Daily Tech News 13 January 2025

• The metaverse will soon be more popular than the real world. Will reality disappear? No. (HackRead)
  
  The thing about reality is that it is real.
  
  It doesn't disappear when you stop believing in it.
  
  You do.

• Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming and they're running Linux. (ZDNet)
  
  Technically this is true. Nvidia is releasing new PCs, and they are running Linux.

  Powered by MediaTek and Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Superchip, Project DIGITS is a $3,000 personal AI that combines Nvidia's Blackwell GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU built on the Arm architecture. It's one impressive chip. It can deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision and support 200-billion-parameter large language models.

  Not quite:

  Project DIGITS will be available in May from NVIDIA and top partners, starting at $3,000.

  There's a difference.

  OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

  What about an endless magic cake that doesn't make you fat while we're wishing for things that will never happen?
  
  
  
• While we're wishing for things that will never happen the UK government is looking to leap into the red hot AI sector just before the bubble bursts. (CNBC)

  In a recent interview with CNBC, the boss of app development software firm Appian said he thinks the U.K. is well placed to be the "global leader on this issue."
  
  "The U.K. has put a stake in the ground declaring its prioritization of personal intellectual property rights," Matt Calkins, Appian's CEO, told CNBC. He cited 2018′s Data Protection Act as an example of how the U.K. is "closely associated with intellectual property rights."
  
  The U.K. is also not "subject to the same overwhelming lobbying blitz from domestic AI leaders that the U.S. is," Calkins added - meaning it might not be as prone to bowing down to pressure from tech giants as politicians stateside.
  
  "In the U.S., anybody who writes a law about AI is going to hear from Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft or Google before that bill even reaches the floor," Calkins said.
  
  "That's a powerful force stopping anyone from writing sensible legislation or protecting the rights of individuals whose intellectual property is being taken wholesale by these major AI players."

  In other words, the UK has failed before they have even started.
  
  
  
• THe J5Create is a Thunderbolt 5 dock that features a lot of stuff. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Lots of video ports, an M.2 slot, support for an MXM module for a graphics upgrade, 2.5Gb Ethernet, all that good stuff.
  
  And costs $1400.
  
  

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