block IP addresses. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Which is a sport our own authorities in Australia are a little too keen on as well.
  
  The problem in this case is that a single IP address can host, say, 96,530 individual websites.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

| Access Comments