New Macbooks Look BEASTLY - TechLinked Aug. 9, 2023

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MAINs

 

MMM…

Rumoured M3 Specs from Mark Gurman

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-07/apple-tests-2024-m3-max-macbook-pro-chip-with-16-cpu-cores-40-gpu-cores

https://www.macworld.com/article/2024263/m3-max-macbook-pro-16-core-cpu-40-core-gpu-48gb-ram.html

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-Mac-mini-with-M3-chip-could-be-in-development-alongside-new-MacBook-Air-and-MacBook-Pro-models.739453.0.html

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/07/apple-testing-mac-mini-m3/

 

EXTREME…LY UNRELIABLE

Sandisk portable SSDs failing still

https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued

Is that Ian from Smosh? https://twitter.com/vjeranpavic

https://twitter.com/vjeranpavic/status/1688570233890484225

https://petapixel.com/2023/08/08/sandisk-portable-ssds-are-failing-so-frequently-we-can-no-longer-recommend-them/ 

A partial firmware fix was issued in May

https://www.xda-developers.com/sandisk-failing-extreme-ssds-fix/

Every drive is unreliable https://www.pcworld.com/article/2025061/this-failed-wd-ssd-is-a-painful-reminder-about-storage-reliability.html

 

THE DEATH OF THE TURING TEST

New research shows bots beat people at Image and Text Captchas

https://www.pcgamer.com/new-research-shows-bots-beat-people-at-convincing-computers-theyre-not-bots/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384228-bots-are-better-at-beating-are-you-a-robot-tests-than-humans-are/

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/connect-the-dots/websites-will-start-testing-computers/275-5831895f-a000-470a-b390-c3e79c0165d5

Potential alternatives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/captchas-hate-privacy-pass/

 

QUICKBITS

 

NO BASIS FOR A SYTEM OF GOVERNMENT

Hack on British Elector Registry Exposes Voter Data

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66441010

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-electoral-commission-says-it-was-targeted-by-hostile-actors-cyberattack-2023-08-08/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/08/uk-electoral-commission-registers-targeted-by-hostile-hackers

 

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS

PS5 4K cloud game streaming

https://www.engadget.com/ps5-cloud-game-streaming-begins-rolling-out-to-beta-testers-190938931.html
https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5-beta-adds-cloud-game-streaming

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/forget-ps5-pro-sonys-cloud-gaming-service-now-streams-ps5-games-in-4k

 

I’M AFRAID I CAN’T DO THAT

Nvidia unveils more powerful GH200 AI chip coming next year with 3x the memory capacity of the H100

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/gh200-grace-hopper-superchip-with-hbm3e-memory

https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/08/09/nvidia-adds-faster-hbm3e-memory-to-the-gh200-grace-hopper-platform/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-reveals-gh200-grace-hopper-gpu-with-141gb-of-hbm3e

https://www.anandtech.com/show/20001/nvidia-unveils-gh200-grace-hopper-gpu-with-hbm3e-memory

 

I’M IN

AI can identify passwords by sound of keys being pressed with over 90% accuracy, study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/08/ai-could-identify-passwords-by-sound-of-keys-being-pressed-study-suggests

https://fortune.com/2023/08/08/artificial-intelligence-listen-keyboard-typing-steal-sensitive-information-cybersecurity-research/

The Paper

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01074.pdf

 

POLICE PROSOPAGNOSIA

Heavily pregnant woman falsely arrested for car-jacking due to faulty facial recognition match - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/innocent-pregnant-woman-jailed-amid-faulty-facial-recognition-trend/

https://apnews.com/article/detroit-police-facial-recognition-lawsuit-cab0ae44c1671fc30617d301b21b2d13

Not the first time Detroit police have been accused of false arrest via facial recognition

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/13/facial-recognition-false-arrest-lawsuit/