Daily Tech News 1 June 2025

• CNN says that Anthropic's warning that AI could wipe out 50% of jobs is nonsense. (CNN)
  
  For CNN, it's 100%.
  
  Maybe more.
  
  
  
• AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine business act like petulant children, declare bankruptcy for no reason, and try to call the FBI over $2 business fees that they have previously agreed to. (arXiv)
  
  Or to put it another way, just like CNN anchors.

• Gigabyte has listed memory supports speeds for AMD's Ryzen 9000G CPUs - which don't exist yet. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These are desktop versions of laptop chips like the Ryzen 370. That has four Zen 5 cores, eight slower Zen 5c cores, and 16 GPU cores - making it faster for gaming than the dedicated RX 580 GPU.
  
  We'll have to wait a few months to see how these perform on the desktop but given that previous laptop-to-desktop generations have shown as much as 35% better performance with the increased power budget the 9900G (if that is what the new 12-core chip is named) could perform close to existing 12-core chips like the Ryzen 7900.
  
  
  
• Molex - the company that makes those ubiquitous hard drive power connectors - showed off a PCIe 7.0 cable running at 128GHz over a distance of a meter. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, technically it's 32GHz because it's using PAM4 DDR signals, but it's still a lot.
  
  
  
• How not to sort by average rating. (Evan Miller)
  
  The simple approaches are wrong and the right approach is definitely not simple.
  
  
  
• Running Doom on an Apple AIX Unix server from 1996. (Old VCR)
  
  Or indeed any other AIX 4.1 system, should you have a bunch of those lying around.
  
  
  
• GitHub added a Copilot feature to use AI to automatically open support tickets and Git repo owners are pissed. (GitHub)
  
  Imagine doing tech support for free and you get the attention of a scam call center in Myanmar because Google handed them your 2FA phone number.
  
  They are not happy.
  
  
  
• The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro has things. (Liliputing)
  
  It's based on a four-core Arm Cortex A73 chip, so it should perform similarly to the Raspberry Pi 4.
  
  But unlike the Pi 4, it has seven Ethernet ports (one gigabit, four 2.5Gb, and two 10Gb supporting both RJ45 and SFP ports), two M.2 slots for storage, three M.2 slots for 5G (I think these can also take SSDs), two mini-PCIe slots for wifi, plus 8GB of built-in storage and 4GB or 8GB of RAM. And a micro-SD slot. And it looks like three nano-SIM slots. And I think four USB ports including the debug port.
  
  So if you want all of that, it has it. Would make a very flexible and powerful router if you need a very flexible and powerful router.
  
  
  
• Journalists keep embarrassing themselves. Is that normal? (The Verge)
  
  Apparently, yes.

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