• Australia's largest bank - the Commonwealth Bank - has been forced to rehire employees laid off in tests against their AI counterparts when it turned out that the tests had not been testing on anything like an even playing field.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Who knew?  Apart from everybody.
  
  Fortunately only 45 people had been fired by that point.  It could have been a lot worse, and soon will be.

• The Terramaster F4 is four-bay NVMe NAS with a 5Gb Ethernet port.  (Liliputing)
  
  The 5Gb port is a nice touch.  It can handle that transfer rate without any trouble at all.  Internally it can handle about 900MBps, close to the limit of 10Gb Ethernet.  Which it doesn't have.
  
  About $360 at the moment.
  
  
  
• Google says its AI systems barely sip water when answering questions, while "experts" say they are true water guzzlers.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  The truth as always is somewhere off to one side in I don't care territory.
  
  
  
• We already got a Commodore 64 remake, and now it seems the company - or a company anyway - will be releasing a clone of the rather more capable Amiga 1200.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  With a Motorola 68020 CPU an an effectively 64-bit chipset, the A1200 offered about four times the performance of the original Amiga.

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