Daily Tech News 9 September 2024

• Idiots who tried TikTok's viral "free money glitch" at ATMs are getting reported for fraud. (Gizmodo)
  
  The "glitch" involved depositing a cheque that you wrote on your own account into your own account at an ATM, and then withdrawing the funds immediately before the cheque bounced.
  
  There is a term for this.
  
  Though doing it from and to your own bank account is an artistic touch of idiocy I had never considered.

  It's not entirely clear how many people may have tried this scheme, but the Journal describes it as "thousands." The viral meme got so popular that tens of millions of people have watched TikTok videos about the "glitch" at this point, according to the Journal.

  People haven't gotten dumber, it's just that technology allows them to do more dumb things faster.
  
  
  
• Though considering that many of these people posted video of themselves committing grand larceny in a manner where the bank also has video of them, maybe they really are getting dumber.
  
  
  
• Though again, considering that criminal mastermind Frank Abnagale, the subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can, only managed to make off with $1448.60 in his own cheque fraud scheme before being caught and sent to prison, maybe not.
  
  
  

• Elon Musk has said that no, Tesla is not licensing AI from xAI. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Considering that the two AI platforms serve completely different purposes, this report only serves to highlight that the mainstream and tech media alike don't know what they are talking about.
  
  
  
• AMD's Radeon 8000 series will target the mainstream first, not the high end. (WCCFTech)
  
  The usual pattern is to put out the fastest, most expensive cards in a new generation first, and then trickle out more affordable options. AMD plans to reverse that with the new generation - expected to launch at CES in January - because its high-end cards don't sell all that well anyway.
  
  This is a much better plan to compete with Nvidia because Nvidia will be launching its own high end cards around the same time, with its mainstream cards coming months afterwards.
  
  
  
• Speaking of launches, SpaceX is hoping to start launching unmanned Starship missions to Mars late in 2026. (Next Big Future)
  
  If all goes to plan, manned missions will follow in 2028 or 2030.
  
  
  
• China meanwhile is planning a return flight to Mars in 2028. (Space News)
  
  "Merely an unmanned mission to return small samples. To Mars. Well, from Earth, to Mars, and back to Earth. Round trip. Steerage class.
  
  
  

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