Daily Tech News 12 December 2024

• Mad Matt Mullenweg reportedly flipped out after a judge granted WP Engine a preliminary injunction against WordPress. (404 Media)
  
  WordPress is enjoined from requiring oaths of vengeance against WP Engine and from locking WP Engine and its employees and customers out of the open source services that WordPress provides.
  
  I'll say it again: If you don't want to provide your service to everyone in the world, don't offer it as open source.

  "It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this," he wrote in that Slack, according to a screenshot viewed by 404 Media. "I'm sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted."

  I've looked at the WordPress code recently. Sick and disgusted is unearned praise.
  
  

• I'm sorry, Mario. Your death robot from the future is in another castle down right now. (HackRead)
  
  ChatGPT and the newly released Sora video creator from OpenAI went down for several hours. The cause of the outage is currently reported as "we don't know and if we did we wouldn't tell you".
  
  
  
• Speaking of Sora, a new AI that can create entire movies from a simple prompt - movies that last a maximum of twenty seconds because any longer and it goes insane - it looks like copyright lawsuits are back on the menu. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They threw everything into this, including but not limited to Super Mario Bros and Pokemon.
  
  This seems ill-advised.
  
  
  
• And speaking of Slack, GM told the employees if its Cruise subsidiary that it no longer has a Cruise subsidiary. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The work will be absorbed into GM as a whole. The jobs... We don't know.
  
  
  
• If you have an Embodied Moxie robot, you have a $800 clown. (Ars Technica)
  
  The company is not offering refunds because "we don't have any money left".

  In addition to the robot being bricked, Embodied noted that warranties, repair services, the corresponding parent app and guides, and support staff will no longer be accessible.

  Specialised devices like this from small startups will always be high-risk. It's a bit like complaining that you can no longer buy ribbons for your 1923 Underwood typewriter, except faster.
  
  
  
• BadRAM breaks security on AMD servers by... Opening them up and installing a fake RAM module powered by a Pi Pico and a 9v battery. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What's interesting is that AMD has issued a software patch that protects against this.
  
  
  
• Italy's Datashield antipiracy system blocked another CDN IP address, inadvertently taking down a tech news site that has been noted for its criticism of Datashield. (TorrentFreak)
  
  For very small values of "inadvertently".

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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