Daily Tech News 22 November 2024

• The problem is clear: Our customers are dumb. (Intel)
  
  Intel commissioned a study to find out how much more efficient users were when equipped with a fancy new "AI PC".
  
  It turned out:

  At the same time, AI PCs offered a potentially transformative impact on people's lives, saving individuals roughly 240 minutes a week on routine digital tasks. But the study also highlighted that current AI PC owners spend longer on tasks than their counterparts using traditional PCs. Study results show that greater consumer education is needed to bridge the gap between the promise and reality of AI PCs.

  AI PCs make things worse, but the real problem is the users.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile at Microsoft. (Business Insider) (archive site)
  
  Microsoft Copilot is a little too efficient, it seems... At sharing confidential information with people who shouldn't have it.
  
  
  

• Microsoft really really really really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11. (The Register)
  
  Really.
  
  
  
• Well, that's less than ideal: Finastra, which provides technology services to 45 of the 50 largest banks in the world, got hacked and saw 400GB of data stolen. (Krebs on Security)
  
  There's no need to worry, though, unless you or someone you know uses a bank.
  
  
  
• OpenAI "accidentally" erased evidence pertaining to the lawsuit by the New York Times. (The Verge)
  
  Just call me Mister Butterfingers!
  
  
  
• Kairos Power - which recently signed a contract to provide power to Google's datacenters - has received approval to build two test reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Tech Crunch)
  
  These are small modular reactors, or SMRs, using molten salt cooling systems. They're supposed to be simpler and safer - as well as smaller - than conventional designs.
  
  The test reactors will produce 35MW of heat each, while the production models will produce 150MW.

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