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Amazon has dropped - the bad kind of dropped - its planned Sam Altman biopic, Artificial. (The Independent)

The film, which depicted the credibly accused but I would never say so myself compulsive liar and total sociopath in an unflattering light may just possibly have conflicted with Amazon's $50 billion investment in OpenAI and OpenAI's $38 billion in contracts with Amazon.

But I would never say so myself.
I will take the consummate serpent grease entrepreneur's side any day of the week over communist senator Bernie Sanders' plan to simply steal the entire AI industry. (Tom's Hardware)

Sanders' insane plan offers a dividend of $1000 to every adult American drawn from the profits of an industry that is losing massive amounts of money.

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South Korea's Hyundai has taken full ownership of creepy robot dog company Boston Dynamics. (Startup Fortune)

They bought out Japanese investment firm SoftBank's 10% holding for $325 quadrillion.*

* Delete zeroes until it makes sense.
AMD's TSME will return to Ryzen 9000 CPUs via a BIOS update. (Tom's Hardware)

This is AMD's memory encryption system that prevents any potential leakage of data between mutually untrusted virtual machines on shared hardware. Necessary on servers running cloud systems at Amazon and Google, but also useful for homelabs and developers who want to try it out on affordable hardware.
There's an unpatchable security bug in the iPhone 11. (9to5Mac)

If you let someone plug it into a malicious USB cable, at which point they could also just smash it with a hammer.
AMD is planning a 10-15% price hike on its Radeon graphics cards. (WCCFTech)

Could be a lot worse. AMD cards are available for just a little over MSRP in America (and a little below MSRP in Australia).

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Disclaimer: Four fried chickens and a coke.

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