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JACOB AND ESAU

Reviews are out for the AMD Radeon RX 7700/7800 XT

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2055699/amd-radeon-rx-7700-xt-and-7800-xt-review.html

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-7700-xt-review  

Other Tom’s Hardware Review, for reference: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-7800-xt-review

Nvidia quietly cuts price of poorly reviewed 16GB 4060 Ti ahead of AMD launch

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/nvidia-quietly-cuts-price-of-poorly-reviewed-16gb-4060-ti-ahead-of-amd-launch/

 

THE EDGE OF REASON

Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23859537/microsoft-windows-11-default-browser-links-eu-eea-changes

https://uk.pcmag.com/migrated-3765-windows-10/148518/microsoft-will-make-it-easier-to-ditch-edge-at-least-in-europe

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/zoom-ceo-says-ftc-should-look-at-microsoft-teams-bundle-after-eu-investigation-1.1967458

Zoom AI Assistant https://explore.zoom.us/en/ai-assistant/

 

MADE IN CHINA

Huawei's New Mystery 7nm Chip from Chinese Fab Defies US Sanctions

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/huaweis-new-mystery-7nm-chip-from-chinese-fab-defies-us-sanctions

Teardown done by TechInsights https://archive.ph/Eah4x

https://www.reuters.com/technology/huaweis-new-chip-breakthrough-likely-trigger-closer-us-scrutiny-analysts-2023-09-05/

Sina Weibo user takes uses phone to take picture of US Secretary of Commerce to dab on America https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202309/01/WS64f1113ba310d2dce4bb33b3.html

 

QUICK BITS

 

COPYRIGHT AMNESIA

Nonprofit Museum of Classic Chicago TV fights termination of YouTube channel over copyright strike on old episodes of Bewitched –

https://torrentfreak.com/tv-museum-will-die-in-48-hours-unless-sony-retracts-youtube-copyright-strikes-230904/

Sony reaches out to reverse claim in return for deletion and no re-uploading of the material

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/sony-copyright-claims-for-bewitched-spell-trouble-for-group-that-preserves-old-tv/

Fuzzy Memories Twitter

https://twitter.com/fuzzymemories?lang=en

The channel, however, is currently unavailable

https://www.youtube.com/c/FuzzyMemoriesTV

 

NO ENTIENDO

Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/1/23856029/gizmodo-shuts-down-spanish-language-site-ai-translations

This guy was fired

https://twitter.com/matiass/status/1697238822504091822

Some of the articles change language halfway through?

https://twitter.com/victorcmn/status/1697506654932152394?s=20

Part of a larger switch to AI writing at G/O Media

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column

 

ARM IN ARM

Apple inks new long-term deal with Arm for chip technology, according to filing

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-inks-new-long-term-deal-with-arm-chip-technology-filing-2023-09-05/

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/05/apple-deal-arm-chips/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are

 

CHEAP SPECULATION

Apple to Launch 'Low-Cost' MacBook Series Next Year to Rival Chromebooks [Rumor]

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/05/apple-low-cost-macbook-rival-chromebook/

https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-might-launch-low-cost-macbooks/

https://www.macworld.com/article/2055457/apple-chromebook-cheap-macbook-education-rumor.html

 

VEHICULAR VOYEURISM

A new study from the Mozilla Foundation found that all 25 of the car brands it reviewed had glaring privacy concerns, even compared to the makers of sex toys and mental health apps.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/06/cars-collect-extensive-personal-data-on-drivers-study-warns

https://apnews.com/article/data-privacy-cars-data-collection-mozilla-foundation-c616f41983b6cbd62445da0e4962091d