Daily Tech News 5 June 2024

• OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude went down at the same time, following an earlier outage of Google's Gemini. (Tech Crunch)
  
  And nothing of value was lost.
  
  
  
• Elon Musk sets back Tesla by billions of dollars in time value of autonomy related efforts by diverting chips to X and xAI. (WCCFTech)
  
  And nothing of value was lost.
  
  
  
• First Rule of Online Publishing: A hate click is still a click.
  

• Here's a 2800W power supply for your new... Arc welder, maybe? (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Exactly what power source that is supposed to plug in to is unclear. An Australian 15A socket would work, but they're not common. In the US maybe a 30A socket.
  
  
  
• Intel's 144 core Xeons are here. (Serve the Home)
  
  Unfortunately these will be competing with AMD's 192 core chips, and AMD's cores are faster.
  
  
  
• There is nothing new under the Sun: Cable and telecom companies are suing the FCC over net neutrality... Again. (Ars Technica)
  
  I support net neutrality, because the cable and telecom companies cannot be trusted.
  
  I do not support the FCC creating this regulation, because it is a naked power grab.
  
  It requires standalone legislation from Congress, who can be trusted to do nothing.
  
  
  
• China's internet is disappearing. (New York Times) (archive site)
  
  One third of the Chinese web has shut down since 2017, and almost everything published online in the country between 1995 and 2005 is simply gone.
  
  Even major natural events like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are being progressively erased.
  
  In the West, the internet is forever. Everything is archived, particularly things we might wish to be forgotten. When Ragtag Archive - more than a petabyte of vtuber streams, much of it from channels now closed - was itself facing closure last year, a swarm of volunteers came together to preserve it.
  
  Less so in China.
  
  
  
• Australia's Bookburner General has dropped her lawsuit against Twitter. (Twitter)
  
  Never mind. There will be another one along yesterday.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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