DLSS + AMD Frame Gen, OpenAI-Reddit deal, Google’s money hack + more! - TechLinked May 17, 2024

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IT’S THE RED GREEN SHOW

Ghost of Tsushima on PC allows FSR Frame Gen and DLSS to run simultaneously

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2215430/Ghost_of_Tsushima_DIRECTORS_CUT/  

https://twitter.com/BlooHook/status/1791131991447879858 

he gets computers ‘putin https://twitter.com/BlooHook 

It works, apparently https://lmg.gg/h1jNE (PC Gamer)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2337429/ghost-of-tsushima-can-use-nvidia-dlss-and-amd-fsr-at-the-same-time.html 

https://videocardz.com/newz/ghost-of-tsushima-allows-nvidia-dlss-upscaling-to-work-alongside-amd-fsr3-frame-generation 

AMD added capability in March https://lmg.gg/BotqM 

 

REDDIT AND WEPT

OpenAI Reddit deal

https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership/ 

https://mashable.com/article/reddit-openai-deal-what-it-means

but don’t look at that, look over here! Reddit awards are back!! https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1css0ws/we_heard_you_awards_are_back/ 

Sony declares they opt-out of all AI training

https://www.sonymusic.com/sonymusic/declaration-of-ai-training-opt-out/ 

Maybe everybody should opt out since OpenAI seems to be going villain-ward

Jan Leike spills the beans https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494 

https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-prioritizes-shiny-products-over-ai-safety-ex-researcher-says 

Entire Superalignment team dissolved https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/openai-dissolves-high-profile-safety-team-after-chief-scientist-sutskever-s-exit-1.2074506 

Sam Altman throws shade at Google’s “aesthetic”, tries “not to think about competitors too much”

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-sam-altman-throws-shade-google-aesthetic-2024-5

clearly thought about them a little bit https://twitter.com/zacharynado/status/1791208273812623462

Hugging Face ZeroGPU commits $10M of free GPU use to open up model training to anyone

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24156755/hugging-face-celement-delangue-free-shared-gpus-ai 

 

GOOGLE USED *MONEY*! 

Google offers US govt cashier’s check to render monetary damages claim moot in adtech trial

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1791268703348109317 

filed yesterday 

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.533508/gov.uscourts.vaed.533508.630.0.pdf 

from this lawsuit https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies 

wants judge, not jury https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-ad-tech-virginia-jury-94d196f4ae063333632fc5a818b9a976 

 

QUICK BITS

 

A LITTLE SUS

ASUS apologizes

https://www.pcgamesn.com/asus/rma-apology 

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/news/y2vzd3jkg5fir3qw/ 

https://www.techspot.com/news/103038-asus-issues-apology-promises-changes-after-rma-repair.html 

to sweeten the deal they leaked one of their Snapdragon X laptops with an “Intel Qualcomm” GPU

https://twitter.com/rquandt/status/1791109210152792506 

 

SHE’S A 10 BUT SHE DOESN’T USE BING

PC Manager app on Windows 11 suggests your system needs “repairing” if you don’t use Bing

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing 

https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/05/16/microsoft-pc-manager-wants-you-to-repair-windows-11-by-turning-on-bing-search/

https://pcmanager.microsoft.com/en-us 

 

IT TAKES TWO TO (EN)TANGLE

Quantum Internet

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01445-2 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07252-z 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07252-z/figures/1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38750235/ 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03723 

 

LOST IN YOUR MIND? NOT ANYMORE

Google and Harvard mapped 1 mm3 of the human brain, it took 1.4 million GB of image data

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/scanning-1-cubic-millimetre-of-brain-tissue-resulted-in-1400000-gb-of-data-or-about-the-same-space-as-your-dads-holiday-photo-collection/ 

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/full-scan-of-1-cubic-millimeter-of-brain-tissue-took-14-petabytes-of-data-equivalent-to-14000-full-length-4k-movies 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/09/scientists-find-57000-cells-and-150m-neural-connections-in-tiny-sample-of-human-brain 

 

NO NO. LET HIM COOK

NASA concerned billionaire space lover will break the Hubble Telescope while trying to fix it 

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia 

https://futurism.com/nasa-concerned-billionaire-space-hubble 

Jared Isaacman - will be among first private astronauts to go EVA on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission  https://polarisprogram.com/team/ 

he says “clock is running out” https://twitter.com/rookisaacman/status/1744152047534964859