Daily Tech News 20 September 2024

• Elon Musk's reposts of Kamala Harris AI parodies may not fly under California's new law banning Elon Musk from reposting Kamala Harris AI parodies. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Space rocks.
  
  
  
• The creator of said Kamala Harris AI parody has sued California over its law banning the creation of Kamala Harris AI parodies, noting that the law not only violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, but wipes its bum with them and then blows its nose on what remains. (Politico)
  

  Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon said in a statement that Kohls had already labeled the post as a parody on X.

  "Requiring them to use the word "parody" on the actual video avoids further misleading the public as the video is shared across the platform," Gardon said. "It's unclear why this conservative activist is suing California. This new disclosure law for election misinformation isn't any more onerous than laws already passed in other states, including Alabama."

  At time of writing, there are zero major social networks headquartered in Alabama.

• As mentioned yesterday, Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have filed suite against Palworld developer Pocketpair over patent violation. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The question remaining is, what patent?
  
  Nintendo has somehow forgotten to include that information.
  
  
  
• The Ryzen AI Max appears to be on its way. (WCCFTech)
  
  This is AMD's new high-end laptop chip with up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores in the top-of-the-line Ryzen AI Max 395+.
  
  That compares to 4 Zen 5 and 8 slower Zen 5c cores with 16 GPU cores in the current Ryzen AI 370. So this will be a beast.
  
  
  
• You are in a maze of twisty little licenses, all alike. (CSVBase)
  
  A review of an a rant about open source licenses.
  
  
  
• Earth is set to get a mini-moon for a couple of months. (CBS)
  
  Are those Moon months or mini-moon months?
  
  
  

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