Daily Tech News 22 October 2024

• The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are suing AI startup Perplexity over copyright infringement. (Variety)
  
  To be fair, that seems to be Perplexity's entire business model: Index copyrighted content, summarise it, file off the serial numbers, and then provide it to users to answer their questions.

  News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, in a statement about the lawsuit, said: "Perplexity perpetrates an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp. The perplexing Perplexity has willfully copied copious amounts of copyrighted material without compensation, and shamelessly presents repurposed material as a direct substitute for the original source. Perplexity proudly states that users can 'skip the links' - apparently, Perplexity wants to skip the check."

  From my understanding of Perplexity, this is actually pretty accurate.
  
  This bit less so:

  We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realize the potential of artificial intelligence

  OpenAI is as unprincipled as any company in the industry, but with billions of dollars of investors' money to burn, they can pay off at least some of their victims.

• The Internet Archive got hacked again - not the main site, but their Zendesk tech support hub. (HackRead)
  
  Oops.
  
  
  
• Arkansas may have vast lithium reserves. (New York Times)
  
  Or at least half vast.
  
  
  
• Daze is MySpace for teenagers. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or maybe GeoCities.
  
  Only worse.
  
  
  
• Disney will name Bob Iger's replacement in 2026. (CNBC)
  
  I think Tim would be a good name.
  
  
  
• AMD's upcoming 9800X3D - due in stores November 7 - seems to be significantly faster on general-purpose workloads than either the 9700X or 7800X3D. (WCCFTech)
  
  The X3D chips are optimised for games with extra large caches, which make them run at somewhat slower clock speeds, which in turn makes them perform worse fo applications that don't benefit from extra large caches.
  
  The 9800X3D though ups the TDP to 120W vs. 65W for the 9700X, and that makes it a very capable chip all round.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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