Daily Tech News 23 November 2024

• Elon Musk's new ideas for improving government efficiency are not in fact new. (The Verge)
  
  Do tell, O Verge.

  Though DOGE isn't a real department - and may in fact just be President-elect Donald Trump's way of placating Musk by giving him the appearance of a real job - it represents a long-running right-wing attempt to gut the civil service, a plan the incoming administration fully supports.

  So it only appears to be a real job, but the administration fully supports it?

  In any case, Musk and Ramaswamy have proposed cutting "thousands" of federal regulations and determining the "minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions."

  Awesome.

  This time around, it's not clear whether the courts would stop Trump, who, in his first term, nominated more judges to the federal judiciary than any of his predecessors and will inherit an extremely friendly Supreme Court. And as Musk and Ramaswamy noted in their explanation of how DOGE will function, the incoming Trump administration has something new at its disposal: the recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the landmark case that overturned Chevron deference.

  Better and better!

  The goal is mass deregulation - a weakening of checks and balances and a major cut to basic government services, all in the name of concentrating power among a small group of plutocrats.

  As opposed to the way things are now, where government regulations are the primary tool for concentrating power among a small group of plutocrats?
  
  
  

• Is AI hitting a wall? (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Yes. Also, if you read to the end of the article, it is literally Hitler.
  
  
  
• The future of Windows is cloud and AI. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Literally Hitler.
  
  
  
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is opening an investigation into an advertising group that organised a boycott of Twitter. (Tech Crunch)

  Trade organizations and companies cannot collude to block advertising revenue from entities they wish to undermine," said Paxton in the press release. "Today's document request is part of an ongoing investigation to hold WFA and its members accountable for any attempt to rig the system to harm organizations they might disagree with."

  Good.
  
  
  
• The DOJ is looking to disempartnerise Google and Anthropic. (Pymnts)
  
  Because it can, apparently.
  
  
  
• Amazon meanwhile is throwing another $4 billion down the Anthropic drain. (CNBC)
  
  None of the big AI companies are in the same universe as profitable.
  
  
  
• TSMC, which is profitable, expects 1.6nm chips to be coming off its production lines in 2026. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  My new laptop has a Ryzen 7730U CPU, which is built on a 7nm process.
  
  So... Yeah.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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