Daily Tech News 25 June 2024

• The RIAA and major music labels have filed suit Suno and Udio - the company responsible for "BBL Drizzy" whatever the hell that is* - for copyright infringement because the AI systems learned from copyrighted works just like every musician for the last three hundred years. (The Verge)
  
  The RIAA claims this case is "straightforward" and presented as evidence a song they produced which sounds suspiciously like Johnny B. Goode - allegedly, because I can't confirm it right now because it won't load.
  
  But AI only produces what you tell it to, and very likely this is similar to the New York Times' suit against OpenAI where they claimed ChatGPT would reproduce NYT articles, which is true only if you essentially feed it the article as a prompt.
  
  I've had enough of these rent-seeking assholes. A take off and nuke the entire site from orbit on all their houses.
  
  * I found it. If you imagine a one-hit-wonder 70s funk band that released a second song that never charted, and that song had a B side, and that B side was chosen over the only other song they had which was recorded at 5AM after an all-night marijuana taste-testing session, BBL Drizzy sounds like that rejected song's cousin from the country that was kicked in the head by a chicken when it was young.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Facebook has started tagging photos as "Made with AI". (Tech Crunch)
  
  Only problem is they are doing this whether the photos were made with AI or not.
  
  Maybe sic them on the RIAA and let them fight to the death.

• AMD's Zen 5 utterly dominates the competition - in one benchmark. (Notebook Check)
  
  Well, three benchmarks from the same benchmarking app. But the 16 core 9950X trades blows in all three tests with the 32 core Threadripper 7975X and is three times faster than Intel's 13900K.
  
  That will definitely not translate to single-threaded performance, and won't reflect in general-purpose multi-threaded tasks, but if AIDA64 does closely model your workload you will definitely want one of these.
  
  
  
• LG's new tandem OLED displays - first seen in the recent Apple iPad Pro - are coming to laptops starting with Dell. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  By stacking two layers of LEDs one on top of the other, these displays manage to be brighter, thinner, and lighter than previous model while also drawing significantly less power.
  
  Unless they don't, because the article does not appear to be well-sourced or even particularly coherent.
  
  
  
• Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with US authorities seeking to extradite him, that will allow him to leave his prison cell in Britain and return to Britain's former prison colony where he will have to fight an echidna in hand-to-hand combat. (CNN)
  
  Man just keeps winning.
  
  
  
• The EU is suing Apple again. (The Verge)
  
  Take off and yadda yadda.
  
  
  
• Experts say Telegram's "30 engineers" team is a security red flag. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Yes and no.
  
  By itself, having 30 engineers is not a problem. Having 30 engineers who know what they are doing, and zero engineers who don't, is an absolute blessing, so long as you don't overwork the team to the point that major mistakes start creeping out to the production environment.
  
  Any sufficiently large team will have at least one member who is dangerously incompetent.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:28 AM

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