The iPhone 15 Pro is a Mess - TechLinked Sept. 25, 2023

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IPEN 15

iFixit gives iPhone 15 a 4/10 repairability score

https://www.ifixit.com/News/preview/82867

4/10 https://lmg.gg/Z1bjF

https://youtu.be/hmQHgWNAg24

JerryRigEverything cracks iPhone 15 Pro Max glass back almost immediately

@7:21 https://youtu.be/IS0SItAzEXg?t=441

https://wccftech.com/iphone-15-pro-fails-the-durablity-test/

might be good time to consider Pixel 8 Pro with 7 years of OS updates

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/pixel-8-leak-promises-7-years-of-os-updates-even-more-than-an-iphone/

as long as the buttons don’t fall off https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-7-volume-key-mishap/

 

GOOD KARMA

Reddit launches Contributor Program, making karma and gold worth real money

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma/

https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program 

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/updating-reddit-gold-and-rolling-out-our-new-contributor-program

Follows in X’s footsteps by monetizing social posting https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/07/28/x-twitter-ad-revenue-share-program-global/

Ineligible Contributions https://www.redditinc.com/policies/contributor-monetization-policy

first spotted by Android Authority in July https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-3343397/

After phasing out Coins and Awards https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/14ytp7s/reworking_awarding_changes_to_awards_coins_and/

Actually launching more NFT avatars https://decrypt.co/150229/reddit-polygon-nft-collectible-avatars-gen-4-18-million

 

DIGITAL NATIVES? SO LAST DECADE

Nvidia says native Resolution gaming is dead

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/nvidia-ai-upscaling-looks-better-than-native-resolution-for-gaming

https://www.techspot.com/news/100226-nvidia-resolution-upscaling-future-recent-dlss-discussion.html

DLSS 3.5 https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/dlss-3-5-available-september-21/

“DLSS 10” will use full neural rendering

https://www.neowin.net/news/nvidia-envisions-dlss-10-as-a-full-neural-rendering-system-interfaced-with-game-engines/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv9SLtojkTU&t=2992s 

RTX 4090 cannot power Samsung’s 8K ultrawide monitor

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-4090-cannot-handle-samsungs-odyssey-neo-g9-240hz-monitor-limited-to-120-hz

 

QUICK BITS

 

ALL YOUR SYSTEMS ARE BELONG TO US

Ransomware group claims to have hacked “all Sony systems”

https://www.cybersecurityconnect.com.au/commercial/9600-ransomed-vc-group-claims-hack-on-all-of-sony-systems

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-ransomware-group-claims-to-have-beached-all-sony-systems/

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/09/sony-has-allegedly-suffered-a-huge-hack-by-ransomware-group

gimme some movie deets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack

 

IT’S HER. IT’S THE MOVIE HER

ChatGPT can now be prompted with voice and images, can output audio

“see, hear and speak” https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak

speaking https://player.vimeo.com/video/867815891?h=8903a647fa

images https://player.vimeo.com/video/867815782?h=14133f853d

“troubleshoot why your grill won’t start”… if you want to hear that it’s because gremlins

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1706280638255714711

go head to head with Meta’s sassy chatbot for teens https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/24/23887773/meta-ai-chatbots-gen-ai-personas-young

 

HA! GETTY’M!

Getty AI generator trained on licensed images

https://newsroom.gettyimages.com/en/getty-images/getty-images-launches-commercially-safe-generative-ai-offering

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/25/1080231/getty-images-promises-its-new-ai-doesnt-contain-copyrighted-art/

https://apnews.com/article/getty-images-artificial-intelligence-ai-image-generator-stable-diffusion-a98eeaaeb2bf13c5e8874ceb6a8ce196

https://gizmodo.com/getty-new-art-generator-trained-on-contributors-1850866540

 

RADE ON, SCOTT. RADE ON

Radeon chief leaves AMD after 7 years

https://videocardz.com/newz/scott-herkelman-announces-departure-from-amd

https://twitter.com/sherkelman/status/1706364333444260306

https://www.eteknix.com/scott-herkelman-is-leaving-amd-after-7-years/

 

SUB-OPTIMAL

Tesla Optimus “self-calibrates” limbs, sorts objects “autonomously” and does yoga

https://twitter.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/1705728820693668189

Doesn’t look like CGI, but how would we know? It’s so good nowadays https://electrek.co/2023/09/24/tesla-update-optimus-robot-video-cgi/

not quite like the launch presentation https://youtu.be/HUP6Z5voiS8?t=57 @0:57