AMD’s making BIG Moves - May 3, 2023

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AMD TAKES A LEAK

Leak of Future AMD GPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-lists-radeon-rx-7950-xtx-other-unreleased-rdna3-graphics-cards

AMD Announces Specs of 7040U Processors

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/ryzen?gclid=CjwKCAjwjMiiBhA4EiwAZe6jQyYDBJquC190Z_-4Nxb_9czcpmGOKlSt4-BtonEiVmjd64DYWsCRZBoCbjMQAvD_BwE

Claims they can beat M2

https://www.xda-developers.com/amd-ryzen-7040-u-series-processors-launch/

AMD, like Intel and Apple, needs a win

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/amd-earnings-report-q1-2023.html

 

THE BANALITY OF AI

IBM to replace a bunch of back end jobs with AI over the next five years

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/ibm-pauses-hiring-around-7800-roles-that-could-be-replaced-by-ai/

Photographer gets threatened with countersuit/financial penalty for asking for his photos to be removed from AI Dataset

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkapb7/a-photographer-tried-to-get-his-photos-removed-from-an-ai-dataset-he-got-an-invoice-instead

Legislation to ban AI-generated political ads

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708310/ai-artificial-intelligence-political-ads-election-rnc-biden

Horrifying AI Beer commercial (clearly with human direction, but it’s very off-putting)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/ai-generated-beer-commercial-contains-joyful-monstrosities-goes-viral/

 

SMARTER, BETTER, FASTER, ENCODER

OBS Studio 29.1 extends av1 support to youtube

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/05/02/av1-obs29-youtube/

https://en.overclocking.com/obs-takes-a-step-towards-av1-encoding/

Nvidia says theirs is the best

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-claims-to-have-better-av1-encoder-than-amd-and-intel

Matrox Luma GPUs

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18840/-matrox-adopts-intel-gpus-for-luma-graphics-cards

 

QUICK BITS

 

THE BLUE POX

Gmail has Verified checkmarks now too 
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709734/gmail-verified-checkmark-trusted-senders-bimi-dmarc

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/03/gmail-blue-checkmark/

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-has-added-blue-verification-checkmarks-to-gmail/

 

WHAT HAPPENS ON REDDIT, STAYS ON REDDIT

Film Studios lose bid to unmask reddit users talking about piracy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/judge-wont-force-reddit-to-identify-anonymous-users-who-discussed-piracy/

https://torrentfreak.com/court-protects-redditors-right-to-anonymous-speech-in-piracy-case-230501/

https://www.techspot.com/news/97811-reddit-lawyers-tell-movie-studios-demanding-user-unmasking.html

 

THE X-MICE

Scientists use Ai to translate mouse brain activity

https://gizmodo.com/ai-deep-learning-brain-activity-mouse-science-movie-cli-1850398690

MRI / AI used to translate brain’s hearing center

https://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-translate-brain-waves-into-scarily-accurate-images-using-stable-diffusion-ai/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2371943-movie-clip-reconstructed-by-an-ai-reading-mices-brains-as-they-watch/

 

PORN BLOCKER

Pornhub protests age-verification law by blocking all of Utah from accessing the site

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/02/pornhub-utah-block-social-media-age-verification

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/03/pornhub-utah-age-verification-law

Spike in searches for VPNs in Utah

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709437/pornhub-cuts-off-utah-utah-discovers-vpns

 

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE

Jupiter probe has 16M long antenna stuck – the plan is to jiggle it a little

https://www.space.com/juice-jupiter-probe-antenna-glitch-deep-space

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/europes-major-new-interplanetary-spacecraft-has-a-slight-problem/

https://hackaday.com/2023/05/01/esas-jupiter-bound-probe-hits-antenna-snag/